This is our moment. r1

Friend,

We came up with a plan on how we think we can stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but we need to be upfront about something: the strategy is big. It’s going to require a lot of small, medium and big tasks taken on by

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It’s time to tell these hotel chains that the world is watching.

Marriott, Hilton, and Holiday Inn offer special discounts to members of an infamous US guns lobby called the NRA.

Tell these hotel chains to end their discount programs and stop helping the powerful American gun lobby buy their

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1593 ... April 20, 2018
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Marx’s Theory and Philosophy of Praxis: Between academia and ideology

Alex Demirović

Hungarian writer and historian György Dalos described his relationship to Marx in a short, reflective piece that appeared in

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Bayer is risking an ecological armageddon by continuing to produce bee-killing pesticides.

Many people have pension or mutual funds that own shares in bee-killing Bayer.

Maybe you do, or know someone who does? Let's ask them to bring pressure to bear on Bayer's Board of Management.

TAKE ACTION

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For

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Trudeau's trying to bail out Kinder Morgan so let’s get to work to stop this pipeline. r1

Dear friends,

Earlier this week I asked you to join a mass organizing call to discuss the next steps in the fight to stop Kinder Morgan and the response was overwhelming. In just

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1592 ... April 19, 2018
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The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism

Bob Farkas

In her 2016 book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, union organizer Jane McAlevey argued that unions have repeatedly and

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About that Constitution ... r1 We talked to an author of Sec. 35 of the Constitution about Kinder Morgan ...

SumOfUs r1 In just 8 days the EU will vote on an historic ban on bee-killing pesticides ...

Yesterday, Transportation Minister Claire Trevena announced that the BC government has no plans to replace the Greyhound service along the Highway of Tears -- despite the fact that without it, the lives of Indigenous women and girls will be put at risk. [1]

Highway 16 is known as the Highway of

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Calling all Wild Hearts,

Adbusters 137: The Spritual Crisis of Meaning issue
Finally hits newsstands today!

Adbusters’ Spiritual Crisis of Meaning Issue lands on news stands worldwide today. Join us on a mental journey through the chaos, horrors, and hope of modern life.

#MeToo. #TimesUp. #NeverAgain. - A world of new

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This is beyond outrageous. Right now, Trudeau is considering using your tax dollars to bail out Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan’s floundering pipeline and tanker scheme. [1]

Let that sink in. Dozens of First Nations still don’t have clean drinking water. We’re facing a housing crisis. Renewable energy projects are

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The truth exposed

A,

This is incredible, following the publishing of our groundbreaking report on deforestation in Borneo's peat forests, more than 130,000 people have already demanded PepsiCo stop greenwashing its palm oil policy and cut deforestation from its supply chain.

Every single voice counts. Please join us in demanding

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1591 ... April 18, 2018
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On Consumerism, Capitalism, and Ecosocialism

Sebastian Livingston

This article is intended to be an introduction to an ecosocialist approach to production and consumption. What we have today is a hegemonic obsession

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Action Network Email r1 PAOV, EPA’s findings on glyphosate pretty much mirror Monsanto’s talking points. We're not buying it. Sign on and tell EPA to take the health threats seriously. ...

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20 years on, LabourStart needs your help r1 Can we count on your support? ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1590 ... April 17, 2018
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First Nations Leaders Pledge to Block Pipeline Expansion

Richard Fidler

At the 2015 Paris COP 21 climate conference Justin Trudeau pledged his newly-elected government would help "to limit global average temperature

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Hyperbole and hysteria redux r1 Our Kinder Morgan pipeline coverage is going bonkers ...

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Innocence can be dangerous, AXA Insurance warns jokingly in its ads for families with lively kids.

Palestinians aren’t laughing though -- and they are demanding that AXA stop investing in arms makers and banks involved in the brutal occupation of Palestine.

Sign the Petition

A,

AXA crushes the lives of defenseless

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Trudeau's trying to bail out Kinder Morgan so let’s get to work to stop this pipeline. r1

Friend,

This Sunday, Justin Trudeau pledged to spend billions of public dollars to bail out Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan and try to save a tar sands pipeline that we know would be

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1589 ... April 16, 2018
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Fascistic Politics in India and the Left

Raju Das

India is experiencing something like a national emergency. This is in the form of persistent, nation-wide attacks on the basic democratic rights

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Hi CASC coffee lovers- Allen has bagged a fresh roast of our Cafe Simpatico; if you need a supply please call him at 2250 384-0477. It will as ever also be available at our next Cafe simpatico on April 27 with guest speakers on “HONDURAS TODAY” and great music. Many…

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The truth exposed

Exclusive: New report exposes destruction of Borneo’s forests by PepsiCo’s palm oil partner in Indonesia.

Tell PepsiCo to cut conflict palm oil once and for all.

Sign the Petition

A,

Add this to PepsiCo’s conflict palm oil file: we’ve just released a report that ties the snack

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Left Streamed:

Climate Change and the Struggle Against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Thousands have been pouring onto Vancouver streets, as well as protesting across Canada, against the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been attempting to square the impossible – expanding oil sands production and building pipelines while

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Hyperbole and hysteria r1 Providing an antidote to hysteria and misinformation on Kinder Morgan ...

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Wow! Less than a week after we officially launched the campaign to call on Canada to address our plastics pollution crisis, 30,000 Canadian SumOfUs members have already signed the petition.

Will you keep the momentum going by asking Canadian politicians to tackle the plastics crisis by supporting motion M-151?

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1588 ... April 14, 2018
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Thirty-Five Years of Comintern Publishing: A Balancesheet

John Riddell

In June 1983, after returning home from my shift in a machine shop in Brampton, Ontario, I received a visit from two

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R&F.ca Weekly Update r1 ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1587 ... April 13, 2018
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Another Stream of Martin Luther King’s Legacy

Jeremy Milloy

The Dodge Ram Trucks’ 2018 Super Bowl ad, harnessing the rousing oratory of Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to service, the "Drum

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March for Science and more in April 2018 r1 ...

March for Science and more in April 2018 r1 ...

Milestones for Indigenous rights r1 We stand shoulder to shoulder in support of the rights of Indigenous Peoples:  you  have backed some incredible wins this year! ...

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I wanted to take a minute to send a different email than the ones I usually do, and share an extra-special report back of just a few of the incredible things you've accomplished in the last month on three very important campaigns.

Thanks to you, we could be on

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How Kinder Morgan Could Sue Canada In a Secretive NAFTA Tribunal r1 Canadians are just talking past each other on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. ...

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OpenMedia r1

What happens after Zuckerberg's testimony?

Hi Paov,

Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled on Capitol Hill about Facebook’s privacy and data scandals — and people are angry.1

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1586 ... April 12, 2018
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"Before all else a revolutionist":
Marx and the Question of Strategy

Michael Brie

The multiple crises of capitalism go hand in hand with the multiple crises of the left. And amidst

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Canada has just introduced a new bill that would take on plastics pollution from corporations like McDonalds and Nestlé in a huge way.

Tell Canadian politicians to vote yes for bill M-151.

Sign the Petition

A,

Canadians toss out a massive amount of plastic every year, including almost 3 billion

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 9 April 2018

CUPE 3903: Rally for Public Education

For the second time in three years, CUPE 3903 -- representing contract faculty, TAs and GAs at York University -- has been forced to go on strike. The fight for accessible education and job security at York University

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SumOfUs r1 ...

This is HUGE. In response to growing opposition, Kinder Morgan announced yesterday that they’ve frozen spending on their Trans Mountain pipeline and suspended “non-essential” construction activities. [1]

This fight is far from over -- but one thing is clear: the people-powered movement against Kinder Morgan has them shaking in their boots.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1585 ... April 10, 2018
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Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers’ Cooperatives

Carolina de Assis

At the end of 2001, Argentina’s political and economic crisis was the main theme in Latin American news coverage. The economic recession

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We’ve got 53 days to stop Kinder Morgan … for good r1 It’s true! Kinder Morgan just announced it will walk away from its pipeline if it doesn’t see a clear path to completion by the end of May. ...

Oops -- there was an error for some of our supporters. r1

Dear Friends,

Yesterday, we sent the e-mail below inviting you to sign a petition to Trudeau, but due to a technical error, many of you weren't able to sign it. The link has been fixed.

In case you weren't

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OpenMedia r1

Paov,

Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.”1

That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen.

This is a

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Thunderous affirmation of people power r1 Indigenous rights, when they are exercised, are scary to industry. That is why standing with Indigenous Peoples is  a gamechanger. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1584 ... April 9, 2018
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Madrid Repression of the Catalan Movement: Call for International Solidarity

International Appeal From Catalonia

The Spanish state’s repression against Catalonia’s democratic rights gets worse every day. There are at this moment

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We saw a big win today for the movement against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. r1

Friends,

Earlier today we heard some big news. Kinder Morgan announced it was stopping all “non-essential” spending on the TransMountain tar sands pipeline. This announcement follows weeks of historic resistance to this pipeline all across

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 29 March 2018

Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism

Kevin Skerrett and Chris Roberts discuss the significance of their edited book, The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2018). Heather Whiteside and Janice Folk-Dawson speak to the issues the book raises for the trade

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A,

I have two very exciting updates to share with you about our campaigns to stop plastic pollution from McDonald’s and Starbucks. In a nutshell: We’re winning!

McDonald’s ditches plastic straws in the UK!

Yes! You read that right. Just last week, the fast food multinational announced that it would

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1583 ... April 7, 2018
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Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility

Alex Birnel and Meagan Day

In rankings of the U.S.’s best urban public transportation systems, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Boston, and New York usually

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NationBuilder r1

Paov --

This Monday, April 9th, the court case launched by for-profit clinic CEO Brian Day resumes.

In Canada, everyone is covered by public insurance and we can get basic treatment and care, no matter how much money we have. Under our current laws, private insurance companies don't get…

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OpenMedia r1

Our pressure is working!

Hi, Paov, I just wanted to update you about what’s been happening in the fight for Canadian privacy since...

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On Monday, Brian Day, otherwise known as "Dr. Profit" will resume his dangerous lawsuit that would gut public healthcare in Canada as we know it.

SumOfUs members like you have been fighting Dr. Profit since the beginning of the trial in 2016. Already, almost 46,000 caring members like you

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1582 ... April 6, 2018
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Bringing Back The Lucas Plan

Felix Holtwell

"We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves," proclaimed a shop steward

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You’re not going to believe this. Yesterday news leaked that the Trudeau government is considering gaping loopholes to let pipelines and tarsands projects off the hook from new climate rules. [1]

Letting Canada’s dirtiest industries skip this critical climate review would be a disaster for our environment -- and we need

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NationBuilder r1

PIPE UP Network

Dear Paov --

Next week PIPE UP and Stand with Kwantlen have been invited up to the Watch House for a community dinner. Please join us at 4pm (dinner at 5ish) on Wednesday April 11, bring something to share if you can! Check the Facebook event…

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In March, generous Canadian SumOfUs members funded an important poll to determine how Ontarians feel about Nestlé, and the bottled water industry in Ontario.

Now the results are in and a whopping 64% of Ontario residents don't want Nestlé and other corporations to control their groundwater. Not only that,

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NationBuilder r1

Dear Paov --

It’s a clear turn away from the “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to unlawful private billing practices at private clinics in BC.

Yesterday, Health Minister Adrian Dix announced that the BC government will bring into full force the Medicare Protection Amendment Act —a law that was…

Trudeau is trying to exempt polluters from its new environmental reviews r1

Friends,

Earlier this year, the Trudeau government announced major changes to Canada’s environmental reviews, something he promised while campaigning for the elections in 2015. But this overhaul is falling short: Trudeau and his government are considering putting loopholes

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Visit us in Chicago this weekend at Labor Notes r1 LabourStart will be there - will you? ...

Action Network Email r1 PAOV, Day after day, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is making decisions that ignore science and threaten the health of families across the country — while benefiting big corporations. ...

No Federal Review for New Oilsands Projects? r1 Catherine McKenna doesn't think in-situ oilsands projects should go for federal environmental review. ...

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SEA Meetings and other events for April 2018 r1 ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1581 ... April 5, 2018
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France: Student Strikers Attacked; ‘Fascist’ Dean Jailed

Richard Greeman

Eight days ago (on March 29), the ultra-conservative Dean of the Montpellier University Law School was summoned to police headquarters, interrogated, hauled

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I wanted to be sure you saw this - I just got a mock-up of what your mobile billboard could look like:



We’ve got a plan to park this huge billboard right outside Trudeau’s exclusive fundraising event in downtown Vancouver tomorrow, as a warning that continuing to support Kinder Morgan will

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I didn’t want you to miss this.

Bell is trying to control our internet by proposing policies allowing them to block content to increase profits. [1] And we only have until the end of today to blow the whistle on their greedy censorship ploy.

The telecom watchdog (the CRTC) is

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Justin Trudeau has some nerve. He is planning a $1000-a-plate fundraiser at a luxury hotel in Vancouver, just a stone’s throw from the pipeline construction site where over a hundred Indigenous leaders and local residents have been arrested for taking action to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline. [1]

Trudeau is

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Plus, a better Brazil, an accessible Pakistan, and more. © Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty
Exactly two years after Honduras’s Berta Caceres was murdered in her home, 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries have formed a legally binding agreement to protect environmental activists. Officially known as The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public…

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All Day Workshop with Honduran Teacher Daysi Marquez r1 ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1580 ... April 4, 2018
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Basic Income: Progressive Cloak and Neoliberal Dagger

John Clarke

For almost three decades, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been fighting against neoliberal austerity, especially that aspect of it that

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Win for Prison Farms! r1 Prison farms have been proven to prevent re-offending and increase employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated persons... ...

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Facebook's data breach is bigger than we thought. The social media giant is on trial for undermining democratic processes around the world.

It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to step down as CEO .

Sign the Petition

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In a few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg will have to sit before the U.S. Congress

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1579 ... April 3, 2018
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Solidarity with the Great Return March in Gaza

Socialist Project

The members of the Socialist Project wish to express solidarity with the Palestinian "Great Return March" in Gaza, in addition to

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1578 ... April 2, 2018
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Paris Climate Goals Depend on Promoting Biodiversity

Ashley Braun

A sweeping new report released on March 23rd emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly

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Left Streamed:

NAFTA is a Bill of Rights for Capital

Interview with Richard Roman.

Dr. Richard Roman, co-author of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America (in Spanish) discusses how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deepened and ‘constitutionalized’ neoliberal reforms already underway,

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