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    Cyclone Nargis - links and things you can do
    Written by Trish Elliott   
    Sunday, 11 May 2008
    Just over a week ago I was working on an update on Burma’s Saffron Revolution. There had been some protests in various locations, and resistance was carrying on with low level yet surprisingly determined intensity. A national referendum intended to entrench military power was scheduled for May 10; in the run-up people advocating a ‘no’ vote were being beaten and sentenced to jail on a daily basis. I was concerned that Burma were being forgotten at a critical moment.

    Then Cyclone Nargis hit, dramatically altering the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and refocusing world attention on the country’s people. Whole villages were torn apart and Rangoon, one of the world’s most beautiful and beleaguered cities, became a disaster zone within hours. My first reaction was concern for people I knew in the area of the storm. I wondered if their house was okay. I didn’t realize yet that more than houses were at stake, and that the devastation beyond Rangoon was even worse. Slowly, along with people around the world, I experienced the growing realization that this was a far bigger disaster than initial reports indicated.

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    Free the U of T tuition protestors
    Written by CUPE Action   
    Wednesday, 07 May 2008
    Fourteen students and workers have been charged in connection with a  peaceful sit-in at the University of Toronto over rising tuition fees and they need our help. The "Fight Fees 14" have been charged with extremely serious offences,  including forcible confinement. The university administration is also contemplating expelling 12 students.

    Meanwhile, the campus community - including many members of CUPE - is subjected to a campaign of intimidation by the U of T’s administration and police. The university itself is publicly lobbying to deregulate tuition fees. The U of T Fight Fees 14 have asked CUPE for help fighting the disciplinary proceedings and criminal charges.

    Please take a moment to sign the petition:http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fightfees/
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    Manitoba halts school closures
    Written by Trish Elliott   
    Tuesday, 06 May 2008

    Manitoba is moving to halt school closures and provide additional support for community schools, parents from that province report. If passed, Bill 28 will place a moratorium on closures and introduce more stringent decision-making guidelines.

    “We gave a report and presentation to our school division and to the minister's office. Within a month of this, the attached bill came out,” school advocate Victoria Schindle said in an email.

    For the first time, community consensus will now factor into closure decisions. According to the proposed Strengthening Local Schools Act: “A school board can close a school only if it demonstrates that there is a consensus among the affected parents and residents that the school be closed.” As well, schools in low socio-economic areas will be safeguarded and provided additional funds.   Write Comment (0 Comments)
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    England Swings Strong to the Right -- Green Taxes Highly Unpopular
    Contributed by John W. Warnock   
    Saturday, 03 May 2008
    Belfast - Voters in England and Wales gave Gordon Brown and New Labour a major kick in the ass in local elections on May Day. Labour fell to third place, 20 points behind the Tories. The public's distain for the right wing policies of New Labour even brought down Ken Livingstone, the progressive mayor of London. While labour supporters stayed home, the well-off went to the polls in record numbers.

    One of the key issues has been the imposition of Green taxes. A major poll by Opinium reports that 70 per cent of Britons are opposed to green taxes, consumption taxes like those placed on gasoline and energy use. The widespread feeling is that they fall heaviest on the middle class and the poor, those least able to pay. They pose no deterrent to those in the higher income brackets. Write Comment (1 Comments)
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    May Day! highlights
    Written by Trish Elliott   
    Friday, 02 May 2008

    Click and Send a Letter to Brad Wall

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    Grain producers need your help
    Written by Turning News   
    Friday, 25 April 2008
    Stephen Harper's Conservative Government has tabled legislation that threatens the Canadian Grain Commission and the vital services it provides to farmers and consumers. Bill C-39 will dramatically reduce inspection of grain with serious consequences for Canada's international reputation as a producer of the highest quality grain.
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    The Booming Saskatchewan Oil Industry - Who Benefits?
    Contributed by John W. Warnock   
    Sunday, 20 April 2008
    In mid-April the international price for WTI crude oil reached $110 per barrel. In Saskatchewan the price of a litre of gasoline rose to $1.23. The large oil corporations are reporting record profits. Land sales for exploration and development rights for oil are at an all time high in Saskatchewan. Why is this happening?  Who is benefitting?

    At a recent conference in Washington sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, experts argued that the world production of conventional crude oil peaked in May 2005 at 74 million barrels a day. The gap to 88 million barrels a day is now being filled by much more expensive non-conventional sources. There no longer are any large new pools of conventional oil be discovered. Despite warnings by scientists about the looming disaster from global warming, fossil fuel demand is steadily rising.
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    Joshua Key appeals asylum denial
    Written by Peter Garden   
    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

    Joshua Key who spoke recently at a war resisters' support gathering in Saskatoon appeared before a Canadian Federal Court in Toronto to appeal his asylum denial. If Joshua loses this appeal, he may be faced with deportation to the United States where he faces harsh consequences for deserting the U.S. Military.

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    Message from Amnesty International Canada
    Written by Alex Neve   
    Saturday, 12 April 2008
    Dear Friend,
    More than three weeks have passed since 15 monks were arrested in a violent crackdown by Chinese police in Tibet. The monks are being held in a secret location and Amnesty International believes they are at high risk of torture.

    The Chinese government is facing strong criticism from around the world for its harsh actions in Tibet, and severe clampdown on journalists and human rights activists throughout the country.
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    Loud and Proud!
    Contributed by Berlynn   
    Tuesday, 08 April 2008

    Regina's B-Team coalesced to organize a rally at MP Tom Lukiwski's constituent office on April 8.  The coalition formed in response to the NDP's release of a video showing MP Tom Lukiwski's homophobic behaviour at a Conservative Party of Saskatchewan party in 1991.  In it he said, "There’s A’s and there’s B’s. The A’s are guys like me, the B’s are homosexual faggots with dirt on their fingernails that transmit diseases.”

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