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Jan 23rd Weekly Indigenous news on rabble.ca
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rabble.ca weekly e-news for January 23rd, 2015
This is your daily dose of our Editor top picks! For more new rabble content, visit www.rabble.caIndigenous This week's top news and analysis about the struggles of indigenous peoples for rights and sovereignty. For more on indigenous issues visit our topic page: http://rabble.ca/indigenous
B.C. First Nation bans bottled water and becomes first Indigenous 'Blue Community' January 22, 2015 | By Maude Barlow Tsal'alh adopted a resolution with the three criteria needed to become a Blue Community: recognizing of the human right to water, banning bottled water and promoting public water services. Protect the Sacred Headwaters: Stop Imperial Metals' Red Chris Mine January 22, 2015 | By Leila Darwish Imperial Metals, the mining company responsible for the ongoing Mount Polley Mine disaster, will be seeking the final permit to open its controversial Red Chris Mine in the Sacred Headwaters of B.C. A bold vision for Canada's future January 22, 2015 | By Jessie Housty Imagine Canada's future. What does it look like? In this excerpt, we read what Jessie Housty, an Indigenous community leader from the Heiltsuk First Nation, envisions for Canada. Lynn Gehl: Centring Indigenous knowledge January 21, 2015 | By Scott Neigh Lynn Gehl talks about her journey of struggle as an Algonquin Anishnabe woman, and the importance of centring Indigenous knowledge. 'Land is a Relationship': In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous nationhood January 21, 2015 | By Harsha Walia Harsha Walia sits down with Glen Coulthard for a wide-ranging conversation about Indigenous nationhood which delves into his powerful premise: that there is no freedom in the settler-colonial state. 'The process is the punishment': Taseko takes Wilderness Committee to court over fight to save fish lake January 20, 2015 | By Dawn Hoogeveen A crowd gathered in front of B.C.'s law court in Vancouver on Monday morning in support of the Wilderness Committee on the first day of Taseko Mines' lawsuit.
This week @ rabble.ca: The Bank of Canada's message to Harper
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23 Jan 2015
Hey rabble readers,
Canada's financial industry reacted with surprise and dismay to the Bank of Canada's announcement that it was lowering its interest rate to 0.75 per cent. But people shouldn't be surprised at the Bank of Canada's move, says economist Hugh Mackenzie. Find out why in his analysis of the decision -- and read more from the progressive economics perspective.
Stephen Harper could call an election at any time. Are progressives ready? At rabble.ca, we're building an election strategy for 2015 -- to inform, empower and mobilize people who want change in Ottawa. Will you help us raise $30,000 to undertake the most extensive election issue coverage, ever? Please pitch in to support our work!
In a must-read column this week, Harsha Walia sits down with Glen Coulthard for a wide-ranging conversation about Indigenous nationhood and decolonization, delving into his powerful premise: there is no freedom in the settler-colonial state. You can read it right here.
We're hiring! rabble.ca, Canada's leading site for independent progressive online news and analysis, seeks an Associate Publisher and an Activist Toolkit Coordinator. Learn more about these positions here -- but hurry, the deadline for Toolkit Coordinator is Jan. 27!
This week's top news
Municipal workers locked out in Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Snow is piling up in the streets after municipal workers were locked out by the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
By Ella Bedard
Newfoundland NDP leadership up for grabs as election looms
Newfoundland NDP leader Lorraine Michael is stepping down. Who will the new N.L. NDP leader be for the federal election this year?
By Cory Collins
Ontario school board democracy is on the chopping block
The Ontario government has ordered the Toronto District School Board to make drastic changes, and is clearing the way to close up to 100 schools.
By John Cartwright
What does the Bill 1 decision mean for Nova Scotia health-care unions?
Arbitrator's ruling creates new possibilities for union representation in Nova Scotia's re-organized health-care sector.
By Ella Bedard
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We can help you get there
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Dear PAOV,
The amazingly create work of JVP members and supporters - people like you - is a constant source of amazement to me.
What you've given in terms of time, hard work, generous donations is simply incredible. And it's a huge part of why this movement is growing so quickly.
Greece: Voters Reject Austerity, Time for Negotiation - ITUC OnLine
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
ITUC OnLine 004/260115 Greece: Voters Reject Austerity, Time for Negotiation Brussels, 27 January 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The people of Greece have delivered a heavy blow to failed austerity policies, with the new coalition led by Syriza determined to set a new course for the economy. "The Troika's recipe has failed the economic test and now it has failed the test of democratic accountability. The international financial institutions and the European authorities need to respect the voice of the Greek people and explore every option with the new government," said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow. "Negotiation must replace edicts as the engine to regenerate the Greek economy."
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PORAJMOS=..... 26/1/15.
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Rikker it adrée tute’s kokero see an’ kek’ll jin.
Keep it a secret in your own heart, and nobody will know it. the tao of the Roma/ Traveller Rumi Circular on the Fight against the Gypsy Nuisance issued by Heinrich Himmler, December 8, 1938An Order to the Whole Party! Experience gained in the fight against the Gypsy nuisance, and knowledge derived from race-biological research, have shown that the proper method of attacking the Gypsy problem seems to be to treat it as a matter of race. Experience shows that part- Gypsies play the greatest role in Gypsy criminality. On the other hand, it has been shown that efforts to make the Gypsies settle have been unsuccessful, especially in the case of pure Gypsies, on account of their strong compulsion to wander. It has therefore become necessary to distinguish between pure and part-Gypsies in the final solution of the Gypsy question.
To this end, it is necessary to establish the racial affinity of every Gypsy living in Germany and of every vagrant living a Gypsy-like existence.
I therefore decree that all settled and non-settled Gypsies, and also all vagrants living a Gypsy-like existence, are to be registered with the Reich Criminal Police – Reich Central Office for the Fight against the Gypsy Nuisance.
The police authorities will report (via the responsible Criminal Police offices and local offices) to the Reich Criminal Police Office – Reich Central Office for the Fight against the Gypsy Nuisance all persons who by virtue of their looks and appearances, customs or habits, are to be regarded as Gypsies or part-Gypsies.
Because a person considered to be a Gypsy or part-Gypsy, or a person living like a Gypsy, as a rule confirms the suspicion that marriage (in accordance with clause 6 of the first decree on the implementation of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor … or on the basis of stipulations in the law of Fitness to Marry) must not be contracted, in all cases the public registry officials must demand a testimony of fitness to marry from those who make such an application [to be married].
Instructions on how to execute this decree, issued by the Criminal Police on 1 March, 1939, said that the ‘requisite legal basis’ for the prevention of ‘racial miscegenation’ and for the general regulation of the Gypsies’ way of life could only be established through a comprehensive ‘Gypsy Law’. The imminence of such a law was announced on several occasions, but none was ever promulgated.
Treatment of the Gypsy question is part of the National Socialist task of national regeneration. A solution can only be achieved if the philosophical perspectives of National Socialism are observed. Although the principle that the German nation respects the national identity of alien peoples is also assumed in the fight against the Gypsy Nuisance, nonetheless the aim of measures taken by the State to defend the homogeneity of the German nation must be the physical separation of Gypsydom from the German nation, the prevention of miscegenation, and finally the regulation of the way of life of pure and part-Gypsies. The necessary legal foundations can only be created through a Gypsy Law, which prevents further intermingling of blood, and which regulates all the most pressing questions which go together with the existence of Gypsies in the living space of the German nation.
M. Burleigh & W. Wipperman, The Racial State, Germany 1933-1945, Cambridge, 1991, pp.120-121
Copyright © 2015 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance AuthorityThursday, February 23, 2012
Porajmos The Gypsy Holocaust
Pajamos is the Gypsies term for the Holocaust. It means devouring or destruction.
Gypsies are the only other “official” victims of the Holocaust. The Nazis had a plan to exterminate the Roma and Sinti people. About 250,000 Gypsies were killed in the Holocaust. Some estimates are as high as 600,000. As a result of their wandering lifestyle, it is hard to get a precise number. Even Gypsies who were assimilated were not spared, for the most part.
By the laws the Nazis made, Gypsies should be considered Aryan. As a result of their wandering and asocial lifestyle though, they were persecuted and killed. A person was considered a Gypsy if they had a Gypsy grandparent or if 2 or more of their grandparents were part-Gypsy. The most dangerous Gypsies were those of mixed blood. According to the Nazi Dr. Ritter, about 90% of Gypsies were of mixed blood.
From Diné Walkers to Northern Trappers - INM Grassr
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Delivering your message next week -- take a moment to share?
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Friends,
In a week the National Energy Board is going to open up applications to intervene in it’s review of the Energy East pipeline project.
So far you and over 60,000 others have sent messages to the NEB demanding a climate review of Energy East, and I want to boost that number as much as possible before we deliver the messages to NEB headquarters on February 2nd.
Help us get there by sharing the call to action with your friends and family:
Energy East is the largest tar sands pipeline ever proposed, with the same climate impact as adding 7 million cars to Canada’s roads, but Stephen Harper has changed the rules for pipeline reviews to keep climate change and community voices out of the debate. We need to demand a real, scientific review...
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68 Years of Struggle and Resistance for Peace, Justice and Freedom
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1072 .... January 27, 2015
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68 Years of Struggle and Resistance
for Peace, Justice and Freedom
Sid Shniad
When I was invited to speak at today's forum, the attacks in Paris against the magazine Charlie Hebdo and the kosher super market had not taken place. In light of the media coverage of what happened in Paris, I feel the need to situate my comments against the backdrop of those events. I hope you will indulge me.
Over the past 500 years, rampaging capitalism has expanded ruthlessly across the world, eliminating all impediments to the accumulation of wealth in the hands of those who own and run the system. We are familiar with the attendant results: rising standards of living for a few, accompanied by growing insecurity, impoverishment and degradation...
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Greek anti-austerity party hails election win: Th
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Supporters of Greek anti-austerity party Syriza wildly cheered Sunday’s election victory, confident that the first-ever victory by a leftist party in Greece would help turn back austerity in Europe.
Red and white flags emblazoned with Syriza’s tricolour motif waved outside the main party platform in central Athens, where hundreds of supporters gathered as election results poured in.
Many Syriza supporters said they were pinning their hopes on party leader Alexis Tsipras turning the country around after six years of recession which led to a massive international bailout.
“The time of the Left has come,” the crowd chanted.
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Quaker Concern: Building relationships with Indigenous partners
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Winter, 2015
Dear Friends,We are very pleased to bring you the Winter 2015 edition of our three times a year newsletter Quaker Concern. In addition to short news and updates, in this issue you'll find articles about:
- some of our grassroots work with Indigenous partners,
- using art to challenge our thinking about justice,
- peace work being undertaken by Peterborough Monthly Meeting, and
- The uncertain situations faced by Conscientious Objectors to the Iraq war (you can help by taking part in Let Them Stay week January 25th-31st)
Click here to read Quaker Concern (PDF).
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PP Post: Fraser Institute wonders if a good job with good pay and a good pension is "fair"?
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Just wanted to flag our new post to you. Feel free to share on social media:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/fraser-institute-wonders-if-good-job-good-pay-and-good-pension-fair
Tnx,Chris
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - January 26, 2015
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This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to www.canadians.org. Please forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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WIN! Fredericton city council votes to ask TransCanada for a public meeting on the Energy East pipeline
Fredericton chapter activist Mark D'Arcy writes, "There was a small victory [on Monday January 19] at Fredericton's Council-in-Committee meeting. ...The City of Fredericton has agreed to send a letter to TransCanada Pipelines Corp. asking for a public meeting for the...
COMPARE AND CONTRAST: OBAMAS REACTION TO THE DEAT
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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/compare-contrast-obamas-reaction-king-abdullah-hugo-chavez/
Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his policies that helped the poor. King Abdullah was the dictator and tyrant who ran one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.
The effusive praise being heaped on the brutal Saudi despot by westernmedia and political figures has been nothing short of nauseating; the UK Government, which arouses itself on a daily basis by issuing self-consciously eloquent lectures to the world about democracy, actuallyordered flags flown all day at half-mast to honor this repulsive monarch. My Intercept colleague Murtaza Hussain has an excellent article about this whole spectacle, along with a real obituary, here.
I just want to focus on one aspect: a comparison of the statements President Obama issued about the 2013 death of President Chávez and the one he issued today about the Saudi ruler. Here’s the entire Obama statement about Chávez (h/t Sami Khan):
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ITUC Newsletter 54: Davos, Right to strike.. Latest News from the ITUC
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Launching the Socialist Register 2015: Transforming Classes
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 15 January 2015
Launching the Socialist Register 2015:
Transforming Classes
This 51st annual Socialist Register completes the investigation of class formation and class strategies on a global scale begun with last year’s volume. Deploying an understanding of class as an historical social process – rather than an abstract sociological category or statistical artifact – the essays here investigate the concrete ways that working classes are being made and remade in the struggles against neoliberalism, austerity and authoritarian governments. Taking stock of the changing balance of class forces as well as old and new forms of workplace, household and political organization, they uncover the class strategies being debated and adapted in different zones of the world.
Chaired by Leo Panitch. Panel discussion with contributors:
- David McNally and Sue Ferguson: Precarious Migrants:...
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The Greek Election
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1071 .... January 23, 2015
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The Greek Election
Leo Panitch
As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear, radical democratic alternative to the perverse policies of neoliberal austerity stands on the doorstep of entering the state.
Emerging out of a coalescence of people from the 1980s Eurocommunist left and alter-globalization social movements at the beginning of the millennium, Syriza had at one point reached as much as 15 per cent support in opinion polls before 2010. But it came to the brink of power only when its new leader, Alexis Tsipras, in the run-up to the spring 2012 election proclaimed that it was Syriza's immediate goal and...
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