Round Two of the Brazilian Election: Interview with Stedile of the MST

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Published on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:48

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Round Two of the Brazilian Election: Interview with Stedile of the MST

After votes were counted last Sunday and confirmed a second round between Brazilian presidential candidates Fernando Haddad (Workers’ Party – PT) and Jair Bolsonaro (Social Liberal Party – PSL), a member of the national board of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) João Pedro Stedile spoke with Brasil de Fato Radio about the next steps in Brazil’s presidential elections, saying voters will now have the opportunity to learn more details about the platforms and interests each candidate represents.

Stedile argued it is necessary to show people that Bolsonaro’s economic plan, devised by ultra neoliberal economist Paulo Guedes, includes raising taxes on the poor and reducing them on the weathy.

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ACTIVlist Update - October 10, 2018

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Published on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 10:46

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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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Together, we're creating offshore resistance everywhere
In response to the Maritimes Energy Association’s conference on October 2-3, where BP and a number of other fossil fuel companies funded conversations about ‘setting the stage’ for our energy future, we hosted a number of events to show that offshore drilling should be part of our past, not our future.

Chapters This Week
It was another great week for chapter activists, who kept up the fight...

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Coast Heroes rising: Heiltsuk take polluter to court on oil spill anniversary

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Published on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 07:18

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Trudeaus hypocrisy

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Published on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 07:04

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Please sign today to call on Trudeau to scrap the Saudi arms deal.

While Trudeau condemns Saudi’s human rights record, he is simultaneously supplying the country with weapons for its deadly war on Yemen.

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A child dies every ten minutes in Yemen in an unjust war that is lining the pockets of arms dealers across the world.

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The Defence of Humanity Requires the Radicalisation of Popular Struggles

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Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2018 19:58

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The Defence of Humanity Requires the Radicalisation of Popular Struggles

Samir Amin

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In August this year, the acclaimed socialist writer and activist Samir Amin (1931-2018) passed away. Born in Egypt and educated in Port Said and Paris, he eventually settled as director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal from 1980. Samir was author of numerous books including his well-known Accumulation on a World Scale (1970), De-Linking (1990) and Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (1997), and more recent texts such as The Liberal Virus (2003), A Life Looking Forward (2006), From Capitalism to Civilization: Reconstructing the Socialist Perspective (2010), and many others. Amin was a central figure in the pantheon of thinkers from the so-called Global South who reworked Marxism and the...

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She is only 24 years old

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Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2018 13:10

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U.S. Diplomacys Diversity Deficit

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Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2018 13:00

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Chevron, Corporations and the Law Versus Life and Lives

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Published on Monday, 08 October 2018 18:22

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Chevron, Corporations and the Law Versus Life and Lives

Harry Glasbeek

The decision in Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation by the Ontario Court of Appeal denied justice owed to some 30,000 Ecuadorian people grievously harmed by profiteering oil companies. The story is an example of how the routine application of formality in law, accompanied by the pulverization of the dispute’s setting, is designed to benefit the truly rich and astonishingly evil.

When a court pronounces on a dispute, we expect the parties to accept the decision because we believe it will have been made by independent judges who apply pre-existing principles and criteria in an even-handed manner. The pre-existing principles are deemed to reflect social norms, values and needs. But, all too often, this ideal...

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Todays mood: terrified

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Published on Monday, 08 October 2018 12:16

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To be honest, today I’m terrified. The world’s most authoritative voice on climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), just released their report on what it will take to limit global climate change to 1.5°C. The bottomline: any hope for a safe climate hinges on ceasing fossil fuel expansion, immediately.

In the face of such clear scientific consensus, Canada is rapidly headed in the wrong direction with rampant government support for tar sands expansion in Alberta, fracking in BC, and offshore drilling off Nova Scotia’s coast. With Justin Trudeau championing tar sands expansion in Alberta, fracking in BC, and offshore drilling off Nova Scotia’s coast, it seems clear that this government isn't listening. That’s why I’m inviting you today to join me and call...

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“Deliberately destroying food”

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MST Open Letter on Brazil Election

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Published on Sunday, 07 October 2018 14:26

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MST Open Letter on Brazil Election

Landless Rural Workers' Movement

Comrades and Friends of MST around the World,

We would like to share some of our views on this delicate moment of Brazilian politics in the last week of the election campaign:

This election is very special because it can mean the victory or defeat of the coup against democracy started in 2014, which continued with the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, extended into the illegitimate government of Michel Temer. For us, the coup is not just the moment of impeachment. The coup is the project that the elites and the financial capital did not have the strength to conquer in the elections and that needed to use the force and the illegality...

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Whats Left, Toronto?

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Published on Saturday, 06 October 2018 20:00

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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 19 September 2018

What’s Left, Toronto?
Radical Alternatives for the City Election

As the Doug Ford Conservatives unpack their agenda, towns and cities across Ontario are getting ready for the October municipal elections. In Toronto, much of the early public debate leading up to the elections has been narrow and dominated by the Tories’ Bill 5, which proposes to cut in half the number of wards for Council elections. Debates about specific City issues have been limited, pitting a few right-populist voices from the Conservative Party against liberal and progressive voices from the Liberal or New Democratic Party. Ford’s shadow looms over every discussion and risks constraining debate about the mildest reforms even further.

This public forum seeks to keep alive more expansive political horizons about possible futures for...

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Authoritarian Brazil Redux?

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Published on Saturday, 06 October 2018 15:14

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Authoritarian Brazil Redux?

Massimiliano Mollona

On Sunday 7th of October, the Brazilian people will go to the polls to elect their next president. There has never been such a dramatic election since January 15th 1985 when Brazil returned, the vote to the polls after twenty years of dictatorship (1964-1985) -- although voting took place still within the electoral college system put in place during the dictatorship. Following the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff two years ago (which Saad-Filho described as a "coup") and a chaotic interregnum led by the corrupted Michel Temer (PMDB) -- who nonetheless was very effective in curbing workers’ rights by amending part of the famously pro-labour Labour Law (CLT), regularizing outsourcing and cutting workers’ pensions -- the future of Brazilian democracy...

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