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Two Essays on the Uber-Taxi Wars
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1198 .... December 17, 2015
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Two Essays on the Uber-Taxi Wars
Uber and the Luddites
Michal Rozworski
The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
Just as power looms and other machines inaugurated a technological...
Urgent Action: Colombian Human Rights Defenders Threatened
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Double your dollars – for the bees!
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 December 2015 16:00
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It starts with health.
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 December 2015 12:00
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Think back a couple decades ago: in the 80’s and 90’s, we saw millions of people around the world suffer from the sudden rise of HIV/AIDS. Other diseases like Tuberculosis and Malaria became the subject of TV donation campaigns and charity concerts as the world saw a sharp uptick in infections.
What’s amazing is what’s happened since then. Now, millions of people are not only surviving these conditions, but are going on to live long, healthy lives.
Right now though, we have the chance to create a world where these diseases are fully a thing of...
How Emissions Trading at Paris Climate Talks Has Set Us Up For Failure
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1197 .... December 16, 2015
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How Emissions Trading at Paris Climate Talks Has Set Us Up For Failure
Steffen Böhm
The Paris Agreement has mostly been greeted with enthusiasm, though it contains at least one obvious flaw. Few seem to have noticed that the main tool mooted for keeping us within the 2C global warming target is a massive expansion of carbon trading, including offsetting, which allows the market exchange of credits between companies and nations to achieve an overall emissions reduction. That's despite plenty of evidence that markets haven't worked well enough, or quickly enough, to actually keep the planet safe.
The debate over whether to include carbon markets in the final agreement came right to the wire. Some left-leaning Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Bolivia...
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - December 15, 2015
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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 www.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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Council of Canadians welcomes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission will release its final report today.
National Academy of Science report points to dangers of bitumen spills
The National Academy of Sciences has released a major study on diluted bitumen (dilbit)._____________________
MEDIA RELEASE: Duffy testimony should spark new investigation...
Thank you, Mr. Trudeau
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protest the police crackdown on labour rights activists in China
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China: coordinated police crackdown on labour rights activists
Labour rights activists are being held in criminal detention following a wide-scale police crackdown in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong December 3-5. Police targeted independent worker rights centers and arrested, questioned and detained staff and volunteers against a background of factory closures and rising worker protests and strikes.
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Iran: Detained teacher unionist on hunger strike
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - December 14, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 14 December 2015 13:30
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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 www.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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Paris Agreement could allow more tar sands expansion, export pipelines
Tar sands corporations appear unfazed by the Trudeau government's support of the 1.5 degree Celsius target in the Paris Agreement.
Trudeau's support for 1.5°C target should spell the end for Energy East, investor-state provisions
At the recently concluded COP21 climate talks in Paris the Trudeau...
2015 goes out with a bang!
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CYDaily Paris - The Paris Agreement - Updates from Saturday December 12th
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Highlights of Day 13 at COP21
• The Paris Agreement: “Not bad but not bad is not what we were rooting for” - Yeb Saño
• We abandoned COP21 on the last morning of negotiations to join 15,000 people in the streets for the D12 mobilizations
• What’s next?We have a new climate change agreement
Read more: CYDaily Paris - The Paris Agreement - Updates from Saturday December 12th
CYDaily Paris - Bringing voices from home to the negotiating table - Highlights from Day 12
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As we finished sending this Daily, the Paris Agreement was adopted. This is our update from yesterday, but we promise more soon from this last day of negotiations! You can follow along live here.
Highlights from Friday, December 11 - COP21 in Paris
• We bring your voices to the negotiating table in a
hella epic way.
• Running on adrenaline and caffeine.
COP’s time is up
CYDaily Paris - The Home Stretch - Highlights from Day 11
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Highlights from Thursday, December 10 - COP21 in Paris
• New Text Released!
• Atiya f*%king lays it down in
the Canadian Stakeholder Meeting
• Loss & Damage Media
Availability
• “Canada Is Back!” … winning Fossil
Awards
New Text = Same as the Old Text, Except
Weaker
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Perspectives on E. P. Thompson
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Peterborough, 23 October 2015
Perspectives on E. P. Thompson
This was Session II 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.
Moderated by Wade Matthews. Presentations by:
- Nicholas Rogers (York Univ): “E. P. Thompson's Eighteenth Century”
- Marcello Badaró Mattos (Univ Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro): “Reverberating Globally: E.P. Thompson From Brazil”
- Russell Jacoby (Univ of California, Los Angeles): “The Old Bustard: The Warm Marxism of E. P. Thompson”
- Bryan D. Palmer (Trent Univ): closing thoughts.
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BREAKING: Paris
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Friends,
Today is a historic day: as tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Paris, politicians finalized a major new global climate agreement.
The deal in Paris includes an agreement to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, with an aim of 1.5 degrees, and achieve climate 'neutrality' that will require phasing out fossil fuels soon after mid-century. That’s not what we hoped for, but it’s still a deal that sends a signal that it’s time to keep fossil fuels in the ground, and for investors to cut their ties with coal, oil and gas by divesting.
This deal represents important progress -- but progress alone is not our goal. Our goal is a just and livable planet.
If followed to the letter, the agreement leaves far too many people exposed to the violence of rising seas, stronger storms and deeper drought. It leaves too many loopholes to avoid serious action...
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- A win for animals: African trophy hunting expo CANCELLED!
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