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Mar 11, 2010  Weekly Diaspora: Immigration opponents take a turn for the worseErin Rosa As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum. |
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Mar 10, 2010  Weekly Pulse: Eric Massa backs off health care conspiracy, Glenn Beck apologizes to the entire countryLindsay Beyerstein Former Rep. Eric Massa punked talk show host Glenn Beck yesterday by recanting his earlier allegations that House Democrats forced him out of office because he refused to vote for health care reform. |
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Mar 9, 2010  Civilization costs money: U.S. healthcare, Harper budgets and moreI Read The News Today, Oh Boy! Who counts? In Harper's budget world it isn't women, the environment or indigenous issues. But he counts deficits. And plenty is being counted for the U.S. health care bill but not what matters. |
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Mar 9, 2010  Weekly Audit: Doomsday for the CFPA?Alison Hamm Just when the Democrats need to be tougher than ever on financial reform, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Chris Dodd, seems to have given up completely. |
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Mar 5, 2010  Weekly Mulch: New bills and old moneySarah Laskow Climate legislation is returning to the Senate's docket. |
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Mar 3, 2010  Weekly Pulse: Obama to push for reconciliationLindsay Beyerstein oday, President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to Congress outlining his plan to move forward on health care reform. The president is expected to advocate the use of budget reconciliation. |
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Mar 3, 2010 Naomi Klein speaks on climate debt: rabble exclusiveWatch Klein give the inaugural David Lewis Lecture, while touching on climate topics from Copenhagen to Haiti. |
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Feb 25, 2010 Weekly Audit: The global economic crisisZach Carter Over the past 30 years, Wall Street has waged a steady war against governments around the globe. |
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Feb 24, 2010 U.S. military budget for 2010 climbs to $744 billionRedeye Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, military bases around the world, the nuclear weapons program -- all this adds up to a budget that leaves nothing for foreign aid or for tackling climate change. |
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Feb 21, 2010 We Reach for the Silver Lining (and fail) - CPAC, Olympics and Corporate RightsI Read The News Today, Oh Boy! We promised some good news you might have missed and we deliver but then when you look at the U.S gathering of conservatives and the Olympics, well things can get ugly. |
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Feb 17, 2010 Barack Obama is going nuclearBarack Obama announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. |
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Feb 16, 2010 Weekly Audit: More jobs pleaseZach Carter One year after President Barack Obama secured passage of his critical economic stimulus package, the U.S. Senate is finally taking anther look at how to create jobs and repair the economy. |
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Feb 9, 2010 Cost of wars to exceed one trillion dollarsSometime over the next 30 days, the amount of money the American government will have spent on making war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, will exceed one trillion dollars. |
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Feb 6, 2010  Courting Disaster: Fear of a democratic planetI Read The News Today, Oh Boy! A U.S senator claims the Constitution only protects citizens, and corporations have new election powers, and people protest due process then you know it is fear of a democratic planet. |
 Code Pinkrabblepedia Code Pink is a women-led grassroots solidarity initiative that opposes militarism. |
Trump administration 4Continued from here. Forums: |
Kremlingate part 2Continued from here. Forums: |
 Weaponizing Words: The Dilemmas of Free SpeechJun 27, 2018
SFU Harbour Centre: Room 7000
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Drawing upon his recent article in openDemocracy, the Director of the Institute for the Humanities, Samir Gandesha, will reflect on Mill’s and Marcuse’s contributions to the dilemma of Free speech. |
 Cuba–U.S. Relations: Toronto Book Launch and Panel DiscussionOct 13, 2017
A Different Booklist
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All are invited to the Toronto launch of Arnold August's latest book: Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond. |
The Trump administration 3Continued from here. Forums: |
How should the Canadian government handle Donald Trump?=== Forums: |
U.S. immigration decree and its effectsI thought it might be useful to start up a new thread for this issue, because it has a lot of implications here (and elsewhere) and I thought it would get lost in the Trump administration thread. http://www.ledevoair.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/491133/frapper-un... Ms Fadwa Aloui, a Canadian citizen born in Fèz, Morocco, her cousin and her two children were headed in her car to a shopping trip in Burlington (Vermont, I assume?) and they were interrogated for a long time at the US border. She was asked about the mosque she attended, her imam and what she thought of Trump! Forums: |
Life at Fertilization Bill introduced in U.S. CongressHere it comes https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/586/all-info Along with Trump's executive order ending funding to any NGO which counsels abortion: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38724063
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 #J20RESIST Global Day of Actions - VancouverJan 20, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery
Robson Street at Howe Street
Vancouver
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Canada
49° 16' 55.2468" N, 123° 7' 14.9412" W
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On Friday, January 20, in Washington, D.C. and cities across the U.S. and the world, hundreds of thousands will take to the streets to protest an agenda of war and racism. Join us in Vancouver! |
