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Tackling Climate Change = Less Oil Consumption = No New Pipelines -- Recent Article from Rolly Montpellier, Below 2C
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 March 2018 13:43
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The Kinder Morgan issue is heating up, and we need as many facts and scientific truths as possible. After all, the Prime Minister says he believes in science and openness, but he also believes that one can keep extracting fossil fuels and emitting GHGs, while at the same time addressing climate change rapidly by reducing GHGs. Also he has said that “even though governments grant permits, ultimately only communities grant permission.” Here is Rolly Montpellier’s recent synthesis of views by several experts on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. I have copied the article assembled by Montpellier, in which he summarizes opinions by Patrick Derochie, Program Manager for Climate and Energy, Environmental Defence; Jeff Rubin, former Chief Economist and Chief Strategist at CIBC World Markets, world-leading energy expert, and best-selling Canadian author; and Mark Jaccard, SFU Professor and expert in energy-climate energy modelling. I also include some opinions...
The NO side wants big money to help them win
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 March 2018 13:42
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You can fight back against power-hungry lobbyists and politicians to win fair voting for everyone!
A few weeks ago, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson vowed to make killing proportional representation his number one priority in 2018 - and to spend millions to do it.
The opponent group's submission to the BC government recommends that corporations be allowed to donate to the referendum campaign and that there be no limits on third party advertising. British Columbians want Big Money out of politics - the NO side wants it back in.
Bill Tieleman is a professional, paid lobbyist for 17 organizations or companies.
I tried to search the Prime Ministers Office.
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 March 2018 12:12
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Dear friends,
Yesterday, I joined a team of Ottawa area residents to form a ‘Pipeline Evidence Unit’. Our goal was to search the Prime Minister's Office and government buildings on Parliament Hill for any shred of evidence proving that Kinder Morgan is -- as Trudeau claims climate safe, spill-proof and compatible with Canada’s commitments to Indigenous rights.
Watch this video to see what we found:
First, we took our search straight to the Office of the Prime Minister, where we set up a search area and attempted to enter the building. Unsurprisingly, the first stop on our search didn’t offer any discoveries, and security refused our entry. So we made our way to Parliament Hill, and were promptly turned...
CoDev Winter Appeal 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 March 2018 05:01
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Why did the German SPD membership vote for the coalition?
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- Published on Monday, 05 March 2018 22:17
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1566 ... March 6, 2018
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Why did the German SPD membership vote for the coalition?
Kevin Ovenden
At 66 per cent on a 78 per cent turnout, over half (52 per cent) of the SPD’s membership of 464,000, voted for the grand coalition. So about 241,000 for, 122,000 against (and 101,000 abstentions). That is not close. It’s a bigger victory than the 60 per cent SPD leaders were privately predicting on Friday.
Why the two-to-one vote for a coalition that has already seen the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) slump in the polls?
It’s not enthusiasm for the coalition. I suggest it’s for two reasons that I among others pointed to during the three week internal SPD campaign.
To reject the coalition would have opened the...
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Help us end long-term solitary confinement.
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- Published on Monday, 05 March 2018 09:00
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Starbucks
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- Published on Monday, 05 March 2018 07:43
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The world's oceans are full of plastic and 4 billion plastic-lined Starbucks cups end up in the garbage every year.
Starbucks is part of the problem: tell the coffee giant to switch to 100% recyclable cups!
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By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans, and still almost none of Starbucks’ plastic-lined cups get recycled.
Waste plastics leach hazardous toxins into our waterways. And the plastic from coffee cups breaks down into tiny pieces that animals and fish eat -- thinking they’re getting a proper meal, when actually they’re getting a plastic meal!
Ecological Crisis and Capitalist Accumulation in Contemporary Turkey
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- Published on Sunday, 04 March 2018 23:01
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1565 ... March 5, 2018
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Ecological Crisis and Capitalist Accumulation in Contemporary Turkey
Zafer Ülger is a member of the Başlangıç socialist collective in Turkey. He has participated in the student movement (1995-1997) in Turkey, and was a part of the anti-war movement after September 2001. He joined the local neighbourhood solidarity and forums movement after the Gezi Park resistance. He is now working on his PhD dissertation on ecology struggles and contradictions between capitalism and the ecosystem at Marmara University.
Zafer spoke with Arielle Concilio of Left Voice to discuss environmental issues in Turkey, their relation to capitalist accumulation, and the increasing violence against environmental activists in the country.
Arielle Concilio (AC): Can you tell us about the main environmental issues you see currently in Turkey and their...
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Deportations
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- Published on Sunday, 04 March 2018 03:29
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Tens of thousands of asylum seekers will be deported from Israel by April 1st -- or face indefinite detention.
Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Royal Jordanian Airlines are profiting off these cruel deportations. Tell these airlines it’s time to stand by asylum seekers.
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Tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers are facing an impossible choice in Israel: deportation to a country where their lives will be in danger or indefinite imprisonment. No one should have to make that choice.
Despite an April 1st deadline, these cruel deportations are happening right now. Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Royal Jordanian Airlines are...
International Women's Day 2018 (#IWD2018)
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- Published on Sunday, 04 March 2018 00:11
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International Women's Day 2018 (#IWD2018)
Inspired by the struggles of working class women and led by the early socialist movement, a strategy formed to hold an annual day to demand equal rights, suffrage, an end to sexual discrimination and for a new social order — and given the anti-capitalist spirit, most often socialist. The first International Women’s Day was observed on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. More than one million women and men showed their support of women by participating in public events.
In 1977 following the long-standing movements for women to participate equally in society, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed a day for women’s rights and international peace. Following the United Nations’ lead, Canada chose March 8 as International Women’s Day. IWD has grown to become a...
Nestlé
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- Published on Saturday, 03 March 2018 04:33
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Every day, Nestlé is taking millions of litres of Ontario’s precious groundwater on expired permits.
We need to send a strong message now to Premier Wynne to say no to Nestlé sucking Ontario dry.
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It’s outrageous -- Nestlé draws 4.7 million litres of water from Ontario every single day, and is looking to take more. Nestlé’s permits have expired -- some of them years ago -- and yet the government is refusing to make a decision on whether to renew them.
Ontario residents have spoken loud and clear: 63% of them have stated that they don’t want bottled water permits renewed. Ontario wants to...
Invite to meet and join Together Victoria
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- Published on Thursday, 26 April 2018 21:40
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stopping Bells internet takeover
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2018 10:07
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Smart suits, shabby treatment: Sponsor of Bundesliga teams fires union members
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2018 07:18
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2018 03:14
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IWD: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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- Published on Friday, 02 March 2018 00:01
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1564 ... March 2, 2018
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IWD: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking Back on the Women’s Liberation Movement
Judith Green
In a sexist society, sexism imbues every facet of life. The Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s involved a huge truth-telling by women about the realities of their lives, to each other and to the world, in an effort to change themselves and the world. Out of that great cataloguing of the injustices against us, women in the UK developed seven demands at a series of conferences taking place from 1970 to 1978.
The first of those gatherings opened exactly forty-eight years ago today (27 February -- 1 March 1970), when women in Oxford expanded an original idea for a conference on Women’s History into an event focused...
International Women's Day Events March 8th 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 01 March 2018 23:33
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ACTIVlist Update -March 1, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 01 March 2018 11:24
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One day after raising hope about pharmacare, Morneau talks partial drug coverage
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