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That time I punched someone in the face
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Visitors from over 200 countries access articles on openDemocracy. Their series Transformations is all about ways to connect personal and social change. This month they published an article by CFSC's Peace Program Coordinator Matt Legge that starts with his...
A better deal for B.C.
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- Published on Monday, 24 June 2019 10:32
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Hi Paov,
I just wanted to bump this email in your inbox and make sure you saw it before the end of this week. We have until the end of the week to gather as many signatures as we can before handing in our petition asking for a better cell phone deal to the...
What Will it Take to Win a Green New Deal?
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- Published on Sunday, 23 June 2019 23:10
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1851 ... June 24, 2019
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What Will it Take to Win a Green New Deal?
David Camfield
The push for a Green New Deal (GND) that’s become a big topic of political discussion in the US has come north. At the beginning of May 2019, the Pact for a Green New Deal was launched publicly in Canada. It was endorsed by a range of organizations and prominent individuals. Behind the scenes, staff from a number of major NGOs including Greenpeace and Leadnow are playing key roles in the initiative.
The Pact calls the GND "a vision of rapid, inclusive and far-reaching transition, to slash emissions, protect critical biodiversity, meet the demands of the multiple crises we face, and create over a million jobs in the process. It would involve the full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) including the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), dozens of other pieces of legislation, new programs and institutions, and a huge mobilization calling on the creativity and participation of all of us."
Flushing trees down the toilet
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- Published on Sunday, 23 June 2019 03:32
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A, one of the biggest chain stores in the world is destroying our majestic Boreal forest -- all to make cheap toilet paper.
With your donation, we’ll plaster the internet with ads and demand Costco stop flushing our beautiful forests down the toilet.
Please, can you chip in today to save this precious forest from Costco’s greed?
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- Published on Sunday, 23 June 2019 01:12
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 14 May 2019
General Strike 1919: Cabaret
An exciting cabaret evening of music and poetry on the centenary of the Winnipeg General Strike (15 May 1919) celebrates its historical importance and enduring relevance to a diverse range of contemporary struggles.
MC’ed by David McIlwraith. Featuring:
- Zing Zing Zing - UJPO choir sing "Bread and Roses" and "The Internationale."
- Afro-Métis Nation - perform selections from their debut CD, "Constitution" with George Elliott Clarke, Shelley Hamilton and Sugar Plum Croxen.
- Mike Katz and Rick Pearson sing "Union Miners" and "Union Maids."
- Mohammad Ali - performs songs from his latest album "Labour of Love."
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- Published on Saturday, 22 June 2019 00:20
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This week, I have really felt the strength and power we can bring to bear when we all work together, and amplify the voices of workers and communities struggling against unbridled corporate power. We moved Google! The global tech giant has been forced to scrap its plans for a censored, spying search engine in China.
People said it would be impossible to stop Google from launching its dodgy search engine in China. And it probably would have been, without Google employees willing to blow the whistle on the bosses, responding to the calls for help from Tibetan, Uyghur and Chinese rights activists -- and tens of thousands of people like you and me all over the world piling on in the last six months.
More than 85,000 of us signed a petition demanding that Google drops dragonfly, and hundreds of us sent tweets that highlighted Google’s willingness to trample over human rights. Thousands of us also emailed both Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking him to come clean on Dragonfly, and our pension funds asking them to support our proposal to make google more accountable at the AGM.
But Google bosses stopped short of completely ruling out future collaboration with a government of...
Peace Brigades International Canada
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A big week in climate politics
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- Published on Friday, 21 June 2019 05:44
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Dear friends,
This was a big week. On Monday, Parliament voted to declare a climate emergency. On Tuesday, Trudeau approved the Trans Mountain pipeline for the second time with a thinly veiled attempt to greenwash the climate-wrecking project. And, on Wednesday, the Conservatives rolled out a so-called, “climate plan.”
For perhaps the first time ever, people across Canada are concerned enough about climate change to make it a top voting issue ahead of this election. And politicians are taking notice.
That’s why it’s so important that we convince Canada’s Leaders’ Debates Commission to host a climate debate this fall. We could make that happen by convincing federal party leaders to support the call. Will you take 2 minutes today to call the office of one our major federal party leaders and demand that they commit to a debate on climate change in October's election? Our click-to-call system makes it easy by dialing the number for you.
More than 11 million people watched the leaders' debates in 2015, and there was only a single question about climate change. This time around, we...
Flushing trees down the toilet
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- Published on Friday, 21 June 2019 05:20
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Costco is wiping out the majestic Boreal forests in Canada … to make toilet paper.
We’re going to expose Costco by flooding the internet with ads. But we need your help to make it happen -- can you please chip in now?
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 20 ... June 21, 2019
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The US Strike Wave, the DSA, and Transforming the State
Episode 20: Eric Blanc is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Oats talked with Eric about his recent book, Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso: 2019). Our discussion connected the teachers’ strikes with the broader socialist upsurge in the US and the long term struggle to transform the capitalist state.
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UPDATE: Empty promises from Ottawa
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- Published on Friday, 21 June 2019 04:10
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Paov — I wanted to make sure you saw this email. The CRTC has just released its policy directive putting people before profits, and OpenMedia was a big influence! Now we need to hold Parliament accountable to following through. Will you donate to help us fight for the free and open Internet? Your donation will be TRIPLED by generous donors
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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A better deal for B.C.
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- Published on Thursday, 20 June 2019 13:42
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Paov,
We have a rare opportunity to demand a better deal for cell phone users in B.C.!
The provincial government recently announced plans to improve cell phone customer protections and they are looking for input from the public.1
This is our opportunity to create made-in-B.C. customer protections that can...
Taseko Mines
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- Published on Thursday, 20 June 2019 13:06
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Taseko Mines Ltd. wants to destroy huge swaths of forest, desecrating Indigenous sacred sites, in a nasty plan to get approval for a mine that has already been rejected twice by the Federal government.
We only have until July 2nd to get the BC government to stop this disastrous construction project.
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Taseko’s Prosperity gold and copper mine have been rejected twice by the federal government in the last ten years. And yet the mining corporation wants to destroy huge swaths of forest, pristine waters and sacred sites of the Tsilhqot'in Nation just to conduct research to try to push through the mine -- again.
Taseko’s set to start cutting trees and destroying sacred sites of the Tsilhqot’in Nation in less than two weeks if we don’t stop it.
A massive wave...
ACTIVlist Update - June 20, 2019
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We Decide: Green New Deal Communities Organizing Guide
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Use this Organizing Guide to raise awareness in your community and build support for a Green New Deal. This guide contains everything you need for your local city or town council or school board to pass a resolution.
Add your voice: Tell the Trudeau government to say no to the Trans Mountain pipeline project!
Upcoming community events:
Click here to sign up to host or attend a Green New Deal town hall in your community.
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The USAs Favorite Weapon: Sanctions Are Genocidal
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- Published on Thursday, 20 June 2019 03:06
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The USA’s Favorite Weapon: Sanctions Are Genocidal
Justin Podur
After withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran last year and resuming sanctions last November, the White House in April announced that its goal was to "drive Iranian exports to zero." To make this drive happen, the White House stopped allowing countries like India, China, Japan, Turkey, and South Korea to import Iranian oil: dictating to sovereign countries whom they can trade with.
The dictating doesn’t stop there. Last December the United States had Canadian authorities detain and imprison a Chinese executive, the chief financial officer of telecom company Huawei. Meng Wanzhou is currently being held in Canada for extradition to the U.S., on the allegation that her company violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. Not content with having told China that it cannot trade with Iran, the United States has gotten a third country, Canada, to take a Chinese corporate executive captive in what Trump suggested was leverage for a trade deal: "If I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade...
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ACTIVlist Update - June 19, 2019
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:28
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With the new NAFTA, "there is no Alternative" Upcoming community events:
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Today, the Mexican senate is set to ratify the new NAFTA.
Bring a Green New Deal to your community
Hundreds of communities have declared we’re in a climate emergency. People from coast to coast to coast have been rising up to demand a Green New Deal.
They just approved a major climate set-back
Less than 24 hours after declaring a climate emergency, the government announced it will be moving forward with the climate-polluting Trans Mountain pipeline project.
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TransMountain approved in a climate emergency
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:04
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Friends,
It’s only Wednesday morning, but this has already been a big week in climate news. On Monday, the House of Commons voted to declare a climate emergency in Canada. Then, yesterday, Justin Trudeau and his cabinet green-lit the TransMountain pipeline – for the second time. And, today, Andrew Scheer is expected to unveil the Conservative party’s climate platform for this fall’s election.1
With all of this, one thing is clear – climate change is finally becoming a top of mind political issue in Canada. And, since everyone is already talking about climate change, we now need to know who actually has an emergency level response plan for dealing with it.
We already knew that climate change is an urgent crisis. Frontline communities have been saying it for years. This spring alone we have seen Ottawa Valley flood, wildfires burn Alberta,...
Hotel housekeepers fight for rights and recognition
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 03:46
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