Capitalism

Class Solidarity: What It Is and How You Can Engage in It

11/08/20
Author: 
Kim Kelly
Link: 
Portside (originally TEEN VOGUE)
raised fists - NURPHOTO

August 10, 2020 (original - JUNE 2, 2020 in https://www.teenvogue.com/)

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Capitalism
Labour - Unions
Social
USA
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Significant economic shifts needed in post-pandemic world: business council

04/08/20
Author: 
Jeremy Hainsworth
Link: 
Business in Vancouver
Greater investment in infrastructure development will bolster economic recovery from the pandemic, a Business Council of BC report says | Maxvis/Getty
[Here, from the Business Council of BC, is another part of what we're up against in determining "whose new normal." Looks pretty much like the old normal with the possible addition of minimal support for childcare resources, a fond wish to co-opt Indigenous groups, an increase in government spending to boost business profits, and a decrease in regulations that protect the rest of us.
           
                Gene McGuckin]
 
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British Columbia
Canada
Capitalism
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Capitalism may not survive 2020 global crisis, which will cut deeper and last longer than many predict

29/07/20
Author: 
Richard D. Wolff
Link: 
rt.com
© Getty Images / pidjoe

21 Jul, 2020

The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments’ incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism’s worst.

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Capitalism
Climate Change
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Trans Mountain losing insurer as Zurich to drop coverage: Report

27/07/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Construction on the Burnaby Terminal continues as Trans Mountain prepares to install 14 new storage tanks. Photo: Trans Mountain

July 22nd 2020

Zurich Insurance Group has decided not to renew coverage of the Trans Mountain pipeline, according to a media report.

The news comes roughly a year after the large Swiss insurance company declared it would reject companies that operate “purpose-built” transportation infrastructure for oilsands products, including pipelines.

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Category: 
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Capitalism
Oil - Pipelines
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Who guards the ‘guardian angels’ upholding our pandemic response?

18/07/20
Author: 
Krista Lynes, Anne-Marie Trépanier
Link: 
ricochet.media
Guardian Angel

JULY 16, 2020

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Canada
Capitalism
Labour - Unions
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We are all plastic people now, in ways we can’t see – and can no longer ignore

18/07/20
Author: 
Rick Smith
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
17 July 2020

Our global plastics problem has been steadily growing for decades, polluting the planet in obvious ways. Less obvious are the microplastics that we eat and breathe, and the impacts they have on our health. I experimented on myself to find out more.

[Video at link]

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Canada
Capitalism
Ecology/Environment
Oil - Pipelines
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Horror Story!! The US Government Gave Big Oil the Power to Prosecute Its Biggest Critic

15/07/20
Author: 
David Sirota Walker Bragman
Link: 
Jacobin Magazine
Attorney Steve Donziger with indigenous leader Manari Ushigua from the Sápara nation in the Amazon, which has been fighting incursions by oil companies. Manari visited to express solidarity with Donziger during his house arrest. Steve Donziger / Twitter

July 14, 2020

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Capitalism
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
Social
USA
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Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US Covid-19 aid

11/07/20
Author: 
Emily Holden
Link: 
The Guardian
Environmental advocates say investing billions in an industry that is polluting the planet and causing the climate crisis is short-sighted and a bad use of public money. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

7 Jul 2020

Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds

More than 5,600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3bn in coronavirus aid from the US federal government, according to an analysis by Documented and the Guardian of newly released data.

The businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, as well as refiners, pipeline companies and firms that provide services to the industry.

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Coal
Ecology/Environment
Oil - Pipelines
Social
USA
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COVID and Mass Unemployment: The NDP and Beyond

11/07/20
Author: 
Tim Heffernan, Simon Schweitzer and Bill Hopwood
Link: 
The Bullet
No mass evictions protest

July 8, 2020 

Canada has now been under COVID-19 restrictions for three months, and many provinces are starting to open up again, although the virus is not under control. Canada is not yet out of the first wave and is certainly not ready to deal with the inevitable second wave. The Liberal government has acted too little and too late, but living next door to US’s Trump-caused disaster, it doesn’t look so bad.

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Canada
Capitalism
Social
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The Floyd rebellion: pathway to a revolution?

05/07/20
Author: 
Kali Akuno
Link: 
Roar Magazine

June 30, 2020

9-11 minutes

The Floyd rebellion is changing the world before our very eyes. What type of change and to what degree it will shift the balance of forces between rulers and ruled, haves and the have-nots remains to be seen. What is clear is that there is an active and open political contest to shape the outcome.

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Capitalism
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