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Hello A
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- Published on Thursday, 27 December 2018 03:10
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A,
My name’s China Brotsky. I mostly work in the back office managing the budget at SumOfUs, so I don’t usually send you emails.
Before leaving the office to celebrate the holidays with my family, I always do a final check of our budget.
I just finished going through the numbers for 2019 -- and to fully fund all the important fights we face next year, we need to raise CA$364,146 by December 31.
A, will you help close the gap?
Yes, I will chip in now, so we don’t have to scale back our fight for people and planet to come before profit!
If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Read more: Hello AHelpless whales trapped
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 December 2018 13:42
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News from the Nest: What a Year for RAVEN!
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 December 2018 06:32
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The Real Face of Justin Trudeau
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 December 2018 04:24
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1729 ... December 26, 2018
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The Real Face of Justin Trudeau
Ramzy Baroud
How does one explain Canada's contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada's commitment not to follow the footsteps of the U.S. Donald Trump Administration by transferring its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But there is little worth praising here. Respecting the internationally-recognized status of Jerusalem is legally-binding commitment to international law. The fact that the U.S. chose to violate the law, hardly makes the opposite act heroic in itself.
Only five days earlier, on November 30, Canada joined a tiny minority of states, including Israel, the U.S., Australia and the Marshall Islands to vote ‘no’ against a United Nations...
Dewayne Johnson
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 December 2018 03:14
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Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, the father of three who’s suing Monsanto, just sent us an important message to pass on to you.
In August, a court ruled that Monsanto’s toxic herbicide glyphosate was responsible for the school groundskeeper’s terminal cancer. But parent company Bayer is appealing the case, doing everything it can to make sure Johnson doesn’t see a cent of compensation during his lifetime. In the meantime, he’s been barely scraping by on social security.
That’s why it means so much that more than 5,600 of you chipped in to help out Lee and his family. Last week, we wired him your donations -- over $28,000! -- and we received this email from him in response:
“To the members and non-members who donated...
Leftists Need Holidays, Too -- All Power to the Imagination!
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 December 2018 18:00
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Give the Gift of Collective Bargaining This Holiday Season
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- Published on Monday, 24 December 2018 06:58
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COP24: No Response to the Crisis
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- Published on Monday, 24 December 2018 04:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1728 ... December 24, 2018
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COP24: No Response to the Crisis:
Why the Outcome of Katowice is Far From Sufficient
Nadja Charaby, Maria Theresa Lauron, Till Bender, Katja Voigt, Tadzio Müller and Alanah Torralba
The climate crisis is looming large and threatens to go beyond our capabilities. In addition, COP24 at Katowice has decided on a rulebook that in parts both lacks in substance and is unjust. The resolutions agreed are not enough to prevent disaster, by a long shot.
The sobering result of the UN climate summit is that global elites are not taking the climate crisis seriously enough. In its 1.5 degrees special report, the IPCC warns that for every additional tenth of a degree of global warming, there will be even more catastrophic effects on the...
Thank you, A
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- Published on Monday, 24 December 2018 01:12
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A,
Usually, when you get emails from SumOfUs, we are asking you do something: sign a petition, call a politician, donate to make this lawsuit happen. But today, all I really have to say is: thank you.
As the year draws to a close, I wanted to let you know how grateful I am. You do so much, day in and day out to help make our world a better place for us and the generations to come.
We couldn’t accomplish our mission of putting people over profits without you. So from everyone here at SumOfUs, this one’s for you:
I wish you all the best wishes for your holidays and a wonderful start to the New Year.
Thanks for all that you do,
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- Published on Sunday, 23 December 2018 07:06
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From all of us at SumOfUs, thank you! 2018 was the year that you helped expose dirty palm oil, and profiteering companies like Pepsi & Nestlé.
Just imagine what more we can achieve together in 2019, to protect palm oil workers, our rainforests, and the precious orangutans that call it home.
A, thanks for all you've done. Click for a special holiday message just for you...
In 2018, your actions with SumOfUs helped get Nestlé to cut ties with conflict palm oil company Indofood and won industry sanctions against Indofood too!
Then, over 150,000 people helped expose human trafficking on Procter & Gamble’s business partner Felda’s plantations...
The Fight to Rebuild and Improve Public Healthcare
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- Published on Sunday, 23 December 2018 03:18
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 18 November 2018
The Fight to Rebuild and Improve Public Healthcare
On the campaign trail in the lead up to the 2018 Ontario election, the right-wing conservative Doug Ford raised problems with the provincial healthcare system and promised his constituents that “help is on the way.” Now that Ford is Ontario’s conservative Premier, he is not helping the healthcare system, but putting it – and this vital public service – on the chopping block. Ford is placing our health and the health of our families in the hands of those whose primary concern is to profit, not to meet our needs. How do we stop this? How can we organize to collectively improve rather than privatize and destroy this public good? The last time anything threatening as this happened in...
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Setback in Hungary as president signs "slave law" - and what we do next
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- Published on Sunday, 23 December 2018 02:18
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Fundraising shortfall (This is not good.)
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- Published on Saturday, 22 December 2018 04:20
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Paov—I just wanted to make sure you saw my email. We need to have every resource available to fight for our Internet in 2019. Will you donate right now to have your gift DOUBLED...
Only 0.7%
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- Published on Saturday, 22 December 2018 03:14
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A, I know this is a busy time of year. But I really need your help today.
You’ve shown up time and again when big companies step out of line.
But did you know just 0.7% of SumOfUs members chip in regularly to keep it all going?
If we’re going to save our bees, stop orangutans going extinct, challenge the rise of the far-right, and protect our rights from corporate abuse… well put simply, we need you to help out.
Please can you chip in monthly to put people and planet before profit?
RAVEN's 2018 Victories
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- Published on Friday, 21 December 2018 07:18
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Québec Solidaire Reviews the Election and Maps Campaign on Climate Crisis
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- Published on Friday, 21 December 2018 04:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1727 ... December 21, 2018
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Québec Solidaire Reviews the Election and Maps Campaign on Climate Crisis
Richard Fidler
Québec solidaire (QS) will make climate change the party’s main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside of the National Assembly. The campaign will build on the major proposals in the QS economic transition plan featured in the recent Quebec general election.
Meeting in Montréal on December 7th to the 9th, the party’s National Council (CN), which comprises delegates from its constituency associations and other membership bodies, debated and adopted a "political balance sheet" of the October 1 election, in which Québec solidaire doubled its share of the popular vote to 16% and elected ten deputies to the National Assembly.
In addition to adopting a leadership...
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 21 December 2018 02:32
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This Christmas, Canadian postal workers need your solidarity
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- Published on Thursday, 20 December 2018 23:36
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