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Coalition to build a better BC launches
Organized labour, education, seniors, anti-poverty, aboriginal, women, student and other movements unite.
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Three cheers for old socialism
I suppose Stéphane Dion thought he was delivering a knockout blow when he hit out at Jack Layton for championing "old socialism." Funnily enough, the raging crisis in world finance is revealing the merits of public ownership, the distinguishing socialist characteristic. Eminent authorities, no socialists, are suggesting than rather than give over $700 billion to American banks in need of liquidity, in exchange for bad mortgage debt, the U.S. government should be taking ownership positions in the banks. The best guess is that the U.S. banking bailout will not restore normal lending.
Politicians genetically incapable of twittering
Last last week the Dominion Institute released the results of a study that raised and important election question. Why are Canadian political parties so dreadfully bad at using social media to communicate with young potential voters?
'The youth and the poor were ready for revolution in Arab countries'
When recently in Beirut and Cairo for Arab preparatory meetings for Rio+20, Diana Bronson had a chance to sit down with Adnan Melky, a long-time civil society activist from Lebanon, who has worked on environmental issues and democratic reform in Lebanon, and throughout the Arab region. Excerpts from their conversation are reproduced here.
Diana Bronson: What is your view of how the Arab Spring started and how do you understand it today?
LIVE Friday and Saturday: Watch 'Indignez-Vous!' conference on rabble.ca
rabble.ca will live-stream the "Indignez-Vous! Hope in Resistance" conference this Friday and Saturday. Indignez-Vous! is being organized by the Council of Canadians/ le Conseil des Canadiens, Alternatives, Eau Secours!, Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique (AQLPA), and Médecins Quebecois pour la regime publique (MQRP).
