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The national strike in Colombia
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- Published on Saturday, 08 May 2021 16:26
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Photo journal: PBI-Colombia accompanies human rights defenders during the #ParoNacional national strike
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Peace Brigades organizes meeting between CREDHOS and Global Affairs Canada, Embassy of Canada in Colombia officials
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Game over for the polar bear?!
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- Published on Saturday, 08 May 2021 09:42
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A new gas drilling project will turn pristine Arctic wilderness into a gigantic fossil fuel exploration site.
We can stop this devastating project -- by cutting off its funding.
Can you please chip in to stop Total’s invasion of the Arctic?
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French energy giant Total wants to turn untouched Arctic wilderness -- the last home of the polar bear -- into a gigantic gas drilling site.
But we can still stop the Arctic’s invasion by fossil fuel giants -- and here’s how:
Total is relying on a €700 million loan guarantee from the French government -- and President Macron is trying to keep it hush-hush. Macron cares about his image as an environmental leader -- let’s blow his cover and expose this huge hypocrisy.
Our plan: we'll...
Council This Week
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- Published on Friday, 07 May 2021 19:18
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The last home of the polar bear
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- Published on Friday, 07 May 2021 09:18
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A new gas drilling project will turn pristine Arctic wilderness into a gigantic fossil fuel exploration site.
We can stop this devastating project -- by cutting off its funding.
Can you please chip in to stop Total’s invasion of the Arctic?
If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate CA$87 nowDonate another amount
A,
French energy giant Total wants to turn untouched Arctic wilderness -- the last home of the polar bear -- into a gigantic gas drilling site.
But we can still stop the Arctic’s invasion by fossil fuel giants -- and here’s how:
Total is relying on a €700 million loan guarantee from the French government -- and President Macron is trying to keep it hush-hush. Macron cares about his image as an environmental leader -- let’s blow his cover and expose this huge hypocrisy.
Our plan: we'll...
I believe in miracles
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- Published on Thursday, 06 May 2021 22:30
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Some days I have to pinch myself
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 15:30
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Bill C-10
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 15:08
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PAOV — Recent changes to Bill C-10 would allow the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to regulate all your social media posts. After facing significant backlash from many who say the bill threatens freedom of speech online, the federal government has vowed to make amendments that will ensure social media uploads won’t be regulated. Details of the changes or when they can be expected have not been confirmed. Petition starter Ryan wants to protect freedom of speech online, you can join him by adding your signature now.
Stop Bill C-10 - Online free speech at risk in Canada
Bill C-12 just passed second reading. Now what?
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 14:48
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Yesterday afternoon Bill C-12, The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, passed second reading at the House of Commons.1 It’s heading to the Environment Committee next, where we expect MPs will make improvements to the legislation. We’ve been campaigning, alongside allied groups and grassroots organizers, for federal leaders to #StrengthenC12 since the Liberals first introduced it back in November. If you contributed to that effort, thank you!
This is good news, but we know it’s just a first step. If Canada is actually going to do our fair share in the global fight against the climate emergency, we need our politicians to address the elephant in the room: the oil and gas industry.2
That’s why, today, we’re flooding Natural Resource Minister Seamus O’Regan’s phoneline to demand immediate action on the long-awaited Just Transition Act. Use our one-click tool to make your call in just 2 minutes.
There can be no climate accountability without a real plan to end fossil fuel subsidies, stop the reckless expansion of fossil fuel production, and phase out the industry for good. To make that possible, the Trudeau government needs to deliver their long-promised...
Zuckerberg's worst plan yet
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 13:40
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Facebook is building an Instagram for Kids -- hoping to hook them on likes and harvest their data for profit.
Tell Mark Zuckerberg to leave our kids alone:
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Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t get worse, it invents a fresh kind of hell -- Instagram for Kids.
Leaked documents show the social media giant is building a photo-sharing app for under-13s -- hoping to get them hooked early on likes and comments about their appearance, and harvest their data for profit.
But a growing chorus is speaking out against the plan, with child development experts pleading with Mark Zuckerberg to drop it. Facebook didn’t want the world to know about this yet -- it’s on the back foot. If we ramp up the pressure we could end this nightmare before it starts.
Tell Mark Zuckerberg to leave our kids alone
Instagram is already a nightmare for children, with teenagers getting harassed and abused on a constant basis...
“Exterminate All the Brutes” Was 500 Years of Genocide in the Making
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 10:22
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We just got our hands on a massive data leak
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2021 18:54
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Donald Trump is gone from the White House, but make no mistake: White supremacists, QAnon believers, and Trump election fraud conspiracists still pose a grave threat to our democracy and our safety.
We’ve gotten ahold of a massive data dump on the users of Gab, the far-right social network that’s become a safe haven for all the people Facebook and their ilk kicked off of their platforms.
Since its creation in 2016, Gab has harbored a who’s who of dangerous extremists, from Alex Jones to the gunman who murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue to QAnon devotee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Earlier this year, a hacker obtained 65 gigabytes of data from the site and shared it with media organizations like The Intercept to investigate.
Clean water for Nuevo Horizonte Cooperative in Guatemala
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 May 2021 12:02
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Read more: Clean water for Nuevo Horizonte Cooperative in Guatemala
The last man of the Juma tribe has died
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- Published on Monday, 03 May 2021 19:28
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Just one hundred years ago, some 15,000 Juma people lived in the Brazilian Amazon. Today, only a few are left.
Aruká Juma died on 17th February, 2021. © Gabriel Uchida
Dear PAOV,
In February, Aruká Juma died after being taken ill with Covid-19. He was the last male member of his tribe.
Just one hundred years ago, some 15,000 Juma people lived in the Brazilian Amazon. Today, only a few are left.
Aruká was one of many thousands of indigenous people in Brazil to be struck by the disease. Their territories should logically have offered protection but President Bolsonaro encouraged invaders entering and spreading the virus. Worse, he has actively blocked healthcare to indigenous communities.
This unspeakable cruelty is not a one-off. Bolsonaro is presiding over the most anti-indigenous government in decades, and there are countless examples of his attempts to crush tribal peoples.
What’s happening in Brazil is genocide. Entire peoples are being destroyed while the machinery of the state either stands by, or actively promotes policies that kill indigenous people.
I'll help stop Brazil's genocide
April 2021 Update
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- Published on Monday, 03 May 2021 18:46
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Grab your sneakers and run for Survival!
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- Published on Monday, 03 May 2021 16:04
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Get ready to go the extra mile!
Dear PAOV,
Are you ready to take your activism a step further? This May, you can join Survival supporters around the world in our first ever Run for Survival!
Update from Peace Brigades
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- Published on Saturday, 01 May 2021 16:02
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PBI-Canada convenes webinar with environmental defenders on fracking and extractivism in Colombia
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CREDHOS, Above Ground and PBI meet with Canadian Member of Parliament Paul Manly
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PBI-Colombia accompanies the CSPP...
How genetic engineering is being used in response to COVID-19
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- Published on Saturday, 01 May 2021 15:50
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COVID-19, novel drugs, and gene therapies: synthetic biology update 2021
Combining life sciences, computer science, and engineering, a field sometimes called “synthetic biology” is developing rapidly. It uses a suite of powerful techniques with names like “CRISPR.” Read more: How genetic engineering is being used in response to COVID-19
E-News: Local Green New Deals gaining steam / Long-term Care Standards Now! / A win in Ottawa and more...
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- Published on Friday, 30 April 2021 16:04
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Boom Boom Bow
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- Published on Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:22
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