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ACTIVlist Update - April 4, 2017
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Berlin's governing parties support blue community designation Liberals win three by-elections, but broken electoral reform promise remains a concern
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Representatives of the Social Democratic Party (the SPD), The Left (Die Linke) and The Greens (Die Grünen) in Berlin's House of Representatives have expressed support for Berlin, Germany to become a blue community.
Liberal candidates won as expected in the by-elections held yesterday in the ridings of Ottawa-Vanier, Markham-Thornhill (Toronto) and Saint-Laurent (Montreal).
A milestone for citizenship equality!
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One Month to cut Big Oil from Canadas most iconic muse
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 April 2017 09:45
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Friends,
Canada’s most iconic museum shouldn’t be in bed with the dirtiest oil lobby in the country.
The Museum of History, across the river from Parliament Hill, currently accepts money from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). CAPP’s been lobbying the government for years to expand the oil industry by dismantling laws protecting our land, water, and climate, and pushing an an agenda that violates Indigenous rights.
Museum sponsorship is clearly a part of CAPP’s grand strategy to gain public and political support for new fossil fuel projects -- and it’s unacceptable. Will you sign the petition calling on the Museum of History to cut CAPP?
Speaking up right now can make a big difference. This is the last year of CAPP’s sponsorship agreement with...
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The Much-Maligned Views of Rania Khalek on Syria
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- Published on Monday, 03 April 2017 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1393 .... April 4, 2017
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The Much-Maligned Views of Rania Khalek on Syria
Rania Khalek interviewed by Justin Podur
When journalist Rania Khalek's lecture was cancelled on February 27, the group that invited her, Students for Justice in Palestine -- University of North Carolina (SJP-UNC) issued a statement saying that the cancellation was because of Rania's "views" on Syria, and that they believed "her invitation would mistakenly imply SJP to hold such views." They also added that they "do not endorse nor reject her views on the Syrian civil war as they remain relatively unclear according to our members’ diverse opinions of Rania's analyses."
In response to the cancellation, a large number of signers, many of whom have been involved with Palestine solidarity, signed a statement against Rania's blacklisting...
ACTIVlist Update - April 3, 2017
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Quill Plains chapter writes Wallonia's Minister-President in support of his stand on CETA Kent County chapter highlights forestry and watersheds to mark World Water Day
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The Council of Canadians Quill Plains (Wynyard) chapter has written Wallonia's Minister-President Paul Magnette in support of his position on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
The Council of Canadians Kent County chapter marked World Water Day with an event drawing attention to the interconnectedness...
Monopolization and Labour Exploitation
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- Published on Sunday, 02 April 2017 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1392 .... April 3, 2017
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Monopolization and Labour Exploitation
Marty Hart-Landsberg
Those who advocate "freeing the market" claim that doing so will encourage competition and thereby increase majority well-being. These advocates have certainly had their way shaping economic policies. And the results? According to several leading economists, the results include the growing monopolization of product markets and steady decline in labour's share of national income. Neither outcome desirable.
The economists -- David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen -- did not actually seek to examine the consequences of decades of neoliberal economic policies. Rather they sought to understand why "there has been a decline in the U.S. labour share since the 1980s particularly in the 2000s."
What they found was evidence that...
Allies at Every Stop: Organizing Passengers and Building Power
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- Published on Saturday, 01 April 2017 23:00
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Allies at Every Stop:
Organizing Passengers and Building Power
The essential training for understanding what is at stake for transit unions, learning how to mobilize its members and riders, and learning how to mount campaigns to save jobs and the transit systems that our communities depend on.
These two videos are sections of a two-part on-line training course, produced by the International ATU, for use by ATU locals in the U.S. and Canada. The goal is to help members to build alliances between transit workers and transit users, to collectively challenge the common agenda of business and its allies to privatize, deregulate and cut needed social services (such as public transit), and attack the rights of those who deliver the service, in the transit unions. It includes one video that identifies the...
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ACTIVlist Update - March 31, 2017
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Supporting Free Trade Deals Isn't Progressive Tell Wallonia's minister-president Magnette that Trudeau does not speak for you on CETA
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In Sunday's Toronto Star, Robin Sears writes that progressives should "blush" about being in the same camp as right-wing populists when it comes to opposing trade deals.
The Government of Wallonia is threatening to block the ratification of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Internet Insider: Privacy concerns aplenty as the U.S. Congress lets ISPs sell their customers' browsing history
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INTERNET INSIDER
March 31, 2017
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Support One House Many Nations!
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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Returning to the Home that is No More There
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1391 .... March 31, 2017
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Returning to the Home that is No More There
Ngũgĩ wa Thing’o interviewed by Mahdi Ganjavi
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938), a Kenyan writer, is one of the most prominent African anti-colonial authors. He lived during the British colonial rule in Kenya, and was very young when he experienced the destruction of the village in which he was born, destroyed by the British colonizers. The post independent Kenya, however, was not a safe place for him as well. He was put in jail and faced violence for his criticisms toward the national bourgeoisie that came to power after the independence in 1963. Contrary to his Nigerian counterpart, Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Ngũgĩ stopped writing his fiction in English in a critical decision in the 1970s, arguing...
It's time to save the whales
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2017
Animal Justice lawyers go to court in BC
Animals got their day in court this month when Animal Justice lawyers intervened at the BC Court of Appeal! We're fighting a Vancouver Aquarium lawsuit that could silence the film Vancouver Aquarium Uncovered, and shut down the brave whistleblowers and undercover investigators who expose animal abuse behind closed doors.
WATCH a recap of our day in court >>
Whale & dolphin bill moves forward
The Senate Fisheries & Oceans committee is holding hearings on Bill S-203, important new legislation that would ban keeping whales and dolphins in captivity. These...
CoDev E-Bulletin March 2017
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ACTIVlist Update - March 30, 2017
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Trudeau makes concessions to secure a Canada-China Free Trade Agreement Council to hold public forum with water protectors defending the Shubenacadie River
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to be making concessions demanded by the Chinese government in relation to the Canada-China Free Trade Agreement talks.
The Council of Canadians has organized two recent public forums on the Alton Gas Natural Gas Storage Project in Nova Scotia and will hold a third public forum...
Scott Pruitt just put corporate interests over kids' health
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BC's Huge Subsidies for Oil & Gas Donors
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 09:15
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Bad news for bees. Really bad.
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:15
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A Legal Fix That Keeps Youths Safe
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:15
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© William Widmer/Redux Fixing the broken U.S. criminal justice system is no easy task. But there’s a proven policy that’s worked all over the country: treating children as children. Raising the age at which states define childhood—and diverting more teens to the youth justice system as opposed to the adult one—makes communities and young people safer, and can even save taxpayer dollars. The evidence is clear: justice reform works when we give youths a chance to grow up.
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Talking Justice: Equal Education in South Africa
In South Africa, a struggle to realize the constitutional right to education shows how activism and the law must work together to bring about a more just world.
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