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A Climate Justice Critique of South African Political Parties
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- Published on Thursday, 02 May 2019 01:42
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A Climate Justice Critique of South African Political Parties
Vishwas Satgar
What are the commitments of the ANC, DA and EFF to a Deep Just Transition to Sustain Life?
South Africa goes to its 6th national elections on May 8th, 2019, with 48 contesting parties. This is in a context in which inequality is worsening, costs of living are going up and unemployment is a major challenge. This election is also happening while South Africa’s worst drought in recorded history is still ravaging various villages and towns. All our political parties have failed to recognize the drought as a climate shock. All seemed surprised by cyclone Idai, another climate shock, and its devastation.
The science on climate change from the UN Intergovernmental Panel...
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The 2018 Annual Report is here!
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2019 08:02
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Our 2018 Annual Report is here!
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...May 1st: International Workers Solidarity Day
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2019 07:20
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May 1st: International Workers’ Solidarity Day
The Flag
By Pablo Neruda
Stand up with me.
No one would like
more than I to stay
on the pillow where your eyelids
try to shut out the world for me.
There too I would like
to let my blood sleep
surrounding your sweetness.
But stand up,
you, stand up,
but stand up with me
and let us go off together
to fight face to face
against the devil's webs,
against the system that distributes hunger,
against organized misery.
Let's go,
and you, my star, next to me,
newborn from my own clay,
you will have found the hidden spring
and in the midst of the fire you will be
next to me,
with your wild eyes,
raising my flag.
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ACTIVlist Update - April 30, 2019
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Will you support the climate strike for the next generation?
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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You may have children or grandchildren who are worried about the future of our planet in the face of climate change.
ECJ decision on CETA: The judge has ruled, now it's time for the jury
In a disappointing decision, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the investor court system in the Canada-European Union Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA)...
Water levels are rising and so are we
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2019 06:40
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Friends,
The past week has been very difficult for my community. For the past two weeks, record-breaking rainfall has inundated Pakenham, Ontario, a small town in the Ottawa Valley where I grew up, bringing a 100-year flood to our doorsteps.
And, Pakenham isn’t the only place this is happening. Thousands of people across Eastern Canada were evacuated from their homes this weekend due to climate-charged floods.1 As climate impacts worsen year after year, it’s not enough for politicians to simply recognize the crisis. They must put their words into action.
That’s why when I heard that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh committed to putting a Green New Deal for Canada at the center of his election strategy for 2019, I was a bit surprised and cautiously optimistic.2 We know that Singh took this position because of...
May Day: Workers Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
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Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 15:
May Day:
Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour’s long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago. It is more important than ever, in the face of relentless capitalist austerity and emerging authoritarian forces on the right, that the North American labour movement reconnect with this history and forge linkages with the international labour movement in the remaking of a socialism for our times.
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Orangutans
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2019 04:46
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Greedy corporations are destroying the last orangutans’ homes for cheap, dirty palm oil.
But with your support we can run powerful, game-changing campaigns to force companies to do the right thing.
Please make a small monthly donation today
Or make a one-time donation today
Thanks for all that you do,
Kat and the team at SumOfUs
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May 1st Day of Action against Trudeaus
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2019 18:52
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ACTIVlist Update - April 29, 2019
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 June 2019 10:20
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Is offshore drilling becoming off limits?
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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In Canada and the U.S., Thursday was a big day of big setbacks for Big Oil’s offshore drilling plans.
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Writing a Letter to the Editor in your local...
Big news! A book full of skills you can use right now
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2019 06:30
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Evidence and techniques you can use right now
Are you worried about increasing hate crimes? Does it feel like our world is becoming more divided? Do you care about peace?
As a big thank you for your support, I...
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Saudi Arabia, MBS, and Everlasting War w/ Medea Benjamin
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2019 05:04
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Saudi Arabia, MBS, and Everlasting War w/ Medea Benjamin
In this wide-ranging interview, Oats speaks with celebrated activist and writer Medea Benjamin about Saudi’s newest monarch Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi’s Twitter spat with Canada last year, and how to connect questions of everlasting war with climate and environmental issues.
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Orangutans
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An orangutan was shot with 74 air gun pellets. Blinded and having lost her one-month old baby, “Hope” the orangutan was left hanging on to dear life.
Corporations’ greed for cheap palm oil is murdering endangered orangutans. Together you and I can stop this -- and we’ve got a plan, but we need your support now before it’s too late.
Will you please make a small monthly gift today?
Book launch: The Peoples Republic of Walmart
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- Published on Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:18
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 8 April 2019
Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart
The Toronto launch of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski’s new book The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019).
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations. For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally...
Growing from the inside out
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Pepsi's palm oil
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- Published on Saturday, 27 April 2019 01:26
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In 4 days, Pepsi’s holding its annual shareholder meeting... in a remote location in North Carolina. Why there? It doesn’t want people like us crashing the party with pesky questions about Pepsi’s palm oil policy.
But guess what? We’ll be there, on behalf of the workers, the communities, and the orangutans threatened by the palm oil deforestation and exploitation Pepsi enables. And you can be there too.
We’re going to deliver the signatures of hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members to CEO Ramon Laguarta demanding PepsiCo drops palm oil villain Indofood. Will yours be one of them?
Read more: Pepsi's palm oilACTIVlist Update - April 26, 2019
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Chapters This Week
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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#CouncilChapters help put campaigns and social and economic justice issues in the spotlight in communities across the country. Chapter activists continue to be busy protecting public health care and water, challenging unfair trade deals, calling for urgent and immediate action on climate change, and to standing up for democracy. Here are just a few examples of their recent actions...
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Break Up The Big Three
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- Published on Friday, 26 April 2019 04:10
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 26 April 2019 02:16
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