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We must rise In the face of catastrophe
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- Published on Saturday, 18 August 2018 08:30
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Dear Paov,
Like millions of people in Western Canada, the view from my window in Vancouver looked like a scene from an apocalyptic movie this week. Wildfires raging across BC have cast a blanket of smoke across the region, and led the province to declare a state of emergency for the second year in a row.1
In my home country of Pakistan, the escalating water crisis, driven by year after year of record breaking heat, has led to thousands of premature deaths and could see the country run out of water by 2025.2
Despite a clear moral imperative to keep fossil fuels in the ground, Trudeau’s government doubling down on its support for the fossil fuel industry by purchasing Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain expansion project and backing Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline.
While part of me wants to despair in the face of such devastating tragedies, now is not the time to let up --...
BC wildfires and Nestlé
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- Published on Saturday, 18 August 2018 07:08
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As BC's wildfires rage on, Nestlé is still drawing millions of litres of water for $2.25 per litre.
Tell the BC government to honour its promise and review water rates in BC.
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As BC declares a state of emergency because of wildfires, Nestlé still pays just $2.25 for one million litres of the province’s precious groundwater. During his campaign, Premier Horgan promised to conduct a review of BC’s water rates to protect BC’s water from corporate greed.
However, nothing...
Bees Canada
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2018 14:47
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On Wednesday, Canada announced that it will ban two major bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.
This means that the most commonly used bee-killing neonics will be off Canada’s fields!
This victory was all because of members like you and the bee-loving organizations that have been working tirelessly to stamp out bee-killing pesticides on our fields.
Since the start of the campaign to save the bees in Canada four years ago, hundreds of thousands of you have signed petitions and chipped in to support in-person actions all around the world.
SumOfUs members living in Canada were responsible for a record-breaking number of public comments calling for a ban on neonic imidacloprid. And just a few months ago 20,000 of you signed the petition calling for a ban on the major bee-killing neonics in Canada.
Your hard work...
History Is Watching Yemen—and the World
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2018 14:23
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© Asmaa Waguih/Redux For more than three years, Yemen has been plunged into a war of unspeakable horror—fueled in part by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and supported by the United States and its allies. Despite laws of war that prohibit attacks on civilians, everyday Yemenis have been killed and injured by warring parties who have not done enough to shield them from harm. After years of limited progress, the global community must take action today to end the fighting and help bring the perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice. The time to act is now; history is watching, and Yemen can’t wait.
Big Telecom's bad sales practices
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2018 14:09
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CoDev presents Carmen Rodriguez!
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2018 11:44
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 17 August 2018 03:45
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What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
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- Published on Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1652 ... August 17, 2018
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What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
Casey Williams
Last September, as record-breaking hurricanes thrashed the Caribbean and southeastern U.S., the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance (AmRen) asked its readers a question: "What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?"
In its bombastic response, the magazine bucked two decades of conservative dogma to offer an ethno-nationalist take on planetary warming. Conceding that scientists might be right about climate change, it worried that shifting weather patterns could drive more black and brown people to the Global North, where whites will face a choice: stem the migrant tide, or die.
"The population explosion in the global south combined with climate change and liberal attitudes toward migration are the single greatest...
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Is Alberta getting ripped off?
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Nestlé
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- Published on Thursday, 16 August 2018 06:58
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We have just a few weeks left to persuade the palm oil industry to blacklist Nestlé’s reckless business partner, Indofood.
The Indonesian food giant is responsible for illegal rainforest destruction and worker abuse.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is making a decision in the coming weeks and we need your help to pressure it to deliver a strong verdict against Indofood.
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Nestlé's palm oil business partner Indofood is the worst of the worst when...
Which social networks do you use?
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- Published on Thursday, 16 August 2018 04:37
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Doug Ford's New Poor Laws Replace Basic Income
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:46
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1651 ... August 16, 2018
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Doug Ford’s New Poor Laws Replace Basic Income
John Clarke
The decision of the new Tory Government in Ontario to terminate the basic income (BI) pilot project that their Liberal predecessors had set in motion, confirms that the right is as divided as the left on this issue of social policy. The Doug Ford Tories form part of an international right wing opposition to BI that does not share the view of the Silicon Valley billionaire set, the World Bank and a range of others within the neoliberal order that this form of income support could serve the needs of capitalist exploitation.
The right wing skeptics are bothered by the element of reduced conditionality that basic income contains and Ford and his crew, as...
What is at stake
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 August 2018 10:49
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...How Did Socialists Respond to the Advent of Fascism?
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:34
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1650 ... August 15, 2018
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How Did Socialists Respond to the Advent of Fascism?
John Riddell
The framework for this article is "Unity against the Right: A historical approach."
There are in fact many histories of such united resistance, each with its own lineage. We could talk of how Louis Riel united Métis, First Nations, and many colonial settlers to battle for democracy and aboriginal rights. Or of how women debated how to find allies in their liberation struggle and the trade-off with partnerships with the sectors of the elite or of the subaltern masses. But I will not speak of this. I will also set aside the struggle of colonized peoples for unity against imperialism, so central to the socialist movement of the last century.
My topic...
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Asahi is bottling this town dry
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 August 2018 08:16
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One of the world’s largest beverage companies is bottling up a tiny Australian community’s water and selling it off for millions.
Tell Asahi to switch off the pumps and stop selling Stanley’s water now.
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The water tankers started rolling up the only road into Stanley village almost two years ago. Since then they haven’t stopped.
Every week, water miners pump hundreds of thousands of litres of groundwater from the town, then truck it away to be bottled and sold by one of the world’s largest beverage companies: Asahi-Schweppes.
There are no rivers in Stanley. This tiny community in the Australian state of Victoria is totally reliant...
Why did minorities vote for Doug Ford?
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- Published on Monday, 13 August 2018 20:29
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A Socialist Project podcast ... No. 4 ... August 14 2018
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Why did minorities vote for Doug Ford? w/ Sadia Khan
Episode 4: The Progressive Conservatives of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, attracted a great deal of support from non-white voters during the recent provincial election in Ontario. Why would minorities support a hard-right politician? We talk to Toronto-based community organizer Sadia Khan to find out.
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- Published on Monday, 13 August 2018 09:00
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...union-busting & precarious jobs - no rights for workers at Marriott's Bali 'paradise'
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- Published on Monday, 13 August 2018 03:33
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