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CoDev Solidarity Dinner 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 11:32
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REMINDER: Anonymous Online Workshop May 8th & +20 More Events
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 May 2018 08:15
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Free and Accessible Transit Now
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- Published on Monday, 07 May 2018 22:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1602 ... May 8, 2018
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Free and Accessible Transit Now:
Toward A Red-Green Vision for Toronto
Free Transit Toronto
Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Transit and general mobility are intimately related to larger issues in capitalist society: how goods and services are produced and delivered; the location of and nature of jobs; where and how we live and travel; issues of class, inequality and oppression related to race, age, gender, and sexuality; climate justice; and the very shape and nature of our democratic institutions.
Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our ‘Red-Green’ vision is socialist, based on...
ACTIVlist Update - May 7, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 07 May 2018 14:55
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Make Muskrat Right
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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Today, I was on Parliament Hill to stand in solidarity with the Labrador Land Protectors and the Grand Riverkeeper-Labrador.
Ontario chapters mobilizing for June 7 provincial election
Council of Canadians chapters are working to highlight key issues in the lead-up to the provincial election in Ontario on June 7.
Council of Canadians chapters take action to #StopKM
Council of Canadians chapters are taking part in these actions calling...
Your message to Bains
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- Published on Monday, 07 May 2018 08:12
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What do you want to say to Minister Bains, Paov?
In just a few days, our OpenMedia community came...
French Railworkers on Strike
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- Published on Sunday, 06 May 2018 20:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1601 ... May 7, 2018
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French Railworkers on Strike
Étienne Balibar
The philosopher Étienne Balibar is one of the figures behind the solidarity fund in support of striking railworkers in France -- a fund that now stands close to €1-million. Responding to questions from workers who are taking part in the rolling strike action, Balibar emphasized the need for what he calls "collective resistance against social regression."
Anasse, a pointsman at Le Bourget: How can an intellectual today show solidarity with workers’ strike action?
There are (at least) two reasons for them to do so, and indeed these reasons overlap. The first reason is that the railworkers who are today defending fundamental social rights are also fighting to stop the rail service itself being dismantled. This is not...
Canada's plastics solution
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- Published on Sunday, 06 May 2018 08:10
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97,000 SumOfUs members like you have called on Prime Minister Trudeau, Environment Minister McKenna, and other Canadian Politicians to support Motion M-151, the motion that would kickstart action on plastic pollution.
Since our campaign went viral last month, the Prime Minister has responded saying that he will meet with MPs about Motion M-151. Environment Minister McKenna has also said that she will start a public consultation on plastic garbage.
But we have to make sure that any legislation considered goes straight to the source: targeting single-use plastics from corporations such as Nestle and McDonalds.
Tomorrow, while the Environment Minister will be apart of a beach clean up and see first the plastic that end up in our oceans, our friends will be delivering our petition...
The Communist International: Its Relevance Today
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- Published on Saturday, 05 May 2018 22:06
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1600 ... May 6, 2018
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The Communist International: Its Relevance Today
John Riddell
Thirty-five years ago I undertook to translate and publish the record of the Communist International in Lenin’s lifetime, covering the preparatory years from 1907 to its foundation in 1919 and through 1923. Ten books totalling 7,000 pages are published or in preparation. This has been a team effort of more than 100 collaborators in several continents backed up with a broad community of readers, critics, and supporters.
During its first years, the project was sponsored by a U.S. Marxist group, the Socialist Workers Party. After publication of six books, work broke off. In 2008, I resumed the series as an independent venture, publishing through the Historical Materialism Book Series and Haymarket Books.
Last year, I...
A massive win for the bees
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- Published on Saturday, 05 May 2018 02:14
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For years, SumOfUs members like you have been taking action to protect the world’s threatened bee populations. And last week, we scored our biggest win yet.
The EU voted for a near-complete ban on three neonics -- pesticides that pose a deadly risk to bees and other pollinators. And it’s your actions and the work of our partners across Europe that made this happen.
Thank you so much!
Bayer and Co. put up the fight of a lifetime to avoid this ban -- from covering up study results to suing the European Commission for earlier restrictions on their bee-killing pesticides.
But together, we took on Goliath -- and won. You proved that when hundreds of thousands...
ACTIVlist Update - May 4, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 04 May 2018 13:50
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The Council of Canadians supports call to respect UNDRIP, oppose Muskrat Falls dam
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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The Council of Canadians will be on Parliament Hill on Monday in solidarity with the Labrador Land Protectors and Grand Riverkeeper-Labrador and their opposition to the Muskrat Falls hydro-electric dam.
Council of Canadians Pacific region chapters call on MLAs to respect UNDRIP, reject the renewal of fish farm tenures
The provincial government of BC premier John Horgan will soon...
Re. Merger from hell
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- Published on Friday, 04 May 2018 04:33
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Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear? Remembering May 1968
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- Published on Thursday, 03 May 2018 21:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1599 ... May 4, 2018
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Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear? Remembering May 1968
Richard Greeman
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the wave of radical revolts and revolutionary uprisings that startled the world in 1968 and which -- although ultimately crushed by the forces of reaction that dominate the world to this day -- left in its wake rights so fundamental that we tend to take them for granted today -- for example sexual freedom, civil rights for African-Americans, and women’s equality. Yet a half-century later these hard-won rights are under attack, and people are once again rising to defend them.
Today in France, where in 1968 the student-worker rebellion led to weeks of general strikes with factory occupations, the students have once again occupied the universities,...
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ACTIVlist Update - May 3, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 03 May 2018 13:20
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Trudeau plays lip service to progressive trade, but communities live it
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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Progressive trade is something that we hear a lot about. The federal government has staked its lot on rhetorically changing the nature of trade agreements.
5 reasons to #StopKM
Last month Kinder Morgan set an arbitrary May 31 deadline for reaching a deal to approve the $7.4-billion pipeline project that will ship mostly diluted bitumen from Alberta to the Coast Salish...
Neighbours vs. Neighbors
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- Published on Thursday, 03 May 2018 07:00
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"Hens in tiny, filthy cages"
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- Published on Thursday, 03 May 2018 06:31
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Thank you, let's keep up the pressure!
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 May 2018 17:03
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Thank you to everybody that has sent a clear strong message to the government: we urgently need a comprehensive...
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- ACTIVlist Update - May 2, 2018
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- "Incels", Toronto van attack
- Planetary crisis
- Massive pesticide permit approved in Clayoquot Sound
- Toyota Autoworkers Take on the Liberals
