Death by firing squad

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This. Is. Awful.

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Iran's Nuclear Deal: Escape from Crisis

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 23:34

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1110 .... April 27, 2015
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Iran's Nuclear Deal: Escape from Crisis

Araz Bağban

Iran reached a preliminary agreement with the P5+1 or E3+3 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany) group on its nuclear program in Switzerland after long negotiations. U.S. President Barack Obama called the agreement a "historic understanding" while Iranians watched a U.S. president live on TV for the first time since the 1979 revolution. The deal is made at a time when the Middle East is going through a period marked by crises. Civil wars are still going on in Syria, Iraq and Libya and most recently another war has erupted in Yemen. It is quite well-known that Iran is one of the...

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Harper - If you cant join him, beat him!

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 21:17

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by MURRAY BUSH - FLUX PHOTO & SHARON KRAVITZ

COAST SALISH TERRITORY - People gathered by English Bay Saturday afternoon for a noise demo and Stephen Harper effigy beating. The event was a chance to let out some of the anger over the federal government's lame response to the recent toxic oil spill in Vancouver`s English Bay and continued pipeline plans.

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South African unions step up action against xenophobia - ITUC OnLine

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 16:34

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

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Brussels, 23 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine):  ITUC-affiliated trade union centres in South Africa COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU have pledged to step up action against xenophobia following violent attacks against foreigners in the country which have cost seven lives.  The union bodies joined a meeting of some 40 organisations convened by President Jacob Zuma yesterday to map out measures to tackle the immediate problem as well as the underlying causes of the violence.

		

				
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Rana Plaza: Compensation for Victims of Industrial Homicide Still Short of Target - ITUC OnLine

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

Brussels, 24 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine): Two years after the deaths of more than 1,100 workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the compensation fund for their families and for the thousands injured is still US $6 million short of the $30 million target. The legally binding Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, negotiated by IndustriALL, UNI and NGO partners with the brands after the disaster now has more than 200 brands signed up and has to date completed nearly 1,500 factory inspections, identifying many thousands of safety issues to be remedied.

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April 24th, 2015 Weekly Indigenous news on rabble.ca

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Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders

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Vincent Schilling 4/23/15

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production,The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

EXCLUSIVE: Read a Page From the Adam Sandler Script That Caused Native Actors to Quit

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VIDEO: Conservative Attack on Workers Ends in Senator Meltdown

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:51

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New video - We went face to face with a Conservative Minister.

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My name is Jesse Savath I’m a professional filmmaker and photographer living in Vancouver. A few days ago I joined several people in confronting the Conservative Minister of Industry over the pathetic response to the recent Vancouver oil spill. I’m writing today to share a video of this confrontation with you.

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Secret Tapes Reveal Contamination a Big Joke to Big Oil

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:00

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Four years ago, an anonymous package was sent to Amazon Watch, an environmental activist group. It contained videos that seem to show something truly odd: Employees of a major oil company trying notto find oil—and having a chuckle about how hard that proves to be. Forty-five years since the first Earth Day environmentalism apparently remains a joke to some people.

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Xeni Gwetin Mining Activist Wins Goldman Environm

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Published on Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:17

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By Payal Sampat

April 20, 2015

Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize

We are thrilled to join the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world's largest prize for grassroots environmental activism, in honoring Xeni Gwet’in leader Marilyn Baptiste of British Columbia, Canada for her work to stop Taseko Mines' proposed Prosperity gold and copper mine.

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Arrow in the Head

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Green Cities Against Neoliberal Urbanism

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Published on Saturday, 25 April 2015 22:51

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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 12 April 2015

Green Cities Against Neoliberal Urbanism:
Urban Planning and Toronto Politics

Canada's municipalities are collapsing, from both fiscal austerity and ecological pressures. Toronto, in particular, has been dealing with the enormous challenges of rapid population growth, amalgamation, crumbling infrastructure, and the federal and provincial offloading of costs. The chronic underfunding of municipal projects is negatively impacting affordable housing, public transportation, social services, green initiatives, and public spaces. Instead of an increase in public investments in our decaying city, we have seen a process of 'neoliberal urbanism' characterized by the privatization and elimination of public goods and services. Lost in this process is attention to poverty, social services, good jobs, and the protection of the environment.

This forum looks at the track record of neoliberal urbanism and its deregulation...

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