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"Deliberate extinction"
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- Published on Thursday, 08 August 2019 07:08
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Mass Mobilization Shakes Hong Kong
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- Published on Thursday, 08 August 2019 03:50
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1870 ... August 8, 2019
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Mass Mobilization Shakes Hong Kong
Colin Sparks
Hong Kong is in the middle of its biggest strike since 1967. Businesses have shut down. Some bus drivers have been on strike. Tube lines have stopped running during the morning rush hour. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Thousands of mostly young demonstrators have occupied roads and shopping malls across the city. At 6pm six police stations were under siege, with demonstrators attempting to set one of them on fire, and police had fired teargas in attempts to disperse demonstrators occupying five major roads in different parts of the city.
The strike comes after three days of confrontations between young people and the police and it caps nine weeks of a popular insurgency. Week after week there have been mass demonstrations. The largest demonstration involved an estimated two million people, or more than one in four of the population. Others have been smaller but even so have seen hundreds of thousands take to the streets. Increasingly, demonstrations have turned into long and bitter battles with the...
Nestlé
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- Published on Thursday, 08 August 2019 03:16
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In just a few weeks, a court will decide if Nestlé can keep sucking the tiny town of Osceola dry.
Local residents have been tirelessly fighting to defend their water, but Nestlé’s legal bullying has pushed this group of volunteers to the edge of bankruptcy. They could lose everything.
Can you make a donation now to get them to the finish line and stop Nestlé's water grab?
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2019 12:44
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Friends,
This Friday, my friends and I at Our Time Toronto will visit the CBC head office to hand-deliver over 40,000 signatures from people demanding a leaders’ climate debate.
Before I do, will you add your name to the petition?
It’s the CBC’s responsibility to ensure that Canadians have access to the best possible information during a national emergency. We’re in the middle of a federally declared climate emergency. And, it’s an election year. As our public broadcaster, the CBC and its leadership team have a moral obligation to inform the public on where our federal leaders stand on climate action.
What we need to know right before in election is which one of our major parties has a plan to tackle the climate crisis with the urgency required. We need to know if any one of our potential Prime Ministers actually has the ambition to deliver a Green New Deal.
Over 11 million people tune in to watch the federal leaders’ debates ahead of an election. Sign our petition if you think...
Elections fail
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2019 06:36
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Hi Paov,
Canada’s political parties have just failed a big opportunity to protect the highly private data they hold on us.
The recently-passed Elections Modernization Act requires federal parties to develop and post a privacy policy on their websites. It’s not a very high bar for such sensitive information. In fact, dozens of privacy experts spoke out for stronger regulation, but politicians voted down amendments that would have better protected our data.
...Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2019 03:16
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1869 ... August 7, 2019
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Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
Marta Russell
It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labor force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons -- to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labor supply.
Karl Marx explains that capitalism is a system of "forced labor -- no matter how much it may seem to result from free contractual agreement." It is coercion because capitalists own the means of production and laborers do not. Without ownership of factories and other means of production, workers lack their own access to...
Nestlé
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2019 03:14
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Nestlé is dangerously close to bankrupting a tiny group of volunteers fighting to protect their water in a tiny township in Michigan.
This community’s legal costs are spiraling and they’ve asked for your help.
Can you rush a donation today to stop Nestlé from sucking Michigan dry?
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Residents of Osceola township are watching water levels in local streams drop drastically since Nestlé moved into town and started pumping their water to sell for massive profits. And a small group of local volunteers has taken Nestlé to court.
For years Nestlé has tried to crush this committed group of residents so it can pump even more water to sell at an eye-watering profit.
This dedicated group in Osceola has been locked in a two-year legal battle against Nestlé -- but after mountains of legal challenges, the group is drowning in debt.
So they’ve asked for your help today A. The final...
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 August 2019 23:16
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All together for a fair Canada
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 August 2019 11:26
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Update from our new President
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 August 2019 09:32
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...Search for a Mass Politics: The DSA Beyond Bernie
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 August 2019 03:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1868 ... August 6, 2019
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Search for a Mass Politics: The DSA Beyond Bernie
Sarah Mason and Robert Cavooris
Last November, in one of the most hostile rental markets in the world, in a city where a majority of residents are renters, a local rent control ordinance was defeated on the ballot by a margin of 38 per cent. In the year running up to Election Day, organizers, including our own local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), were faced with a question of how to build the power of tenants in order to win things like rent control.
In the beginning, we pursued a two-pronged approach. We held meetings with tenants from specific developments and talked concretely about the issues they encountered there. Additionally, we engaged in door-to-door canvassing (of renters and homeowners alike) to gather the signatures needed to get rent control on the ballot. However, once the measure, Santa Cruz Measure M, was on the ballot, the temporal demands of the election subsumed all other organizing efforts. Canvassing for votes was king. Looking back,...
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This ONE MAN is responsible
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- Published on Sunday, 04 August 2019 01:20
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Palm oil is destroying lives, the rainforests of Indonesia, and it's worsening climate chaos. We really need your help, A.
We're SO CLOSE to getting PepsiCo to do the right thing on palm oil and get rid of conflict palm oil company Indofood. But Pepsi's CEO Ramon Laguarta is blocking everything. It's time to show him what people power looks like.
This ONE MAN is responsible for Pepsi's reckless inaction on palm oil. We have to do something NOW, we owe it to the plantation workers and the endangered orangutans, tigers, and pygmy elephants.
Let’s make this personal. Sign the petition and tell Pepsi CEO Ramon Laguarta that he must take responsibility now:
Greta Thunberg in Mexico and Canada!
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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Big Oils getting desperate
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- Published on Saturday, 03 August 2019 08:04
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Friends,
This week, three of the largest oil companies in Canada spent millions of dollars taking out ads meant to swing this fall’s election in their favour.¹
This massive ad buy makes it clear that the fossil fuel industry is desperate to take power in Canada, and they’re going to spend millions of dollars to do it. That’s why we need to double down on our efforts to win a climate debate this fall.
The fossil fuel industry knows the climate crisis is one of the top ballot box issues. Just this week, a poll confirmed that over 60% of Canadians support bold action on climate, even if it hurts the economy.²
They’re terrified of the tens of thousands of people who have added their names to the petition calling for a leaders’ debate on climate change and a Green New Deal – including a growing number of influential artists,...
Sharing the fruits of summer, PAOV
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- Published on Saturday, 03 August 2019 02:46
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Be Fair to Those Who Care - support Saskatchewan's health care workers
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2019 22:52
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I wrote to many of you about this a few days ago -- and if you've supported these workers, thanks very much! Please pass this message on.
But many of you will be seeing this message for the very first time. Please read on... these workers deserve our solidarity.
Thank you!
SEIU West is asking us all to send some solidarity to Saskatchewan healthcare workers. Like most healthcare workers across the country they are being asked to do more with less for more patients in an increasingly dangerous workplace. All for low pay. To the point where workers are leaving healthcare for safer, better-paid jobs in other sectors.
The Saskatchewan government must create a health care environment that values the work they do in these difficult working conditions and that means providing wages that retain and recruit workers to the health care team. Better wages will attract more staff resulting in shorter wait times and safe care – it’s a win for us all.
Whether you live in SK or not, the workers are asking you to support their Be Fair to Those Who Care campaign by sending the...
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Your HUGE Internet bill
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2019 07:26
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Paov,
Ever gotten a broadband bill only to realize that you owe double or even triple what was advertised?
It's called bill shock, and nearly everyone who has Internet in Canada has experienced it.
Unfortunately, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) just announced its plan to end bill shock, and it's a major disappointment.
...Policing Public Transit in Toronto
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2019 04:20
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 24 ... August 2, 2019
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Policing Public Transit in Toronto
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently unveiled an ad campaign that uses images captured by security cameras to publicly shame those trying to avoid paying the fare. We talk to the independent journalist Benjamin Bilgen about how the campaign violates the TTC’s own video recording policy, and we get in to chatting about transit enforcement more generally.
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2019 02:02
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CoDevelopment Canada 2019 Annual General Meeting Notice
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- Published on Thursday, 01 August 2019 14:32
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