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What happened to the salmon this year?
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:00
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This year is shaping up to be the worst Fraser River sockeye salmon run in recorded history, with just 853,000 of an expected 2.2 million fish returning to spawn. [2]
First Nations communities that depend on Fraser sockeye are bracing for a hard winter. Commercial and sports fisheries are closed. Bears and whales will starve.
Scientists are still piecing together the factors that caused this year’s collapse. But growing evidence suggests deadly sea lice, diseases and viruses spreading from fish farms are killing wild salmon. A recent video suggests farmed salmon may even be eating juvenile wild fish. [3-5]
Biologist and wild salmon activist Alexandra Morton started a petition on Leadnow’s petition site calling on the federal government to end open-net salmon farming for good.
End Polio by 2019
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Hey Paov,
Thanks to global efforts, newly diagnosed polio cases have fallen by 99.9%. We are only 0.1% away from the finish line, but we need the support of world leaders to finish the job.
Can you take action to help?
Send an email to world leaders asking them to fund global polio eradication for the sake of the world's youngest citizens.
By taking action, you can earn your chance to Read more: End Polio by 2019
Lion cubs don't belong in nightclubs
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2016
Read more: Lion cubs don't belong in nightclubs
Standing Up At Standing Rock
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 21:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1298 .... August 31, 2016
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Standing Up At Standing Rock
Brian Ward
Some 1,000 Native American activists from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and across the country faced off against police and security forces protecting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline project. Dozens of people have been arrested and assaulted by police while attempting to stop the project, and many more continue to risk arrest to protest the pipeline.
The Dakota Access pipeline, which is being built by Energy Transfer Partners, is planned to stretch 1,172 miles from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa, before ending in Illinois.
The $3.8-billion project was begun in 2014 and is supposed to be completed by the end of the year. Once finished, the pipeline...
CoDev E-Bulletin August 2016
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Blocked for being an orphan
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:45
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Site C Dam going forward - FIGHT!/organize & Save Blenkinsop Valley/Langford Block Exclusion decisions
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:30
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To Farmland Protection Coalition supporters,
In betrayal of First Nations and Canada's court system, Site C Dam received quiet federal approvals as this BC day long weekend began. Check out Wilderness Committee Site C for updates, a petition, and fund raising for the continuing fight! As well the BC Green Party has a petition to "Tell Christy Clark to stop Site C."
There is a fight to Save the Blenkinsop Valley on Vancouver Island organizing. The fertile ALR and farm lands are suffering from growing encroachment from industrial uses. If you are able to attend in person Nathalie and Dave Chambers of Madrona Farm are holding an organizing meeting this week:
Wed. Aug. 31st at 6PM
Madrona Farm,
4317 Blenkinsop Road
Victoria, BC
You can also email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to receive updates and more information about how you could help in the fight even if you can not attend, or are not local to the area.
Gords message to all of us
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:00
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Over 11 million people tuned in to watch the last ever Tragically Hip show.
It was a powerful and moving show that brought people together across the country, and everybody is talking about the moment when lead singer Gord Downie sent us a clear message about our relationship to First Nations.
“We were trained our entire lives to ignore, trained our entire lives to hear not a word of what's going on... And what's going on up there ain't good. It's maybe worse than it's ever been… It's really, really bad, but we're going to figure it out, you're going to figure it out.''[1]
With Gord’s call to action echoing across the country, many people are looking for a place to start. If that’s you, check out the resources below, or share them with others in your community.
- Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report: The TRC spent years talking to...
ATCR Newsletter: A Message From The Halluci Nation
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:30
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Hi Friends,
We’re forwarding you a message from our friends from the Halluci Nation. We think you should read what they have to say:
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Attention members of the Halluci Nation, our DNA is of Earth and Sky, spread the word: #WeAreTheHalluciNation
Read more: ATCR Newsletter: A Message From The Halluci Nation
Halluci Nation members have come together to tell the story of Yasiin Bey, an ally of the Halluci Nation, who has been unjustly detained in Cape Town, South Africa by the ALie-Nation. Thanks to the efforts of one of our guardians, Narcy, Yasiin has finally made his way to our territory. You can watch his journey here on our brothers’ platform. We want to extend our gratitude to our fellow members: DAIS, Pirates Blend and Tribal Spirit for making this possible.
Remember, we are the Halluci Nation. Our DNA is of land and air. We recently asked our sister, Tanya Tagaq, representative of our Inuk contingency, to help us in honouring the part of us that is sky, air, and atmosphere. That part is ᓯᓚ. That...
Cool Fascismo hits newsstands worldwide this week!
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:30
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Hey Jammers,
As we head into fall, there's been a shift in the tone, the mood and feel of global politics. Cool Fascismo looks at the rise of fascist tendencies all over the world, exposing the symptoms of a sick, outdated and demagogic system. Everywhere you look, hatred and fear are increasingly normalized as the world falls deeper into chaos. Have we forgotten the lessons of the past, or is history doomed to repeat itself?
Read more: Cool Fascismo hits newsstands worldwide this week!
Turkey's Move into Syria
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- Published on Monday, 29 August 2016 21:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1297 .... August 30, 2016
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Turkey's Move into Syria:
Challenging the Kurds, Overthrowing Rojava
Phil Hearse
Turkey's incursion into northern Syria on 24 August was flagged up as a move to drive the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) out of the border town of Jarabulus. But that is just a cover: Turkey's not very secret major objective is to crush the 50,000-strong Kurdish YPG (people's Protection Unit) militia, and overrun the three autonomous Kurdish dominated areas, collectively called "Rojava" by the Kurds.
Two days into the Turkish invasion, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim stated bluntly that this operation would not be ended until Islamic State "and other militants" had been crushed. Already there are reports of fighting between Turkish-led forces and the YPG south of Jarabulus and thousands of Turkish troops...
In 3 weeks we could lose our health care system
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- Published on Monday, 29 August 2016 10:45
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South African winery workers need your support
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Usher, Half Moon, Grimes, Metric, and Charlotte Cardin #showup.
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Hey Paov,
It’s our first Global Citizen concert in Canada and we want you to #showup!
If you haven’t heard, we have a superstar lineup: Usher, Half Moon, Grimes, Metric, and Charlotte Cardin. They will take the stage on Saturday, September 17, in Montreal to celebrate the Global Fund Replenishment and our our commitment to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria for...
Read more: Usher, Half Moon, Grimes, Metric, and Charlotte Cardin #showup.
We have to stop the real estate abuse
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- Published on Sunday, 28 August 2016 08:00
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Why Media Democracy?
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- Published on Sunday, 28 August 2016 02:15
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Why Media Democracy?
That the North American media is dominated by corporate monopolies serving capitalist interests and squeezing out critical voices is to state the obvious. The state media in Canada – nationally the CBC and provincially organizations like TV-Ontario (TVO) – provide only the slightest respite from pro-business reportage; the CBC has been equally a key ideological support for neoliberalism, particularly in its news coverage of public policy and economics. Media concentration in Canada is now the highest for the major capitalist countries. The same corporations who control TV and radio also own the major newspapers, but they have also bought up the smaller local media scattered across the country as well. The digital media technologies have added a huge number of new outlets and sites, but they have not broken...
Big Tobacco is going to hate this.
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- Published on Saturday, 27 August 2016 07:45
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Climate Justice Historian Brian Tokar Interview - Sept. 5
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- Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 17:30
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Read more: Climate Justice Historian Brian Tokar Interview - Sept. 5
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