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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - December 8, 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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What to make of McKenna's 1.5°C pledge?
What are we to make of the Liberal government backing the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit for global warming?London chapter screens 'This Changes Everything'
The Council of Canadians London chapter screened the film 'This Changes Everything' at the London Public Library last night to a capacity crowdActivists shut down Line 9 in Québec
Activists turned off Enbridge’s Line 9 oil...The day A was born…
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CYDaily Paris - Strength and Hope - Highlights from Day 7
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- Published on Monday, 07 December 2015 17:00
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Highlights from Sunday December 6 -- COP21 in Paris
• Indigenous led ‘Canoes
to Paris’ action sends message of strength and hope
• McKenna
announces support for 1.5℃ global target
• CYD joins a
light brigade outside the Eiffel Tower
Indigenous
Action Shows Strength of Global Indigenous Movement
Yesterday the CYD
supported an action by indigenous leaders in Bassin de la Villette in
the 19th arrondissement in support of the Keep
It In the Ground Declaration and to call for the inclusion of
rights for Indigenous peoples in the operative text of the final
climate treaty.
This beautiful action wove together stories of resistance
and demands for climate justice. Banners drew attention to REDD+,
a scheme by rich countries and polluters to privatize the carbon in
the world’s remaining rainforests and trade it as climate indulgences
for rich countries and the fossil fuel industry. You can read about
the action here
and see a video here.
Read more: CYDaily Paris - Strength and Hope - Highlights from Day 7
CYDaily Paris - Were at the table… but so
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Highlights of Day 5 at COP21
• The Canadian Youth Delegation is at the negotiating
table… but so is Suncor.
• Check
us out on The National from December 4th! (Skip to 14:17.)
“We will not give up our fundamental right to exist”
Link
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And following a custom that is becoming far to common in my emails, here is the link I promised in the last email:
http://cfuv.uvic.ca/cms/?show=full-circle
~Adam
CFUV Interview Tomorrow
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Hey all,
For anyone interested, I will be speaking with Jason Grenier on CFUV 101.9 FM tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 10:00AM about Marxism and the regular discussion group that we hold in Victoria. Here is a link to the show's website, where you can either listen live or you can download the audio after the program has finished.
Thanks,
~Adam
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - December 7, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 07 December 2015 13:15
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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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Media Release: Environmental health expert raises critical questions about Energy East's oil storage tank and export terminal in Red Head, Saint John
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Visiting Red Head, the 'End of the Line' for Energy East
I spent this morning touring the Red Head, Anthony's Cove area where TransCanada's proposing to...
CYDaily Paris - Fighting for Indigenous Rights - Highlights on Day 6
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Highlights of Day 6 at COP21
• After huge public pressure, Canada advocates to keep
the rights of indigenous peoples and a just transition in the COP21
draft agreement. But they’re still not bringing real long-term
ambition to the table
• The CYD joins in the People’s
Climate Summit!
What’s the latest with the Paris
Agreement negotiations?
Read more: CYDaily Paris - Fighting for Indigenous Rights - Highlights on Day 6
Canadian Working-Class History
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- Published on Saturday, 05 December 2015 21:00
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Peterborough, 23 October 2015
Canadian Working-Class History:
As It Was, As It Is, As It Might Be
This was Session I 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.
From the 1970s to the present Bryan Palmer has published extensively in the fields of labour and social history, exploring a wide array of subjects associated with class formation and class struggle, marginality, protest, historiagraphy and Marxist theory, and the revolutionary left.
Introduction by Bryan Palmer. Moderated by Al Seager. Presentations by:
- Wayne Roberts: “Life of Bryan: The Origins and Possible Future of the New and Now-Old Social History”
- Kirk Niergarth (Mount Royal): “Labour/Le TravailSince 50”
- Julia Smith / Sean Carleton (Trent): “Dreaming of...
CYDaily Paris - We demand to be heard, not just seen - updates from Day 4
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- Published on Saturday, 05 December 2015 16:00
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Highlights of Day 4 at COP21
• We demand to be heard, not just seen at the COP21 negotiations• We get a shout out in the Guardian!
• Support Erica’s condemnation of the corporate capture and colonialism at COP21 using #SolidarityTongue
We need to be heard, not just seen
Read more: CYDaily Paris - We demand to be heard, not just seen - updates from Day 4
The Roots of the Current Situation in Venezuela
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1195 .... December 5, 2015
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The Roots of the Current Situation in Venezuela
Gregory Wilpert
The current economic, political, and social situation in Venezuela is very complicated, which makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to make sense of. On the one hand there are many people who defend the Bolivarian revolution, pointing to the successes it has had in reducing poverty and inequality and in increasing citizen participation and self-governance. On the other hand, there is a chorus of critics, not just from the usual suspects on the political right, but often from the left, who criticize the Maduro government's economic management of the country, corruption, the high inflation rate and shortages, and the trial of a high profile opposition politician, who the government accuses of fomenting violence. How did...
Totals lobbyists
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CYDaily Paris - #ZeroBy2050, run-ins with Klein & McKibben - highlights from Day 3
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- Published on Friday, 04 December 2015 16:00
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Highlights of Day 3 at COP 21
• CYD chills with Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein.• We put our hands for #ZeroBy2050, in solidarity with the most climate vulnerable countries.
Carbon Bubble in the Conference Centre!
There were few
actions during the first two days of COP21, and security has severely
limited where actions can happen. But now that most Heads of State
have flown back home, delegates are going to hear us!
Read more: CYDaily Paris - #ZeroBy2050, run-ins with Klein & McKibben - highlights from Day 3
CYDaily Paris - PhotoCOPped - highlights from day 2
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PhotoCOPped - Highlights from Day 2 of COP21
• Climate Vulnerability Forum: countries adopt declaration calling
for 1.5℃, decarbonization by 2050, and to be paid for climate
damages
• Erica
Lee’s post went viral
“Civil Society Needs a Voice”: The Protest Bans
Since the recent shootings, Paris has been in a state of
emergency. This has meant protesting is banned (defined as a political
demonstration of two or more people), and provoked a backlash as
activists assert their right to freedom of speech and assembly.
However, civil society cannot be silenced. Like other UN conferences
before, COP21 began with grassroots resistance leading the
way, and since then, civil society is using creative actions
to continue being heard.
French President Hollande was called
out yesterday by CYD member Diane Connors, who yelled “let us
demonstrate, civil society needs a voice!” as he walked past
her (look for the video up on Facebook today!). Other
inspiring actions include when youth demonstrating with giant poker
chips urging world leaders not to ‘gamble away our
futures.'
Read more: CYDaily Paris - PhotoCOPped - highlights from day 2
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - December 4, 2015
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- Published on Friday, 04 December 2015 13:15
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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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Barlow gives testimony on water at International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow spoke today at an International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris. More than 500 people were in attendance for this event.
Trudeau's finance minister hires TransCanada spokesperson as special assistant
The Trudeau government...
Desmog Canada Weekly - Paris Climate Conference Edition
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- Published on Friday, 04 December 2015 10:30
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The latest from Paris (Update)
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