Almond milk is killing bees

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Published on Sunday, 23 February 2020 07:34

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Have you seen this? Our thirst for almond milk is literally killing our bees.

There’s an easy way to stop this -- get almond farmers to ditch toxic bee-killing pesticides. We have a plan to do exactly that, but we can’t do it without you.

Can you chip in to protect our bees?

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Why Public Transit Should Be Free For All

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Published on Sunday, 23 February 2020 01:54

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Why Public Transit Should Be Free For All

Davide Mastracci

Drivers in Canada often complain of a "war on cars" that is supposedly being waged in cities throughout the country. This metaphorical war is non-existent, but that’s unfortunate because such a war would be justified, given the severity of the environmental and social crises we face.

As it stands, there are two commuting classes in Canada: drivers and everyone else. And throughout much of the country, the needs of drivers are prioritized. That not only harms our environment, but it also holds back the most marginalized citizens, who often can’t afford cars, from fully participating in our economy, politics and culture.

The problem is rooted in funding. According to a recent study published in Transport Policy, insufficient public transit funding has left one million Canadians suffering from "transport poverty," which means they don’t have access to public transportation that meets their needs. University of Toronto researcher Steven Farber says this can negatively affect people’s socio-economic status by impacting their ability to access goods...

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Peace Brigades update - February 21, 2020

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Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22

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Published on Saturday, 22 February 2020 07:02

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Apple’s the last tech company you’d expect to see ditching privacy rights for profits -- but it is. Something is rotten in the state of Apple.

So we’re going to Apple’s annual shareholder meeting next week to deliver our petition and persuade Apple shareholders to vote for a groundbreaking proposal to protect the human rights of all its customers.

Will your name be there too?

Yes, I'll sign now to demand Apple help keep people safe.

Thanks for all that you do,
Sondhya and the team at SumOfUs

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Concentration camps. Millions of lives destroyed.

Apple is collaborating with the government of China, putting profit above principles.

Will you demand Apple takes a stand?

Sign the petition

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Apple is helping the government of China spy on phone calls and text messages by taking down apps that people use to stay safe. Anyone the government finds...

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Take Action for Wet'suwet'en with our Toolkit

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Published on Saturday, 22 February 2020 03:46

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Take Action for Wet'suwet'en with our Toolkit r1 Backing groundbreaking legal actions by Wet'suwet'en leadership is a team effort: download our Action Toolkit to find out how to warrior up. ...

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No public money to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline!

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Published on Friday, 21 February 2020 12:24

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Millions in public money could go to as early as February 26th. Take action. r1

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As thousands across the country take to the streets in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders and hereditary chiefs, a federal government crown corporation— Export Development Canada (EDC)— is considering handing over millions of dollars in public money to the very project that sparked this resistance.1

Export Development Canada has a track record of financing projects that violate Indigenous rights and disregard climate science. In 2018, they were essential to the federal government’s controversial buy-out of the TMX pipeline. Now, they could be committing an undisclosed amount of money to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline as early as February 26th.

Sign a message to Export Development Canada, Minister of International Trade Mary Ng, and Justin Trudeau to tell them this is unacceptable.

Justin Trudeau has built his political legacy on promises of reconciliation and climate leadership, yet has lived up to neither. Not only is he allowing militarized RCMP officers to enter unceded Wet’suwet’en territory to enforce an illegal injunction, he is also turning a blind-eye to the possibility of a crown corporation publicly financing the project.

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'Poorly Behaved Nurses' and Inequality in SA's Healthcare Sector

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Published on Friday, 21 February 2020 05:08

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‘Poorly Behaved Nurses’ and Inequality in SA’s Healthcare Sector

Salimah Valiani

Nurses in South Africa get a bad rap. Whether by journalists, politicians, academics, patients or bosses, nurses -- particularly in the public sector -- are criticized, vilified and scrutinized. Little consideration is given to the trying context in which they work.

Nurses hold 81 per cent of filled professional positions in the public healthcare sector and carry the bulk of responsibility of paid care in a country that in 2019 achieved "the most unhealthy nation in the world" status in the Indigo Wellness Index. The index ranks countries according to measures of blood pressure, blood glucose, obesity, depression, happiness, alcohol use, tobacco use, exercise, healthy life expectancy and government spending on healthcare.

The last on this list -- government spending on healthcare -- is a key link I make to the bad rap given to nurses in a recently published article, "Public Healthcare Spending in South Africa and the Impact on Nurses: 25 years of democracy?"

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Almond milk is killing bees

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Published on Friday, 21 February 2020 04:46

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Almond milk sales are soaring — and our bees are paying the price.

Most almond farms are a “toxic chemical soup” threatening billions of bees that are shipped in to pollinate the trees.

Can you chip in to demand the makers of Alpro, Silk and Almond Breeze use only bee-friendly almonds?

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Quaker Concern newsletter sharing peace and justice stories

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Published on Thursday, 20 February 2020 11:52

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CFSC associate member Paul Joffe, Indigenous rights program coordinator Jennifer Preston, Kirby Muldoe of SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, and Hereditary Chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en at Friends House in New York City while attending the UN Permanent Forum on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2017

Update on the Wet’suwet’en land rights

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Remember when we (you know, the government) said we were gonna do that thing?

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Published on Thursday, 20 February 2020 07:02

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Remember when we (you know, the government) said we were gonna do that thing? r1 Ottawa made a promise. Industry got mad. Guess what happened? ...

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Indigenous Resistance Shakes the Canadian State

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Published on Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:40

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Indigenous Resistance Shakes the Canadian State

John Clarke

In early February, the RCMP, Canada’s colonial police force, raided the land defender camps of the Wet’suwet’en people in British Columbia, in order to clear the way for pipeline construction. Clearly, none of the political decision makers responsible for this repressive action ever imagined that it would spark a powerful wave of solidarity actions across Canada. There have been ongoing protests and rallies but the focus has been on the tactic of economic disruption, most notably by blockading the railway network. If the attack on the Wet’suwet’en was driven by the profit needs of extractive capitalism, the resistance that has emerged has targeted the flow of goods and services as the most effective form of counter-attack.

In October of 2018, the provincial government of British Columbia approved the building of a 670 km pipeline to bring liquified natural gas from northern BC to a $40-billion export plant, to be constructed in Kitimat. In BC, the New Democratic Party (NDP) is in power, so it was shameful...

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A fax from the future

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Published on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 08:30

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Fax Trudeau's cabinet pictures of them from 2050 and tell them to reject Teck r1

Friends,

The Trudeau cabinet will make their decision on the Teck Frontier Mine any day now.

We're hearing more stories everyday about divisions within the Liberal caucus around approving this project. It seems like the cabinet might be close to rejecting Teck. But we know that the fossil fuel industry has our politicians on speed dial, and they're going to do everything in their power to bulldoze ahead with the Teck Mine.

That's why we're taking action to make sure our voices can't be ignored. We're flooding the Trudeau cabinet's offices with faxes showing their faces from the future. Take action now and send your fax with just one click.

We want Trudeau and his cabinet to look to the future and imagine 2050 if they approve the Teck Frontier Mine. Approving Teck — the largest tar sands mine ever proposed — would set off a global climate bomb and devastate communities around the world. See for yourself:




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Neither Cure nor Prevention, but Sheer Punishment

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Published on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 07:22

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Neither Cure nor Prevention, but Sheer Punishment:
The IHRA’s Definition of Anti-Semitism

Michelle Weinroth

Anti-Semitism is a grave matter; its mere utterance conjures unspeakable horrors -- atrocities typically tied to the Holocaust, but also to the longstanding racist persecution of Jews in Europe. Widely known in Western culture, invoked with immeasurable awe, whether in common parlance or academic discourse, anti-Semitism has become a household word and sound definitions of it abound.

So of what use is a new definition, the kind adopted in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)? Officially intended for policy makers and other administrative bodies as a tool with which to combat the scourge of anti-Semitism, the definition, of which the veritable purpose is to suppress criticism of Israel, has sparked debate in City councils across Canada, from Vancouver and Calgary to Montreal. In all three city councils, the motion to adopt the IHRA definition was either defeated or shelved.

A primary author of the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern, has strongly cautioned against its concrete application by political...

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Impossible to ignore

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Published on Tuesday, 18 February 2020 11:30

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Help us flood Trudeau and his ministers with thousands of faxes calling on them to reject Teck. r1

Friends,

Blockades in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders are becoming more powerful everyday. Thanks to demonstrators, CN and VIA have indefinitely cancelled train service across the country.1 Empty cargo ships with no where to go are piling up at Vancouver’s ports.2 And Justin Trudeau was forced to cancel a trip overseas to respond to the rapidly escalating situation.3

In the midst of all this, the Liberal caucus is showing more and more signs that they might be ready to reject the Teck Frontier Mine.4

But, we know that it’s in these moments when Big Oil pulls out all the stops. That’s why we’re doubling down to make sure Trudeau and his key cabinet ministers can’t ignore the moral consequences of their decision. Take a minute to send them a fax demanding that they reject the largest tar sands mine ever proposed.

Last week, we flooded Trudeau and his cabinet ministers’ phone lines with over 1,000 calls. This week, it’s time to ramp up the pressure. We want to flood their offices with images of them from 2050. We want to...

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