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New-born child dead after company fails to pay for health care, father fired for absence mourning child's death
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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ALBA Social Movements in Canada Condemn the Attacks Against Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
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- Published on Saturday, 05 November 2016 20:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1326 .... November 6, 2016
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ALBA Social Movements in Canada Condemn the Attacks
Against Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement
On the morning of November 4th, 2016, Brazilian military and civilian police used violent force to storm Brazil's, Landless Workers Movement's (MST) Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) in Guararema, outside of Sao Paulo in Brazil. According to several witnesses, the police stormed their way into the facility by forcing their way through the main gate shooting live bullets, and threatening people.
As a founding member of Via Campesina, the MST has worldwide recognition as an important peasant social movement, with a commitment to the protection of rural communities and workers and the struggle for land reform. The Florestan Fernandes school has been committed to building social consciousness and popular unity for over...
ACTIVlist Update - November 4, 2016
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Action Alert: Join us for this sprint to stop Kinder Morgan
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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Saint John Groups tell Senate Committee to stop their secrecy, bias, cheerleading, and misinformation about pipelines
The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications is conducting a cross-Canada tour of hearings to essentially market and advocate for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipeline projects.
Climate justice campaigner at occupation of environment minister's office
Council of Canadians climate...
Don't let Monsanto undermine EPA's scientific review
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- Published on Friday, 04 November 2016 10:30
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Read more: Don't let Monsanto undermine EPA's scientific review
El Salvadors water is safe
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- Published on Friday, 04 November 2016 10:00
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BREAKING: 2 more #KMSitin Actions
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- Published on Friday, 04 November 2016 09:15
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Friends,
Right now, community members in Ottawa and Montreal are sitting in at the offices of Environment & Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna and Transport Minister Marc Garneau calling on them to publicly oppose the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline. Already, from the sit in at Minister McKenna’s office, I spoke over the phone with the Minister, and, during the call, she criticized Kinder Morgan CEO, Ian Anderson, for comments he made yesterday denying the science of climate change. But, simply disagreeing with climate deniers isn’t enough - we need politicians like Minister McKenna and Minister Garneau to stand up to big oil and publicly oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
You can show your support with those of us sitting in at these offices. Click here and call the offices of these Ministers...
Internet Insider: Latest on the EU Commission's Link Tax - plus our whirlwind week in Canada!
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- Published on Friday, 04 November 2016 08:45
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Important update: Animal Justice in court to save dogs
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Dear PAOV,
Animal Justice went to court in Chatham, Ontario yesterday to fight for the lives of 21 dogs who were rescued from the horrors of a dogfighting ring. Even though these dogs are victims themselves, the Ontario SPCA is asking a court to execute them, claiming they are unsafe.
The 21 dogs aren't given names in the court filings—only numbers. I want to share the heartbreaking story of...
Read more: Important update: Animal Justice in court to save dogs
Standing Rock Solid with the Frackers
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- Published on Thursday, 03 November 2016 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1325 .... November 4, 2016
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Standing Rock Solid with the Frackers:
Are the Trades Putting Labour’s Head in the Gas Oven?
Sean Sweeney
If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labour federations of the world to address the crisis, the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) provides only the most recent case in point. Taking direction from the newly minted North American Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and the American Petroleum Institute (API), the federation stood against the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal nations.
In a recent video interview, NABTU president Sean McGarvey dismissed those who oppose the expansion of fossil fuels...
ACTIVlist Update - November 3, 2016
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WIN! Township of Centre Wellington passes resolution against Nestle water takings
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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The Council of Canadians Centre Wellington chapter has been supporting the SaveOurWater.ca call for the Township of Centre Wellington to pass a resolution expressing its opposition to Nestle's application to take water from the Middlebrook Well near Elora, Ontario.
South Shore Chapter petition heard in NS legislature!
The South Shore chapter has launched the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia (CPONS),...
This is a game changer
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- Published on Thursday, 03 November 2016 12:15
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Breaking: Im sitting in to #StopKM
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- Published on Thursday, 03 November 2016 08:15
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Friends,
Right now, I’m sitting in at the constituency office of Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr in Winnipeg. In Toronto, more concerned people are doing the same thing at the office of Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett.
We’re calling on the Ministers to publicly oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline because it would wreck Canada’s chances at meeting our Paris climate commitments and because it would break this government’s promises to respect Indigenous rights.
Right now, we need your help to get this message across to the Ministers. Click here and call the Ministers’ constituency offices to tell them to oppose Kinder Morgan.
The final cabinet decision on Kinder Morgan could come in a matter of weeks, and both Minister Carr and Minister Bennett have a lot of power over...
Syria and the Antiwar Tradition
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2016 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1324 .... November 3, 2016
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Syria and the Antiwar Tradition
David Bush
There is major disorientation on the left in many Western countries when it comes to Syria and about how antiwar activists should respond to events on the ground in Syria and Iraq. The highly complex nature of the Syrian war involving a multitude of foreign states and non-state actors would, in the best of times, present the left with a real challenge to find political clarity. The fact that this is occurring precisely when the antiwar movement in countries like Canada and the United States are relatively weak only adds to the confusion.
The way in which the debate about the Syrian war has been framed and conducted by large parts of the left has been unhelpful...
Arrested for helping homeless children?
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2016 18:15
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ACTIVlist Update - November 2, 2016
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Council of Canadians joins with students to say "free education now"
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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The Canadian Federation of Students is holding a national day of action today to call for universal access to public, post-secondary education in Canada.
Blue Planet Project to promote blue communities in Spain and Greece
Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan will be promoting our blue communities initiative in Spain and Greece this week.
Peterborough-Kawarthas chapter hosts Maude Barlow 'Boiling...
ACTIVlist Update - November 1, 2016
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Trudeau government approves fracked gas pipeline expansion
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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The Trudeau government has approved the expansion of a TransCanada fracked gas pipeline.
South Shore chapter hosts 'After the Sands' public forum
The Council of Canadians South Shore chapter hosted Gordon Laxer for a public forum on his book After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians.
South Shore chapter takes 'This Changes Everything' to high schools
The Council of Canadians South Shore...
How Migration Policies Created a “Jungle”
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 November 2016 13:30
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© Sara Prestianni The “Jungle of Calais” is a sprawling display of Europe’s failed migration policies. This week, authorities cleared the informal migrant encampment of its thousands of residents. Encampments like this are a result of ineffective pledges from political leaders, and deficient European reception centers that don’t meet the needs of incoming migrants and refugees. It’s a dysfunctional system made worse by uneven policymaking, and until this changes, these encampments, once cleared, will simply return.
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