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April Events
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:16
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Doug Ford's gift to Rogers, Bell, and Telus
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 09:58
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BREAKING: Doug Ford's controversial Bill 66 is now law, and Ontario has officially scrapped its protections for wireless customers.1
Ontario had some of the...
McDonalds: another scandal
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:00
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Amazing! Over 200,000 SumOfUs members just like you have told McDonald’s to sign up to the ‘Better Chicken Commitment’. This new set of standards would massively improve the welfare of the millions of chickens McDonald’s cooks up each year. Will you add your name too?
Yes -- I'll tell McDonald's to take needless suffering off the menu!
With Easter on the horizon and fluffy chicks on everyone’s brains, we’re taking this fight to the next level. But first, we need your help.
We’re about to put up scathing billboards across London exposing the suffering chickens endure for the McDonald’s menu. But before we do, we want to show McDonald’s just how many people are behind the message.
Together, our people power can force this fast-food Goliath to do better by its birds -- but only if enough SumOfUs members get on board. The more signatures we get, the greater the...
Zimbabwe: Cyclone Idai, Sanctions and Capitalism
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 01:56
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1802 ... April 10, 2019
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Zimbabwe: Cyclone Idai, Sanctions and Capitalism
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa
About a month ago Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique were devastated by a tropical cyclone that was described by the United Nations as one of the worst disasters ever to strike the Southern Hemisphere. Approximately 2.6 million people were affected in the three countries. Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambican port city of Beira with winds up to 170km/h. It then proceeded inland into Zimbabwe and Malawi, flattening buildings and taking more than 1,000 people, with many others unaccounted for across the three countries. Torrential rainfall washed away road networks in Zimbabwe.
Western capitalists are to blame largely for climatic changes that cause natural and environmental disasters. Poverty, which is a result of the diabolic and pernicious...
Ready for justice, powered by the crowd?
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2019 23:00
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ACTIVlist Update - April 9, 2019
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2019 11:10
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City of Charlottetown joins growing list declaring a Climate Emergency
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Last night, the City of Charlottetown unanimously passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency. In doing so, they join hundreds of municipalities taking local leadership, something we would argue is required given a general lack of real Federal and provincial leadership that pervades our current context.
In memoriam – Joan Teghtmeyer
The Council of Canadians is saddened to learn of the passing...
BlackRock
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2019 04:12
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The planet is on a collision course with irreversible climate change. But BlackRock -- the world’s largest asset manager -- can set a new path forward.
Tell BlackRock to divest its $6 trillion in managed assets from the fossil fuels driving climate disaster!
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The biggest driver of climate destruction on the planet finally has a name -- BlackRock.
We don’t have time to run the clock while climate-deniers and corrupt politicians push our planet closer to inevitable disaster. But while our fossil fueled economy feels stuck in the status quo, we have a plan.
BlackRock has funneled unrivaled...
Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2019 01:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1801 ... April 9, 2019
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Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Judith Deutsch
Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the Ur group of thinkers who formulated the assumptions and prescriptions of global neoliberalism. He names this group the Geneva School as distinct from the Chicago School. He suggests that their early attentiveness to the global level came from Central Europe’s dependence on foreign trade and external markets unlike the United States at that time. The original source material suggests that they were motivated by considerable anxiety following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For them the empire was a supranational order of efficient and stable security. They saw chaos coming from demands for redistribution, preferential treatment, and self-determination by the ‘masses’.
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Game over for the bees
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- Published on Monday, 08 April 2019 04:22
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A, last week I had a phone call with the beekeepers taking on Bayer in court to protect our bees.
They desperately want to protect our bees from Bayer’s bee-killing pesticides -- and stop Bayer from destroying Europe’s historic ban in court.
I was so impressed by the beekeepers, but I was worried for them, because they don’t have the deep pockets that Bayer has to sustain this legal fight much longer.
But that’s where SumOfUs members like you come in. Can you chip in a small amount -- say the price of a pack of bee-friendly seeds from the garden centre -- to help the beekeepers defend Europe’s ban on bee-killing pesticides in court?
Together, you and I can give the beekeepers the strength they need...
NATO: 70 Years Too Many
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- Published on Sunday, 07 April 2019 23:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1800 ... April 8, 2019
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NATO: 70 Years Too Many
Kate Hudson
As we head for NATO’s 70th birthday, it’s time to assess the nuclear-armed military alliance that came into being to ensure western military superiority during the Cold War. Most strikingly, during its first 40 years of existence -- namely the Cold War, NATO embarked on no wars or military campaigns. Yet in the 30 years since the Cold War and the removal of its political and military rival, the Soviet Union, NATO has massively expanded territorially, changed its mission statement from a defensive to an aggressive posture and embarked on a series of wars, of which their intervention in Afghanistan is getting on for two decades long.
These activities have turned the end of the Cold War...
Palestinian Workers Under Occupation: A View From Within
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- Published on Sunday, 07 April 2019 04:26
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Palestinian Workers Under Occupation: A View From Within
Imad Temeiza is the co-founder and former elected leader of the Palestinian Postal Service Workers’ Union (PPSWU). He is currently the PPSWU International Relations Representative.
Imad discusses the multiple levels of oppression that Palestinian workers face in the Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Workers’ struggle and resistance will be situated in the context of the failed Oslo Peace Process which began in the early 1990s, and led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Contrary to the goal of creating a two-state solution, this process led to a system of Apartheid, as prominently witnessed throughout the Territories, in cities such as Hebron.
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Game over for the bees
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- Published on Saturday, 06 April 2019 04:10
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Bee defenders are in a crucial court battle against the pesticide lobby -- but they’re running out of money in the final stages of this fight.
If we lose it’ll be game over for the bees.
Can you please chip in to help the bee defenders win this case?
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Three ways to defend our climate and our communities
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- Published on Saturday, 06 April 2019 01:20
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ACTIVlist Update - April 5, 2019
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- Published on Friday, 05 April 2019 12:24
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WIN! Prince Albert Chapter making strides in quest to turn their community “blue"
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Earlier this week, city council members in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan considered a request from the local Council of Canadians chapter to become a Blue Community.
Speak up for Grassy Narrows
Last week, I gave $125 to the Liberal Party of Canada. That was the price of joining their exclusive “Laurier Club,” which gave me access to a swanky...
78 hours left
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- Published on Friday, 05 April 2019 07:38
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...The Agro-Food Complex and Climate Change: Veganism or a Green New Deal?
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- Published on Friday, 05 April 2019 01:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1799 ... April 5, 2019
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The Agro-Food Complex and Climate Change: Veganism or a Green New Deal?
Benjamin Selwyn
Humanity is standing on the brink of catastrophic climate change. The 2018 Special Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that "without societal transformation and rapid implementation of ambitious greenhouse gas reduction measures, pathways to limiting warming to 1.5°C and achieving sustainable development will be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to achieve."
How can we begin to think about the societal transformations necessary to achieve these targets? Over the last year, two very different but increasingly popular and seemingly realistic solutions have emerged to address this question. The first is what can be labelled mainstream veganism; the second is the Green New Deal (GND). Both approaches are...
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2019 CoDev Fundraising and Solidarity Dinner
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- Published on Thursday, 04 April 2019 15:02
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Delirious laughter
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- Published on Thursday, 04 April 2019 07:04
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Time for Some Critical Thinking
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- Published on Thursday, 04 April 2019 03:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1798 ... April 4, 2019
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Time for Some Critical Thinking:
Debunking the Conservative Party Policy of Ford and Scheer
Paul Kahnert
We learned many lessons in fighting the Conservative governments in the past, and personally in our long battle to block the privatization of Ontario Hydro One. The government of Doug Ford in Ontario, and the policies that Andrew Scheer is putting forward as federal Conservative Party leader going into the coming election, is forcing us to learn some old battles and take up a new round of struggles in the Canadian labour movement. Beware of any party promising free tax cuts with more prosperity and saying things like ‘tax cuts pay for themselves’. There is no free money. Strip away the smoke-and-mirrors show, and you’ll see that the only...
climate change
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 April 2019 17:44
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Tomorrow, we’re heading into TD’s big investors' meeting to deliver our giant petition calling on TD to pull the plug on funding the fossil fuel industry.
This meeting only happens once a year and TD’s top executives and biggest investors attend. This is a major opportunity to pressure TD to stop pouring money into projects that are contributing to runaway climate chaos.
We will be delivering almost 15,000 signatures but we know that if can make this petition go viral on social media, it’ll continue to pile the pressure on TD to pull funding from Big Oil projects.
Will you sign the petition and share on social media today?
Thanks for all that you do,
Amelia, Angus, Lisa, and the rest of...
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