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1 new update on the petitions you support, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 06 April 2018 11:18
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Update: Facebook
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- Published on Friday, 06 April 2018 08:34
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Hi, Paov, I just wanted to update you about what’s been happening in the fight for Canadian privacy since...
For-profit healthcare?
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- Published on Friday, 06 April 2018 07:08
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On Monday, Brian Day, otherwise known as "Dr. Profit" will resume his dangerous lawsuit that would gut public healthcare in Canada as we know it.
SumOfUs members like you have been fighting Dr. Profit since the beginning of the trial in 2016. Already, almost 46,000 caring members like you have signed a petition calling on Dr. Day to drop his lawsuit and thousands more have chipped in to fund the lawyers who are fighting to save Canadian health care.
This a copy of the original mailing we sent out:
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Public health care is under attack. SumOfUs members have come forward in a HUGE way to raise thousands of dollars to defend it in the courts --...
Protect students from sexual abuse
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- Published on Friday, 06 April 2018 05:11
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Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
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- Published on Friday, 06 April 2018 00:34
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1582 ... April 6, 2018
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Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
Felix Holtwell
"We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves," proclaimed a shop steward at Lucas Aerospace when filmed by a 1978 documentary by the Open University.
He was explaining the rationale behind the so-called Alternative Corporate Plan, better known as the Lucas Plan. It was proposed by shop stewards in seventies England at the factories of Lucas Aerospace. To stave off pending layoffs, a shop steward committee established a plan that outlined a range of new, socially useful technologies for Lucas to build. With it, they fundamentally challenged the capitalist conception of technology design.
Essentially, they proposed that workers establish control over the design of...
Not a chance
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 21:23
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You’re not going to believe this. Yesterday news leaked that the Trudeau government is considering gaping loopholes to let pipelines and tarsands projects off the hook from new climate rules. [1]
Letting Canada’s dirtiest industries skip this critical climate review would be a disaster for our environment -- and we need to move fast to stop it.
The government likely leaked their plans as a “trial balloon” to gauge the public response -- so a fast and fierce backlash could convince them to scrap this dangerous plan.
But we don’t have much time. Trudeau is travelling to the tarsands tomorrow where he could be planning to make these outrageous loopholes official. [2]
Will you sign the petition demanding that the Liberals scrap these outrageous loopholes for big oil?
Right now, a parliamentary committee is reviewing legislation that would strengthen Canada’s environmental assessment process, which was gutted by Stephen Harper. The bills include new rules, including a climate review.
Kick Nestlé out of Ontario
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 16:36
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In March, generous Canadian SumOfUs members funded an important poll to determine how Ontarians feel about Nestlé, and the bottled water industry in Ontario.
Now the results are in and a whopping 64% of Ontario residents don't want Nestlé and other corporations to control their groundwater. Not only that, but over 50% of Ontarians across party lines want bottled water permits phased out in the next two years -- within the first term of the next government.
With the will of Ontarians behind us, the time is ripe to pressure the current Premier to make the right move and finally kick Nestlé out of Ontario for good.
Can you take a moment now to tell Premier Wynne to phase out bottled water permits?
Every day, Nestlé is taking millions of litres of Ontario’s precious groundwater on expired permits.
We need to send a...
No Loopholes for Big Oil
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 14:43
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Earlier this year, the Trudeau government announced major changes to Canada’s environmental reviews, something he promised while campaigning for the elections in 2015. But this overhaul is falling short: Trudeau and his government are considering putting loopholes for this country’s biggest polluters.
The new rules are not finalized yet, so we have a window to close the loopholes. Not only that, if we organize and crank up the pressure, we have a shot at shifting federal action on the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
That’s why we’re demanding a people’s amendment to the legislation to ensure that there are no loopholes for Big Oil. The first step is sending this message to the Trudeau government and all federal party leaders.
What we’re asking is: first, that any project approved by Canada's broken regulators after Trudeau's...
ACTIVlist Update - April 5, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 14:21
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MEDIA RELEASE: BP Rig en Route to Offshore Drill Nova Scotia: Are we the next Gulf Coast disaster?
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Visit us in Chicago this weekend at Labor Notes
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 12:17
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Tell Congress Pruitts time is up
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 11:14
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No Federal Review for New Oilsands Projects?
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- Published on Thursday, 05 April 2018 10:02
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SEA Meetings and other events for April 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 23:39
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France: Student Strikers Attacked; 'Fascist' Dean Jailed
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 23:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1581 ... April 5, 2018
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France: Student Strikers Attacked; ‘Fascist’ Dean Jailed
Richard Greeman
Eight days ago (on March 29), the ultra-conservative Dean of the Montpellier University Law School was summoned to police headquarters, interrogated, hauled into court, and held over in jail for arraignment by the Chief Prosecutor -- all on the complaint of nine student strikers, who claim to have been brutally assaulted with Dean Philippe Pétel’s active complicity while ‘occupying’ a school auditorium.
The students, backed by live videos, described Dean Pétel encouraging masked thugs with wooden staves to burst into a Law School auditorium and violently expel a few dozen students who were ‘occupying’ it as part of the University-wide student strike. The thugs were videoed brutally beating students, even on the ground, and several...
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Kinder Morgan
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 16:04
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I wanted to be sure you saw this - I just got a mock-up of what your mobile billboard could look like:
We’ve got a plan to park this huge billboard right outside Trudeau’s exclusive fundraising event in downtown Vancouver tomorrow, as a warning that continuing to support Kinder Morgan will cost the Liberals seats in the next election.
401 people have already donated to help make this happen. Our deadline is 5 PM today - donate now to show Justin Trudeau that we aren’t backing down on Kinder Morgan!
- Jolan, on behalf of the entire Leadnow team
Last day to save the internet
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 15:48
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I didn’t want you to miss this.
Bell is trying to control our internet by proposing policies allowing them to block content to increase profits. [1] And we only have until the end of today to blow the whistle on their greedy censorship ploy.
The telecom watchdog (the CRTC) is accepting public input on Bell’s website-blocking proposal until the end of today, which is when we’ll deliver our petition against Bell’s dangerous ploy. But we need to submit the biggest petition possible to topple Bell’s influence.
It only needs 4,000 more signatures to hit 25,000. With that many opponents, the CRTC would have no choice but to listen to us and reject Bell. Will you help reach our target and show the CRTC the undeniably large opposition to Bell’s greedy proposal?
We’re so close,
Rachel on behalf of the Leadnow team
A surprise for Trudeau
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 15:23
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Justin Trudeau has some nerve. He is planning a $1000-a-plate fundraiser at a luxury hotel in Vancouver, just a stone’s throw from the pipeline construction site where over a hundred Indigenous leaders and local residents have been arrested for taking action to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline. [1]
Trudeau is expecting to wine and dine his donors, snap a few selfies, and head back to Ottawa to cash the cheques. But we’ve got a surprise for him.
If we raise $5000 by tomorrow, we’ll park a huge mobile billboard right outside Trudeau’s exclusive fundraising event, with a 10-foot warning to Trudeau and his donors that continuing to support Kinder Morgan will cost them seats in the next election.
Trudeau’s donors are...
Stepping Up for Environmental Activists
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 14:05
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© Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Exactly two years after Honduras’s Berta Caceres was murdered in her home, 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries have formed a legally binding agreement to protect environmental activists. Officially known as The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin American and the Caribbean, the measure is intended to help give a voice—and, if necessary, a recourse—to the people whose lives are most immediately affected by development projects. It’s a first for a region where violent attacks on environmental activist are all too common, and it’s a welcome step towards defending a core value of open society: the right to assemble and protest.
ACTIVlist Update - April 4, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 13:42
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A NAFTA 2.0 deal in principle could be signed by April 13 ______________ MEDIA RELEASE: Council of Canadians challenges Nestlé's sustainability certification
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