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New ITUC report exposes hidden workforce of 116 million in global supply chains of fifty companies - ITUC Online
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Brussels, 18th January 2016 (ITUC Online): The global supply chains of 50 companies employ only six per cent of people in a direct employment relationship, yet rely on a hidden workforce of 94 per cent according to new research from the International Trade Union Confederation.
Canada's Richest Family Supports Current Voting System
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- Published on Monday, 25 January 2016 14:45
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The Bridge News Service: Independent Media from Canada
Canada's Richest Family Likes our Current Voting System
... because it works for them.
Their Newspaper, The Globe and Mail, likes it too.
(Jan 9, 2016): The Globe and Mail is owned by the Thomson family. The Globe began its Jan. 6 editorial with what I'd call a lie ... "Over the past decade, 3 Canadian provinces - BC, PEI, and Ontario - have held four referendums on scrapping First Past The Post. Each of these propositions went down to defeat."
Now, that statement is 'true', but it's not 'really true'. The truth is that in B.C. in 2005,
57% voted to CHANGE to a Proportional Voting system ... 57%
voted for PR, BUT OUR RULERS WOULDN'T ALLOW IT.
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - January 25, 2016
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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 forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Let's take medicare down the right path
Last week the federal health minister met with her provincial counterparts to discuss the future of medicare. The Council of Canadians joined other health allies at the meeting and shared our priorities with the ministers at the meeting.
Two years ago today, TransCanada’s pipeline in Otterburne,...
Nobel Prize to Tunisian Quartet a Huge Win for Democracy and Rights - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 10 December 2015 (ITUC OnLine): Today, International Human Rights Day, the international trade union movement celebrates the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo to the Tunisian "Quartet", which led the country to democracy and the adoption of a Constitution based on fundamental human rights.
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Turkey: Workers Killed and Arbitrary Detained by Turkish Security Forces - ITUC OnLine
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Brussels, 22th January 2016 (ITUC Online): The ITUC has strongly condemned the killing of workers and citizens by Turkish security forces.
Security forces surrounded several towns and villages in the South East of Turkey, where according to the information received by the ITUC, Mehmet Kaplan, a worker employed by the Cizre Municipality and a member of DİSK/Genel-İş Union, was shot in front of his house. About a month ago, another member of this trade union, Ramazan Uysal, was also killed and three others were arbitrarily detained. People who tried to pick the body up from the street were shot at. More than 10 people are severely injured including a journalist.
“It is the government’s primary responsibility to safeguard the lives and the physical integrity of all Turkish citizens,” said Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary. “Once again trade unionists have been killed defending workers’ rights. True justice...
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The repression is getting worse
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The Israeli government is hoping that no-one will notice. The Israeli government is hoping that their attacks on human rights activists will go unchecked. We can’t let that happen. We need to show them that the world is watching.
Human rights activists are being targeted by the Israeli Goverment, for daring to speak up for the human rights of Palestinians.
Will you tell the Israeli Government to free Ezra Nawi, Guy Butavia, and Nasser Nawajah?
. TAKE ACTION . . .About Ezra Nawi. He’s a long-time Israeli activist who season after season stands with the Palestinians of the South Hebron hills while settlers (supported by Israeli soldiers) try in every way to drive them off their land and destroy their livelihoods.
After being spied upon by a right-wing organization and smeared on national television, he was arrested, detained, and denied access to a lawyer for four days. With a gag-order on the case, we asked you to help raise the alarm. Thousands of you contacted Israeli Embassies around the world to press for his release -- thank you!
But the repression is getting worse.
Can People's Power Save the Bolivarian Revolution?
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1211 .... January 25, 2016
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Can People's Power Save the Bolivarian Revolution?
Rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela's advances
Richard Fidler
Seventeen years after Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela's President for the first time, the supporters of his Bolivarian Revolution, now led by President Nicolás Maduro, suffered their first major defeat in a national election in the December 6 elections to the country's parliament, the National Assembly.
Coming only two weeks after the victory of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina's presidential election, it was a stunning setback to the "process of change" in Latin America that Chávez had spearheaded until his premature death from cancer in 2013. The opposition majority in the new parliament threatens to undo some of the country's major social and economic...
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Dissenting Traditions: Closing Remarks
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- Published on Sunday, 24 January 2016 07:30
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Peterborough, 24 October 2015
Dissenting Traditions: Closing Remarks
This was the last session of the "Dissenting Traditions" conference to Address the Intellectual and Political Interests of Canada Research Chair, Bryan D. Palmer at Trent University, 23-24 October 2015.
Presentation by:
- Gregory S. Kealey (Univ of New Brunswick)
- Stephen Brier (CUNY)
- Bryan D. Palmer (Trent Univ)
- Bucky Halker performs two songs in honor of Joe Hill: Don't Mourn, Organize! The 100th Anniversary of the Execution of Joe Hill: “Casey Jones, The Union Scab” and “Rebel Girl”.
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France: The Radical Left in the Maelstrom
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 10 January 2016
France: The Radical Left in the Maelstrom
With the November 13th terrorist attacks, the strong showing of the far-Right Front National in regional elections, and the COP21 climate conference in Paris, France has been in the headlines a great deal in recent weeks. Yet we rarely hear about how the radical Left fits in to the evolving situation there.
Moderated by Karen Wirsig. Presentation by:
- Nathan Rao is a longtime member of the Toronto Left who has been living in Paris since 2012 and is a supporter of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA).
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Volunteer Opportunity: Help Organize PowerShift Alberta
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2016 15:00
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The Canadian Youth Climate
Coalition
Help us organize PowerShift Alberta
PowerShift Alberta is a youth-led organizing initiative that will bring together 500+ people from diverse backgrounds across Alberta, the Prairies, and beyond, to build a movement for climate and environmental justice. It is scheduled to take place from April 1st - 3rd, 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta and will look at climate issues facing Alberta and prairie communities. PowerShift creates space for engaged youth to network, grow community, and learn from each other as we dig into the intersections between environmental and social justice issues and build skills for collective action. With recent shifts in political outlook, more young people are looking for solutions to the climate crisis. With the growing strength of the climate movement, now is the time to catalyze youth organizing in this province and this region.
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Right wing newspapers take over media markets in four more cities
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- Published on Friday, 22 January 2016 14:45
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First, the Halifax Chronicle Herald management locked out its workers. Then we learned that Global News is being sold to a company that specializes in children's entertainment. And now Postmedia, Canada's biggest news chain, has announced mass layoffs and a newsroom merger that puts Sun News editors at the helm of several respected local newspapers.The free press in Canada is under attack.
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This one's a head scratcher
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Please share widely! Thanks.
http://www.pressprogress.ca/canada_may_scrub_ceta_rule_allowing_corporations_to_sue_governments_but_well_keep_it_the_tpp
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Luke
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - January 22, 2016
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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 forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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ACTION ALERT: Stay strong on Energy East, Premier Wynne
Council of Canadians chapter activists meeting with MPs on proportional representation
Council of Canadians chapter activists have been joining with local Fair Vote Canada activists to meet with recently-elected Members of Parliament on proportional representation.
Council of Canadians supports Sipekne'katik defence of the Shubenacadie River
The...
Internet Insider: The best thing you can do right now to help kill C-51
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January 22, 2016
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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To Change the Heart and Soul
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- Published on Thursday, 21 January 2016 23:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1210 .... January 22, 2016
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To Change the Heart and Soul
How Elites Contained the Climate Justice Movement
Herbert Docena
"The object is to change the heart and soul" — Margaret Thatcher.
On the final day of the UN summit (COP21) held in Paris in December 2015, thousands of people defied a ban on public gatherings by converging at a boulevard leading to the business district in La Défense to denounce the new climate agreement that government negotiators were about to sign and celebrate at the conference venue in Le Bourget, 20 kilometres away. Hoping to counter governments’ attempts to control the narrative regarding the summit, they gathered behind giant inflatable ‘cobblestones’ and a red banner proclaiming "System change not climate change!"
Departing from some other environmentalist groups,...
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - January 21, 2016
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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 forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Barlow opposes CETA 'reform', Trudeau in bind to get CETA ratified in Europe
The Trudeau government is now in a bind to get the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) ratified in Europe.Council of Canadians at health ministers meeting in Vancouver
Council of Canadians health care campaigner Michael Butler is at the two-day federal-provincial-territorial health ministers...
Want to be on our global music album?
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- Published on Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:00
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Hey PAOV,Have you ever dreamed of co-writing an album with some of the world's greatest artists?
Well here's your chance.
Global Citizen has teamed up with Ben Lovett from Mumford & Sons and Communion Music to produce the first ever fully crowd-sourced album - Metamorphoses - and we want you to be our co-writers!
Let your creativity flow and submit original lyrics, a poem, or even a line from a speech. It’s your own reflections, thoughts, and stories that will resonate with the global community and bring people together.
Click here to check out this video on how you can collaborate on the global album project, Metamorphoses.
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