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Pope Francis calls for protection of tribal peoples and their lands - News from Survival
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 June 2015 04:15
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Meet the Women of the HDP: Gender, Resistance and Radical Democracy
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1133 .... June 24, 2015
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Meet the Women of the HDP:
Gender, Resistance and Radical Democracy
Elif Genc
"We are women; We are youth; We are the rainbow; We are children; We are defenders of democracy; We are representatives of all identities; We are defenders of a free world; We are protectors of nature; We are builders of a safe life economy; We are workers; We are labourers; We are the guarantors of social rights."
— from the election manifesto of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party), declared by the co-presidents Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ.
Following a period of increased political violence in the Kurdish regions of Turkey leading up to the federal elections of 2015, the worst being a recent bombing of the HDP rally in Diyarbakir (Amed) which...
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 23, 2015
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:00
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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: Top UN Human Rights Experts say TPP a concern for human rights: human rights evaluation must precede negotiations
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Remembering Vi Morgan
This past Sunday, in her 100th year and with loving family at her side in Guelph, Ontario, our dear friend Vi Morgan peacefully passed away.Statement on private sector participation in the implementation...
Brains, Not Bombs!
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:30
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Have you
noticed how none of the 2016 Presidential candidates are addressing
security issues in ways that will actually make us more
safe?!No - they are being silent or endorsing more of the same: overthrowing, occupying, bombing, and droning!
That’s why we are releasing the Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum Series, which gives you the real information on the critical security questions of our time: what does real safety look like, and why does America keep getting it wrong?
It's a ludicrous plan.
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 22, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 22 June 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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Harper government rejects calls to make voting system fairer
The Council of Canadians has long supported proportional representation.
Barlow in Bayfield to present blue community certificate
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow was in Bayfield, Ontario today to present a blue community certificate and to give a talk at the "Celebration of...Beyond the Criticism of Religion
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- Published on Sunday, 21 June 2015 23:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1132 .... June 22, 2015
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Beyond the Criticism of Religion
Tadzio Müller
"I think 9-11 [was] the first break in this planetary system. Now this is the second thing, which is the deep paradox. Where did [this break] come from? Maoism? Marxism? The revolutionary proletariat? The revolutionized peasantry? No, it comes from fucking religion -- which we forgot about." -- "Interview With Stuart Hall," Critical Quarterly, Dec 2007.
"Wherever the Syrian-Iraqi Islamist group Isis prevails, it mercilessly crushes and murders its enemies. But the group also has a social side: it inoculates children, fills potholes, installs new power lines and evaluates the quality of Kebabs." -- "Terror und Verbraucherschutz," Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 17 June 2014.
Over the last few years, religion has gained in socio-political importance. For example, although the...
France: Changes in the Political Landscape
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- Published on Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1131 .... June 21, 2015
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France: Changes in the Political Landscape
François Sabado
The French situation has often been approached as an ‘exception’ in Europe. We speak of the French exception, referring to a history still marked by the French Revolution of 1789. This term covered, in fact: a certain type of social gains, a strong public service, a strong state, a strong and dynamic workers’ movement, a high level of class struggle, social rights and democratic and secular freedoms won through historic popular mobilizations. Although the strong state has been maintained, all the social conquests have been challenged in recent years.
The long period of liberal counter-reforms from the mid-1980s in France, their acceleration with the open crisis in 2008, the austerity policies and corporate social demolition implemented...
Paov, help close the loopholes for GE crops
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 19, 2015
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- Published on Friday, 19 June 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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Media Release:
Pope Francis underscores the human right to water, objects to water privatization in encyclical
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400 people at "Time for Change" public forum in Toronto
The Council of Canadians held a "Time for Change, #Iwillvote2015" public forum in Toronto last night. As the evening began, Barlow tweeted, "Great turnout for the Go Vote town...
Internet Insider: Wireless prices go up, and up, and up...
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- Published on Friday, 19 June 2015 12:30
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June 19th, 2015
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Protests against Arctic drilling spark a new Battle of Seattle
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- Published on Friday, 19 June 2015 11:45
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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You have a message about Raise UR Paws petition
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Pope Francis Link of Climate Action with Social Justice Is Key to Progress - ITUC OnLine
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- Published on Thursday, 18 June 2015 22:30
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Brussels, 18 June 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The unprecedented call for action from Pope Francis in encyclical “Laudato Si” makes explicit the terrible consequences that climate change and environmental degradation is already having on the poorest and most vulnerable.
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On Harper's Promise to End Fossil Fuels
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- Published on Thursday, 18 June 2015 06:15
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Venezuelan tribes protest against violent mining gangs - News from Survival
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- Published on Thursday, 18 June 2015 04:15
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Nestlé can't stop taking water.
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- Published on Friday, 24 July 2015 12:00
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