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Amazon’s sketchy CEO, Jeff Bezos, doesn’t know how to run the world’s richest company. It’s time to blame Bezos for Amazon’s horrific treatment of workers, immigrants, and our changing climate.

With your help we can get Bezos a boss and end his shameful reign as both CEO and Chair of the Board.

Stop Bezos

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Things are going horribly wrong at Amazon… and that's bad news for us all.

Jeff Bezos is no longer the scrappy entrepreneur selling books online from his garage. He’s the menacing ringleader of a one-man show called Amazon, the richest company in the world.

From breaking workers dignity with gruelling labor at minuscule pay to plotting how to...

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Red For Ed: From Red State Revolt to Fighting Ford - May 29

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Red For Ed: From Red State Revolt to Fighting Ford - May 29 r1 Join us for the public book launch of Eric Blanc's "Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working Class Politics." ...

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We're one!

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Board of Directors Election Results

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Raining glyphosate

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They call it the "rain of death"

A small group of Indigenous Elders is suing the Canadian government to stop toxic glyphosate being sprayed on indigenous land.

Indigenous leaders need to hire top-notch lawyers to win this, so they’re asking for SumOfUs members like you to back them. Will you please chip in?

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Unifor Settlement with GM -- Footprint or Toe Tag?

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1825 ... May 14, 2019
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Unifor Settlement with GM -- Footprint or Toe Tag?

Tony Leah

Did Unifor President Jerry Dias make a deal to save the Oshawa plant, or did he give in and accept GM’s determination to end vehicle production in Oshawa?

Just before Christmas last year, GM announced their intention to close Oshawa, meaning the loss of 5,000 direct jobs involved in the assembly of cars and trucks, with a much larger impact on the community of Oshawa -- an overall loss of 20,000 jobs.

5,000 jobs, not 2600

GM claimed that 2,600 jobs were affected when they announced the closure, and the media has used that figure ever since. But GM knew that they were taking jobs away from 5,000 workers whose jobs...

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Security for Security Screeners, United Church Ministers on the Winnipeg General Strike

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Security for Security Screeners, United Church Ministers on the Winnipeg General Strike r1 A mixed-bag mailing if ever we sent one. ...

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Building People Power in Greater Mekong

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For the millions of people who live by the Mekong River, the region’s lightning-fast development hasn’t been without its costs. All too often, in fact, the rights and interests of the area’s residents have been ignored by governments and corporations more interested in hydropower dams—and their outsized profits. That’s why the work being done by the Mekong Legal Network, a unique grouping of lawyers who use legal advocacy to defend the rights of Southeast Asia’s marginalized communities, is so essential. By joining together, the Network’s lawyers hope to use the rule of law to firmly establish that equitable development is an obligation, not an option, for the Greater Mekong’s future.

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Domestic Workers Are Stronger Together

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Although their ranks are increasing, millions of domestic workers throughout the world remain vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. In many countries, in fact, domestic workers—80 percent of whom are women—cannot rely on the same rights and legal protections that other workers enjoy already. But thanks to a growing and global movement, domestic workers are organizing, unionizing, and joining together through international groups such as the International Domestic Workers Federation. And while there is still much left to be done, the power and dignity of domestic workers can no longer be dismissed.

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Canadians are serious about climate change : in the news this week

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body. While Jason Kenney’s “blue-ribbon panel” -- an “independent” panel of “experts” -- gets to work advising Alberta’s new UCP government on how to balance the province’s budget, Ontario premier Doug Ford is busy axing everything from social programs to legal aid services and public education to, ostensibly, deal with the province’s deficit.

But as Linda McQuaig points out, Ontario’s deficit is the result of too little revenue, not too much spending. In fact, Ontario already has the lowest program spending per capita of the provinces. The problem, she explains, are tax cuts and loopholes for high-earners, industry, and corporate interests.

Austerity isn’t the only thing Kenney and Ford’s governments have in common. Climate denial is another policy parallel. But on that front, they may be missing the significance of recent developments on the West Coast.

As Karl Nerenberg reports this week, in a wake-up call for Canada’s political class, Green candidate Paul Manly has won the federal byelection in Nanaimo-Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, a seat formerly held by the NDP's Sheila Malcolmson.

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It's not rocket science! Tribal people should control their own education. Pledge your support today!

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Children's lives are being destroyed by Factory Schools, but we're fighting back
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Residential schools for indigenous children existed for decades in Australia, Canada and the U.S. The suffering, abuse and systematic cultural erasure they inflicted causes ongoing trauma today to survivors and their descendants.

You might think this kind of schooling had been consigned to history – but you’d be terribly wrong: TWO MILLION tribal children around the world are still being taught in these “Factory Schools."

Alienated from their communities, many victims of the Factory School system experience terrible abuse and suffer depression, violence, addiction and suicide.

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Climate Emergency Manifesto

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Climate Emergency Manifesto:
We Only Have One Planet. Let’s save it. Now!

European United Left/Nordic Green Left

The latest IPCC Special Report (October 2018) is our last alarm bell for stopping mass human and environmental destruction caused by human-induced climate change. Its findings were alarming-rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes before the year 2030 are what is required if we are to have any chance of staying well below 1.5° global warming. The failure of governments to adequately deal with this man-made crisis is already impacting millions of lives, and the most vulnerable worldwide are always hit the hardest. Short-sighted market logic has delayed an adequate response for way too long. We need unprecedented political will to achieve an ecologically just Europe, where we accept our...

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KFC: the room where it happens

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Less than a week until KFC's biggest meeting - and we're taking your message straight to the top.

A, next week SumOfUs will be in the room at KFC and Pizza Hut’s biggest shareholder meeting of the year -- to confront their owner, fast food megacorp Yum! Brands, over its terrible track record on deforestation.

We just got back from Pepsi’s AGM, and let me tell you -- these shareholder tactics get results. Being able to confront a company’s top execs directly in person is so powerful.

We need a huge petition to give us real force in the room. Can you join 160,000 other SumOfUs members like you and tell KFC and Pizza Hut to stop deforestation in their palm oil, soy, beef and paper supply...

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The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought

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The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.’s Thought

Umair Muhammad

The Socialist Project’s podcast, Oats for Breakfast, recently featured an interview with the American political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. A longstanding member of the American left, Reed has produced a large amount of writing -- both scholarly and popular -- while also partaking in numerous organizing efforts since at least the 1970s. In recent years, Reed has come to be known for his contributions to the debate about the politics of identity. Reed’s criticisms of "left identitarianism," as he calls it, have become a significant source of controversy among leftists. It was not surprising, then, that the publication of Reed’s interview by the Socialist Project resulted in some contentious online debates between his...

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