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For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
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- Published on Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:18
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Let's buy Apple (or...some of it)
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- Published on Sunday, 29 August 2021 06:15
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A,
We've been so successful using shareholder action to get companies to change their bad behaviour...that they're trying to shut the whole program down!
Just last year, a SumOfUs shareholder resolution forced Apple to publish its first-ever human rights policy. So now they made a new rule -- anyone who wants to bring this kind of resolution will need to hold thousands of shares...and they set a deadline to buy them that's just a few days away.
They're trying to silence everyone but the richest shareholders. But A, we can beat them at their own game.
If 5000 people reading this email chip in the cost of a coffee, SumOfUs can buy enough shares in Apple to have our say at the AGM, ratcheting up the pressure on execs...
A Call For Accountability: Kamloops Indian Residential School
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- Published on Saturday, 28 August 2021 14:30
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PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
A Call For Accountability: Kamloops Indian Residential School
Katie Koopman started this petition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Citizens of Canada, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Charlie Angus MP and it now has 20,443 signatures
Sign now with a click
Read more: A Call For Accountability: Kamloops Indian Residential School
RBC and wildfires
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- Published on Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:02
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RBC's CEO David McKay needs to step up and take bold climate action
There’s something incredibly powerful about personal testimonies and appeals for action. Which is why we asked the Stand.earth community a few weeks ago to record personal messages for RBC’s CEO, David McKay, asking him to start taking the climate emergency seriously.
We've gotten over 60 amazing video messages and we’re going to make sure Mr. McKay and all of RBC’s employees can't miss them.
EMAIL RBC’s CEO
Afghanistan was a smashing success — for defense contractors.
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- Published on Saturday, 28 August 2021 10:01
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Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.
If you purchased $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Afghanistan — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.
In fact, defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the war in Afghanistan.
Now, cable news commentators with their own undisclosed...
Read more: Afghanistan was a smashing success — for defense contractors.
Electoral reform in Canada is long overdue
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- Published on Friday, 27 August 2021 13:00
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Solidarity for Cuba
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- Published on Friday, 27 August 2021 12:30
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2 to 4pm Saturday, August 28th Banner Hanging on the Pat Bay highway overpass on Rogers Ave.(On Quadra crossing Mckenzie going towards Saanich it’s the 5th Rd. left)
Hi friends,
Cubans are suffering greatly as a result of the United States’ unlawful and unjust blockade, which is being tightened even during the Biden administration. While the US government claims to care about human rights in Cuba, it continues to punish Cubans through its blockade, which has a severe impact on every area of life in the country. The United States' strategy against Cuba, which has lasted more than 60 years, has only served to make Cubans suffer.While the international community calls for international cooperation during the global COVID pandemic, the United States continues to punish countries it does not like.
Since Joe Biden took office, all kinds of calls from all kinds of people and countries around the globe have been demanding the end of this U.S. barbaric blockade.
Governments, political, labor, and religious organizations, scientists, artists, and authors, as well as hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world, have all called for an end to the blockade, with the UN General Assembly voting decisively against it for the 28th time...
Jovian's Story
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- Published on Friday, 27 August 2021 09:37
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Dear Friend,
If you’re walking down the street, going to a coffee shop to meet a friend, do you expect to be arbitrarily stopped and questioned by a police officer?
This is what happened to Dr. Jovian Radheshwar. In July 2020, Jovian - a Political Science Instructor at Douglas College - was stopped by two New Westminster Police Department officers asking for his ID, all because he looked “just like” a suspect.
He was not given any additional information about this stop. At no point was he informed of his Charter Rights nor was he told whether this was a street check that he could voluntarily leave, or an investigative detention.
Read more about his story on our website.
Since the incident, Jovian has filed both informal and formal complaints against the...
Challenging ideals of who belongs
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 16:48
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You get it
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:41
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Dear PAOV,
I’m writing to you because you are someone who consistently stands up for petition starters. You get it. You understand that a better world is possible if people come together and support ordinary voices on Change.org.
As we come to the end of summer, we are seeing more and more people turning to Change to tackle urgent issues.
Whether it’s ensuring the most vulnerable in society are protected from the pandemic or holding those in power to their promises, Change.org is here for you 24/7. We strongly believe that everyone should have free access and the tools to make change a part of everyday life.
But I want to be honest with you. Right now, less than 1% of the people that use Change.org support it on a regular basis. That’s why I’m...
Dolphins Story of being Pepper Sprayed
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:00
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Your chance to join "Our Land, Our Nature"
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 09:54
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Register for "Our Land, Our Nature" today.
This summer, as you know, climate change has hit the news hard. Politicians, billionaires, even multinational corporations are telling us that we must “act now”. But what they haven’t told us, and don’t want to tell us, is that it is their own shameless theft and destruction of natural wealth that has brought us to this point. And that their “solutions” to climate change and loss of biodiversity will create yet more misery for tribal peoples and all humanity.
Another way is possible.
The very people accountable for these environmental and human disasters now proclaim that we should turn 30% of the Earth into “Protected Areas”, a process that, all over the world, has denied indigenous and local people access to their lands. They say it’s a good idea. But Protected Areas do not protect nature! Recognized indigenous territories do. All the scientific evidence says so clearly; and the human rights cost of ignoring it is huge...
It’s time to listen to the real experts - now.
Join "Our Land, Our Nature"
6-Fairy Creek 21 Aug 2021: RCMP Pepper Spray land defenders trying to save the Old Growth Forest.
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 08:00
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Portlands Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire
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- Published on Thursday, 26 August 2021 05:22
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Lets make this the climate election
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 August 2021 13:49
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Paov,
The federal election is in full swing. It’s clear that climate is a top issue for voters but you would barely know it from the attention the crisis is getting from the media and candidates.
That’s why on September 8th, right before the official Federal Leaders’ Debates, communities across the country are taking action to demand bold action on the climate emergency.
There are nearly 50 actions taking place in communities from coast to coast to coast. Click here to check out our map to find an action close to you.
If you don’t see an action close to you, click here to sign up to host one. We will help you every step of the way with a very thorough Action Planning Toolkit, 1-1 support and much more.
The stakes are high in this election. The government we elect now could lead us through 4 of the 9 remaining years that the world’s best scientists have given us to avoid the worst impacts of the climate catastrophe. Let’s rise up to make sure that politicians of all political...
Call on candidates to treat the climate crisis like a crisis
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:00
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Fairy Creek Sexual Assault by RCMP officer
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 12:50
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**Trigger Warning: mention of sexual assault by RCMP officer**
"Fox" was not breaking any laws when she 'blobbed up', linked arms with other forest defenders to walk safely past RCMP. We will let her tell the story from here.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CSqZTTVgMgV/
It is an abomination that the RCMP continues to allow this officer to serve.
By Ryan Hook -Friday, August 20th, 2021
(RCMP and Protestors face off at Fairy Creek/ Colin Smith Takes Pics)Earlier this month marked a year since old-growth logging protests in Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew began.
Since then, an injunction from the BC Supreme Court on behalf of logging company, Teal-Jones Group, was granted; enforcement by the RCMP continues; and the fight for media freedom persists.
Now, protestors have taken to social media to accuse the RCMP of misconduct using excessive force and sexual assault; the RCMP, however, have denied such claims.
On Thursday, Victoria Buzz received an anonymous tip linking to multiple videos posted to social media which depict incidents of RCMP intimidation and a victim’s account of an alleged sexual assault.
“The RCMP have been acting unlawfully and unsafely, endangering the lives of peaceful land defenders exercising their legal right to protest in Canada and mainstream media is not reporting on it,” the email read.
“Beyond the following videos there have been reports of sexual assaults by RCMP, continued media suppression and repeated targeting and mistreatment of Indigenous women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ and 2 spirit land defenders.”
Below are the videos linked in the tip, one of which is RCMP attempting to dismantle a roadblock with a chainsaw; the other of which is a recounting of an alleged sexual assault.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSw4sJDAMmw
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CSqZTTVgMgV/
https://www.instagram.com/bozosapienhttps://www.victoriabuzz.com/2021/08/rcmp-respond-to-allegations-of-misconduct-at-fairy-creek-blockades/
Notice of Motion
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 12:44
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Invite a F/friend on Thursday as our monthly series continues
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 08:27
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Join us on Thursday, August 26th at 7 pm Eastern
Our Get to Know Thee, Friend series gives you the chance to meet some of the incredible people involved with Canadian Friends Service Committee. Hear behind-the-scenes stories and celebrate CFSC's 90th anniversary.
The series continues this week with Rob Hughes, member and Clerk of Vancouver Monthly Meeting.
The Saga of BCCLAs Street Checks Complaint
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- Published on Monday, 23 August 2021 10:02
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Hi Friend,
Nobody should be subjected to the illegal practice of police street checks.
A police street check is a discretionary police practice where police stop a person in public, and question them outside the context of an arrest or detention. No provincial or federal statute authorizes street checks in BC, nor are they authorized by common law developed by courts.
In our attempts to ban street checks, the BCCLA has gone deep down the rabbit role of police governance in Vancouver. Our deeply frustrating experience over the past three years is a crucial window into the complete institutional failure of police governance bodies, such as the Vancouver Police Board.
Our work to end police street checks at the level of the Vancouver Police Board includes:
- May 2018: Making...
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- An important update on our coverage of the crisis in Afghanistan
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