Join us this Thursay to talk about how we build a better world after COVID19

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The COVID-19 pandemic demands swift and unprecedented action from national governments and the international community.

Choices being made right now will shape our society for decades to come.

As decision-makers take steps to ensure immediate relief and long-term recovery, it is imperative that they consider the interrelated crises of wealth inequality, racism, and ecological decline – notably the climate crisis, which were in place long before COVID-19, and now risk being intensified.

This is a time to be decisive in saving lives, and bold in charting a path to a genuinely healthier and more equitable future through a Just Recovery.

Join us this Thursday to discuss the #JustRecovery principles and how we can contribute to making them happen in our countries and communities.

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In What World? PPE, Healthcare Workers and the Ontario State

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Published on Monday, 04 May 2020 04:06

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‘In What World?’ PPE, Healthcare Workers and the Ontario State

Eric Tucker

In what world is a court order needed to require employers to provide front-line healthcare workers with the personal protective equipment (PPE) that they, in their professional judgment, relying on best practices and government directives, determine is needed to perform their jobs safely? Welcome to Ontario where on April 22, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Justice Morgan issued just such an order.

Why did unionized nurses at four long-term care facilities require such an order? To begin with, the dangers they face at work are palpable. Long-term care (LTC) facilities have been a hotbed of infection and a major source of fatalities in Ontario. In the facilities where these nurses are employed, scores of residents had contracted COVID-19 and dozens have died from their infection, and nurses have been infected, and at least one of whom needed to be hospitalized. The numbers are changing daily.

The chief medical officer of health for Ontario recognized the need for urgent...

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A green COVID-19 recovery

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Published on Sunday, 03 May 2020 03:52

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A groundbreaking COVID-19 recovery plan is on the table -- one that would slam the brakes on climate chaos.

Corporate lobbyists are trying to kill it. We need to prove to world leaders that the people back this plan.

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Right now, world leaders are deciding how to rescue our crumbling economy.

A group of leading scientists and economists have proposed a historic package that wouldn’t just help us recover from the pandemic -- it would save our planet from climate catastrophe.

Corporations like Bayer-Monsanto and PepsiCo are terrified of this plan. Their entire business model relies on trashing our rainforests, oceans or insect populations. Their lobbyists are working round the clock to persuade finance ministers to back business as usual.

You can drown out those lobbyists now...

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Searching for Socialism Launch

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Published on Sunday, 03 May 2020 01:26

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Searching for Socialism Launch

Tribune came together with Momentum and Verso Books to organize a lockdown launch for Colin Leys’ and Leo Panitch’s new book Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn.

Speakers include Leo Panitch himself, former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Labour MP Zarah Sultana, Tribune columnist Grace Blakeley, former Corbyn aide James Schneider, Unite the union chief of staff Andrew Murray and North West Young Labour chair Lotte Boumelha.

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Running with the big dogs

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PBI to host virtual meetings with human rights defenders

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Fighting back

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Published on Saturday, 02 May 2020 00:20

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We are living through a global pandemic that is killing tens of thousands of people. But many of the world’s corporations are using this crisis to grab bailouts, roll back regulations, and pad their profits.

We are mobilizing to make sure our shared humanity is at the center of our communities, our economies, and our health care system.

Last week, SumOfUs members sent a mobile billboard to circle Jeff Bezos’s house, ring-fencing him with the demands of Amazon customers and employees for sick pay to keep us all safe from massive coronavirus spread.

And that’s just one tactic for one campaign -- check out all we’ve achieved together in only the past six weeks!

Connecting across borders to save lives

We are offering support to the most vulnerable. More than 200,000 people have come together in the only global mutual-aid portal in the world, offering direct support to the most vulnerable. From offers to run errands or send direct financial support, requests for a chess partner, or a French teacher for a small collective school, The SumOfUs Covid Support...

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Renewing BDS in Canada and the US

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Renewing BDS in Canada and the US

Niko Block

Since 2005, when a coalition of Palestinian groups issued the call for an international campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the North American public has become significantly more cognizant of the racist atrocities committed daily by the Israeli state -- indeed, these are hard to ignore. Since the siege of Gaza began in 2007, Israeli assaults have killed approximately 4,500 Palestinians there, nearly a quarter of them children. In the West Bank, meanwhile, Palestinians remain subject to a strangulating military occupation, arbitrary detentions, house demolitions, and land confiscations.

Whereas at the beginning of the second intifada in 2000, the question of Palestine was seen as complex and polarizing, polls now show that two thirds of Canadians believe that sanctions are warranted against Israel, given its illegal oppression of Palestinians. Such a change in western public opinion could pose a significant threat to Israel, considering that sanctions are the most ambitious component of BDS’s strategic agenda.

Yet the BDS movement in Canada...

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Why Investing in Women Helps Save the Planet

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Published on Friday, 01 May 2020 04:34

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Council This Week – May Day

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May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations

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Socialist Interventions Pamphlet ... No. 15 ... May 1, 2020

May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations

For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour’s long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago. It is more important than ever, in the face of relentless capitalist austerity and emerging authoritarian forces on the right, that the North American labour movement reconnect with this history and forge linkages with the international labour movement in the remaking of a socialism for our times.

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You don't want to miss this - factsheets and resources

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Civil liberties and human rights for all

Dear BCCLA supporter,

We know that the influx of information about emergency powers and public health orders have made it confusing to understand what our rights are at this time. As governments take extraordinary measures to contain COVID-19, we stand firm in our belief that while measures that promote public health are essential, over-policing the pandemic simply won't work.

As we've seen time and time again, when the state is given unreasonable and unnecessary powers, the most marginalized are over-policed and under-protected. This is why it's crucial for us all to understand how government measures are impacting our civil liberties and privacy rights.

To make sure that you are equipped with up to date legal information on your rights at this time, we have put together factsheets outlining your rights in a pandemic.

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This week

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Covid-19, Google, and the future of Toronto's Waterfront

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Covid-19, Google, and the future of Toronto’s Waterfront

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Waterfront Toronto is a tri-government agency with a mandate to re-develop the waterfront. In its search for a ‘funding and development’ partner it has been effectively captured by Google’s digital urbanism agenda and the potential revenue stream from the development, use and sale of ‘smart city’ technologies. Sidewalk Labs is a Google sister company with grandiose plans to develop hundreds of acres of Toronto’s waterfront to which it has no title. The land, data, and power grab behind this ‘Googleopolis’ has met with growing opposition. In response to that criticism, Waterfront Toronto has scaled back the plan to the original twelve acre site known as Quayside, essentially as the preliminary staging ground for the wider vision Google still wants to pursue. A number of Sidewalk Labs digital innovations and urban space proposals would lay the groundwork for future waterfront development that would begin with Quayside.

The proposals were packaged and presented for a round of public input which ended on April 9,...

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