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May e-Newsletter
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NEWSLETTER
May 2016
Parliament debates animal protection bill
Bill C-246 - the Modernizing Animal Protections Act - was debated in Parliament this month. Despite broad public support, special interest groups are trying to kill this important legislation. We need your help to pass Bill C-246. Please find your MP, and send an email today asking them to protect animals from cruelty and abuse.
Ontario political party adopts strong animal rights policies
Hundreds fill climate townhalls
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Friends,
Last week, the government’s national climate consultations started in full force. A wave of townhalls took place from BC to the Maritimes -- and at each one, the room was packed with hundreds of people speaking up in support of the People’s Climate Plan.
Hundreds of people attended consultations. In the York region, just outside of Toronto, the climate consultation was one of the largest townhalls the community had ever had. In Winnipeg, at a consultation hosted by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, the venue was so far over capacity that dozens of people, including the Minister herself, couldn’t find seats!
Imperialism's Junior Partners
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1262 .... May 31, 2016
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Imperialism’s Junior Partners
Patrick Bond
On May 12, Brazil's democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do? Will they stand by as the reactionaries who took power in Brasilia pivot closer to Western powers, glad to warm Dilma Rousseff's seat at the BRICS summit in Goa, India in five months’ time? Or take a stronger line, following the lead of Latin American progressive countries (Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and El Salvador)?
Here in South Africa, few expect Jacob Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) government to react constructively on the international stage. Making waves isn't likely at a time when Standard & Poors and Fitch...
ACTIVlist Update - May 30, 2016
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Canadian pension plans are investing in price gouging drug companies Join the Grassy Narrows River Run in Toronto this Thursday Nelson chapter to host TPP public forum on June 1
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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Canadians are getting older, that is no secret.
The Grassy Narrows River Run 2016 will take place on Thursday June 2 starting at 12 pm in front of Queen's Park in Toronto.
The Council of Canadians Nelson chapter will host a public...
Crackdown on BDS: Criminalization of Dissent?
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 26 April 2016
Crackdown on BDS: Criminalization of Dissent?
On February 18, 2016 Canadian parliament passed a motion condemning “any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS [Boycott Divestment Sanctions against Israeli apartheid] movement, both here at home and abroad.”
* What are the legal implications of this motion? Is BDS being criminalized?
* What is the political and transnational context?
* How have activists and university campuses been affected by the vilification of BDS?
* What does this mean for the BDS movement?
This forum and discussion addresses the recent anti-BDS offensive including legal, campus-based, labour, and social movement reflections and analysis.
Moderated by Vannina Sztainbok. Presentations in this video include:
- Alan Sears: Faculty for Palestine (F4P).
- Issam Yamani: Palestinian...
BC Hydro launches SLAPP-style suit against Site C opponents
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Whoa, serious impact!
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ACTIVlist Update - May 27, 2016
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Comox Valley chapter says vote NO to P3 sewer project on June 18 South Shore chapter opposes Shell offshore drilling in Shelburne Basin Comox Valley chapter opposes pay-for-plasma clinics, P3 for local wastewater...
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 Comox Valley chapter is opposing a proposed public-private partnership (P3) in the Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD).
The Council of Canadians South Shore chapter is encouraging people to join their campaign to protect offshore Nova Scotia.
Obama in Hiroshima: A Case Study in Hypocrisy
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counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 5-25-2016
Obama in Hiroshima
Eric Draitser says Obama's trip to Hiroshima is a case study in hypocrisy.
Internet Insider: Saying no to the link tax!
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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ACTIVlist Update - May 26, 2016
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New Brunswick Energy East tour includes art installations at site visits Council of Canadians opposes Energy East in Belleisle
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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This week I've been travelling in the lower Saint John river region of New Brunswick (South central region) with Ben Gotschall, rancher and pipeline activist from Nebraska, Alma Brooks, Maliseet elder of the Wolastoq Grand Council and Mark D'Arcy, the Council of Canadians NB Energy East campaigner.
The Council of Canadians was in Belleisle, New Brunswick yesterday to help build grassroots opposition to...
Tonight, help us end the abuse of solitary confinement
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The Looting Stage of Capitalism
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Laura Carlsen on CounterPunch Radio!
This week CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with Laura Carlsen to discuss the reassertion of US hegemony in Latin America.Listen Today! counterpunch NEWS UPDATE 5-26-2016
You got $90m pledged for education in emergencies.
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PAOV,Thanks to your actions, the Education Cannot Wait fund was just launched at the World Humanitarian Summit with $90 million in pledges and over $100 million expected in coming months.
You did this.
It’s not just us saying this - UN Special Envoy for Education, Gordon Brown, publicly thanked Global Citizens for your campaigning. This $90m could reach around 750,000 kids in crisis this year, getting them back into school.
Send a thank you tweet to World Leaders who pledged at the WHS now.
Forestry workers challenge mining company - and need our support
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- ACTIVlist Update - May 25, 2016
- Let her keep her fur babies
- A merger from hell
- This pipeline could poison a Sioux Tribes water
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- ACTIVlist Update - May 24, 2016
- Weekend Edition: The West's Needless Aggression
