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Iran: sugar workers and their independent union need your support!
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- Published on Monday, 17 July 2017 02:00
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Public Transit, Privatization and the Canada Infrastructure Bank
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- Published on Sunday, 16 July 2017 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1449 .... July 17, 2017
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Public Transit, Privatization and the Canada Infrastructure Bank
Canadian Union of Public Employees
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will create a pipeline of privatization for our public transit systems. Corporations will be able to extract long-term profit from public transit fares and public subsidies.
Our governments subsidize public transit because it’s critical infrastructure for our communities: to get us from place to place, to reduce traffic congestion, and to green our environment. When we allow corporations to plan, finance, operate, maintain and own public transit, we funnel ridership fares and government funding into corporate coffers.
The CIB will give unprecedented control and decision-making power over our public transit infrastructure to private sector investors. This means the public interest will take a back seat...
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It's strategy time, and we need you.
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- Published on Sunday, 16 July 2017 14:15
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Hey,
Just a reminder that the deadline to contribute to the 350.org supporters’ strategic survey is coming up on July 20 -- and your input is crucial.
The more people who can pitch in with their thoughts now, the stronger our strategy will be.
Thanks for all you do,
Duncan
Friends,
350.org is in the process of clarifying our strategic priorities for the coming 3 years. We want to make a plan that stops all new fossil fuel projects -- and we want your input on how to do it.
Click here to take the official 350.org supporters’ strategic survey.
It’s a short survey, but I think the questions are so important, and your input will help set our movement on the right course for the future. The deadline to add your thoughts is July 20.
The years between now...
Red Skin, White Masks: Glen Coulthard
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- Published on Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:15
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LeftStreamed -- Recorded in Toronto -- 31 May 2017:
Red Skin, White Masks: Glen Coulthard
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Glen Coulthard spoke on issues arising from his celebrated recent work and from subsequent developments in academe, activism and the links between the two.
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Award for Most Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association's CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory published in 2014/15, and the Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book, 2016.
It's strategy time, and we need you.
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 12:15
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Friends,
350.org is in the process of clarifying our strategic priorities for the coming 3 years. We want to make a plan that stops all new fossil fuel projects -- and we want your input on how to do it.
Click here to take the official 350.org supporters’ strategic survey.
It’s a short survey, but I think the questions are so important, and your input will help set our movement on the right course for the future. The deadline to add your thoughts is July 20.
The years between now and 2020 will be some of the most important in the planet’s history. We want to build a movement that is up to the challenge of stopping every new coal, oil and gas project - but that will take as many people pitching in as possible.
Killed for being indigenous?
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 11:30
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What Hollywood Really Thinks of Canada
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 07:15
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Fill out our survey to win a t-shirt!
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 05:15
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Help us learn more about you r33
Dear PAOV,
Supporters like you are the reason we can continue our mission to protect animals. Thanks for being a crucial member of our community!
We would LOVE to get to know you better. Do you have two minutes to fill out this quick survey?
Once you're finished, you'll be entered to win an official Animal Justice elephant tee.
Thanks for all you...
R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 03:15
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Update - It's now legal for North Carolina growers to violate farmworkers' human rights
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- Published on Friday, 14 July 2017 03:00
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Reading Capital: Changing Historical Contexts and Different Political Projects
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- Published on Thursday, 13 July 2017 23:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1448 .... July 14, 2017
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Reading Capital: Changing Historical Contexts and Different Political Projects
Ingo Schmidt
One hundred and fifty years after the first volume of Marx’s Capital was published in 1867, Marx remains a common point of reference but his magnus opus is by no means widely read. Once he was thrown off pedestals across the former Soviet Union, Western business media adopted Marx as a principal witness for the capitalist cause. In 1998, 150 years after the publication of the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels were hailed as prophets of globalization. In the aftermath of the 2007/08 world economic crisis, a string of articles portrayed Marx as the one who saw it coming. Similar articles commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital and will, in all...
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We put Big Oil sponsors on display at the Museum of History.
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- Published on Thursday, 13 July 2017 07:15
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Friends,
The Canadian Museum of History is drawing in record numbers of visitors this year thanks to their freshly minted “Canadian History Hall.” This exhibit has been applauded for the honest and uncensored view it offers into Canada’s national history.
But what fewer people know is that this exhibit, and a number of others at the Museum, are sponsored by the most dangerous Big Oil lobby group in the country: the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
CAPP’s fingerprints are all over extreme climate events sweeping the globe and some of the worst Indigenous rights violations right here at home. CAPP’s dirty work directly contradicts the Museum's values. Will you sign the petition calling on Museum CEO Mark O’Neill to cut ties to CAPP?
This weekend, some of my...
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Suncor's huge mess
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- Published on Thursday, 13 July 2017 06:15
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Feds Approve Tailings to be Dumped in B.C. Fish-Bearing Streams
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- Published on Thursday, 13 July 2017 04:15
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A horse was just killed at the Calgary Stampede
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 07:00
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Demand animal cruelty charges be laid! r33
Dear PAOV,
The Calgary Stampede rodeo started this week. Right now, calves, cows, and horses are suffering at this cruel spectacle of animal abuse. They are forced to perform in brutal rodeo events like chuckwagon racing, calf roping, steer wrestling, and bronco riding.
One horse already lost his life. He suffered a fractured leg while being forced to pull a chuckwagon, so his owner killed him.
PAOV, it's illegal to cause distress and suffering to animals, and rodeo events aren't exempt from animal cruelty laws. There's no question that animals experience distress—from
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Labor's Legitimacy Crisis Under Trump
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1447 .... July 12, 2017
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Labor’s Legitimacy Crisis Under Trump
Barry Eidlin
As nativist right-wing populism surges across the Global North amidst the exhaustion of social democracy and "Third Way" liberalism, the United States finds itself at the forefront. Elsewhere, right populist parties have led in the polls, as with the Front National in France and the PVV in the Netherlands, or played key roles in seismic political events, as with UKIP and Brexit. But so far, only in the U.S. has the right populist wave captured a major political party and ridden it to power. The improbable election of Donald Trump reflects deep crises within the U.S. political system, but also this broader crisis of modern liberalism.
The early months of the Trump administration have been chaotic, but...
Vigil for Barbara Kentner Tomorrow and Walbran Convergence July 29-30!
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 10:45
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Oil drilling on Canada's coast?
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 08:30
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