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Re. Bulgari
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- Published on Monday, 29 January 2018 07:49
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Bulgari is point-blank refusing to stop sourcing genocide gems from Myanmar.
Last month, the luxury jeweller released a statement saying “The Bulgari Company has never purchased precious gemstones for fine jewellery directly in Myanmar”.
Unfortunately, we know that it doesn’t matter whether the Burmese rubies, sapphires and jade featured in Bulgari’s catalogue were bought directly in or outside of Myanmar.
If the gems were sourced from or cut in Myanmar, then we know they are helping to fund the ongoing genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
Already over 110,000 SumOfUs members have demanded Bulgari to do the right thing, but it won’t budge. Please can you sign the petition today and put pressure on Bulgari to stop buying genocide gems?
Yes, I'll tell Bulgari to stop buying genocide gems from Myanmar
Thank you,
Tricia, Hanna and the team at SumOfUs
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The Time of Finance
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- Published on Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:23
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1549 ... January 29, 2018
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The Time of Finance
Martijn Konings
The global financial crisis has done next to nothing to change the convictions of mainstream economists. But the widespread lament over their willful blindness seems misplaced: there was never a realistic possibility that the economics profession would voluntarily break with the methodological sophistication and statistical formalism at the heart of its identity. Far more frustrating than the resilience of orthodox economic thinking is the obsessive concern of more critical minds to prove mainstream economics "wrong," in the most literal way possible. Perhaps that shouldn’t be too surprising either. After all, it has been the preferred mode of engagement for decades. In a characteristic told-you-so tone, this work chides orthodox economists for their infantile belief in efficient markets and their...
Chocolate
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- Published on Sunday, 28 January 2018 02:21
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Great news: Cadbury, Ferrero and 20 other chocolate companies just committed to ending rainforest destruction in West Africa.
This is a huge step in our fight to save the rainforest.
But we can’t stop here. The current commitment only applies to West Africa. That means cocoa traders can simply move their illegal practices to other countries. We cannot let that happen.
This is why we need your help.
Please sign the petition to ask Ferrero and Cadbury to stop deforestation for cocoa globally.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, this is our chance to ramp up the pressure on Ferrero & Cadbury. Billions of Euros are spent on chocolate just for Valentine’s Day -- chocolate companies simply cannot afford to ignore the bad press that comes with destroying rainforests around the globe.
Chocolate companies have taken the first step. Let’s show them it’s time to end deforestation around...
Dogs left to die in cold
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- Published on Saturday, 27 January 2018 06:32
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Cindy Crawford
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- Published on Saturday, 27 January 2018 06:12
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Pepsi’s bringing back that steamy Cindy Crawford ad for the Super Bowl next week. Old school soda machine, 90’s supermodel Cindy Crawford, retro music and drinks, this ad will show it all… well almost. One thing you won’t see in Pepsi’s Super Bowl ad is the company’s old school stance on palm oil and its ties to rainforest destruction and labor abuses. We have a solution for that -- our very own retro ad! To crash Pepsi’s Super Bowl party, we’re bringing back a spoof ad to get under Pepsi’s skin and force it to only use responsible palm oil. To pressure Pepsi, we need as many people as possible watching the video before Super Bowl Sunday February 4. That’s where you come in. We need you to help us...ACTIVlist Update - January 26, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 26 January 2018 16:22
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Rest in Power: Commemorating the Lives Lost in the Quebec City Mosque Attack on January 29, 2017 Trump unwilling to visit the UK unless he is not met with protests; join...
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On January 29, 2017, at 7:52pm, a young white man entered a mosque in Quebec City in Canada and over the course of a few minutes murdered Azzeddine Soufiane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Ibrahima Barry and Abdelkrim Hassane.
Crisis in the Canadian Labour Movement
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- Published on Friday, 26 January 2018 11:52
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1548 ... January 26, 2018
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Crisis in the Canadian Labour Movement
A crisis has suddenly erupted within the Canadian labour movement, falling along old divisions of the movement’s archaic organizational structure, and assisted by the lack of any strategic focus or signs of even modest political ambitions beyond self-preservation in either the labour central or any of its affiliates. In the case at hand, the crisis is centred in Toronto and UNITEHERE Local 75, a large, diverse local with a militant history of organizing in the hotel and hospitality sectors in the Greater Toronto Area. Local 75 has been placed into trusteeship by the U.S.-headquartered International. Unifor, the largest Canadian (mostly) private sector union has organized a campaign to convince the membership of Local 75 to break with the International and...
1 new update on the petitions you support, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 26 January 2018 10:21
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 26 January 2018 02:59
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ACTIVlist Update - January 25, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2018 13:40
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Regulatory Capture and the Heist of Offshore Nova Scotia Six Nations of the Grand River challenges Nestle's plan to keep taking water from its territory
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Regulatory capture. Oil and gas industry influencing energy policy. Companies using unproven drilling techniques. These sound like things that only happen in places with corrupt governments and no corporate oversight, or maybe the latest Hollywood release, but they’re happening here in Nova Scotia.
Turtle Island News reports...
Nestlé
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2018 09:03
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Nestlé is under tremendous pressure after Cargill and Wilmar dropped Guatemalan palm oil offender and environment wrecker REPSA.
More than 90,000 SumOfUs members have already called on Nestlé to do the right thing in Guatemala.
Please join us in making sure Nestlé comes clean and cuts ties with palm oil supplier REPSA.
Nestlé buys palm oil from a supplier guilty of ecocide.
Industry giants Cargill and Wilmar have dropped the Guatemalan palm oil supplier, it's now time for Nestlé to take its responsibilities and cut ties with REPSA.
How Oil Lobbyists Pressured Canada to Allow Drilling in a Marine Park
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2018 08:00
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Read more: How Oil Lobbyists Pressured Canada to Allow Drilling in a Marine Park
Campaign updates - a win in Fiji, but the fight goes on in Indonesia and Algeria
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:47
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Read more: Campaign updates - a win in Fiji, but the fight goes on in Indonesia and Algeria
Idaho, tell your Governor to say “no” to
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:15
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After Carillion: The Struggle to Democratize Social Services
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:33
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1547 ... January 25, 2018
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After Carillion: The Struggle to Democratize Social Services
Colin Leys
Carillion’s failure has been compared to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, but what the Lehman case shows is that you can engage in behaviour that puts millions out of work, and destroys the hopes of a generation, and not pay any price, or significantly change your behaviour. Lehman was emphatically not a ‘watershed’: no one has paid a significant price for the greed, irresponsibility and criminal behaviour that was exposed when Lehman went bust. The challenge is to ensure that the Carillion moment will be different: that the ideology that has led to companies like Carillion fleecing the public and jeopardizing livelihoods finally gives way to a new common sense about how Britain...
Read more: After Carillion: The Struggle to Democratize Social Services
Bell's outrageous plan to dismantle Net Neutrality
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:55
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WOW! It seems like our pressure is working. Bell still hasn't taken its proposal to the CRTC -- and it's been almost a month! Right now, we need to keep the pressure on to ensure Bell backs down. Will you help us get to 100,000 signatures before we deliver them to Bell?
Thanks for all you do,
Emma, Amelia and the SumOfUs team
Canada’s internet is free and open now -- but Bell, Rogers, Shaw, and Cineplex want to change that.
Will you help preserve net neutrality in Canada?
Read more: Bell's outrageous plan to dismantle Net Neutrality
You helped shape the new TPP
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:51
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As you may have seen, yesterday Canada joined 10 other countries in signing onto a reworked version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).1,2
ACTIVlist Update - January 24, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:19
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#StopKM: State of Resistance What did the Trudeau government just agree to in the new Trans-Pacific Partnership?
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I recently returned from Vancouver where I had the opportunity to visit frontline Kinder Morgan sites and connect with people involved in opposing the 890,000 barrel twinning of the tar sands pipeline.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in Davos today that a 'Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)', had been been finalized after...
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