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Hello A

Details: Published on Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:14; Written by editor

Hi A, I just wanted to make sure you saw my message.

2019 has been a tough year for all of us fighting for a better world, and it’s drained our resources. We have a plan to keep up this fight in 2020, but to do that we need to raise CA$169,383 before December 31st.

We’ve still got a little further to go to meet this budget -- could you spare a few coins to close the gap?

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

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How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet

Details: Published on Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:56; Written by editor

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1959 ... December 23, 2019
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How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet

James Plested

The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather -- cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California. It’s melting ice caps, receding glaciers and rising seas. It’s ecosystem devastation and crop failures. It’s the scarcity of resources spreading hunger and thirst. It’s lives and communities destroyed, and millions forced to flee.

This crisis is escalating at a terrifying rate. Every year, new temperature records are set. Every day, new disasters are reported. In Australia, we’re living through a summer of dust and fire. Hot winds from the desert are sweeping up dirt from the parched landscape and covering towns and cities hundreds and thousands of kilometres away. Creeks and riverbeds are being baked dry. Our cities are shrouded in smoke from fires burning for weeks on end, while on the hottest and windiest days the flames...

GM Oshawa Last Day of Vehicle Production

Details: Published on Sunday, 22 December 2019 01:36; Written by editor

LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 18 December 2019

GM Oshawa Last Day of Vehicle Production

Don’t Let it be the End of the Line for the Oshawa Plant!

The last GM vehicle to be produced in Oshawa, Ontario rolled off the line on Wednesday, 18 December 2019.

We are gathered to mark the almost criminal actions of General Motors Company in abandoning assembly and supplier workers and the community of Oshawa after they have profited immensely from over 100 years of vehicle assembly in the historic Oshawa assembly complex.

Speakers:

Tony Leah – www.GreenJobsOshawa.ca.
Jennifer French – MPP for Oshawa.
Zev Landsberg-Lewis – highschool student.
Tiffany Balducci – President of Durham Region Labour Council.

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Hello A

Details: Published on Friday, 20 December 2019 23:22; Written by editor

My name’s John Curry. I mostly work in the back office managing the budget at SumOfUs, so I don’t usually send you emails.

Before leaving the office to celebrate the holidays with my family, I always do a final check of our budget.

I just finished going through the numbers for 2019 -- and to fully fund all the important fights we face next year, we need to raise CA$267,802 by December 31.

A, will you help close the gap?

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Be a part of systemic change

Details: Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22; Written by editor

Indian Government Going to War Against Its Own People

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:22; Written by editor

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Indian Government Going to War Against Its Own People

Vijay Prashad

On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. This "fundamentally discriminatory" Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 would expedite citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from India’s neighboring countries. But in the list of those minorities, it names only Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians. It does not mention Muslims, despite the fact that there have been several important cases of Muslims being persecuted in Pakistan (the Ahmadis), in Afghanistan (the Hazaras), and in Myanmar (the Rohingya). The UN said that not only does this law violate India’s obligations to conventions, treaties, and compacts that it has signed at the global level, but also that it is in violation of its own constitution.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi put this bill before both the lower and upper houses of India’s Parliament. Apart from the Left and some regional parties, opposition in the lower house...

CBSA must be held accountable

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:34; Written by editor

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The missing 40,000

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 December 2019 08:54; Written by editor

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My message to you

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 December 2019 06:08; Written by editor

Dear Paov,

This was a historic year for 350 Canada. From bringing nearly one million people out and into the streets for the historic Global Climate Strikes to electing 8 Green New Deal champions, the 350 Canada team has been changing the game all year long.

To make 2020 even bigger than 2019, we need the support of as many people as possible. People like you from all over the country pitching in even a few dollars makes a big difference to how we operate.

Make a contribution today to 350 and let’s make 2020 the biggest year yet for bold climate action.

With great thanks,
Bill McKibben, 350.org Founder

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Bees

Details: Published on Thursday, 19 December 2019 02:24; Written by editor

Canada’s proposed ban on bee-killing pesticides is under threat.

Global pressure right now could help protect this critical ban -- and save the bees.

Sign the petition

I have some alarming news about our fight to save the bees.

I just got off the phone with Canadian government officials: they are postponing the final decision on the ban on bee-killing neonic pesticides that you worked so hard to achieve.

The reason: apparently there’s “new scientific evidence” that must be considered. But we know the science is clear -- neonics are killing bees.

We need to make sure that pesticide giant Bayer is not feeding corporate studies to the government to kill the proposed ban -- before it’s too late for the bees. The Canadian government needs to know that the world is watching -- and that we won’t let them put Bayer’s profits before the critical health of our bees.

Tell the Canadian government to protect the proposed ban...

TRIPLE court win for the Tsilhqot'in

Details: Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019 14:32; Written by editor

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I'm worried

Details: Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019 05:14; Written by editor

A, I know it’s a busy time of year, but there’s a problem and I need your help.

Only 1.3% of SumOfUs members regularly donate to keep our movement going. That’s just not enough to take on what corporate power will throw at us in 2020.

I know you care about this work, A, that’s why I’m reaching out to you. Will you donate monthly to keep our fight alive?

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Caring in Crisis: Ontario's Long-Term Care PSW Shortage

Details: Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:54; Written by editor

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Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage

Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition released a new report developed in partnership with Unifor on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) crisis in Ontario’s long-term care homes. In a press conference at the Ontario Legislature, Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Health Coalition, noted that we chose the word "crisis" carefully. The situation is so extreme that funded long-term care beds cannot be opened because there are not enough PSWs to provide the care.

The report is based on eight round-table meetings held across Ontario over the last year, including more than 350 participants including home operators and administrators, PSWs, union representatives, family councils, seniors, college staff who develop/coordinate PSW courses, local health coalitions and other long-term care advocates.

"The conditions of work are the conditions of care for residents," said Natalie Mehra. She emphasized, "The PSW staffing crisis is real. Every long-term care home, every shift, in the north and in the south, rural and urban, we are hearing the same thing from...

Breaking down barriers

Details: Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 10:34; Written by editor

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I'm worried

Details: Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 03:10; Written by editor

I want to share something that really worries me.

Millions of people like you take action with SumOfUs to hold nasty corporations accountable, like signing petitions, tweeting at CEOs or turning up to protests.

But, A, only 1.3% of SumOfUs members donate regularly to keep it all going. That’s not enough if we want to take on the world’s biggest corporate bullies.

In 2020, we’re facing some huge challenges: we need to protect our bees from pesticide giants, push big companies to stop using dirty palm oil, and much, much more. For all our 2020 plans to come together, we need to bring on 2,000 new monthly donors contributing a few coins each by 31 December.

So I am asking you: if you think the work we do together is important and you can afford it, please set up a monthly gift before the year is out, A.

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The Unwoke are Awake

Details: Published on Monday, 16 December 2019 22:36; Written by editor

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The Unwoke are Awake

Ursula Huws

For many on the British left, now in deep grief as the implications of last Thursday’s general election results sink in, the most abiding memories of the Labour Party’s campaign in this, and the 2017 election, will be those stirring videos, featuring music by Emeli Sandé and Lily Allen and directed by towering talents like Ken Loach showing a romanticised view of the British working class, in all its diversity, its suffering, its historical values and its hopes for the future. Many freely admit to being moved to tears by them. They connect deeply with the aspirations behind the slogan "for the many, not the few," allowing us all to feel part of a larger community of the oppressed and vulnerable as well as part of the solution to its problems.

But could it be that the concept of ‘the many’ is actually part of the reason why Labour did not win these elections? In its vague all-embracing character it echoes other categories that have been popular among...

Polluters in, people out?!

Details: Published on Monday, 16 December 2019 14:58; Written by editor

Close to 500,000 marched in Madrid on December 6, midway through COP25.

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‘A dismal failure’: The 25th UN climate talks (COP25) ended on Sunday, after three tense days of final negotiations. In the end, the weakened text failed to curb coal, oil, and gas, as powerful countries with vested fossil fuel interests blocked progress. Protesters, voicing the demands of people across the world to stop polluters, were kicked out of the summit last week. Many big issues on how to implement the Paris Agreement were left until next year’s conference, COP26 in Glasgow, despite the urgency to take action.

A protester at the Madrid march holds up an eye to say “we are watching.” Photo: Hoda Baraka

More than 500,000 people marched for climate action in Madrid and Santiago on December 6....

Stand up for freedom of expression

Details: Published on Monday, 16 December 2019 09:30; Written by editor

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Ontario Teachers Ramp Up the Pressure on the Tories

Details: Published on Monday, 16 December 2019 01:02; Written by editor

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Ontario Teachers Ramp Up the Pressure on the Tories

Dudley Paul

Ontario teachers are ramping up their fight against the Tories’ 18-month attack on public education.

On Tuesday, public elementary teachers stepped up their work-to-rule refusing, for example, to participate in performance evaluations, plan new field trips, buy school supplies on their own time and register for additional qualifications courses. Yesterday, many Ontario Secondary teachers staged another one-day strike in districts including Toronto, Grand Erie, Simcoe County, Muskoka and Rainy River.

Cranking up pressure on the government was pretty clear at the Elementary Teachers of Toronto’s (ETT) Federation Day last Friday. Mind you, both local president Joy Lachica and Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) head Sam Hammond, were keeping their cards close -- acknowledging the 98 per cent strike vote of teachers, and the need to "harness our power" though not getting too specific about what comes next if the work-to-rule doesn’t produce results.

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A Knapsack Full of Dreams /w Cathy Crowe

Details: Published on Sunday, 15 December 2019 00:26; Written by editor

LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 26 November 2019

A Knapsack Full of Dreams /w Cathy Crowe

Cathy Crowe discusses her book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse and Canada’s 21st century homelessness crisis.

Over the past three decades, a series of federal governments cut funding for social programs and eliminated our national housing program, leaving hundreds of thousands of people victim to the tsunami of homelessness that was declared a national disaster twenty years ago. No one knows this reality better than Cathy Crowe, who witnessed the explosion of homelessness across Canada while working as a Street Nurse. This fallout was accompanied by great suffering, inhumane shelter conditions, new disease outbreaks, and clusters of homeless deaths. It is a reality that spans across the entire country.

In A Knapsack Full of Dreams, Cathy Crowe details her lifelong commitment as a nurse and social justice activist – particularly her thirty years as a Street Nurse – with passion, grace, and fortitude. Presented through the lens of someone dedicated to the power and beauty of film, A Knapsack Full of Dreams...

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