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Net Neutrality
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:32
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Colten Boushie
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 February 2018 09:34
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Trigger warning: this post contains details of a murder that may be triggering to some.
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Last Friday, an all-white jury found Gerald Stanley, a white man, not guilty of murder in the point-blank shooting of Colten Boushie, a 22 year old Indigenous man. In a country plagued with a deep and brutal racist, colonial history, this story is horrifying -- and is a sober reminder that this history is still very much alive today.
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March Today to Honour the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People #MMIWG2S
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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460 workers have died - Georgia needs a new labour law
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 February 2018 07:22
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Fragmentation in Toronto's Hotel Sector
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:52
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1555 ... February 14, 2018
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Fragmentation in Toronto’s Hotel Sector
Steven Tufts
The intensity of the current conflict between UNITE HERE and its trusteeship of Local 75 and Unifor’s formation of a new local of hospitality workers (condemned by most of the labour movement as a raid) makes critical self-reflection and discussion especially difficult. In the essay below, Steven Tufts attempts to put this clash into perspective and offers ways forward that point to a unity beyond the current polarizing divisions in the sector. Tufts is a labour researcher with two decades of close association with Toronto area hotel workers, beginning with his PhD dissertation on HERE Local 75’s renewal beginning in the mid-1990s after the union emerged from an imposed international trusteeship. He has followed the union through its...
ACTIVlist Update - February 13, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:43
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Two-day G7 summit in Charlevoix to cost $224.6 million, the equivalent of 20 water treatment plants 
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Upcoming Vancouver Events!
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:32
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Tell The Atlantic to send DowDuPont packing
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:06
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Help us call out this blatant greenwashing...
BDS Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
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- Published on Monday, 12 February 2018 22:56
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BDS Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Bjørnar Moxnes
As a member of the Norwegian parliament, I proudly use my authority as an elected official to nominate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nominating the BDS movement for this recognition is perfectly in line with the principles I and my party hold very dear. Like the BDS movement, we are fully committed to stopping an ascendent, racist and right-wing politics sweeping too much of our world, and securing freedom, justice and equality for all people.
Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement and the American Civil Rights movement, the grassroots, Palestinian-led BDS movement is a peaceful, global human rights movement that urges the use...
ACTIVlist Update - February 12, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 12 February 2018 13:44
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The Council calls on Trudeau government to fix C-69, table new water protection legislation, appoint a water minister Do pipelines and fracking dams get a free pass under the new Canadian Navigable Waters...
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The Council of Canadians calls on the Trudeau government to dramatically strengthen environmental reviews and water protection measures in its recently tabled Bill C-69 that would govern the reviews of proposed tar sands pipelines, mines, hydroelectric dams and transmission lines.
Ajax Mine
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- Published on Monday, 12 February 2018 06:15
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We don’t have long to stop a massive open-pit copper-gold mine that would destroy Indigenous ancestral lands and pollute critical environmental habitat.
Tell Federal ministers to scrap the KGHM Ajax copper mine now.
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The Canadian government is just days away from deciding the fate of the massive Ajax copper-gold mine. If built, the mine would destroy an ecologically-sensitive area that is home to over 250 different animal, plant and bird species, and sits on the sacred lands of the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation (SSN), where 7,000 year-old cultural artifacts have been uncovered.
The BC government just did the right thing and said no to this...
The Crises in the Gulf and Palestine
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- Published on Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:25
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 1 February 2018
The Crises in the Gulf and Palestine
The recent decision by President Donald Trump to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem amidst international condemnation has made the USA the only country in the world to officially recognize Israel’s illegal, unilateral annexation of that city. At the same time, intensifying bloody repression in the Arab Gulf has included a horrific U.S.-Saudi assault on Yemen, the encirclement of Qatar and Iran, and the consolidation of an absolutist regime in Saudi Arabia headed by Prince Salman. As a result, the need to assess the strategic dilemmas facing international solidarity activists, including the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel, has become even more pressing.
Moderated by Umair Muhammad. Presentations by:
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Saturday, 10 February 2018 06:00
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Nestlé baby milk
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- Published on Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:41
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How often do you see scientific claims used by companies like Nestlé trying to convince you to buy a new food product or nutritional supplement? All the time.
But when it comes to food science, can you tell the facts from the fakes? Take our quiz to find out - it takes just a couple of minutes. We’ll get you started with the first question:
Taking vitamin C will stop you getting a cold
Nestlé claims its baby milks are based on nutritional science, but research has revealed that these products are actually designed to exploit different tastes, trends and parental fears. This has to stop. It’s time for Nestlé to start dealing in facts not fake science, and simply offer safe, affordable, nutritionally complete baby milk to parents and their...
Justice for Colten Boushie Events and Actions
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- Published on Friday, 09 February 2018 22:13
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Day of action to stop Bell
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- Published on Friday, 09 February 2018 16:02
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We knew they’d come at us with everything they had. Members of the censorship coalition spearheaded by Bell have long been known for aggressively pursuing their agenda,1 and this latest push to have the CRTC do their bidding is no different.
They don’t seem to care that they’re massively overstating the scale of a problem in order to implement a website blocking scheme.2 Once again, our free and open Internet is under attack.
So at the end of the month...
A Watershed Moment for U.S. Democracy
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- Published on Friday, 09 February 2018 13:21
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© Davis Turner/Getty This month, a three-judge federal panel rendered a verdict that could profoundly alter, and strengthen, how democracy works in the United States. Using a cutting-edge social science technique which showed how votes in hyper-gerrymandered districts were “wasted,” the court ruled, for the first time in history, that a partisan congressional gerrymander could be unconstitutional. The debate is hardly resolved; it’s likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon weigh in. But for those who believe that voting rights in the United States must be vigorously defended, 2018 is off to a promising start.
ACTIVlist Update - February 9, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 09 February 2018 12:30
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Chapters this Week! McKenna's pipeline-friendly Bill C-69 fails to protect water or make environmental assessments credible
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During the October 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged, "We will make environmental assessments credible again."
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At the Interstices of Race, Class and Imperialism: A. Sivanandan (1923-2018)
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- Published on Thursday, 08 February 2018 22:48
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At the Interstices of Race, Class and Imperialism:
A. Sivanandan (1923-2018)
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Ambalavaner Sivanandan, who has died aged 94 in London on 3 January 2018, was an organic intellectual working at the interstices of race, class and imperialism in the movements in which he was unconditionally immersed. A skillful essayist and gripping orator, he chiselled powerful idioms and imagery which travelled across his writing, and from his speeches to his writing, and back again. His prose was crafted not so much to be read quietly, as recited aloud.
What animated him, in contrast to liberal-left academics and media commentators of colour fixated by issues of representation and privilege, was the question: "... what is it in the black and Third World experience, in...
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ACTIVlist Update - February 8, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 08 February 2018 19:14
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Does the new 'Canadian Navigable Waters Act' protect lakes and rivers from pipelines? Will today's announcement usher in new legislation to protect every lake and every river?
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This morning, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna tabled the much anticipated 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.
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