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Congratulations! We have poverty reduction legislation
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 November 2018 12:14
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The Lesson of Brazil
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- Published on Monday, 05 November 2018 20:10
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1701 ... November 6, 2018
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The Lesson of Brazil
Pierre Beaudet
The catastrophe -- expected and foreseeable -- has happened. This immense country, with its 200 million inhabitants, is now in darkness. At best, it will take a decade or two to emerge.
It is of course very early to predict what will happen, but the election of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro raises two possibilities. The "optimists," if one can put it that way, think that a kind of Colombian-style regime will emerge: authoritarian, militarized, using targeted repression against certain sectors of the popular movement with the consent if not support of a vast sector of the middle and popular classes. In Colombia, under Álvaro Uribe’s rule, the state was reinforced and restabilized, benefiting from the militarist excesses of...
ACTIVlist Update - November 5, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 05 November 2018 11:20
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Corporatizing Canada a must-read
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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I am writing this to urge you to read a new book called Corporatizing Canada: Making Business out of Public Service, edited by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby and published by Between the Lines.
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Strike Solidarity Requested, a Job Advert and More on Movies
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- Published on Sunday, 04 November 2018 22:52
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The Google Walkout
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- Published on Sunday, 04 November 2018 18:50
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1700 ... November 5, 2018
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The Google Walkout:
An International Working-Class Movement
Dan La Botz
Thousands of Google employees throughout the United States and around the world walked off their jobs on November 1, "to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace that doesn’t work for everyone." Beginning in Singapore and working its way around the globe the movement closed Google offices from Mountain View, California, in Boulder and New York, as well as in London, Dublin, Zurich and Berlin.
Signs on placards or on the walls read "Don’t Be Evil," or "Times Up Tech." One woman wrote, "My outrage won’t fit on this sign." Nearly everywhere workers held short rallies where women read the movement’s demands. Looking at the many photos and videos of the...
Corbynism and the Labour Party
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- Published on Saturday, 03 November 2018 20:44
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 14 October 2018
Corbynism and the Labour Party
Openings, Obstacles, Possibilities for British Socialism
The leadership of the UK Labour Party by Jeremy Corbyn continues to enjoy enormous popularity across the UK. This even despite continual attacks from the corporate press, the Conservative Party, and opposition from within the Parliamentary Labour Party itself. Indeed, under Corbyn’s leadership, the Labour Party has once again become a mass party, with a larger membership than any other social democratic party across Europe. Moreover, grassroots activism and direct participation in the party by members has grown to levels not seen in recent history, especially since the party’s centralization under the “Third Way” leadership of Tony Blair. This active engagement has helped Corbyn and the party’s socialist left capture key institutional positions, and to...
Don't miss your chance to double your impact
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- Published on Saturday, 03 November 2018 05:16
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Paying off guilty Google executives?
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- Published on Saturday, 03 November 2018 02:52
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Brazil: Quilombo Campo Grande suffers threats from Fascism
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- Published on Friday, 02 November 2018 12:44
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1699 ... November 1, 2018
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Brazil: Quilombo Campo Grande suffers threats from Fascism
MST (Landless Rural Workers' Movement)
We, the MST families of Southern MG, of Quilombo Campo Grande, denounce fascist action against our 20-year struggle.
Here, families, after so many years, already have electrical energy infrastructure, houses and produce a great diversity of agroecological production, such as coffee, many varieties of corn, beans, vegetables, fruits, organic seeds livestock, chickens, pigs.
These families generate, with their work, food sovereignty, not only for those who produce and live on the land, but for thousands of people who have access to a healthy and quality food, without poison.
The camps also generate income distribution. The land, which was only of one owner, now brings dignity to nearly 450 families,...
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ACTIVlist Update - November 2, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 02 November 2018 11:10
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Chapters This Week
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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Since its inception, the Council of Canadians has built its strength and credibility with powerful grassroots activists in communities across Canada. Here are a few recent highlights...
Election of Bolsonaro in Brazil adds to rise of right wing populism
Last Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician known for making homophobic and misogynist statements and supporting neoliberal policies and military dictatorship, won Brazil’s presidential election.
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"A brutal and wasteful practice"
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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ACTIVlist Update - November 1, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 01 November 2018 13:10
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Canadian Labour Congress releases new report on young workers
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Titled Diving Without a Parachute, the report says Canada’s youth are diverse, adaptable and underemployed.
Canada should drop ISDS provisions for good
Last week, legal expert David Schneiderman brilliantly argued in the Globe and Mail that rather than consulting with Canadians over the practice of including investor-state clauses that allow foreign investors to challenge government laws and regulations in trade agreements, Canada should drop them...
Double your impact this November
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SEA Update
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:06
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The Struggle for Justice in Prisons
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:28
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 8 ... November 1 2018
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The Struggle for Justice in Prisons w/ Jordan House
Episode 8: From 21 August and 9 September, prisoners across the U.S. went on strike. One set of Canadian prisoners -- at Burnside jail in Nova Scotia -- decided to join the strike effort. We chat with Jordan House about the continent-wide prison strike. We also talk about who goes to prison (and who doesn’t!), the history of prison-based resistance, and the political economy of prison labour.
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