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GM Oshawa: Making Hope Possible
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- Published on Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:18
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1721 ... December 13, 2018
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GM Oshawa: Making Hope Possible
Sam Gindin
The once unimaginable -- the end of GM Oshawa -- seems on the verge of becoming the new reality. If there is any lesson to be learned here it is that overturning this imposed reality can’t be achieved by traditional protest and traditional alternatives. Continuing our dependence on unaccountable corporations, offering subsidies and concessions without means to enforce job guarantees, making competitiveness the only test of worthwhile activity, looking to ‘better’ free trade agreements and so on, are dead ends. All they offer is more of the same: death by a thousand cuts.
Imagining a radically different and more democratic approach based on community and national planning -- opening the door to the formerly unthinkable -- may,...
Picture me scrollin'
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- Published on Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:02
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CoDev Holiday Open House - Just One Day Away!
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:32
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Rally All Out for Unist'ot'en! Dec 13 @ 11:45am
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:18
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Make sure these critical voices are heard
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:04
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Fighting for compassion and choice
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...You made this happen
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 04:14
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All through this year, SumOfUs members like you have taken the fight to some of the biggest and worst behaved companies in the world.
Your passion and commitment to fight for people and planet over profit has made huge changes and touched people all over the world. You’ve given me so much hope for our future.
So I wanted to share with you just a taste of what you, me, and millions of other members have achieved together.
None of this would have been possible without you. You power every win. These victories are yours.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do.
To doing this and more in 2019,
Tricia and the team at SumOfUs
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Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1720 ... December 12, 2018
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Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Judith Deutsch
Thinking in siloes about the climate and about our planet's people puts us at risk of increasing climate disruption and massive loss of life. This year the climate meeting, COP24, is in Katowice, Poland, from December 3 to December 14.
These international meetings were set up by the United Nations and led to the Kyoto Protocol, calling for a 6%-8% greenhouse gas reduction below a 1990 baseline by the end of 2012 and aimed to keep warming to 2C above the 1800 baseline. At this time, emissions continue to rise precipitously. The climate meetings are consistently plagued by evasive goals regarding emissions reduction and temperature targets, and by delayed funding for poorer nations.
Several years...
Labelling vegetarian food
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:04
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ACTIVlist Update - December 11, 2018 - A win for voters rights
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 11:26
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NAFTA 2.0 a “deal for the corporate one per cent”
Read more: ACTIVlist Update - December 11, 2018 - A win for voters rights
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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U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a trade agreement to replace NAFTA at the end of November – a deal that groups, including the Council of Canadians, say is still fundamentally flawed.
New film argues the existence of the “Corporate Coup d’État”
“It could be argued that we are now in the midst...
Help end discrimination in policing
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 07:54
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Demand police accountability
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...The tar sands are flailing. Now what?
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 06:10
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The Homelessness Crisis Deepens Across North America
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 04:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1719 ... December 11, 2018
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The Homelessness Crisis Deepens Across North America
John Clarke
As an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, I am only too aware of how much worse the homeless crisis has become in this city over the last three years. As a result of community pressure, City Hall issues a daily shelter census. In a whole series of ways, the official process understates the problem but the picture that emerges is, nonetheless, quite dreadful. In the largest and wealthiest city in Canada, the homeless shelters are bursting at the seams.
For years, the official city policy has called for a maximum occupancy level of 90% to be maintained but the figures that are released make a mockery of this. In fact,...
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The future of the Internet
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 13:26
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The government of Canada is reviewing the laws that govern our communications systems, including the Internet, and this is our best chance to put the public interest...
ACTIVlist Update - December 10, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 11:42
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Maude Barlow delivers speech and leads panel at Nobel Week Dialogue
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Council of Canadians Honorary Chairperson Maude Barlow, a world renowned water warrior, spoke to a packed auditorium about the future of water as part of the Nobel Week Dialogue.
New Brunswick eyes “partial lift” of fracking moratorium
New Brunswick now has a Progressive Conservative government in place, under the leadership of pro-fracking and pro-Energy East pipeline Blaine Higgs.
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Demand police accountability
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 10:02
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7 days to #fundthefuture
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...Premonitions: Fragments of a Culture of Revolt
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 04:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1718 ... December 10, 2018
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Premonitions: Fragments of a Culture of Revolt
AK Thompson’s newest book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt, is focused on strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work, and don’t, and what they yet may be. AK Press interviews Thompson here on some of the ideas that are central to the book.
AK Press (AKP): Let’s start by having you explain the title of the book, Premonitions. You’ve chosen it in relation to the titles of the two classic collections of Walter Benjamin’s essays, Illuminations and Reflections. How do you see your work in relation to Benjamin’s and what analytical premises are implied by "premonitions"?
AK Thompson (AKT): Walter Benjamin’s contributions have always struck me as being a powerful corrective...
Tiny town v Nestlé
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- Published on Monday, 10 December 2018 03:46
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A tiny township needs your help to protect its precious water from Nestlé. Legal costs are spiralling and Nestlé is still trying to bully the community into backing down.
The residents of Osceola are asking for your support: a donation from you today -- no matter how small -- will help this little community fight back against Nestlé’s might.
Can you chip in to help Osceola residents continue the fight to protect their most precious resource?
If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate CA$94 now Read more: Tiny town v NestléChupa Chups, Arthur Svensson and Twitter
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Carbon offsets for Indigenous rights?!?
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- Published on Sunday, 09 December 2018 07:44
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