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Glyphosate
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- Published on Sunday, 08 July 2018 08:00
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Germany’s national railway company is soaking its train tracks with glyphosate, a toxic weedkiller linked to cancer in humans and animals.
Tell Deutsche Bahn to honor its commitment to sustainability and end its use of the pesticide!
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It might come as a surprise that a train company is Germany's biggest glyphosate user. Every year, the national railway Deutsche Bahn sprays over 65 thousand kilograms of toxic pesticide on its tracks -- endangering ecosystems throughout the whole country.
Austria’s national railway company has pledged to completely end its use of glyphosate within five years -- there's no reason why Deutsche Bahn can't do the same.
The German government is...
The Case for Free Public Transit
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- Published on Saturday, 07 July 2018 22:03
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 21 June 2018
The Case for Free Public Transit:
Just Mobility and Urban Planning
The campaign for free public transit is a rapidly growing international movement, with several cities in Canada and many more in the U.S. taking up the effort. Public transit is crucial to social reproduction, and a crucial linkage between workplace and community struggles (too often neglected by unions and community activists alike). Just mobility in the social provision of transit is central to workers, racialized communities, women, the disabled, youth and seniors -- all disproportionately dependent on public transit.
Free public transit is, perhaps, the most immediate step we could take to address climate change and should be at the top of the agenda of the ecology movements (who remain far too entranced by market...
Weekend Reminder: Thunder Bay Strikers Are Asking for Our Support
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- Published on Saturday, 07 July 2018 07:39
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Theres still a chance we can be heard
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- Published on Friday, 06 July 2018 16:19
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Dear friend,
In less than 2 weeks, the Trudeau government will decide whether or not to finalize the deal to buy out the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan with billions of public dollars.
It’s appalling that Trudeau's making this massive decision without consulting the public. That’s why starting next week, people across Canada are holding their own People’s Town Halls on the pipeline buy out. Find one near you or sign up to host one in your community.
Even Kinder Morgan’s consulting its shareholders to decide whether or not to finalize this deal. If Trudeau is committing billions in public dollars to buying out this pipeline then that makes people like you and me the new Trans Mountain pipeline shareholders -- and we deserve a say too. Help us make...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 06 July 2018 05:35
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Turkish Elections, Looming Fascism and Left Politics
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- Published on Thursday, 05 July 2018 22:13
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1636 ... July 6, 2018
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Turkish Elections, Looming Fascism and Left Politics
Baris Karaagac
The elections on 24 June in Turkey for a new president and parliament, which took place under a state of emergency, constitute an historic moment in Turkish republican history with important consequences.
Firstly, it has institutionalized and consolidated the regime change put in place by the controversial 2017 referendum. The Turkish political system has successfully transitioned from a parliamentary to an executive presidential one.
Secondly, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the incumbent president and leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has come out even stronger with new powers, which are likely to bolster his authoritarian tendencies.
Thirdly, Erdogan’s presidency and the victory of the coalition of the AKP and the MHP (Nationalist...
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We did it!
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- Published on Thursday, 05 July 2018 10:18
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We did it! Today, the European Parliament voted to reject the proposed copyright proposal, which includes the dangerous Link Tax...
Blackened whitefish
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Fight the federal governments appeal
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- Published on Thursday, 05 July 2018 10:00
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End Solitary Confinement
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...Marriott workers worldwide demand action to halt sexual harassment
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 July 2018 08:54
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Reading Europes Fault Lines
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 July 2018 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1635 ... July 4, 2018
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Reading Europe’s Fault Lines:
Notes from Europe as hard-Right populism enters Queen’s Park
Parastou Saberi
The rapid marching of the right in electoral politics, intellectual circles, and on the streets has become an undeniable feature of European politics. Once believed to be relegated to the dustbin of history, the electoral success of figures such as Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary has once again brought extreme-right forces to the centre of political life in Europe. How are we to make sense of this revengeful comeback of the right in the early 21st century? This is the question that Liz Fekete engages with in her new book, Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right (Verso...
Union-busting in the most unlikely place - and a familiar company behaving badly
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 July 2018 06:34
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End Immigration Detention: An Open Letter
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- Published on Monday, 02 July 2018 22:16
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1634 ... July 3, 2018
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End Immigration Detention: An Open Letter
Health Providers Against Poverty
On June 27, 2018, a coalition of over 2000 Canadian healthcare organizations and healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and midwives have signed on to an open letter, calling on the Canadian government to take the following four actions immediately:
1. End child detention and family separation in Canada.
2. End immigration detention in Canada.
3. End the Safe Third Country Agreement.
4. Call on the United States to end its practice of child and family detention.
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AB InBev workers in Sonepat, India still fighting for rights, still need your support!
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- Published on Monday, 02 July 2018 06:31
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The Colonial State and the Suppression of the Plains Cree
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- Published on Saturday, 30 June 2018 22:48
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The Colonial State and the Suppression of the Plains Cree:
Chief Poundmaker and Chief Big Bear
It is impossible to disentangle the making of the Canadian state from the history of European -- and particularly French and British -- imperialism and colonialism. In acts of incredible hubris and chauvinism, the territories of the Americas were claimed by Europeans -- mediated by the great European churches -- and pillaged, conquered, and divided, with the Indigenous peoples subjected to genocide, enslavement, subordination and marginalization. In the consolidation of the space of the contemporary Canadian state, that came with Confederation on July 1, 1867 and the subsequent nation-building project of the National Policy, the decisive act(s) was the suppression of the First Nations peoples of Canada.
The colonial occupation and usurpations of the First Nations...
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