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'Today, let us commit to speaking out for those whose voices may not be as loud': Samaah Jaffer at Vancouver's Women's March | Jan 23 2017 | Samaah Jaffer | rabble's B.C. Editor Samaah Jaffer addressed some 15,000 people who came out to the Women's March in Vancouver to oppose the new misogynist in the White House.
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Lobby your MP to take action on mass surveillance, Bill C-51 and press freedom! | Jan 19 2017 | Canadian Journalists for Free Expression | January 23 to 27 is national lobbying week on mass surveillance, Bill C-51 and press freedom. We need you to participate.
Empowering girls and young women in Nova Scotia | Jan 18 2017 | Scott Neigh | Susan Brigham and Cassandra McDonald talk about the Girls 2017 Conference happening in Halifax in March.
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Resistance, to the inauguration and beyond | Jan 17 2017 | Fran Luck | March, strike and flood the streets are three plans for resisting the inauguration. On this show, many voices say (and sing) why and how they have resisted and plan to resist.
WATCH: Art Manuel on the struggle for Indigenous rights and sovereignty | Jan 17 2017 | Democracy Now! | Art Manuel speaks with Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman about the struggle for Indigenous rights and sovereignty in the context of the G20 summit in 2010.
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Rosa Luxemburg: A revolutionary for our times | Jan 17 2017 | Duncan Cameron | Her scholarly work identified the links between capitalism, imperialism and militarism, but she expected more than recognition as a thinker. Rosa Luxemburg wanted to change the course of history.
Image: Facebook/Pascale Diverlus
Black people in Canada will continue to kick ass in 2017 | Jan 16 2017 | Phillip Dwight Morgan | Black Lives Matter TO plans to target illegal carding and Toronto's Special Investigations Unit as it looks ahead to 2017.
People Powered: The Activists Behind Vancouver’s Climate Justice Movement | Jan 12 2017 | Victoria Fenner | Rebecca Visser looks at what drives Vancouver-based activists in their fight for climate justice. Produced as part of the "Making Time for Radio" project of Simon Fraser's CJSF Radio.
Image: Flickr/Tylor Sherman
Epidemic of overdose deaths legacy of 10 years of anti-harm reduction | Jan 12 2017 | Redeye Collective | Jordan Westfall says the hundreds of drug overdose deaths are a legacy of Harper's approach. Westfall is someone who formerly used opioid drugs and wrote his master's thesis on overdose prevention.
CJFE Publishes New Resource: Securing Your Digital Life | Jan 11 2017 | ure those who would violate human rights and hoard power do not have an easy time putting all Internet users at risk.
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Transformative change in 2017 starts with community | Jan 6 2017 | Murray Dobbin | To enact transformational change we have to radically shift the way we engage people and move away from presenting them with problems to talking about possibilities.
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Toronto City Council finally approved enforceable licensing regulations for landlords | Dec 22 2016 | Maya Bhullar | ACORN leader and Toronto tenant talks about her fight as a tenant, and what this change means to her.

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Françoise David of Québec solidaire stands down in Gouin alan smithee said... Terrible news and a real blow to the progressive movement in Québec. I hope her successor is...
January 21 demonstrations in your town or city KenS said... There is one in Halifax in
Rachel Notley or Jane Fonda? Mighty Middle said... Jane Fonda makes her case about stopping Oil Sands development below https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
NB NDP Leader Resigns Amid Unhappiness With Fed Party Position On Syria Mighty Middle said... Portion of Dominic Cardy statement The NDP is a one-stop shop. When you join the provincial NDP you...
Canadian arms exports to Saudi Arabia ignore the Elephant in the Room NDPP said... Canada Defends Record $11B Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia in Court http://rt.com/news/371151-canada-arms...
Home Sweet Home: civil disobedience in Ireland to protest homelessness mark_alfred said... Interesting action in Ireland. News article:  http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/act-of-...
Support Bill C-228 - End open-pen salmon farming in BC mark_alfred said... Here's a site to help you send a letter to your MP in support of Fin Donnelly's Bill.  http://...
Why politicians must explain there are costs and sacrifices needed to combat climate change Sean in Ottawa said... I think it may be even better if this thread could focus on how to build that communication to...
Current position of the NDP with Greens voting for BDS and Trudeau courting unions Mr. Magoo said... I'm not saying this to heckle, but realistically, how important do you think that Israel/Palestine...
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism little eiffel said... One can, of course, lament the statist form in which social security is managed, or say, for...

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