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Cuba’s Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives

30/11/21
Author: 
Branko Marcetic
Link: 
Jacobin
A medical worker displays a dose of Cuba’s Soberana 2 vaccine against COVID-19 at a school in Havana, Cuba. (Joaquin Hernandez / Xinhua via Getty Images)

Nov. 22, 2021

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Time to fight climate change, not each other

30/11/21
Author: 
Yves Engler
Link: 
The Straight
Author Yves Engler argues that the federal government's decision to buy F-35 fighter jets will exacerbate the climate crisis. MASTER SGT. DONALD R. ALLEN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Nov. 29, 2021

The Trudeau government’s plan to buy 88 new fighter jets and 15 combat vessels will do little to protect Canadians from this country’s most serious threats. And some people are angry enough to take the streets to send this message to Ottawa. Two dozen rallies were held across the country last week to oppose a fighter jet purchase that will exacerbate an existential menace.

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Deep Adaptation: Could Climate Change Lead To Societal Collapse?

29/11/21
Author: 
Marianne Apostolides
Link: 
Science The Wire
Tauktae’s cyclonic winds lash Thiruvananthapuram, May 2021. Photo: PTI

Nov. 27, 2021

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WHO Seeks New Global Pandemic Treaty

29/11/21
Author: 
Jason Beaubien
Link: 
National Public Radio
On November 29, the World Health Organization will convene a virtual summit for its member states to consider the handling of future outbreaks. Pictured above: WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2021

The World Health Organization is convening a special session of its governing body, the World Health Assembly, to start talks on a new global treaty covering pandemics. Representatives of WHO's 194 member states will meet virtually for three days starting on Monday to consider new international rules for handling future outbreaks.

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Noam Chomsky: Ending Climate Change “Has to Come From Mass Popular Action,” Not Politicians

29/11/21
Author: 
Interview by Poyâ Pâkzâd Benjamin Magnussen
Link: 
Jacobin
Noam Chomsky speaking at the International Forum for Emancipation and Equality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 12, 2015. (Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación)
Nov. 19, 2021

AN INTERVIEW WITH NOAM CHOMSKY

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RCMP still clearing Indigenous lands for corporate interests

29/11/21
Author: 
Pamela Palmater
Link: 
The Breach
An RCMP officer points a gun into the tiny house in Wet'suwet'en territory. Photo: Still from footage by Michael Toledano

Nov. 26, 2021

Instead of criminalizing Indigenous peoples defending the climate and water, Canada should be taking our lead

The RCMP’s most recent actions in Wet’suwet’en territory unfolded more like a horror movie than any semblance of the rule of law in a functioning democracy. 

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Thousands of Women March in Chile Against Fascism

29/11/21
Author: 
Telesur
Link: 
Telesur
Thousands of women participate in a march called by feminist associations in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, today in Santiago (Chile) | Photo: EFE / Alberto Valdés

25 November 2021

Young women, adults and girls gathered at dusk in the central Plaza Italia in Santiago to march - amid chants and music - on Alameda Avenue, the main artery of downtown Santiago, which remained blocked for several hours.

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 Chilean Lawmakers Approve Equal Marriage Bill

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The 400-Year-Old Lie That is U.S. Thanksgiving Day

29/11/21
Author: 
Randy Kritkausky, Indian Country Today .
Link: 
Popular Resistance

Nov. 27, 2021

Not a kernel of truth: After 400 years it’s time to take down the monumental insult

Not A Kernel Of Truth.

The Wall Street Journal needs to cease its incorrect ‘Pilgrim Journal’

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Cargill prepares lockout & scabs as workers reject offer

29/11/21
Author: 
Jeremy Appel - Cargill correspondent for Rankandfile.ca
Link: 
Rank and File

Nov. 27, 2021

Workers at Cargill’s High River, Alberta meatpacking facility have overwhelmingly rejected the company’s latest contract offer and management has escalated tensions by serving a lockout notice. 

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The Clean Energy Transition Enters Hyperdrive

29/11/21
Author: 
Dan Gearino
Link: 
Inside Climate News
Workers install photovoltaic panels on the roof of a fish processing plant on Nov. 16, 2021 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. Credit: Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images

Interesting back-and-forth in this article about energy-transition predictions. Aside from that, though, it still seems overly optimistic ("hyperdrive?") from the viewpoints of still-growing fossil fuel use and of limitations on raw materials for various kinds of green alternatives. 

        - Gene McGuckin

Nov. 25, 2021

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