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ACTIVlist Update - December 1, 2017
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Chapters this Week!
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This week's snapshot of recent and upcoming chapter actions across the country.
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Stop the next Marikana massacre
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After workers went on strike at a mine managed by Freeport-McMoRan in May, the company fired them and cut their health coverage. Seven people have died as a result, and 4,200 miners and their families are suffering desperately.
Tell Freeport-McMoRan to reinstate the fired workers, and stop a desperate situation getting any worse.
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Right now, there’s a social crisis at the giant Grasberg gold and copper mine in West Papua, Indonesia. A recent solidarity mission by IndustriALL found workers and...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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Neoliberalism: A Useful Concept?
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- Published on Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:41
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1518 .... December 1, 2017
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Neoliberalism: A Useful Concept?
Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings
It is only over the past decade-and-a-half or so that scholars have begun to explore in greater depth the ideological roots of the neoliberal project. Such contributions tend to focus on the emergence of a distinctly neoliberal critique of ‘collectivism’ (especially as expressed in the post-war welfare state and the state-planned economies like the Soviet Union until the end of the 1980s) during the interwar period, the way this was elaborated through various strands of thinking during the next decades, and how it came to have a crucial influence on political transformations. They tend to describe the transition from the post-war order to the neoliberal era by emphasising the intentions, ideas and interests of elite actors...
ACTIVlist Update - November 30, 2017
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Kinder Morgan and Line 3 pipelines could undo progress from coal phase out _________________ ACTION ALERT: Nova Scotia: Pull the plug on Alton Gas!
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Premier Notley is joining Natural Resource Minister Jim Carr and Ian Anderson, CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada, in Vancouver today to promote the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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Annual report released and big news from recent symposium
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Alternatives to the Site C Dam Will Create Way More Jobs: UBC
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- Published on Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:02
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Re. Un-bee-lievable news!
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ACTIVlist Update - November 29, 2017
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:13
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TAKE ACTION now to stop the Site C dam on the Peace River
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The British Columbia government is expected to make its decision on the Site C dam sometime next week (December 4-8).
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Your survey results are in!
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Giant corporations are using offshore tax havens to dodge $15 billion in taxes each year.
So far the Trudeau Liberals have been silent about this massive corporate handout.
We need to turn up the heat now, while the issue’s still front-and-centre in the media.
The first step is building a massive petition. Sign it now.
Last week, we asked you to help shape our strategy to fight for a fair economy -- and the results are clear: cracking down on corporate tax dodgers is your top priority by a huge margin.[1]
This week the Trudeau government took a small step to help make sure super-rich individuals are paying their fair share.[2] But they’ve been silent about the worst offenders -- the giant corporations who dodge $15 billion in taxes every year.[3]
The future of Canada's Internet
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 November 2017 11:40
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Hi Paov,
As you know, the U.S. is facing an end to the Net Neutrality rules that prevent big Internet service providers from abusing their power at the expense of everyday people.1
What you may not know is that right here in Canada, the government is also reviewing the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts2 — the rules that govern all of our communications systems and keep Net Neutrality safe here at home.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been asked to...
Salmon blood
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 November 2017 10:48
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A disgusting viral video was just released showing virus and parasite-filled blood being pumped into wild salmon migratory routes off Vancouver Island.
The salmon urgently need our help again. Tell Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc to immediately ban the dumping of infectious waste on the coast.
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It's unimaginable. Disgusting footage was just released of parasite and virus-filled farmed salmon blood being pumped out of salmon processing plants off Vancouver Island. The worst part? It's being dumped right into critical wild salmon migratory routes.
Scientists tested this disgusting effluent and found a deadly virus linked to heart and skeletal muscle inflammation in wild salmon that causes heart lesions and organ hemorrhaging.
Fisheries...
Minister Morneau profiting from his decisions?
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Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been caught red-handed in a conflict of interest. He owned part of his family’s company, and made decisions that would help the company, and himself, make more money.
So Morneau’s going to face a big penalty right? Wrong! Everything he did was legal because of huge loopholes in ethics rules for Cabinet ministers, and because the Ethics Commissioner rubber-stamped it all as just fine (one of many bad rulings she has made in the past 10 years, proving again and again...
Affordable housing crisis
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On the Rails: A Case for Renewed Leftist Infatuation with Transport
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:17
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1517 .... November 29, 2017
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On the Rails:
A Case for Renewed Leftist Infatuation with Transport
James Wilt
A few weeks ago, at 3:30 in the morning, the Manitoba government froze public transit funding to Winnipeg, equivalent to a $10-million cut. It was a quiet affair. The bill that it was contained in wasn’t ever brought to committee, meaning the public weren’t able to formally comment on it. But we’ve already started to see the brutal consequences: soon after, Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman announced that the city will have to cut 59 routes, fire 120 bus drivers and increase fares by a considerable 25 cents.
Let’s be perfectly clear. This is class warfare.
The basic ability for people to get from one place to another -- whether for...
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Get Adbusters Return of the Wild calendar free with 2018 subscription
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Adbusters’ Big Ideas of the 21st Century imagines a world where the corpo-capitalist regime has collapsed. Out of the rubble of the old world order, new ways of being and knowing start to grow.
Jazz, ritual, anarchism, community, equity, flesh, and soul replace consumerism, individualism, secrecy and monopoly. The sacred cows of Western civilization crumble and a set of exciting new precepts, tones and ways of living take hold, shaping the new world order.
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Advance Paris Goals & Grow Your Impact
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The Paris Climate Agreement set out ambitious goals for buildings to achieve significant energy reductions in every sector. Every building that the Institute supports brings the world closer to Zero Energy. At the Institute we demonstrate that #WeAreStillIn by providing the training, inspiration, technical expertise, and performance benchmarks to make sure we achieve these goals.
Survival launches global boycott of India's tiger reserves
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:22
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Update from the global movement for tribal peoples' rights
Survival launches global boycott of India's tiger reserves
Baiga woman evicted from Kanha. The Baiga have struggled to find land since their eviction and now face poverty and misery.© Survival
Survival International has launched a worldwide tourist boycott of India’s tiger reserves until the rights of tribal peoples living within them are fully restored and respected.
Indian conservation authorities have banned the recognition of tribal rights in tiger reserves, a move that has provoked widespread condemnation.
Tens of thousands of Indian tribal people have been illegally evicted from villages inside tiger reserves, and forced into lives of poverty and misery on the fringes of mainstream society.
Read more: Survival launches global boycott of India's tiger reserves
On this Giving Tuesday
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This #GivingTuesday, Im giving to PAN
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2017 07:21
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