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Enter the Declaration Contest and Join the Make Every Vote Count Thunderclap!

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On Sunday October 19, 365 days before the next federal election, we'll be wrapping up two important initiatives to build the Make Every Vote Count 2015 campaign: Declaration Contest Draw

On October 19, we'll be drawing the names of 13 winners in Declaration Signers Contest. All you need to do is ask 3 friends who support PR to sign and enter to win. Check out the awesome prizes donated by our supporters below, including a beautiful painting from BC, downloads from a great selection of titles, a $200 gift certificate to Home Hardware, hand-carved chimes and lamp, translation, and much more! Thunderclap Are you on facebook or twitter? Support our Thunderclap and you can help us flood social media and reach Canadians about the Make Every Vote Count campaign! On October 19, we'll watch as messages from 1300 of you so far blast out on twitter and facebook reaching over 400,000 Canadians. Let's see if we can reach half a million! The campaign to make every vote count is growing at a strong pace and thanks to your support, we just passed 40,000 signers on the Declaration of Voters' Rights. Let's keep working together to send a message to party leaders, candidates and media that a commitment to fair voting is crucial and long overdue. Thank you again for all your support in helping Make 2015 the Last Unfair Election.

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Columbus Day: genocide of America's tribes continues - News from Survival

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Columbus Day: genocide of America's tribes continues

Aché woman shortly after she was captured and brought out of the forest in 1972, Paraguay. In April, the Aché launched a landmark case over the genocide they suffered.© A. Kohmann/Survival

To mark Columbus Day on October 13, 2014, Survival International reveals current and recent cases of tribal peoples facing genocidal violence by outsiders on their land.

In April 2014, Paraguay’s Aché tribe launched a landmark case over the genocide they suffered during the 1950s and 60s. The Aché were decimated after colonists launched killing raids, captured tribespeople and sold them as slaves.

Brazil is home to around 100 uncontacted tribes, the most vulnerable societies on the planet. Whole populations are being wiped out by violence from outsiders who steal their land and resources, and by diseases like flu and measles to which they have no resistance.

The uncontacted Kawahiva in central Brazil are facing annihilation as loggers and ranchers invade their land. After evidence suggested they were being deliberately targeted by loggers, forcing them to live constantly on the run, a public prosecutor launched an investigation into their genocide.

Survivors of the Haximú massacre, in which goldminers killed 16 Yanomami Indians, hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives.© C Zacquini/Survival

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Are the tar sands unethical and undemocratic?

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Democracy Watch was happy to contribute to this book, with an essay by co-founder Duff Conacher joining essays by 14 other prominent people involved in the tar sands debate, as the initiative offers a new and innovative way to reach out and make more people aware of the reality of the tar sands development in Alberta, and to involve them in the debate.

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Urgent Action for Paraguay's uncontacted tribe

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Urgent Action: Stop beef barons destroying uncontacted Indians’ forest.

Thanks to your support, Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay have gained title to part of their ancestral land. But Brazilian beef company Yaguarete Pora S.A. is illegally destroying forest inhabited by the last remaining uncontacted Ayoreo, and contributing to the fastest rate of deforestation in the world.

The Ayoreo need your help at this critical time.

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Desmond Tutu to Canadians: Revere the sanctity of life but not at all costs

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We're going to shut down a coal port

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My name is Milañ Loeak, I’m from the Marshall Islands, and I bring you a message on behalf of my Climate Warrior brothers and sisters from across Oceania.

You've probably heard it all before -- that the climate is changing, that the ocean is rising, that my home in the islands will be the first to go. But the people of the Pacific are not drowning, we are fighting. And the biggest threat to our homes is the fossil fuel industry.

So here's how we're fighting back: there's a coal port in Newcastle, Australia and it's the largest in the world, shipping approximately 560,000 tonnes of coal every single day. If the port were a country, it would be the 9th highest emitting country in the world. That’s why I have travelled to Australia to shut it down for a day.

Using traditional canoes, I and 30...

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Fight for Fare Free Transit in Toronto

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Fight for Fare Free Transit in Toronto

Presentations by:

• Kamilla Pietrzyk of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly's Free and Accessible Transit Campaign
• Ward 6 Socialist city council candidate Michael Laxer, who is campaigning for Free Transit

Topics of discussion included:

• Is fare free transit possible in Toronto?
• What would be the social benefits of such a transit policy?
• How would free transit benefit the suburbs and Etobicoke?
• What can we learn from the free transit experiment in Tallinn, Estonia?

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How Bolivia is Leading the Global Fight Against Climate Disaster

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How Bolivia is Leading the Global Fight
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Richard Fidler

Bolivia goes to the polls on Sunday, October 12, in the country's third national election since the victory of Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in December 2005 and the second since the adoption of its radically new constitution in 2009. The MAS list, led by President Morales and his Vice-Presidential running mate Álvaro García Linera, is far ahead in the opinion polling over four opposition slates, all to the right of the MAS.

Although Bolivia's "process of change," its "democratic and cultural revolution" as García Linera terms it, is still in its early stages, the country's developmental process has already attracted considerable interest – and some controversy – internationally,...

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October 10th, 2014 - Weekly Indigenous news on rabble.ca

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Indigenous 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

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Calling out whiteness in rabble's piece calling out whiteness October 8, 2014 | By PSF Coordinators White people taking up space talking about white people taking up space is neither helpful nor empowering to our communities. As Indigenous and PoC organizers of the forum we feel a need to respond. Indian & Cowboy: Making and taking space for alternative Indigenous media October 7, 2014 | By Âpihtawikosisân "Red Man Laughing" podcaster Ryan McMahon got tired of seeing media that doesn't represent Aboriginal experiences. So he just went ahead and made his own. Canadian Museum of Human Rights: Not that concerned about human rights October 6, 2014 | By Gerry Caplan The CMHR and its mysterious "Friends of the Museum" seem quite well connected with Stephen Harper and not well connected with his human rights abuses. Chow, Wynne, in favour of community benefit agreements October 6, 2014 | By H.G. Watson Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow tweeted that she and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne are in agreement on transit, after the Premier's speech at the Good Jobs Summit. Revolution 101: The People's Climate March, the unheard protest October 6, 2014 | By Bailey Lamon One of the most important rules to keep in mind when changing the system is that we should not cooperate with those who work to uphold it. Why would we work with those who work against us?

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This week @ rabble.ca: What's really going on in Ottawa?

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As the Harper government lays out its Iraq war plan, our Parliamentary Bureau is ready to cover Harper's policies to the fullest and report on what's really going on in Ottawa. But we need your support. Donate to keep independent media on the Hill!

At the Good Jobs Summit last week, people from across the country gathered to examine the question: what does it mean to have a "good job"? rabble.ca was there to cover the dialogue around the employment challenges affecting millions. Catch up on all of our reports here!

We're expanding our coverage at rabble.ca -- with beat editors across Canada! Our beat editors will connect us to local progressive issues, and serve as rabble.ca's eyes and ears in their region. Join us in welcoming our first nationwide set of editors: Prairie beat editor Véronique Émond-Sioufi, Northern beat editor George Lessard, Atlantic beat editor Katie Mazer, and Quebec beat editor Mathieu Murphy-Perron.

The Vancouver International Film Festival is wrapping up, but there's still time to catch our sponsored film, Charlie's Country. It's playing 6:30 p.m. PST on Friday, October 10. Get your tickets here.

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Corporate Bully Tactics

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Human rights defender Andy Hall is facing a $10 million fine and 8 years in a Thai prison for uncovering massive human rights abuses at Natural Fruit, one of the giants of the global pineapple production.

Can you donate CA$10 to help Andy and fight for workers at Natural Fruit?

Eight years in prison and a $10 million fine: that’s what Andy Hall faces for taking on Natural Fruit Ltd., a giant in worldwide pineapple production. His research into one of the biggest pineapple producers and exporters in Thailand uncovered multiple human and labour rights violations including child labour, passport confiscation and forced work.

Natural Fruit Ltd. is striking back -- hard. In just 3 days time, the first of four criminal trials will begin, in which together Andy is facing 8 years in prison and over $10m in fines.

The company is throwing everything it can at Andy to send a message to other human rights defenders. We need to act now to send our own message back.

Can you stand with Andy and chip in CA$10 to take the fight to Natural Fruits?

Last week, nearly 100 human rights and labor organizations, including Human Rights Watch and unions around the world, have spoken out in support of Andy and called on the the Thai Pineapple Industry Association (TPIA) to urge its member Natural Fruit to drop the charges against Andy.

In their response, the association not only refused to help, but replied with more threats against Andy for protecting migrant workers!

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The last remaining source of drinkable water

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OceanaGold is suing El Salvador for banning a huge mine that would destroy the country's water supply.

The hearing is only a week away, so we have to act now. Tell OceanaGold to drop its lawsuit!

A major mining company is suing El Salvador for millions -- just for saying no to a dirty mine that would have destroyed its remaining water supply.

A mining corporation shouldn't get to decide what laws a country can and can't pass. With just one week remaining before the hearing begins, we need to get OceanaGold to back down now.

Sign the petition asking OceanaGold to drop the lawsuit and respect El Salvador’s decision.

90% of EL Salvador’s water is already polluted, putting families and communities in danger of waterborne illness, food shortages and the added expense of buying bottled water. If OceanaGold gets its way, it could destroy the last remaining river with drinkable water in this Central American country.

Already, the mining industry has devastated El Salvador. The community of San Sebastian is being forced to buy bottled water after a mining company contaminated its water supply. Community activists have risked their lives opposing mining companies, including Dora Alicia Recinos Soto, who was shot dead in front of her house while 8 months pregnant and carrying her 2-year-old baby.

The hearing for the case is in less than a week away, so we have to act now to make sure OceanaGold drops this frivolous lawsuit.

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A death sentence for the bees

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A giant pesticide company just asked the U.S. government to increase the legal limit on bee-killing pesticides by a stunning 4000%.

Will you chip in CA$10 to launch an emergency campaign to stop it?

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Breaking news: A massive pesticide company has just asked the U.S. government to increase the legal limit for its bee-killing pesticides by 4000%.

That’s right. Four. Thousand. Percent.

Bees are already facing a massive global die-off. This could be a death sentence for millions more bees.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting public input on the decision for the next 27 days. So we're urgently working to organize beekeepers and the public to speak out against this devastating bee-killing proposal -- and we need your help. Can you chip in CA$10 to help get us started and fight for the bees?

Click here to chip in CA$10 to launch an emergency campaign to stop this urgent threat to the bees.

Bees fill a crucial ecological role as pollinators and are essential for agriculture, and are responsible for every third bite of food we eat. In other words: No bees, no farms. No farms, no food. These pesticides are already banned in Europe. But rather than phase them out for the sake of our bees, pesticide companies are suing the European Union to overturn the ban. Now, they're petition the US government to massively increase the limits of pesticide residues -- residues that are actively harmful to bees, and can stay in the soil for up to a year.

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Beekeepers take on Bayer and Syngenta

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Bayer and Syngenta have been pushing their bee-killing pesticides for too long. But now beekeepers are fighting back. They’ve just launched a class action lawsuit in Canada to get bee killing pesticides banned once and for all.

Can you chip in CA$10 to organize beekeepers and gardeners to speak out for a ban on bee-killing pesticides?

Bees across Canada have been dying by the millions.

But now, beekeepers in Canada's biggest province are on the cusp of banning bee-killing pesticides once and for all.

They've filed a class-action lawsuit against the pesticide companies, and if they win, it could trigger a huge domino effect towards a global ban on these bee killers.

You better believe pesticide giants Bayer and Syngenta aren’t going to take this lying down. They’ll be throwing the kitchen sink at Ontario’s legislators to make sure they can keep selling their colony-destroying neonictinoid pesticides.

Will you support the beekeepers’ fight and keep fighting to get bee killing pesticides banned?

Sure, I'll chip in CA$10 .

Study after study shows what beekeepers already know: Right around the world, bees are dying off and the situation seems to be getting worse. “Neonic” pesticides manufactured by Bayer, Syngenta, and others are undoubtedly the culprit. But to get them banned, we're going up against two companies prepared to spend millions to get their way.

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