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Uses of solitary confinement "unconstitutional"!
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:20
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Bad news - Iranian trade union leader back in prison
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:05
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Algerian independent union leader sentenced to prison for expressing solidarity with a victim of sexual harassment!
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 06:27
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7-year-old Zainab was murdered
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 05:04
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Lulas Witch Trial: Who Are The TRF4?
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1546 ... January 24, 2018
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Lula’s Witch Trial: Who Are The TRF4?
Brasil Wire
Some are calling it the Coup’s endgame, others the "final battle" for Brazil’s next decade.
Former President Lula, who held office from 2003-2011 has twice the support of his nearest rival to succeed Putschist Michel Temer in the October 2018 elections.
However, on the 24th January in the southern city of Porto Alegre, he will face judgment on his appeal against a conviction which could prevent him running for office, a case which numerous critics, at home and abroad, have dismissed as baseless and without actual evidence. If his conviction is upheld he would not only be barred from the Presidency but face arrest and up to a decade in prison.
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ACTIVlist Update - January 23, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:34
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Trudeau Liberals may choose to 'opt in' on controversial NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state provision Trudeau seeks 'middle ground' with Trump on Chapter 11 during 6th round of NAFTA talks
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The Trudeau Liberals may choose to 'opt in' to NAFTA's Chapter 11, the controversial investor-state dispute settlement provision.
What "middle ground" is the Trudeau government seeking to be able to maintain the Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement provision in NAFTA?
ACTIVlist Update - January 22, 2018
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- Published on Monday, 22 January 2018 14:20
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New Human Rights Watchdog Announced; But Will It Have Teeth? What's on the horizon as the 6th round of NAFTA talks begin in Montreal today?
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This week, François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of International Trade, announced the creation of a new human rights ombudsperson who will investigate allegations of abuse abroad concerning Canadian corporations.
The sixth round of negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) begin today in Montreal. News reports suggest that...
Lethal poison used to kill birds
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- Published on Monday, 22 January 2018 04:32
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Locked-Up for Reading: Young Leftists in China Speak Out
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- Published on Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:09
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1545 ... January 22, 2018
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Locked-Up for Reading: Young Leftists in China Speak Out
Voices from the November 15th Incident
On November 15, 2017, police stormed into a student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) and seized six participants, including four current students at the university and two recent graduates from other schools. The former were released the next day, but the latter two were placed under detention as suspects for the crime of "gathering crowds to disrupt social order" -- a charge we have seen increasingly leveled against multiple feminists, labour activists, striking workers and bloggers over the past five years. Authorities alleged that the reading group was an "anti-party, anti-society organization" that was discussing "sensitive topics."
Despite Beijing’s massively staffed policing of the internet...
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Help sue for government ethics
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- Published on Sunday, 21 January 2018 16:18
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Dear Friend,
We hope all is well and thank you for your ongoing support of Democracy Watch’s campaigns to make Canada the world’s leading democracy!
Unfortunately, despite the support of people like you sending more than 170,000 messages to federal party leaders and MPs here, the federal government continues to use secretive, partisan processes to choose Canada’s key democracy watchdogs.
Not surprisingly, the government keeps appointing people with weak enforcement records – they just appointed two new lapdogs --...
Coca-Cola sponsors Winter Olympics with the taste of Zero Rights
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- Published on Sunday, 21 January 2018 15:00
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P3 Corporate Collapse Highlights Risks of Privatization
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- Published on Saturday, 20 January 2018 22:42
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1544 ... January 21, 2018
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P3 Corporate Collapse Highlights Risks of Privatization
Canadian Union of Public Employees
The collapse of Carillion, a global privatization corporation, illustrates the risky nature of public-private partnerships (P3s) and contracting out. Carillion is involved in 10 P3s across Canada, primarily in hospitals in Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. Two hospitals are still in development.
It is unclear how Carillion’s equity stakes and facilities management contracts in many Canadian P3s, as well as the contracted-out services they provide, will be dealt with as part of the company’s asset liquidation. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) believes the infrastructure and services in which Carillion plays a role should be brought back under public control -- all public infrastructure should be publicly financed, owned, maintained...
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Nestlé
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- Published on Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:40
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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.
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Agribusiness giants Cargill and Wilmar just cut ties with the Guatemalan palm oil supplier responsible for a deadly spill that contaminated La Pasión River and destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people in Guatemala’s Sayaxché region.
REPSA was found guilty of ecocide, causing massive...ACTIVlist Update - January 19, 2018
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- Published on Friday, 19 January 2018 14:45
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Chapters this Week!
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Here's a snapshot of recent and upcoming chapter actions across the country!
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 19 January 2018 03:00
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deadly salmon virus
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- Published on Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:13
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Fisheries Minister LeBlanc announced he's going to amend the Fisheries Act soon in response to our petition and the disgusting viral video of parasite and virus-laden blood being spewed into the ocean next to a critical wild salmon migratory route.
The changes to the Act are coming quickly -- and we need to make sure they actually protect wild salmon. Will you send an email to key ministers now?
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Wow - major news! In response to our petition and the viral video shot by Tavish Campbell, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced he is open to suggestions for improving the Fisheries Act when...
ACTIVlist Update - January 18, 2018
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- Published on Thursday, 18 January 2018 13:43
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MEDIA RELEASE: Fracking must remain banned, activists remind government and industry
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Is Canada Fudging the Numbers on Marine Protection?
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- Published on Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:02
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The Iran Protests: A Third Path to Political Change?
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:02
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1543 ... January 18, 2018
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The Iran Protests: A Third Path to Political Change?
Fouad Oveisy and Behnam Amini
An Alternative to the Politics of "National Security" Emerges
Days of protests in Iran have caught statesmen, analysts and observers by surprise, even though the anti-austerity and anti-establishment sentiments behind this primarily working-class revolt have been brewing for years. All the same, surprise is not a common reaction across the media. An early analysis offered in a tweet by the popular and self-styled Marxist pundit, Ali Alizadeh, captures a sentiment which is common across an array of responses to these events from individuals and groups as disparate, in both aim and ideas, as the Iranian reformists, the Iranian postcolonial left, and middle class Iranians both inside and outside Iran. Alizadeh...
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ACTIVlist Update - January 17, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:16
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MEDIA RELEASE: 'Trump not welcome' petition reaches 10,000 signatures in four days
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More Articles...
- We won! BC Supreme Court ends indefinite solitary confinement.
- Tim Horton's National Day of Action
- Carillion and the Latest Privatisation Scandal
- Solitary Confinement: Court issuing decision tomorrow!
- Seriously, Tim Hortons?
- Will you join us?
- Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
- ACTIVlist Update - January 15, 2018
- URGENT Nestlé
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