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- Published on Tuesday, 14 November 2017 00:46
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A Just Transition From Climate Change and Unemployment
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- Published on Monday, 13 November 2017 22:08
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1512 .... November 14, 2017
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A Just Transition From Climate Change and Unemployment
Joseph Mathunjwa
The global economy is facing numerous structural challenges. With the looming fourth economic revolution characterized by even more technological development and mechanization, the future of productive labour is bleak. Most unskilled and semi-skilled workers are likely to lose their jobs. Even some skilled workers are not spared from this emerging catastrophe, as numerous job categories – such as brick-layers – are increasingly becoming redundant.
This points to the urgent need for planning, for conscious investment in job-rich, growth opportunities that enable economies to build productive capacity in labour intensive sectors. One way of achieving this is to strengthen wage led growth, which, in turn, stimulates aggregate demand through enlarged household incomes. Without a dramatic...
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Urgent: Stop the Monsanto mega-merger
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- Published on Monday, 13 November 2017 12:57
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Reinventing the World Social Forum?
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- Published on Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:33
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1511 .... November 13, 2017
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Reinventing the World Social Forum?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The World Social Forum (WSF) met for the first time in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. This was an event of extraordinary importance. It signaled an alternative form of globalization to the globalization being promoted by global capitalism, at a time when capitalism was increasingly assuming it is most exclusive and antisocial version: neoliberalism. This was not its first signal, but it was unquestionably its most consistent one. It put on the international agenda the struggles of the movements and social organizations fighting all over the world against the many faces of social exclusion: economic, racial, ethno-cultural, sexist, religious, etc. The WSF was, at the same time, both a symptom and a potentiality of the hope...
Canada just signed the TPP
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- Published on Sunday, 12 November 2017 18:40
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BREAKING: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is officially back.
That’s right. The largest global “trade” deal in history, the TPP would kill good jobs, drive up the cost of medicine, and open us up to way more toxic corporate tribunals under its investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) chapter.
The TPP all but died when Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in January. But some of the most pro-TPP countries - Australia and Japan - as well as an army of corporate lobbyists were determined to bring it back — and they just succeeded.[1]
Prime Minister Trudeau and the remaining 11 countries signed an agreement to move forward with the TPP without the US. They’re claiming that this agreement is progressive because it has tougher labour and environmental protections — they’ve even changed its name to the Comprehensive & Progressive Agreement for the TPP. [2-3]
Impasses: Beyond Social Democracy
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- Published on Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:32
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 6 October 2017
Impasses: Beyond Social Democracy
This conference is in honour of Professor Emeritus Leo Panitch (York University). The conference was held October 6-7 at York University.
Session 2 was moderated and introduced by Colin Leys (Queen's Unversity). Presentations by:
- Frances Fox Piven - CUNY Graduate Centre
- Hilary Wainwright - Red Pepper magazine
- Frank Deppe - University of Marburg
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Saturday, 11 November 2017 06:00
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ACTIVlist Update - November 10, 2017
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- Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 14:00
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Statement against hate-based messaging
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 fully supports the work of our climate justice campaigner Andrea Harden-Donahue and deplores the misogynistic and violent threats she has recently received on Facebook.
Chapters this Week!
Please see this week's snapshot of recent and upcoming chapter actions across the country.
Liberals break election promise of consultation and transparency on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Justin Trudeau has broken his election promise of consultation...
Tell DoJ: Stop the Monsanto mega-merger
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- Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 07:40
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In 5 days
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- Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 07:24
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In 5 days, Nestlé is taking a tiny township in Michigan to court for protecting its water from Nestlé’s insatiable drive for profit.
Tell Nestlé to drop its bullying lawsuit.
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Wow. SumOfUs members like you are you have chipped in thousands of dollars to Osceola Township to protect its water from Nestlé's greedy extraction in the last week.
The community of under 2,000 people is just up the road from Flint, Michigan where residents still don’t have access to clean water after one of the most notorious water crises of the century.
Knowing the risks of mass water extraction the township voted...
New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers
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- Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 06:41
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1510 .... November 10, 2017
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New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers
Dick Nichols
Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National High Court -- direct descendant of the fascist Franco-era Court of Public Order -- took the war of the Spanish state against the Catalan pro-independence government to a new level of judicial violence on November 2.
It was not enough that the two leaders of the Catalan mass pro-independence organizations the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Catalan cultural and language association Omnium Cultural, were already in jail. It was not enough that the Catalan government had been sacked on October 27 under article 155 of the Spanish constitution. Now the deposed ministers had to be humiliated.
Facing charges of rebellion (up to 30 years jail), sedition...
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Sacked Indonesian food workers fighting for justice need your help
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- Published on Friday, 10 November 2017 03:21
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A crime with many victims
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- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 17:07
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We're losing billions in tax at the expense of our schools and hospitals — because corporations and rich elites are stashing their wealth in offshore tax havens.
Now they're mobilizing to make sure this scandal doesn’t lead to reforms that force them to contribute their fair share.
Sign this petition to call on the Trudeau Government to crack down on offshore tax avoiders.
It reads like a movie script. One of the biggest data leaks in history exposes billions of corporate dollars stashed away offshore – and high profile Canadians are playing a starring role. [1]
But the ‘Paradise Papers’ aren't a movie. It's a sickening reality for each and every one of us. Canada’s corporate giants and the billionaire class are robbing our local schools and hospitals of precious funding, while we’re left to pay the price.
ACTIVlist Update - November 9, 2017
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Resisting a climate of misogyny ______________ MEDIA RELEASE: Governments Must Intervene to Stop Marine Harvest in B.C.
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Does B.C. Need a Public Inquiry into Site C?
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- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 08:02
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Were going to cut the money off
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- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 06:35
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Cartier and other jewelry retailers are funding the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people.
Tell Cartier to stop using gems sourced from Myanmar.
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Thank you. Last month, 140,000 members of the SumOfUs community stood together and demanded a global arms embargo against Myanmar to stop the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people.
But it’s still ongoing, and it’s urgent.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya men, women, and children have been murdered or forced from their homes by military troops and vigilante mobs, in a systematic campaign of mass shootings, rapes, house burnings, and beheadings.
We cannot wait any longer for governments to...
10 year old at risk of deportation
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- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2017 04:11
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Have you bought your Christmas cards?
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2017 16:19
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One of the easiest ways to contribute to Survival International's work is to buy our distinctive “Season’s Greetings” cards. We produce and sell our own range, with no middlemen, which means that every penny of profit goes straight to our work. By buying and sending our cards you are helping tribal peoples to defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.Christmas cards Stationery Books, music & film Gift ideas
Nestlé is suing.
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2017 09:35
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