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Volunteer positions now open!
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- Published on Friday, 16 November 2018 08:02
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Volunteer positions now open!
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...R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 16 November 2018 01:32
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Migrant Caravans Challenge the Continents Governments
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- Published on Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:18
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1706 ... November 16, 2018
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Migrant Caravans Challenge the Continent’s Governments
Dan La Botz
Central American migrants, both desperate and courageous, have thrust themselves into the center of Mexican and U.S. politics with their demand for refuge and asylum. As the head of the NGO Pueblos Sin Fronteras told a reporter, "This isn’t just a caravan, it’s an exodus created by hunger and death."
The thousands of migrants organized in caravans and walking north from Central America, through Mexico, and to the United States -- some 3,000 miles -- have raised a challenge to the governments and to the people of North America. Driven by poverty and violence, their long march is an implicit critique of the Central American governments that have failed to protect them and have made...
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The appeal
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- Published on Thursday, 15 November 2018 15:00
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We can end indefinite solitary
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...ACTIVlist Update - November 15, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 15 November 2018 11:44
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VIDEO: How to make your community a Blue Community! Media Release: Stop...
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 recently launched a new Blue Communities video with Eau Secours and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.The video gives an overview of the Blue Communities Project where municipalities, faith-based and other communities resist the corporate takeover of water by committing to three resolutions...
Media Release: Progressive Conservative Party Members should cancel their donations to oppose cuts
Sorry about that! - Sign the Peoples Demands for climate justice
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 23:20
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Dear friends,
Earlier today, you received an email that was meant to go to our supporters in Indonesia. This was sent to you by mistake and we wanted to say sorry for any confusion.
People are fighting for climate justice all around the world. Today, we told you about climate impacts that might be further away from home for you. But wherever you are, you can push all our governments to hear the people's demands and act to stop climate breakdown. We will be joining thousands of people to make sure those demands are heard at the next UN climate conference later this year.
Thank you for all of your work in support of the climate movement.
Monica and the 350.org team
P.S. While you're here, have you thought of joining a local group near you to keep...
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Sign the Peoples Demands for climate justice
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:36
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Hi Paov,
Climate change is the biggest crisis of our time–and its happening now. Just recently, we hear that flood and landslides happened in Bandung and Tasikmalaya, West Java. Now, we also hear similar disaster intensifying its impacts affecting millions of people around the world, the health of our planet, and driving species' extinction. It disproportionately affects the people and communities globally who have contributed the least to creating this emergency.
Next month, at COP24, governments will lay out the rules to implement the Paris Agreement. We need to them to keep warming below 1.5°C. We need real commitments to keep fossil fuels in the ground and urgently transition towards 100% renewable energy for all. These are the People’s Demands – nothing less will do.
Tell the Government of Indonesia representatives you stand for the People’s Demands here.
Because this...
ACTIVlist Update - November 14, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:48
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NEW VIDEO: Help turn your community blue!
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 Blue Communities Project encourages municipalities and Indigenous communities to support the idea of a water commons framework, recognizing that water is a shared resource for all, by passing resolutions that:
Shopify
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 08:40
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Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify was just forced to end its relationship with the hate group Proud Boys. Now we have to get it to end it with all hate groups.
Tell Shopify: stop profiting off hate and end your relationship with Generations and all hate groups.
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Shopify, an Ottawa-based e-commerce company, runs the online store for Generations, a far-right anti-gay organization. The group's leader openly advocates for the execution of gay people and offers “educational” materials for sale that include homophobic literature and books that decry feminism, abortion...
Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:48
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1705 ... November 14, 2018
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Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana:
Chronicles of Disasters Foretold
Judith Marshall
On August 4, 2014, the dam holding toxic waste from the Mount Polley copper and gold mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia (BC) collapsed. More than 24 million cubic metres of metals-laden fine sand and water were spilled from the breached dam, creating the largest environmental disaster in Canada’s mining history. The spill flooded Polley Lake and flowed into Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake. Land, water systems and salmon habitat were destroyed. The Northern Secwepemc people, on whose territory the mine was located, lost land, livelihoods and traditional uses integrally linked to the land.
On November 5, 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an even larger reservoir of mine...
Which way to save the humans?
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:54
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CoDev November 2018 E-Bulletin
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:16
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Solitary appeal trial begins
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 09:58
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Solitary appeal trial begins
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...Net Neutrality under attack
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 07:42
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Paov,
Net Neutrality is under attack in Canada… again.
The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Ian Scott, said...
Im in Malaysia and I need your help
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 03:14
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The palm oil event of the year has kicked off! Pepsi, Nestlé, and all major palm oil producers and traders are in the heart of what’s left of orangutan territory in Borneo. To mingle and discuss sustainable palm oil.
Tweet now to disrupt the small talk. Tell brands to use Thursday’s VOTE to raise the bar on what counts as ‘sustainable’ palm oil and save the orangutans.
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LIVE! Right now, palm oil barons and global brands that profiteer...
Global protest campaign launched as Olympic 2020 partner Mitsubishi Electric humiliates workers
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- Published on Monday, 12 November 2018 02:02
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