Act Today: Email your Senator to end indefinite solitary confinement

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Join us for Red for Ed event in Toronto, May 29

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Oppose Doug Fords Ontario School Budget

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1834 ... May 27, 2019
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Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario School Budget

Dudley Paul

When it comes down to it, the question is what do we want for our schools?

The government of Doug Ford is actually quite clear about this. It wants to cut money from schools as well as their neighbourhoods, setting them back on their heels and making them more malleable for a government set on hollowing them out. It would like to force schools to privatize, charge more fees, perhaps even offer themselves up for businesses to sponsor them, much in the way that charter schools operate in the USA. The Ford government has brought in so many changes, so quickly, that parents, students and educators have had no time to react to them all.
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Toronto 1919

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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 14 May 2019

Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group presents: “Toronto 1919”

The Toronto General Strike:
In the spring of 1919, thousands of workers were raising a clenched fist of defiance to bosses and politicians all across Canada. The most famous event was the general strike in Winnipeg. But there were dramatic moments of class confrontation in many other towns and cities too. Here in Toronto, the labour movement was rapidly signing up thousands of new members, but showing deepening signs of a divide between visionary radicals and cautious labour bureaucrats. That tension was played out in a five-day general strike in Toronto, which began on May 30th but had petered out well before the violence erupted in Winnipeg in June. It is a little-known story of determination and political struggle.
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Finish signing “Alberta Infrastructur

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Take action this week with #TheResistanceCampaign against #whitepaper2019

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Costco

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Tell Costco to stop destroying our boreal forests for toilet paper

Canada’s boreal forests are being flushed down the toilet and Costco’s Kirkland brand is one of the worst offenders.

It’s time for Costco to clean up its act and switch to post-consumer recycled materials.

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Toilet paper is destroying Canada’s vast and majestic old-growth Boreal forests, worsening climate change, endangering wildlife, and affecting hundreds of Indigenous communities across the country. And there’s no good reason this should be happening.

According to a new report from our friends at the NRDC and Stand.earth, Costco’s Kirkland...

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Stop The Attacks On Our Schools!

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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 17 ... May 25, 2019
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Stop The Attacks On Our Schools!

Ontario’s provincial government has announced sweeping cuts to funding for public education. People across the province are mobilizing to stop the attacks on our schools.

The Socialist Project’s Action Keele campaign recently hosted a community meeting that brought together students, teachers, parents, and school support staff to talk about how we might organize a response to the cuts. This Oats episode is based on the discussion that took place at that meeting. It features comments that were made at the meeting by the following people:

* Jessica Polley (high school teacher in the Toronto District School Board)
* Jonah Gindin (organizer with the West End Parents for Public Education)
* Helen Victoros (executive member of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto)
* Amina Vance (organizer...

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ACTIVlist Update - May 24, 2019

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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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Maude Barlow delivers keynote speech to Tommy Douglas Institute
Maude Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, delivered the following remarks yesterday at the Seventh Annual Tommy Douglas Institute at George Brown College in Toronto. Her keynote speech explores the interconnections between poverty and populism and its implications for the environment. In the photo above, she is pictured speaking at a protest at an anti-globalization protest at the World Bank.

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June SEA Members Meeting 2019

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Winning!

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This month, SumOfUs went to Pepsi and KFC’s biggest shareholder meetings of the year to deliver your people-powered message that they need to do more to save our vanishing forests and shrinking orangutan populations. The results were amazing.

Surrounded by executives, board members and investors, our tiny team urged these multi-billion dollar corporations to acknowledge and take steps to end their roles in deforestation -- and with your help, SumOfUs members stole the show.

In North Carolina, I delivered a speech in front of all of Pepsi's execs telling them to cut ties with destructive and exploitative palm oil producer Indofood, backed by petitions signed by SumOfUs members like you with over 1 MILLION signatures.

Your tweets during the meeting -- held on May 1, International Workers’ Day...

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Another Round of Punishing Austerity in Ontario

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1833 ... May 24, 2019
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Another Round of Punishing Austerity in Ontario

Greg Albo, Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli

The eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting Aaron Wildavsky characterized annual budgets as a record of "victories, defeats, bargains, and compromises." The province of Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of Doug Ford, does indeed tell us something of this -- additional fiscal supports for business, erosion of social expenditures in general, and for the most vulnerable in particular, large expenditures on public programs needed now spread far into the future, and generous symbolic gestures for this and that political constituency. Few surprises here: after all, Ontario is long-standing as Canada’s pre-eminent fiscally conservative jurisdiction with an unbroken legacy of clientelist politics greased by the public purse...

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#metoo in the boardroom?

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Sexual harassment in the financial industry is on the rise.

Your pension is probably invested in Brookfield Asset Management, a mega-player in the financial industry who refuses to take workplace sexual harassment seriously.

But you can help change that. Send a message to your fund manager today to prevent workplace sexual harassment.

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One in three women in the financial asset management industry have been sexually harassed at work, a sharp increase over past years.

At a worth of 350$ billion dollars, Brookfield Asset Management is one of the...

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Facebook is out of control

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Facebook is out of control. But we have the power to rein it in.

Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting is May 30th. Call on major Facebook investor BlackRock to vote NO on Mark Zuckerberg’s one-man rule.

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I remember when I trusted Facebook. It was a safe place to reconnect with old friends from high school and keep up with cute family photos.

But under Mark Zuckerberg's one-man rule, Facebook has spiraled out of control. Facebook has become a key hub for white nationalist groups like “Alt-Reich Nation” — a group that gained notoriety when one of its members murdered Richard Collins III, a Black college student.

And with algorithms designed...

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