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ACTIVlist Update - October 18, 2016
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NWT chapter challenges TPP at parliamentary trade committee hearing Barlow says Muskrat Falls dam violates UNDRIP
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The Council of Canadians Northwest Territories chapter spoke against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade (CIIT) by video conference today.
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has tweeted, "Trudeau government should honour it's commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and stop Muskrat Falls!"
Choices that no one should have to make
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Hey Paov,
While many of us are still stuffed full of Thanksgiving dinner, there are many families living in the most fragile places in the world who are dealing with hunger and even malnutrition on a daily basis.
Our friends at World Vision have created a petition asking Canada to increase overall spending on development and particularly on helping families become #hungerfree and we need your support.
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Tell Turkey's government that journalism is not a crime
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ACTIVlist Update - October 17, 2016
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Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in controversial OceanaGold v. El Salvador case
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On Friday, dozens of people gathered outside the office of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of El Salvador who have waited seven years for a World Bank tribunal decision in the controversial case of OceanaGold v. El Salvador.
Media Release: Full moratorium on bottled water takings essential to protect water...
Big Three Bargaining: Different Ways of Making History
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1316 .... October 17, 2016
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Big Three Bargaining: Different Ways of Making History
Sam Gindin
Canadian autoworkers have long been pace setters in the Canadian labour movement and as soon as its most recent agreement with General Motors was ratified, Unifor (the successor in 2013 after the merger of CAW and CEP) laid claim to that agreement's ‘historic’ status. It has now also been ratified by the Chrysler workers, but at the Ford assembly plant in Oakville -- now the largest auto facility in the country -- it's pretty hard to find any enthusiasm for the outcome of this latest bargaining round. If this agreement is indeed historic, it may be so in a sense quite different than the leadership's bravado declaration intended.
Background: The Cancer of Two-Tier Wages
When...
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Update: Palm oil
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Free jailed union leaders now
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I'm Hangry!
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Hey Paov,
One in seven in the world will go hungry tonight. I can't even imagine how we can let that happen.
I hate being stood up.
Over the last few months, we called on the Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, the host of next year's G7 Summit to put hunger and nutrition at the top of next year's G7 agenda. The G7 made a promise to lift 500 million people out of hunger.
Global Citizens took action. You tweeted him, petitioned him and called his embassies in...
Canadian Mining Corporations in Latin America: Solidarity Rally
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 14 October 2016
Canadian Mining Corporations in Latin America: Solidarity Rally
Trade agreements are a weapon against communities! Community consent over corporate bullying! La lucha sigue; the struggle continues!
In 2008, after years of violence, conflict, environmental degradation, and water pollution at the hands of mining companies, then-president of El Salvador Antonio Saca stopped issuing new mining permits. This decision has widespread support in El Salvador; a recent poll of the University of Central America (UCA) indicates that that 79.5 per cent of Salvadorans are against any gold mining.
In 2009, after pleading with El Salvador to reconsider, OceanaGold (then called Pacific Rim) sued the whole country through an "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS) case at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the World Bank Group's...
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It's a 2 for 1 deal! Citizenship AND national security
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We're calling for animal cruelty charges
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Dear PAOV,
Last week, a horrifying scene unfolded outside the Fearmans Pork slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario when a truck carrying 180 pigs rolled over as it approached the slaughterhouse. Many of the pigs were trapped inside the wreckage, injured or dying, while horrified bystanders listened to their screams. Other pigs emerged from the crash onto the street, dazed and injured.
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ACTIVlist Update - October 14, 2016
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Will Wallonia and Brussels-Capital Region sink CETA on October 18?
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It appears so.
Gold mining and the abuse of environmental and human rights in South Africa
We KNOW that mining abuses the environment and miners and residents’ rights to water, health and a healthy environment. But maybe policy makers will hear this when it comes from Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic.
Media Release: NAFTA award of $28 million highlights dangers of...
Internet Insider: Link Tax latest + a powerful new way to speak out against surveillance
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INTERNET INSIDER
October 14, 2016
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Reinstate fired union leaders - union rights now
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Anti-Poverty Advocacy Across BC
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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The Situation in the World Today
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Next Monday, October 17th, is our next discussion night of Fall 2016. We will be discussing the current state of various labour and student movements in countries all around the world (China, India, Quebec, South Africa, etc) with a focus on the objectives and impact of they've had. If you'd like to know more about world events and the implications for us here in Canada, please join us on Monday at 6:30pm in SUB B025.
Here is a link to the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/736907153115219/
In Solidarity,
Socialist Fightback UVic
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