Our opportunity to get commitments from banks financing Amazon oil

Details

Published on Thursday, 01 October 2020 07:20

Written by editor

In August, we released a groundbreaking report exposing major European banks for funding the destruction of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters. How? By financing crude oil exports from the Ecuadorian region of the rainforest to the U.S. (primarily California).

Since the report’s release, not only have there been nearly 300 news stories from around the globe – but Stand.earth and Amazon Watch are now also in discussions with five of the six banks named in the report to address these concerns. One named bank, Rabobank, has ended all trade financing from the region permanently. This is a big first step, because over the last decade, Rabobank, Natixis, ING, Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, and UBS financed 85% of the oil from the Amazon Sacred Headwaters region.

Read more: Our opportunity to get commitments from banks financing Amazon oil

Thanks for your donation!

Details

Published on Thursday, 01 October 2020 05:46

Written by editor

Hi there A,

Thank you so much for your donation. I can’t tell you how much it means to us here at SumOfUs. By donating, you’re leading the charge to stand up to Bayer and other pesticide manufacturers that are threatening our bee populations. Now more than ever, this is work that needs to be done.

Your donation will help to power our campaigning to save the bees. We’ve included the receipt below.

We do not accept money from corporations or governments. That is why your support is so critical. Together we are building a movement that demands that people are always put above profit. We stand toe to toe against the world’s most powerful corporations to protect our rights and our democracy.

Thanks so much for all that you do,

John and the team at SumOfUs

Donation receipt

Thank you for your donation to SumOfUs of CAD7.00 on October 1, 2020 by your credit card ending in 5463!

PS - SumOfUs is a registered 501(c)4 non-profit incorporated in Washington, DC, United States. Donations to SumOfUs are not tax deductible. For further information or if you have any questions about this donation, please reach out at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

SumOfUs is...

Read more: Thanks for your donation!

Sunset for Podemos: A Farewell?

Details

Published on Thursday, 01 October 2020 02:34

Written by editor

~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2205 ... October 1, 2020
_________________________________________________

Sunset for Podemos: A Farewell?

Manuel Gari

The creation of Podemos (We Can) in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have been "Radiance and decline of Podemos … as an emancipatory political project."

The purpose of this article is to explain why it was necessary to create it and why it was necessary to abandon it. This has also meant reflecting on the balance sheet that can be made and the lessons that can be drawn from the actions of Izquierda Anticapitalista, now Anticapitalistas.

Podemos arose because the social democratic and Eurocommunist left were at a dead end after the crisis of 2008. The eruption of the indignados of 15M in 2011 was the catalyst for the emergence of new political expectations in a context characterized by the unstoppable progress of the right-wing Partido Popular (PP) against the...

Read more: Sunset for Podemos: A Farewell?

Health Coalition Demands that Ontario Government Stop Privatizing Healthcare

Details

Published on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:40

Written by editor

~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2204 ... September 30, 2020
___________________________________________________

Health Coalition Demands that Ontario Government Stop Privatizing Healthcare

Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) expressed deep concern about the Doug Ford government’s privatization of healthcare services, the lack of a coherent plan for a second-wave of COVID-19, and cuts and layoffs at public hospitals while the government shifts funding to private companies for COVID-19 related services. On September 22, Premier Ford said, "I think it is a free market society" in response to questions about private for-profit companies charging Ontarians up to $400 for COVID-19 testing. Under the Canada Health Act patients cannot be charged for medically-necessary services, including diagnostic tests.

On September 23, the Ford government announced plans to contract private for-profit pharmacies to have COVID testing in their stores. Today (September 24), CBC revealed a draft document developed by the government that proposes to use of so-called private for-profit clinics (euphemistically called "independent health facilities") to clear diagnostic and surgical backlogs. The Ontario Health Coalition responded today with a call to reopen closed operating rooms and ramp up existing...

Read more: Health Coalition Demands that Ontario Government Stop Privatizing Healthcare

You are going to want to see this...

Details

Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22

Written by editor

Don't forget to RSVP!

Details

Published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:04

Written by editor

Join us in our commitment to justice.

Dear BCCLA Supporter,

Don't forget to RSVP for our upcoming webinar in collaboration with Amnesty International—“Predict and Surveil: Racism in Policing & Surveillance Tech”, a timely event on anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, surveillance, and criminalization through the rise of invasive digital technologies.

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Time: 11 AM-1 PM PST (2 PM-4 PM EST)

Where: The event will be livestreamed on YouTube. You can RSVP below if you wish to receive the livestream link directly into your inbox.

RSVP here to receive the link!

ASL Interpretation: One interpreter confirmed, 2nd interpreter TBD.

Police and security agencies in Canada have long subjected Indigenous, Black, and Muslim communities as well as activist groups to illegal surveillance. Algorithmic policing and technological surveillance by law enforcement and spy agencies have rapidly—and quietly—expanded in Canada. These practices threaten privacy and civil liberties, encode patterns of inequality, and solidify colonial structures.

Join us for a chance to hear from academic, community, and legal experts on how new...

Read more: Don't forget to RSVP!

I am writing to ask you to make a $3.50 contribution because today were announcing an ambitious goal: 500 donations by the time our end-of-month deadline ends. Reaching it will power our bold programs and campaigns in the upcoming weeks ahead

Details

Published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 06:50

Written by editor

PAOV,

Today we are setting a very ambitious goal, and since you're an important part of this movement we're hoping you can help.

At the end of this month, we are locking in our plans for our campaign to defund the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

We are aiming for an additional 500 donations by the time this end-of-month deadline comes to a close. This goal is important because it will put us on a path to build the bold campaigns we need to pressure our leaders to defund dangerous fossil fuel projects and invest in bold climate action.

It won't be easy to get there, but our movement can make it happen if we start right now. Can I count on you today?

Make your first $3.50 contribution to help reach 500 individual donations before this month's deadline.

You know that the fossil fuel industry has large sums of money to lobby politicians for their disastrous projects.

That is why we are organizing programs like Defund TMX, where we push the government to abandon the Trans Mountain pipeline once and for...

Read more: I am writing to ask you to make a $3.50 contribution because today were announcing an ambitious...

COVID-19 and Class Struggle in France

Details

Published on Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:56

Written by editor

~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2203 ... September 29, 2020
___________________________________________________

COVID-19 and Class Struggle in France

Susan Ram

How are French workers responding to the multiple challenges posed by a resurgent COVID-19, a neoliberal government incapable of getting to grips with the crisis, and the limitations imposed by the public health emergency on traditional forms of mass protest?

In the unprecedented situation created by the coronavirus pandemic, the ability of large sections of the French working class to take to the streets in mass protest has been visibly curtailed. And for understandable reasons: older workers, health sector employees, black and ethnic minority workers and others in frontline occupations who are particularly vulnerable to infection and hospitalization cannot afford to take the risks involved.

This helps explain the comparatively muted response to the day of action called by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and other militant union syndicates on September 17. All the same, the core protest in Paris drew an estimated 10,000 people on to the streets, and turnouts in other big cities were respectable, particularly in Toulouse, where between two and...

Read more: COVID-19 and Class Struggle in France

BREAKING: Trudeau delays action on boil water advisories

Details

Published on Monday, 28 September 2020 11:08

Written by editor

Friends,

I have a question for Justin Trudeau – why can his government always find more money for Big Oil, but never for helping out Indigenous communities?

I’m asking because earlier this morning, news broke that Trudeau is going to miss his deadline for ending boil water advisories in Indigenous communities across Canada.1 This at the same time as his government is spending billions of dollars pushing through the Trans Mountain pipeline without Indigenous consent.

It’s infuriating. But, we can do something about it.

Tell Justin Trudeau and the other party leaders that it’s time to defund Trans Mountain and invest in people and communities instead.

We don’t need another pipeline. In fact, our climate can’t handle another pipeline. But, this pandemic has made it clear that we do need good jobs and healthy communities. Both of these are things that a Green New Deal will deliver.

It’s past time for promises and half measures, we need bold action. We need...

Read more: BREAKING: Trudeau delays action on boil water advisories

Bayer is VERY happy

Details

Published on Monday, 28 September 2020 05:38

Written by editor

A,

Right now we have an opportunity to win a historic ban on toxic glyphosate in Austria -- a key stepping stone to a ban across the EU and beyond.

We've got a plan to run a hard-hitting ad in Austria's leading newspaper to counter Monsanto's incessant pressure on decision makers, but it will only work with your support today.

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

Donate CA$94 nowDonate another amount

Thanks for all that you do,
Clemens, Eoin, Anne and the team at SumOfUs

See our last email for more details:

BREAKING: The European Commission just called Austria's glyphosate ban "illegal". We’ve got one last chance to get this toxic poison banned -- but first we have to convince Austria's government.

Can you chip in CA$92 for an ad in Austria's most influential newspaper?

If you’ve saved your...

Read more: Bayer is VERY happy

Donald Trump: Emperor of the Lumpen Proletariat or the Stalin of Capitalist Counter-Revolution?

Details

Published on Monday, 28 September 2020 03:22

Written by editor

~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2202 ... September 28, 2020
___________________________________________________

Donald Trump: Emperor of the Lumpen Proletariat or the Stalin of Capitalist Counter-Revolution?

Bryan Palmer

Donald Trump defies easy classification. His location within the politics of class eludes precise definition. If there is no doubt that he functions in the interests of capital, his capacity to not only expose but also exacerbate the fraction-ridden nature of this highly differentiated entity and the state that oversees its collective interests is unprecedented.

Trump’s willingness to openly espouse the racism, national chauvinism, anti-semitism, and misogyny that runs rampant in ruling class circles is, among those who have attained the presidency, unique in modern times. His conscious use of this reactionary arsenal in appeals to a mobilized mass base of marginalized and often downwardly mobile people may well deflect attention away from those whose interests he routinely serves. They occupy positions in the American class hierarchy far removed from the dispossessed.

Obfuscating Trump’s class politics is his jettisoning of the conventional concern most political leaders within bourgeois democracies exhibit in not wanting to appear crassly self-interested. In...

Read more: Donald Trump: Emperor of the Lumpen Proletariat or the Stalin of Capitalist Counter-Revolution?

Bayer is VERY happy

Details

Published on Sunday, 27 September 2020 03:50

Written by editor

BREAKING: The European Commission just called Austria's glyphosate ban "illegal". We’ve got one last chance to get this toxic poison banned -- but first we have to convince Austria's government.

Can you chip in CA$92 for an ad in Austria's most influential newspaper?

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

A,

The European Commission just dropped a bombshell: it said Austria’s ban of glyphosate would be “illegal”.

Austria was *so close* to banning glyphosate -- until Bayer-Monsanto got wind of the plan. And then Bayer's army of lobbyists got to work.

We’ve found a legal loophole that would still allow Austria to ban glyphosate -- but we’ve got to be quick.

The Austrian government is under immense pressure from Monsanto -- they will only act if we drown out the voices from the lobbyists.

That’s why we’re planning to place an ad in Austria’s most influential newspaper next week to publish our new poll that shows that 84% of Austrians are sick of glyphosate and...

Read more: Bayer is VERY happy

Book Launch: Canada in the World /w Tyler Shipley

Details

Published on Sunday, 27 September 2020 03:48

Written by editor

LeftStreamed — Recorded online, 17 September 2020

Book Launch: Canada in the World /w Tyler Shipley

Launch of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination (Fernwood Books, 2020), with author Tyler Shipley, as well as Cassandra Kislenko, Sara Jaffri, and Veldon Coburn.

Canada in the World is an accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation. Colonialism – the project to establish settler capitalism in North America and the ideological assumption that Europeans were more advanced and thus deserved to conquer the Indigenous people – argues Shipley, lives at the very heart of Canada, as well as in Canada’s role around the world. Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, ‘peacekeeping’ missions in the Congo and Somalia, Cold War interventions in Vietnam and Indonesia, and participation in the Global War on Terror, Shipley highlights continuities across more than 150 years of history and probes the colonial imagination that has shaped Canada. Challenging this requires rethinking the fundamental nature of Canada itself.

Click here to view...

Read more: Book Launch: Canada in the World /w Tyler Shipley

Join our global webinar on police violence

Details

Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22

Written by editor