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On Monday, we will be back in court for the final three weeks of the Cambie Trial. We need to show there’s strong support for health care that is available to all based on need, not ability to pay. Help us do this by packing the court

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Social Justice Film Night Presents 2 Films:
“Climate Change, Militarism & War”
This film gives you a chance to hear frontline voices from all over the world, and how the battles against climate change, militarism, war and austerity are increasingly becoming one struggle.
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“What Next for Catalonia?”
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Last week, Paulo Paulino was shot and killed for defending his forest.
Friends,

Let's never forget Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

Last week, he was shot in the neck and killed for defending the forest he loved .

A devoted member of the Amazon Guardians, Paulo was a humble man who dedicated his…

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Black Friday Strike: Youth climate strikers will hold another massive global climate strike in just two weeks’ time. On the frenzied shopping day ahead of the holiday season, school strikers will take to the streets

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Bell and company are trying to take away low-cost Internet.

Paov,

Big Telecom just asked Prime Minister Trudeau to get rid of new rules that lower the cost of Internet access for people in Canada. 1

This is a direct attack on a recent decision from the Canadian

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1932 ... November 14, 2019
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Crisis in Chile – an interview with Carlos Torres

The recent protests in Chile began on October 7 as a fare-evasion protest by high school students. The protests have escalated including all

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PayPal is pressing charges against us for telling the truth about its connections with German Neo-Nazis.

Can you make an urgent donation so we can fight back?

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Invasion Screening in Vancouver tonight + Tea to learn more about camp! r1 Hosting a Screening, or want help hosting one? Shoot us an email so we can spread the word or help you get started! ...

It’s been revealed that Kellogg’s is leaving key vitamins and minerals out of its cereal in Mexico -- putting millions of children at risk of malnutrition.

But together, we can force Kellogg’s to give kids the healthier breakfast they deserve.

Tell Kellogg’s to stop stripping its Mexican cereal of nutritional value!

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1931 ... November 13, 2019
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Demands from the Workers of Chile

Trade Union Block of Social Unit

The uprisings that continue in Chile began as a student protest against a proposed fare increase for public transport.

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2 weeks ago, 27 young people were arrested after occupying the House of Commons to call on newly elected Members of Parliament to govern for a Green New Deal. I was one of them.

We brought 338 “Mandate

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A special and in-depth look at life after the Berlin Wall. © Peter Turnley/Getty Thirty years ago, shortly after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the journalist Tim Judah arrived as a young reporter in Bucharest. But where does Romania—and the entire former Eastern Bloc—stand now, some 30 years later? That was…

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1930 ... November 12, 2019
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Taxing the Rich is Only a Start, Though it’s a Good One

Doug Henwood

It’s become near-consensus on the social democratic left that you can fund a decent welfare state by

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

CFSC releases new handout exploring alternatives to prison

What would a world without prisons look like? This provocative question is addressed in a new double-sided handout released in October.

The handout, Alternatives to Prison , highlights community-based sentences, Restorative Justice, education,

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1929 ... November 11, 2019
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Revaluing Capitalism for the Long-Term?

Kyle Bailey

In the wake of the 2007--08 financial crash, the mainstream debate has not focused on the choice between socialism or barbarism, but rather on

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

Did you see this, A?

Bee defenders are *this close* to beating the pesticide lobby in a historic court battle. They’re almost at the finish line, but they’re running out of money to keep fighting. I know you care

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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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You shared your Internet stories. We plastered them in ads.

Paov,

We want to deliver a strong message to the new government as it settles into Ottawa. So we collected dozens of personal stories from people across the country who struggle to connect to the Internet due to

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Paov --

We're in the final sprint after a decade-long legal marathon against Brian Day's challenge to our public health care. Let’s pack the courts and show our support for a public health care system for everyone .

Join us for a press conference at the corner of Nelson and

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A call out for solidarity with the Unist'ot'en Camp r1 The struggle at Unist'ot'en is intensifying and action from supporters is needed. Check out how you can best support here. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1928 ... November 8, 2019
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Chicago Teachers Transform the City and the Labor Movement

Rebecca Burns

Chicago teachers and staff returned to the classrooms Friday November 1st, after more than two weeks on strike. Their walkout

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Rare opportunity to protect even rarer forests

Wintry days, bright reflections r1 Draw your chair closer to the fire that RAVEN has kindled: read about recent victories and slow-but-steady progress from our campaigns. ...

Wintry days, bright reflections r1 Draw your chair closer to the fire that RAVEN has kindled: read about recent victories and slow-but-steady progress from our campaigns. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1927 ... November 7, 2019
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How Seven Thousand Quebec Workers Went on Strike against Climate Change

Alain Savard

With a crowd of 500,000, Montreal’s march for the climate was the largest in the world during the

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Discarded devices are becoming a huge problem.

Paov,

Landfills around the world are piling up with discarded cell phones, laptops, and other electronics. It's the fastest-growing waste problem—increasing at double the rate of plastic waste. 1

What's worse, these devices often contain hazardous substances that poison the environment

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Wildest expectations r1 Eeee! The Narwhal just had its best month ever. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1926 ... November 6, 2019
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The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities

Sam Gindin

On September 16, 2019, forty-six thousand defiant General Motors (GM) workers streamed out on strike. This eruption of long-festering worker

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Watch it today, and then share it with friends and host a screening in your community!

INVASION Premieres Today!

Invasion is Live now! Watch it today, share the film with your friends, and organize a screening in your community!
Watch INVASION Now!

In this era of "reconciliation", Indigenous land is

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Invitation to PIPE UP De-escalation training r1 ...

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Coca-Cola workers fighting for their rights in Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, and the USA still need your support r1 Read More

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1925 ... November 5, 2019
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California of Fire and Profit

Luca Celada

California is burning. This sentence is all too familiar by now, a kind of mantra that is repeated every year with the onset of

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Are you interested in going to the Unist'ot'en Camp but have questions? r1 Come join us to learn more in Vancouver or connect with us over email! ...

Another batch of fragrant, freshly roasted Nicaragua coffee is available at $14 per one lb. bag.If you wish to purchase some, contact Allen at 250-384-0477.

The Mining Justice Action committee and the Victoria Central America Support Committee invite you to an evening with Guatemalan activists on: Undermining indigenous Rights: an American Silver in Guatemala

Nov. 18th, at 7 PM Cadboro Bay unites Church 2625 Arbutus Rd.

Luis Fernando García Monroy who was shot outside the...…

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I want to make sure you saw this -- if this massive forest gets plowed down, we don’t have a fighting chance against climate change . Without enough donations from members like you, Costco might get away with destroying it to make luxury toilet paper.

If you’ve saved your payment information

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1924 ... November 4, 2019
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British Labour: The Future is Ours to Make, Together

Jeremy Corbyn

Today we are launching the most ambitious and radical campaign our country has ever seen to bring real change to

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 25 September 2019

Beyond NAFTA and CUSMA: Democracy Not Corporatocracy

The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) falls short of any real alternative, rather it follows a long line of neoliberal trade agreements that have little to do with trade and everything to do with facilitating profit

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American warehouse giant Costco is destroying the world’s largest intact forest to make toilet paper. This forest is key to stopping climate change because it absorbs tons of carbon. If it gets wiped out, it’ll unleash more climate catastrophe.

Can you chip in to save the boreal forest from Costco?

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

Paov,

When an Ontario MPP introduced a Right to Repair bill earlier this year, Apple and other Big Tech lobbies swooped in to kill it.1

Tech companies want to make sure they can keep charging you hundreds of

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INVASION a new film about the Unist'ot'en is out today! r1 Watch it today, and then share it with friends and host a screening in your community! ...

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In July this year, Erlan Baltabay, a leader of the Independent Oil and Energy Workers' Union in Kazakhstan, was sentenced to seven years in prison on politically motivated charges.

A huge international union mobilization followed, including a LabourStart campaign signed by thousands calling for his release. He was released from

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1923 ... November 1, 2019
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Global Israel: Securocratic War, Securocratic Borders, Securocratic Emissions

Judith Deutsch

Globally, human societies are veering toward the precipice of a cascading extinction event that is traceable to 20th century wars and

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Unscrupulous finance firms are making millions from corporations burning down the Amazon -- and selling it to people like you and me as "green investments" .

EU-leaders have pledged to end finance greenwashing -- but they are already buckling under enormous pressure from corporate lobbyists .

Tell EU-leaders to ban greenwashing and save the

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1922 ... October 31, 2019
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Globalization’s Corroding Edifice

Dara Leyden and Benjamin Selwyn

The World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), published every year since 1978, plays a similar role to that of the state of the

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Landmark r1 Big changes all start a little somewhere

Share the trailer and organize a screening in your community!

INVASION: Share this trailer and organize a screening!

Invasion debuts Friday November 1 at 9 AM PST In this era of "reconciliation", Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist'o'ten Camp, Gidimt'en…

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1921 ... October 30, 2019
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Global Economic Volatility and Socio-Political Reactions

Éric Toussaint, Patrick Bond, Ishmael Lesufi and Lisa Thompson

Trade and currency wars, financial volatility and economic turbulence are now the most important features of

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Chloran is the new neonic -- a toxic pesticide used by farmers that is seeping into rivers and destroying ecosystems.

Tell the Quebec government that chloran has no place in our river beds.

Sign the petition

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Quebec’s rivers may soon be full of floating dead fish. The culprit is chloran

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1920 ... October 29, 2019
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Stop Backing a Corrupt, Repressive and Illegitimate Haitian President

Open letter calling on the Canadian government to stop backing a corrupt, repressive and illegitimate Haitian president

In recent months, Haitians have

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Comrades: CUPE has been a great supporter of our causes for international solidarity and worker rights, now they need OUR SOLIDARITY in support for the picket line for the support staff in School District 63.

Please consider joining me at this

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You might not have seen my email, A, but we need your help to face down corporate bullies.

We bring together members like you. Caring, generous people who, together, stand up to -- and defeat -- giants like Bayer Monsanto, Nestlé, and McDonald's.

But we’re facing a funding crunch -- less than 1%

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The Mining Justice Action committee and the Victoria Central America Support committee invite you to an evening with Guatemalan activists on:

UnderMining Indigenous Rights: Pan American Silver in Guatemala

Xinka Resistance to Canadian Mining in Guatemala

Nov. 18th, at 7 PM …

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1919 ... October 28, 2019
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After the Federal Election: the Dangers and Challenges that Lie Ahead

Pierre Beaudet

It is still early to interpret fully the results of Canada’s October 21 federal election. But behind the

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1918 ... October 27, 2019
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Rojava

Fouad Oveisy

As I write, the revolution in Rojava is under existential threat. This threat was aggravated by a controversial roller coaster of recent events. After

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u You are invited to an evening celebrating the life of Norman Bethune,
Canadian doctor and humanitarian

AT: Victoria event Centre 415 Broad St. November 7 at 7 pm

Presentation on Dr. Bethune and poetry book launch and reading by Larry Hannant. Hiss new book "All my Politics are Poetry"…

1. White Poppies for Peace will be distributed at W omen in Black vigil Noon to 1 pm beside City Hall, Centennial Square. All are welcome to come to get peace poppies, handmade by WiB members, and to stand with us for all or part of the vigil. …

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Giant corporations are bullying people like you and me every day . They threaten to burn down the rainforests, drill every last drop of oil, and ravage the ocean with plastic waste.

They want us to feel alone and powerless -- so we respond by banding together . That’s why SumOfUs exists.

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Raising the roof, shifting the paradigm r1 RAVEN's Heiltsuk Week of Action wraps up just as UNDRIP is adopted by British Columbia. ...

Raising the roof, shifting the paradigm r1 RAVEN's Heiltsuk Week of Action wraps up just as UNDRIP is adopted by British Columbia. ...

While the Amazon burns, massive logging corporations are destroying the last of BC’s majestic old growth forests.

It’s time to put an end to the destruction -- call on BC to stop unrestricted old growth logging now!

Sign the petition

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Multi-billion dollar logging corporations like Canfor are cashing in on

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Here's what our plan is for the new government.

Paov,

The election results are in, and we wanted to share with you our thoughts on what it means for the future of the Internet.

First, Justin Trudeau has been reelected as prime minister, but with a minority government.

That means

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1917 ... October 25, 2019
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Class Struggle in Chile: President Piñera At War With His Own People

Euan Gibb

Chile has been held up for decades as South America’s clearest example of the stability possible when

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It’s an exciting, historic moment! Today the BC Government introduced a law to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We are celebrating this historic occasion, and we are asking you to join us.

This legislation makes sure that Indigenous people in British

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1916 ... October 24, 2019
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Bolivian Horizons: An Interview with Pablo Solon

Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday, October 20, 2019. According to the country’s electoral system, in order to avoid a second round in

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Now that the election is over, its time for us to push for ambitious solutions to the climate emergency.

As the Liberals try to form government, its time to send a message to NDP, Greens, Bloc and Liberals that you want bold climate action now.

Sign the petition

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Now

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Have you felt a chill this election?

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1915 ... October 23, 2019
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Rough and Plenty: A Memorial

As a Nova Scotia commercial fisher in the early 1990s, Raymond A. Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. During that difficult, painful,

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Please check out these upcoming events:

Oct. 24:

Nov. 15:

Robert Fisk

Who Is Pushing for War in the Middle East… and What it Means for You

7pm

David Lam Auditorium (MAC A144)

See attached poster for information about tickets.

A limited number of

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Time for all the parties to #CooperateForClimate

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Paov,

I’m still processing the mixed bag of last night’s election results.

Some of our boldest champions lost in heartbreaking races after Our Time organizers poured countless hours into supporting their campaigns. At the same time, we elected powerful champions, like Leah Gazan in Winnipeg Centre, Matthew Green in

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Take this short survey to help direct our campaigning after the election

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The dust is

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1914 ... October 22, 2019
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Catalan Independence Leaders Sentenced to Heavy Jail Terms

The savage sentences handed down by Spain’s Supreme Court against nine Catalan independence leaders have been denounced by political leaders in Quebec, including

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A critical election for the internet

Paov,

Right now, polls are opening across Canada for the federal election, and I’ll be honest with you, I have no idea what to expect when the votes are counted tonight.

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1913 ... October 21, 2019
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Free Public Transit is Key to a Green New Deal: Free Transit for Toronto

Herman Rosenfeld

One of the few identifiable issues raised in the Canadian election campaign so far is

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KitKat, McVitie's, and extreme poverty

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KitKat bars, Godiva chocolates, McVitie's biscuits... All made with cocoa produced by farmers making less than $1 per day on average.

Because Nestlé and Pladis are refusing to pay a fair price for cocoa, farmers in Ghana, Ivory Coast and other producing countries live

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Friends: in a few weeks I’ll be in Chile bringing your solidarity. Please consider either attending this fundraising dinner or making a donation. Details in the attached graphic.

Carlos Flores,

British Columbia, Canada

https://www.facebook.com/groups/385108252276368/

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Today, Sunday October 20, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be holding his final election campaign rally in a downtown Victoria pub. He is here to sell his criminal vision of pipeline and oil sands expansion.

Join us for an emergency rally outside to tell Trudeau that building the Trans Mountain

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Victoria Central America Support Committee

Café Simpatico Friday, Oct. 25
At: Fernwood Community Association: 1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open at 7 pm

Music by Grupo Raices at 7:30 pm -- The roots of Latin American music with musical director, composer and guitarist Diego Barrientos,; Alberto Callo on percussion and vocals; and…

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I want to make sure you saw this -- if this massive forest gets plowed down, we don’t have a fighting chance against climate change . Without enough donations from members like you, Costco might get away with destroying it to make luxury toilet paper.

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 30 September 2019

Take the Plant, Save the Planet

Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change.

GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa but workers want to repurpose it to create good jobs and produce green and sustainable energy products. Join

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Admission to this event is by donation with proof of voting. (a voting selfie, or a good ol' fashioned pinkie swear will do). No one turned away for lack of funds. Doors, 5pm. Intro to Extinction Rebellion workshop 5:30. Victoria Event Centre 1415 Broad Street, downtown Victoria.

Monday October 21st

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