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ACTIVlist Update - January 25, 2019
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Campbell River chapter continues efforts to convince council to ban plastic bags
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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The Campbell River chapter of the Council of Canadians is working with local environmental groups to try to convince their city council to ban the use of plastic bags in their community.
Chapters This Week
In addition to rallying for the climate, pharmacare, democracy and water, Council of Canadians chapters activists continue to stand in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en. Look for...
The tax that just won't die
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 07:56
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Paov,
Parliament is considering adopting an Internet tax on all ISPs in Canada—and we will foot the bill.
The CRTC and the CBC are...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 01:46
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A Political Instrument Appropriate for Each Reality
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2019 01:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1748 ... January 25, 2019
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A Political Instrument Appropriate for Each Reality
Marta Harnecker
A. Why Is a Political Organization Necessary?
1. The recent mobilizations occurring in Latin America and in the world confirm what Lenin wrote in 1914: "Without organization the masses lack unity of will" and without that they cannot struggle against the "powerful terrorist military organization" of the Capitalist states.
2. In order for political action to be effective, so that protests, resistance and struggles are genuinely able to change things, to convert mass uprisings into revolutions, a political instrument capable of overcoming the dispersion and fragmentation of the exploited and the oppressed is required: one that can create spaces to bring together those who, in spite of their differences, have a common enemy; that...
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We want to hear from you
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- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2019 14:08
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Dear Paov,
2019 is a big year. Between a pivotal federal election in October and major upcoming decisions on some massive fossil fuel projects, including the TransMountain pipeline, our 350.org Canada team expects to stay quite busy throughout.
As we build our strategy for the months ahead, we want to know what you’re excited and worried about this new year. Can you fill out a quick survey to share your thoughts?
To be perfectly frank, last year was one of the strangest ones I’ve experienced in a long time. Canada’s tumultuous energy and climate politics took us for a rollercoaster ride.
Despite this, it’s no small feat that Indigenous-led resistance to the TransMountain pipeline drove Texas-based oil giant, Kinder...
Annual renewal notice 2019
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- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2019 13:28
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It's time to renew!
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...[CFSC E-News] CFSC stands with all Wetsuweten people
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- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2019 11:58
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Download the CFSC E-News in PDF (scroll down for links).
Wet’suwet’en protests and rally, January 18, 2019
CFSC stands with all Wet’suwet’en people
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ACTIVlist Update - January 24, 2019
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WIN! Doug Ford backs down on Bill 66!
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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The Ontario government just announced it will drop the worst part of Bill 66 – and it’s thanks to people power!
Alberta: Add your voice to protect the Bighorn
Late last year, the Alberta government made an exciting $40 million proposal to create a series of protected areas and parks in the area next to Jasper and Banff known as Bighorn Country. The plan would...
The results are in
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- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:18
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The results are in! Find out what SumOfUs members thought in 2018.
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WOW -- last month, almost 4,000 SumOfUs members in Canada took our survey to develop a people powered-plan for 2019 to fight for people and the planet over corporate profits. That’s more responses than we imagined. Thank you.
The results are in! The issue you care about most right now is climate change, with 61% saying it’s the most important issue facing the world right now.
We listened by supporting the Wet'suwet'en people's fight...
'It was frickin' epic'
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Death threats against teacher trade unionists
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- Published on Thursday, 24 January 2019 07:12
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Help stop greed at Saskatoon Co-op!
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Freedom of Speech in Capitalism
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:46
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 10 ... January 24 2019
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Freedom of Speech in Capitalism w/ Samir Gandesha
What does a socialist conception of free speech look like? Can we really trust the capitalist state to protect the free speech rights of socialist critics? As free speech has become an increasingly explosive issue within our liberal societies, Oats chatted with Samir Gandesha of Simon Fraser University to get a better sense of what’s going on. Along the way we talk about the politics of free speech, the hypocrisy of the Right on this issue, and what a potential socialist alternative may look like.
Samir Gandesha is an associate professor in the department of the humanities and the director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
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A link to the Youtube video of the Migrant Caravan Webinar
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:02
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Young people are rising to shift the power
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 January 2019 13:18
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Friend,
In just under a month, hundreds of young people from all across Canada will gather in Ottawa for PowerShift: Young and Rising.
It’s been 10 years since the first national PowerShift. Over the last decade, these gatherings built a robust movement of youth fighting to keep fossil fuels in the ground, divest institutions from Big Oil, and build a 100% renewable future. This year’s event will add to this legacy.
Are you between 18-35 and eager to build your toolset as a climate justice organizer? Register now to join Powershift Young & Rising in Ottawa from February 14th - 18th.
The Powershift Young & Rising convergence will feature an exciting curriculum including a non-violent direct action skills track, a social justice art space, political organizing workshops, and keynote addresses from inspiring Indigenous land defenders.
I personally look forward to discussing...
For the University, For the Society
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 January 2019 02:38
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1747 ... January 23, 2019
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For the University, For the Society:
How the Student Protest in Albania Became the First Massive Resistance to Neoliberalism
Edlira Xhafa
Early December 2018. It all started as a seemingly spontaneous explosion of student anger against the fees imposed on students for ‘re-sit exams’ in one faculty. It almost immediately brought together thousands of students from various faculties from the University of Tirana, and soon after from the University of Agriculture in Tirana. They all came together in front of the Ministry of Education. Inspired by their fellow students in Tirana, in the following days students from other universities in the major cities of Albania organized similar protests at their own universities and some even came down to join the student protest in front of...
THANK YOU, Paov!
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 January 2019 08:18
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Dear Paov,
As we gear up to take on new battles to protect the Internet in 2019, we are also reminiscing on all the amazing work the OpenMedia community did throughout 2018 and we’d like...
Markets Good, Public Bad: The False Promises of Market Populism
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:56
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1746 ... January 22, 2019
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Markets Good, Public Bad: The False Promises of
Market PopulismIngo Schmidt
Ruling elites stand naked. No more hoping for a rising tide to lift all boats. No more waiting for the trickle down. Fears of drowning in the maelstroms of global finance abound. Feelings of powerlessness among the have-a-little-bits and have-nots fuel the hate of the even more down-trodden and the yearning for the good old welfare state. Bereft of their market populist cover, ruling elites publicly bemoan the rise of xenophobic populism on the right but are really concerned about flares of left populism that might develop into a challenge to the unbridled power of capital.
Yet, the anti-populism from above is helpless in several ways. First, it is blind to the...
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