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State and Labour During the AKP Rule in Turkey
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- Published on Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:33
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1523 .... December 11, 2017
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State and Labour During the AKP Rule in Turkey:
A Balance Sheet of 15 Years
Dr. Mehmet Erman Erol
The AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi-Justice and Development Party) is celebrating 15 years in power in Turkey. The party came to power in November 2002, against the backdrop of the major 2001 crisis and amidst a legitimacy crisis of the then mainstream political parties stemming from the crisis-ridden 1990s. The AKP’s policies brought about significant transformations in the state, economy and the society. Conventionally, the first two terms of the AKP government (2002-2011) were identified with democratization, reformism and progressive economic policies. The fact that the government’s authoritarianism reached inconceivable levels post-2011 (especially during and after the Gezi protests of 2013), and the fact that...
Re. Bees will love this.
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- Published on Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:09
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Palestine 101: Not That Complicated
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- Published on Saturday, 09 December 2017 22:15
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Palestine 101: Not That Complicated
"Palestine 101: Not That Complicated" is part of Together We Rise: Palestine as a Model of Resistance, our political education curriculum designed to provide critical voices, context, and resources to strengthen liberation struggles from the U.S. to Palestine. Together We Rise includes 101 resources on Palestine, skill-building tools, outlines how U.S. and Israeli colonialism and racism are connected, and what we can learn from Palestinian, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other freedom struggles.
Many people are held back from taking a stand on the issue of Palestine/Israel by the common misconception that it is "complicated." Here, we explain the steady continuation of the more than 100 year old settler colonial project that is Zionism. Palestine 101: Not That Complicated can help folks both familiar and unfamiliar with the...
ACTIVlist Update - December 8, 2017
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- Published on Friday, 08 December 2017 17:58
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Not One More Indigenous Child! Chapters this Week!
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Today marks the 142nd day that a continuous 24-hour vigil has been maintained outside of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada office in downtown Toronto.
This week's snapshot of recent and upcoming chapter actions across the country.
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Writing a Letter to the Editor in your local paper is an easy and effective way to make a difference in your...
Bell's censorship scheme
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- Published on Friday, 08 December 2017 08:43
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Paov, we’ve just learned Bell Canada has made another radical attempt to censor your Internet, and begin the attack on Net Neutrality here in Canada.1
Bell’s latest scheme is to pressure the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) into creating a new agency to lead the charge on website blocking and censorship. This is an attack on our freedom, and will trample on the rights of Canadian Internet users.2
This isn’t Bell’s first pitch for censorship powers. They already tried...
Victory: Nermin Al-Sharif gets her passport back, thanks to you
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- Published on Friday, 08 December 2017 08:06
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7 Days of Resistance: #5 Choice at the End of Life
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- Published on Friday, 08 December 2017 05:00
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 08 December 2017 03:15
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Election 2018: a Battle Over #Fightfor15
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 22:40
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1522 .... December 8, 2017
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Election 2018: a Battle Over #Fightfor15
Quinton Ascah
The 2018 Ontario provincial election will be fought over many issues. Liberal Kathleen Wynne’s unpopularity as Premier, Progressive Conservative Party Leader Patrick Brown’s flip-flopping on major issues, the election of Donald Trump in the United States and subsequent re-evaluation of NAFTA are all certainly to come up in coverage and debates. However, one of the biggest issues that will be fought next year is a struggle that activists have been working on for years, and one which opponents believe could derail Ontario’s entire economy: Bill 148. The minimum wage hike, and other labour reforms in the Bill, may be the most controversial public policy issue in Ontario right now. The effects of it will impact students, young...
ACTIVlist Update - December 7, 2017
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Why does Canada want to worsen the climate crisis by expanding energy proportionality in NAFTA? _______________ MEDIA RELEASE: Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada Becomes a Blue Community: Working Towards Making Clean Water a Human Right
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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The Council of Canadians is opposed to the energy proportionality provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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The Countdown Begins on Site C Decision
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 10:01
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Give to PAN at no cost to you!
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 09:37
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The more votes we get, the more funds we receive...
7 Days of Resistance: #4 Solitary Confinement
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 09:00
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Iran: Workers on strike for unpaid wages need our help today
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 08:07
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Plastic pollution in the ocean
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 03:41
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Bees will love this.
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 03:20
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Urgent: BC Minimum wage
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 15:56
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Right now, an independent Fair Wages Commission is studying how to implement a $15 minimum wage in BC - but the deadline for input is 4pm tomorrow.
If we act fast, we can flood the commission with requests to implement the minimum wage hike quickly and for all workers. Can you send an email now?
Tens of thousands of British Columbians who earn minimum wage are living below the poverty line, even if they work full time. [1]
The new BC NDP government has promised to raise the minimum wage to $15. It’s a long overdue change that is desperately needed to ensure all workers can make ends meet, but there are some important details left to figure out.
An independent Fair Wages Commission is studying how to implement the wage hike, and if we don’t pipe up they could slow down the timeline for implementation and even exclude some types of workers.
ACTIVlist Update - December 6, 2017
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 13:20
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Stopping violence against women includes recognizing the violence of colonial dispossession, major energy projects
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. It was on this day in 1989 that fourteen women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered because of their gender.
Don't fall for the pipelines vs. coal shell game
Last week saw Alberta Premier Rachel Notley join federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr...
Suffering of Jumma tribes continues 20 years after peace accord
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 08:50
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Update from the global movement for tribal peoples' rights
Suffering of Jumma tribes continues 20 years after peace accord
Jumma villagers flee from an attack, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh© Anonymous
On the 20th anniversary of the peace accord between the Jumma tribal peoples and the Bangladesh government, campaigners have raised concerns that successive Bangladeshi administrations have failed to implement this vital agreement, or protect the Jumma.
The tribe continue to face endemic violence, land-grabbing and intimidation on their ancestral land in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Jumma women and girls are frequently subjected to rape and sexual assault.
Read more: Suffering of Jumma tribes continues 20 years after peace accord
NUW success converting casual to permanent jobs at Asahi Australia
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 02:52
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