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Oppose the Energy East Pipeline
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Oppose the Energy East Pipeline
TransCanada’s Energy East project is the largest tar sands pipeline proposed yet. Stretching from Alberta to New Brunswick, Energy East could carry over 1 million barrels per day of tar sands crude to the Atlantic coast. Despite TransCanada’s promises that Energy East is for domestic gain, they are making plans to export the vast majority and leave us to bear the real costs of climate change, spills and clean-up.
Fighting Energy East is crucial in stopping renegade tar sands expansion that is violating Indigenous rights, threatening frontline communities along the pipeline route and driving dangerous climate change.
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Hey Global Citizens,
We need your help choosing the winners of this year's 2016 Waislitz Global Citizen Award. The award gives $100,000 to three individuals who excel in their work to end extreme poverty.
Once Global Citizens vote for the three winners, an expert panel of judges — including Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans and Alex Waislitz of the Waislitz Foundation — will rank them in first, second, and third place.
Check out the finalists here and vote for your favorites.
80% of bees DEAD
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Action alert: Help us combat chicken cruelty
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Action Alert: Help us combat chicken cruelty!
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ACTIVlist Update - August 12, 2016
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Fending off NAFTA in Nova Scotia 1000 fishermen are thrown overboard by the NEB on Day #1 Energy East hearing
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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NAFTA is a dirty word, especially around Sandy Cove on Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. Back in 2007, people in Sandy Cove won a years-long fight to stop a quarry from being built in their backyards.
It was a stunning public relations blunder by the NEB. On the very first day of the Energy...
11 Groups Call on Federal Government For New Energy Efficiency Standards
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The Pentagon Money Pit
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- Published on Friday, 12 August 2016 11:30
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Will Russia Reject Neoliberalism?
Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson explain why hooking Russia's fate to Western neoliberalism would doom the country's sovereignty.
The Pentagon Money Pit
Dave Lindorff says no more free rides for the military!
PeerNetBC 2016 Annual General Meeting
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2016 Annual General Meeting
We would like to invite you to the PeerNetBC Annual General Meeting, held at our office in downtown Vancouver.
The meeting will be on Wednesday, September 28th from 6pm until 8pm. Everyone is welcome to attend! From those of you who have supported or worked with us in the last year, to those of you who may want to know more about what it is that we do. If you would like to be a member, go here. Membership for individuals with financial barriers is free! If you have any questions about membership, please contact Robin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Rio on Lockdown
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The militarization of the Olympics is an affront to open society values.
Right now, as the world’s best athletes compete for gold in Rio de Janeiro, spectators could be forgiven for thinking the city is mobilizing for war, not the Olympic Games.Why else would a security force of 85,000 be patrolling the city with bombs, assault weapons, and tanks?
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How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood
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Nicholas Schou on CounterPunch Radio!
This week CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with Nicholas Schou to discuss his new book Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood. Eric and Nick explore the history of CIA manipulation of the media going back decades, and how it has evolved into the propaganda consensus we see today.Listen Today! counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 8-9-2016
Russia, Syria and the US
Gary Leupp examines Hillary's foreign policy priorities.
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BREAKING- 'Stingray' surveillance devices: what we know now
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You have a message about Ruby's Legacy: STOP PUPPY MILLS
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Internet Insider: stopping Bill 74 and municipal broadband hurdles
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Lessons of the 2015 CUPE Local 3903 Strike
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- Published on Thursday, 11 August 2016 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1292 .... August 12, 2016
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Lessons of the 2015 CUPE Local 3903 Strike
Kyle Bailey
It has now been over one year since the end of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903 strike at York University in March 2015. This strike began when 3,700 teaching assistants, contract faculty, graduate assistants and research assistants voted to walk the picket lines. The decision came just days after a historic strike vote by 6,000 teaching assistants and other student academic staff in CUPE 3902 Unit 1 at the University of Toronto.
At present, the legacy of the strike is controversial. Members of CUPE 3903 are divided over the crucial question of whether this legacy should be regarded as one of victory or defeat. The purpose of this article is to...
August News from Green Jobs BC
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Pasta Politics
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Chelsea Handler is hosting the 2016 Global Citizen Festival in NYC's Central Park. She released this video calling on the Italian Prime Minister to pledge to end hunger. She even face-planted in a bowl of spaghetti to prove her point.
Join Chelsea and Global Citizens around the world by taking a photo and tweeting a message to the Italian Prime Minister asking for his support to end hunger.
Censorship is Back in Fashion in Brazil
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 22:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1291 .... August 11, 2016
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Censorship is Back in Fashion in Brazil
Sabrina Fernandes
Lately, it's been common to say that the "right has come out of the closet" in Brazil. More precisely, the authoritarian, fascist right, has done so and very publicly for that matter. The revolutionary potential of June 2013, even if convoluted and smeared by depoliticization, held enough of a threat to require immediate hegemonic renewal, especially at the ideological level. The hegemonic renewal of the right was empowered by the depoliticized aspects of the conflicts exposed in June, such as when desire for more investment in health and education became captured by an aimless fight against corruption permeated by ultra-nationalist, moralist, and authoritarian discourse. Speech that wasn't acceptable in the past because it would out someone...
Shocking puppy mills in Windsor
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 16:15
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