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Working Women: Should We Be Combatting Sexism to Stimulate Economic Growth?

Details: Published on Monday, 18 March 2019 23:54; Written by editor

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1786 ... March 19, 2019
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Working Women: Should We Be Combatting Sexism to Stimulate Economic Growth?

Meenakshi Krishnan and Benjamin Selwyn

In the run-up to International Women’s Day, it was good to see Christine Lagarde highlight the problems of sexism in the global economy. Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2011, argues that combatting sexism and bringing more women into the workplace could raise economic growth in some countries by as much as 35 per cent. Greater gender empowerment through changes in state laws and tax accounting contributes to "higher growth, a reduction in inequality, an improvement in the strength of the economy and a more diversified, export-focused country."

Women are now living longer than men in all parts of the world. Over half a...

Pepsis palm oil problem just got worse

Details: Published on Monday, 18 March 2019 09:32; Written by editor

BREAKING: Pepsi’s palm oil business partner Indofood has been stripped of its sustainability certificates -- for abusing workers on its environment-wrecking plantations.

But Pepsi STILL won’t cut ties with the palm oil villain. WHY?!

Tell Pepsi: No more excuses. Drop conflict palm oil company Indofood now!

Sign the petition

Pepsi has nowhere to hide now: its business partner Indofood has been kicked out of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s largest sustainable palm oil authority, for mistreating workers on its environment-wrecking plantations.

Over 100,000 SumOfUs members like you have already told PepsiCo to cut ties with this palm oil villain, but the snack food giant has resisted so far,...

Join three First Nations to confront bitumen threat in court

Details: Published on Monday, 18 March 2019 05:44; Written by editor

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Idle No More Co-Founder faces trial for protecting ancestral land

Details: Published on Sunday, 17 March 2019 18:10; Written by editor

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Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want

Details: Published on Sunday, 17 March 2019 01:04; Written by editor

LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 1 March 2019

Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want

In Toronto and beyond, campaigns are underway to confront the Ford government’s initiative to take the Toronto subway system from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in order to reorganize, further automobilize and possibly privatize transit and transportation across the Greater Toronto area (GTA). This and other Ford Government initiatives have put progressive transportation advocates as well as transit riders and workers on the defensive. Once more, proactive initiatives are forced onto the backburner. This includes proposals to make transit free, plans to provide mass public transit to working class neighbourhoods across the city and region, to integrate public transit, cycling and pedestrian life from the ground up, and shift transportation patterns from car and truck traffic at a regional scale. Read more: Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want

Monsanto is PISSED!

Details: Published on Saturday, 16 March 2019 13:12; Written by editor

Monsanto’s bogus research is the reason Europe didn’t ban glyphosate in 2017.

To protect Monsanto’s “commercial interests”, the EU kept this “research” a secret. Until now.

A judge has just ordered the release of these dodgy dossiers. With your donation we can use this to get toxic glyphosate banned here (and in Europe). Are you in?

If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:

Donate CA$93 now Read more: Monsanto is PISSED!

ACTIVlist Update - March 15, 2019

Details: Published on Friday, 15 March 2019 14:34; Written by editor

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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What would trade look like with a different set of values
Speaking notes from Maude Barlow's keynote presentation at the Canadian Fair Trade Network Conference held on March 2, 2019 in Ottawa, Ontario.

Congratulations to the Canadian Fair Trade Network on your 7th anniversary. I know you work more at the grassroots level, but since Justin Trudeau has never seen an international trade agreement he doesn’t love, I want to address big trade deals,...

Bell, Rogers, and Telus are freaking out

Details: Published on Friday, 15 March 2019 12:46; Written by editor

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BREAKING: The Canadian government just...

R&F.ca Weekly Update

Details: Published on Friday, 15 March 2019 01:06; Written by editor

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An Ecosocialist Green New Deal: Guiding Principles

Details: Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019 23:58; Written by editor

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1785 ... March 15, 2019
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An Ecosocialist Green New Deal: Guiding Principles

DSA Ecosocialists

Humankind has reached a moment of existential crisis. Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. We are already locked in for global warming that will have catastrophic effects, and we are on a slippery path to our own extinction. The 2018 Special Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns unequivocally 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.”

Yet, the crisis we face exceeds ecological breakdown. Deepening inequality, suppressed democracy, precarious jobs, racial and gendered violence, border...

100,000 signatures needed!

Details: Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019 09:28; Written by editor

Pizza Hut's annual shareholder meeting is coming up fast. Over 75,000 incredible SumOfUs members like you have already told the fast food giant to stop buying ingredients that destroy rainforests.

We've now been contacted by Pizza Hut's lawyers, who have taken notice of our campaign. If we can reach 100,000 signatures before the meeting, it could be enough to move Pizza Hut into action. Your fellow SumOfUs members are going to make the journey to speak at the meeting, so please sign so they can deliver a huge petition on the day!

Together, let's protect the orangutans, elephants and rare birds in danger of losing their forest homes.

Sign the petition: Tell Pizza Hut to take deforestation off the menu!

Thanks for all that you...

$375,000 per well

Details: Published on Thursday, 14 March 2019 07:04; Written by editor

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We won!

Details: Published on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:52; Written by editor

Together, we are powerful, which is why we wanted to send you this special update -- about three significant, people-powered wins we’ve achieved this week!

You rock!

A victory for workers!

SumOfUs protest in Paris during International Women's Day

SumOfUs celebrates the Turkish workers' victory during International Women's Day in Paris

On International Women’s Day 2019 SumOfUs marched in Paris to stand in solidarity with women all over the world. We also celebrated the victory of the 132 Yves Rocher workers -- mostly women -- who finally won after being fired for joining a union and demanding a better salary and safer working conditions.

After 10 months of picketing, they secured back pay, compensation, and access to unemployment benefits.

This victory is a testament to those brave women’s courage and determination, but also to the amazing international...

Searching for New Forms of Struggle

Details: Published on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 00:34; Written by editor

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1784 ... March 13, 2019
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Searching for New Forms of Struggle

João Pedro Stédile Reports on the Latin American Left from the International People’s Assembly

From February 24 to 27th, the International People’s Assembly (AIP) was held in Caracas, in solidarity with the people and government of Venezuela represented by Nicolás Maduro. Almost 500 delegates from 90 countries of the world attended the event, and one of the most ardent supporters of this initiative in the last two years is the leader of the Landless Movement of Brazil, João Pedro Stédile.

Carlos Aznarez (CA): Why an International People’s Assembly now?

João Pedro Stédile (JPS): The effort that we are making with this coordination, not substituting any other action by the parties and unions, is to try to gather all the...

ACTIVlist Update - March 12, 2019

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:54; Written by editor

#UniteAgainstRacism: All out for migrant justice!
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racism (March 21st) the newly launched Migrant Rights Network (MRN) will be coordinating the first of four cross-country days of action this year to respond to the rise of anti-immigrant protests, racially motivated attacks, and forced displacements as climate change intensifies.

How we can #StopKenney & get a just transition too
If you’ve been having trouble sleeping lately,...

CoDev E-Bulletin for Feb/March2019

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:16; Written by editor

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SNC

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:10; Written by editor

The Liberal and SNC-Lavalin's relationship is the biggest corporate scandal of the year.

Now you can let everyone know how you feel about putting corporations above the law with our easy-to-use letter to the editor tool.

Send a letter

Watching the SNC-Lavalin scandal unfold these last few weeks has been hard. And, unfortunately, this type of scandal is not a surprise. The Canadian government has a long history of snuggling up with corporations. Trudeau, particularly, has sided with pipeline corporations against Indigenous rights and the planet time and again. SNC-Lavalin is just another on the list of corporations Trudeau is willing to push aside Canadian law for.

SumOfUs exist to hold corporations accountable...

Labour in the Age of Duterte: The Pacific Plaza Strike

Details: Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2019 02:12; Written by editor

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1783 ... March 12, 2019
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Labour in the Age of Duterte: The Pacific Plaza Strike

Ia Maranon and Walden Bello

The lesson of the Pacific Plaza strike is that workers’ solidarity, not presidential promise, will end contractualization.

"Kung titingnan natin sa umpisa, pumasok ako ng Pacific nung construction pa lang, hanggang maintenance" [In the beginning, I began at the Pacific Plaza during construction, in maintenance]. This isn’t an uncommon sentiment for the workers of Pacific Plaza. Most of them have spent almost two decades tending to the needs of the residents of the lush twin-condominium towers, only to find themselves bearing the brunt of what would turn out to be one of 2018’s major labour struggles.

The Pacific Plaza workers’ strike in the heart of Bonifacio Global City...

SEA Members Meeting and more Events

Details: Published on Monday, 11 March 2019 16:26; Written by editor

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Weaponizing Citizenship Hurts Us All

Details: Published on Monday, 11 March 2019 13:44; Written by editor

© Valentina Sinis/VII/ Redux
Should citizens who left home to join ISIS be allowed to return? While international law holds that the answer is yes, the governments of both the United Kingdom and the United States are refusing to do just that. ISIS is responsible for unconscionable crimes against humanity, and it promotes ideas that are vicious and dangerous in the extreme. But citizenship rights are too important—and too foundational to the American, British, and international systems of law—to be revoked without due process. Exiling nationals is a tool of lawless tyrannies, not liberal democracies. It’s not just illegal; it’s wrong.

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