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Ending Racialized Injustice
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BREAKING: Plan for tackling climate & inequality passes with unprecedented support.
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Cuba: Something That Must Be Defended
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 October 2019 23:40
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1910 ... October 16, 2019
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Cuba: Something That Must Be Defended
Yassel A. Padrón Kunakbaeva
For starters, I must say that the present juncture hasn’t been particularly harsh for me. It must have been luck, but the right bus has always turned up to get me out of a jam. I’ve managed to travel with some leg room even. That doesn’t mean I don’t understand and relate to the difficult situation people are in all over the country.
In these last few days I’ve had some time to reflect. Among the things which have drawn my attention is the solidarity of drivers who stop to give people a ride. I’m not only referring to those who stop when the authorities make them, but to those who do it of their own free will. Several officials have given me a ride, and there I am, in the back seat, feeling slightly guilty for writing articles against the bureaucracy.
On Tuesday, September 24, Donald Trump gave his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. He said, among other wacky things,...
Make GM Government Motors Again
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 October 2019 00:56
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1909 ... October 15, 2019
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Make GM Government Motors Again
Chris Kutalik
Seven years ago, we owned General Motors (GM). With 49,000 autoworkers walking pickets to finally end the concessions, two-tier, and plant closings train of the last three decades, it’s mind-boggling to remember that the US Treasury owned GM for three years -- and managed to do virtually nothing to benefit the working class with it.
We’re in a new period in which, thanks to the efforts of tens of thousands of socialists and Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, we are actively debating nationalizing the energy grid, a massive federal jobs guarantee, an even more massive retooling and public ownership of new green industries, and more. It feels like a political act in itself to remember the lost opportunities for leverage for struggles today.
It’s also a political act to remember just how massive of a giveaway both in money and power the Obama administration and the centrists of the Democratic Party participated in while controlling all three branches of the government from 2009 to 2012.
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Beekeepers vs Bayer
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- Published on Monday, 14 October 2019 07:02
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I just want to make sure you saw this -- Bayer is trying to squash one of your biggest victories -- putting the bees at risk. It’s pouring money into overturning the ban on bee-killing pesticides in France. Beekeepers are fighting back in court, but they can’t cover the legal costs.
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- Published on Monday, 14 October 2019 03:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1908 ... October 14, 2019
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Ten Reasons to say No: A Primer on Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto
David Robertson
Our eastern waterfront is at risk of becoming a virtual Googlopolis. It began innocently enough. Waterfront Toronto, an agency with representatives from all three levels of government and charged with the responsibility of developing waterfront areas, issued a call for proposals for a "funding and innovation partner" to develop Quayside, a 12-acre site at the foot of Parliament Street.
Sidewalk Labs won the bid. Sidewalk Labs (SWL) is a Google sister company and subsidiary of Google parent company, Alphabet.
Waterfront Toronto is now reviewing the Sidewalk Labs proposal and simultaneously negotiating some of its terms. After completing this chaotic assessment process, Waterfront Toronto will accept, reject or suggest further modifications to the plan. It will then make recommendations to the City of Toronto, the provincial and the federal government.
The problem? Sidewalk Labs has used the winning bid as a platform to launch a hugely different kind of development project and a land grab that dwarfs the...
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Fracking the Amazon rainforest
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The Use and Abuse of Identity in Public Life
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- Published on Sunday, 13 October 2019 04:06
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 26 September 2019
The Use and Abuse of Identity in Public Life
The question of identity has become urgent for activism in the West though the issue has been important in many other parts of the world as well. Political identities form in opposition to oppression (or, reactively, as perceived victimization) and demand recognition, rights, and equity (or aggressively promote their denial). They also divide, become separated in privilege, get co-opted, and become instruments of domination. Can identity struggles lead to fundamental social transformation or must they necessarily be limited to the horizon of recognition and reform? Can the empowerment of identity be woven into solidarity or must it necessarily be doomed to fragmentation and the sustenance of the status quo?
Samir Gandesha has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1995-97) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universität Potsdam (2001-2002). He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in modern European thought and...
Beekeepers vs Bayer
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- Published on Saturday, 12 October 2019 07:02
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Bayer’s crafty lobbyists and lawyers have got beekeepers on the ropes.
Bayer smacked them down with a lawsuit to get rid of the French ban on bee-killing neonic pesticides.
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Invitation to celebrate Heiltsuk's Big House raising
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- Published on Saturday, 12 October 2019 06:06
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Pantene
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- Published on Friday, 11 October 2019 05:44
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US Customs could be on the verge of seizing shipments of conflict palm oil from Malaysian producer FGV -- the supplier to Procter & Gamble products from Pantene to Gillette. But we need to push them into action!
P&G still hasn't cut ties with this palm oil villain -- even knowing that its workers have been illegally trafficked and held without wages. If you and I persuade US Customs to seize the palm oil, it'll be a wake up call that P&G can't ignore!
74,000 SumOfUs members have already signed the petition that helped push US Customs into investigating. Will you join them to now pressure US Customs to act?
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The Saga of SNC-Lavalin: Quebec Inc. and the Canadian State
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- Published on Friday, 11 October 2019 00:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1907 ... October 11, 2019
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The Saga of SNC-Lavalin: Quebec Inc. and the Canadian State
Pierre Beaudet
For several months now the SNC-Lavalin saga has continued to unfold, although it has been displaced somewhat in the current election campaign. You will recall the small storm that arose when star cabinet ministers in the Trudeau government, Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould in particular, resigned over the refusal to prosecute some shady "cases." Trudeau, who has presented himself as "cleaner than clean," took a drubbing. Even more, Jody Wilson-Raybould’s departure appeared as a monumental slap in the face to the indigenous peoples who had heard the fine promises and crocodile tears of the Liberals.
Slightly overlooked in Quebec, this "affair" was seized on more by the media and enthusiasts of the second national sport of so-called English Canada: Quebec bashing. This is a longstanding campaign that began at the very birth of Canada, when the "French Canadians" were portrayed as an uneducated, unruly and worse yet, Catholic population; unacceptable in the eyes of the Canadian elite, very much influenced by the...
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Help our ad campaign calling out the Big Three
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- Published on Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:56
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We've been collecting your stories about how the Big Three have been abusing their customers. One person had calls blocked while they were unemployed, preventing them from getting job interviews. Another got a $900 phone bill with no warning after their niece used a FaceTime-style video chat app.
But just collecting these stories isn't enough to convince Parliament to take action to allow MVNOs to bring us better service. That's why we're...
Back-country paddle-o-rama
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Solidarity with UAW Strikers
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- Published on Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1906 ... October 10, 2019
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Solidarity with UAW Strikers
A lively crowd of Unifor Local 222 members and retirees came out Monday night, October 7, to show their solidarity with the workers who are taking on General Motors (GM) in the US.
Sean Crawford (UAW Local 598 -- Flint Truck) and Frank Hammer (past President UAW Local 909 -- Warren Transmission) made presentations about the battle that is being waged right now, and the rank-and-file determination to get rid of two tier agreements and win equality for temps. They also talked about the urgent need to convert GM plants to green sustainable production -- mass transit, electric vehicles, wind turbines.
Recorded at the Unifor Local 222 Hall, Oshawa, Ontario, 7 October 2019.
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[E-News] We're hiring!
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 October 2019 04:20
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Canadian Friends Service Committee is hiring!
We're hiring a Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.
The Criminal Justice Program currently works on two key areas: the impacts on children when their parents are incarcerated, and issues relating to penal abolition and alternatives to prison. The ideal candidate would have a background in two or more of the following: restorative justice, prisoner rights, children and child rights, and the Canadian...
British Unions Vote to Boycott Israel
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 October 2019 02:54
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British Unions Vote to Boycott Israel
Glen Davies
"At the moment we’re looking at a people lacking the control that allows them to function as a society -- water, the freedom to travel, the basic right to safety," said Martin Sundram, delegate for the Artists’ Union of England (AUE) at the annual congress of the British trade union movement.
The AUE tabled Motion 75, titled "Palestine: supporting rights to self-determination," to the conference, stating unequivocally that "Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is an attempt to destroy core Palestinian rights." The AUE’s Palestine motion was passed unanimously on September 11, according to the TUC’s report.
Representing more than 5.5 million members, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) is the peak British union representative body, equivalent to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) [and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)].
The motion affirmed the collective rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to return to their homes, called for a stop to the British arms trade with Israel, and reaffirmed the union movement’s call...
Ontarios Resource Revenue Sharing Agreements
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 October 2019 02:04
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Ontario’s Resource Revenue Sharing Agreements:
A Step Toward Reconciliation?
Matthew Corbeil
Announced last spring, Ontario’s new resource revenue sharing (RRS) agreements with three northern First Nations councils are set to come into effect this fall. The agreements were marketed with lofty rhetoric. The government press release described them as "an historic step on Ontario’s journey of healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples."
The MacDonald Laurier Institute’s Senior Munk Fellow Ken Coates partnered with IAMGOLD Corporation’s Stephen Crozier in penning a glowing editorial in the Globe and Mail, calling RRS a "transformative development" that would change "the very foundations of resource development in Ontario." Coates and Crozier praised the agreements for their simplicity, noting the details were "straightforward." Under RRS, the province will allocate 45 per cent of forestry stumpage fees as well as 40 per cent of mining tax payments associated with active mines to participating First Nations, "with no strings attached."
In many respects, RRS appears to meet the longstanding demands of Indigenous peoples and their allies, who have been pressing the...
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