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Free Public Transit is Key to a Green New Deal
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- Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 02:58
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Free Public Transit is Key to a Green New Deal: Free Transit for Toronto
Herman Rosenfeld
One of the few identifiable issues raised in the Canadian election campaign so far is the need to address the climate crisis. The concept of a Green New Deal has been raised by the left and environmental movements across the continent, in Canada through Greenpeace’s Pact for a Green New Deal and obliquely through the NDP ("A New Deal for Climate Action and Good Jobs"), and the Greens ("Green Climate Action Plan"). Addressing the climate emergency has become a theme for all the main parties, even in the cynical and flawed manner of Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer.
The Green New Deal, of course, in all of its serious forms, is geared toward tying together a number of transformative elements -- some more radical than others, depending on the political framework of those who are raising it. Common elements include moving off of fossil fuels, reducing the wasteful production of useless and harmful commodities (sometimes identified by more...
The bitter truth about chocolate
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- Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 02:30
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KitKat bars, Godiva chocolates, McVitie's biscuits... All made with cocoa produced by farmers making less than $1 per day on average.
Because Nestlé and Pladis are refusing to pay a fair price for cocoa, farmers in Ghana, Ivory Coast and other producing countries live in poverty and are forced to bring their kids to work with them.
Tell Nestlé, Pladis, and SucDen to support a fair price for cocoa farmers in West Africa and around the world! We're crashing a major cocoa industry even tomorrow and we need to get more signatures on this petition before we hand deliver it to Nestlé and its friends. Tell Nestlé to support a global cocoa floor price that farmers can live on!
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...Union President suspended at Cambodia's giant Naga World Hotel Casino for defending her members' right to bargain their wages!
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- Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 00:50
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Costco
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- Published on Sunday, 20 October 2019 07:02
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I want to make sure you saw this -- if this massive forest gets plowed down, we don’t have a fighting chance against climate change. Without enough donations from members like you, Costco might get away with destroying it to make luxury toilet paper.
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Hope to see you in Ottawa, Vancouver & Nanaimo!
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Take the Plant, Save the Planet
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- Published on Sunday, 20 October 2019 01:04
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 30 September 2019
Take the Plant, Save the Planet
Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change.
GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa but workers want to repurpose it to create good jobs and produce green and sustainable energy products. Join us for a discussion with Linda McQuaig (author and journalist), James Hutt (Leap Manifesto), Rebecca Keetch (autoworker, Green Jobs Oshawa), Tony Leah (autoworker, Green Jobs Oshawa) and Fred Hahn (CUPE Ontario). Also poetry reading by Giovanna Riccio. Moderated by Paul Gray.
Show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa, make public ownership of the Oshawa plant an election issue.
GM Oshawa was once the home of the largest auto facility on the continent. GM no longer wants it, aside from a small project that might at most, provide 300 jobs. But workers do, and they have plans for it. The Oshawa plant could create many more good, sustainable jobs, by converting the facility into a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles and other sustainable energy products. This requires that governments step in, and have democratic...
Costco
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- Published on Saturday, 19 October 2019 07:02
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American warehouse giant Costco is destroying the world’s largest intact forest to make toilet paper. This forest is key to stopping climate change because it absorbs tons of carbon. If it gets wiped out, it’ll unleash more climate catastrophe.
Can you chip in to save the boreal forest from Costco?
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Costco is wiping out our...
Vote for what you believe in
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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Photos: Heiltsuk Big House opening
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- Published on Friday, 18 October 2019 15:48
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Before you vote
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- Published on Friday, 18 October 2019 10:22
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In less than 72 hours, polls open across Canada for the 2019 federal election.
We’ve seen an unprecedented focus on some of OpenMedia’s core issues this election, with almost all of the...
The bitter truth about chocolate
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- Published on Friday, 18 October 2019 06:56
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Nestlé won’t back a groundbreaking deal that would vastly improve the lives of the farmers who produce their cocoa. The chocolate giant would rather make fat profits off KitKat than pay workers a decent wage.
Tell Nestlé to support a global cocoa floor price that farmers can live on!
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How far would you go for a cheap chocolate treat?
Would you deny cocoa farmers a living wage, leaving them with little choice but to pull their children out of school to work the fields so their family can survive?
Ask Nestlé and Pladis. Along with French sugar and cocoa trader giant SucDen, the makers of KitKat bars and McVitie's biscuits won’t support a new policy that would lift millions of farmers out of extreme poverty.
All cocoa farmers worldwide deserve a fair...
Indigenous Rising in Ecuador and International Solidarity
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- Published on Friday, 18 October 2019 01:38
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Indigenous Rising in Ecuador and International Solidarity
Kasim Tirmizey
While many Canadians were celebrating Thanksgiving weekend, events in Ecuador generally did not catch media attention. After 11 days of an indigenous-led national general strike and state repression, an agreement was achieved by both parties on the night of October 13th that reversed one aspect of the paquetazo (package) of austerity measures. Those events seem very disconnected with the rhythms of life in Canada, but in many ways there are significant connections. Further, while the general strike has been called off, there is an important need to build or revitalize movements of international solidarity at the contemporary conjuncture.
From October 3rd to 13th tens of thousands of people under the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) organized a national general strike. This action centered on paralyzing the country’s capital, Quito, but protests, blockades, and occupation of public spaces and government buildings occurred across multiple sites in the country. Such an intensive and extensive movement was possible because of the widespread mobilization among the country’s...
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On Oct. 21, vote for the party promising action on poverty!
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- Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:20
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Today is the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty so we invite you to join us in 2 actions, a big one on Monday, October 21, and a rainy one today:
1. 3.4 million Canadians live in poverty so let's vote in the federal election on October 21 for the party that's promising action on poverty. We’ve taken a look at the platform promises on income security, low-wage work, housing, healthcare, education,...
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Like a spruce beetle, I like my trees old
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- Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:04
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The Red Scare and the Death of Stalin
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- Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 03:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1911 ... October 17, 2019
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The Red Scare and the Death of Stalin
Suzanne Berliner Weiss
An excerpt from Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey by Suzanne Berliner Weiss (pp. 45-47). Weiss’s book, released this month by Fernwood Publishers, tells of her eight decades of engagement with the movement for social justice. Her book launch will take place Friday, October 18, at 7 p.m., at Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George Station), Toronto.
When I arrived from war-scarred France (1950), I thought the United States, my new home, was a land of liberty, freedom, love, and comfort. I entered grammar school and began to learn its true nature. It tore my heart.
Louis Weiss, my adoptive father, was proud to have sung as a young man in the opera chorus in a performance of Boris Godunov in Moscow, Russia.
Russia! At school, the word was spoken with hate and fear. Often, my parents invited their "progressive" friends over, and I got to listen to their chatter. They didn’t mention Russia but spoke of the Soviet Union with respect. When...
PAOV, be part of Heiltsuk Nation's resurgence
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 15:32
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We could lose everything next week.
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:46
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We're less than a week from Election Day, and we still haven't sealed up the vote for the Internet.
All of the parties have released their platforms, and we're seeing the Internet Tax rear its ugly head again and again. Several parties have no plans to address cell phone affordability. Threats to our privacy at the border and beyond abound.
...This Indigenous Peoples' Day we're fighting to decolonize!
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:20
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Today is an important day for indigenous peoples around the world.
Dear friend,On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we stand in solidarity with our indigenous partners across the world as they continue to put out fires, fight atrocities, and protect the planet.
Today is an important opportunity to acknowledge the brutal history of the colonization of indigenous peoples — and to recognize that they continue to face modern-day colonialism, including land theft, the plundering of their resources, and the destruction of their communities.
We need your help to stamp out colonialism. We’re campaigning to:
#DecolonizeConservation Indigenous peoples are the best conservationists, and we’re fighting against the theft of their ancestral lands in favor of an approach to conservation that values their incredible ecological knowledge.
#DecolonizeEducation We’re demanding an end to #FactorySchools – a colonial form of education that aims to erase indigenous identity and subjects children to emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Indigenous education must be under indigenous control.
#DecolonizeDevelopment We’ve been standing up for the rights of uncontacted tribes for the last 50 years. We've stopped miners, ranchers and loggers in their tracks from invading indigenous territories and worked with indigenous partners to protect millions of acres of land.
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We gave Scheer a poop emoji
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:00
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We have 10 more days to change the course of history.
This election, our strategy is bigger than votes alone: we’ve made it our goal to increase the climate ambition of all parties.
Earlier this week we released a report revealing that not one of the parties present a climate plan that will do enough to stop the expansion of the oil and gas industry and limit warming to 1.5C.
The report was all over the media, showing that our collective efforts have already helped change the conversation around climate.
Now Canadians will cast their final votes in just 10 days. The timeline is short, but 10 days is still plenty of time for political leaders to strengthen their platforms on climate. Only they won’t do it unless they’re feeling the heat.
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