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This week @ rabble.ca: Did Canada hear its residential school survivors?
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29 May 2015
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It seems that almost everywhere you turn today another government, another media organization, another pundit is worshipping at the altar of "austerity." Not at rabble.ca. We're an alternative voice. They say austerity, we say abundance. Please reject the austerity agenda and support rabble.ca today!
Next week will mark the end of government funding to investigate the truth and impact of residential schools through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Do Canadians now understand their complicity in First Nations' health and social challenges? Community organizer Natalie Robinson examines this dark part of our history as the TRC comes to an end.
The last leader of Canada's federal Progressive Conservative Party will, we are told, announce his resignation from politics today. That person is Peter MacKay, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's current Minister of Justice. What kind of mark does he leave on federal politics? Read Parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg's take on what it all means.
Aboriginal people are overrepresented in prisons, but significantly underrepresented in the administration of the justice system. The recent Supreme Court decision in the Kokopenace case was a grim reminder of this problem. In our Pro Bono column this month, lawyer Shelina Ali breaks down the significance of the decision for Indigenous rights in Canada.
Classes have resumed in three striking school districts in Ontario -- and while teachers will comply with the labour board ruling that sends them back to work, they say this labour dispute isn't over. Find out what's at stake in Ella Bedard's report on the situation.
Chris Lloyd's thumbs-up shot with Stephen Harper has been making rounds on the Internet. Now the ex-Conservative MP candidate speaks out on why he fooled the Tories with his political art project. Get all the details in Megan Devlin's exclusive interview!
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Report finds Kinder Morgan proposal violates First Nation legal principles
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The fake Internet is coming
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Mark Zuckerberg has hatched a plan with telecom giants around the world called Internet.org, which provides access to a fake Internet that only includes services hand-picked by Zuckerberg and his cronies.
People in countries like India, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Paraguay are outraged over this fake Internet, and are speaking out. We all deserve access to the real open Internet. Stand with people around the world and demand Zuckerberg stops restricting access to the open Internet NOW.
...Resistance, all the way to the end of the line:
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Friends,
This past weekend a wave of people power rose on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.
Over 700 people came from across Atlantic Canada and beyond to march in the small seaside community of Red Head. This is where the proposed Energy East pipeline would ship 1.1 million barrels of tar sands oil per day to be stored and exported from the Bay of Fundy.
It was remarkable to see this small community organize such a phenomenal mobilization to protect the coast, the climate and the local economy:
This growing momentum is more than just a surge of opposition to the Energy East pipeline. It is part of a broader movement of people from all facets of Canadian society who are ready to move past fossil fuels and unite to demand a justice based transition to a clean energy...
#INMroots: From Apology to Action
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Thank you for signing the petition!
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WTF, Tim Hortons
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 3, 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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Drinking water for 33 First Nations & 208 communities in B.C. at risk from mine tailings ponds
The drinking water for hundreds of communities and thousands of kilometres of waterways are at risk from tailings ponds in British Columbia.
Remembering water justice activist Kimy Pernia Domico
Kimy Pernia Domico was an Indigenous Embera Katio water justice activist in Colombia who...
The 4,000 gigawatts everyone forgot about
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Campaigner back from the field - this is her story...
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Survival Tribes News Act Now Donate
3 June 2015
From: Sarah Shenker, Brazil Campaigner
To: Survival Supporters
Dear Supporter,
I’ve recently returned from a visit to the Awá tribe in Brazil. You may remember the unprecedented victory last year when Survival's global campaign pushed Brazil into kicking illegal loggers off Awá land. When I last visited the community of Juriti, the Awá were too afraid to hunt and gather and couldn't find game in their forest. Now, two years on, the improvements on the ground are incredible. I found them healthy and happy, once again living off their ancestral lands. Your money, energy and enthusiasm for the campaign made it happen!
For uncontacted Awá however, the news is not so good. In a village on the...
Read more: Campaigner back from the field - this is her story...
Birds stuffed into plastic bottles
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New World Re-Ordering
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1125 .... June 3, 2015
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New World Re-Ordering
Mario Candeias
What should we call the current era? Post-everything? Or perhaps, the interregnum? Whatever the name it should be given, the current period is characterized by neoliberal trans-nationalization. In addition, U.S. hegemony has been under question since the beginning of this period. In fact, the Empire is no longer U.S.-American and a change in hegemony is in full swing. Despite what world-systems theorists such as Giovanni Arrighi suggest, the balance does not seem to be tipping toward China. Nevertheless, as Niall Ferguson points out, it is moving toward Chimerica. Furthermore, since the beginning of the global financial crisis, no project has been in sight that could reorganize the active consensus of the subalterns, move perspectives on accumulation one step up the...
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 2, 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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Caribou Legs run for water protection has begun
The Council of Canadians is sponsoring Caribou Legs and his run across the country to promote the protection of water.
Hamilton chapter holds public forum on murdered and missing Indigenous women
The Council of Canadians Hamilton chapter organized a public forum last night on the issue...[coalalert] TSESHAHT DEMANDS TERMINATION OF RAVEN COAL PROJECT http://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2015-06-01/tseshaht-demands-termination-raven-coal-project
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Monsantos Worst Fear May Be Coming True
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On April 27, the Chipotle restaurant chain announced it would only use non-GMO ingredients in its food.
You might think that a business deciding to give consumers what they want makes sense in many ways.
But the decision was met with a tidal-wave of establishment media abuse. Chipotle was called irresponsible, anti-science, irrational, and much more by the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and many others.
Find out why, and get the whole story, here
VIDEO reel: A short history of Conservatives trashing their new CPP idea
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This post might interest your members. Feel free to share. No one else has compiled all the video going back to 2010 of the Tories slamming voluntary CPP expansion:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/video_conservative_flip_flops_on_canada_pension_plan
Please share if you can...
Thanks,Chris
PressProgress: Economists explode on Twitter over Canada's "atrocious" new numbers
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Sorry for the second email on the day...
This is a quick, fun roundup on reaction to today's bad economic news...
Might be something your members are interested in hearing about -- even over the wknd:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/twitter_explodes_over_canada_s_atrocious_new_economic_numbers
Thanks,Chris
Stephen Harper: Stop Myanmar
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - June 1, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 01 June 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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MEDIA RELEASE:
Energy East faces growing opposition at the #EndOfTheLine
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Harper presides over the growth of precarious work in Canada
Precarious work is on the rise in Canada and internationally.
Council of Canadians chapters protest C-51 on eve of Senate vote
Council of Canadians chapters were on the streets...
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