Indonesian security forces shoot dead 5 Papuan teenagers - News from Survival

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Canadian tourist billed $1 million for having baby in U.S.

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[coalalert] COPPER MOUNTAIN MINE SPILL- WATER ALERT ISSUED

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The Reality of Stephen Harper vs. The Reality of Carbon Taxes

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union organization curbed by anti-labour bill (Bill C-525)

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This week @ rabble.ca: We remember -- 25 years after the Montreal Massacre

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05 Dec 2014

Hi rabble readers,

It was 25 years ago this weekend, on December 6, 1989, that 14 young women were separated from their male classmates before being shot and killed. Twenty-five years later, December 6 is a reminder to uproot our culture of misogeny. On this anniversary, rabble called on a range of women to talk about what the events of that day mean to them. You can read reflections about the Montreal Massacre from rabble contributors here.

This week, nations around the world are meeting in Lima for two weeks for the crucial UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, known as COP 20. Seven young people from across Canada arrived in Peru to begin the journey of holding this Canadian government to account for their blatant inaction on the climate. Follow the Canadian Youth Delegation in their rabble blog as they attend the UN climate negotiations, and get the latest on climate justice in our coverage here.

Like farmers? Get angry. Harper rejected a bid from farmers to buy Wheat Board assets, and instead wants to give them away to a U.S. corporation. In Hill Dispatches, Karl Nerenberg reports on the latest Wheat Board fiasco. Support more independent reporting from Parliament with a donation today.

Check out the latest Indie Inside! Artist Kimmortal's first album "Sincerity" is a courageous community-based piece delving into facets of life often untouched by dominant culture. For a chance to win a free download of the album, retweet @rabble.ca with hashtag #indieinside or answer the following question: at what point in the video do you see a lock? Email answers to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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From 14 to thousands: Remembering victims of femicide
Twenty-five years ago Nora Loreto was five years old when the Ecole Polytechnique shootings happened. Twenty-five years later she continues to mobilize for women's liberation.
By Nora Loreto

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Privacy? What Privacy?

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This is the situation: Our federal government is actually advancing two separate pieces of legislation that grant a range of authorities increased power to monitor innocent Canadians like you.1

The good news: We have a new amazing opportunity fight back against out-of-control government spying.

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ITUC Statement on Human Rights Day - ITUC OnLine

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

ITUC Statement on Human Rights Day

Brussels, 10 December 2014 (ITUC OnLine): Today, 64 years since the United Nations declared December 10 a Human Rights Day, the world is witnessing an unprecedented attack on one of the most fundamental human rights of all, the right to strike.

Virtually every country in the world recognises that workers have the right to take strike action. Some 90 countries have it enshrined in their national constitution.

From the first struggles for the 8-hour day and for fair wages, for safety and health at work, for weekly rest days and freedom from discrimination and exploitation at work, the fundamental right of working people to withdraw their labour has provided a crucial foundation for social and economic progress. And when people rise up against dictatorship and political oppression, their right to strike has always been, and always...

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World Human Rights day...10/12/14... ANY ROMA/TRAVELLER RIGHTS????

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The world is a ladder, in which some go up and others go down.

Report on G/R/T racism and discrimination launched in Parliament

Report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller racism and discrimination launched in Parliament

Gypsy and Traveller campaign groups have launched a comprehensive report on racism and discrimination towards the UK’s Romany Gypsy, Traveller, Roma and Roma Migrants communities.

The report, “Gypsy, Traveller and Roma: Experts by Experience”, which claims that nine out of ten children from these communities have been the victims of racial abuse, is intended to monitor the Government’s efforts to tackle anti-Gypsy discrimination and promote integration.

Siobhan Spencer OBE, of the Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group and Adrian Jones of the Northern Network of Gypsy Liaison Groups wrote the report with Dr Pauline Lane from Anglia Ruskin University in response to the Coalition Governments failure to implement European Commission’s Roma Integration Strategy about how Gypsy, Traveller and Roma are treated.

Describing the Coalition Government, Siobhan Spencer said she feared that the Strategy had “fallen on death ears” in the UK, and the report was holding the Government to account over this inaction.

The launch was hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma and was chaired by Andrew George MP. Lord Avebury and Baroness Whittaker from the parliamentary group were also present.

The audience, which included politicians and campaigners, heard from Siobhan Spencer about the appalling conditions that are driving many Eastern European Roma to seek sanctuary in the UK.

She said that she had heard “awful stories about people escaping from victimisation and poverty, and that people shouting about clearing the Roma homeless from Park Lane, London need to understand the history of the Roma people.”

Assen Slavchev, a Roma representative, described the overcrowded and “unbelievable” rented housing that many Roma migrants are forced to live in and said the UK was sliding back to “Dickensian Times.”

Tim Jones, a planning barrister and Tom McCcready, a Romany Gypsy campaigner concentrated on the new planning proposals for Traveller sites and the threat to redefine who Gypsies and Travellers are for planning purposes put forward by the Coalition Government. Attacking the planning definition that the government is planning to tighten up, Mr McCready described his bafflement at how he had to prove he was a Gypsy to get his Traveller site planning permission, and said that ‘gypsy status’ “was something that should never be lost and never be gained.”

Pauline Anderson from the Traveller Movement spoke about education and the need to promote positive role models of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers who have done well in schools and gone on to establish professional careers.

Siobhan Spencer added that Gypsies and Travellers have a right to a home that is not in danger of being evicted or set on fire and that the “communities have come together to solve this problem, but the government needs to meet them half way.”

The full report can be read by following this link: http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/news/roma_report.Maincontent.0007.file.tmp/Experts%20by%20Experience.pdf

By Mike Doherty

A further review of both reports from Liz Fekete from IRR can be found here http://www.irr.org.uk/news/abandoning-gypsy-traveller-and-roma-communities-the-uk-way/

Redefining Travellers out of existence

"In a bad season, a nomad’s temptation to stray from his path is irresistible; but the army is waiting for him with sub-machine guns. ‘The Army’, said my friend, the old khan, ‘has now replaced the lion and the wolf’. "

-Bruce Chatwin - The Songlines (Vintage, 1998)

In our current context we might want to replace the word ‘Army’ with the word ‘Government’.

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The Internet could become something that it was never intended to be

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Canada’s privacy is at a tipping point: We can create the modern privacy safeguards that Canadians deserve, or we can get used to an Internet where our everyday Internet activities are stored and spied on.

We’re into our crucial year-end monthly donor drive: Our ability to keep fighting for your privacy depends on the success of this drive. Please join us as a monthly donor today, Mic.

My name is David Christopher, and I’m OpenMedia’s privacy campaigner.

Over the last year or so, you ha€™ve probably noticed me popping up in your inbox now and then.

My job at OpenMedia is to enable Internet users like you to participate in shaping new privacy safeguards that stop warrantless government spying on your online activity.

I'€™m writing today to ask you to consider signing up to be one of our monthly allies. Today is the start of OpenMedia'€™s annual monthly donor drive. The results of this drive are really important; it will determine the resources we have to run our privacy campaign for the next year.

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Standing for Democracy on Burnaby Mountain

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Charges dropped against Burnaby Mountain protesters

Dear PAOV,

Just hours ago the BC Supreme Court ruled to throw out contempt charges faced by nearly one hundred Burnaby Mountain protesters. The decision confirmed the concerns raised yesterday by the BCCLA that arrests made may have been illegitimate because it was unclear whether individuals crossing the police line had violated the court's order.

Standing for Democracy

While hundreds of committed people gathered on Burnaby Mountain to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate, BCCLA Legal Observers stood on the mountain for a different reason.

Our first goal is to make sure that the fundamental rights of Canadians are protected. Through recording, witnessing and documentation, Legal Observers work to safeguard the right to assemble and demonstrate for all Canadians.

Help Us Bring Back the Legal Observer Program

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Heavily Armed Police Intimidate Striking Workers at ANC-owned Mine in Swaziland - ITUC OnLine

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Heavily Armed Police Intimidate Striking Workers at ANC-owned Mine in Swaziland

Brussels, 27 November 2014 (ITUC OnLine):  The ITUC has expressed serious concerns over intimidation of striking workers at the Maloma mine in Swaziland.  Some 250 workers went on strike on 24 November, after the mine management refused to negotiate over a US$ 72 housing allowance with the Amalgamated Trade Unions of Swaziland (ATUSWA).  All legal requirements were observed by the striking workers, and even though the strike was peaceful, the workers were surrounded by police equipped with riot shields, protective headgear, guns and teargas.  During the strike, management refused the workers access to water, toilets and medical facilities.

Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said "The Swazi dictatorship is well-known for its absolute intolerance of trade unions, or any other form of democratic activity.  These workers simply want justice and have done nothing to justify the threat of violence from the Swazi King's security forces.  The ANC, whose investment arm controls the mine, has to step in immediately and stand up for workers' rights. "

		

				
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UN condemns Botswana's treatment of Bushmen - News from Survival

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