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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1822 ... May 10, 2019
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Where is Canada’s Socialist Resurgence?

David Bush

Socialism is back, at least south of the border. The popularity of Bernie Sanders, the election of open socialists such as Kshama Sawant, Alexandria

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Paov, cell phone and laptop searches at the border have been back in the headlines since I was last in touch with you.

Toronto business lawyer Nick Wright was pulled aside by border agents at Pearson airport, who searched his luggage, then demanded the passwords to his phone

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 16 ... May 9 2019
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What is the Socialist Project?

“Oats for Breakfast is affiliated with the Socialist Project,” our listeners hear at the beginning of each episode. In this episode, we finally get into talking about what the Socialist Project is

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Friends,

Earlier this week, we joined more than 60 organizations and thousands of people across Canada to launch the Pact for a Green New Deal. The pact is a call from artists, Indigenous and migrant rights groups,

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We don’t have much time. In just 2 days, 186 governments will decide on an international law that could help save our oceans from plastic waste.

But corporate lobbyists are working overtime to undermine this new anti-plastic law.

Can you fight back by chipping in for digital ads that

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1821 ... May 8, 2019
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Extinction Rebellion: A Cause for Hope for the Planet and Maybe for Revolution

Mike Shaughnessy

The worldwide protests organized by Extinction Rebellion (XR), have put the issue of the ecological crisis

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Paov --

On Monday, our first expert witness will take the stand in the fight to defend Canadian public health care from the legal attack launched by for-profit medical clinic CEO Brian Day.

The stakes couldn’t be higher: Day’s goal is to bring U.S.-style health care to Canada -- the

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A simple but brilliant new international rule could stop rich countries dumping shiploads of plastic in our oceans and on poor communities.

We have 3 days to convince governments to vote YES -- can you donate now to flood their feeds with powerful ads?

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1820 ... May 7, 2019
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Muslims Under Attack: Solidarity or ‘Left Secularism’

John Clarke

Western governments and the xenophobic far right are engaged in a veritable war on Muslims. One way in which this attack unfolds

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Take the pledge for a Green New Deal today

The Green New Deal is a visionary plan to move us off the corporate-dominated fossil economy and stop the biggest threat our planet has faced: climate change.

Take the pledge to support the Green New Deal.

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“We

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We're pleased to bring you the Spring 2019 edition of Quaker Concern , the 8 page print and digital newsletter of Canadian Friends Service Committee.

In this issue Keira Mann and Matt Legge discuss CFSC's new book Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division in

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body. Happy (belated) International Workers’ Day!

The struggle for workers’ rights and our collective movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice continues -- but this week, we celebrated working people’s contributions to our communities and the world!

Read Duncan Cameron on the significance of May Day demonstrations of hope, solidarity,…

Two minutes is all it takes. Stop the war against Brazil's tribal peoples
Dear PAOV,

President Jair Bolsonaro has “declared war” on Brazil’s tribal peoples, but you can help.

Will you send him a message today and ask him to stop Brazil’s genocide?

Since taking office, Bolsonaro has:

• Taken the

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Do you know your rights at the border?

Hi Paov, would you know what to do if a Canadian border agent asked to look through your phone or laptop?

Most people in Canada...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1819 ... May 6, 2019
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Time for the South African Government to Declare a Climate Emergency

Co-operative and Policy Alternative Center and South African Food Sovereignty Campaign

On the 22nd of April, regions of Kwa Zulu

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body. The summer of 2019 will be "the summer of repeal" according to United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, who will be sworn in as the next premier of Alberta on April 30.

First up? The province’s carbon tax, which outgoing NDP premier Rachel Notley had implemented. Duncan Cameron points…

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1818 ... May 5, 2019
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An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion

Wretched of The Earth

This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming

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The Big Three are charging for phones that are already paid off.

Paov,

Canada's Big Three cell phone carriers have found yet another way to overcharge us.

Customers of Bell, Rogers, and Telus are discovering...

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 15 ... May 5 2019
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The Zizek/Peterson Debate

Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson recently debated in Toronto. Oats sits down with Brent, Karmah, and Blake to discuss what was supposed to be “the debate of the century.”

Listen to podcast

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It’s time to tell Dollarama to protect our health and stop letting toxic toys into its stores.

Over 600,000 toxic toys have been recalled from Dollarama in the last year.

It’s time to tell Dollarama to protect our health and stop letting toxic toys into its stores.

Sign the petition

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1817 ... May 4, 2019
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Conservative ‘Blue Wave’ Sweeps Across Canada

John Clarke

The federal system under which the Canadian state operates, places a great deal of decision making power in the hands of its provinces.

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A,

Bayer’s bosses just suffered a massive blow: this has never happened before. Last Friday Bayer gathered its investors for what it hoped would be a run of the mill annual meeting. But after a marathon 13 hours, 55.5% of Bayer’s own shareholders voted against the Bayer board.

This is

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1816 ... May 3, 2019
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Spanish General Election 2019

Iván Orosa Paleo

On April 28, a general election, for the National Congress and the Senate, was held in Spain after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called new

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Now’s the perfect time to get Google to drop the horrifying censorship app it’s developing.

The tech giant is so keen to benefit from operating in China, it’s happy to comply with the Government’s demands to help prop up its violent authoritarian crackdown .

Can you chip in CA$94 to plaster

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1815 ... May 2, 2019
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A Climate Justice Critique of South African Political Parties

Vishwas Satgar

What are the commitments of the ANC, DA and EFF to a Deep Just Transition to Sustain Life?

South Africa

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The Flag

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Friends,

The past week has been very difficult for my community. For the past two weeks, record-breaking rainfall has inundated Pakenham, Ontario, a small town in the Ottawa Valley where I grew up, bringing a 100-year flood to

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Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 15:

May Day:
Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations

For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour’s long repression of its

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Greedy corporations are destroying the last orangutans’ homes for cheap, dirty palm oil.

But with your support we can run powerful, game-changing campaigns to force companies to do the right thing.

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 14 ... April 29 2019
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Saudi Arabia, MBS, and Everlasting War w/ Medea Benjamin

In this wide-ranging interview, Oats speaks with celebrated activist and writer Medea Benjamin about Saudi’s newest monarch Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi’s Twitter spat with Canada last year,

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An orangutan was shot with 74 air gun pellets. Blinded and having lost her one-month old baby, “Hope” the orangutan was left hanging on to dear life.

Corporations’ greed for cheap palm oil is murdering endangered orangutans. Together you and I can stop this -- and we’ve got a plan, but

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 8 April 2019

Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart

The Toronto launch of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski’s new book The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019).

Since the demise of the USSR,

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Growing from the inside out r1 We are constantly buoyed, grateful and sustained by the generosity of people around the world. ...

Growing from the inside out r1 We are constantly buoyed, grateful and sustained by the generosity of people around the world. ...

4 days left to say NO to exploitation

A,

In 4 days, Pepsi’s holding its annual shareholder meeting ... in a remote location in North Carolina. Why there? It doesn’t want people like us crashing the party with pesky questions about Pepsi’s palm oil policy.

But guess what? We’ll be there,

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Our best chance to overhaul Canada’s mobile market is here.

Hi Paov,

Just wanted to make sure you saw my message below.
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1814 ... April 26, 2019
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Day of Action Against Healthcare Cuts and Privatization

Ontario Health Coalition

Across Ontario, in more than one hundred hospitals and healthcare facilities, staff and patient advocates staged an "Health Action Day"

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1813 ... April 25, 2019
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Labour Protest in Mexico 2019: The SITUAM Strike

Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui

SITUAM, Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Independent Union of Workers of the Metropolitan

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OpenMedia r1

Vancouver airport turned down our digital strip search ads.

Paov,

For too long now, border officials have been searching travelers' smartphones without a warrant. We knew we needed to take action to stop these massive privacy violations.1

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1812 ... April 24, 2019
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A Vote For Apartheid: The End of the Two States Proposal

Katja Hermann, director of the West Asia Unit at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, in conversation with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, general

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

Dear A, I just wanted to make sure you saw this. In 2 days, I am travelling to the Bayer annual shareholder meeting to demand that its CEO, Werner Baumann, step down. Can you add your voice?

Demand that Werner Baumann

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Jordan: Tell the King to reject the new labour law r1 ...

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Four years ago, the chances of implementing an EU directive to protect whistleblowers were slim. The political will to take action, the conventional wisdom said, just wasn’t there . Fast forward to April 2019, however, and the situation…

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The #PeoplesPremiere is off to a great start! r1 ...

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Paul Francois has been fighting Monsanto for over a decade after being poisoned from its toxic pesticides .

Bayer-Monsanto’s bosses are terrified of him. He’s the last person they want to see at this week’s investor meeting.

The meeting is in just three days -- can you chip in to get

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1811 ... April 23, 2019
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Bolsonaro: the First 100 days

Jörg Nowak

Near the end of the first 100 days of the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro -- the first radical-right Brazilian president since the moderated transition from

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OpenMedia r1

Our best chance to overhaul Canada’s mobile market is here.

Paov,

Canada’s cell phone market has been broken for way too long . The Big Three’s stronghold over our wireless market has limited competition and means people like you keep paying some of the highest prices in the world

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Hands off the Sooke Hills, Horgan! r1 Peoples Picket and Rally This Friday April 26 ...

Trader Joe’s is reducing 1 million pounds of plastic waste each year — all by cutting wasteful single-use packaging in its stores.

Let’s hold competitors to the same standard: Call on Whole Foods to ban single-use plastic.

Sign the petition

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Choking out our precious marine life and leaching toxins into

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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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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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She's fighting a mega mine to save her home

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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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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 ...

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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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