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Corporate media fails to convey police violence against anti austerity movement
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Riot police are on the attack, moving violently against anti-austerity protests in Montréal over this past week.
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Time Is Running Out to Support Pro-Native Journalism in Canada; Help Fund The Tyee!
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ICTMN Staff
4/8/15A few centuries ago, Europeans alighted upon these shores, and it was not long before they had imposed their own boundaries, laws and proclivities upon the unsuspecting populations of Turtle Island.
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Somalia: 18 Killed by Terrorists, Union Leader Escapes - ITUC OnLine
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Brussels, 30 March 2015 (ITUC OnLine): Eighteen people, including 12 hotel workers and Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, were killed in Friday’s terrorist attack in Mogadishu, with at least 28 more injured. Omar Faruk Osman, General Secretary of national trade union centre FESTU, escaped the attack by the Al Shabaab terror group by jumping from a first-floor hotel window. Six attackers were also killed by security forces.
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Zimbabwe: ITUC Supports ZCTU Protest Action - ITUC OnLine
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
ITUC OnLine 023/090415 Brussels, 09 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is organising demonstrations on 11 April 2015 involving its six regional centres of Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare, Masvingo and Chinhoyi. The demonstrations aim to highlight a range of issues affecting workers, including the decision to freeze and cut salaries, introduce labour market flexibility, the non or late payment of workers' salaries, and the failure to pass on membership subscriptions to the unions - all contrary to existing collective agreements.Read more: Zimbabwe: ITUC Supports ZCTU Protest Action - ITUC OnLine
Qatar Buys Time at the ILO - ITUC OnLine
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Brussels, 30 March 2015 (ITUC OnLine): Qatar has been given until November to reform its kafala system of modern slavery and bring its labour laws into line with international standards, after a decision of the International Labour Organization’s Governing Body.
Indian police to use pepper-spraying drones on unruly protesters
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Police in a northern Indian city said Tuesday they have a new weapon for controlling unruly protesters in the world’s largest democracy: pepper-spraying drones.
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 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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Energy East to run across Manitoba, under Winnipeg aqueduct Premier Greg Selinger will be in Quebec City next week to discuss climate change with the other premiers.
Ontario Energy Board report says Energy East puts water at risk
On March 30, the Ontario Energy Board posted five reports prepared by technical advisors for their consultation and review...PressProgress: This might be the stupidest bill Conservatives will table this session
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Thought your members might be keen on our post on Joe Oliver's new balanced budget legislation, which has been called "meaningless public policy" and "thoroughly empty."
Please feel free to share on social media:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/might-be-stupidest-bill-conservatives-will-table-session
Cheers,Chris
Urgent Action: Stop Baka abuse
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Urgent Action: Baka abused in the name of conservation
Baka ‘Pygmies’ in Cameroon are being forced from their ancestral homelands in the name of ‘conservation.’ Much of their land has been turned into ‘protected areas.’ Hunting regulations often criminalize them as “poachers” when they hunt to feed their families. The Baka have not given their consent to these developments, and yet the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) continues to support them.
In addition, wildlife officers often harass and assault Baka men and women and their neighbors.
WWF is one of the government’s most influential partners, and provides essential support and funding for the...
'There is no Alternative Unless We Build One': Reinventing Socialist Politics
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1103 .... April 8, 2015
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‘There is no Alternative Unless We Build One’:
Reinventing Socialist Politics
Ingo Schmidt
The varied left histories dating back to the long 19th century gained momentum during the tumultuous first decades of the 20th century and for some time after. They came to an end, at one point or another, between the military coup in Chile (1973), the elections of Margaret Thatcher (1979) and Ronald Reagan (1981), the political u-turns by Francois Mitterrand (1986) and Deng Xiaoping and the collapse of Soviet communism (1991). Since that time, communist parties in the West have shrunk to insignificance (with the partial exceptions of the French and Greek parties). Social democratic parties surrendered the countervailing power they had acquired during the long post-war boom to the imperatives of...
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[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - April 7, 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: Energy East pipeline: Maude Barlow raises alarm in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
ACTION ALERT: Don’t frack Ontario!
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DePape to speak on climate justice and civil disobedience
Council of...
Acquittal in Brutal Death of First Nations Woman Sparks Outrage Across Canada
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Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com//2015/04/03/acquittal-brutal-death-first-nations-woman-sparks-outrage-across-canada-159891
She was both indigenous and a sex worker, so the odds were stacked against Cindy Gladue before the 36-year-old mother of three entered the Edmonton hotel room of truck driver Bradley Barton in June 2011.
The next day Gladue, Cree, would be found dead in the room’s bathtub, having bled out from a four-inch-long laceration to her vagina. There was proof of this because her entire pelvic area, including that very body part, was preserved and presented as evidence in Barton’s trial.
However, even that did not sway the jury.
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200 girls and women raped: now 11 of them win better compensation from the worlds biggest gold miner
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family members of 3 killed due to violence at the mine also coveredOn Friday, April 3, 2015, eleven of the estimated 120-200 women raped at Barrick's Porgera mine settled on a compensation package from the company, negotiated by US-law firm Earth Rights International. Family members of three people killed in mine violence also received an undisclosed amount of compensation for their suffering. This victory is the result of a decade of advocacy from groups such as the Atali Tange Association, the Porgera Alliance, Harvard Legal Clinic, New York University law school, Mining Watch Canada, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. However, we should remember that far more than these eleven women were brutally raped by Barrick's security forces and continue to fight for justice, accountability, and a removal of the conditions leading to these abuses.
The community continues to advocate for their collective resettlement away from the mine. At ProtestBarrick, we will continue to support the community in this long-term solution to widespread mine violence.
Study: Pharmaceuticals Kill More Teens Than Illegal Substances In The US
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by Monica Thunder
ON MARCH 26, 2015
http://reset.me/study/study-pharmaceuticals-kill-more-teens-than-illegal-substances-in-the-us/Combine the number of overdose deaths caused by heroin and cocaine, and you still haven’t matched the number of deaths caused by pharmaceutical prescription medications each year in the United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, pharmaceutical abuse was responsible for about 23,000 deaths in 2013 — that’s more than half of the overdose deaths in the U.S. that year.
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Canada at War .. Canadians not told
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Independent Media from Canada
Why has Canada declared war on Syria?
(April 4, 2015) SURPRISE!! Canada is going to war with Syria. And Canadians are not even being told. We are being told that this is 'an expansion of the mission'. Yes, the mission is expanding ... into a War.
When the first Canadian plane drops the first bomb on Syria - that IS an act of war against Syria - in violation of the United Nations Charter and ALL international law. And Canadians don't even know this is happening. How can Canada go to war, and nobody tells Canadians?
Bolivia: Burdens of a State Manager
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1102 .... April 6, 2015
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Bolivia: Burdens of a State Manager
Jeffery R. Webber
In the opening salvos of Latin America's uneven lurch to the Left in the early twenty-first century, Bolivia distinguished itself as the region's most radical socio-political terrain. Left-indigenous movements in the countryside and cityscapes alike threw the state into crisis and brought two successive neoliberal presidents to their knees -- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in 2003, and Carlos Mesa in 2005. Evo Morales's party, the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism, MAS), leapt into the power vacuum opened up by this series of revolts, and there has been serious debate on the Left as to how best to button down the central political dynamic of the country ever since. In a country where 62 per cent...
Lifting Up Low-Wage Work: Global Perspectives
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LeftStreamed — Recorded in Toronto, 26 March 2015
Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture:
Lifting Up Low-Wage Work: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce is Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, CUNY School for Professional Studies; and Professor of Sociology in the CUNY Graduate Centre. Professor Luce's books include Fighting for a Living Wage and Labor Movements: Global Perspectives.
Low-wages are increasingly a problem for workers in many parts of the world. In the past two years, wages have remained flat in most wealthy countries and in others, average wages are still below the levels of pre-financial crisis. What do we know about the impact of minimum wage and living wage laws? What is the potential for these policies, and movements, to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of low-wage...
Resist, Reclaim, Restructure
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