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Solidarity with detained labour activists in China!
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Churches commit to implementing major human rights instrument
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Education disrupted.
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Hey PAOV,
Over the past few months, Canadians have been working hard to support thousands of Syrian refugees rebuilding their lives in Canada. But these are millions more refugees, displaced families and people still living in crisis areas who need our support.
Millions of refugees around the world find themselves living in countries or circumstances that mean their children cannot attend school regularly, or at all. Children often lose years of schooling due to conflict and in some cases may never have access to quality education again.
Take action now to tell the Canadian Government to send...
ACTIVlist Update - May 3, 2016
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NATIONAL VICTORY! Canadian Chamber of Commerce Cancels Letter Campaign on Energy East
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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Last night was arguably one of the most stormy and surprising Council meetings in recent memory here in Fredericton...
WIN! Edmundston passes resolution to protect their drinking water from the Energy East pipeline
The City of Edmundston, New Brunswick has passed a resolution expressing concern about the Energy East pipeline and the impact it could have on the city's source...
The U.S. Empire's Culture Industry, at Large
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1252 .... May 3, 2016
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The U.S. Empire's Culture Industry, at Large
Tanner Mirrlees
"U.S. Empire's Decline": Spectre or Social Fact?
For readers immersed in the annals of Empire, it is well known that the United States is no ordinary country in the world system. The United States is a unique Empire whose national security strategy since 1945 has relied upon a mix of diplomacy and brute military force to make the world safe for American capitalism around the world, and more importantly, made the world over for global capitalism. Unlike bygone colonial Empires, the U.S. Empire has not in its recent history tried to directly dominate territories, but instead, strove to build, integrate and police a world system of allies that share its model: capitalism, the neoliberal state...
Support US farmworkers blacklisted for demanding their wages
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Poetic documentary Koneline brings B.C. mining into focus
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- Published on Monday, 02 May 2016 22:30
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Poetic documentary 'Koneline' brings B.C. mining into focusApril 22, 2016 | By June Chua
Koneline focuses on the "golden triangle" of land in northwest B.C. where copper and gold mining companies are busy drilling into prime territory where local people hunt and fish.Read more: Poetic documentary Koneline brings B.C. mining into focus
Qatar World Cup: FIFA Announcement on Monitoring of Decent Working Conditions - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 22 April 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The announcement by President Gianni Infantino of FIFA that it will establish an oversight body to monitor working conditions on World Cup stadium sites in Qatar shows that FIFA is beginning to take responsibility for those whose work is essential to the holding of the 2022 event.
This week @ rabble.ca: Celebrating 15 years of rabble!
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Brazil: ITUC Call for Respect for Democracy and the Rule of Law - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 20 April 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has endorsed a statement from its Regional Organisation for the Americas, TUCA, in defence of democracy in Brazil as the campaign by conservative forces against President Dilma intensifies.
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In every generation
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This weekend, Jews and allies will gather together at seder tables around the world to celebrate Pesach
As we gather together at Pesach, let's recommit to fighting for peace and justice.
. DOWNLOAD THE JVP HAGGADAH . . .Freedom and slavery, liberation and oppression. Both are always present and always possible.
This weekend, Jews and allies will gather together at seder tables around the world to celebrate Pesach. We’ll tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt, drink four cups of wine, and commit to one another that in every generation, we all must personally feel as though we ourselves were liberated from slavery.
FIFA: Landmark Human Rights Report Sets the Agenda - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 14 April 2016 (ITUC OnLine): In a major breakthrough for human rights and sport, today's report on FIFA's human rights obligations, released by Professor John Ruggie, one of the world's foremost human rights experts, has set a clear agenda for FIFA to act and help restore its battered reputation. It also establishes a global requirement for all sports organisations, both for major events and for their ongoing operations including marketing and sponsorship.
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Global Unions: IFIs should act to help, not hinder, economic recovery - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 14 April 2016 (ITUC OnLine): In a statement released on the eve of the ministerial-level "Spring Meetings" of the IMF and World Bank (Washington 15-17 April), the ITUC and its Global Unions partner organisations are calling on the international financial institutions (IFIs) to take actions that support recovery of the world economy through public investments in physical and social infrastructure, including the care economy ( http://www.ituc-csi.org/investing-in-the-care-economy-a ), and through wage increases.
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Help Us Educate More People on the Benefits of PR with Key Projects!
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Help us Raise $12,000 to Educate More People on the Benefits of PR with Key Projects!
These next 12 months are a critical period in the campaign for proportional representation in Canada. The government has just committed 10.7 million dollars for education and consultation - 8 million of which will be spent on public consultation over the next year.
In May 2017 the government will introduce legislation for electoral reform - a new voting system for the 2019 federal election. Will the legislation be for a proportional system?
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Cameco owes you $2.1B
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Defend human rights defenders monitoring abuses in Uzbekistan's cotton harvest
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Starts Now: May Day Rally & Peoples' Market
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I'll be in Toronto next week - will you join me there?
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- Published on Sunday, 01 May 2016 06:30
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May Day: Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
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New SP Publication...
May Day:
Workers' Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations
For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour’s long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago.
It is more important than ever, in the face of relentless capitalist austerity and emerging authoritarian forces on the right, that the North American labour movement reconnect with this history and forge linkages with the international labour movement in the remaking of a socialism for our times.
This pamphlet is the latest in the Socialist Interventions series (May 2016).
socialistproject.ca/documents/MayDay.php
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