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ACTIVlist Update - March 29, 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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Thank you to all Council of Canadians chapters for everything done to advance social and environmental justice in communities across Canada! Council chapters are made up of volunteers who work with local community groups, organized labour and others to promote the Council’s campaigns to protect water and public health care, work for fair trade, climate justice and democracy as well as other issues of social and economic concern. Check...
Urgent: Protect Indigenous Protestors in Colombia
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2019 09:44
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GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations, Unexplored Opportunities
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2019 07:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1794 ... March 29, 2019
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GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations, Unexplored Opportunities
Sam Gindin
Following an aggressive public relations campaign in which union officials questioned GM’s loyalty to ‘Canadian taxpayers’, General Motors has apparently agreed to keep its Oshawa facility partially open. No official announcement has yet been made, but there are rumours of a revised plan to retain 600-700 workers by investing $100-million to stamp the cargo beds for pick-up trucks.
There are good reasons to be skeptical about both this rumour and this plan. But even if true, before a desperate workforce reluctantly accepts that ‘some jobs, however few, are better than nothing’, more ambitious thinking should be considered.
The Oshawa facility currently supports 5,700-6,000 jobs: GM directly employs 2,200 hourly workers and some 500 salaried workers,...
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ACTIVlist Update - March 28, 2019
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ACTION ALERT: Time to hit pause on NAFTA 2.0
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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There are troubling new reports that Prime Minister Trudeau is on the verge of rushing the ratification of NAFTA 2.0 through Parliament.
WIN! Montreal and McGill University become Blue Communities
The Council of Canadians congratulates the City of Montreal and McGill University for becoming Blue Communities on World Water Day, March 22, 2019. Montreal joins more than 40 Blue Communities around the world,...
Organizing Beyond Ford: Action Keele Bus Riders' Campaign
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- Published on Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:26
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1793 ... March 28, 2019
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Organizing Beyond Ford: Action Keele Bus Riders’ Campaign
Sadia Khan
The 41 Keele bus route wound its way north through the city long before Doug Ford came to reign over our province. It will continue long after he is out of office.
The bus goes from Pioneer Village Station to Keele Station and is ranked among the five worst performing routes by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The midday 41 was the most overcrowded route on the TTC in 2016. It travels almost exclusively through neighbourhoods with average incomes considered "low" to "very low" based on 2016 census data. Residents in these neighbourhoods are more likely to take public transit on average than others across Toronto. If they live north of St. Clair Ave....
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Will the CRTC choose people over Big Telecom?
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 08:50
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...Student Strikes for Climate Justice
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 06:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1792 ... March 27, 2019
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Student Strikes for Climate Justice
Since 2018, Swedish students have been striking in front of the Parliament in Stockholm every Friday, prompted initially by high school student Greta Thunberg. The demand has been simple -- the Swedish government should meet the carbon emissions reduction targets set out in the Paris Agreement. The movement has continued to grow, and on March 15 students from around the world walked out of classes in a strike for climate justice. In Canada, the first climate walkout occurred in Sudbury in November last year when Sophia Mathur joined the #FridaysfortheFuture actions, with students in nine cities walking out. In all parts of Canada on March 15, high school students, often joined by university students, joined the climate strike. The student climate...
Cafe Etico and CoDev present: Cooperative: La Lucha Sigue
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:02
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Race, Class, and the Left w/ Adolph Reed Jr.
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:08
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 12 ... March 26 2019
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Race, Class, and the Left
Oats for Breakfast talks to Adolph Reed Jr. about race and class. We begin the interview with a discussion about the legacies (and baggage) of the Black Power period. We then move into discussing the pitfalls of race-reductionist approaches to engaging with the present political moment.
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China's jailed labour rights activists need our support today
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 23:18
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The fight continues!
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 16:48
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Anti-SLAPP legislation comes to BC
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...Labor and the Green New Deal -- an Online Conversation
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 09:54
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Free Transit in Ottawa
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 01:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1791 ... March 25, 2019
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Free Transit in Ottawa:
Fighting Against Climate Change and for Social Justice
Free Transit Ottawa
Ottawa’s public transit system has many shortcomings. Too often buses are congested and/or infrequent. Few stops have shelters and many users face lengthy trips to get where they want to go. ParaTranspo is often inaccessible to those most in need. And the system is expensive! OCTranspo’s (Ottawa-Carleton Transportation Commission) fares are among the highest in the country. It is lower income people who depend on public transit to move around the city who are most affected by these shortcomings. There is an urgent need, and a question of social justice, to improve the quality and accessibility of the public transit system.
This need is powerfully reinforced by the reality...
China: Freedom of association is a right, not a crime
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 00:42
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How you can help those affected by Cyclone Idai
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2019 00:34
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Southern Africa is facing devastation.
Cyclone Idai ripped through villages and towns in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, taking hundreds of lives and leaving a trail of destruction. With winds of 195 km/h accompanied by lashing rains, Idai has already affected millions of people, causing floods, landslides and ruining crops and roads.
More than two million people could have been affected across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and the real death tolls may not be known for many months as the countries deal with a still-unfolding disaster. The port city of Beira, in Mozambique, was hit the hardest, with nearly 80% of homes and public infrastructures destroyed.
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- Published on Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:56
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...Peacemakers and Academics Facing Prison in Turkey
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- Published on Sunday, 24 March 2019 03:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1790 ... March 24, 2019
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Peacemakers and Academics Facing Prison in Turkey
Socialist Project Steering Committee
As cultural workers, unionists and academics working in Toronto and Canada, we strongly condemn the continuing harassment and sentencing of academics and students charged by the Turkish state with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" (Article No. 7/2 of Turkey’s Anti-Terror Law No. 3713). Over two thousand academics in Turkey signed the Academics for Peace statement, "We will not be a party to this crime," which criticized military actions in the Kurdish regions of the country.
So far, 141 academics have received prison sentences ranging 15 to 36 months (for sentences of less than 2 years the verdict is suspended for a period of five years during which the defendant is to refrain from...
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Bees: more damning news
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- Published on Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:48
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The world’s bees are being catapulted towards extinction - and a NEW report firmly points the finger at multi-billion dollar pesticide giants.
SumOfUs is running bee-saving campaigns across the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. But with this new evidence, we need to step it up a gear.
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A landmark new study warns us that 40% of the world's insect species are declining and a third are endangered -- having a catastrophic effect on our planet’s ecosystems.
The scientists don’t mince their words. This dramatic decline...
Why we're united against racism
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- Published on Saturday, 23 March 2019 09:08
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Friends,
I was beyond inspired to see people from coast to coast in Canada take to the streets this Thursday for the day to #UniteAgainstRacism organized by our friends at Migrant Rights Network. From Vancouver, to Toronto, to Halifax, their message was clear: equal status, fair work, decent wages, access to public services, and a just, displacement-free society for all migrants.
This week, we sent two emails calling our friends in the climate movement to stand in solidarity and mobilize for the #UniteAgainstRacism events across the country. We got a lot of responses back, some loving and supportive ones, others less so. To those, who are with us in this fight, thank you. We want to be clear. It is our collective responsibility to defeat hate and advocate for a climate movement that promotes solidarity, dignity, and safety for all.
That’s exactly...
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