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Fixing Vancouver’s Homelessness: A Survey With Teeth
Welcome to our Community Consultation Survey on Homeless Solutions and the Howe Shelter
via City of Vancouver Homelessness Solutions Survey.
In a time where Vancouver city council may or may not have the will to oppose a provincial government they seem to be cozying up with, they issue a survey to see what the citizens think of addressing homelessness and the Howe Shelter.
Even if they do the wrong thing with this, asking for our input is better than an NPA council will do.
Even if the province ignores it all, this is a survey to take part in, especially if you live downtown!
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“I Am A Free Speech Zone”: A T-Shirt for the Olympics
“I Am A Free Speech Zone”
Let’s put it on t-shirts to let VANOC know that citizens are in charge in a democracy!
What if we all wore them all around town during the Olympics as a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card? Would it be like when I used to hand out copies of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to my grade 9 students upon their arrival in high school, and watch them stroll through life calling bullshit?
Maybe it’s more like an inoculation against the emerging police state.
Read some of the nonsense here: http://tinyurl.com/2010Daphne then go make your t-shirt!
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Why the Windsor CUPE Strike Will Inspire You
Read on and enrich your spirit for progressive social change, understand the need to build solidarity on the ground, and learn about the threat of cyber-scabbing!
The strike is an instance rare in the current climate of workers’ struggling for a political principle rather than immediate wage demands. As such, it has much to teach but also reveals complex challenges that both the labour movement and the Canadian left will have to meet in the near future.
The main issue at stake for both locals is the City’s demand that post-retirement medical benefits be eliminated for all future hires.
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The future of the union movement as the first line of working class defence against ruling class attempts to make working people pay for the recurrent crises of capitalism depends upon its discovering new ways to mobilize its membership against this new mutation of an old divide and conquer strategy. It also depends on building solidarity, the next critical issue of general significance raised by the strike.
via Cyber-scabbing? Lessons for labour from the Windsor CUPE strike | rabble.ca.