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BREAKING: Triple match extended this week only!
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 July 2019 10:58
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***BREAKING: TRIPLE MATCH OFFER EXTENDED***
Paov,
A generous donor just came forward to allow us to extend our JUNE TRIPLE MATCH FUNDRAISING DRIVE for another week!
Distributel will triple match any donation you make this week to help fight against the Internet Tax, censorship, and surveillance online.
...Algonquin Nation Calls for Support
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- Published on Monday, 01 July 2019 09:52
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Public Banks and a Just and Green Transition
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- Published on Monday, 01 July 2019 02:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1855 ... July 1, 2019
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Public Banks and a Just and Green Transition
Thomas Marois
Public banks are resurgent, triggered by the failure of private finance to meaningfully confront the green transformation. But will resurgent public banks act in the public or private interest? How can progressives ensure public banks support a just green transformation? Democratization is the key.
The turning point for public banks was really the UN’s 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda on how to finance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The international community finally acknowledged what most already knew: private finance had no appetite for saving the planet without first feeding insatiable shareholders. Ergo, high-risk, low-return green investments weren’t on the menu.
The solution? For the UN, the World Bank, and the OECD it is to subordinate public finance to private interests. Public development banks should take the lead in absorbing private investors’ risks to guarantee their projected returns. There is no other way of cajoling otherwise reticent financiers to fund the global transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient future. Besides, public banks have...
Just hours left to TRIPLE MATCH
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- Published on Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:16
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Paov—Did you see this email from this morning? We are just $6,000 from our $50,000 goal, and you can help us meet it by having your donation TRIPLE MATCHED for the next six hours. Will you donate now?
Paov,
We're so close to meeting our $50,000 goal to help fight for the free and open internet. But the deadline...
LAST DAY: Triple your donation to save the Internet
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- Published on Sunday, 30 June 2019 04:16
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Paov,
We're so close to meeting our $50,000 goal to help fight for the free and open internet. But the deadline to have your donation TRIPLED to help OpenMedia is MIDNIGHT.
We're a small team fighting on many fronts. Here...
Read more: LAST DAY: Triple your donation to save the Internet
Peace Brigades International Canada - #2
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22
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How do we build socialism in Canada?
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- Published on Friday, 28 June 2019 03:26
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 21 ... June 28, 2019
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How do we build socialism in Canada?
Sadia Khan, Corvin Russell, and Sharmeen Khan have a discussion based on the following question: “How do we work to build socialism?” The discussion touches on the challenges posed by electoralism, the changing nature of the working class, the importance of labour and community organizing, and what it might take to build an enduring socialist organization.
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 28 June 2019 02:06
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ACTIVlist Update - June 27, 2019
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- Published on Thursday, 27 June 2019 11:18
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ACTIVlist will break for the Summer as many of our staff members enjoy some well-deserved time off. As always, if you need assistance with anything, please be in touch with the regional folks in your area, call us toll-free at 1-800-387-7177, or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Media Release: Council...
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TIME RUNNING OUT: No. Internet. Tax.
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- Published on Thursday, 27 June 2019 08:58
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Paov—There are just three days left to have your donation triple matched to save the free and open Internet. Will you donate right now?
Paov,
Parliament is currently reviewing the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts—the laws that regulate virtually everything about the Internet.
Will we be...
"We've been studied to death."
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- Published on Thursday, 27 June 2019 06:04
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Lessons for the Climate Emergency
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- Published on Thursday, 27 June 2019 03:50
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1854 ... June 27, 2019
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Lessons for the Climate Emergency:
Rationing, Moratoriums, Ending War
Judith Deutsch
"The bad news is that if history teaches us one thing, it is that there never has been an energy transition… The history of energy is not one of transitions, but rather of successive additions…" Bonneuil and Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene.
The New Deal and World War II are reminders of past transformative times, reverberating in current severe hardships and extreme dangers. Emergencies can bring clarity and reason about what to do, though at the opposite end, crises can elicit the worst outcomes, such as outlined by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine. There are historical precedents for rational and responsible responses to emergencies, yet a range of measures that could immediately cut emissions, including non-tradable rationing of de-commodified energy and moratoriums on specific high-emitting sectors, are largely ignored in climate policy, including the Green New Deal and other climate justice platforms.
Is it accurate to call climate change an ‘emergency’? Fascism was seen as an emergency requiring urgent systemic changes, and...
Taylor Rostie still needs you, PAOV
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CoDev E-Bulletin Spring/Summer 2019
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ACTIVlist Update - June 26, 2019
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 June 2019 12:24
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Actions not intentions #GrassyNarrows
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The people of Grassy Narrows First Nation have been waiting for more than 50 years for our governments to address the terrible mercury contamination of their territory.
With the new NAFTA, "there is no Alternative"
On June 19, the Mexican senate ratified the new NAFTA, after examining it the day previous. It seems that two days is all it takes to debate and analyze the 38 chapters...
Media Advisory: Six years on, New Brunswick anti-fracking activists still waiting on police accountability report
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What Ever Happened to the Energy Transition?
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:48
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1853 ... June 26, 2019
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What Ever Happened to the Energy Transition?
John Treat
Anyone trying to understand what’s happening with the world’s energy systems right now can be forgiven if they are confused. On one hand, most people know about the climate emergency, and the need to move away from fossil fuels. On the other hand, we frequently see headlines about "record setting" levels of wind or solar power, how "coal is dead," booming sales of electric vehicles, or how renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels. Many stories in the second category suggest that the transition to a low-carbon economy is "inevitable," or even "well underway."
Sorting through all of this can be very daunting, especially for people who are not energy experts, but who are concerned about the climate crisis. For South Africans, understanding these issues is especially important given the country’s heavy reliance on coal, the serious problems facing the Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom), and the announced plans for its "unbundling" in order (among other things) to accelerate the shift to renewable energy sources....
This is what winning looks like
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:02
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Friends,
I'm still digesting the news from last week that the Trudeau government approved a pipeline just hours after declaring a climate emergency. But, I’m also filled with hope seeing the growing movement for a Green New Deal in Canada.
Over the last few weeks, more than 7,000 people participated in 200+ town halls to build a shared vision for Canada’s Green New Deal. Looking back, I feel inspired by the bold solutions to the climate crisis and rising inequality that we imagined together.
Just watch this video to see for yourself:
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We are in a climate emergency. This year alone we have seen floods and fires ravage communities from coast to coast to coast. And it is clear we can’t wait any longer for our leaders to step up and take this crisis seriously. We have to lead the way instead.
Let’s make sure politicians of all stripes feel the pressure. Sign the...
Court rejects government
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 10:30
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...No. Internet. Tax.
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 08:44
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Paov,
Parliament is currently reviewing the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts—the laws that regulate virtually everything about the Internet.
Will we be paying an Internet Tax? Will Net Neutrality be weakened? Will ISPs like Bell be able to unilaterally block websites and continue dominating the wireless market?
Bell, Telus, and Rogers are lobbying hard to make sure all these decisions...
Transforming Capitalist Power: From the Streets to the State
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1852 ... June 25, 2019
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Transforming Capitalist Power: From the Streets to the State
Paul Christopher Gray
The communist playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote, "The individual can be annihilated/But the Party cannot be annihilated." And yet, in the neoliberal era, the Party has been annihilated -- only the individual remains. Or so it seemed until a few years ago. Communist parties have become insignificant political forces, or, as in China, are establishing capitalism. Meanwhile, social democratic parties everywhere have abandoned any attempt to achieve socialism through gradual reforms. At the most, they are resigned to preserving a more humane capitalism the permanence of which they do not doubt. Furthermore, for significant parts of the radical left, these experiences of ‘state socialism’ have not discredited the need for an alternative to capitalism, only the idea that it can be achieved through taking state power. For them, the annihilation of the Party is not an obstacle, but an opportunity. This strategy persuaded many within the ‘New Left’ and the ‘new social movements’ since the late 1960s; the anti-globalization, alter-globalization, or global justice...
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