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Resist Doug Ford!
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Resist Doug Ford!
Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, Calls on Workers to Resist Doug Ford.
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2019 09:58
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Hi Paov,
First of all, happy new year! Hope you’re having a good start to the...
NOW: Lekwungen Territory Day of Action for Unist'ot'en and Gidimt'en
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2019 09:54
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Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2019 03:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1736 ... January 8, 2019
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Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
Nathan Legrand and Éric Toussaint
The violent repression against demonstrators protesting brutal neoliberal policies, which resulted in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is just one of the reasons why different leftist social movements have condemned the Nicaraguan regime led by President Daniel Ortega and Vice-president Rosario Murillo. The Left has many more reasons to denounce the policies of the regime. To understand this, we must go back to 1979.
The Sandinista Revolution
1979 saw the victory of an authentic revolution in Nicaragua that combined a popular uprising, self-organization of cities and neighborhoods in rebellion, and the action of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (in Spanish -- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional...
URGENT indigenous solidarity
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- Published on Monday, 07 January 2019 22:10
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URGENT: The RCMP are moving in on moving in on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory to enforce Coastal GasLink's injunction for its fracked gas pipeline.
Find an event near you to be in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation in their fight to protect their territory from this dangerous pipeline
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URGENT: Militarized RCMP officers have descended onto the Wet'suwet'en Nation and are trying to force a path for a massive fracked gas pipeline.
Coastal GasLink wants to construct a massive fracked gas pipeline through...
free and open internet
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- Published on Monday, 07 January 2019 08:14
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We have less than a week to make sure Canada protects the internet from corporate control.
Tell the CRTC to update the rules that govern Canada’s internet to keep corporations like Bell from threatening net neutrality.
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We have a massive opportunity right now to influence the regulations that govern the internet. The Broadcasting and Telecommunications legislation -- written in 1991 before the internet was a household norm -- is currently up for review by the federal government.
In the last...
NAFTA Renewed. Now What?
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- Published on Monday, 07 January 2019 03:36
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1735 ... January 7, 2019
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NAFTA Renewed. Now What?
Sam Gindin
On September 30, 2018, a month after the U.S. and Mexico moved toward replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada joined to produce a new continental trade agreement. The new pact, as highlighted in the article below (written just after Canada signed on) focused especially on securing automotive jobs in the U.S. and Canada. The two governments celebrated the agreement, joined especially by the leadership of Unifor, representing Canadian autoworkers. The American autoworker’s union, the UAW, was more cautious and the Mexican government was relieved that the pressures to limit production in Mexico were restrained. Within weeks, General Motors (GM) dramatically confirmed the limits of the agreement, announcing the closure of four plants in the U.S. and...
Solidarity with the Gitdumten and
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- Published on Sunday, 06 January 2019 18:40
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Hotels vs Housing?
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- Published on Sunday, 06 January 2019 05:14
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 21 November 2018
Hotels vs Housing?
Platforms, Rent and Resistance in Toronto
Whether it is called the collaborative, platform, crowd-sourcing, or ‘sharing’ economy, the rise of peer-to-peer exchanges raises important questions for workers and unions. Do emerging platforms such as Uber and AirBnB mark a significant shift in rent-seeking production and distribution systems? Are they emancipatory or exploitive? How can they be regulated across multiple jurisdictions and multiple platforms (e.g., AirBnB, Homestay, Uber, Lyft)? Despite the early success of these services with consumers, there are contradictions for the future of work. New digital platforms continue to erode traditional employment relationships and threaten unionized jobs in existing sectors. Short-term rentals facilitated by platforms such as AirBnB have created ‘ghost hotels’ that undermine rental housing markets and the traditional hotel sector and...
ACTIVlist Update - January 4, 2019: Happy New Year!
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2019 11:24
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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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Council of Canadians chapters have been busy organizing for water and climate justice to kick off 2019!
The 8 wildest things Teck said at the hearings for its mega tar sands mine
Making the case for a new 260,000 barrel per day, $20 billion, 41-year-lifespan tar sands mine in an era of climate crisis requires some impressive creativity.
Why we're intervening in the Sask. carbon pricing case
NAFTA 2.0: Nothing for Workers
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2019 05:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1734 ... January 4, 2019
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NAFTA 2.0: Nothing for Workers
Bruce Allen
The year 2019 begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 2.0 already standing exposed as another corporate trade agreement with no one, including union leaders, having paid attention to what has just happened with respect to it. Specifically, the highly praised Labour chapter to the new trade agreement (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) that was formally signed in Buenos Aires on November 30 concluded with the following declaration. "It is the expectation of the Parties that Mexico shall adopt legislation described above before January 1, 2019. It is further understood that entry into force of the agreement may be delayed until such legislation becomes effective."
The legislation described above in the Labour chapter would make sweeping improvements...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2019 02:06
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The loneliest elephant?
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- Published on Thursday, 03 January 2019 13:04
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SEA Members Meeting Jan 8th @ 5:30pm
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- Published on Thursday, 03 January 2019 10:52
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Finish signing “a: Lets put Lotta
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 January 2019 21:10
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Thank You A
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 January 2019 03:12
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Happy New Year A!
I want to start 2019 by saying thank you for being a SumOfUs member.
Our victories throughout 2018 would not have been possible if it weren’t for the support of SumOfUs members like you. Whether it’s signing a petition or funding a campaign, you make the work we do to hold corporations accountable possible.
So thanks again for your continued support A. I could not be more excited about this new year and to have you on this journey as we continue to fight to protect human rights for the most vulnerable people, and protect our environment from those destroying it for profit.
May this new year bring you much success and good health for you and your loved ones.
Best Wishes,
Hannah and the team at SumOfUs
Seasons Greetings from Frances Yellow Vests
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 January 2019 02:38
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1733 ... January 2, 2019
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Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: "We Are Not Tired"
Richard Greeman
Is the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) rebellion, now in its seventh week, "petering out?" Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to participate and to observe first-hand this popular insurrection which I had been afraid of missing.
I needn’t have worried. By nine o’clock last Saturday morning (December 22), hundreds of Yellow Vest demonstrators were gathering for a peaceful march to the Préfecture (local seat of government) chanting "We’re not tired" and carrying placards reading "We are not casseurs (vandals) or pyromaniacs. Peaceful." The mood was bon enfant ("jolly") with demonstrators en famille including the children and old folks in wheelchairs. Marching...
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