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Poetic Injustice
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Dear PAOV,
Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet and citizen of Israel who was arrested nine months ago in the middle of the night. Her crime? Writing a poem and posting it on Youtube.
The outrageousness of Tatour’s imprisonment is matched only by how tragically routine her arrest is. Tatour is one of over 400 Palestinians1 arrested by Israel since last fall for political statements on social media. Palestinian cultural workers, both citizens of Israel and residents of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, are under attack for speaking the truth of their lives.
Jobs and wage concerns top G20 Labour Ministers
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L20 Response to G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting Declaration
13 July, Beijing (ITUC OnLine): G20 Labour Ministers meeting in Beijing committed to better align wages with productivity and reduce the wage gap – which has been widening across G20 economies. Ministers also committed to strengthen compliance with and coverage of minimum wages and promote collective bargaining. They reiterated past commitments to reduce gender and youth employment gaps.
Global recession risk requires coordinated G20 action on wages and jobs - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 12 July 2016 (ITUC OnLine): Trade union leaders at the Labour 20 Summit have called on G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting in Beijing to put the urgency for jobs and growth back on the agenda, with a focus on women and young people, as well as supporting social dialogue and collective bargaining.
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Vicious union-busting at leading Australian brewer
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What Revolution? On Bernie's Endorsement of Hillary
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2016 15:15
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 7-12-2016
A Myth to Promote NATO Unity
Gary Leupp on Putin's "threat" to the Baltics.
Read more: What Revolution? On Bernie's Endorsement of Hillary
2016 Global Citizen Festival tickets are now available.
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Hey Paov,
Today is the day.
Tickets for the 2016 Global Citizen Festival are now available — and you can earn your way to tickets by taking action on our first campaign: girls and women.
Girls and women experience some of the harshest aspects of poverty. For instance, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working in 18 countries around the world. In another 17 countries, women need...
Read more: 2016 Global Citizen Festival tickets are now available.
ITUC Newsletter 76, Informal Economy, Korea, Equal Times... Latest News from the ITUC
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2016 02:30
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International Trade Union Confederation
N°76 / July 2016
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Striking workers at Trump Taj Mahal casino hotel in Atlantic City need your support
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From the Tar Sands to 'Green Jobs'? Work and Ecological Justice
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- Published on Monday, 11 July 2016 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1280 .... July 12, 2016
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From the Tar Sands to ‘Green Jobs’?
Work and Ecological Justice
Prepared for: Confronting Leviathan: Struggles to Stop the Tar Sands
Greg Albo and Lilian Yap
The ecological and social implications of climate change have -- or should -- become a central parameter for all discussions of work and capitalism. It is generally agreed that reliance on the burning of fossil fuels as the pre-eminent energy source for production and consumption over the history of capitalism is the critical factor in the ruinous greenhouse gas emissions triggering global warming, which would become irreversible if the earth's atmosphere were brought to a ‘tipping-point’. The leading scientific estimates project that a rise in average global temperatures of 2°C (and now often just 1.5°C) is the threshold...
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This week @ rabble.ca: The roots of the Canada Post labour dispute
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- Published on Monday, 11 July 2016 15:00
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Hey rabble readers!
If you don't contribute to rabble, now is the time to help out. It's our 15-year anniversary and we've never had such great rewards to give away, like Lawrence Hill's book The Illegal, Michael Moore's new documentary Where to Invade Next and of course, our special anniversary edition of the Best of rabble.
This week, Canada Post issued a 72-hour lockout notice to 50,000 posties, as bargaining disagreements between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) continued to make headlines. While pay equity and pensions are front of mind during this round of bargaining, the Canada Post labour dispute has roots that stretch back years. Learn more about the issues driving the dispute to get context on recent developments, in our continuing coverage.
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The Great Lakes Gathering 2016
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Brutal union-busting and dismissals by leading Australian brewer
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The Racist Killing Machine in the Age of Anti-Politics
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- Published on Sunday, 10 July 2016 22:15
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 7-9-2016
The Racist Killing Machine
Henry A. Giroux on the racist killing machine in the Age of Anti-Politics.
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Summer News and Suggestions From LabourStart
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Low Waged Work, Social Reproduction and the Promises/Perils of Participatory Budgeting
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- Published on Saturday, 09 July 2016 22:00
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 18 March 2016
Alternate Routes conference:
Low Waged Work, Social Reproduction and the Promises/Perils of Participatory Budgeting
Earlier this year, the journal Alternate Routes organized a conference on the theme "Sub/Urbanizing Austerity: Impacts and Alternatives." The following presentation is from panel three of the conference: "Low Waged Work, Social Reproduction and the Promises/Perils of Participatory Budgeting."
Moderated by John Shields. Presentations by:
- Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott, York University: “Low Wage Employment, Living in Toronto and the Crisis of Social Reproduction”
- Bryan Evans, Ryerson University: “Resisting the Expansion of Low Waged Work: A Comparative Survey of Living Wage Movements in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States”
- Laura Pin, York University: “Participatory Budgeting Projects and Neoliberal Urban Governance”
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You're invited! Webinar July 10: Proportional Representation and Governance
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- Published on Friday, 08 July 2016 15:00
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You're Invited! Proportional Representation and Governance
Sunday July 10, 1 PM EDT
The process to achieve proportional representation for 2019 is moving full steam ahead! The Electoral Reform Committee is now hearing expert witnesses and MPs have been invited to hold town halls.
We're delighted to be joined on this webinar by Salomon Orellana, author of the 2014 book "Electoral Systems and Governance: How Diversity Can Improve Policy Making."
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The Consequences of “Abortion Exile”
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- Published on Friday, 08 July 2016 14:30
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Last week, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have closed half the state’s abortion clinics, the reasoning behind the ruling was solid. After all, forcing women to journey great distances for abortion services disproportionately harms young women, low-income women, women with disabilities, and women with precarious immigration status.
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But there’s another repercussion of making women travel for abortions that’s harder to quantify.
If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 7-7-2016
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