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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2198 ... September 22, 2020
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What Questions Must Students Ask Their Educators, and Why?

Raju Das

Given the enormous problems that humanity is facing, it is reasonable to expect to see a future society that is

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2197 ... September 21, 2020
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Transit Workers Are Still Dying -- With No End in Sight

Marcia Brown

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, public-transit workers have been called "essential" and "heroes." Yard signs plaster suburbia

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 2 ... September 20, 2020
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Episode 2 – Canada in The World w/ Tyler A. Shipley

In this episode we speak with Tyler A. Shipley about his new book Canada in The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination . We dive into the

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Indigenous People’s most hard-fought Constitutional protection could lose its meaning.

On the west coast of North America, massive wildfires have blocked the sun. Amidst floods on the Gulf Coast and record breaking temperatures in the Arctic, the pressures of a…

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In just two weeks, we’ll find out what the federal government plans to do with its multi-billion dollar COVID-19 recovery plan: invest in a green and just recovery, or keep bankrolling Big Oil?

We know that our pressure’s been working: The Liberals said on

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2196 ... September 18, 2020
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Lessons from the Gig Economy for Transforming Public Services

Ursula Huws

Even before the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, major upheavals were taking place in the UK labour market. Between 2016

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Over 100 migrants detained

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2195 ... September 17, 2020
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Trade Unions Need New Strategies

Asbjørn Wahl

Trade unions are on the defensive all over the world, under immense pressure from strong economic and political forces. We are facing a multiplicity

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2194 ... September 16, 2020
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Popular Radicalism in the 1930s:
The History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill

Chris Wright

At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing in the US and millions of out-of-work Americans have

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BREAKING: Our new report reveals that the BC government gives away twice as much money to the fossil fuel industry as it spends on its climate change program. This is outrageous. Email Premier Horgan right now and call for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in BC.

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Protect the Arctic Refuge’s big sister‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌

Just west of the Arctic Refuge lies its big sister: 23 million acres of public lands (4 million acres more than the Refuge, an already vast reserve!) in the Western Arctic. The area is composed of wild lands hosting the vast Western Arctic caribou

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2193 ... September 15, 2020
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The Police and Racist Vigilantes

Sonali Kolhatkar

Police in America, whose mottos claim to "protect and serve" us, have been openly declaring allegiance with the forces of white supremacy. It is

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In the last few weeks, we’ve told you about Bill 10 in Alberta, a new law that expands government powers and limits accountability.

Today, we filed to intervene in a case challenging the constitutionality of Alberta’s Bill 10.

In

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July 7, 2020
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
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Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with

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The Leap turns five!

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Tuesday, September 15th marks the five-year anniversary of the launch of The Leap Manifesto. On that day in Toronto, representatives from Canada’s Indigenous rights, environmental, social and food justice groups, faith-based and labour movements came together to call for a just transition in Canada based on

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This Remember a Charity Week, will you choose to remember tribal peoples in your will? “We love our culture, and we want to pass it on to our children and grandchildren.”


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Last month, our team released a bombshell report calling out six major European banks for funding the destruction of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters by financing crude oil exports from the Ecuadorian rainforest.

Since the report’s release and the global media outcry that followed (with nearly 300 news stories and counting),

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Hi A, I just wanted to make sure you saw this: Bayer is on the verge of destroying France’s ban on bee-killing pesticides.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2192 ... September 14, 2020
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Canadian Auto Workers Fight for Contract Transparency

Rebecca Keetch

As bargaining at the Detroit Three automakers kicks off in Canada, union members are fighting back against a longstanding undemocratic contract ratification

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ICYMI tomorrow we are delivering thousands of signatures. Add yours now. r1

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BREAKING: Bee-killing pesticides are making a come-back in France. Bayer’s cashed-up lobbyists just persuaded Macron to overturn the neonics ban you helped win in France.

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Take action on Monday to make sure climate is on the agenda for the cabinet retreat next week r1

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The West Coast is on fire. It’s devastating to read the stories of entire homes burnt to ash, entire communities evacuated indefinitely, and the tragic loss of life.¹

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2191 ... September 12, 2020
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Pension Fund Capitalism and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Revera

Kevin Skerrett

Of the many crises provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic across Canada, the dire situation in long-term care facilities

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350k hectares of wilderness areas deferred from logging!

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Dear Paov ,

We’re still pinching ourselves, but it’s true. Yesterday, BC Supreme Court Justice Steeves dealt a strong blow to the efforts of Dr. Brian Day to undermine our publicly-funded health care system.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2190 ... September 11, 2020
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UBI Without Public Services is a Neoliberal’s Paradise

Rosa Pavanelli

From tech-billionaires to socialist leaders, Universal Basic Income (UBI) has caught the imagination of many across the political spectrum. This mechanism,

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r1 Plus, 'world’s loneliest elephant' is finally free after 35 years in confinement, and more.

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Solidarity now with workers and the democracy movement in Belarus! r1 ...

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Because of you, we just won a massive victory to protect Canada’s public healthcare today.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2189 ... September 10, 2020
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Canada in the World

Tyler Shipley

"When the European settlers arrived, they needed land to live on. The First Nations peoples agreed to move to different areas to make room for

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Let’s ramp up pressure to make sure Trudeau gets his priorities right. r1

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Next Monday, Trudeau’s cabinet will meet to lay

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Become a member now to be eligible to join the BCCLA board.

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Our members come from a diverse range of individuals and communities, from all regions of the province and from across Canada. The passion for civil liberties and humans rights unites us;

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2188 ... September 9, 2020
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Experiments in Free Transit

Joshua DeVries

Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2187 ... September 8, 2020
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On the Current Crisis in Turkey-Greece Relations

Panagiotis Sotiris

Relations between Turkey and Greece are currently in a phase of escalating crisis. This development can be traced back to a number

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2186 ... September 7, 2020
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Reading Capitalist Realism Ten Years On

Matthew Flisfeder

Today, in the interregnum of the post-crisis, austerity-driven, global neoliberal capitalist society, we are confronted with a range of contradictions potentially threatening our

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2185 ... September 6, 2020
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Political Openings: Class Struggle During and After the Pandemic

Sam Gindin

For some on the left, the economic breakthrough brought on by the pandemic was the general consensus, not least among

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The Burmese military massacred Rohingya families, raped women and girls, and razed entire villages. Now Facebook is refusing to share the evidence which could prove that the military intended to commit genocide.

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On Wet'suwet'en Six Nations and every other Indigenous territory on Turtle Island, the struggle against colonialism continues. Take a stand. Make your voice heard. Stand with others in any way that you can.
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Day in and day out, we tackle a wide variety of civil liberties and human rights issues. Whether you follow and support us for our work in patients’ rights, police accountability, prisoners’ rights, CBSA accountability, or

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Next year, I stand down as Director of Survival. I started with your charity, as a volunteer, 49 years earlier.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2184 ... September 4, 2020
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Socialism and Accountability

Alex Demirović

History teaches us nothing, so said Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Andrea Nahles, to justify discontinuing the SPD’s Historical Commission. Long ago, Rosa Luxemburg took the

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I worry about my kids. I worry for all children going back to school. r1

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Canada’s most endangered mammal r1 In 2003, only 27 Vancouver Island marmots remained on Earth. Thanks to heroic recovery efforts, they’ll hopefully be around for a long time to come. ...

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Thank you!

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve told you about some worrying news that has come out of BC and Alberta.

Bill 10 in Alberta and Bill 19 in BC are new laws that expand government powers and limit public accountability. These

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We just passed the renewal deadline ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌

Monday was Trans Mountain’s final deadline to secure the insurance it needed to proceed with its climate-wrecking pipeline – a controversial project which would transport dirty tar sands oil all the way from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.

And though we won’t know

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People are still spraying Monsanto's Roundup all over the gardens and lawns where you and your family like to relax and play.

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Glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto's weed killer Roundup, has been labeled a

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 1 ... September 3, 2020
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The Scarlet Standard: Episode 1 – The Christie Pits Riot

In this inaugural episode we discuss the legacy of The Christie Pits Riot of August 1933. As the largest riot in Toronto’s history, this event stands as a

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Is it time to fight climate change like a war? r1 ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2183 ... September 2, 2020
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Contradictions of the Belarus Protest: What We Can Learn

Aleksandr Buzgalin

The crisis in Belarus is intensifying, and even if Alexander Lukashenko manages to retain his hold on power, his authority

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It's Official...Here is the report -> https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0010-1
Sciencehttps://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-2647005347.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200813123550.htm
https://www.livescience.com/greenland-melt-point-of-no-return.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-ice-sheet-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return-scientists-say

Mainstream News
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/08/25/the-greenland-ice-sheet-has-melted-past-the-point-of-no-return
https://people.com/human-interest/greenland-ice-sheet-melted-past-point-of-return-study-says/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/greenland-s-ice-sheet-has-melted-to-a-point-of-no-return-according-to-new-study-1.5065393
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/weather/greenland-ice-sheet/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/science/greenland-ice-sheet-reached-point-of-no-return

Business Newshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/scottsnowden/2020/08/14/greenlands-melting-ice-sheets/
https://www.businessinsider.com/greenland-melting-ice-sheet-past-tipping-point-2020-8


CBC notably buries the leadhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-1.5687998
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenland-ice-loss-1.5693549

Sustainable energy innovation is critical to meeting todays challenges of economic security, emission reduction targets, environmental impact and climate change. This webinar will focus on Industrial innovation and sustainability, the future of cleantech in Canada and sustainable energy financing – how policies and business models are moving the dial.

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In a news cycle inundated with one disaster or crisis after another, I’m happy to be able to bring you some good news for a change.

The Trans Mountain pipeline that we’ve been fighting (and successfully blocking!) since December of 2013 suffered another major setback that could delay

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2182 ... September 1, 2020
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The GM Lands: Renaissance or Ongoing Catastrophe?

Since 2010, the site of the former GM components plant on Ontario Street in St. Catharines has sat idle. The facility that once employed

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I’m still somewhat stunned by the news: our short film Message From the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been nominated for an Emmy award, in the category of Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion.

It’s an incredible honor for a film that started off with a simple question: what if

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2181 ... August 31, 2020
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Augmenting the Left: Challenging the Right, Reimagining Transformation

Niko Block

The ongoing wave of action for the defunding and abolition of armed police has provoked a familiar yet unresolved series of

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2180 ... August 30, 2020
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Donald Trump: A New Emperor of the Lumpenproletariat?

Clyde W. Barrow

In The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2020), I argue that US President

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Nestlé is stealing water from a drought-stricken community in France. Local residents in Vittel have had enough -- and SumOfUs members like you are helping them fight back against this corporate giant.

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Join us for a digital teach-in bringing together organizers and lawyers from across the country to engage in a discussion around policing Black and Indigenous people in Canada.

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The federal government is seriously considering strengthening the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The Prime Minister has mandated the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to amend CEPA, the legislation that regulates toxins in our air and water.

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In her latest book of electrifying essays, Azadi , Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a

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A new video to expose how Charmin destroys the homes of forest animals ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2179 ... August 28, 2020
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The MST on the Crisis in Brazil: Economy, Education and Politics

MST (Landless Rural Workers' Movement)

We are experiencing a prolonged crisis of the capitalist system and its reproduction. However, the

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Erin O’Toole’s climate plan r1 Can the new Tory leader succeed where Scheer failed and convince swing voters he has a substantive vision to tackle climate change? ...

Over 5,000 people have demanded Trudeau and Freeland show the true cost of TMX r1

Paov,

I'll cut to the chase. Yesterday, Trudeau announced $2 billion in public funding for safe school reopenings1 , which sounds like a lot, until you realize he might be spending more than $25 billion on

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r1 Canada — invest to help end COVID everywhere.

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Canada Can Help #EndCovidEverywhere

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Hello Friends,

We are a local nonprofit who put on an annual arts and culture event called One Wave Gathering celebrating South Pacific and local Indigenous cultures.

We would very much appreciate if you are able to share our press release with your readers:

For Immediate Release - Pacific Peoples' Partnership

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2178 ... August 27, 2020
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How We Move Is How We Survive:
A Statement for Free and Just Transit

Free Transit Toronto, Free Transit Ottawa, Courage, Climate Justice Toronto, and others

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly

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Dear friend,

This is our friend, JK Thimma of the Jenu Kuruba tribe. Like his ancestors before him, he worships the tiger , and his people have called the Nilgiri forests of southern India home since time immemorial.

“Protecting the forest, birds and animals is part of our way of life

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Western Forest Products' Tree Farm Licence Properties for Sale
The Goudie Creek watershed- a water source providing water to approximately 300 residents of Shirley is being threatened by a land sale. This stems from Western Forest Products, a Provincial land giveaway in 2007, and subsequent development plans. Not only the…

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Join us for digital teach-in

Dear BCCLA Supporter,

In collaboration with Nanda & Company , Professor Asad Kiyani , and the BC Civil Liberties Association presents “Policing Black and Indigenous Lives in Canada: A Digital Teach-In”.

Date: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020

Time: 12PM-2PM PST/ 3PM-5PM EST

Where: The

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Pharma giants Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Pfizer are signaling they’ll charge through the roof for a covid-19 vaccine, leaving millions priced out.

Tell these powerful companies to share their covid-19 knowledge so we can make life-saving treatment affordable for everyone!

Sign the petition

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Humanity is desperate for a covid-19

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2177 ... August 26, 2020
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On the Eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande, Brazil

Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad

During the second week of August in Brazil, the ruthlessness of state violence by the

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