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The May 68 Events and Revolution in the West
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- Published on Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1604 ... May 13, 2018
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The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes. ‘Revolution was in the air.’ But political rebellion also had its own roots in 1968 in Italy, Prague, Mexico, and the USA; and from there protests spread across the capitalist core countries. In the demands for an overhaul of political and economic institutions, and in ‘ways of living’, revolutionary possibilities seemed limitless. By the end of May the French government in Paris seemed on the verge of collapse. But by early June the strikes ended and the political crisis in France was over....
Your cellphone bill is too high - let's do something about it
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- Published on Saturday, 12 May 2018 10:59
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Paov,
How much data do you use on your cell phone per month?
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and guess it’s more than 500MB? (That’s not a shot in the dark: The latest stats on Canada’s mobile data habits suggest we use an average of 1.2GB of data a month — up 25 per cent from the year before.1)
Yet, when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) asked Rogers, Bell, and Telus to suggest affordable data...
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Amazon & the US gun lobby
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- Published on Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:11
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The US Gun Lobby has its own fear mongering communications channel, NRATV, which is fueling distrust in “mainstream media” and spreading rumors of “socialist elites” set on taking away Americans’ guns.
Tell Amazon: stop streaming the US gun lobby's violent rhetoric.
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With 5 million members and a multi-million dollar lobbying empire, the NRA (the powerful US gun lobby) is holding the US political system hostage and stonewalling meaningful gun reform. Meanwhile, the lobby’s communications arm, NRATV, is spreading fake news and conspiracy...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Saturday, 12 May 2018 04:00
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ACTIVlist Update - May 11, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 11 May 2018 13:22
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Media Release: “This is the Ontario We Want”
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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A Council of Canadians online survey conducted between April 21 and May 9 received 3,892 responses from Ontario supporters of the social justice organization. The survey asked “Which issues are important to you and will inform how you will vote in the upcoming election?”
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We've got Kinder Morgan worried
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- Published on Friday, 11 May 2018 12:39
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Friends,
In the last few weeks, people from coast to coast, from Victoria to Halifax, rose to oppose Justin Trudeau’s billion dollar bail out for the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
A third of all the Liberal cabinet ministers across the country and dozens of MPs have received this message at their doorstep, and many of them have been confronted at fundraisers, party events, and even the Liberal Convention. The good news is the pressure is working. We keep hearing that the Liberal caucus is starting to crack over the party’s position on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. But the bad news is that Kinder Morgan and Big Oil lobbyists are hard at work too.
So let’s keep the pressure mounting. I’ve been bringing the Stop KM message to my MP,...
1 new update on the petitions you support, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 11 May 2018 11:22
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Half way there
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:00
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End indefinite solitary confinement
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...CoDev's March/April 2018 Executive Director's Report
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:44
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ACTIVlist Update - May 10, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:23
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Nestle and Kinder Morgan strike deal while Indigenous and community right to water ignored The issue of contention between the two transnationals has been that Kinder Morgan's 890,000 barrel per day tar sands pipeline would have cut through Nestle's water-bottling property in Hope - on Sto:lo territory - in British Columbia where the transnational...
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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Switzerland-based Nestle (the bottled water company) has announced it has reached an agreement with Texas-based Kinder Morgan (the pipeline company).
We couldnt wait to tell you
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2018 08:02
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Updates to our Privacy Policy
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 May 2018 17:16
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ACTIVlist Update - May 9, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 May 2018 14:02
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There are obstacles, but we can win pharmacare!
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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While the Trudeau government appears to be promising that a universal single-payer public prescription drug plan may be around the corner, it's still not here - and we're not likely to see it at least until 2020.
The Council to take part in mobilizations vs the G7 summit in Quebec
Various actions are now being organized in Quebec City by different groups to protest...
McDonalds, fix your pesticide problem
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 May 2018 10:06
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The Family-Party-State Nexus in Nicaragua
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 21:40
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1603 ... May 9, 2018
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The Family-Party-State Nexus in Nicaragua
Trevor Evans
In 1979 a popular uprising led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the U.S.-backed Somoza-family dictatorship which had ruled Nicaragua since the 1930s, and in 1984 the Sandinistas and their presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega, decisively won the country’s first free elections in decades. The Sandinistas introduced a major programme of land redistribution and a significant expansion of public health care and education services. However, initial gains were undermined under the impact of an armed opposition (‘the contra’) organized and promoted by the U.S., a collapse of international raw material prices in the early 1980s, and Sandinista policy errors, including an over-ambitious programme of large-scale investments.
In 1990, a war weary population voted for a broad...
ACTIVlist Update - May 8, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 17:12
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Action Alert: Bill C-69: Call for debate to be extended Action Alert: Prime Minister Trudeau: Make Muskrat Right
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The Council stands in solidarity with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in their opposition to Nestle bottled-water takings
The Council of Canadians stands in solidarity with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians that opposes increased Nestle water-takings in Michigan and declared a "moratorium on the purchase and sale of...
Stand against torture
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 15:58
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End indefinite solitary confinement
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