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Plants and Healers International Newsletter Fall 2015
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Open this newsletter to see more info on the progress of PHI regarding posted essays, poetry, recordings and the Plant Allies Network map. s16
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Plants and Healers International's executive director Marc Williams was recently featured on the radio show of legendary herbalist Susun Weed! The interview happens about three quarters of the way through the show and is archived at the link above.
Read more: Plants and Healers International Newsletter Fall 2015
Tonight is the night! "My Dangerous Art" with Franke James starts at 6:30pm
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Read more: Tonight is the night! "My Dangerous Art" with Franke James starts at 6:30pm
Act now to stop Monsanto's DARK Act!
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- Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 12:15
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Urgent Action: Indigenous Leader Arrested
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- Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 09:15
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We've touched a nerve at Mulberry
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- Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 08:45
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A 21 day oil spill
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- Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 04:15
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The NDP and the Election
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 22:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1166 .... September 24, 2015
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The NDP and the Election
Herman Rosenfeld
At this moment, it seems that Harper's Conservatives are losing ground, headed for possible defeat or minority status, if recent polls are to be believed. If these trends continue, it might represent a long-awaited respite from years of unrelenting and hard-edge neoliberal offensive in all walks of Canadian life. It provides a potential opening to begin to undo the foundations of the dramatic right-wing shift that so many on the left and centre of Canadian politics, predicted would never happen here.
For socialists and the larger working class, as well, Harper's likely defeat would present opportunities: to organize collective resistance in and around the labour movement; to raise and deepen demands for renewed social programs, minimum wage...
Ban polar bear hunting
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 20:15
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Your chance to watch the #GlobalCitizen Festival live!
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- Published on Thursday, 24 September 2015 23:45
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Hey PAOV,The 2015 Global Citizen Festival featuring Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay is just 3 days away!
This year is going to be our biggest yet, so we want to make sure that everyone can experience it, even if you can’t be with us in the park.
On September 25th 2015, the day before the Global Citizen Festival, 193 world leaders will commit to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Protect the planet. The Global Goals have the potential to get these things done. In all countries. For all people.
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Read more: Your chance to watch the #GlobalCitizen Festival live!
Solidarity Action for Fossil Free Week
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:45
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Day 3 of Fossil Free Week is dawning warm and promising. Yesterday we talked to hundreds of students who came through the camp - several hundreds of which signed Divest McGill's petition for the McGill board of governors to commit to divesting the university endowment holdings from fossil fuels.
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 23, 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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Last week the Council of Canadians and CUPE Saskatchewan went on a five city tour to raise awareness about the increasing privatization of public health care in the province.
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NAFTA compromises ability to cut water supply to the tar sands A long-term study of the Athabasca River warns...
Read more: [ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 23, 2015
Poaching-terrorism link that contributed to tribes' persecution 'largely wrong' - News from Survival
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 04:15
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CoDev 2015 AGM Reminder
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:15
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Secret TPP talks just announced
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:15
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For a Regional Housing First Strategy
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:45
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Friend --
I hope you are well.
I am writing to you today to provide an update on efforts to eliminate homelessness in our city and region.
The most hated hedge fund manager
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:30
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Let's Develop a Plan B for Europe!
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- Published on Monday, 21 September 2015 23:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1165 .... September 22, 2015
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Let's Develop a Plan B for Europe!
Oskar Lafontaine
Many in Europe had put great hopes in the election of Alexis Tsipras as Greek Prime Minister. When, after long and exhausting negotiations, the Syriza leader signed the European diktat, the disappointment was great. It would be unjust and presumptuous to want to give moral lessons to Alexis Tsipras and Syriza. After these experiences for the European left, it would be better to reflect on the conditions in which a democratic and social politics (and thus a left politics) is possible in Europe. We have learned one thing: while the European Central Bank, which claims to be independent and apolitical, can turn off the financial tap to a left government, a politics that is oriented toward...
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 21, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 21 September 2015 13:45
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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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Welcoming Caribou Legs to Ottawa as he completes his Vancouver-Ottawa run to protect waterways!
Harper's "old-stock Canadians" comment and cuts to health care for refugees
During the leaders' debate this past Thursday, Conservative leader Stephen Harper stated, "The only time we’ve removed [health care coverage] is where we have clearly bogus refugee claimants who
have been refused and turned down....
Read more: [ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 21, 2015
Indigenous organizations reject calls to forcibly contact uncontacted tribes - News from Survival
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- Published on Monday, 21 September 2015 04:15
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- Good News: Climate was on the agenda. Bad News: No one has a plan.
- Internet Insider: Big support for our pro-Internet plan, new threats to Net Neutrality, and is this the final push for the TPP?
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