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Michael Lebowitz - Socialism for the 21st Century
Click HERE for an excellent 47 minute lecture by Michael Lebowitz on “Socialism for the 21st Century.” Michael Lebowitz is a founding member of the Socialist Studies Society and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He delivers his speech “Socialism for the 21st Century” at the Humanities Congress 2008 held at the University of British Columbia. He compares the past of Socialism to the current applications in Venezuela and its applicability in the North America.
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Gad Horowitz: Canadian intellectual
Gad Horowitz was a frequent contributor to Canadian Dimension and a member of its editorial board in the early days of the magazine. He emerged as one of Canada’s leading political philosophers. A book of essays in his honour, edited by Shannon Bell and Peter Kulchyski, will be published in 09 by the University of Toronto Press. Shannon Bell produced this intriguing video of some reflections of Gad Horowitz for the 2008 Congress of Learned Societies held on the University of…
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John Stewart: Who will be next president?
Here is a link courtesy of Information Clearing House that has a link to a 5 minute clip of John Stewart’s Indecision 2008 segment on The Daily Show. John Stewart is Jewish. The clip is also very funny and contains much truth. Some people were having trouble accessing the video clip but this link seems to work very well. Courtesy Ed Corrigan
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Canada uses FBI database to block activists
(By Ann Wright) On June 1, U.S. peace activist Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Codepink women for Peace and Global Exchange, Diane Wilson, an environmental, jail reform and peace activist and I, a retired US Army Reserves Colonel and diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, attempted to enter Canada to attend a conference in Vancouver, Canada on women war resisters. Diane Wilson, mother of five and grandmother of five, author of “An Unreasonable Woman,” which tells…
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Where’s the Canadian content?
Madeline Bruce writes: My 27 commentaries about each episode of Chris Haddock’s TV series Intelligence were taken off the TV eh? What’s up in Canadian Television site when I complained about a radio blog which was supposed to be about the Royal Canadian Air Farce show, and was also supposed to have Christopher Haddock on it. Instead, some American takes over to plug his book about American television. For one thing, he was an extremely boring, rude, and crass person, and…
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Plug in Cars
After a long day of work, don’t forget to plug in your car. “Plug In America” is an online resource and advocate for plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by your plugs. While the Canadian government dithers in its federal funding schemes for environmentally friendly automobiles, Plug In America is fighting a fierce campaign to revive the electric car winning key victories in our California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Gov. Schwarzenegger. Online petitions, campaign toolkits and videos are available on…
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Embedding CBC Reporters in Haiti’s Elitist Media
Here is the introduction to an article about a $2 million CIDA media project in Haiti. The complete article (5,000 words with 88 references), is too long to present here. However, it can be seen at the link below, in pdf format, as it appears Â- with graphics Â- in issue #62 of Press for Conversion!: http://coat.ncf.ca/ourmagazine/links/62/6226-33.pdf Embedding CBC Reporters in Haiti’s Elitist Media By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion! The goal of Freedom Network (Réseau Liberté, RL), says Paul…
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Hilarious Hillary cartoons
Cartoons by Lewis Peake www.illustration-art.co.uk
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Women’s rights and global food crisis
June 5, 2008 - New York, NY - Today, as more than 40 world leaders gathered in Rome wrap up a United Nations summit on the global food crisis, MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, emphasizes that small-scale women farmers should be central to policy solutions. The organization works with women’s groups that are at the epicenter of the food crisis. In Guatemala, women from MADRE’s sister organization now spend 80 percent of their sweatshop earnings on food. In Port-au-Prince,…
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Conscientious objectors welcomed by House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons votes in favour of allowing American conscientious objectors to remain in Canada provided that they do not have a criminal record. This is a non-binding resolution but should be seen as a expression of the will of Parliament and of the Canadian people. Received from the Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) on the Canadian Council for Refugee’s list. Ed Corrigan FYI Today, just after 3 pm, the House of Commons voted 137 - 110 in favour of…
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