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Labour and the Corporate Economy
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- Published on Sunday, 03 September 2017 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1477 .... September 4, 2017
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Labour and the Corporate Economy:
General Electric Ends 128 Years in Peterborough
George Hewison
General Electric (GE) is moving out of Peterborough. It leaves the town, the county, Ontario and Canada with an enormous mess. One of the world’s largest conglomerates has become the poster child for a sick corporate citizen in a sick economic system. It’s not just about leaving hundreds of former workers dead or dying of cancer after having literally given their last breath to the company.
We’re not referring to the 21 acre property in the heart of the "Electric City" that the Company has occupied for over a century with many saying the soil underneath is so contaminated that remediation is going to cost a fortune. It’s all of...
The Hope of the Hopeless
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- Published on Sunday, 03 September 2017 01:30
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LeftStreamed:
The Hope of the Hopeless:
Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini
Fascist movements are on the rise. But does that mean that Donald Trump’s America, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary or Narendra Modi’s India are fascist? Many on the left think so and discovered antifascist action as their preferred rallying point. It remains often unclear, though, is which alternatives to a discredited neoliberalism and the rise of a new right the left has to offer. Historically, fascism represented the organized counterrevolution against the communist challenge seemingly spreading from Russia to Germany and Italy. No such challenge exists today. Often made references to the 1930s depression and the 2008/9 world economic crisis by no means suffice to qualify all of today’s new right as fascist.
Besides, purely economic explanations of fascism...
Job Action at Toronto Pearson Airport Shows Why Little Strikes Matter
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- Published on Saturday, 02 September 2017 10:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1476 .... September 2, 2017
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Job Action at Toronto Pearson Airport Shows Why Little Strikes Matter
Steven Tufts
As Labour Day approaches, we are often reminded of the large strikes that defined Canada’s labour movement. The 30,000 workers in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike or 11,000 autoworkers in the Windsor Ford strike of 1945 that established formal industrial relations in Canada. But little strikes also matter.
Teamsters Local 419 represents 700 workers employed by Swissport, a multinational company subcontracted to handle baggage for several airlines at Toronto's Pearson International Airport (YYZ). The workers have been on strike since July 27. The demands are modest – wage increases that will be only slightly above the proposed increases to the Ontario minimum wage and the maintenance of benefits for part-time workers.
Breaking: NAFTA
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- Published on Friday, 01 September 2017 15:00
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We just got some shocking news. The Washington Examiner is reporting that Canada “will oppose any effort to change the investor-state dispute resolution system (ISDS) in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)”.[1]
ISDS are toxic rules woven into trade agreements that give multinational corporations special rights to sue entire countries in secret tribunals if they don’t like our laws or policies. Under NAFTA, Canada is the most sued developed country in the world — with corporations mainly challenging our environmental regulations, claiming they interfere with their profits.[2-3]
These special rules put profits over people and undermine Canada’s democratic right to govern in the public’s interest. They’re the most toxic part of NAFTA and represent the Leadnow community’s top concern with the deal.[4]
When Trudeau’s team unveiled its NAFTA priorities a couple weeks back, they laid out a pretty progressive-sounding agenda: tougher labour protections, integrated environmental standards, and a chapter protecting Indigenous peoples rights.[5]
The question is: is this good enough — or should we double down on the campaign against toxic ISDS rules that sources are saying Canada will fight to keep?
UN Committee Condemns Canada For Continuing To Violate Indigenous Land Rights
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- Published on Friday, 01 September 2017 05:30
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 01 September 2017 03:15
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Thanks for standing up for the coast and climate!
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 23:00
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Celebrate Labour Day with Some Instant Solidarity
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 21:15
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Kinder Morgan needs one permit - and we can stop it.
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:45
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Friends,
This morning we learned that the National Energy Board will allow Kinder Morgan to start construction at their Westridge Marine Terminal. But, Kinder Morgan still needs one crucial permit – a construction permit from the Port of Vancouver.
Kinder Morgan wants to expand the terminal so they can ship hundreds of thousands of litres of toxic tar sands out onto the Pacific, all but guaranteeing a spill in the Salish Sea.
Help stop Kinder Morgan in its tracks and tell the Port to reject the construction permit.
This terminal is the same place we surrounded by sea and by land with hundreds of BC residents and Indigenous peoples in 2016. It’s where I paddled a kayak in front of a massive oil tanker a few days later. And, it’s where the Pacific...
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Should the ADL partner with the IDF?
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:30
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Dear PAOV,
Nitzan Nuriel is a war criminal. As Commander of the Golani Brigade during the first intifada, he gave orders to beat Palestinian detainees. During the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon he was among those responsible for “serious violations of the laws of war… result[ing] in the deaths of at least 1,109 Lebanese, the vast majority of whom were civilians.”1
He is now an associate at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, an Israeli think tank with close ties to the military and intelligence establishment.
Why am I telling you about him? Because meeting and training with Nuriel is just one of many stops that U.S. law enforcement officers make on the ADL’s National Counter-Terrorism Seminar (NCTS).
On these trips, U.S. police, FBI, ICE, and border officials train with the Israeli agencies who carry out the country’s policies of occupation and apartheid via control, surveillance, discrimination, torture, restriction of movement, and more. They visit Israeli checkpoints, airports, prisons, illegal settlements, and secret service offices— all sites with long records of human rights abuses.
NAFTA has been hijacked
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:00
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NAFTA renegotiations are happening this week and we’re taking a stand.
No more corporate hijacking, no ISDS, no way.
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The next round of NAFTA negotiations are starting September 1st in Mexico City and we’re demanding an end to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement, known as ISDS, the dangerous clause that allows corporations to sue governments in secretive tribunals of corporate lawyers with little to no oversight.
ISDS is a disaster for working families, the environment, and government sovereignty and must be eliminated from renegotiated NAFTA. It’s going to be a tough battle but we’re determined to win and because of SumOfUs members like you, we’ve got a fighting...
Condor Golds schemes
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 08:00
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Canada Worst in G7 For Protected Areas
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 06:15
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Zoos are on their way out!
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 05:15
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NEWSLETTER
August 2017
Whales & dolphins don't belong in tanks!
The Vancouver Aquarium is suing over Vancouver's new ban on keeping whales and dolphins. Not so fast: Animal Justice is now asking the court for permission to intervene so we help protect this important law.
Get the details >>
Roadside zoo cruelty exposed
Animal Justice's footage of disturbing conditions at the Papanack got national attention and sparked protests. Now, politicians are finally paying attention to Ontario's lax zoo laws.
Read our Globe & Mail column >>
Read more: Zoos are on their way out!
Barbara vs. puppy mills
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- Published on Thursday, 31 August 2017 03:15
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Thunderous roar
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 August 2017 09:15
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Will you accept this challenge to help animals?
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 August 2017 05:15
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We just launched the End of Summer Compassion Challenge r33
Dear PAOV,
Today we're excited to launch the End of Summer Compassion Challenge! From today until September 22, a generous donor will be matching monthly gifts—up to $10,000!
Thank you for speaking up for animals by taking action on our campaigns. We couldn't do our work without you.
Can you take it to the next level by becoming a monthly donor to DOUBLE your impact for animals?
- Give animals a voice in groundbreaking court cases
- Expose animal abuse...
Anti-Poverty Leadership Training
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:45
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The Poverty
Reduction Coalition is happy to announce that registration is
now open for the Community Action Network (CAN) Leadership Training
Program starting early October 2017. The program will run for six
weeks with one workshop per week. For more information on CAN please
check out the new website: http://www.actionnetwork.ca
This new community-based leadership training initiative offered by the PRC targets people who have lived experience of poverty, live in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and are interested in collaborating as advocates with the PRC to end poverty. Training includes public speaking, media spokesperson skills, and more!
An Info Session will be held in September offering more
information, a Q&A, and a chance for anyone who is interested in
taking the program or supporting the program to learn more about CAN
and the leadership training opportunity.
Leadership Training Program
INFO SESSION
The NAFTA Consensus
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 06:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1475 .... August 29, 2017
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The NAFTA Consensus
Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks started on August 16 with very little of the fire and fury Donald Trump had promised during his campaign. His pledge to abolish the deal has largely been replaced with a plan to modernize it.
Some currents within the Trump administration would certainly like to get rid of NAFTA entirely. But, considering the strength of corporate interests both in and outside the government, this seems unlikely. Big business, NAFTA’s political-intellectual author, remains committed to the agreement and the neoliberal agenda more broadly. The capitalist class simply wields too much power to make abolition possible at this time.
The initial American proposals confirmed that the deal will...
It's Leadnow's birthday!
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- Published on Monday, 28 August 2017 11:30
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Today marks seven years since a handful of young people with a big vision (and barely enough money to cover their rent) got together to form Leadnow.
Back then, critics said we wouldn’t last seven weeks. Instead, it’s been seven years fighting together for a vision of a fair, sustainable and just Canada.
Together, we’ve accomplished more than any of us could have imagined.
Today, we’re stronger than ever, and the Leadnow community is punching above our weight. We’ve just published an annual report, chock full of inspiring stories of people-powered change, and we want you to be the first to see it.
Check out our annual report to read the highlights from an incredible year of campaigning together.
From day one, the Leadnow community has been fighting for the world we want -- against any odds.
When Harper was elected with a false majority government in 2011, he began to quietly attack our environment, our social safety net and our democracy. But you fought back with huge petitions, rallies and social media campaigns that exposed Harper’s dangerous agenda.
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