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Saving the EU from Existential Crisis
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© Bernadett Szabo/Newscom In the years following the trauma of the Second World War, a small group of visionaries initiated a project to bind Europe’s western half together into an organization whose members would never wage war against each other. And for more than a half-century, this system—the European Union—worked. Its economies grew, its citizens flourished, and it was at peace. The situation today is very different. As Open Society Foundations Chairman and Founder George Soros recently said during a speech for the Brussels Economic Forum, “The European Union is now in an existential crisis.” Yet even if the challenges are immense, there is a pathway to a reinvented, stronger European Union. But as Soros warned in his remarks, the salvation of the European Union “won’t happen by itself.”
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The False Promise of “End Demand” Laws
Despite its recent popularity, it’s worth recognizing that the so-called Nordic model of criminalizing the purchasing of sex falls well short of what sex workers in Lyon, France, demanded more than 40 years ago.
Thank you from Canada's Minister for International Development
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Dear Paov, On June 7, I met with Global Citizen to accept an official petition signed by 2,810 people asking the Government of Canada to make a commitment to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
I have received over 30,000 Tweets and emails to the same effect, and I am inspired by the enthusiasm shown by Canadians and Global Citizens around the world who have chosen to act on this global issue.
I have received your message loud and clear.
Today, at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, I announced that the Government of Canada...
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Bayer + Monsanto = uh oh
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- Published on Monday, 12 June 2017 08:00
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Summer SEA Events That Are Sure to Sizzle!
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- Published on Sunday, 11 June 2017 21:15
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Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
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- Published on Saturday, 10 June 2017 23:30
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 1 June 2017
Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
This panel invites Toronto labour leadership to respond to a comparative book on labour strategy and political action in Toronto and New York City, titled Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change (Cornell ILR Press, Spring 2017). The book discusses how local unions in four sectors (hospitality, film, green energy and childcare) seek to advance organizing and collective bargaining goals through the reregulation of their respective sectors. Union strategy is evaluated according to whether it succeeds in achieving narrow trade union goals while also addressing broader class demands and social justice criteria.
Moderated by Ian MacDonald. Presentations by:
- Sarah Ryan, CUPE National
- Rick Ciccarelli, Labour Education Centre
- Lis Pimentel, UNITE HERE Local 75
- Bob Hall, IATSE Local 873
- John Cartwright, Toronto and York Region...
UK Election: Labour Surge Gives Unions a Chance
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- Published on Saturday, 10 June 2017 00:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1430 .... June 10, 2017
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UK Election: Labour Surge Gives Unions a Chance
Gregor Gall
For the vast majority of unions in Britain, the idea of the Labour Party fighting a general election with a dream leadership team of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell was manna from heaven after the era of New Labour. From 1997 to 2010, many unions believed Labour governments were a case of "power without principles." The unions did manage to get Ed Miliband elected as leader in 2010, rather than his more centrist brother David, but that did little to shift the balance in the equation between power and principles come the 2015 general election.
The latest vote witnessed an unexpected and significant Labour advance despite a viciously hostile press and deep internal party...
ACTIVlist Update - June 9, 2017
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Norway stops EFTA talks over Trudeau's insistence on ISDS provision Kinder Morgan to start work in Langley, Surrey, Coquitlam & Burnaby this September
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The Norwegian government has said no - for the time time being - to the Trudeau government's demand for an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision in the Canada-European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreement.
Kinder Morgan Canada has filed its schedule with the National Energy Board for the construction of the...
Hilton hotels destroying a dolphin habitat?
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Global Citizen News Digest
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- Published on Friday, 09 June 2017 07:45
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3,000 workers sacked for going on strike
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Most bestiality is legal in Canada. Animals need your help!
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- Published on Friday, 09 June 2017 04:45
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Dear PAOV,
Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world. Our laws are so outdated that one year ago today, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that most sexual abuse of animals is not a crime.
Canadians were appalled when the Supreme Court's judgment came out. Yet a year later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government have failed to close this disturbing legal loophole.
It's an absolute disgrace that Canadian law lets abusers hurt animals for sexual gratification. The federal government has done worse than nothing—last year it blocked legislation that would have closed the bestiality loophole and updated Canada's animal cruelty laws.
PAOV, animal abuse is unacceptable. Politicians must start taking...
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Sunday's French Election
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- Published on Thursday, 08 June 2017 23:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1429 .... June 9, 2017
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Sunday’s French Election
Richard Greeman
The good news this May was that French voters rejected far-right Marine Le Pen by a two-to-one margin in the second round of the Presidential election. "At least the French are not schmucks as the Americans!" were the first words that passed the sweet lips of my Provençal partner Elyane when the radio announced Le Pen's defeat. As the Borowitz Report headlined: "French Annoyingly Retain Right to Claim Intellectual Superiority over Americans." Aside from this moral victory, the French people have little to be happy about.
The bad news was that France ended up electing Emmanuel Macron, an efficient technocrat who consciously incarnates French capital's need to eliminate the ‘French exception’ and level the wages, rights and benefits of...
Huge win at Exxon's AGM!
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ACTIVlist Update - June 8, 2017
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Quill Plains Chapter Calls on Federal and Saskatchewan Government to Stop Cuts to Public Transport (STC)
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Thank you to Elaine Hughes from the Quill Plains chapter who has written to the Wall government to stop the cuts to the STC.
Quill Plains chapter says federal funding could have saved STC bus service
The Council of Canadians Quill Plains (Wynyard) chapter has written to Saskatchewan Party MLA Hugh Nerlien about the federal transit...
They save lives every day
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- Published on Thursday, 08 June 2017 13:00
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Saskatchewan Did What?!
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- Published on Thursday, 08 June 2017 09:15
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World Oceans Day
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- Published on Thursday, 08 June 2017 06:45
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Can I count on you?
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$15 and Fairness Shakes Up Ontario
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 June 2017 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1428 .... June 8, 2017
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$15 and Fairness Shakes Up Ontario
David Bush
The Fight for $15 and Fairness scored a big victory on May 30 when the Ontario Liberals announced they would raise the minimum wage to $15 by January 1, 2019. The Liberals also announced a slew of other legislative changes they will introduce as part of the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, such as two paid personal emergency leave days (as part of the 10 PEL days workers are already entitled too), equal pay for equal work for part-time workers, requiring employees to be paid for three hours of work if their shift is cancelled within 48 hours, an additional week of paid vacation for employees who have been with a business for at least five years.
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