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Indonesia: workers fighting for their rights following instant closure of their factory by pineapple giant GreatGiant Pineapple
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2017 06:10
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Balfour at 100: A Legacy of Racism and Propaganda
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 23:31
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1509 .... November 8, 2017
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Balfour at 100: A Legacy of Racism and Propaganda
Dan Freeman-Maloy
The coming months mark the centennial of Palestine’s forcible incorporation into the British Empire. In November 1917, British foreign secretary Lord Arthur Balfour declared his government’s support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"; in December, Jerusalem fell to British troops. One hundred years later, the effects of these events continue to reverberate. This should be a time of sombre reflection about international responsibility for the unfolding tragedy in Palestine.
This responsibility should weigh heavily on the West. Walid Khalidi put it well: "The Zionists were the initiators. But they were also, as they still are, the protégés of their Anglo--American sponsors and the emanations of their...
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CoDev 2017 Membership Renewal
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 17:00
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Reflections on the Russian Revolution 100 Years Later
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 14:55
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Reflections on the Russian Revolution 100 Years Later
Tuesday, November 7 @ 7:00 pmVictoria Event Centre1415 Broad StreetVictoria / Lekwungen Territory
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ACTIVlist Update - November 7, 2017
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 13:00
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Canadian Institute for Health Information report strengthens the argument for pharmacare The Council of Canadians calls for tax justice following Paradise Papers investigation
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A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) strengthens the argument that the Trudeau government should immediately implement the universal drug program known as pharmacare.
The Council of Canadians says it is time to end loopholes for the super-rich, clamp down on wealthy tax dodgers, and implement...
WestJet
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 11:03
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Warning: trigger alert — this may be very difficult to read as the content refers to sexual assault.
WestJet is trying to get a class action lawsuit stricken that could blow the lid off of a massive sexual assault scandal at the airline.
The lawsuit is being heard in just 2 days -- and we want to make sure these brave flight attendants speaking out know we have their back.
Will you add your name now to the petition calling on WestJet CEO Gregg Saretsky to resign?
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In just 2 days, a former WestJet flight attendant who sued her employer for failing to protect her...
Toronto's golden retriever statue
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 03:11
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Unions and the Gig-Economy: The Case of AirBnB
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- Published on Monday, 06 November 2017 22:20
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1508 .... November 7, 2017
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Unions and the Gig-Economy: The Case of AirBnB
Steven Tufts
The so-called gig-economy is celebrated, maligned, fetishized, and qualified by analysts. Whether it is called the collaborative, platform, crowd-sourcing, or sharing-economy, the rise of peer-to-peer exchanges does raise important questions for workers. Do emerging ‘sharing-economy’ platforms such as Uber and Airbnb mark a significant shift in production and distribution systems? Are they emancipatory or exploitive? How can they be regulated across multiple jurisdictions and multiple platforms (e.g., Airbnb, Homestay, Uber, Lyft)? These and other questions have been raised by those emphasizing the platforms as a growing source of employment for contingent workers and their power to transform waged work into different relationships such as dependent contracts. Kim Moody recently offered that these platforms are simply...
ACTIVlist Update - November 6, 2017
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- Published on Monday, 06 November 2017 12:00
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MEDIA RELEASE: Public Inquiry needed to properly investigate deep social and environmental harms of fracking, coalition says
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Cadbury
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- Published on Monday, 06 November 2017 11:15
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Have you seen that chocolate companies are helping to fuel an environmental crisis in West Africa?
A new report states that there could be just 13 years of rainforest left in Cote d’Ivoire, thanks to cocoa grown illegally in protected areas. As well as causing an environmental disaster, this is also destroying the habitat of native species like elephants and chimpanzees.
Over 160,000 SumOfUs members have signed the petition calling for Cadbury and Ferrero to commit to ending new deforestation. Chocolate companies will be making a statement at the Bonn climate conference this week, so let’s make sure they hear from as many of us beforehand!
Every name counts -- please could you add yours and help end this crisis before it’s too late?
Tell Cadbury to commit to no new deforestation for cocoa worldwide.
Chocolate companies are...
Georgia: Stop union busting at Rustavi Avot
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- Published on Monday, 06 November 2017 08:18
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Clean water for First Nations
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- Published on Sunday, 05 November 2017 04:32
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The Revolution Party
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- Published on Sunday, 05 November 2017 00:20
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1507 .... November 5, 2017
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The Revolution Party
Leo Panitch
A fresh and compelling new account of the Russian revolution to mark its centenary concludes by paying tribute to the Bolsheviks for acting as history’s switchmen, a term derived from the small booths that dotted the railway tracks across the Russian empire, where local revolutionaries had long gathered for clandestine meetings. Against those so-called ‘legal Marxists’ who in 1917 used the term as an epithet to scorn those who would try to divert the locomotive of history on its route from the feudal to the capitalist political station it was scheduled to arrive at before it could depart for its final socialist destination, China Miéville asks: ‘What could be more inimical to any trace of teleology than those who take...
Resistance and revolution this November!
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- Published on Saturday, 04 November 2017 20:49
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Nestlé is suing.
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- Published on Saturday, 04 November 2017 05:26
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ACTIVlist Update - November 3, 2017
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- Published on Friday, 03 November 2017 15:00
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Chapters this Week!
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Here is a snapshot of recent and upcoming activism by Council of Canadians chapters across the country.
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1 new update on the petitions you support, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 03 November 2017 11:23
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Sign the Pacific Climate Warriors Declaration and #HaveYourSei
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- Published on Friday, 03 November 2017 09:02
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Bula friends,
We, the Pacific Climate Warriors, are weary from waiting for world leaders to take the necessary action to create a Fossil Free world. So we are taking matters into our own hands ahead of this year’s climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and we need you with us.
Along with people representing 12 Pacific Island nations, we’ve launched the Pacific Climate Warriors Declaration on Climate Change, outlining what needs to be done to avoid further climate catastrophe. We are asking you and people around the world to show your solidarity with the Pacific by signing our Declaration.
This year, Fiji holds the Presidency of COP23, the UN Climate Talks. So, it is a key time to highlight Pacific leadership on climate action. Rising...
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NOOOOO, France!
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- Published on Friday, 03 November 2017 07:08
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URGENT: a new bee-killing pesticide has just been approved in France and we don't have much time to fight this decision!
The French Environment Minister can still stop this attack on the bees -- but we need a global outcry to get him to stand up against the pesticide industry!
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We’ve just learned that regulators in France have authorised the use of a new bee-killing pesticide called Sulfoxaflor. It’s a neonicotinoid -- the class of pesticides that is known to pose a deadly risk for bees and other pollinators.
We still can’t believe it!
France has been at the forefront of the battle to protect...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 03 November 2017 03:30
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