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Heres whats next after yesterdays big news

Details: Published on Thursday, 08 April 2021 17:58; Written by editor

Paov, yesterday was huge.

We announced our new campaign calling on the federal Greens and NDP to form a Climate Emergency Alliance. The response we received was overwhelmingly positive.

Thousands of people signed our petition for a Climate Emergency Alliance, hundreds signed up to attend our launch event tomorrow, and dozens of media outlets across the country published the story about our campaign. We’re also hearing that this idea is already creating some waves among the inner circles and leadership of both parties.

This is a huge idea and it’s certainly gaining steam at an important moment just days before the NDP and Liberal party conventions. I want you to be among the first to know what we’ve got planned. That’s why I’m sending you one more reminder to RSVP to our campaign launch event tomorrow at 2pm PT / 3 pm MT / 4pm CT / 5pm ET / 6pm AT.

At this event, we will...

A Murderous Plague in the Philippines

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

A Murderous Plague in the Philippines

Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Maria Tanyag

According to the World Health Organization, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the Philippines on 20 January 2020. More than a year later, there are now more than 800,000 confirmed cases, about 13,800 deaths and a surge of 5000 new cases in one day. Approximately 41 per cent of the total number of confirmed cases are from the National Capital Region (NCR), where Manila is located.

The death toll from Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War since July 2016 ranges from a conservative estimate of 8,663 people according to the UN Human Rights Council, to possibly thrice as...

I don't usually ask, but today I need to make an exception

Details: Published on Wednesday, 07 April 2021 17:26; Written by editor

I'll keep this quick.

I'm going to keep this quick, PAOV:

We are setting an ambitious goal of raising $30,000 to launch our Climate Emergency Alliance election fund.

So while I don't usually ask, I'm making an exception today — and I'm really hoping I can count on you:

Can you make a $3.50 donation — or whatever you can afford — so we can create an unprecedented Climate Emergency Alliance between the NDP and the Green Party?

Here is the truth: We need to go BIG if we're going to build the kind of power we need to tackle the climate crisis.

The upcoming election in Canada is our chance to elect dozens of climate champions who will push for bold climate action.

PAOV, I believe our climate movement can amp up pressure in support of a Climate Emergency Alliance, but this fight is going to take resources.

What we raise today will determine the initial budget for our campaign election fund. So we are counting on a huge number...

Charmin

Details: Published on Wednesday, 07 April 2021 14:10; Written by editor

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Hey friend, it’s been a hot minute since we last connected about Charmin, huh? Well, I got news!

Last month, Procter & Gamble—the $70 billion global corporation that owns the Charmin brand – finally announced its new forestry commitments in response to the concerns raised by shareholders at the company’s annual meeting in October 2020. So, what are these commitments? Increased transparency and increasing its FSC certification.

While at first glance, the commitments might read pretty good, they don’t address how the company will end its role in the degradation of intact primary forests and threatened species habitat, and associated human rights abuses in its supply chains. And frankly, these “new” commitments do not take in the concerns raised by environmental groups and its shareholders.

But this is our opportunity to push P&G to scale up its commitments before it fully launches these initiatives this summer. We have a plan to go full throttle, but our campaign tactics are only as strong as our online community.

friend, will you...

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NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters Rights

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

Sneak attack on the Amazon

Details: Published on Wednesday, 07 April 2021 11:36; Written by editor

Bolsonaro is using pandemic chaos as cover to strike a death blow to the Amazon, turning protected Indigenous land over to mining companies.

We have only a few weeks before his devious plan comes to a vote — can you chip in to cover polling, actions, and other urgent work needed to protect the Amazon?

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Bolsonaro is about to strike a death blow to the Amazon.

Brazil’s President has always wanted to open the forest for mining — and now he’s using pandemic chaos as cover to finally turn over thousands of acres of sacred Indigenous land and protected rainforest to predatory mining companies.

A vote is weeks away.

Fortunately Bolsonaro’s plan is deeply unpopular with Brazilians. If we can use smart tactics like polling and actions to quickly ramp...

We're launching something big today

Details: Published on Wednesday, 07 April 2021 11:22; Written by editor

Paov,

Amidst all the uncertainty we’re facing in 2021, one thing is crystal clear: Justin Trudeau is failing to tackle the climate crisis. His climate targets are well below what scientists say we need, he has failed to seriously cut emissions over six years in office, he has broken promises to deliver on a Just Transition Act, and so much more.

We can’t afford to wait for Justin Trudeau to start governing like we’re in a climate emergency.

Nor can we wait several years for the NDP or the Green Party to build enough power to form a government.

But if the NDP and the Green Party worked together, they could elect as many climate champions as possible, then use their combined power to pass bold legislation in the House of Commons.

That’s why today, with a snap election on the horizon, we’re calling for a Climate Emergency Alliance between the NDP and the Green Party.

A Climate Emergency Alliance could be a game-changer.

A Climate Emergency Alliance would shine a light on the scale of the climate crisis – and Justin Trudeau’s failure to meet it. An unprecedented, historic alliance would...

Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention

Details: Published on Wednesday, 07 April 2021 09:58; Written by editor

Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention

Bruce Kecskes

In so far as participating in bourgeois democracy remains a component of socialist strategy in Canada, voters on the Left are largely limited electorally to the New Democratic Party (NDP). As with many western socialist and social democratic parties, however, the federal NDP has been following a steady course of neoliberalization over the past decades. The party’s commitment to the workers’ movement and its own foundational labour-centred principles have been jettisoned in favour of a far more moderate political project.

The central drift of the NDP has yielded a party that broadly prefers means-testing to universalism, prioritizes the votes...

An exciting update

Details: Published on Tuesday, 06 April 2021 18:26; Written by editor

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Taking Big Steps

Details: Published on Tuesday, 06 April 2021 17:18; Written by editor

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Dear Friend,

Since we last wrote to you, we’ve taken some big steps to hold the police accountable for their harmful actions.

We filed the argument for our lawsuit against the RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, for their unacceptable three-and-a-half-year delay to responding to our complaint.

We spoke at the Provincial Police Act Review, gave several essential recommendations to hold the police to account.

These accountability mechanisms are broken, and often don’t provide the justice people deserve. We cannot stand idly by in the face of injustice.

Will you make a donation of $30 and join us in demanding real change in the policing system?

Join us in demanding change

People are harassed in the streets by police. Land defenders and environmentalists haven’t gotten accountability for illegal spying and data collection by police. Policing...

Death blow for the Amazon?

Details: Published on Tuesday, 06 April 2021 10:52; Written by editor

Bolsonaro is using pandemic chaos as cover to strike a death blow to the Amazon, turning protected Indigenous land over to mining companies.

We have only a few weeks before his devious plan comes to a vote — can you chip in to cover polling, actions, and other urgent work needed to protect the Amazon?

A photo of a squirrel monkey.

If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:

Donate CA$88 now Donate another amount

Bolsonaro is about to strike a death blow to the Amazon.

A vote is weeks away.

Fortunately Bolsonaro’s plan is deeply unpopular with Brazilians. If we can use smart tactics like polling and actions to quickly ramp...

COVID-19 and Public Sector Workers

Details: Published on Tuesday, 06 April 2021 09:42; Written by editor

COVID-19 and Public Sector Workers:
Tax Justice, the Just Transition and the Care Economy

Adrian Murray and Susan Spronk interview Daniel Bertossa – Public Services International

On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 we caught up with Daniel Bertossa, Assistant General Secretary at Public Services International (PSI), a global union federation that represents public sector workers in about 170 countries and about 650 unions. Daniel leads the Public Services International economic policy work in trade, tax, debt, and the future of quality public services.

This interview is part of a series with the Blended Finance Project, a group of unions, non-governmental organizations, and academics who are concerned about the Canadian government’s embrace of...

Decolonizing Israel: Jeff Halpers Political Strategy

Details: Published on Monday, 05 April 2021 11:26; Written by editor

Decolonizing Israel: Jeff Halper’s Political Strategy

Judith Deutsch

What is to be done about Israel to stop what is being done to Palestinians? As just reported in the Guardian, “Domestic politics in Israel has lurched far to the right, and the fate of millions of Palestinians under Israeli military control has all but disappeared from election campaigns.” As reported by Ha’aretz: “Kahanist Racism, Homophobia Enter Knesset After Far-right Party’s Strong Showing.” While hope for change draws on the partially successful end of apartheid in South Africa due to international pressure, Israel draws on international support through its weapons/surveillance/security trade, and through its politically effective conflation of antisemitism with antizionism....

Take the Plant, Save the Planet

Details: Published on Sunday, 04 April 2021 09:26; Written by editor

Take the Plant, Save the Planet:
Workers and Communities in the Struggle for Economic Conversion

A discussion of the politics of plant conversion for an ecologically sustainable future with:

Francesca Hannan, an active member of We Are Oshawa, Green Jobs Oshawa, and the Durham Food Policy Council. She has been involved in climate justice activism with Toronto-based groups, and her professional background is in environmental policy and law.
Stephen Buhler, an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton and a full-time journeyman machinist currently working in the oil and gas sector.
Simon Black, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University and an organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade.

The current pandemic crisis has dramatically exposed the need for a massive shift of new resources into the caring sector and...

Soldier Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by 22 Troops at Oklahoma Base

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

A Miscarriage of Justice: Support Hassan Diab!

Details: Published on Saturday, 03 April 2021 10:30; Written by editor

A Miscarriage of Justice: Support Hassan Diab!

Justice for Hassan Diab

You may already know of Hassan Diab – the wrongfully persecuted Ottawa sociology professor whose life hangs in the balance. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his unfolding story since its inception in 2007. Dr. Diab is the Canadian citizen who, at the behest of France, was sought for extradition on trumped up charges.

Dr. Diab is subject to allegations of involvement in the bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980, he was pursued and harassed by the RCMP in 2008. Arrested on November 13th of that year, denied bail, and jailed in the disreputable Ottawa...

Council This Week

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

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Environmental defenders need security guarantees

Details: Published on Friday, 02 April 2021 15:42; Written by editor

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PBI-Colombia accompanied CREDHOS calls for security guarantees for environmental and water defenders in the Magdalena Medio region … Read more...

350.org América Latina signs letter in support of threatened anti-fracking activists in Puerto Wilches, Colombia … Read more...

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We are not backing down - RCMP Lawsuit Update

Details: Published on Thursday, 01 April 2021 14:04; Written by editor

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Hi Friend,

Nearly seven years.

That is how long the BCCLA had to wait for a response to its complaint on RCMP spying due to the RCMP Commissioner’s extreme delay.

In November 2020, we sued the RCMP Commissioner for her extreme delay which prevented the release of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) report on our complaint. Today, we filed our written argument.

We’re telling the court that the RCMP Commissioner’s unreasonable delay in responding to the CRCC report breached her obligations under the RCMP Act and violated the BCCLA’s Charter right to freedom of expression. Delays have plagued the complaints system for over a decade, and it is time to hold the RCMP to account.

The CRCC report concerns a complaint the BCCLA filed in 2014 against the RCMP for illegally spying on Indigenous and climate justice advocates opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline. Due to the RCMP Commissioner’s extreme delay, the CRCC was not able to release its report until...

Climate Mobilization in View of the COP26

Details: Published on Thursday, 01 April 2021 11:34; Written by editor

Climate Mobilization in View of the COP26

International Committee of the Fourth International

1. Disasters, of which extreme weather events linked to climate change are the main cause, have doubled in 20 years, killing more than 1.2 million people worldwide since 2000. Record summer temperatures in the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere (including the Arctic and Antarctica), deadly fires, exceptionally mild, snow-free winters in many areas, monsoon disturbance, more frequent and more extreme weather events: the climate catastrophe is underway. It is progressing faster than the projections, mainly due to the underestimation of the positive feedbacks from global warming. Megafires in Australia have illustrated the major danger of a...