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The fight continues
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2018 15:02
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...ACTIVlist Update - November 21, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2018 12:06
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Are trees the new coal?
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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Last week the South Shore chapter and the Ecology Action Centre screened "Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?” and found the crowd was eager to take action on forestry issues in Nova Scotia.
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Palm oil victory!
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:26
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BREAKING: we won on palm oil -- again! SumOfUs members like you just persuaded the global palm oil regulator, the RSPO, to strengthen its rules against deforestation and worker exploitation.
That’s another win for orangutans, our rainforests and palm oil workers!
Thousands of you emailed and tweeted at the RSPO, ahead of a crucial vote last week at the palm oil event of the year -- held in the heart of orangutan territory, in Malaysian Borneo. Together, we persuaded the RSPO’s membership of civil society organizations, palm oil traders, growers, and big brands, to improve the industry standards. That’s a huge win for people power.
However, without proper enforcement, these new ‘Principles & Criteria’ won’t be worth more than the paper they're printed on....
In and Against the State
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:58
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In and Against the State
Recorded at The World Transformed (#TWT2018), a 4-day politics, arts and music festival running alongside the Labour Party Conference, working to build left power both inside and outside of Parliament.
Moderated by Dan Hind. Presentations by:
- Hilary Wainwright - Sociologist, political activist and author, fellow of the Transnational Institute and editor of Red Pepper magazine.
- Mark Serwotka - General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union
- Francesca Bria - Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona. Founder of the Decode Project.
- John McDonnell MP - Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington
In recent decades the British state has been transformed, with the private sector taking over many of its key functions. Can what remains be radically...
Myanmar hotel workers fighting for their rights need your support!
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:08
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Read more: Myanmar hotel workers fighting for their rights need your support!
Airbnb
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:14
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Great News! Yesterday people all over the world celebrated an important victory for Palestinian human rights.
After years of sustained pressure, tech giant Airbnb finally agreed to remove all of its listings located in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. This move deals a huge blow to the settlement activity that displaces, destroys, and steals Palestinian land.
Not only is settlement expansion wrong, it is against international law and in violation of the Geneva Conventions. And until yesterday, Airbnb, a 38 billion dollar corporation, continued to profit off these illegal listings. This victory sends a strong message we will hold all corporations accountable for attempting to profit off of human rights abuses in Palestine.
You are one of the people that...
Trump's baby jails
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 09:56
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The CPP is investing millions of your retirement savings in the US private prison corporations carrying out horrific immigration detention of children and families in the US.
But we may be on the cusp of forcing them to divest.
Can you chip in to get a critical public opinion poll into the field ASAP to get the CPP out of prisons now?
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Donate CA$92 now Read more: Trump's baby jailsThailand: Mitsubishi Electric humiliates workers - time for global labour solidarity
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- Published on Monday, 19 November 2018 23:06
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Read more: Thailand: Mitsubishi Electric humiliates workers - time for global labour solidarity
Climate considerations stopped another pipeline?
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- Published on Monday, 19 November 2018 15:08
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Dear friends,
As you probably heard, we got some good news recently. On Thursday, November 8th, a US Judge ordered TransCanada to cease all construction activities on the Keystone XL pipeline, quashing Donald Trump’s presidential permit for the massive tar sands pipeline due to inadequate considerations for climate change. This is a massive delay and a huge milestone for the movement behind this moment.
For over a decade, Indigenous leaders, farmers and ranchers, and their allies around the world have been fighting to stop this pipeline. Despite every obstacle thrown our way, the movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground has kept this pipeline and many more from being built. Let’s take inspiration from their work in our fight against the TransMountain pipeline.
Tomorrow’s the last day to submit our comments to...
Friendly Reminder SEA Meeting on Tuesday at a new location
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- Published on Monday, 19 November 2018 10:20
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Dewayne Johnson
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- Published on Monday, 19 November 2018 02:06
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A jury has ruled that Monsanto's toxic weedkiller, glyphosate, caused a man's terminal cancer.
This could be a landmark precedent with the potential to do huge damage to Bayer & Monsanto. Even ultimately ridding the world of glyphosate for good, but it’s going to be a long fight.
Please will you chip in monthly to take on the chemical giants?
Enough is enough: Tell Kazakhstan's government to stop attacks on trade unionists
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- Published on Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:34
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Hard Question, No Answers
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- Published on Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:46
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1707 ... November 19, 2018
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Hard Question, No Answers
Jeff Noonan
I knew it would be coming: an essay in The Bullet trumpeting the "breakthrough" of Québec Solidaire (QS) in the recent Québec election. I agree: it was a breakthrough. QS increased its seat totals from 3 to 10, and won 16 per cent of the popular vote (over 600,000 votes). Unfortunately, their right-wing rivals, the Coalition Avenir Québec, won 7 times as many seats and almost three times as many votes. Québec thus joins Ontario in having dumped a Liberal for a right-wing populist party. The two largest Canadian provinces join the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia in electing parties with openly anti-immigrant platforms.
The question that the QS results...
The Monsanto Papers scandal has just hit Canada.
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- Published on Sunday, 18 November 2018 04:10
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Breaking: Health Canada used fraudulent studies written by Monsanto to renew the registration for Monsanto’s own toxic glyphosate for 15 years.
Call on Health Canada to immediately reopen the registration of glyphosate now, without Monsanto’s falsified studies.
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Health Canada used fraudulent studies written by Monsanto employees to renew the registration for Monsanto’s carcinogenic pesticide, glyphosate, for 15 years.
Monsanto hired researchers to sign scientific studies written by its own employees to minimize the risks associated with glyphosate, the ingredient...
Capitalism: A Crime Story
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- Published on Saturday, 17 November 2018 19:18
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 16 October 2018
Capitalism: A Crime Story
Harry Glasbeek is an award-winning author of many titles and is a law professor who once taught a notoriously popular course at Osgoode Law School: The Corporation as Criminal. His latest books have been called “profound and fascinating” by Linda McQuaig. He has also been lauded as a “fearless, daunting crusader for the public good in the face of corporate greed” by economist Jim Stanford.
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Killing rhinos for medicine?
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- Published on Saturday, 17 November 2018 11:04
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Net Neutrality under attack
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- Published on Saturday, 17 November 2018 05:16
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I just wanted to make sure you saw this email I sent earlier in the week.
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ACTIVlist Update - November 16, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 16 November 2018 12:06
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Anti-fracking reunion held in Moncton outside MEA conference
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The Maritimes Energy Association hosted another conference promoting fossil fuel expansion in the region yesterday, this time in Moncton with the focus on natural gas.
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