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VisionMAX
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 07:15
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Ontario is indiscriminately dropping a herbicide linked with cancer on its pristine forests. It endangers local residents and wildlife while devastating entire areas.
Some critics have compared Monsanto's VisionMAX to Agent Orange. Join SumOfUs supporter David Nagy and tell Ontario to stop spraying its forests with a deadly herbicide.
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Ontario is dropping a Monsanto-manufactured herbicide on its pristine Boreal forests that devastates vegetation and has been linked to cancer, birth defects, respiratory problems and miscarriages.
Monsanto's VisionMAX literally kills almost every green thing it touches. Ontario is freely dropping...
Finland: Protest massive attack on trade union rights
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 05:15
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REMINDER - Kyrgyzstan: Stop union-busting now
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 23:30
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 15, 2015
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 19:15
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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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Leap manifesto: bold climate and economic vision for Canada
We could live in a country powered entirely by truly just renewable energy, woven together by accessible public transit, in which the jobs and opportunities of this transition are designed to systematically eliminate racial and gender inequality. Caring for one another and caring for the planet could...
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#GenerationOka do you remember the #MohawkUprising ?
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:30
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Help Us Crash the Federal Leaders Debate
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:45
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Friends,
This Thursday, the federal party leaders will gather in Calgary for a debate on Canada’s economy. Any conversation about the economy also needs to be a conversation about climate change and the tar sands, but with the federal leaders ignoring climate change this election, we need your help.
Politicians, journalists and tens of thousands of people will be watching the hashtag #globedebate on Thursday, and we have a plan to make sure that they all hear our message on climate. We've set up something called a "Thunderclap", an online tool that let’s us gather and deliver hundreds of tweets all at once.
A rising tide of actions has been...
Your invitation to the live video launch of the Leap Manifesto.
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:15
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Dear rabble readers,Tuesday is an important day in this federal election: a group of prominent Canadians - including Donald Sutherland, David Suzuki, Naomi Klein, Stephen Lewis, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Boyden, Mrs. Universe Ashley Callingbull, Maude Barlow, and many others will launch the Leap Manifesto calling on next government to transition Canada off fossil fuels. rabble.ca is exclusively live-streaming this event, and you are invited to join in to watch and participate in the online conversation.
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Let's send McDonald's a message!
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 10:45
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For a Regional Housing First Strategy
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 08:00
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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.
Controversy during the summer over a proposed designated temporary tenting area has produced a healthy dialogue over how best to respond to the homelessness emergency and provide a basic level of decency and security for every member of our community.
City Council heard that many members of the public favour investments in permanent housing rather than interim measures such as temporary tenting areas.
As a result, I have developed a proposal with Mayor Lisa Helps, Councillor Jeremy Loveday and Capital Regional Hospital District Chair Dave Howe for a Regional Housing First Strategy — to build 367 units of housing with supports by 2018.
The construction cost works out to $11 per household per year, if levied regionally. You can Read more: For a Regional Housing First Strategy
Victory! Thanks to your efforts, three union leaders have been freed from jail
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 05:15
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Turkey and its Kurds at War
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1162 .... September 15, 2015
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Turkey and its Kurds at War:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Personal Quest for Survival
Sungur Savran
The Kurdish town of Cizre, a settlement with a population of approximately 150 thousand souls in Southeastern Turkey, is now under siege by the Turkish armed forces and the so-called "special operation force" of the police for a second time, after a previous one-week long siege was lifted for an interlude of two days. Around-the-clock curfew is accompanied by power cuts and the interruption of all means of communication including mobile telephones and the Internet. The evidence that came out when the first round of siege was lifted attests to a terrible human drama. Over 30 civilians are dead, ranging from a 35-day old infant to a 75-year old man....
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - September 14, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 14 September 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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Council of Canadians and CUPE launch 5-city tour against the privatization of health care in Saskatchewan
September 14, 2015
A 5-community tour in defence of public health care began in Prince Albert yesterday afternoon.
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ImagiNations: Public Forum & Conference in Windsor, ON
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KPMGs tax sham
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- Published on Monday, 14 September 2015 12:45
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Urgent Action: gunmen are mounting attacks - please help!
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- Published on Sunday, 13 September 2015 18:15
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The Great Unraveling: with Chris Hedges
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- Published on Sunday, 13 September 2015 05:45
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 3 September 2015
The Great Unraveling: with Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us for an evening in Toronto to speak about "The Great Unraveling."
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy Movement. In his newest book, Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians and literary figures, he shows not only the harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion. Hedges’ message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States and around the world are inevitable in the face...
Retire the 46 year-old elephant
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- Published on Saturday, 12 September 2015 08:15
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Can Jeremy Corbyn Redeem the Labour Party?
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- Published on Friday, 11 September 2015 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1161 .... September 12, 2015
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Can Jeremy Corbyn Redeem the Labour Party?
Interview with Leo Panitch
"Of political parties claiming socialism to be their aim, the Labour Party has always been one of the most dogmatic -- not about socialism, but about the parliamentary system." That's how Ralph Miliband opened his classic 1961 text Parliamentary Socialism, a critical analysis of the party that most of the British left wanted to capture.
Miliband was skeptical of that plan, as was his later collaborator Leo Panitch. But during the great upsurges of the early 1980s -- which saw the growth of a radical Labour left represented by Tony Benn and others, as well as the miners’ strike of 1984--85 -- both thinkers resisted the "new revisionism" of intellectuals like Eric Hobsbawm...
CoDev 2015 AGM Announcement
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- Published on Friday, 11 September 2015 14:15
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Summer Roundup - September 11, 2015
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- Published on Friday, 11 September 2015 13:30
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After a summer hiatus, ACTIVlist is back for the fall!
This week we are featuring a few of the best posts from the past two months. Look for more great posts in the busy weeks ahead.
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A Visit With Wonderful People Trying to...
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Students killed in Mexico
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- Published on Friday, 11 September 2015 07:45
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