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Imtiaz Popat and I celebrated Labour Day on “The Rational” last night. The video podcast is below.
We discussed:
- Labour Day
- my Labour Day article today: “Labour Day, Dignity and Doubling the CPP”
- volunteer labour
- dignity for seniors
- doubling the CPP because $11,000/year is unacceptable
- BC’s pathetic minimum wage
- a fall federal election could lead to a Liberal minority government and time to leverage them for economic dignity
- student poverty is a result of right wing ideological choices: post-secondary education is seen as an income boost and the government wants its cut
- the government is managing our CPP funds by investing in tar sands and privatized highways
- BC’s Gateway Project and the North American transportation infrastructure vs. Peak Oil
- workers and unions need to engage in society by working in coalition with community groups and climate justice
- corporations and government employers are not taking the lead on greening our society, so workers need to
- extremism, xenophobia and skapegoating
- increased corporate profitability, how productivity gains aren’t trickling down to workers: class war
- all majority governments are bad right now, especially considering how much of the social conservative agenda being introduced by Harper with just a minority government
- BC Conservative party’s increasing viability, along with the BC Greens means more of a chance of a BC minority government in 2013
- what will it take for a BC political party to say they’ll actually get rid of the HST?
- and we would have talked about this intensely if I had read it in time!
The video podcast of the conversation lives at Vista Video.
You can watch it in Miro, the best new open source multimedia viewing software: http://www.miroguide.com/feeds/8832
or…
You can watch it in iTunes: itpc://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xml
or…
The podcast file is at http://dgivista.org/pod/COOP.Radio.2010.09.06.mov
Enjoy!
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March 30, 2011 The Conservative-Liberal Coalition ALREADY Rules Us
December 21, 2010 Flaherty’s CPP Double Cross
September 19, 2012 So Did YOU Get a 3% Raise Last Year?
September 6, 2011 Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, September 5, 2011
April 23, 2011 The Democratic Rebirth of Canada
March 7, 2011 The “Harper Government,” Soft Fascism, Coalitions and ProRep
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, professor, speaker, consultant, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because the BC Liberal Party has been working hard to ruin public education. He has various English and Political Science degrees and has been writing political, social and economic editorials since November 2002. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, and at his website, dgiVista.org.
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