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If I had $2 billion dollars
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- Published on Thursday, 28 January 2021 15:08
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Trudeau should be embarassed
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- Published on Thursday, 28 January 2021 09:24
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Paov,
Yesterday, US President Biden greenlit a sweeping push for bold climate action with a series of executive orders. Biden’s orders included freezing new oil and gas leases on public lands, doubling offshore wind-produced energy by 2030, and cutting fossil fuel subsidies.1
Most importantly, Biden is using the climate emergency mobilization as a way to spur job creation. He’s called for a Civilian Climate Corps Initiative that he says would "put a new generation of Americans to work conserving and restoring public lands and waters."2
This kind of action should embarrass Canadian politicians, including Trudeau, who spent their first day back in Parliament on Monday speaking up in support of pipelines at an emergency debate on Keystone XL.3 It’s about time Canada became a real climate leader and created millions of new, green jobs in the process.
Sign the petition now to call on Trudeau to deliver the Just Transition Act he promised in 2019.
These big moves from President Biden are all thanks to years of organizing by the climate movement and Indigenous land defenders. In particular, Biden is responding to the powerful youth-led movement for a Green New Deal that has...
This is what you told us
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- Published on Thursday, 28 January 2021 03:28
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r33
Hey friend,
We just finished going through the results of Stand.earth’s 2021 community survey. Over 8,000 of you (in 67 countries!) took the time to help shape Stand’s priorities for this year and ensure our campaigns will make the most impact possible.
Without further ado, here's what we heard from you – and what we plan to do about it.
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You want to stand up to the fossil fuel industry
Over 60% of Stand members said that stopping major fossil fuel projects around North America should be a number one priority in 2021.
This is exactly the kind of challenge Stand was created to take on. Over the past decade, we’ve joined forces with frontline communities to stop dozens of fossil fuel projects, including Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, the Teck tar sands mine, and just last week – the Keystone XL pipeline.
This year we’re going to keep up the fight to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline...
Teacher-Volunteers: Unpaid Labour a Symptom of Precarious Work
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- Published on Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:20
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Teacher-Volunteers: Unpaid Labour a Symptom of Precarious Work
Michael Mindzak
As we continue to contend with the various challenges surrounding COVID-19, one interesting result has been the pronounced decline in volunteerism. With increasingly stringent health measures such as social distancing and contact tracing, volunteerism at this time has decreased. This includes schools as well, where distance education and limited interactions have meant that volunteers can or else should keep away. Nevertheless, it might be interesting to consider how such volunteerism trends might impact education here in Ontario.
Over the past decade, schools in Ontario have witnessed a significant shift in volunteerism. Schools in places such as Ontario have long embraced...
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New Year Calls for a New COVID-19 Strategy
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:26
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New Year Calls for a New COVID-19 Strategy
David Camfield and Claudyne Chevrier
As 2021 begins, many people in Manitoba are hopeful that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. The number of infections reported is falling. Effective vaccines have been approved and will eventually become widely available. Unfortunately, the pandemic is far from over and the worst could still lie ahead.
Manitoba, like most jurisdictions in Canada except the Atlantic provinces and Northern territories, is using a public-health strategy for responding to COVID-19 that hasn’t given us the protection and positive outcomes that we could have expected. This strategy – one of mitigation, to use the epidemiological...
SATURDAY! India's Farmers Challenge Modi - SCNCC Live!
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 14:04
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Ontarios Care Crisis /w Natalie Mehra
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:56
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Ontario’s Care Crisis /w Natalie Mehra
In this episode we are joined by Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC). We discuss the ongoing crisis in Ontario’s private long term care system, the imminent need for paid sick days, and revisit the question of vaccine distribution. Unsurprisingly, we conclude that Doug Ford’s prioritization of business concerns are having disastrous impacts.
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The political ground is shifting
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- Published on Monday, 25 January 2021 10:04
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Paov,
Parliament is back in session today and it’s amazing to think about how much the political ground has shifted since MPs last gathered in Ottawa.
As you know, last week, immediately after taking office, President Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline.1 He also suspended all new oil and gas drilling permits on federal land and returned the United States to the Paris Climate Accord.2 The Biden administration’s swift climate action highlighted the hypocrisy of Prime Minister Trudeau’s position. He’s still trying to call himself a climate leader while building pipelines and propping up a dying fossil fuel industry. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for Trudeau, who still hasn’t backed down on Keystone, to hold this ground and it’s critical that we keep pressing him to pick a side.3
In the coming weeks, we have a window of opportunity to make some real gains for people and the planet, so I’m sending a longer email than usual to sum up what’s in play right now.
Trudeau promised a Just Transition Act. We’re pushing him to deliver
It was disappointing to see Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet mourning the cancelation of the Keystone XL...
The Conflict in Ethiopia: A Humanitarian Disaster
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- Published on Monday, 25 January 2021 03:54
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The Conflict in Ethiopia: A Humanitarian Disaster
In conversation with Paulos Tesfagiorgis, Pierre Beaudet
While over 950,000 people are on the move in the northern province of Tigray, a huge humanitarian disaster is already hitting Tigrayans hard. One of the aggravating factors is that the Ethiopian army currently occupying Tigray is trying to prevent people from crossing over to Sudan. Large numbers of people are displaced and end up in make-shift camps without UN support or protection. Moreover, the UN reports several attacks that have caused havoc and destruction in these camps.
Adding to that disaster, the United Nations fears massive community transmission of COVID in Tigray, increased by displacement...
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Intensification of Contradictions in the Empire
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- Published on Sunday, 24 January 2021 03:18
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Intensification of Contradictions in the Empire:
Election in the USA and Its Impacts
In his last interview (streamed live on November 6th, 2020), Leo Panitch spoke with the International Relations and Marxism Network (RIMA), in partnership with Chutando a Escada Podcast and PUC-Rio, about the escalation of contradictions in the empire, the US elections and their impact on global capitalism.
The recent election in the USA has profound impacts, both within American society, and for its role in global capitalism. How to understand the broader and deeper social processes underway in American society? What will be the challenges for sustaining the American ‘informal empire’ in view of the electoral result? How to understand its impacts on the current hegemonic dispute with China? What will be its effects on the global...
Keystone XL
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- Published on Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:54
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r33
friend,
Joe Biden wasted no time getting down to business on Wednesday. Within hours of being sworn in, he’d already rejoined the Paris Agreement and cancelled the long-resisted Keystone XL pipeline.
These are hard-fought victories to celebrate – but there’s another urgent climate file we need Biden’s attention on right now. As I write this, bulldozers are stationed to plow through sacred wild rice watersheds and wetlands in Ojibwe treaty territory to make way for the dirty Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline.
We saw how fast Biden cancelled Keystone XL this week. But he won’t do the same for Line 3 without just as much public pressure.
STOP LINE 3The Line 3 pipeline is slated to transport 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil from Alberta, to Wisconsin every day. If completed,...
Investigate Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Us From COVID-19
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- Published on Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:02
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Investigate Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Us From COVID-19
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted with COVID-19. No modern state – such as Brazil – should have to admit that it did nothing when these warnings came in and simply allowed its own citizens to die for no reason.
A Supreme Court judge and the solicitor general have demanded that the Brazilian government act, but this has not moved Jair Bolsonaro’s administration. Everything about this...
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What else does 2021 have in store for us?
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- Published on Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:04
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Paov,
For the last few years, I’ve developed a bit of an annual ritual. Every year in January, I prepare and send out 350 Canada’s supporter survey.
This survey helps my team understand what 350 supporters all over the country think about our campaigns. It also gives us direction to set our priorities for the year ahead.
Now, it’s that time of year again. So here’s a gentle reminder to fill out our survey if you haven’t done so yet.
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for us to hear from you.
We’ve got a big year ahead of us with pipelines to fight, climate policies to strengthen, and a possible federal election that could change everything. Before we hit the ground running, we want to know how you think our resources and time would be best spent in the face of these big uphill battles.
Thanks so much for your time.
Onwards,
Atiya
Council This Week
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 12:16
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PBI volunteer webinars coming soon!
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 07:26
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PBI-Canada & PBI-USA webinars on how to be a frontline field volunteer coming soon!
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Peace Brigades International statements affirming the human right to migration
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PBI-Colombia accompanies Peace Community...
India's Farmers Rise Up: A Webinar with Aarti Sethi
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 07:10
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Palestinian Striking Workers Triumph
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 02:04
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Palestinian Striking Workers Triumph
New Unions
After 19 days of an open-ended strike demanding their human and labour rights, Palestinian workers at Yamit have suspended their strike on January 20. The workers’ committee has reached this decision following an agreement with the company to meet their demands. The agreement, which still needs to go through legal procedures in Israeli courts, states the following:
- The workers get back to work and continue the negotiations with Yamit for a period of three months.
- During this period, the workers receive an increase of around $200 to their wages.
- The Palestinian workers are paid a holiday usually given to Israeli workers in July...
Flip it and reverse it
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- Published on Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:08
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Israel at the Current Global Juncture
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- Published on Thursday, 21 January 2021 03:38
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Israel at the Current Global Juncture
Judith Deutsch
How does Israel fit in with current global emergencies and unprecedented dangers, those being the worsening provision of food, water, shelter, and healthcare for the global population, the COVID-19 pandemic and warnings of worse to come, and climate-related calamities? Massive fatalities and immiseration are not inevitable, but the current human situation is shaped by forces lethal to people’s basic needs: militarization, neoliberalism, and neofascism.
Haim Bresheeth-Zabner’s recent book An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Forces made a Nation, shows in detail how the Zionists’ single-minded determination to establish a powerful, militarized Jewish nation was achieved through opportunistic exploitation of...
BREAKING: Biden cancels Keystone XL
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:22
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Paov,
I can’t quite believe it but, today, US President Joe Biden moved to finally cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.1
The climate movement and Indigenous land defenders have been fighting this massive tar sands project for over a decade. Now, it’s finally over. This moment proves two things: people power can change what’s politically possible and that the fossil fuel era is rapidly coming to an end.
But, rather than meeting this moment, Prime Minister Trudeau wants to keep building pipelines.2 Let’s tell him to get his act together.
Canada shouldn’t mourn the demise of Keystone XL. And we definitely shouldn’t double down on building the Trans Mountain pipeline. Instead, Trudeau needs to read the writing on the wall and support workers in the transition to a green economy. It’s not too much to ask. In fact, it’s something he promised to do in his 2019 election platform.3
President Biden sent a clear signal today that he’s ready to take the climate crisis seriously....
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