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ACTIVlist Update - May 8, 2017
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Barlow pays tribute to labour leader Bob White in CLC video Kinder Morgan sells space & looks for investors for its $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow pays tribute to labour leader Bob White in a video that was shown to a large audience at the Canadian Labour Congress convention now underway in Toronto.
Texas-based Kinder Morgan Inc. is booking space on its 890,000 barrel per day Trans...
Westray Disaster 25th Anniversary
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- Published on Monday, 08 May 2017 06:45
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Hats and Men: Marx's Faulty Symmetry
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- Published on Sunday, 07 May 2017 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1410 .... May 8, 2017
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Hats and Men: Marx's Faulty Symmetry
It is 150 years since Karl Marx published the first volume of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy in 1867, with the two subsequent volumes coming out under the editorship of Friedrich Engels over the next decades. Capital is a masterful appraisal of the ‘vulgar’ defences of capitalism focused on exchange and markets and the more ‘scientific’ accounts of classical political economy highlighting the distribution of the new value produced between the social classes. From its initial publication, Marx's Capital steadily gained prominence within the broad socialist movement as the indispensable point of departure for penetrating the inner workings of the capitalist system, its modes of exploitation and appropriation of the economic product produced by the working classes. Capital's themes remain central to understanding...
Bill C-27: An Attack on Pensions
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- Published on Saturday, 06 May 2017 23:00
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Bill C-27: An Attack on Pensions
The Ottawa Committee for Pension Security (OCPS) recently co-hosted a panel discussion with the Congress of Union Retirees about Bill C-27, a Bill that will give employers the tools they need to dump their defined benefit pension plan guaranteed promises, including the benefits already earned and paid for by active workers and retirees. Please take the time to listen to the highlights of the discussion to learn what a target benefit pension plan is, why this Bill threatens existing defined benefit plans, the problems with the consent mechanism and the threat this Bill is to retirees. Trudeau is breaking his promise and picking up on a proposal Harper backed away from. We need to hold the Liberals accountable on Bill C-27.
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Classrooms in China Get More Inclusive
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- Published on Saturday, 06 May 2017 22:45
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© Fred Dufour/Getty Last year, parents at a Beijing elementary school demanded that one of the students, an eight-year-old girl with autism, be transferred. But because the rules at the time held that students must go to the school closest to their home, and because the girl’s local school said it could not meet her needs, the child—like so many children with disabilities in China—was effectively forced to go without an education. Thanks in part to the dogged work of multiple advocacy groups supported by Open Society Foundations, however, China now has new regulations, ones which represent a dramatic step toward inclusive education. To be sure, education in China is far from inclusive; but for the first time in generations, China’s government is recognizing the rights of children with disabilities.
Anti-Austerity Geringonça in Portugal
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- Published on Friday, 05 May 2017 23:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1409 .... May 6, 2017
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Anti-Austerity Geringonça in Portugal
Bruno Góis
A new word has arisen in the European political debate: Geringonça. This new Portuguese political term geringonça (contraption), refers to the current minority government of the Socialist Party (center-left) supported in the parliament by radical left parties. The name Geringonça was coined by its conservative critics but became popular and is also used by supporters.
Between 2012 and 2013, Portugal had massive popular demonstrations, the biggest since the revolutionary period of 1974/75. Half a million people in the streets in a country of 10 million inhabitants is quite a lot. The target of these demonstrations was the austerity policy of the Social Democratic Party (PSD)/People's Party (CDS) right-wing government and the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank...
Remember Site C Dam - VOTE May 9th
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- Published on Friday, 05 May 2017 15:00
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To Farmland Protection Coalition supporters,
Site C Dam is the BIGGEST threat to agriculture and ALR lands in BC! Remember this when you GO VOTE one week from today. On Tuesday May 9th help CHOOSE who will govern BC.
Be informed:
WATCH and SHARE these incredibly informative DeSmog Canada videos on Site C Dam. The massive flooding from Site C Dam will cause catastrophic environmental destruction, a huge loss of farmland, and destroy many sacred First Nations places forever. There is no need for more electricity in BC, the huge cost of building Site C Dam will increase all our BC Hydro rates and waste up to 9 billion dollars that is needed in so many places in BC to do good, not harm.
ACTIVlist Update - May 5, 2017
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Regina chapter opposes Bill 63 and $60 million cut to provincial education budget
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The Regina chapter was at the Students Mobilizing Against Cuts (SMAC) 'Education Counts' rally on May 3.
NWT chapter screens the film 'To the Ends of the Earth', shares Leap Manifesto
The Council of Canadians Northwest Territories chapter screened 'To the Ends of the Earth' in Yellowknife last night.
Regina chapter opposes Bill 40, privatization of Crown corporations...
Supporting a Charter Challenge! / Contestation
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- Published on Friday, 05 May 2017 14:00
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Charter Challenge!
Dear friends of fair voting,
When our legislators become tone deaf to calls for fairness in the struggle for equal and effective votes, citizens must at times turn to the courts to vindicate their democratic rights. Fair Voting BC (FVBC) is spearheading an initiative to do just that by filing a Charter challenge in court claiming that the current First Past the Post electoral system violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
PAOV, the discussion keeps evolving
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What could have been done to prevent the worst atrocities in Syria?
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- Published on Friday, 05 May 2017 07:00
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 05 May 2017 03:30
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Vote for a poverty reduction plan for BC with our election analysis!
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 15:45
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ACTIVlist Update - May 4, 2017
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 14:15
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Barlow meets with the Pope's representative in Canada to discuss our blue communities campaign 3 Reasons Why Governments in Canada Should Invest in Renewables, Not Pipelines
This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to canadians.org. Please use this link to forward ACTIVlist to a friend and encourage them to join! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow and the Blue Planet Project's Meera Karunananthan met with His Excellency Luigi Bonazzi, the Apostolic Nuncio, in Ottawa earlier today to discuss our blue communities project.
From the recent People’s climate marches in response to Trump’s policies in favor of corporate...
Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 12:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1408 .... May 4, 2017
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Zionist Colonization is Not ‘Exceptional’: A Marxist Viewpoint
Tikva Honig-Parnass
This article aims to challenge the rather widely accepted claim that the nature of Zionist settler colonization is exceptional and even "defies appeal to any precedent that can usefully be invoked as to its evolution and eventual revolution."
My challenge will focus on Moshé Machover's 2016 article, "The decolonization of Palestine" which is the third of a series of three articles published in Weekly Worker. It deals with the typology of colonial projects and its implication upon identifying Zionist colonization and the struggle for its downfall. I have chosen to critically examine this third article precisely because Machover argues that his analysis is based on a Marxist observation. On this very observation however, I...
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New Video at CoDev's YouTube Channel
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 11:45
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Doctors on the Front Lines
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 10:45
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© Cem Genco/Anadolu/Getty Just before sunrise on April 4, 2017, Syrian government aircraft attacked a residential neighborhood in the country with a nerve agent, likely sarin. Hundreds of people were injured; no fewer than 80 died. According to an on-the-ground investigation, victims of the chemical weapon strike suffered terribly. But as the world has seen throughout the conflict in Syria, the government and its Russian allies not only target civilians, but the country’s entire medical infrastructure. Physicians for Human Rights has documented hundreds of attacks on medical facilities, which have left nearly 800 medical personnel dead. The murder of these activist professionals is an attempt to terrorize a whole population into submission—which is why the world owes them not only gratitude for bearing witness, but also liberty and protection.
VIDEO: Tourists React to Grizzly Trophy Hunt
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- Published on Thursday, 04 May 2017 10:15
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