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Where to Begin? Lessons from the Fight for $15 Beyond North America
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 22:23
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1521 .... December 6, 2017
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Where to Begin?
Lessons from the Fight for $15 Beyond North America
Jonathan Rosenblum lives in Seattle, Washington, and is a member of UAW 1981/National Writers Union. He is the author of Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement (Beacon Press, 2017). More about him can be found at jonathanrosenblum.org.
The interview was counducted by Yuri Lobunov, editor-in-chief of socialistalternative.ru, where this interview was published in Russian.
Yuri Lobunov (YL): How was the idea of the "fight for 15" born?
Jonathan Rosenblum (JR): Big ideas sometimes start small. Fast food workers in New York City were the first workers to raise the banner demanding "$15 and a Union." In late November, 2012, 200 fast-food workers in midtown Manhattan...
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Down to the wire on Site C
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 15:20
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Wow - hundreds of you sent messages warning the BC NDP government that you would rethink your support for their party if they let Site C go forward -- and it looks like the pressure is working! Rumours are circulating that backlash from NDP members has forced the government to delay their timeline and rethink their plan on Site C.
The BC government is showing that it’s vulnerable to blow back and if we can crank up our campaign now we can turn the tides against the dam. Politicians are especially sensitive to public pressure, so let’s make our pressure visible, with a massive Twitter campaign.
An avalanche of tweets directed at the key Ministers, publicly demanding they cancel Site C could be the final push we need to convince them to pull the plug on the dam.
Will you help flood the BC NDP with tweets pushing them to cancel Site C? It’s easy - just click the button below.
Please give Livia a chance to return to her land
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 14:50
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This is Livia, next to her house.
Fifty years ago the ground she’s standing on was lush forest. Then the invaders came. Gradually her people, the Guarani, have been pushed to the side. Literally – the side of a highway.
Her sister, nephew and uncle have been killed on the road. She has no clean water or health care. The forest, which her people looked after for thousands of years, is gone, so they can’t gather medicinal plants, or teach their children to hunt and fish. Little surprise that they have one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Please donate and give Livia a chance to return to her land →
When her community protests, they’re attacked. Ranchers and police bulldoze their shacks. Their leaders are shot.
D-Day for Site C & NDP
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 14:45
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Why approving Site C could sink NDP
Read the new column by Damien Gillis
Is Horgan about to approve Site C?
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 14:40
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This is not good. Political experts are saying that John Horgan’s BC NDP government could be on the verge of greenlighting the Site C dam any day now. [1-2]
Cancelling the project looked like a political no-brainer last month when the BC Utilities Commission exposed that the dam is behind schedule and billions over budget. [3]
Since then, powerful lobbyists representing major BC NDP donors in the building trades launched a well-funded campaign bullying the NDP Government to ignore the BCUC report and build the dam anyway. Now, it looks like the government could be about to cave into their pressure. [4]
If we’re going to stop Site C we need to raise the political stakes now.
We're closing in on tax dodgers
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 14:26
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The Paradise Papers exposed how corporations use offshore havens to dodge $15 billion in taxes a year. We need to capitalize on this moment before the momentum disappears.
If we raise $6000 by midnight tomorrow, we’ll run a poll to show that the public wants action to crack down on havens. A poll’s bound to make a splash, and force Trudeau to act.
Incredible! Almost 15,000 thousand of you have signed the petition urging the Trudeau government to crack down on the billionaire corporations using offshore tax havens.
7 Days of Resistance: #2 Protecting Protest
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 07:00
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Four months with no wages! sugar workers in Iran are hungry, on strike and need your support
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 06:18
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Donate to RankandFile.ca: Help us hire a new labour reporter!
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 December 2017 05:01
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Healthcare Funding Falls, Again
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- Published on Monday, 04 December 2017 22:26
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1520 .... December 5, 2017
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Healthcare Funding Falls, Again
Doug Allan
Real provincial government healthcare funding per-person has fallen again this year in Ontario, the third year in a row. Since 2009 real funding per-person has fallen 2.6% -- $63 per person.
Across Canada real per person funding is in its fourth consecutive year of increase. Since 2009, real provincial funding across Canada is up $89 -- 3.6%.
In fact the funding gap between Ontario and Canada as a whole has gown consistently for years (as set out below in current dollars).
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ACTIVlist Update - December 4, 2017
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- Published on Monday, 04 December 2017 19:31
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WIN! Victoria & Cowichan Valley chapters celebrate Steelhead withdrawing proposal for Saanich Inlet LNG plant Trade in Services Agreement talks appear stalled, but remain a threat to the public interest
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 Victoria and Cowichan Valley chapters helped to organize against the proposed Steelhead LNG project on Saanich Inlet.
There has not been a lot of recent media coverage on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), so it can be a...
URGENT: Site C
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- Published on Monday, 04 December 2017 10:43
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Urgent: BC could make its final decision on the devastating Site C dam TODAY. Site C will cost taxpayers billions and destroy critical farmland that could feed millions.
This mega-project is a mega-mistake that we can stop if we act right now.
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Today, Premier John Horgan and his cabinet could make their final decision on the controversial Site C mega-dam project.
Site C would be an economic and environmental disaster, and despite proof that the dam will threaten Indigenous rights, critical wildlife habitat, and tens of thousands of acres of vital farmland -- they could approve this project as early as today.
The BC Utilities Commission's brand new...
Chiles Political System Shaken by Rise of New Anti-Neoliberal Left
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- Published on Sunday, 03 December 2017 22:40
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1519 .... December 4, 2017
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Chile’s Political System Shaken by Rise of New Anti-Neoliberal Left
The first round of Chile’s presidential election was held on November 19. The right-wing candidate, ex-president Sebastian Pinera, won with 36% of the votes. He will compete in the second round against centre-left candidate Alejandro Guiller.
But the big surprise was the result for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio, FA), a heterogeneous left coalition headed by Beatriz Sanchez. The FA candidate came in third, with 20% of the vote (just two points short of making the second round).
The coalition also won 18 deputies and a senator, which is unheard of for an anti-neoliberal force outside of the traditional parties.
Viento Sur’s Brais Fernandez spoke with Luis Thielemann, an activist with Autonomous Left...
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BEES!
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- Published on Sunday, 03 December 2017 03:31
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We’re closer than ever to a historic ban on bee-killing pesticides in Europe -- but we’ve got less than two weeks to convince enough EU governments to support it.
Can you make sure European ministers know people from all across the world are counting on them to side with the bees?
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In less than two weeks Europe could take a decisive step to protecting the bees and other pollinators. EU member states’ representatives will meet to decide on a historic ban on toxic neonicotinoid pesticides -- but right now the decision hangs in the balance.
This is a critical moment in our...
Higher Education and the Plague of Authoritarianism
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- Published on Saturday, 02 December 2017 22:19
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Higher Education and the Plague of Authoritarianism
Higher education in our politically desperate age is threatened by a legacy that it does not dare to name and that legacy with its eerie resonance with an authoritarian past asserts itself, in part, with the claim that education is failing. The Trump administration needs education to fail in a very particular way. Hostile to its role as a public good and democratic sphere, it is attempting to reshape education according to the market-driven logic of neoliberalism with its emphasis on privatization, commodification, deregulation, fear, and managerialism.
Under such circumstances, higher education is threatened for its potential role as a public sphere capable of educating students as informed, critical thinkers capable of not only holding power accountable but also fulfilling the role of critical agents...
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Homelessness in Toronto
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- Published on Saturday, 02 December 2017 04:01
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150,000 children
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- Published on Friday, 01 December 2017 14:50
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Canadian-made weapons are being used by Saudi Arabia against civilians. A new bill could put a stop to it, but it has serious loopholes that could let weapons slip through to human rights abusing countries. Will you demand the government acts now and closes the loopholes?
It’s being called the worst humanitarian crisis since WW2 -- and Canadian weapons could be fueling it.[1]
Yemen is in the midst of a horrific humanitarian crisis after being bombed to bits by Saudi Arabia for the last two years. The impacts are staggering: over 2.5 million people have been displaced, thousands have died, almost a million people have contracted cholera from lack of access to clean water, and over 150,000 children could starve to death in the coming months.[2-3]
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