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All Day Workshop with Honduran Teacher Daysi Marquez
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 11:59
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 10:00
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Basic Income: Progressive Cloak and Neoliberal Dagger
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 05:32
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1580 ... April 4, 2018
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Basic Income: Progressive Cloak and Neoliberal Dagger
John Clarke
For almost three decades, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been fighting against neoliberal austerity, especially that aspect of it that has involved systematically degrading systems of income support. The underlying motive in this attack has been to render benefit provision as inadequate and precarious as possible so as to create the desperation that can drive people into the expanding low wage sector.
In this situation, the notion has taken hold that the solution is a clean start, with income support restructured along the lines of a system of basic income. Given our bitter experiences, we might have been expected to respond favourably to this development. However, as we looked at the idea of...
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Urgent: Kinder Morgan
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 April 2018 04:05
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Win for Prison Farms!
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 April 2018 17:14
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ACTIVlist Update - April 3, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 April 2018 13:37
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Taiwanese transnational to take water out of the Great Lakes basin for electronics factory ___________________ ACTION ALERT: Stop Trump from using NAFTA to push junk...
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Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group wants to build a $10 billion manufacturing complex in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin to assemble liquid crystal display panels for televisions and other electronic devices - which would require about 7 million gallons of water to be drawn out of Lake Michigan each day.
Mark Zuckerberg
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 April 2018 08:22
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Facebook's data breach is bigger than we thought. The social media giant is on trial for undermining democratic processes around the world.
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to step down as CEO.
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In a few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg will have to sit before the U.S. Congress and justify to the world how 50 million Facebook users' data got in the hands of a third party app that has helped undermine democratic processes across the world--from the United States to the UK.
Once news of the massive Facebook data breach broke, it took Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg five whole days to issue an apology after...
Solidarity with the Great Return March in Gaza
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 April 2018 01:04
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1579 ... April 3, 2018
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Solidarity with the Great Return March in Gaza
Socialist Project
The members of the Socialist Project wish to express solidarity with the Palestinian "Great Return March" in Gaza, in addition to the ongoing non-violent movement in the West Bank against Israeli occupation and colonization. This movement, and international solidarity efforts in support of it, represents the most hopeful path to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian land. As the occupation is carried out with the crucial support of the Canadian and U.S. governments, it is the duty of citizens in these countries to support the Palestinian struggle for human rights.
On March 30, the Israeli military perpetrated what appears to have been a deliberate massacre of non-violent demonstrators in Gaza, killing at...
Paris Climate Goals Depend on Promoting Biodiversity
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- Published on Sunday, 01 April 2018 23:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1578 ... April 2, 2018
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Paris Climate Goals Depend on Promoting Biodiversity
Ashley Braun
A sweeping new report released on March 23rd emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are.
The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (UN) pacts "all depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment in all its diversity and complexity," said Dr. Anne Larigauderie, executive secretary of the UN-backed organization behind the report. "Acting to protect and promote biodiversity is at least as important to achieving these commitments and to human well-being as is the fight against global climate change."
The report comes from the efforts of more than 550 scientists in over 100 nations, corralled by an organization often dubbed "the IPCC...
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NAFTA is a Bill of Rights for Capital
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- Published on Saturday, 31 March 2018 23:06
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NAFTA is a Bill of Rights for Capital
Interview with Richard Roman.
Dr. Richard Roman, co-author of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America (in Spanish) discusses how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deepened and ‘constitutionalized’ neoliberal reforms already underway, how migrant labour actually winds up subsidizing the United States, and concludes with a discussion of how the bi-national nature of the Mexican working class creates the possibility of international solidarity, or “continental integration from below.”
He was interviewed by Colin Mooers and Kurt Hackbarth of MexElects.
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Merger from hell just approved
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- Published on Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:08
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Air Canada scandal
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- Published on Friday, 30 March 2018 12:44
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Warning: trigger alert — this may be very difficult to read as the content refers to sexual harassment.
Air Canada flight attendants just filed a groundbreaking complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The airline is allegedly instructing flight attendants to dress to "show more cleavage", model new uniforms, and "strut their stuff" -- and face humiliating and objectifying physical critiques on the job. This needs to end now.
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Air Canada flight attendants just filed a groundbreaking complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Among the complaints filed through their union, CUPE, Air Canada is allegedly instructing flight attendants to dress to "show more cleavage",...
History has been made by the Kinder Morgan resistance.
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- Published on Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:56
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Friends,
Years from now, people are going to look back at March 2018 as a moment when history was made.
For anyone with a social media account or with eyes on any national media outlet, in the last few weeks, you’ve seen a wave of enormous, inspiring, and historic resistance to the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline. For all that you have done to support this fight on the land, on the streets, at your MP office, online, and in spirit, I thank you.
It all started on March 10th when 10,000 people marched in solidarity with Coast Salish spiritual leaders who simultaneously built a watch house -- a structure used by their people for generations to watch over enemies -- on the path of the Kinder...
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Tax Breaks for Polluters
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- Published on Thursday, 29 March 2018 09:01
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Cambridge Analytica
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- Published on Thursday, 29 March 2018 07:18
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Paov, if you feel concerned about the implications of the Facebook data scandal, you’re not alone.
The revelations have exposed so much more than just how Cambridge Analytica was able to inappropriately collect information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users.
It has shown the world the incredible scale of how social media companies and data brokers are harvesting and exploiting the private social media activity of millions of people around the world.1
And it’s shown us something...
Help protect farmworkers: Take action on this brain-harming pesticide!
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- Published on Thursday, 29 March 2018 06:02
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France: Unions, Left Confront Macrons Attacks on Rail Services and Jobs
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 March 2018 22:43
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1577 ... March 29, 2018
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France: Unions, Left Confront Macron’s Attacks on Rail Services and Jobs
Dick Nichols
France is once again on the brink of an all-out industrial war -- and its outcome could transform the country’s political landscape. The showdown is over the plans that President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe have for the state-owned National Railway Company (SNCF), which have been described by Le Monde as "the biggest change for the SNCF since its founding in 1937."
The stakes in the fight are huge: France’s 150,000 rail workers could suffer a defeat like that of Britain’s miners under Margaret Thatcher. On the other hand, Philippe could suffer the same fate as former PM Alain Juppe, whose 1995 economic "reform" was trashed by a vast...
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ACTIVlist Update - March 28, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:55
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Big Oil presents on federal water and energy laws at committee hearings
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Early February, the Liberal government introduced Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which in its current form would make sweeping changes to Canada’s water, environmental and energy legislation.
