Protest - Revolt

30/09/20
Author: 
Jacob Bogage

September 29, 2020

Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.

[See video at link.]

This summer, as controversial new procedures at the U.S. Postal Service snarled the nation’s mail delivery and stirred fears of how the agency would handle the election, rank-and-file workers quietly began to resist.

30/09/20
Author: 
Susan Ram
COVID-19 and Class Struggle in France

September 29, 2020

How are French workers responding to the multiple challenges posed by a resurgent COVID-19, a neoliberal government incapable of getting to grips with the crisis, and the limitations imposed by the public health emergency on traditional forms of mass protest?

30/09/20
Author: 
ICLMG
RCMP Spying
RCMP must immediately halt use of new spy software and release audit of surveillance practices, says civil liberties coalition
 
29/09/20
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Former federal environment minister David Anderson voices his opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, July 30, 2012. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Sept. 29, 2020

A former president of BC Hydro and a former federal fisheries minister are among 18 prominent Canadians urging the provincial government to halt work on a huge hydroelectric project in northeastern B.C.

The letter signed by former Hydro president Marc Eliesen, former fisheries minister David Anderson, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and others says construction of the Site C dam must stop while geotechnical problems are explored.

29/09/20
Author: 
Progressive International
26/09/20
Author: 
First Nations Leaders
Things are heating up in the north!

Facebook's retaliation against organizers of actions targeting KKR's financing of CGL shows the pressure is working! Join and share the online action this Monday.

As CGL approaches drilling near the Wedzin Kwa the Gidimt'en have built a new smokehouse on the river.

26/09/20
Author: 
Fiona Harvey
Supporters of the school strike movement Fridays For Future gather in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

25 Sep 2020 

Greta Thunberg leads protests as Covid rules restrict numbers compared with last year

School pupils, youth activists and communities around the world have turned out for a day of climate strikes, intended to underscore the urgency of the climate crisis even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

25/09/20
Author: 
Keith Fraser
Construction continues on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the West Ridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby on July 2. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Sep 21, 2020

B.C.'s top court rejects appeals of two protesters who were arrested after blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected the appeals of two people who were arrested and convicted of criminal contempt of court for blocking Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

25/09/20
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
Cooper Price, an organizer with Fridays for Future Toronto and Climate Strike Canada. Photo by Ella Young

September 25th 2020

Student climate strikers will walk out of school or log off online classes across Canada on Friday hoping to pressure the Trudeau government to live up to its vague green promises.

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