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by Derrick O'Keefe | January 27, 2012 The toxic brew of Big Oil and militarism at the core of Stephen Harper's politics has been on full display this week. In an interview with Peter Mansbridge on CBC's The National, Harper connected the threat of a new conflagration in the Middle East with his ongoing push for new pipelines to export tar sands crude from Alberta. more... by Roger Annis | January 27, 2012 Last week, the PBS television interview program Tavis Smiley featured two half-hour evenings with Hollywood actor Sean Penn, a leading force in humanitarian relief work in Haiti since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. Subtitled by the program as an 'Actor/Humanitarian,' Penn strongly defended the new neo-colonial order established in Haiti through the foreign-sponsored exclusion election. more... by Mick Sweetman | January 27, 2012 It was a loud and boisterous scene outside the massive Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) factory on Jan. 21 as more than a thousand trade unionists joined the picket line in solidarity with 465 workers who have been locked out by the company for the past three weeks. With a punk rock band blasting music from a makeshift stage by the front gate, hundreds of workers disrupted traffic by crossing back and forth across the road regularly. more... by Tithi Bhattacharya | January 26, 2012 Some 10,000 angry workers swarmed around the Indiana State House January 23 to protest a pending anti-union 'right-to-work' bill that the Republican-controlled state Senate passed by a vote of 28-22. The next day, another 7,000 workers returned, enraged by the Senate vote. more... by Christoph Hermann | January 25, 2012 While in previous crises shorter work hours were discussed as a measure to combat growing unemployment, an astonishing feature of the current economic downturn from 2007 on was that work time reductions were nowhere on the political agenda. more... by Costas Lapavitsas | January 24, 2012 Negotiations to reduce Greek debt have been suspended after no agreement could be reached last week. At some point in the near future Greece seems certain to default on its obligations. But the drama surrounding the talks in Athens, Berlin and Paris shows that there will be nothing co-operative about Greek default. more...
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Mangling the party: Tony Cliff's Lenin January 27, 2012 NUT unanimously backs pension strike in March January 27, 2012 Union pickets Caterpillar dealerships across Canada to protest wage cuts January 27, 2012 Seizing the Transit Initiative January 27, 2012 CAW and CEP to begin talks on new union January 27, 2012 Brazil: Third Congress of PSOL January 26, 2012 Uproar at Penn over a bds conference January 26, 2012 Egypt's anti-SCAF protests eclipse Tahrir Square anniversary festivities January 26, 2012 Unions must change quickly to survive January 26, 2012 Don't be a strikebreaker for Rob Ford! January 26, 2012 York University students launch 10-day occupation January 26, 2012 India: The world's biggest ever strike January 26, 2012 Obama's State of the Union address: War and wage-cutting January 25, 2012 Canada exports jobs along with its oil January 25, 2012 More Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions January 25, 2012 Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street January 25, 2012 CAW Members Block Caterpillar Train in Ingersoll January 25, 2012 Caterpillar talking points: profits, tax breaks and relocation threats January 25, 2012 Zapotec protesters shot on behalf of Canadian mining company January 25, 2012 In The News archive:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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| 7:00pm, Friday January 27, 2012 Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto. Add to iCal | Google | Yahoo |
GTWA Coffeehouse: Occupy Debrief 2011 - maybe it wasn't quite 1968 but it was a year of great social upheaval. With 2011 behind us, the GTWA is holding the first in what will be a new series of Coffeehouses to discuss where we are as a movement, with this particular one featuring two local activists who were very involved in Occupy Toronto, and in particular building links between the Occupy movement and the labour movement. Is this the beginning of a new community/labour coalition that we've been waiting for? Will the Occupy movement be able to sustain itself and help awaken a dormant labour movement? How did the Occupy Toronto experience measure up with other Occupations? These and other issues will be topics of comradely discussion. Speakers: Brendan Bruce, Lana Goldberg, Megan Kinch and Paul Gray Organized by the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Internal Education and Political Development Committee (IEPD) | Facebook event |
| January 19 - February 26, 2012 Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Add to iCal | Google | Yahoo |
Art Exhibit: Scene Otherwise An exhibition of recent work by Carole Conde + Karl Beveridge Please join us Thursday, January 19th 6-9pm for an opening reception Scene Otherwise takes a number of artistic conventions and images and re-imagines them in terms of contemporary concerns. The first exhibition of the work of Condé + Beveridge in Toronto in over eight years, it brings together a number of projects that address issues of the environment, economics and politics. Facebook event |
| October 15 - February 15, 2012 City Hall, 100 Queen St W, Toronto. Add to iCal | Google | Yahoo |
Protest: Occupy Toronto Market Exchange General Assemblies at 7pm at Nathan Phillips Square - staying in touch | regular committee mtgs Jan 6-8 - Occupy Toronto - Regrouping Weekend: "Retreat, Regroup, Reoccupy!" at 25 Cecil Street. Friday 7-10pm; Saturday 11-7pm; Sunday 11-6pm. Jan 20-22 - Occupy Toronto - Activist Assembly at OISE. Friday 7-10pm; Saturday 12-4pm; Sunday 12-6pm. www.occupyto.org | Facebook - Occupy Toronto | Occupy TV |
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