Federal "Rights Recognition Framework" Legislation - Teach-In Tools

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Published on Wednesday, 26 September 2018 04:44

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Monsanto

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Published on Wednesday, 26 September 2018 01:29

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Roundup could be killing bees, act now to speed up a full ban

EXPOSED: a new study shows that, as well as being potentially cancerous, Monsanto’s toxic weed-killer Roundup may have FATAL effects on bees.

Governments could ban the chemical killer, but they’re being pushed and pulled by Monsanto’s lobbyists.

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The British Labour Party and Community Ownership Plans

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Published on Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:15

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1675 ... September 26, 2018
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The British Labour Party and Community Ownership Plans

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP has unveiled Labour’s plans for a new, publicly-owned water system, run by local councils, workers and customers and for “unprecedented openness and transparency” in how the industry will be managed. Building on Labour’s manifesto commitment to bring key utilities back into public ownership, for the first time McDonnell has outlined in detail how they would do it.

It comes as part of a package of measures to broaden ownership and control in the economy, including giving workers a third of seats on boards, billions of pounds for public services to be raised from Labour’s Inclusive Ownership Fund and a wide-ranging consultation on putting workers and service users in charge of running the...

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Let's talk about what you *can* do

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Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40

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Canadian Wheat Board

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Published on Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:03

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ACTIVlist Update - September 25, 2018

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Published on Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:06

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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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TAKE ACTION: Have your say on a national pharmacare plan! Public consultations deadline September 28, 2018

WIN! Districts of Shelburne and Lunenburg support offshore drilling inquiry!
Both the Municipality of the District of Shelburne and the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg voted in support of a moratorium on offshore drilling until the completion of a "full and independent public inquiry into the pros and cons of oil industry exploration" offshore...

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Help reach our goal

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Published on Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:22

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A Manifesto for Socialist Development in the 21st Century

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Published on Monday, 24 September 2018 21:56

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1674 ... September 25, 2018
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A Manifesto for Socialist Development in the 21st Century

Benjamin Selwyn

In early 2017, it was revealed that eight men owned as much wealth as half the world’s population (Oxfam 2017). This is in a world where, according to the most conservative figures, around one in three workers live in poverty. More realistic calculations show that the majority of the world’s population suffers from poverty of one form or another. These inequalities and deprivations are only one symptom of capitalist development. Others include environmental destruction, systematic racism and gender discrimination, each of which generate their own poverty burdens.

Whether in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile (the laboratory for free-market development) or in Park Chung-hee’s South Korea (the most celebrated case of state-led development), capitalist development is...

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Here's what we did with your $$

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Published on Monday, 24 September 2018 17:35

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Using Marxs Capital as an Organizing Tool

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Published on Sunday, 23 September 2018 20:11

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1673 ... September 24, 2018
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Using Marx’s Capital as an Organizing Tool

Ingo Schmidt

Marx’s Capital: three volumes, 2,500 pages. A tome as an organizing tool? For leftists who really can’t do without Marx, there are a lot of his texts that are shorter and address questions of organizing directly. The Communist Manifesto (1848) comes to mind, but also the materials he wrote for the International Working Men’s Association. Whether these texts are still relevant today is debatable but there’s no doubt that generations of socialists read them as guides to working class struggles.

Capital (1867), on the other hand, points at recurrent crises that surely are a nuisance for capitalists but also offer them ways to reinvent and actually expand the rule of capital. Workers gaining higher wages...

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Fact Check Website has Launched!

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Published on Sunday, 23 September 2018 16:16

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Experts Review the Evidence Surrounding Claims by Both Sides in BC’s Debate on Proportional Representation

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With so many questionable claims flying around in the context of the upcoming BC referendum on proportional representation, how can voters separate the beef from the baloney? In the heat of the debate over voting systems, passion often trumps accuracy, yet voters need access to reliable information to make good decisions.

To fill this gap, Fair Vote Canada BC is pleased to announce a Proportional Representation Fact Check site. This new website subjects claims made in the context of the referendum debate to scrutiny by a duo of academics with expert knowledge on the subject, Dr. Dennis Pilon and Dr. Brian Tanguay.

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The good news: there is an easy way to strengthen media

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Published on Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:17

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rabble.ca 15th anniversary. "Our societies are facing incredible challenges ahead and I’m asking you to support rabble.ca as one way to take on these challenges." Pam Palmater

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But it isn’t just about sustainability. rabble.ca can grow and develop to be an even stronger journalist voice for social movements, an even better platform for national politics. How? You. And of course anyone else who believes Canada needs non-profit, independent journalism. A few bucks a month from a few thousand visitors goes a long way in the indie media world. Please chip in with $25 or more (or become a monthly subscriber for as little as $5/month).

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The Road Away from Fossil Fuels

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Published on Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:45

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1672 ... September 23, 2018
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The Road Away from Fossil Fuels

Simon Pirani

President Andrzej Duda’s authoritarian government can expect a rough political ride in December, when politicians, diplomats and campaigners stream into Katowice, Poland, for the next UN summit on climate change (COP24).

Poland’s so-called climate policy -- to aim for "carbon neutrality" by discounting emissions from the coal industry with carbon sucked up by its forests -- will face richly-deserved criticism. How loudly that will be heard on the streets is a different matter: Poland’s parliament has banned "spontaneous" gatherings in Katowice during the summit.

Donald Trump, who last year withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will also be the target of derision, not only from demonstrators but from...

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Johnson & Johnson

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Published on Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:09

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Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck & Co, and Abbott are stashing their profits in overseas tax havens -- depriving governments everywhere of the funds to provide healthcare and education.

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Johnson & Johnson is cheating women and girls out of the chance to beat poverty.

Turns out the pharmaceutical giant that has promised generations of children 'no more tears' is dodging its taxes.

And it’s not the only member of the big pharma club that systematically stashes its profits in overseas tax havens. According to a new report by Oxfam International, Pfizer, Merck &...

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