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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 22 April 2016 05:30
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Standing Up to Verizon's War on Unions
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- Published on Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1250 .... April 22, 2016
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Standing Up to Verizon's War on Unions
Unions representing nearly 40,000 Verizon workers have announced plans to hit the picket lines on April 13, in what would be one of the largest strikes in the U.S. in recent years. The workers, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), are fighting aggressive attacks on their compensation, job security and more -- carried out by a corporation that is raking in the profits, but won't be satisfied until it breaks the power of their unions.
Danny Katch talked to a CWA shop steward from New York City about what's at stake in this battle and why Verizon workers deserve solidarity. This interview firsr appeared on the Socialist Worker website.
Danny...
ACTIVlist Update - April 21, 2016
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Incentivizing You to Give: Plasma Bill Introduced in NS Green Eggs n' Protest calls out TransCanada at Ottawa Chamber of Commerce on Earth Day Council of Canadians & Climate Justice Saskatoon protest outside TPP hearing
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Pay-for-plasma pushes toward Nova Scotia
Sales pitch for a 1.1 million barrel per day pipeline on Earth Day? Whose brilliant idea was that.
The Council of Canadians and Climate Justice Saskatoon highlighted the limited nature of the House...
Let's make climate action work for us.
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- Published on Thursday, 21 April 2016 09:15
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Friends,
Tomorrow, the Trudeau government will join 130 other countries on the world stage to ratify the Paris Agreement, and in doing so pledge to limit global warming to 2°C. Then, immediately afterwards, the government will launch a country-wide public consultation process on a national climate strategy.
We know that big polluters, like the fossil fuel industry, will immediately be at the government’s doorstep, lobbying for the weakest climate strategy possible. That’s why it will be up to us to be there, every step of the way, showing up and speaking up for bold climate action that works for people and the planet.
We have a plan to organize locally in our communities and across the country, to...
Port of Vancouver Under Fire
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- Published on Thursday, 21 April 2016 08:45
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Stop glyposate update - urgent action
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Compassion is our fashion
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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Leading the legal fight for animal protection
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What You Need to Know About UNGASS 2016
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:15
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The UN’s landmark drug conference begins today.
Today, leaders, experts, and civil society members from around the world are converging at the United Nations to debate the urgent topic of global drug policy. It’s the first time this debate has taken place since 1998.
The goal of that meeting 18 years ago—to eliminate drugs from the world—was ineffective and dangerous. Today, however, mindsets have changed dramatically.
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Sponsored immigrants should also receive faster treatment
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:00
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ACTIVlist Update - April 20, 2016
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Delta-Richmond chapter in solidarity with #OccupyINAC in Vancouver
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The Council of Canadians Delta-Richmond chapter protested outside the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) office yesterday in support of the occupation of the INAC office in Vancouver.
BP pushes for a guarantee on unlimited crude oil and gas exports in TTIP
BP pressured the European Union against an industrial emissions directive that would have mandated pollution cuts and clean technologies.
April News: Events this Spring; BC Minimum Wage, Troubles with Tipping, May Day, and More!
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 11:45
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Doritos: phase 2
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:30
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Get Your Tickets for the CoDev Annual Solidarity Dinner!
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:15
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Crisis in Brazil
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1249 .... April 20, 2016
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Crisis in Brazil
Since the 1980s, Brazil's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) has been one of the largest political parties of the left in Latin America. It has held power at the federal level in Brazil, in coalition with other parties, since January 2003, and figured prominently as one of the central representatives of the ‘pink tide’ running against neoliberalism in Latin America. But just as the pink tide has been fracturing, from internal challenges in some cases and electoral reaction in others, a deep institutional crisis is consuming the PT government of Dilma Rousseff and, indeed, exposing political rot across the state institutions. The opposition forces leading the parliamentary effort of impeachment of Rousseff are also implicated in a range of corruption scandals. The...
New Poverty Mythbusters Video!
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 April 2016 16:15
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USDA: Support farmers, not Monsanto
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:45
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ACTIVlist Update - April 19, 2016
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Momentum Grows Against Alton Gas --------------------- MEDIA RELEASE: Great Lakes oil transport is a sinking ship: report
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A chilly morning in Halifax did not stop over one hundred and fifty people from showing their opposition to the dangerous Alton Natural Gas Storage Project.
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Urgent Action: Increasing Death Threats in Colombia
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 April 2016 11:30
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