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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1630 ... June 25, 2018
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Ontario Looks Right

Herman Rosenfeld

While U.S. socialists have always challenged the myth of American exceptionalism -- that the U.S. is immune to class struggle and a politics linked to it -- they

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Mexico Elections and NAFTA

Despite fierce opposition from Big Business and the media, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is likely to be elected President of Mexico on July 1 and have a majority in both houses of Congress. How did this rejection of the major parties come about? Is

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1629 ... June 23, 2018
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A Call for the NDP to Withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group

The undersigned are appalled by the recent deaths in Gaza. At least 110 Palestinians have been killed and thousands

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1628 ... June 22, 2018
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Doug Ford -- Ontario’s Donald Trump?

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Canadians are dealing with their own election aftermath after Doug Ford, a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and a figure some compare to

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We are making history. Let’s celebrate! r1 Let’s celebrate 2 years since Pull Together stopped the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tankers project!!! ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1627 ... June 21, 2018
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Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children

Judith Deutsch

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on June 1st that a beautiful young woman medic, Razan Ashraf Najjar, 21, was

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Tomorrow the future of our Internet will be decided

We only have a few hours, Paov.

Tomorrow morning a small EU Parliamentary Committee will vote to decide if the Internet should remain open...

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Incredible. Thanks to you, McDonald’s UK and Ireland will begin transitioning to paper straws in all of its restaurants starting in September!

And more than that, McDonald’s has also begun testing alternatives to plastic straws in Belgium , and has just announced similar trials will start in the U.S., France,

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Action Network Email r1 PAOV, urge your governor to make your state a “haven” for pollinators by supporting policies that halt widespread use of bee-toxic pesticides. ...

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It's time for DHL to negotiate with striking workers r1 You can help by supporting this online campaign ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1626 ... June 19, 2018
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We All Live in a Mediocracy

Patrick Desjardins

Alain Deneault has become one of the most important Canadian public intellectuals Anglosphere audiences have never heard of. Having completed a doctorate on

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The government should have heard you loud and clear: Housing is the Number One challenge in BC!

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Oracle workers on strike for more than a month need our support now r1 Time for the company to talk to the union. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1625 ... June 18, 2018
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The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism

Henry A. Giroux interviewed by Mark Karlin

Mark Karlin (MK): Why is it important to have an historical understanding of fascism to shed light on the

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This might be the most dangerous time ever for the free and open Internet.

Paov—I am just overwhelmed by the amazing response to this email. Thanks to OpenMedia members like you, we’re close to meeting our fundraising goal. If we do, we can launch...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1624 ... June 17, 2018
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Democracy and Ecological Crisis

Nancy Holmstrom

Last fall 15,000 scientists issued a second dire notice to humanity that we are on a collision course with the limits of our planet. They

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Despite industry experts calling the Trans Mountain pipeline project a risky investment, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is still seriously considering investing your retirement savings

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The Leadnow community has been fighting on so many fronts that it’s been hard to keep up with it all -- so I thought I’d send a quick note to share some of the highlights from an amazing month.

Here’s a quick summary of what your Leadnow community has accomplished in

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Toronto Book Launch of Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators

"We don’t pay for elevators, do we? And rightly so. The very idea is preposterous. Yet the public transit system plays the same role in the city, only sideways," argues the author Jason Prince, a…

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XPO: Time to talk about your behaviour r1 Time to put an end to the toxic corporate culture at this logistics giant. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1623 ... June 15, 2018
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Israel's Environmental Colonialism and Ecoapartheid

Ben Lorber

Since the idea of Zionism first gripped the minds of a few intellectuals and the limbs of many agrarian pioneers in the early 20th

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Paov—I just wanted to make sure you saw this email. This is possibly the most dangerous time ever for the free and open Internet, and we need your help. …

June 14, 2018

Dear PAofVic ,

I wanted to let you know about something quite incredible that’s about to begin in the service of peace. Over the next year, a supporter of Quaker peace and social justice work, Lynn Salvo, is planning to ride her bike around North America so that

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The BC gov. is destroying old-growth rainforest with your tax dollars r1 Make a call today for BC’s endangered old-growth rainforest! ...

Tell JPMogan Chase to stop backing these dirty and destructive mining corporations.

Mining companies dump 220 million tonnes of hazardous mining waste directly into our oceans, rivers, lakes and streams every year with virtual impunity.

We just helped push Citigroup to stop financing this practice. Now, tell JPMorgan Chase to

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1622 ... June 14, 2018
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Who's Afraid of Fare-Free Public Transit?

Josh Cohen

Elizabeth Bauerle is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s medical center. To get from her home in the north Seattle suburb

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1621 ... June 13, 2018
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Argentina: Macri's Neoliberal Fantasies

Claudio Katz

In the middle of his term, Argentinian president Mauricio Macri cannot hide the monumental abyss between his promises and reality. The promise was of an

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OpenMedia r1

Today is our worldwide day of action to #SaveYourInternet

Paov,

Next week, a committee most of us haven’t heard of is going to vote on an issue that will have dangerous and lasting...

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300 days on the picket line r1 Organizing a union was just the first step ... ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1620 ... June 12, 2018
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Letter to the People of Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

For two months now, I have been unjustly incarcerated without having committed any crime. For two months I have been

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1619 ... June 11, 2018
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New Governments in both Spain and Catalonia: Will the Impasse Persist?

On June 1, less than three weeks after a new government was finally allowed to take office in Catalonia, the

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Women in West Virginia Teach Powerful Lessons

The recent wildcat strike by teachers and support staff in West Virginia is being called one of the most important events in the labour movement since the 1970s. We would like to take a closer look

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OpenMedia r1

This might be the most dangerous time ever for the free and open Internet.

Paov,

As the executive director of OpenMedia, I’ve seen a lot of attacks on the free and open Internet...

SumOfUs r1 The orangutans will go extinct if we don't turn this around ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1618 ... June 9, 2018
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Landslide Victory for Abortion Rights in Ireland

Anne Conway

"A stunning victory" was how I described the results from the referendum on removing the constitutional ban on abortion in an Irish

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It’s been just one week since the BC Attorney General David Eby unveiled his recommendations for the referendum on electoral reform -- and vested interests from the “no” side are already trying to sabotage it.

“No” side political operatives wasted no time in plastering the media with their anti-proportional representation (PR)

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Canada just bought the Trans Mountain pipeline for a whopping $4.5 billion. Now it's looking for investors and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is considering investing your retirement savings in this dangerous pipeline.

Send an email to the top executives at the CPP to keep our valuable pension money out

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I’ve been at Leadnow since 2013 and I’ve never seen a day of action this big come together this quickly .

Yesterday, at more than 100 snap actions across the country, the Leadnow community showed up massive numbers to show Trudeau that we won’t let him use our tax dollars to

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1617 ... June 6, 2018
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What’s at Stake in the Ontario Election

David Bush

With just days to go until Ontario voters go to the polls it is worth remembering what is at stake in this

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I’ve been fighting Kinder Morgan for over half a decade now and I have never seen such rapid and large-scaled demonstration of resistance to this pipeline.

Yesterday, thousands of people in more than 100 communities all

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Bayer’s annual shareholder meeting was a PR disaster -- and it’s all thanks to you!

With the international spotlight of the world on Bayer, we made sure to get one message trending online on Twitter, into the press and right in front of the shareholders’ noses: Bayer’s profits come with

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1616 ... June 5, 2018
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Punitive Austerity: Ford, the Tories and the Coming Cuts

Natalie Mehra

Many Ontarians are captured by the idea of getting the same or more services for less money. But few know

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Today, people are rising all across Canada against Trudeau’s decision to buy the TransMountain project from Kinder Morgan with over $4.5 billion of public money. Over 100 actions at MPs’ offices are happening,

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Dear PAOV,

Thousands of Leadnow members have already told us to go all in to win proportional representation (PR) for BC this fall -- but we still haven’t heard from you. do you want Leadnow to launch the biggest campaign we’ve ever run in BC to help win PR for our

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I’ve been working with my team at SumOfUs to update our Privacy Policy -- so we can make it easier for you to understand how we use and protect your information to carry out the mission of putting people and planet over profit.

As part of this we’ve also improved

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1615 ... June 4, 2018
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Amazon Workers Organize

First-ever Agreement Between Amazon and Unions Halts Inhumane Work Hours in Italy

UNI Global Union

Amazon employees in Italy have made history. Workers announced on May 23rd the

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Paov--Did you see the email we sent the other day? We got a great response and we’re so close to eliminating our fundraising shortfall. Will you chip in to push us over the top?

We're facing a significant funding shortfall that could force cutbacks if we don't step

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