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Hong Kong union leaders arrested as police attack democracy occupation
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Hong Kong union leaders arrested as police attack democracy occupation
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At least three leaders of the independent Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) were arrested today as police moved to break up the democracy encampment in the Admiralty section of the city. HKCTU members and leaders had rushed to
the site when the police announced their intention to end the occupation by clearing out protestors. At least three HKCTU leaders were among those arrested for ‘obstruction’: Chief Executive Mung Siu Tat, construction union leader Ar Man and Organizing Secretary Fredrik Fan.
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The Attack on Ottawa - can we believe the Media/RCMP story?
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Can We Believe the Media/RCMP Story?
DO WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION?
(Dec. 8, 2014) On October 20, W/O Patrice Vincent, was murdered near Montreal. His assailant was shot and killed by police shortly after. Eyewitness accounts said he had his hands in the air when shot. The Media then changed the story, and Canada was told he had a knife, attacked the police, and was killed in self defence. We don't know which version is right, but I think it is of the utmost importance for our country that we find out exactly what the truth is. (Thanks to globalresearch.ca for their great work on this story.On Oct. 22, a second soldier, Cpl Nathan Cirillo, was murdered in Ottawa. Minutes later his killer forced his way into the Parliament Buildings and was shot to death. There are a lot of questions about these cases. Officially they are called Terrorist Attacks. That may be true. It may be a lie. We don't know. All we have is a story put out by the leadership of the RCMP - who we can't trust - and reported to us by a Corporate Media we also can't trust.
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Monsanto vs. Vermont -- urgent help needed
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[coalalert] ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES: RAVEN COAL MINE AWAITS SCRUTINY
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AV TIMES: “ Raven Coal Mine awaits scrutiny, committee set to have specialists in various fields”
http://www.avtimes.net/news/local/raven-coal-mine-awaits-scrutiny-1.1656363
Don't let Monsanto block GE labeling
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Human Rights Day: tribal leaders assassinated for defending their land - News from Survival
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Human Rights Day: tribal leaders assassinated for defending their land
Guarani leader Marinalva Manoel was stabbed to death after campaigning for her tribe's ancestral land.© Aty Guasu
To mark Human Rights Day on Wednesday, Survival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – warns about the growing humanitarian crisis afflicting tribal peoples around the world by highlighting five murders of tribal people fighting for their land and their rights:
- Marinalva Manoel, Guarani spokeswoman from Brazil, was brutally stabbed and dumped on the side of a highway in November 2014. She had been fighting for the return of the Guarani’s land – most of which has been taken over by cattle ranchers.
- Four Ashéninka Indian leaders from Peru were fatally shot in September 2014. The Indians were renowned for their work against illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, making them a prime target.
Jumma activist Timir Baran Chakma was killed after being tortured in the custody of the Bangladesh army.© Survival
- Jumma activist Timir Baran Chakma (also known as Duran Babu Chakma) from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh was killed after being tortured in army custody in August 2014. The Jummas suffer violent repression by the Bangladesh military. More recently there has been an alarming increase in sexual violence against Jumma women, often resulting in their death.
Its Human Rights Day - please help us to free our brother Huber Ballesteros
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It's Human Rights Day and I need your help.
Tomorrow is Human Rights Day -- and I'd like to ask for your help to get our brother Huber Ballesteros released from prison.
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Huber Ballesteros is one of Colombia's best known trade union and human rights activists.
He is also one of the most threatened.
He was arrested on 25th August 2013 and accused of 'rebellion' and 'financing terrorism'.
He has still not faced trial.
Huber is vice-president of FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s second largest union and one of the most persecuted, having had over 1,000 members assassinated in recent years.
Philippines sugar organizer murdered
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Philippines sugar organizer murdered
Rolando
Pango, a full time organizer with the Partido Manggagawa (PM) was gunned down in Binalbagan town in Negros Occidental on November 29, 2014. Prior to his assassination Pango was organizing sugar plantation workers on Hacienda Salud, which is leased and operated
by Manuel Lamata, President of the United Sugar Producers Federation of the Philippines. In June, Hacienda Salud workers applied for land under the Philippines Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. They also filed a case against Lamata at the National Labor
Relations Commission for illegal dismissal of 41 workers.
"This is a grim reminder that in certain industries and sectors like sugar plantations the Philippines is a dangerous place for trade unionists," said Josua Mata, General Secretary of the labor federation SENTRO and co-convener of NAGKAISA, the broadest coalition
of labor groups in the Philippines.
NAGKAISA is challenging the culture of impunity which effectively sanctions extra-judicial killings and other human rights violations against union members and leaders. The PM and Nagkaisa are calling on the national and local governments to render immediate
justice in the Pango case and will be raising his assassination with the Tripartite Industrial Council (TIPC) and the Department of Justice panel investigating the murders of labour activists.
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We refuse to accept this as a way of life
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Dear friend,
I’m writing from the Philippines, where Typhoon Hagupit has forced over a million people into emergency shelters and taken more than 20 lives. This storm comes just one year after Typhoon Haiyan cost over 7,000 lives and caused almost incalculable damage.
If climate change is left unchecked, warmer oceans and higher sea levels will make typhoons ever more frequent and intense. Together, we are refusing to accept a future where deadly storms become a way of life.
As we confront the impacts of climate change, world governments are at the latest round of United Nations Climate Talks in Lima, Peru. Amazingly, negotiators released a new draft climate text that goes directly after the fossil fuel industry. According to the Financial Times, the agreement would force companies like Exxon and Chevron to “cease to exist in their current forms.”
Already, the fossil fuel industry is fighting back. Unlike the World Health Organization, which...
Montreal Massacres 25th Anniversary Unites Canadi
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Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2014/12/06/montreal-massacres-25th-anniversary-unites-canadians-against-violence-toward-all-women
December 6, 2014, marks 25 years to the day since 14 engineering students were massacred in a dorm invasion in 1989 at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, and across Canada, vigils and a moment of silence were held throughout the day.
Each year December 6 is marked as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, uniting Canada in opposition to all forms of anti-female violence. From the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) to the Prime Minister’s office, leaders vowed to work toward a more peaceful existence for women, be they indigenous or non-Native.
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Endless War? The Middle East and Canada's New Militarism
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 27 November 2014
Endless War?
The Middle East and Canada's New Militarism
In 2003, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq on false pretenses and left the country in ruins almost a decade later, creating the conditions for ISIL's ascension in the region. Now the U.S. is spearheading a campaign to return to Iraq and enter Syria to fight off ISIL. Canada has heeded its neighbour's call for support and is already on the ground "helping" with the mission. Canadian reinforcement for U.S. imperial endevours around the world is standard procedure, but Canada has its very own imperial strategy as well. A new foreign policy stance has led to interventions in Afghanistan, Haiti, Libya, and Mali, among other places.
Canada is (again) intervening in the Middle East with fighter jets,...
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Brazil: Munduruku Indians strike back against dam danger - News from Survival
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From the Tar Sands to 'Green Jobs'? Work and Ecological Justice
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1061 .... December 5, 2014
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From the Tar Sands to ‘Green Jobs’?
Work and Ecological Justice
Lilian Yap
From deforestation, toxic pollution, to greenhouse gas emissions, there is no doubt that tar sands development has been and will be an immensely destructive force, first for the communities who are already living within its reach, but ultimately, through its impacts on global climate, for the planet as a whole. There are people who can attest, better than me, to the destruction and the diabolical delusions of this kind of ‘development.’ And I say ‘development’ in quotes, because even though it can be a monstrous abuse of words to liken it to ‘development,’ that is precisely what some people -- oil executives, financial capital, political elites, amongst others -- see it as:...
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On eve of UN climate change conference, an attempt to silence the unions
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Peru's government wants to silence Luis Isarra. We won't let them.
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Read more: On eve of UN climate change conference, an attempt to silence the unions
Next
week, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP20) opens in Lima, Peru -- and a local trade union leader there who has been coordinating the labour movement mobilization for the summit has had his union leave revoked by the government.
This is a brazen attempt to silence criticism of the government's neo-liberal policies, such as privatisation of water.
The punishing of Luis Isarra, general secretary of the Federation of Unions of Water Workers of Peru (FENTAP) is "a direct attack on trade union...
CoDev Invite - Holiday Open House
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Help tribal people have a better future in 2015
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Dear friends,
As 2015 approaches, we spend time reflecting on the struggles and successes of 2014. Each year, the fight for tribal peoples’ rights becomes more challenging, as the demand for raw materials puts more and more pressure on the lands and forests of tribal peoples.
Last month, a horrific event occurred in southern Brazil. Marinalva Manoel, a 27-year-old Guarani Indian leader lobbying for land for her people, was stabbed to death. Her body was dumped on the side of a highway.
Sugarcane plantations and vast cattle ranches have replaced the forest that once carpeted the Guarani’s ancestral lands. With nearly all of their land stolen, many communities survive under plastic by the roadside. Children are dying of malnutrition, tribespeople endure the effects of pesticide poisoning, and tribal leaders are being murdered by ranchers’ gunmen, for daring to speak out against the injustice. It’s no wonder the Guarani suffer the highest suicide rate in the world.
But there is hope. Survival is working in partnership with the Guarani to stop these abuses and put pressure on the Brazilian government to demarcate and return the tribe’s ancestral land.
[E-News] Got a leading?
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December, 2014
It's almost the end of 2014!
This is a particularly busy but enriching time of year for us at CFSC. We are deeply thankful as we begin to receive the many year-end donations and expressions of support for our common vision of a world where peace and justice prevail.If you have not done so yet, please take a moment now to read this letter from CFSC's Clerk, Lana Robinson, to get a sense of what we've been up to over the past year and just how critical your support is: http://quakerservice.ca/news/cfsc-annual-appeal-2014/
Toronto Friends join in a march in support of Conscientious Objectors. Photo: War Resisters Support Campaign
Conscientous Objectors to be removed from Canada
An alarming number of US Iraq War resisters in Canada are threatened with deportation now – and more are expected. Seven C.O.s have received negative decisions on various applications to stay in Canada this fall. While two have already received stays of removal (i.e. deportation) from the court, this may not last past January; other cases are in process, including three who will receive their removal dates in mid-January (with likely one week’s notice to leave Canada).
Now more than ever your support is needed! Please write to the government using our Urgent Action (and share our Action with others via Facebook, etc.):
http://quakerservice.ca/news/urgent-action-us-conscientious-objectors-facing-deportation/
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