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ACTIVlist Update - April 20, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 20 April 2018 13:27
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Backroom deals on NAFTA and Kinder Morgan endanger the climate
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Op-ed: By Maude Barlow and Sujata Dey, published in Ricochet, April 20, 2018
Toss Bill C-69 overboard and protect our water, Mr. Trudeau
Op-ed: By Maude Barlow and Pamela Palmater, published in the Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 2018
17,000 households at risk of losing their drinking water in fifth round of water shutoffs in Detroit
The Council of Canadians and Blue...
Heres how we stop Kinder Morgan. Are you in?
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- Published on Friday, 20 April 2018 12:04
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Friend,
We came up with a plan on how we think we can stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but we need to be upfront about something: the strategy is big. It’s going to require a lot of small, medium and big tasks taken on by many.
We know that Trudeau’s government is gambling their political legacy on Kinder Morgan. They think they can get away with a multi-billion dollar bailout for a massive Texas-based oil company, ignoring Indigenous rights, and disregarding climate science.
We have to show that going all-in on Kinder Morgan will cost the Liberals, both in BC and across the country. That’s why we’re asking people like you to take action targeting your local Liberal MP.
Will you commit right now to organizing an action during in this critical moment?
Everything you...
Why are these corporations in bed with the US gun lobby?
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- Published on Friday, 20 April 2018 07:43
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Marriott, Hilton, and Holiday Inn offer special discounts to members of an infamous US guns lobby called the NRA.
Tell these hotel chains to end their discount programs and stop helping the powerful American gun lobby buy their way through US politics.
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Some of the biggest hotel chains in the world are offering discounts to members of the notorious US guns lobby, the NRA -- an organization aggressively pushing to get more guns on American streets and...
Read more: Why are these corporations in bed with the US gun lobby?
Marx's Theory and Philosophy of Praxis
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- Published on Friday, 20 April 2018 06:07
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1593 ... April 20, 2018
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Marx’s Theory and Philosophy of Praxis: Between academia and ideology
Alex Demirović
Hungarian writer and historian György Dalos described his relationship to Marx in a short, reflective piece that appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 25 October 2017. In it, he claims that Marx drew upon that age-old human ideal of a society living in wealth and security and without fear of violence or retribution; and that Karl Kautsky canonised Marx’s teachings as “Isms”. This involved a need to understand the principle of social evolution and its socioeconomic formations, starting with primitive-communal, moving to capitalist and then culminating in communist.
Dalos writes that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, having secured the supposed legalities, was able to assert its claim that it...
Bayer
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- Published on Friday, 20 April 2018 01:37
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Many people have pension or mutual funds that own shares in bee-killing Bayer.
Maybe you do, or know someone who does? Let's ask them to bring pressure to bear on Bayer's Board of Management.
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For years, Bayer has made a fortune selling pesticides that kill bees and other wildlife.
If you have a 401(k), pension or mutual fund, you probably hold shares indirectly in Bayer. We have made a tool to leverage your weight to send Bayer's bosses a...
We need urgent action stop Kinder Morgan
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- Published on Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:52
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Dear friends,
Earlier this week I asked you to join a mass organizing call to discuss the next steps in the fight to stop Kinder Morgan and the response was overwhelming. In just a few days 800 of you registered for this webinar -- meaning we are at capacity.
However, we will have a digital overflow room. So if you weren't able to join in, click here to join us at the top of the hour for a national organizing call about the next steps in the Kinder Morgan resistance.
We will get the call started in less than 10 minutes at at 5pm PT/6pm MT/ 7pm CT/8pm EST/ 9pm AT for 1.5 hrs
See you soon,
Katie
Friend,
This Sunday, Justin Trudeau pledged to spend billions of public dollars...
The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism
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- Published on Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:28
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1592 ... April 19, 2018
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The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism
Bob Farkas
In her 2016 book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, union organizer Jane McAlevey argued that unions have repeatedly and fruitlessly searched for quick fixes to the long decline of organized labour. This hunt for a magic bullet has diverted unions from investing in the single enduring and indispensable source of working-class power: deep organizing to build workers’ collective capacities for struggle.
One alluring shortcut to renewing labour’s strength has been to try to exploit the growth of pension funds. In Canada, the United States, and other countries, these pools of workers’ retirement savings have grown, even as union density has fallen. Today, pension funds alone hold assets of nearly $41-trillion (U.S.) worldwide,...
About that Constitution ...
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- Published on Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:01
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URGENT: Bee vote!!!
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- Published on Thursday, 19 April 2018 04:10
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Adbusters #137 hits newsstands today!
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:14
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Calling all Wild Hearts,
Adbusters 137: The Spritual Crisis of Meaning issue
Finally hits newsstands today!
Adbusters’ Spiritual Crisis of Meaning Issue lands on news stands worldwide today. Join us on a mental journey through the chaos, horrors, and hope of modern life.
#MeToo. #TimesUp. #NeverAgain. - A world of new movements and a search for answers before it's too late. Join us and take on toxic culture (masculine, feminine, or otherwise); billionaire businesses and our tech-world overlords, nations sliding into fascism and gripped by anarchy, and a world of people ready to rise up and say #FuckItAll
Your taxes to Kinder Morgan?
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:57
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This is beyond outrageous. Right now, Trudeau is considering using your tax dollars to bail out Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan’s floundering pipeline and tanker scheme. [1]
Let that sink in. Dozens of First Nations still don’t have clean drinking water. We’re facing a housing crisis. Renewable energy projects are desperate for more funding. But Trudeau thinks there’s enough extra cash lying around to hand over as much as $2 billion to bail out a corporation from Texas? [2]
If that’s not enough to make your blood boil, your tax dollars would pay for a toxic tarsands pipeline that violates Indigenous rights, threatens the BC coast with oil spills, and jeopardizes our shared climate.
We need to show the Trudeau government that taxpayers won’t let them get away with using our hard-earned money to bail out a billionaire oil corporation. But secret talks with Kinder Morgan are starting this week, so there’s no time to waste. [3]
Will you sign the petition right now to stop Trudeau from giving billions of our tax dollars to Kinder Morgan?
ACTIVlist Update - April 18, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:29
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Canadians tell Trudeau they don't want Chapter 11 in NAFTA
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 has long opposed the Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Are you on Twitter?
Tweet: #ifIhad2billiondollars ? (hint: I wouldn't give it to Kinder Morgan!)
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PepsiCo
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 05:36
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This is incredible, following the publishing of our groundbreaking report on deforestation in Borneo's peat forests, more than 130,000 people have already demanded PepsiCo stop greenwashing its palm oil policy and cut deforestation from its supply chain.
Every single voice counts. Please join us in demanding immediate action from PepsiCo
Sign the petitionExclusive: New report exposes destruction of Borneo’s forests by PepsiCo’s palm oil partner in Indonesia.
Tell PepsiCo to cut conflict palm oil once and for all.
...Asifa was only 8 years old
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:31
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On Consumerism, Capitalism, and Ecosocialism
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:27
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1591 ... April 18, 2018
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On Consumerism, Capitalism, and Ecosocialism
Sebastian Livingston
This article is intended to be an introduction to an ecosocialist approach to production and consumption. What we have today is a hegemonic obsession with mass production that is catastrophic to the evolutionary processes which allow the biosphere to uphold life as we know it. Capitalist modes of production based upon endless economic expansion and mass consumption disrupt the equilibrium of ecosystems by reshaping the metabolism of nature which regulates earth systems. Within this article I will discuss some issues that I see as problematic in achieving an ecological society and address possible solutions. This is not intended to provide a critique of consumers, my aim is to develop an assault on the hegemonic creation of consumer culture...
Mr. Pruitt: You work for us, not Monsanto
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:48
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ACTIVlist Update - April 17, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:55
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Kinder Morgan, BP and the federal Liberal convention in Halifax, April 19-21 _____________________ MEDIA ADVISORY: NAFTA fuelling climate change in North America
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 and allies are preparing to raise key issues outside the upcoming federal Liberal convention.
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20 years on, LabourStart needs your help
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 03:45
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- Hyperbole and hysteria redux
- ACTIVlist Update - April 16, 2018
- The AXA scandal
- We need urgent action stop Kinder Morgan
- Fascistic Politics in India and the Left
- Trouble ahead
- PepsiCo
- Climate Change and the Struggle Against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
- Hyperbole and hysteria
