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The State of Mining Today
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- Published on Sunday, 09 December 2018 03:46
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 12 November 2018
The State of Mining Today
The Mt. Polley tailing dam tragedy in BC took place in August 2014, spilling 25 million cubic meters of toxic waste. On November 5, Brazilians commemorate the 3rd anniversary of an even bigger catastrophe at Mariana, Brazil, when a reservoir of toxic mine waste collapsed, killing 19 people, spilling 32 million cubic meters of waste, and creating a toxic tsunami down the 650 km Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
The circumstances leading to the socio-environmental catastrophes and the responses to them by mining companies, governments, and civil society tell us a lot about the state of mining today. The issues range from corporate impunity, to dangerous practices in mine waste management, to regulatory capture of governments by the mining industry, and...
We're running out of time to stop copyright tax
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- Published on Saturday, 08 December 2018 06:10
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Paov,
Corporations are lobbying Parliament for a greedy wish list of revisions to the Copyright Act.
...Tiny town v Nestlé
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- Published on Saturday, 08 December 2018 03:14
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Nestlé is sucking up a tiny township’s water supply.
Now the community are heading to court to protect their most precious resource.
But they’re facing spiralling legal costs and Nestlé’s bullying tactics. So they need your help to keep their fight going.
Will you please chip in CA$93 to stop Nestlé’s corporate water grab?
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- Published on Friday, 07 December 2018 11:22
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LIVESTREAM: Maude Barlow at Water Matters – Nobel Week Dialogue
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 Council of Canadians’ Honorary Chairperson Maude Barlow will be in Stockholm this Sunday for “Water Matters,” as part of the official Nobel Week programme. Maude will be delivering a keynote speech, as well as moderating a panel and speaking on another panel. The Nobel Week Dialogue is highlighting Barlow’s role in getting the human right to water recognized at the United Nations,...
Victory: Jailed airport workers set free following our campaign
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- Published on Friday, 07 December 2018 05:34
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Taking on the GM Shutdown: Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control
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- Published on Friday, 07 December 2018 03:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1717 ... December 7, 2018
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Taking on the GM Shutdown: Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control
Socialist Project Steering Committee
General Motor’s plan to end production at its Oshawa plant at the end of 2019 is a callous, cynical act by the U.S.-based multinational auto giant that needs to be challenged. After accepting $13.7-billion bailout offered by the Canadian public to the big automakers back in 2008 to keep GM and Chrysler alive (one third of which will never be recovered), the company plans will leave 2500 workers at the plant out of work, with perhaps further spinoff losses of jobs and taxes. This is a brutal blow for the home of industrial unionism in Canada and one of the long-time centres of Canadian auto production.
From the point of...
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 07 December 2018 02:02
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Cadbury
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 23:12
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Cadbury is supporting deforestation by refusing to commit to sourcing only sustainably grown cocoa beans.
Tell Cadbury to make a commitment to agroforestry, go deforestation-free worldwide, and help bring back the rainforests!
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‘Twas a few weeks before Christmas, and all through the trees
Not a creature was stirring, thanks to Cadbury.
This holiday season, stockings will fill with chocolate Santas, Toblerone triangles, Milka bars, and more goodies from Cadbury and its parent company Mondelez. But that sweetness comes with a bitter aftertaste: Mondelez could still be using unsustainably grown cocoa, fuelling the loss of tropical rainforests.
2020 is too long to wait for climate ambition
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 08:14
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Friends,
Yesterday, Catherine Mckenna – Canada’s Environment Minister – announced that by 2020, Canada would have a new, more ambitious climate target. This is good news, especially since McKenna and Justin Trudeau have been using Stephen Harper’s ridiculously weak targets up until now.
We can’t afford to wait until 2020 for our governments to put forward a bold plan for tackling climate change. With an election in 2019, we need a plan, and we need it now.
That’s why, this Friday, we’ll be delivering the call for a Good Work Guarantee to the...
Coal Valley
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 08:06
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We need your input!
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 07:18
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Dear Paov,
What do YOU think OpenMedia should work on next year? When it comes to fighting censorship, out of control surveillance and sky-high cell phone bills, our best ideas come from our incredible community members, like you. OpenMedia...
Dont be evil
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 04:22
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Right now, the Chinese government is detaining a million people in internment camps -- just because they’re Muslim. And yet Google is developing a censored search engine for China, legitimising the government’s brutal human rights record.
Tell Google to cancel the project now.
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Right now at least a million people are being detained in mass internment camps by the Chinese authorities simply because they’re Muslim.
And yet, Google is currently developing a censored search engine for China.
Google is helping the Chinese government whitewash its brutal human rights record -- and even Google’s own employees are fighting back.
The new app -- dubbed ‘Dragonfly’ -- could be launched in as little...
The Far Right, the Hard Right, and Our Fight Against Them
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2018 04:22
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1716 ... December 6, 2018
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The Far Right, the Hard Right, and Our Fight Against Them
David Camfield
The massacre of worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh by a far-right shooter and the election of fascist politician Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil on the same October weekend were a double blow to people on the left who understand the significance of these events. The high-profile public debate in Toronto between David Frum and Steve Bannon later in the week only added to the effect.
The Pittsburgh massacre and Bolsonaro’s win are not exceptions to the way political currents are flowing in most of the world. They are horrifying in themselves. But they are also horrifying because they are part of a trend of growing support for political forces...
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Glyphosate
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 December 2018 07:28
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A jury recently ruled that Monsanto and its pesticide, glyphosate, caused Mr. Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. But instead of accepting responsibility, the company is shamefully choosing to fight the former school groundskeeper suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
We are reaching out to you again, because we need your support to ensure dignity and justice for Mr. Dewayne Johnson and thousands of others who are coming forward with claims of illness due to exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate.
Mr. Johnson has a right to enjoy the last few months of his life with his wife and kids, not in a bitter battle with a mega corporation’s lies about the safety of glyphosate.
Perfetti Van Melle workers in Bangladesh are still fighting, still need your support
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 December 2018 05:28
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Oshawa and Postal Workers: Big and Small Lies We Accept
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 December 2018 03:48
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1715 ... December 5, 2018
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Oshawa and Postal Workers: Big and Small Lies We Accept
Harry Glasbeek
In 1979, Canada’s postal union (CUPW) bargained and bargained with the employer. Eventually, having exhausted all possibilities, it made the decision, supported by a huge majority of its voting members, that its members would no longer provide their services on the basis of the existing terms and conditions of the now expired collective agreement. Workers had determined, democratically, not to sell their labour power on those terms. In a liberal democracy, they had every right to take such a decision. Only a slave society would deny them this right.
The government of Canada decided otherwise. Unlike the union it did not consult its constituency. It enacted legislation to order the postal union...
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Cancer patient vs. Monsanto
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 December 2018 03:10
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Are you ready to take the fight against Monsanto to the next level? Thousands of people have cancer after using Monsanto’s toxic weedkiller RoundUp. We want to help them access their legal rights to bring Monsanto & Bayer to justice, and stop glyphosate for good.
Can you please chip in CA$92 to take on Bayer and Monsanto?
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I’ve just come off the phone with Mr. Johnson, the father of three suing Monsanto for giving him cancer. We just wired him $28,000 -- money that incredible SumOfUs members like you donated. Despite winning the lawsuit, Mr. Johnson is not seeing a single penny of the damages Monsanto owes him. Monsanto is refusing to...
BREAKING: CPPIB shuts down Q&A session
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2018 15:22
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I have some incredible things to tell you. I was at the last public meeting for the CPP Investment Board last week and I'm so proud to report that, because of members like you, the CPP heard loud and clear that you do not want your retirement savings to be invested in US private prison corporations.
It started last Monday, when a group of committed folks braved the rain and wind in Vancouver to attend one of the CPP Investment Board's public meetings where they demanded action on getting our retirement savings out of Trump’s immigration prisons that detain children and families.
This group braved 80km/hr winds to get their message to...
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