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Teck could be approved tonight
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 February 2020 08:10
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The last few days have been an emotional rollercoaster. We are now 6 days into the violent RCMP raids in unceded Wet’suwet’en territories. Yesterday, RCMP officers removed Indigenous elders and matriarchs from their lands as they held prayers for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and chainsawed through a “Reconciliation” gate to allow Coastal GasLink bulldozers through.1
As the RCMP and the BC government wage war against peaceful Indigenous land defenders, our federal government is deciding on whether to greenlight the largest tar sands mine ever proposed. It’s rumoured that the Trudeau cabinet will make their decision on the Teck mine later today. Can you take a few minutes to use our easy one-click-call system to tell our cabinet ministers to reject the Teck Frontier Mine?
It makes me sick to my stomach that our governments have let this happen. But I remain hopeful. As I write this, people are taking action from coast to coast to coast. Ports have been shut down, trains and major highways have been blocked, and Indigenous youth and their allies are occupying government offices, including the BC legislature.
In the...
Ford's Fight with Educators: A Student's Perspective
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 February 2020 02:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1996 ... February 11, 2020
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Ford’s Fight with Educators: A Student’s Perspective
Victoria Lunetta
It’s hard to walk across the University of Toronto (U of T) campus without your eye catching the grand, pale-bricked building that sits parallel to the greenery of Queen’s Park. It is even harder to find a U of T student who has not witnessed or participated in a protest on the front lawn of the same building. The Ontario Legislative Building is home to our province’s Legislative Assembly and it hosts the government that has repeatedly told teachers, students, and parents that primary and secondary education warrants cuts to funding instead of investments.
In March 2019, the Doug Ford government announced a series of cuts to education across the province. Outrage broke out across Ontario, leaving educators, parents, and students concerned for the future of Ontario’s plan in education. The Ford government has cut programs and services, capped wages, increased classroom sizes, introduced mandatory e-learning, and plans to eliminate thousands of teaching positions while it cuts support programs for the most vulnerable students across...
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SEA Please come support the Wet'suwet'en actions happening this week!
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- Published on Monday, 10 February 2020 09:52
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The Climate Crisis and the Crisis of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets
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- Published on Monday, 10 February 2020 08:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1995 ... February 10, 2020
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The Climate Crisis and the Crisis of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets
Marvin Gandall
The world’s oil, gas, and coal companies would incur what the Financial Times (FT) recently described as "breathtaking" losses if they’re not allowed to extract and burn their enormous reserves.
In total, fossil fuel CO2 emissions contained in untapped reserves are estimated at 2910 gigatonnes (GT) or nearly three trillion metric tons. To put that number in context, a sole GT is twice the mass of the global human population and enough to stretch 200 million elephants from the earth to the moon. The FT estimates that more than half these assets would be stranded if the 2°C global warming target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement were met.
Assets held by ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Total SA, Royal Dutch Shell and other corporations include rights purchased to explore in a given area as well as reserves under wells and other infrastructure already producing hydrocarbons. In the unlikely event the rise in temperature was more drastically curtailed to 1.5°C, more than...
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Workers fighting for their rights at Indonesia's Great Giant Pineapple need your support
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- Published on Monday, 10 February 2020 03:52
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Trudeau's pipeline nightmare
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- Published on Sunday, 09 February 2020 03:10
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Trudeau bought the doomed Trans Mountain pipeline with tax payer money -- but refuses to disclose the true cost.
But we deserve to know. And that's why our partners are heading straight to Parliament Hill next week to deliver our massive petition right to Trudeau's doorstep.
So far almost 9,000 SumOfUs members like you have signed this important petition.
Thanks for all you do,
Amelia and the team at SumOfUs
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Trans Mountain Deal Was Structured to Bleed Billions, Finds Economist, The Tyee, 7 January 2020.
Trudeau is hiding the cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline that he wants to build with Canadian tax payer money.
Today, we launched a campaign with a powerful coalition calling for Trudeau to come clean about the true price of this climate-destroying project. Will you join us?
The Tightrope of Socialist Politics and Governance in Canada
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- Published on Sunday, 09 February 2020 00:46
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1994 ... February 9, 2020
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The Tightrope of Socialist Politics and Governance in Canada:
Obstacles, Dilemmas, Strategy
Marcel Nelson
One of the more persistent irritants amongst supporters of the New Democratic Party (NDP) has been its longstanding inability to replace the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) as the country’s alternative to the different iterations of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). This irritation has been amplified by the LPC’s habit of campaigning with a left(ish) platform, often scooping up NDP policies, and then governing from the right. At no time was this more apparent than during the 2015 federal election when the LPC overtook the NDP, in part, by tacking to the left while the NDP erred by moving to the center in a bid to consolidate the lead it had heading into the election. A typical response by New Democrats, one that was on full display during the 2019 federal election campaign and since, is to argue that the NDP is the real article and that it will actually implement programs like universal pharmacare and childcare if ever it...
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Monitoring the RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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People power is making history
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- Published on Friday, 07 February 2020 09:14
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Friends,
It has been one hell of a week. As I’m writing this, heavily armed RCMP officers are into their second day of raids trying to evict members of the Wet'suwet'en nation and their allies from peaceful land defense camps in Northern BC.1
At the same time, the Alberta government is ramping up pressure on politicians in Ottawa to convince them to greenlight the Teck Frontier Mine – the largest tar sands mine ever proposed.
And, on top of it all, on Tuesday, the Federal Court of Appeals dismissed a suite of Indigenous court challenges to stop the TransMountain pipeline.2
It’s moments like this where it feels like Big Oil is too powerful to take on, that politicians just don’t get the scale of the climate crisis. And, as Reuben George of the Tsleil Waututh Nation said on Tuesday, it feels like reconciliation has stopped dead in its tracks.3
But, despite all this, I still have so much hope.
In the day since the RCMP began their raids in Wet'suwet'en lands, thousands of people have taken to the streets to shut business as...
J31 Fare Strike at Grand Central Station
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- Published on Friday, 07 February 2020 02:58
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1993 ... February 7, 2020
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J31 Fare Strike at Grand Central Station
Coery Eiesbnreg
Just a few hours before the J31 Fare Strike convened at Grand Central Station, I had the opportunity to speak with Mayor de Blasio as a call-in to the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. I alerted the Mayor to the fare strike taking place that day, scheduled by various NYC transit advocacy groups in reaction to the 500 new Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officers Gov. Cuomo and ex-NYCTA Pres. Byford approved to monitor the subways. I mentioned that both parties publicly admitted that the purpose of the officers is not public safety, but instead to issue fines as a means of lost revenue recuperation. These officers are being deployed at a cost of $250-million over three years, or as I said, at least 2.5 million fare-evasion tickets.
Being that de Blasio has touted himself as being against over-policing and the criminalization of poverty, I asked how he could allow this to happen in his city? I continued to press him on whether he would support...
SEA Urgent Action to support Wet'suwet'en as RCMP raid is in progress!
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 10:12
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Canada, Palestine and the 'Deal of the Century': Four Statements
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 09:58
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1992 ... February 6, 2020
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Canada, Palestine and the ‘Deal of the Century’: Four Statements
Reject Trump’s Plan: Exist, Resist, Return
Canada Palestine Association
The Trump Administration has just unveiled the details of its "Deal Of The Century." This plan includes, but is not limited to:
- Giving legitimacy to illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine.
- Annexing parts of the West Bank (including the Jordan Valley).
- Granting Palestinians a “state” made up of non-contiguous cantons similar to the Bantustans under apartheid in South Africa.
- Liquidating the Palestinian right of return.
These are just some of the aspects from this plan that has already been rejected by the Palestinian people and its leadership at large.
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BREAKING: Wetsuweten launch legal challenge to pipeline
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 07:38
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Side with Wet'suwet'en join or organize an action now!
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 07:00
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Don't miss out on a BCCLA membership!
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Workers fighting for their rights at Indonesia's Great Giant Pineapple need your support
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 03:52
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We couldn't agree more
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- Published on Thursday, 06 February 2020 03:02
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The fight to stop Trans Mountain isn't over!
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 February 2020 16:40
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3 weeks to stop a climate bomb
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 February 2020 11:34
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Dear friends,
Earlier today, we got some bad news when the Federal Court of Appeals dismissed a number of Indigenous-led legal challenges to the TransMountain pipeline approval.1 As I was reading the decision, I kept thinking back to the first time Justin Trudeau approved this project back in 2016.
When his cabinet made that decision, they ignored the impacts the project would have on communities, on the land, and the climate. They made a political decision, hoping they could avoid its moral consequences.
Today, Trudeau and his cabinet are trying to do the same thing again. In about three weeks, they will decide whether or not to approve the Teck Frontier Mine, the largest tar sands mine ever proposed.
Teck Frontier is a climate disaster. If built, it would lock us into decades of new oil extraction that projects like TransMountain – as well as Line 3, and Keystone XL – are being built to service. We can’t let it move forward.
That’s why right now, I need your help to raise the stakes for Justin Trudeau and his cabinet. We need to make it clear that Teck isn’t a political decision, it’s a moral one. And, if...
This company guzzles water
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 February 2020 07:30
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Nestlé is racking up huge profits by bottling up and selling Michigan’s public water across state lines.
Tell Michigan’s lawmakers to vote for the Water Protection Package and protect our most precious resource from corporate greed.
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Right now, thanks to a legal loophole, corporate bully Nestlé is siphoning off Michigan’s groundwater turning it into cheap Ice Mountain bottled water and making a fortune off the resources of small communities.
A brave group of Michigan lawmakers is standing up to Nestlé. They’re fighting to close the loophole and give back control of Michigan’s water to the people.But they can’t do it without your help.
By demanding that elected representatives vote for three new Water Protection bills, we can stop Nestlé from profiting at the expense of local communities.
Tell lawmakers to protect Michigan’s water supply from greedy corporations like Nestlé.
If passed, the Water Protection Package would be...
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