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How to save the salmon

Details: Published on Thursday, 22 April 2021 22:02; Written by editor

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Brazil After the Collapse

Details: Published on Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:38; Written by editor

Brazil After the Collapse

Jörg Nowak

Health experts warned about it for weeks. In early March, the Brazilian health system entered a state of collapse under the weight of a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections. Hospitals were not able to attend to all patients who needed treatment. By the end of March, all over Brazil, more than 6000 people were waiting for an ICU bed, most of them in overcrowded health centres and emergency wards without the necessary equipment and personnel for treatment.

In parallel, the power bases of the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro eroded in rapid fashion after he seemed to have consolidated his power in early February with...

Killing orangutans for shampoo

Details: Published on Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:26; Written by editor

25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday, and tomorrow.

Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, there won’t be any left by the end of the decade.

We’ve got a plan to stop this massacre before it's too late, but we need your help to double up now. Will you make a small monthly donation to save the orangutans from palm oil destruction?

Donate CA$1 monthly Donate CA$4 monthly Read more: Killing orangutans for shampoo

This is our chance

Details: Published on Monday, 12 April 2021 17:00; Written by editor

Dear PAOV,

Since we launched our bold new Climate Emergency Alliance campaign, the response has been huge!

Already, we have a clear path to victory in this election. Here's why:

We have a powerful climate movement. In the past few days, more than 3,385 climate activists have signed our petition calling on the NDP and the Green Party to form a Climate Emergency Alliance.
We have momentum. Hundreds of supporters across Canada participated in our kick-off event. Each event will only get bigger from here on out.
We have YOU. Since Wednesday, our climate movement has raised $16,654 from more than 400 individual donations. No Big Money. No corporate contributions. Just ordinary people.

We're in an incredible position right now, but there's still a ton of work to do before the election kicks off. And with the election around the corner any day now, we need to keep our momentum going:

Can we count on you to make...

Read more: This is our chance

Activate you BCCLA Sustaining Membership now.

Details: Published on Monday, 12 April 2021 13:20; Written by editor

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Activate your Sustaining Membership now.

Dear Friend,

Every day I read your emails and notes expressing how important this work is to you.

Sometimes you tell us why it is important to you. Your loved one was able to access MAID. You experienced mistreatment by law enforcement. You were an activist against human rights violations in the country you emigrated from.

The scope of civil liberties and human rights work in Canada is so broad that you know it directly impacts your life in at least one way. You also know that the work to protect, maintain, defend, and expand your rights can take a long time.

Will you activate a Sustaining Membership to keep this work going over the months and years?

Become a Sustaining Member today.

The monthly donation linked to your...

Migrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic

Details: Published on Monday, 12 April 2021 11:36; Written by editor

Migrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic

Taroa Zuñiga Silva

The past year has seen several lockdowns as a result of the pandemic, which have had a deep impact on education, employment and the way we work globally. These factors have had an especially stark effect on women.

For more than 168 million children worldwide, schools have been closed for almost a year, forcing them to resort to online learning from home, according to UNICEF. In most households, it is women who have borne the majority of the burden of home schooling during the lockdowns.

Meanwhile, even as working from home has become the “new normal,” the pandemic has...

Orangutans shot dead

Details: Published on Monday, 12 April 2021 11:06; Written by editor

25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday, and tomorrow.

Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, there won’t be any left by the end of the decade.

We’ve got a plan to stop this massacre before it's too late, but we need your help to double up now. Will you make a small weekly donation to save the orangutans from palm oil destruction?

Donate CA$1 weekly Donate CA$4 weekly Read more: Orangutans shot dead

Socialists on Social Media /w Dr. Tanner Mirrlees

Details: Published on Sunday, 11 April 2021 11:44; Written by editor

Socialists on Social Media /w Dr. Tanner Mirrlees

In the digital age, socialists have used the Internet to their advantage, both for messaging and organizing. But what kind of a radical politics can really emerge from the clutches of capital and their dominance of Big Tech? Dr. Tanner Mirrlees of Ontario Tech University is optimistic! Tanner helps us find some hope in the age of posting by historicizing the Internet, leftist media, and media criticism, as well as probing how leftists can navigate ‘entrepreneurial’ content creation.

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Wood pellets

Details: Published on Saturday, 10 April 2021 14:58; Written by editor

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An investigation in Northern British Columbia just captured footage of whole trees in wood pellet plant yards, about to be milled and burned for electricity overseas. This is disguised as green energy, but burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack.

Unions, scientists and non-profit organizations are coming together to try and halt the wood pellet industry in its tracks because it’s not only threatening primary forests and the climate, but also local jobs. A mass petition could expose this industry for what it really is: a false climate solution and environmental disaster.

Over 18,000 people have already signed the petition calling on decision makers to stop logging whole trees for wood pellets – will you join them and add your name?

ADD YOUR NAME

A Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to the Far Right Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors

Details: Published on Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:00; Written by editor

Tackling Hate, Protect Dissent

Details: Published on Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:08; Written by editor

Tackling Hate, Protect Dissent

Independent Jewish Voices

Dear Ministers Lametti and Guilbeault,

As organizations committed to the defence of human rights, civil liberties, and the eradication of discrimination, we know first-hand that online hate presents a growing threat to people in Canada. We have seen web-based platforms and social media applications become breeding grounds and organizing spaces for the most vile oppressive groups, consistently falling short of blocking blatantly racist, antisemitic, or otherwise hateful content.

We appreciate that the government of Canada is taking the problem seriously and tabling new legislation to address online hate. This is an important step that will help bring existing hate speech legislation into the 21st...

Just two days left to apply to become an Iron & Earth Instructor!

Details: Published on Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:00; Written by editor

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Iron & Earth is thrilled to have worked with industry professionals over the past year to develop new rapid upskilling programs that will prepare fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers for careers in solar and wind energy.

Now we are looking for experienced electricians and other tradespeople that are passionate about renewable energy and climate solutions to enroll in our Train the Trainer (TtT) program to train up and deliver these programs this summer and in the years to come!

High-level Train the Trainer (TtT) Program details:

It is a total of 20 hours of coursework
Instructors will be compensated $1150 + GST for their participation
It is a part-time 4-week program (just a few hours/week) and begins on April 17th
Application deadline is this Sunday, April 12th

We are accepting applications from candidates across Canada and have a particular need for...

Council This Week

Details: Published on Friday, 09 April 2021 19:02; Written by editor

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Pollution vanished from the public record

Details: Published on Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:00; Written by editor

For more than a decade, communities crammed with chemical plants that produce the carcinogen ethylene oxide have watched their neighbors die while regulators do nothing.

But under Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency did worse than nothing. Instead, it invited chemical companies to retroactively change its reporting on toxic releases, making them appear smaller and less harmful.

An investigation from The Intercept found that seven chemical corporations edited their numbers, erasing nearly 270,000 pounds of cancer-causing pollution from the public record — one of the few tools we have to hold chemical corporations accountable.

The Intercept is constantly watchdogging the corporations poisoning our communities, but exhaustive reporting like this isn’t cheap.

But since Donald Trump left office, new donations to The Intercept are down 35 percent. And...

This predicts who gets involved in social change movements

Details: Published on Friday, 09 April 2021 14:38; Written by editor

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A Complete Turnaround of the Transport Sector is Absolutely Imperative

Details: Published on Friday, 09 April 2021 10:44; Written by editor

A Complete Turnaround of the Transport Sector is Absolutely Imperative

International Committee of the Fourth International

In order to fight climate change the whole system of transportation has to be reversed and reconstructed as it is currently responsible for one fifth (in some countries up to one quarter) of the production of greenhouse gases. From 1970 to 2004 the oil-based transportation sector (cars, SUVs, trucks, ships, aircraft) increased its CO2-emissions 222%. Predictions indicate by 2030 it will increase another 80%.

Between 2015-19 at least 90 million vehicles were produced annually. Yet the individual vehicle sits idle 90% of the time, necessitating the construction of parking spaces and garages. These vehicles...