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October 2020 Update
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- Published on Monday, 26 October 2020 18:56
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October @ SOVI
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2020 is quickly coming to an end and there continues to be a lot to grapple with both internationally and locally. Our hearts are heavy as we receive news of all the events going on around us. You may have come across the hashtag #Africaisbleeding. In a metaphorical sense, it is. Nigerians continue their protests against police brutality even while being killed by the system they protest (End SARS) and Congolese demand change and justice after years of violence and greed fueled by the exploitation of the country’s natural resources. Throughout all this, there continues to be a movement from the people toward good governance and justice through transparency, representation and real democracy. Closer to home, Mi’kmaq fisheries are standing up for their rights and Secwepemc land defenders won't back down.
Whats at stake for your rights in the money laundering commission
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- Published on Monday, 26 October 2020 15:16
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Dear Friend,
In the wake of soaring housing prices and reports of cash laundering in BC casinos, British Columbians are outraged at the inaction of the government and private sector to combat money laundering across the province.
In response, the BC government launched the Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in BC in 2019. The Commission delayed the hearings to protect the integrity of the electoral process, and now, after the whirlwind of the elections, these important hearings are resuming.
Today is the first day of the main hearings at the Cullen Commission, and the BCCLA is the only civil liberties group at the Commission. We will be making submissions and questioning witnesses who appear before the Commission. The Commission wants to hear from us, and we will make sure that...
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Digital Organizing Isnt as Straight Forward as it Seems
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- Published on Monday, 26 October 2020 02:28
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2225 ... October 26, 2020
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Digital Organizing Isn’t as Straight Forward as it Seems
Aminah Sheikh
Over the past few years, digital organizing has become the hot new thing in unionization campaigns. Digital mobilization and engagement technologies have become essential to winning. However, while some unions have won remarkable gains utilizing these technologies, other unions have lagged behind, unwilling to embrace these new tools.
Before the pandemic, I was already using digital tools like peer-to-peer texting, email marketing, and database software for my organizing work. However, I used them to deepen existing relationships with supporters, never to start initial discussions about the union. Digital tools were meant to amplify the ground game, not as a primary means of organizing. For the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, our organizing bread-and-butter was face-to-face conversations.
Face-to-face organizing -- meeting workers where they are and listening to their needs -- is a method that has been used by unions and community groups for decades. The model encourages workers to become both leaders and activists by building strong relationships with each other, as...
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Stop Adani Online Rally
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- Published on Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:14
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Hi Paov,
The Stop Adani movement once again goes global!
This Wednesday, 28th October, people working for a safe climate future from around the world will converge at the Stop Adani Online Rally: Lloyd's Insure Our Future, not Adani’s mine!
As you read this, Adani are desperately searching the Lloyd’s of London insurance marketplace for the insurance they need to build their destructive mine.
But people in Australia aren’t the only ones who want to stop Adani’s disaster project and get Lloyd’s of London to take action on the climate crisis.
People here in the Pacific, the United Kingdom, and Poland also want Lloyd’s to stop acting as the last refuge for climate wreckers like Adani - and will be joining us at the online rally!
Sign up now to join the rally and take part in this historic global Stop Adani moment.
Online rally: Lloyds Insure Our Future, not Adani’s mine!
Alicia Keys. Shawn Mendes. Shaq. And So Many More.
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- Published on Sunday, 25 October 2020 06:02
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US Election
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Ghoulish EdTech Innovations
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- Published on Sunday, 25 October 2020 02:26
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 4 ... October 25, 2020
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Ghoulish EdTech Innovations
In this episode we speak with Tanner Mirrlees about the dark and underdiscussed world of education technology and the information communication technology (ICT) industry. We explore the relationship between the EdTech industry and venture capital, the expanding power of the GAFAM (Google-Amazon-Facebook-Apple-Microsoft), and the acceleration of these processes due to COVID-19. We conclude by discussing the impacts of EdTech on the labour movement.
Tanner Mirrlees is a professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies program at Ontario Tech University. His new book, co-authored with Shahid Alvi is called EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age.
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The Lives Saved Because of Global Citizens
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- Published on Saturday, 24 October 2020 10:34
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IMPACT
Celebrate a Decade of Protection Against Polio
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- Published on Saturday, 24 October 2020 03:24
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2224 ... October 24, 2020
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Election in Tanzania: The Battle of Neoliberal Agendas
Nizar K. Visram
Tanzania will be going to the polls on 28 October 2020 to elect the president, national assembly and local councillors. The semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar is, in addition, to elect its president and house of representatives. From a population of 55 million, over 30 million are registered to vote at more than 80,000 polling stations.
Some 15 presidential contenders have entered the race for the State House, two of them in the front line. They are the incumbent Dr John Magufuli from the CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) party, and Tundu Lissu from CHADEMA (Chama cha Democrasia na Maendeleo).
In Zanzibar, it is a two-horse race between Dr Hassan Mwinyi (CCM) and Seif Sharrif Hamad from ATC (the Alliance for Change and Transparency-Patriotic).
The ruling CCM party has dominated the political scene since independence in 1961. After the restoration of multi-party politics in 1992, it has won all the five elections so far.
In 2005, CCM presidential candidate Jakaya Kikwete got...
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Nestlé water sell
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- Published on Saturday, 24 October 2020 03:22
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Nestlé is about to sell all its bottled water operations in North America.
Send a message to Nestlé and the potential buyers that we stand with grassroots communities in their fight against bottled water.
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It’s happening -- Nestlé just identified the buyers to take on its bottled water operations in North America.
Nestlé is getting out of the water business because over the years, SumOfUs members like you have supported 5 grassroots groups in Michigan, Ontario, California, Florida, and Colorado in their decades-long opposition to Nestlé’s efforts to suck small communities dry of all their water.
Nestlé is expecting bids from buyers that may include Coca-Cola and PepsiCo next week -- so together with the five grassroots Nestlé fighters, we’re sending a message to Nestlé and its potential buyers to return control to the community now.
Sign the petition asking Nestlé, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and future owners to return its five...
Solidarity needed as crises deepen
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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Global Citizen Stands with the #EndSARS Protests
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- Published on Friday, 23 October 2020 10:10
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TAKE ACTION
Stand Up for Victims of Human Rights Abuse in Nigeria
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- Published on Friday, 23 October 2020 05:18
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Iran Will Allow Women to Run for President in 2021
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Our pressure is working
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- Published on Friday, 23 October 2020 05:16
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Paov,
Yesterday, we asked you to phone the leaders of the parties you voted for in the last federal election and call on them to back the campaign to defund the Trans Mountain pipeline. We were blown away by the response: in less than 24 hours, over 500 of you used our click-to-call tool!
Let’s keep the pressure up. Can you make a phone call now to let Annamie Paul, Jagmeet Singh or Justin Trudeau know that we want them to work together to Defund TMX?
In my role here at 350, I read all the emails that come into our inbox and I read all of the comments we get on social media too. A few of you were surprised that we included the newly-elected Green Party leader as a target for this phone blitz, so I wanted to take a moment to explain. The Green Party made it clear in their 2019 election platform that they support canceling TMX and all other fossil fuel subsidies.1 But with all eyes on the Trans Mountain fight right now, we believe it would send a powerful message if...
Strange Bedfellows: Trumps Political Base
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- Published on Friday, 23 October 2020 03:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2223 ... October 23, 2020
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Strange Bedfellows: Trump’s Political Base
Robert Chernomas
"Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to take him seriously, and as one action after another met with amazing success, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. It was inconceivable that such a thing could actually happen in our modern civilization. A madman had become the leader. Having classified him in this way you might think that all we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane individual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs."
Then there was the cautionary note.
"Focusing on the individual’s madness begs the question as to the sanity of society that created him as its spokesman and leader, that a reciprocal relationship exists between the leader and the people who spawned him. Removing such a leader is simply removing the overt manifestation of the disease. Focusing on the madman does not take us very far in understanding...
All Eyes on Mikimaki Event Listing
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- Published on Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:12
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Idle No More is pleased to see such a strong response to the National Call for Actions taking place this week. We want to thank event organizers for coming together to stand with the Mi'kmaq nation.Below is a list of events we have been made aware of:
Ucluelet/Tofino, B.C:
Oct. 24th - 1:00PM (PST)
Location: Junction
Victoria, BC:
Oct. 23rd - 8:30 PM (PST)
Location: Online
Read more: All Eyes on Mikimaki Event Listing
Well, hot dam
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- Published on Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:40
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- Published on Thursday, 22 October 2020 11:22
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...Quebecs October Crisis, 1970
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- Published on Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:22
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2222 ... October 22, 2020
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Quebec’s October Crisis, 1970:
What Today’s Left Learned From Ottawa’s Turn to Repression
Richard Fidler
Fifty years ago this month, the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act -- its first use in peacetime -- occupied Quebec with 12,000 troops, arrested almost 500 citizens without a warrant, and carried out 36,000 police searches of homes, organizations and publications.
Of the 497 trade unionists, artists, lawyers, and left activists jailed, 435 were subsequently freed without charges, and 44 of the 62 charged were acquitted or had their prosecutions stayed. But October 1970 marked a turning point in the federalist response to Quebec’s "Quiet Revolution" and the rapidly growing popular mobilization in favour of making Quebec an independent state.
The immediate pretext for these draconian acts were the kidnappings of a British trade commissioner and a Quebec cabinet minister by the FLQ (the Front de libération du Québec), a small band of revolutionary-minded youth -- even though the police involved in the hostage search said so many arrests simply complicated their task. This was soon...
Police violence must end
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:30
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Dear Friend,
On August 7, 2010, Al Wright’s 22-year-old son, Alvin, was shot and tragically killed by the Langley RCMP.
Today, Al is speaking out against the ongoing police violence in BC and calling on all provincial party leaders to prioritize immediate police reform.
Al Wright is speaking out. Read his statement here.
“Ten years ago, the RCMP killed my son. The RCMP entered my son Alvin’s house, went upstairs to his bedroom for a wellness check, failed to announce themselves, confronted him with guns drawn, and killed him. I have been seeking justice for my son for ten years, and now so many more families are enduring the same pain and anguish my family and I have suffered.”
The BCCLA has worked with Al Wright and other families of police violence for several decades. How many more families need to pour out their pain or endure tragedies for immediate action to be taken on the crisis of policing...
How is the Bloc Québécois ahead of the Greens and NDP on this?
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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