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Updates on Sustainable Solutions & More!
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ACTIVlist Update - October 22, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 22 October 2018 10:48
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Senators to act on the CPTPP! Global water justice activists mobilize to keep water public in Switzerland
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Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project and Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians spoke in Zurich last week urging the city not to privatize its drinking water systems.
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New annual report, video, infographic and more!
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- Published on Monday, 22 October 2018 04:26
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Download the CFSC E-News in PDF (scroll down for links).
Annual Accountability Report launched
We’re pleased to launch our 2017-2018 Annual Accountability Report. It offers brief highlights from the past year, showing how your support is transforming conflicts and...
What Does López Obradors Cabinet Say About His Upcoming Presidency?
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- Published on Sunday, 21 October 2018 18:56
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1690 ... October 22, 2018
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What Does López Obrador’s Cabinet Say About His Upcoming Presidency?
Tom Hansen
On July 2, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the recently formed Morena Party swept to victory in Mexico’s presidential election with 53 per cent of the vote, the first time since 1982 that a candidate won more than half the vote. His closest competitor, Ricardo Anaya of the National Action Party (PAN), took 22 per cent, while José Antonio Meade, candidate for the PRI though not a member of the party, finished with 16 per cent. Morena also replaced the PRD as the leading party in Mexico City, capturing the Mayor’s office and a majority of the local assembly. Mexico City’s Mayor is often considered the second most important political figure in...
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Isn't it good to be part of the solution?
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- Published on Sunday, 21 October 2018 07:24
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Contextualizing Dr. Jordan Peterson's 'Cultural Marxism'
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- Published on Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:30
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Contextualizing Dr. Jordan Peterson’s ‘Cultural Marxism’
A Blue Pill for the Alt-Right
In this audio-visual presentation, Tanner Mirrlees explores the history, content and political uses of the alt-right’s “cultural Marxist” conspiracy theory to contextualize Jordan Peterson’s slippery usage of the phrases “neo-Marxism,” “postmodern Marxism,” and sometimes, “cultural Marxism.” When Dr. Peterson deploys these terms to label and scrutinize Left movements, policies and practices related to “political correctness” and “social justice,” he, by wanton error or by choice, peddles a “blue pill” to his followers that dulls their capacity for rational thought and obstructs their pursuit of knowledge about the real world. While the alt-right’s “blue pill” of cultural Marxism is in mass supply, widely circulated and very addictive, its deleterious effects are being countered by a new “red pill.”
This talk was...
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Lets make it impossible to ignore science
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- Published on Saturday, 20 October 2018 08:04
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Dear Paov,
The latest UN report on catastrophic climate change explicitly urged all state leaders to take drastic action to combat climate change.
Unfortunately, even this pressing warning from the world’s most authoritative body on climate science was not enough to sway the Canadian government. That’s why hundreds of people have pledged to take action on October 24th -- one year before the next federal election -- to hand deliver the UN’s report to Members of Parliament all over the country along with an urgent call to action. Will you join in? You can take action anytime in the day on October 24th.
Find your MP's office on our map and sign up to deliver the report.
Scientists have warned us that we have less than 12 years to prevent a catastrophic 1.5°C rise in average global temperature. That means we need to immediately...
Vote TODAY for progressive values and progressive candidates
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- Published on Saturday, 20 October 2018 04:02
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Friend --
I am writing to remind you to vote today in the municipal
election, to help build a more inclusive and sustainable city and
region.
I appreciate your support for my candidacy for City Councillor and CRD Director.
We may not agree on every issue. But if you think that I offer an important perspective at City Hall and around the regional board table, I would ask for one of your votes today for these two positions.
Polls are open from 8:00 am - 8:00 pm at twelve voting places around the city, and you can vote with two pieces of ID:
- Burnside Gorge Community Centre , 471 Cecelia Road
- Central Baptist Church, 833 Pandora Avenue
- Cook Street Village Activity Centre, 380 Cook Street
- James Bay Community School, 140 Oswego Street
- James Bay New Horizons Centre, 234 Menzies Street
- Margaret Jenkins School, 1824...
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ACTIVlist Update - October 19, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 19 October 2018 12:40
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Senators to act on the CPTPP!
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Liberals Should Consistently Fight Trade Deals That Let Corporations Sue Canada
Investor-state dispute settlement was tempered in the USMCA, but the government needs to justify why it persists asking for it in other agreements.
Pull together: A guide to staying under 1.5ºC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recently released special report can be summed up as: “it’s worse than we thought,...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 19 October 2018 01:32
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Massively Expand Public Transport Now
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- Published on Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1689 ... October 19, 2018
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Massively Expand Public Transport Now
International Transport Workers' Federation
During the San Francisco Global Climate Action Summit, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) announced its support for a declaration to create zero-emissions cities by 2030.
According to the ITF’s General Secretary Stephen Cotton, “The ITF and its affiliates are ready to support the declaration in real and tangible ways. We recognise that if we act now and act together, dangerous climate change can be averted. That’s why the ITF is here at GCAS making the case for massively expanding public transport now.”
The ITF is a global union federation representing over 20 million transport workers in 145 countries. The announcement was made in the context of the Global Climate Action Summit, in San...
Put the YES campaign on the front cover of the newspaper!
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- Published on Thursday, 18 October 2018 12:16
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Dear FVC Supporter,
This is it! Starting on Wednesday October 24, BC citizens will find referendum ballots in their mailboxes!
With your generous support now, we can do something we've never done before - that could make the difference between winning and losing proportional representation:
1) Buy the front page of the Province newspaper - and a full page inside - on Tuesday October 23
2) Put a 4 page advertisement in 39 community newspapers across interior BC on Wednesday October 24
Together, we'll reach at least 275,000 voters across BC with information about why they should vote for proportional representation - just when they need to see it most. With your generous support, we can really make it happen!
Please donate for these print ads now.
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ACTIVlist Update - October 18, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 18 October 2018 10:00
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Barlow and Dey in Italy countering CETA
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This week, Council of Canadians Honorary Chairperson Maude Barlow and Trade Campaigner Sujata Dey were in Italy to meet with concerned groups and politicians about the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the threats trade agreements pose to food production and water.
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your pension
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- Published on Thursday, 18 October 2018 08:56
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The CPP just massively upped its investment of our retirement savings in the two largest for-profit prison corporations responsible for horrific immigration detention of thousands of children and families in the US.
Tell the CPP Investment Board to divest our money from Geo Group and CoreCivic.
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Tens of thousands of children and families are being detained in horrific conditions against their will in US immigration detention centres run by massive corporations like Geo Group and CoreCivic.
And the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has quietly and massively increased its investment in these corporations that are ripping families apart by more than 1300% in the last year.
Our retirement savings should...
Its Time We Dispel The Myth Of 'Progressive' Liberalism In Ontario
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 22:50
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1688 ... October 18, 2018
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It’s Time We Dispel The Myth Of ‘Progressive’ Liberalism In Ontario
Carlo Fanelli
There is an emerging orthodoxy, rooted more in fiction than fact, that the 15-year regime of the Ontario Liberals somehow swung the ideological and policy spectrum sharply to the left. But this is a gross misinterpretation of actual history. While the Liberals did indeed implement a hodgepodge of policies that might selectively register as ‘progressive’, their time in power was never about a wholesale repudiation of the Conservative’s Common Sense Revolution but rather about deepening and extending it in ways that were more palatable to a public increasingly fed up with the uncompromising and aggressive style of their Conservative predecessors. In other words, it was continuity, not change, that defined the Liberals’...
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6,381 of us are calling for the release of jailed Turkish trade unionists - will you join us?
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:32
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Will you make a special delivery to your MP?
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:18
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Friends,
On Monday, as I was watching the House of Commons emergency debate over the IPCC’s landmark 1.5ºC climate report stretch late into the night, one thing became crystal clear – talking about climate change isn’t enough, we need action.
The IPCC is the world's most authoritative voice on climate change. And the report they released last week was explicit: we need to stop expanding fossil fuels, strengthen our climate targets, and take rapid strides to build a 100% renewable energy economy that works for everyone. But, during Monday night’s debate, there were too many empty seats, too many excuses for not doing what’s necessary, and too many MPs that just don’t want to admit the basic reality that we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground if we want...
ACTIVlist Update - October 17, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 09:36
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MEDIA RELEASE: CPTPP breezes through House in Third Reading
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