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Global Citizens Just Put Poverty on G20 Agenda
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- Published on Monday, 10 July 2017 11:00
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Hey Paov,
It’s official, your actions just got G20 leaders to step up for poverty.
The G20 summit was held this weekend in Hamburg, Germany — a collection of countries that make up over 85% of the planet’s GDP. In other words, the countries that have the fiscal power to play a critical role in ending poverty.
Which is why over 750,000 of you tweeted, called, petitioned, and emailed G20 leaders demanding them to make concrete commitments towards the Sustainable Development Goals for a world where no one...
Defend US farmworkers' right to organize
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- Published on Monday, 10 July 2017 09:45
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Defend US farmworkers' right to organize!
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- Published on Monday, 10 July 2017 02:30
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A Resistance Movement for the Planet
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- Published on Sunday, 09 July 2017 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1446 .... July 10, 2017
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A Resistance Movement for the Planet
John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Juan Cruz Ferre
Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil fuels. Market-based solutions are ineffectual. John Bellamy Foster, a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and the editor of Monthly Review, speaks about the kind of program necessary to stop this catastrophe. He was interviewed by Juan Cruz Ferre for Left Voice where it was first published.
Juan Cruz Ferre (JCF): There is overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how anthropogenic climate change is out of control and will lead to global environmental catastrophe -- without a major overhaul of energy production....
NAFTA: TPP 2.0?
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- Published on Saturday, 08 July 2017 10:30
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Paov, the Canadian government is only weeks away1 from heading into renegotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — and it wants your feedback by July 18.2
Remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Those same lobbyists want to carbon copy over the worst parts of the TPP into NAFTA and, once again, put Big Media giants before everyday Canadians like yourself.3
But if we seize this opportunity to flood the government’s consultation with our concerns about NAFTA’s potential to...
We're hiring! Join our team as our Outreach and Communications Coordinator!
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- Published on Friday, 07 July 2017 15:00
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$706 Million.
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- Published on Friday, 07 July 2017 11:00
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Hey Paov,
Your actions just made a MASSIVE difference.
We've just finished the Global Citizen Festival Hamburg, where more than 11,000 Global Citizens were joined by world and business leaders, non-profit organizations, and socially conscious artists united to rally historic momentum for the world’s poorest at this year’s G20 summit.
Together, you took 750,000 actions ahead of the G20 calling on leaders to do more. They just responded with 30 commitments and announcements worth $706 MILLION, and which will reach 113 million people by 2030.
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Sewage dumped into drinking water?
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- Published on Friday, 07 July 2017 06:30
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 07 July 2017 06:00
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Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse
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- Published on Thursday, 06 July 2017 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1445 .... July 7, 2017
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Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse
Ethan Earle
Many on the Left have been deeply critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since before it was fast-tracked into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Now, President Donald Trump’s current plan to renegotiate NAFTA is poised to make the massive trade deal even worse.
In late May, a loose coalition of civil society groups gathered in Mexico City to discuss this upcoming renegotiation. Participants included the AFL-CIO, Canadian Labour Congress and over one hundred other labour, environmental, and immigrant rights organizations from across Mexico, the United States and Canada. The meeting produced a joint declaration opposing a Trump-led NAFTA renegotiation and marked the kickoff of the latest international campaign...
VIDEO: B.C.'s New Government Explained (With Toddlers)
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- Published on Thursday, 06 July 2017 08:15
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Victory! Vancouver cracks down on puppy mill cruelty
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- Published on Thursday, 06 July 2017 05:45
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City councillors support a ban on retail pet sales r33
Dear PAOV,
The City of Vancouver just took a huge step forward for animals. After thousands of citizens voiced their support, city councillors voted to ban the sale of cats, dogs, and rabbits in pet stores!
Animal Justice lawyer Anna Pippus spoke at the City Council meeting in favour of the ban. We told councillors how a retail ban on pet sales will help shut down abusive puppy mills that supply stores, and reduce euthanasia rates in shelters.
Commercial breeders often breed animals until their bodies give out, keeping them in squalid conditions with serious injuries and diseases. In two recent B.C. puppy mill busts, investigators
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Yulin dog meat festival update
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 July 2017 14:00
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Speak up! Let's get Monsanto's new seeds off the market.
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 July 2017 12:45
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Global Summit Calls for 'World Without Walls'
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1444 .... July 5, 2017
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Global Summit Calls for 'World Without Walls'
Convened by the Bolivian government and social movements, a global peoples’ summit on migrant and refugee rights attracted more than 4000 pro-migrant and refugee rights activists from 43 countries. Dubbed the World People’s Conference "For a World without Borders Toward Universal Citizenship," it was held in the town of Tiquipaya, on June 20-21.
Following two days of discussion on issues such as the structural and systemic causes of human movement, the impact of climate change, economic crisis and interventionist policies on migration flows and strategies for protecting and increasing the rights of migrants, refugees and their families, the following declaration was adopted by the conference.
Social movements and citizens from around the world, meeting in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, on June...
Drilling in protected waters?
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 14:45
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Minister LeBlanc just released a shocking plan that would allow oil and gas exploration in 80% of the Laurentian Channel Marine Protected Area — threatening turtles, whales, and corals.
Big Oil lobbied for these rights, but the plan isn’t final. A huge public outcry could get the Minister to change his mind.
Send LeBlanc a message calling on him to ban oil and gas activities in our protected ocean areas.
Send message nowReproductive Rights Alone Arent Enough
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 11:45
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When a group of black women activists coined the term “reproductive justice” in 1994, they weren’t simply adding to the lexicon of social justice. With two words, they were making an argument with profound implications—namely, that the struggle for reproductive rights and health could never be separated from the larger struggle against racism, economic inequality, homophobia, and transphobia. Because it is at the intersection of these forces where people must make crucial decisions about their bodies, families, and lives. More than 20 years later, the struggle continues. But with the reproductive justice movement as a guide, a rising number of progressive organizers have come to see why forging and affirming these connections is an integral element of lasting, transformative change.
Here we go...Solitary confinement trial starts today
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 11:15
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A bank complicit in the Rwandan genocide?
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 07:00
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Morocco: Fish canner sacks over 500 workers for striking
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 July 2017 06:45
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