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International Womens Day
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ACTIVlist Update - March 8, 2017
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Watch this new 5-minute video about the Site C dam Trudeau must deliver on water justice in his federal budget on March 22, World Water Day
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A new 5-minute video gives an overview of a Council of Canadians and Wilderness Committee town hall meeting on Site C that was held in October 2016.
The Trudeau government will table its second federal budget on Wednesday March 22, which is World Water Day.
A critical moment in history
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Hey Paov,
Today is International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of girls and women around the world.
Socially, economically, politically, and culturally, women have made remarkable strides towards achieving gender equality.
Yet, girls and women everywhere continue to face systemic barriers that prevent them from leading healthy, productive lives and overcoming their place in society. They are disproportionately impacted by violence, discrimination and barriers to attending school and pursuing skilled work.
Call on world leaders to tackle the barriers that hold girls and women back.
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Lactalis/Parmalat maintains lockout of workers in Australia
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Born into Stigma
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 15:45
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In Uganda, growing up intersex makes you a target—of discrimination, abuse, even violence. It can be viewed as a curse, something to purge. When the identity of an intersex man named Julius was leaked to a newspaper, for example, the harassment he faced forced him to flee the country. Later, when he learned of a young boy back home on a similar path, he knew he had to return and help. Today, Julius’s activism on intersex issues is part of a broad effort to show that what really needs fixing is society’s stigma.
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A Flourishing in the Deserts of Afghanistan. But for How Long?
A photo exhibition looks at the human stories driving a tenuous environmental revolution in Afghanistan.
This could sink Kinder Morgan
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 15:45
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News just broke that Kinder Morgan is short on cash, and desperately needs investors to back their Trans Mountain project -- a dirty tarsands pipeline that would threaten BC’s coast with oil spills and facilitate a massive increase in climate pollution from the tarsands. [1-3]
They've hired TD Bank to broker talks with pension funds and banks, searching for backers to bail out their struggling pipeline plan. [4]
What Comes After the Raids
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 14:30
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© Eduardo Perez/Newscom Amid the public outrage over ongoing ICE raids across the United States, the already record number of detained immigrants has been largely overlooked. And while the amount of media coverage on the subject has risen in recent years, the depth remains wanting. The problem isn’t due to a lack of curiosity but of access. Only when reporters reliably gain entry to detention centers and we hear from migrants themselves can we truly understand the shadowy system—and hope to fix it.
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Fighting Hate in the Age of Trump
The latest episode of our podcast looks at what’s being done to turn back the rising tide of intolerance in America.
Start Today with a Win - Université Laval Comm
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 14:30
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PAOV --
Université Laval became the first Canadian University to publicly and openly commit to fossil fuel divestment.
This is a big win for students and divestment campaigns across Canada. Students have been mobilizing for over 4 years in Canada to have their post secondary institutions divest from fossil fuels. Today we celebrate ULaval sans fossiles, which has been organizing for just over 3 months, as they join a global movement of 680+ institutions worldwide that have committed to divest.
Ending an Imperial Legacy
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© Sven Torfinn/Panos for the Open Society Foundations A respected schoolteacher in Kenya walks along a road while singing. He is arrested, detained for three months, and released without charge. His crime? A 192-year-old offense stretching back to British colonial rule. For thousands of people in Africa, this story is a daily reality. Here and in other parts of the world, outdated petty offense laws are often used to target vulnerable populations, including the poor, LGBTI, and people with disabilities. But a growing movement across the continent offers hope that these laws won’t reach their 200th birthday.
ACTIVlist Update - March 7, 2017
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The Magnificent Whales of the Bay of Fundy Don't Deserve Energy East Quinte chapter screens film on global arms trade Thunder Bay chapter holds 'community think tank' session on renewable energy
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A remarkable photo essay has just been published in the March/April issue of Canadian Wildlife Magazine.
The Council of Canadians Quinte chapter sponsored a screening of Shadow World at the Belleville Downtown DocFest this past Saturday March 4.
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Who Will Defend the Defenders?
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© Pablo Aneli/AP On January 15, Isidro Baldenegro, a prominent environmental leader, was shot and killed in his home state of Chihuahua, Mexico. His death was a brutal reminder of the dangers faced by environmental defenders in Latin America—just one year earlier, Berta Cáceres was apparently murdered in Honduras for protesting development of indigenous lands. In a region with the highest homicide rates in the world, those who risk their lives defending the environment are particularly prone to violence—of the 185 environmental advocates who were killed worldwide in 2015, 122 were working in Latin America.
The Power of the Past
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 12:45
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© Artur Conka for the Open Society Foundations Today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is particularly important to Roma communities, which face an array of challenges stemming from racism and discrimination. The reason is simple: By learning their history, Roma can forge their own sense of identity, and use that knowledge to educate other Roma and establish solidarity with members of their community. From Roma feminists fighting stereotypes to journalists reclaiming the story of their people, Roma are drawing on the history of their struggles to find new avenues of advocacy today.
The Fallen of WWII Sequel - Call For Feedback + Patrons
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The Shadow Peace - The sequel to The Fallen of World War II
The Fallen of WWII sequel is near, and I can use your help.
Hard to believe, but it has been a year and a half since launching The Fallen of World War II, and the sequel is finally around the corner. Next week, I am sending a near-final cut to my collaborator Andy, who will compose the sound and music for the closing scenes.
For this episode I am inviting supporters to watch this cut in its entirety and provide feedback before launching it to the public. Feedback can be given in the form of an email to me, or if you choose, you can take part in a live discussion online with me and other supporters. Audience feedback is especially important for this episode because it ventures into a thorny discussion about maintaining peace in the age on nuclear weapons.
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Three Priorities for 2017
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 11:15
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© Scott Olson/Getty We begin the year surrounded by uncertainty in every dimension of public life. Yet pervasive uncertainty must not excuse indecision. Now is the time to stand firm against the hate-filled assaults, threats, and screams unleashed by the presidential campaign. This spirit gives rise to three priorities for the Open Society Foundations globally in 2017: to work on cyberpolitics, to support youth in the public sphere, and to continue our commitment to the rights of migrants everywhere. These are quintessential examples of the kind of philanthropy that we embrace, and we will pursue them without ambivalence.
Constitutional emergency
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 March 2017 09:00
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Join the Resistance! Upcoming Local Activist Events
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- Published on Monday, 06 March 2017 23:30
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Against the Blacklisting of Activists and Writers
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- Published on Monday, 06 March 2017 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1379 .... March 7, 2017
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Against the Blacklisting of Activists and Writers
The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania Khalek, who was invited to speak on the University of North Carolina (UNC) - Chapel Hill campus by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on February 27, 2017, raises important issues of tactics and strategy within movements for social change.
The whole statement, posted on Facebook the night before, reads:
"After receiving much feedback and after careful consideration, we have decided to cancel tomorrow's event with Rania Khalek. We 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. Although Rania was not going to speak about Syria, we understand the Syrian conflict...
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ACTIVlist Update - March 6, 2017
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Join a Council of Canadians chapter, evidence shows protests make a difference
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The Council of Canadians organizes and participates in numerous protests every year.
Council supports Gitxsan & Lax Kw'alaams opposition to the Pacific NorthWest LNG project
The Council of Canadians stands in solidarity with the Gitxsan Nation legal challenge against the Trudeau government's approval of the Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.
History of International Women's Day Event
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We're hosting our fourth event of the semester on Monday, March 6th @ 6:30pm in Vertigo Lounge.
International Women’s Day – originally International Working Women’s Day – kicked off the February Revolution in 1917, leading to the downfall of the Russian monarchy and, eventually, the Bolsheviks’ revolutionary seizure of power in October of the same year.
A hundred years later, women’s liberation remains far from complete. American women today are leading the charge in resistance following the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, manifesting in solidarity with oppressed and exploited women worldwide in one of the most historic mass women’s marches in history. At the same time, figures such as BC Premier Christy Clark, British Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are today’s face of a neoliberalised ‘feminism’, committed to backing a corporations-first politics of low wages, weak...
The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Theft by Deception
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- Published on Monday, 28 November 2016 21:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1334 .... November 29, 2016
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The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Theft by Deception
Heather Whiteside
Both the Liberal government and its Advisory Council on Economic Growth are head-over-heels for the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), announcing with fresh-faced enthusiasm that it will be an innovative route for augmenting infrastructure finance, a flywheel of institutional capital participation, and an economic stimulus boon for the middle class. Beyond the euphoria is deception; there are no sunny ways to be found here, only shadowy figures and cloudy rationale. Let's decipher the fraudulent hype.
Innovative? Canada's current system of dysfunctional public infrastructure development would certainly benefit from a source of dedicated, pooled national savings. Yet the CIB's main ‘innovation’ lies in granting equity ownership rights to private capital through investment vehicles like public-private partnerships (P3s),...
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