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An Indigenous leader was just killed
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- Published on Sunday, 27 November 2022 23:40
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Sylvia,
An Indigenous leader from the Kokonuko people in Columbia was just shot dead while trying to reclaim their lands from a multinational paper giant. Now the local communities are pleading for our help.
They desperately need funds to hire additional security to keep themselves safe while they re-occupy their rightful land.
Our community can wire them the money they need practically overnight – if enough of us give right now:
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Indigenous activist jailed
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- Published on Sunday, 27 November 2022 15:23
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PAOV — Indigenous rights activist and award-winning writer Dawn Dumont Walker was jailed in Oregon after being found trying to flee domestic violence. She had left Saskatchewan with her son in order to escape her abusive husband. Indigenous women are seven times more likely than non-Indigenous women to experience violence by current or former partners, and three times more likely than non-Indigenous women to be killed by someone they know. Dawn’s situation reflects a systematic failure to support her when she was most in need. Sign today to stand with Dawn and other women trying to find safety after abuse.
Free Wrongfully Jailed Indigenous Writer, Domestic Violence Survivor Dawn Dumont Walker
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I Experienced Jack Smiths Zeal Firsthand. Will Trump Get the Same Treatment?
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- Published on Sunday, 27 November 2022 06:18
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Orangutans shot dead.
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- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2022 23:39
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Sylvia,
25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday, and tomorrow.
Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, there won’t be any left by the end of the decade.
Orangutans need trees to live. But profit-hungry companies are tearing down and burning their rainforest homes — all so the likes of Mondelez and Nestlé can put palm oil in products like snacks and detergents.
But with your help, we can save the last orangutans from cheap palm oil.
Together we’ve convinced McDonald’s, Starbucks, and PepsiCo to commit to no-deforestation palm oil policies. You can help us do it all again — a donation from you today will help roll out tried and true winning tactics to transform the whole industry — before the orangutans are gone forever. Can I count on you to chip in?
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Doctor shortage in Canada
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- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:21
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PAOV — Ahmed is a family doctor who knows first-hand the detrimental effects the current physician shortage is having on Canadians. More than 5 million Canadians lack access to a primary care physician. Internationally trained doctors could help ease pressure on the healthcare system and Ahmed is calling on Canada to rapidly integrate more of them so more Canadians can have access to a family doctor. If you think internationally trained doctors should be called on to help with Canada’s struggling healthcare system, sign now.
Rapidly Solve the Physician Shortage Crisis Canadians are facing
37,772 have signed Ahmed Alamelhuda’s petition....
Cool swag alert
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- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2022 08:00
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Big Pharma is right, pharmacare WOULD be a radical change – for the better
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- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2022 07:02
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Dogwood News This Week: the road ahead
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- Published on Saturday, 26 November 2022 06:03
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Your place for
news and action Saturday November 26, 2022
It’s been a wild year. More climate disasters, more raids on Indigenous land defenders. A major war in Ukraine and a rush to develop new oil and gas projects. A financial crunch and a health care crisis that's hitting the most vulnerable people the hardest. A dramatic BC NDP leadership race that put climate front and centre and sent a new premier to Victoria.
As the year...
His name was Juvencio Cerquera
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- Published on Friday, 25 November 2022 23:38
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Sylvia,
An Indigenous leader from the Kokonuko people in Columbia was just shot dead while trying to reclaim their lands from a multinational paper giant. Now the local communities are pleading for our help.
They desperately need funds to hire additional security to keep themselves safe while they re-occupy their rightful land.
Our community can wire them the money they need practically overnight – if enough of us give right now:
If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate $94Donate another amount
This is just the latest...
Nestlé does worse than last year!
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- Published on Friday, 25 November 2022 05:20
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Sylvia, Nestlé moves up one place in the ranking and becomes the 3rd worst plastic polluter in the world!
With more than 178,000 signatures asking it to do better, we would expect some progress, but Nestlé seems to be heading the wrong way. The good news is that we are planning a series of actions to push the company on its heels.
SIGN THE PETITIONNestlé is the 4th biggest plastic polluter in the world but wants us to believe that the environment is its priority...
No one is fooled!
Call on Nestlé to switch to reusable packaging now.
Condo development on wetlands
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- Published on Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:25
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PAOV — You can make a difference. Sign now to help Michelle protect the Petrie Island wetlands.
Protect Petrie Island Wetlands! / Protégez les zones humides de l’île Pétrie!
2,507 have signed Michelle Petersen’s petition. Let’s get to 5,000!
Sign now with a click(Le français suit)
As residents of Orléans and the Ottawa region, we wish to state our serious concerns regarding four proposed high rise residential towers, between 24...
Third grader Kian killed on his way home
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 16:04
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PAOV - Last week, the murder of 9-year-old Kian Pirfalak, who was driving home with his father in Iran, shocked the world.
It’s been reported that 56 children have been killed so far as a result of recent protests in Iran. Last week it was third-grader Kian, this week more children’s lives are at risk.
A group of healthcare workers have started this petition to Unicef in the hopes of standing up for the innocent children of Iran. Will you support their petition and stand up for the children of Iran by adding your name?
Iranian regime violent targeting of children and adolescents
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Live from Mexico City
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 11:55
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Sylvia,
We are currently live in Mexico City with our local partner organizations Kanan Derechos Humanos, Racismo MX, Cejil, el Consejo Civil Mexicano Para la Silvicultura Sostenible and Greenpeace México to make a statement against the human and environmental rights violations linked to the construction of the Maya Train.
Together we are installing a plaque and we ask the responsible parties this important question:
Is the destruction of rainforests, the eradication of local animals, such as jaguars, and the eviction of Indigenous people and local communities worth it?
We need you, Sylvia, to make our presence known and our demands as public as possible while we are live on the ground.
You can share the images and footage of our action via Twitter and Facebook:
your answers, PAOV
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 10:07
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PAOV,
Nearly 500 people have already filled out our 2022 supporter survey, but I'm still waiting to hear from you.
To build a big enough movement that has the muscle to make lasting change in B.C., it’s important Dogwood designs strategies that people like you want to support and participate in. Help guide our coming year of organizing and campaign work by filling out our survey.
Thank you for sharing your important feedback. What you tell us matters.
Last chance to add your name
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 08:13
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Paov,
Next week we will join our friends Greenpeace Canada and Leadnow to deliver nearly 35,000 petition signatures in support of an oil and gas Windfall Profits Tax.
We plan to rally outside the Prime Minister’s office in Ottawa and send a powerful message from the tens of thousands of Canadians calling on Trudeau to tax Big Oil’s excess profits and fund a Just Transition.
We’re reaching this peak in our #TaxBigOil campaign at a pivotal moment in the fight for climate justice. Thanks to a wave of grassroots pressure at the UN climate summit in Egypt, rich nations like Canada agreed to create a Loss and Damage fund to help the most climate vulnerable countries. But, fossil fuel lobbyists still succeeded in undermining the process, making sure that despite calls from 80 countries the final COP27 agreement did not include a commitment to phase down all oil and gas in addition to coal.1
This is...
Orangutans shot dead
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:39
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Sylvia,
25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday, and tomorrow.
Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, there won’t be any left by the end of the decade.
Orangutans need trees to live. But profit-hungry companies are tearing down and burning their rainforest homes — all so the likes of Mondelez and Nestlé can put palm oil in products like snacks and detergents.
But with your help, we can save the last orangutans from cheap palm oil.
Together we’ve convinced McDonald’s, Starbucks, and PepsiCo to commit to no-deforestation palm oil policies. You can help us do it all again — a donation from you today will help roll out tried and true winning tactics to transform the whole industry — before the orangutans are gone forever. Can I count on you to chip in?
If you’ve saved your payment information with...
CoDev Canada 2022 Annual Holiday Party
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:14
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the name's Bond.
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:20
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Toxic bonds are propping up the dirtiest companies on earth - and none more so than KEPCO.
KEPCO is a major polluter issuing billions of dollars in bonds to fund its reliance on coal. But we can cut them off.
Will you add your voice and call on global investors to boycott KEPCO's toxic bonds?
Sylvia,
Last month I emailed you about bonds. Not the 007 kind of bond, but the toxic bonds that are financing climate disaster. $4.4 trillion of dirty bonds have been issued by fossil fuel companies since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed.
But Sylvia - you have the power to change that.
Meet KEPCO: South Korea’s largest energy company. It generates almost all its power from coal and gas. And in the last few years has built coal mines in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. With stories of...
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:33
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