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01/05/22
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
‘If I have to get arrested again then I’ll get arrested again. My orders come from my Elders not from the courts or the prime minister’s oil lobby,’ says Black Bear Warrior. Photo by David Cooper.

Apr. 27, 2022

Seven activists reflect on risking arrest and serving time.

Climate protesters have been in the news a lot recently, defying long-standing injunctions they say benefit corporations and snarling traffic to raise awareness for their campaigns.

01/05/22
Author: 
Matt Leighninger, Resilience
graphic of people connected

This article focuses on the U.S., but the ideas could be applied in Canada. A broad, democratic mobilization for a Red-Green New Deal would dovetail with this concept nicely.

          -- Gene McGuckin

Apr. 28, 2022

01/05/22
Author: 
Robert R. Raymond
Sutter Health nurses and health care workers hold signs as they participate in a one day strike outside of the California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness Campus on April 18, 2022, in San Francisco, California. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES

People in Los Angeles are launching a “municipalist movement” on May 1 with the aim of democratizing U.S. cities.

Apr. 30, 2022

s we continue to watch federal and state governments fail us on issue after issue — from climate change to voting rights to even the most basic of human rights, such as the right to an abortion — a growing movement of change-makers are beginning to look closer to home for ways to exercise political agency and to reshape their world.

29/04/22
Author: 
Armine Yalnizyan, Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Laurell Ritchie
Doug Ford

Apr. 25, 2022

This privatization by stealth is a consequence of the government’s failure to address major shortages in health care personnel and in-care services.

Federal Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is promising a “sea change” for health care by directing more public funds to privately delivered care.

In Ontario under Doug Ford this is already happening as his government quietly expands the for-profit share of publicly funded care.

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29/04/22
Author: 
AFP in Delhi
Fire broke out at the Bhalaswa landfill in New Delhi on 28 April. Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images

Apr. 28, 2022

Power stations face coal shortages while burning landfill chokes residents in New Delhi

Millions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit South Asia.

In New Delhi, a burning rubbish dump choked residents for a third day on Thursday as temperatures crossed 45C (113F) in parts of the region. Forecasters warn it will get even hotter this weekend.

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