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This judge says you don't have a right to clean water
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- Published on Thursday, 25 July 2019 07:02
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The whales can't wait
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- Published on Thursday, 25 July 2019 06:18
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Just recently, a baby whale died after plastic bags jammed its stomach.
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Trump and the Spectre of Fascism
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- Published on Thursday, 25 July 2019 00:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1865 ... July 25, 2019
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Trump and the Spectre of Fascism
Chris Schenk
As a long-time educator and researcher in the Canadian labour movement, I think it is imperative at this moment that we reach out to our members and communities on the politics that has been emerging on the hard right. This includes hard right populists like Doug Ford, Jason Kenney and Andrew Scheer in the Conservative Party in Canada, but also the People’s Party of Canada of Maxime Bernier and fascist and racist groups appearing on our streets like the Soldiers of Odin, the Proud Boys and many others. Our members need to also know something of the growth of the hard right in Europe, in countries like Poland and Hungary, but also in Brazil, India, the Philippines and elsewhere. And, of course, there is Donald Trump in the US, and the growing xenophobia, anti-immigrant, Islamaphobic, and racist forces he has been empowering and encouraging, with the open racist chanting at his election rallies.
This article speaks, therefore, to issues fundamental to public life today and that...
Stand with Heiltsuk Nation in pressing for justice
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 15:58
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Apple and China
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:48
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The government of China is detaining millions of Uyghur Muslims in mass internment camps and holding thousands of Tibetans as political prisoners. Yet Apple continues to acquiesce to the government of China's censorship requests.
Demand Apple stop indulging China's censorship machine.
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Unlike some other tech companies, Apple has complied with the government’s censorship demands in order to operate in China.
Just last month, the company admitted to removing 517 apps in China at the request of the government. That's in addition to the 600 "virtual private network" apps (VPNs) Apple confessed to blocking in 2017. VPNs are crucial for vulnerable human rights defenders to evade censorship, surveillance, and political backlash.
Are Apple’s profits more important than the lives of the millions of Uyghurs and Tibetans surveilled and detained?
And while Apple is doing business with government officials, Uyghur Muslims who were detained...
Amazon Warehouses: Unsafe for Workers and Communities
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:36
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1864 ... July 24, 2019
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Amazon Warehouses: Unsafe for Workers and Communities
Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) led a group of 13 members of Congress urging the US Department of Labor to immediately investigate chronic violations of workplace safety at all Amazon warehouses, "owing to the breadth and severity of past violations as well as mounting public revelations of brutal and hazardous working conditions."
Their letter to the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) comes in the wake of a Monday work stoppage by Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota to protest unfair and unsafe conditions in the midst of Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year.
Dear Deputy Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt:
We are writing to request that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) launch a comprehensive investigation into the workplace conditions at the warehouses from which Amazon.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries and contractors operate.
In the year 2019, working conditions in the United States of America should be the best and the...
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Cafe Etico and CoDev present: CAFE
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:32
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SEA July Events Update
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:26
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Ever had your phone searched?
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 08:34
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Hi Paov, I have an important question for you: has an agent at a border or airport in Canada ever asked to look through your phone or laptop? Or has this happened to someone you know?
Digital device searches at borders and airports is a hot topic in Canada right now. Our out-of-date regulations are allowing border guards to search thousands of phones and laptops without warrants or even any cause for suspicion.1
Now, a major...
Volunteers needed in Honduras and Guatemala!
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The Digital Revolution and its Discontents
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- Published on Sunday, 21 July 2019 02:08
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LeftStreamed:
The Digital Revolution and its Discontents
In this talk, Tanner Mirrlees scrutinizes the rhetorics of "technological optimism," "technological pessimism," and "technological revolutionism," discusses the political economy of communication, highlights how capitalism’s basic logics endure in the "digital age," and concludes with an overview of how workers, citizens, and publics are trying to redesign and rebuild the digital age in support of working class power, participatory democracy, and social justice. After discussing the digital revolution’s social discontents, Mirrlees calls for radical "redesign" and "rebuild" of digital technology and society in support of an ecologically sustainable future where all are freed from the realm of necessity and in which all are empowered to participate in democracy.
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How do you acknowledge Indigenous territory?
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- Published on Friday, 19 July 2019 09:02
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Download the CFSC E-News in PDF (scroll down for links).
New resource to help with territory acknowledgement
Have you ever been to an event that began with an acknowledgment that it was taking place on the traditional territory of particular Indigenous peoples? Have you wondered what goes into such an acknowledgement or how to make one? CFSC has released a new two page handout to help with thinking through and making territory acknowledgments.
Sneak peek: HBO's Chernobyl
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- Published on Friday, 19 July 2019 03:42
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Sneak peek: Patreon-exclusive segment on HBO's Chernobyl
Lina Nasr, Brent Toye, and Olena Lyubchenko continue their discussion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. In this segment, disagreements arise over whether the series offers a critique of Trumpian populism as well about the nature and limits of liberal-democratic judicial regimes.
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 19 July 2019 02:06
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Trump is bullying European leaders
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- Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 22:08
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Trump’s bullying European leaders to get more pesticide-soaked US goods onto European supermarket shelves.
And he might just be successful -- unless you and I stop him now.
Can you chip in CA$91 today to keep Trump’s toxic pesticide laced foods out of our supermarkets?
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Trump’s desperate to get toxic, banned pesticides into Europe through the back-door. This means: more food soaked in deadly pesticides in our supermarkets and on our plates.
Trump’s even threatening to make it much harder to import European cars to the US, if the EU doesn’t ditch pesticide bans.
But with your donation we can make sure European politicians stand up to Trump -- and show them that the public will back them when they do.
Donald Trump is meddling with EU environmental safety standards to make...
Our power is moving the CBC
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- Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:08
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Friends,
Yesterday, was one of the most powerful days of action I have ever seen.
Thousands of people took action to demand that the CBC host a leaders’ debate on climate change and a Green New Deal during October’s election. But don’t just take my word for it, see for yourself:
It was clear to me yesterday that communities across the country feel the urgency of a climate emergency because they are living the impacts of the climate crisis. Many of the people who took action used bold visuals to symbolically bring climate impacts to the doorstep of the CBC. Here are some of the stories that touched me the most:
- In Edmonton, hundreds turned out in a thunderstorm, many wearing dust masks similar to those thousands of people had to don during periods of extreme wildfire smoke.
- In Ottawa, a massive crowd stacked sandbags in front of the CBC studio, spelling out “Climate Emergency.” Just weeks ago, sandbags like these were sold out everywhere in the Ottawa area because people were filling them in...
BC's information laws need an overhaul
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- Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 10:06
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The time for information rights reform is here!
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...Mt. Polley
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- Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 09:56
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It’s been almost five years since Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley Mine spilled 25 million cubic metres of toxic waste into Quesnel Lake, one of the deepest lakes in the world. The lake is home to abundant fish and supplies drinking water to local communities.
The clock is ticking: the federal government has until August 4th, 2019, to charge Imperial Metals. That’s why we need to turn up the heat now and force Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s hands.
Already, over 51,000 SumOfUs members like you have signed our powerful petition calling for charges against the mining giant.
Thanks for all you do,
Angus, Amelia and the team at SumOfUs
Canada’s Auditor General released an alarming report urging Trudeau’s government to do a better job to sanction mining companies when they fail to protect Canadian waters and fish.
Now is the time to tell the federal government not to let Imperial Metals off the hook for the massive Mount Polley mine waste spill. Enforce the Fisheries Act now!
...Reclaiming Blackfoot culture
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- Published on Thursday, 18 July 2019 07:02
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