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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1810 ... April 22, 2019
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Grocery Store Workers Take on a Multinational

Andy Piascik

At precisely 1:00 Eastern time on the afternoon of April 11th, 31,000 workers at 253 Stop and Shop grocery stores throughout Connecticut,

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Bayer's shares are plummeting. Its annual investor meeting is in just 5 days. Bayer's bosses are in panic mode -- they're desperate for the meeting to go smoothly.

With your help, we'll fly in a high-profile victim of Bayer-Monsanto's toxic pesticides to crash the meeting.

Can you chip in to turn

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 28 March 2019

From Neo-Liberalism to Neo-Fascism?

Reaction across the Americas from Bolsonaro to Trump

A panel of leading international analysts associated with the Socialist Register.

Chaired by Leo Panitch, presentations by:

• Ana Saggario Garcia, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janiero (author of “Brazil’s

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African Spirit Night r1 ...

Adani Group is desperate to build one of the biggest coal mines in the world, right on the edge of Australia's precious Great Barrier Reef. But it's missing one key thing: insurance.

Several major insurers have already said no, but Liberty Mutual Insurance is refusing to take a stand. Tell

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A,

This week was terrible for supporters of climate action -- Jason Kenney, one of the biggest supporters of tar sands corporations, was elected into the top office in Alberta.

But amidst the bad news -- we wanted to know that, through your support, SumOfUs has engaged in several corporate campaigns that

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1809 ... April 19, 2019
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Building the Slovenian Left:
Successes and challenges in Eastern Europe’s most promising New Left project

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Luka Mesec is the coordinator for the party Levica (“The Left”) in Slovenia. The party was

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Please plan to attend this interesting evening and forward to your friends, networks and social media. You can share it on Facebook directly from the homepage of Victoria CASC. Thanks, from CASC planning committee Cafe Simpatico .............................. Friday April 26, Doors open at 7 pm Music at 7:30 pm Presentation at…

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Notice of Election

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She's fighting a mega mine to save her home

Dear A,

Right now Máxima -- farmer, grandmother, and environmentalist from Peru -- is in court facing off a giant gold mining company, just to protect her home.

If you donate right now, you’ll be helping Máxima pay for top lawyers to fend

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OpenMedia r1

Hi Paov, Canada’s Federal elections are due in October – but with them could also come a huge host of privacy problems.

The data that political parties hold on us – like political affiliation, voting intention, donation history and demographic information – is obviously particularly sensitive.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1808 ... April 18, 2019
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Rethinking Ottawa’s Transit System:
A bold proposal for free transit in a city designed for cars

Julia Szwarc

During the week of February 4-10, Free Transit Ottawa challenged Ottawa’s City Councillors

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r1 The north coast tanker ban, Bill C-69 and BC caribou protection ...

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Reminder: Labor & Green New Deal: A Conversation -- This Saturday -- Corrected Local Times r1 9 am PDT, 10 am MDT, 11 am CDT, and 12 noon EDT ...

Today we’re launching a national campaign, led by young people and millenials, to win a Green New Deal for Canada. r1

Friends,

You probably already know this, but last night, Jason Kenney was elected Premier of Alberta.

We’re not going to lie, the road ahead looks hard. Kenney won by

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Mr. Bayer-Monsanto has to resign, and Bayer must change

Chemicals giant Bayer is out of control -- and its CEO must step down before he does any more harm .

Bee-killing neonics. Cancer-causing glyphosate. The list goes on and on. It's got to change!

Sign our petition to Bayer's top boss, and

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1807 ... April 17, 2019
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Yellow Vests Struggle to Reinvent Democracy:
Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression

Richard Greeman

After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths, and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1806 ... April 16, 2019
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A First Victory for the Sudanese Revolution:
Will the People be Able to Override the "Orderly Transition"?

Sungur Savran

Omar al Bashir, the 30-year long dictator of Sudan, the perpetrator of

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Jordan, Myanmar, Philippines: The fight for workers' rights knows no borders r1 Please support our new campaign in support of trade unionists in Jordan. ...

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It's time for a Right to Repair law in Canada.

Paov,

If you have the new iPhone X, you'd better not drop it.

If you break your new phone, Apple will charge you up to...

She's fighting a mega mine to save her home

Máxima Acuña is a target for bullies. She’s bravely sticking by her tiny farm, despite attacks from a giant gold mining corporation trying to wrestle the land off her.

But the corporation is suing Máxima and harassing her family and animals.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1805 ... April 15, 2019
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Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social Base, Agenda and Perspectives

Ana Garcia

The rise of the far right is a worldwide phenomenon, rooted in the nefarious effects of neoliberal globalization which have pushed

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One month until Pepsi's biggest meeting of the year.

By staying in business with conflict palm oil, Pepsi is looking the other way while rainforests are destroyed.

If you've got a pension, superannuation fund or mutual fund, you probably own Pepsi shares -- which means YOU have the power to force

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 21 March 2019

Uber-Capitalism: Platform Mobility/Mobilizing Workers

After launching almost a decade ago, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world, disrupting taxi unions, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. While ‘uber-capitalism’ was incubated in

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Invitation to a Webinar Saturday April 20: Labor and the Green New Deal r1 Sean Sweeney, Martha Hawthorne & Howard Ehrman in Conversation ...

Breaking: Activists jam HSBC GM and more

Dear Paov,

I'm writing with you with some exciting updates from the global movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground. You probably saw some bits and pieces of the massive, March 15 global school strike for the climate. But did you know

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1804 ... April 13, 2019
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Defiant Resistance: The Venezuelan Crises and the Possibility of Another World

Jeremiah Gaster

Bob Dylan once said, "Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." February 23rd, 2019,

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Tell Loblaw to pay a living wage

A,

In a few short weeks, we’re heading into Loblaw annual investor meeting to tell billionaire CEO Galen Weston that Loblaw workers deserve fair wages.

These meetings are super important and Weston wants Loblaw’s to go smoothly, to uphold the “family-friendly” image. But

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1803 ... April 12, 2019
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Québec Solidaire to Fight Quebec Government’s Bill 21 on Religion and the State

Richard Fidler

As it had threatened during last fall’s election campaign, the newly-elected Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government

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Quebec is the latest right to repair battlefront!

Paov,

WOW!! Quebec just became the second province in Canada to propose a right to repair legislation!1

This comes just a couple months after...

626 pages r1 Reporting back from the FOI frontlines! ...

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 13 ... April 11 2019
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The impacts of austerity in Greece w/ Ilias Gerakos

Oats for Breakfast talks with Ilias Gerakos, a teacher and activist from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, about the impact that years of austerity have had on

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Your plastic recycling could be in an illegal dump in Malaysia

190 governments will vote in May on new rules to help prevent rich countries and giant corporations from dumping their plastic waste on poor communities.

We need the EU and more than 100 national governments to win this fight.

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Doug Ford just scrapped protections for wireless customers in Ontario.

Paov,

BREAKING: Doug Ford's controversial Bill 66 is now law, and Ontario has officially scrapped its protections for wireless customers.1

Ontario had some of the...

A,

Amazing! Over 200,000 SumOfUs members just like you have told McDonald’s to sign up to the ‘Better Chicken Commitment’. This new set of standards would massively improve the welfare of the millions of chickens McDonald’s cooks up each year. Will you add your name too?

Yes -- I'll tell McDonald's

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1802 ... April 10, 2019
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Zimbabwe: Cyclone Idai, Sanctions and Capitalism

Mafa Kwanisai Mafa

About a month ago Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique were devastated by a tropical cyclone that was described by the United Nations as

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Ready for justice, powered by the crowd? r1 Today we launch our crowdfunding campaign with Heiltsuk Nation. Are you in? ...

Ready for justice, powered by the crowd? r1 Today we launch our crowdfunding campaign with Heiltsuk Nation. Are you in? ...

Dear Friends of SJS,

April 11, 2019:

On Thursday evening, ICA is hosting Hassan Al Kontar to give a talk at UVic, in the David Lam Auditorium. Please make an effort to invite friends, and circulate an invitation to this FREE event as widely as possible!

The venue has a

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The planet is on a collision course with irreversible climate change. But BlackRock -- the world’s largest asset manager -- can set a new path forward.

Tell BlackRock to divest its $6 trillion in managed assets from the fossil fuels driving climate disaster!

Sign the petition

A,

The biggest driver of climate

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1801 ... April 9, 2019
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Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life

Judith Deutsch

Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the Ur group of thinkers who formulated the assumptions and

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A brave group of beekeepers is taking on Bayer in court.

A, last week I had a phone call with the beekeepers taking on Bayer in court to protect our bees.

They desperately want to protect our bees from Bayer’s bee-killing pesticides -- and stop Bayer from destroying Europe’s historic ban

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1800 ... April 8, 2019
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NATO: 70 Years Too Many

Kate Hudson

As we head for NATO’s 70th birthday, it’s time to assess the nuclear-armed military alliance that came into being to ensure western military superiority

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 2 March 2019

Palestinian Workers Under Occupation: A View From Within

Imad Temeiza is the co-founder and former elected leader of the Palestinian Postal Service Workers’ Union (PPSWU). He is currently the PPSWU International Relations Representative.

Imad discusses the multiple levels of oppression that Palestinian

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A brave group of beekeepers is taking on Bayer in court.

Bee defenders are in a crucial court battle against the pesticide lobby -- but they’re running out of money in the final stages of this fight.

If we lose it’ll be game over for the bees.

Can you please chip

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Three ways to defend our climate and our communities r1 Join Heiltsuk Nation to screen "Raven People Rising" and help raise $425k for Indigenous rights ...

Three ways to defend our climate and our communities r1 Join Heiltsuk Nation to screen "Raven People Rising" and help raise $425k for Indigenous rights ...

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We are about to force the CRTC to put customers before Big Telecom.

Paov,

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1799 ... April 5, 2019
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The Agro-Food Complex and Climate Change: Veganism or a Green New Deal?

Benjamin Selwyn

Humanity is standing on the brink of catastrophic climate change. The 2018 Special Report from the Intergovernmental

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2019 CoDev Fundraising and Solidarity Dinner r1 Join us again this year for the ever popular Fundraising and Solidarity Dinner. Hope to see you there!! ...

Dear Friends of SJS,

April 9, 5:30 to 8:00 pm SJS Practicum Presentations

DSB C118

Come join us to listen to the SJS practicum students talk about their practicum experiences. Light meal provided.

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Sign up today: free online academic freedom course

Defending the human rights of scholars and

protecting academic…

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1798 ... April 4, 2019
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Time for Some Critical Thinking:
Debunking the Conservative Party Policy of Ford and Scheer

Paul Kahnert

We learned many lessons in fighting the Conservative governments in the past, and personally in

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TD is the second biggest funder of the fossil fuel industry in Canada

A,

Tomorrow, we’re heading into TD’s big investors' meeting to deliver our giant petition calling on TD to pull the plug on funding the fossil fuel industry.

This meeting only happens once a year and TD’s top

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NationBuilder r1

We are excited to help circulate the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre's (DEWC) new report, Red Women Rising:...

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Political parties are adding affordable mobile service to their platforms.

Paov,

Just a few years ago, hardly any politicians were talking about Canada's skyrocketing cell phone plan prices—despite the fact that we pay more than nearly anyone else in the world.1

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Help expand Anti - SLAPP protections

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1797 ... April 3, 2019
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The Subway Belongs to Us

Andy Battle

One evening in November, I left my job at Hunter College and descended to the platform at Sixty-Eighth Street, home to the number 6

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Sentences served, Myanmar hotel workers released from prison - the struggle for rights continues! r1 ...

Cafe Etico and CoDev present: Cooperative: La Lucha Sigue r1 ...

Tell the Federal government to make sure Imperial Metals is held accountable

Canada’s Auditor General released an alarming report urging Trudeau’s government to do a better job to sanction mining companies when they fail to protect Canadian waters and fish.

Now is the time to tell the federal government not

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OpenMedia r1

We are about to force the CRTC to put customers before Big Telecom.

Hi Paov,

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Download the CFSC E-News in PDF (scroll down for links).

It's time to pass Bill C-262

CFSC program assistant Keira Mann recently escorted a...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1796 ... April 2, 2019
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The Green New Deal Can Work -- Here’s How

Jeremy Brecher

The Green New Deal (GND) resolution recently submitted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) proposes a broad

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Have you heard about #RavenPeopleRising, *|FNAME|*? r1 An exciting opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking legal challenge. Help grow our movement’s mighty force : sign up for the People's Premiere. ...

Have you heard about #RavenPeopleRising, *|FNAME|*? r1 An exciting opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking legal challenge. Help grow our movement’s mighty force : sign up for the People's Premiere. ...

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Together we can make right to repair legislation a reality in Canada.

Paov,

Great news! Last month, an Ontario MPP tabled the first right to repair legislation in Canada. This bill would force companies to release repair manuals and sell spare parts for products they sell. 1

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SEA Members Meeting and More April Events r1 Tuesday April 9th at 7:00pm at 711 Douglas St [ ...

Open-net fish farms are banned on Pacific coast of N. America — except BC

We can protect wild salmon for good -- the push to ban fish farms is working, with phase-outs happening across the BC coast.

Sign today to finally ban open-net fish farms threatening wild salmon in BC.

Sign the

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1795 ... March 31, 2019
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Fighting Ford: Ontario’s New Healthcare Act

Natalie Mehra

It is called "The People’s Health Care Act." But the new healthcare omnibus bill, being rushed at breakneck speed through Ontario’s Legislature by

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The Migrant Crisis: “WALK WITH US”

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A, another day, another report linking the devastation of bee populations to dangerous pesticides . And yet Bayer and its chums are still determined to peddle their bee-killing wares.

But together, you and I are fighting back -- and we’re winning.

We’ll never have the deep pockets of corporate giants like Bayer.

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If one province is unprotected, we all are at risk

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1794 ... March 29, 2019
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GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations, Unexplored Opportunities

Sam Gindin

Following an aggressive public relations campaign in which union officials questioned GM’s loyalty to ‘Canadian taxpayers’, General Motors has apparently agreed to keep

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Paov --

Yesterday I did an interview with the CBC’s BC Today radio show about the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s (CIHI) latest report on wait times in Canada. [1]

The good news is that BC is one of the few provinces where wait times are going down for

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1793 ... March 28, 2019
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Organizing Beyond Ford: Action Keele Bus Riders’ Campaign

Sadia Khan

The 41 Keele bus route wound its way north through the city long before Doug Ford came to reign over our

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We are about to force the CRTC to put customers before Big Telecom.

Paov,

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1792 ... March 27, 2019
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Student Strikes for Climate Justice

Since 2018, Swedish students have been striking in front of the Parliament in Stockholm every Friday, prompted initially by high school student Greta Thunberg. The demand

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Dear Friends of SJS,

Wednesday, March 27:

Whose Land Is It?

Rethinking Sovereignty in ‘British Columbia’

With Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton and John Price

12 Noon, Wednesday, March 27, Room 160

First Peoples House, University of Victoria

(Refreshment to follow)

Be it in court cases

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