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ITUC Newsletter 61, FIFA Election, L20.. Latest News from the ITUC
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Amazon Indian and British painter launch worldwide art competition for young artists - News from Survival
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Alberta: A Perfect Political Storm
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1115 .... May 13, 2015
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Alberta: A Perfect Political Storm
J. F. Conway
Election outcomes like Alberta's do not come often: the total collapse of a four decade conservative dynasty and majority power for a party considered on the "left" in Canada. The reactions were typical: shock, elation, fear, uncertainty. No one saw it coming. Well, that's not quite true. If you followed the polls you knew a significant event was unfolding. The polls were not volatile, which says a great deal. They recorded a steady rise in NDP support and a corresponding decline in Tory support. Days before the election it was pretty clear the NDP would form a minority government. It was also clear the Tories were about to be tossed into the dustbin of history. On election...
End Violence against Aboriginal Women
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Over 223,000 of us spoke up -- including you. McDonalds listened. And acted!
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SumOfUs
Paov,
McDonald’s – the world’s largest fast food chain – just released a new commitment to eliminate deforestation from its global supply chains, making it the first global fast food chain to do so.
McDonald’s size and scale means the new commitment could force real change, pushing the industry to separate tropical deforestation from its supply chain.
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Hegemony in the Making: Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1114 .... May 11, 2015
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Hegemony in the Making:
Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant
Rainer Rilling
(Translation by Eric Canepa)
Germany is an economic giant but a political dwarf. Ever since the run-up to the First World War, this thesis has been firmly established in the conservative camp and it remains the basic assumption of a century of German foreign and security policy. In the end, it has come up against one problem in the tradition of the so-called realistic school of international politics: In the present world of states how does my state actually achieve more security and power? In the struggle to assert itself within capitalist competition and the anarchic, inhospitable international political order, how can it come out on top, how can it achieve, maintain, and extend hegemony or primacy?
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ACTIVlist May 12
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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 Advisory: Now is the time for federal action on fracking, say Indigenous lawyer and doctor duo / Le moment est venu pour le fédéral d’agir sur la fracturation hydraulique, affirment un avocat autochtone et une pédiatre
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Concerns about how Fortune Minerals exits the Sacred Headwaters
News last week of the...
Tahoe Resources CEO ordered to court
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VANCOUVER Tahoe Resources held its annual general meeting today in Vancouver, just as the Guatemalan government ordered national police to round up company chairman Kevin McArthur.
Alberta's NDP, the Oil industry, and the Fate of the Planet
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Will an orange oilpatch crush climate hopes, or facilitate a green shift?
by DRU OJA JAY
The NDP is unlikely to want to go toe-to-toe with Alberta's oil industry.In 2001, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein got drunk and told his chauffeur to drive him to a homeless shelter. He proceeded to berate the people who were there, yelling at them to "get a job". The encounter ended with the inebriated Klein throwing money on the floor while venting his disgust with the homeless people (some of whom turned out to be employed but unable to access housing in an overheated and unregulated Edmonton economy).
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The Humanitarian Crisis You haven't Heard of in Burundi
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Posted 10 May 2015 20:23 GMT
Following Burundi president Nkurunziza's announcement of his candidacy for a third term (unconstitutional by Burundi's existing law), a massive humanitarian crisis has hit the country as at least 50,000 refugees have fled the country after scenes of violence were reported in several cities. The occurrence of violence were often posted on social media platforms first under the hashtags #burundichaos or #sindumuja. The following infographic sums up the refugees situation as of May 8:
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Arts Groups Occupy Venice Guggenheim #GuggOccupied
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May 10th, 2015VENICE, ITALY — At 10:20am this morning, two boatloads of artists and activists occupied the dock landing of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (PGC) in Venice. It marks the first joint action between GULF (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) and Gulf Labor, which is an official participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale, and two Italian organizations, Sale Docks in Venice and Macao from Milan — an independent art space which started organizing art workers in 2012. The crowd of roughly 40 people are hoisting banners and flags that read, “Meet Workers’ Demands” and other labor-related messages. The museum occupation is the latest effort to highlight labor issues impacting migrant workers at Saadiyat Island, where Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and other luxury culture brands are building outposts.
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Shell No! Seattle council just voted to reconsider letting Shell use terminal for Arctic drilling
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 12, 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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Media Release:
Indigenous Lawyer and American Doctor call on Canadian MPs and Senators to push for regulation on fracking
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Council of Canadians expresses solidarity with the Paddle in Seattle
The Council...COMER alleges that the Bank of Canada, the Queen, the attorney general, the finance minister, and minister of national revenue are engaging in a conspiracy with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and the Bank for I
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In the January–February Issue
Read It (pdf)
Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation's laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, 1935
http://www.comer.org/ Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/04/can-courts-liberate-bank-canada
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/04/17/Liberate-Bank-of-Canada
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/05/canadians-sued-the-bank-of-canada-won-mainstream-media-government-blacks-out-story/
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1290580-bank-of-canada-faces-lawsuit-for-alleged-imf-conspiracy/
You know the old aphorism, "If a tree falls in the forest…?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
That might well be the question being asked over at the Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), a very small and low-budget Toronto think-tank. With their lawyer Rocco Galati (of Supreme Court fame in the Nadon case) they have been steadily winning court battles initiated in 2011 that would oblige the Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 practice of lending the government money virtually interest-free. But the mainstream media has boycotted the story. Galati believes the Harper government has done some serious arm-twisting to keep the story buried.
Class Struggle in North America
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Victoria, 13 April 2015
Class Struggle in North America:
A Discussion of Continental Crucible
400 parts per million
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LeftStreamed — May 2015
400 ppm
A very blue music-video about global warming and climate crisis by Bill Carroll.
In January 2015, scientists recorded atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide above 400 parts per million (ppm) on a regular basis – the first time such a level had been detected so early in the calendar year. It is well established that levels of CO2 above 350 (already well above the preindustrial norm of 275 ppm) spur global warming. We are now experiencing the effects: extreme weather, droughts, rising sea levels, thawing permafrost, etc. Levels above 450 will most likely put the planet on an inescapable course toward catastrophic climate change.
Swazi regime threatens unions over May Day - ITUC OnLine
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Brussels, 30 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine): Swaziland’s dictator-King Mswati has threatened police violence against trade unionists taking part in a planned May Day rally in the major commercial city of Manzini on Friday. Police have announced that only “recognised unions” will be allowed to celebrate May Day and said that they will enforce “law and order” at any rally. The authorities have refused to recognise the legitimate trade union centre TUCOSWA as part of a blanket repression of free speech and freedom of association.
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Harper Terror Plan
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Independent Media from Canada
Stephen Harper's Plan
To Fake A 'Terror-Bombing' in Victoria BC
And Blame it on 'The Muslims'.
And the Media betrays us by pretending 'the official story' is true.
(May 3, 2015) A 'show trial' is now underway in Vancouver. A troubled young couple, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, were entrapped, manipulated, and terrified by undercover RCMP agents into planting fake bombs - supplied by the RCMP - on the grounds of the BC Legislative Buildings on Canada Day 2013. They are now on trial.
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 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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Media Release: Broken Covenant: Blistering report on 9 years of Harper agenda
Media Release:
Post 2015 Declaration must contain the human right to water and sanitation say hundreds of civil society organizations
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Corporate Canada dodging taxes in tax havens in record numbers
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http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/corporate-canadas-cash-tax-havens-explodes-199-billion-under-stephen-harper
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