New Orleans When my friends in Canada compare their politics to the great southland of the United States, I know there’s no compliment coming at the back end of the sentence. When friends started sending me emails from the great north that said, “robo-calls, voter suppression, sounds like…,” I knew that “USA” filled in that [...]
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New Orleans ACORN International’s global Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.og) continues to confront new, amazing, and mysterious challenges as ACORN Canada pushes forward in Ottawa and British Columbia. In a meeting won by actions at the ACORN Canada convention six weeks ago with top officials of the Finance Ministry our negotiators efforts to discuss the need [...] New Orleans Yesterday on the ACORN International website (www.acorninternational.org), we released the third of our investigative, research reports in connection with our Remittance Justice Campaign. The bottom line is that the amounts of informal transfers are huge and underestimated. They are wildly cheaper by many orders of magnitude (0.25% to 1.25% compared to World [...] Ottawa The members listened intently and applauded frequently as they were addressed by friends from the Canadian labor movement. Unfortunately what they were hearing was less a Canadian problem than part of an orchestrated international attack by governments and corporations on basic employment standards and unions. Sean McKenny, President of the Ottawa District Labour Council, [...] Vancouver Sharing election night with my friends in Vancouver was a wild and bittersweet experience. Earlier in the day hopes had soared on speculation of a rising number of seats being won by the New Democratic Party (NDP) which for some time has been the progressive voice of Canadians and the likelihood that they [...] New Orleans We read daily about another global democratic “spring,” and we actually have an election nearby in Canada. Some of you are stifling a yawn!, but it’s an important election particularly if another country can be pulled back from the conservative abyss through a timely realignment. One of the most interesting tidbits emerging [...] |
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