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allan crawshaw

@allan_crawshaw

Senior Citizen, Humanist, Socialist, Anti-War, Anti-poverty, Environmentalist, Anti- Trump, Pro-Worker, Love the Arts, Charity, Civil Rights, Social Justice

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Elizabeth May(@ElizabethMay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Watching those in power fail to take real climate action has been painful. We’ve been given a clear deadline, and we have solutions available. With the right leadership and political courage, we can fix this. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I grew up in a time when computer devices weren’t widely available.

It recently occurred to me that by the end of this century, few if any will recall what life was like then.

That thought made me sad.

I didn’t understand why until I read this article.

theguardian.com/science/2022/j…

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Tamara Lorincz(@TamaraLorincz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's not just a tale of 2 warplanes Murray Brewster there's another option: . Thousands of Canadians incl David Suzuki, Sarah Harmer etc don't want new carbon-intensive combat aircraft. Why didn't you mention that? nofighterjets.ca bit.ly/3sUYYKI

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marissa Reyes-Diaz:

“Agroecology has always been a form of resistance against colonial capitalism and here we are trying to rescue collective working and reject individualism by reconnecting people to the land and food and building trust and solidarity.”

theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Canada’s top 100 CEOs now make, on average, 191 times more than the average worker in Canada.

There is no CEO on planet earth whose labour is truly worth 191 times more than that of the average worker.

thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“There are areas of Alaska that had no evidence of beavers 50 years ago that are now apparently saturated with them… this is likely happening across the rest of the Arctic in Canada and Russia, that gives you an idea of the scope of this change.”
theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

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Peace Brigades International - Canada(@PBIcanada) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With Wet’suwet’en land defenders expecting another militarized RCMP raid, we document the gender-based violence against women environmental human rights defenders experienced in the context of colonialism, extractivism and systemic racism: pbicanada.org/2022/01/01/vio…

With Wet’suwet’en land defenders expecting another militarized RCMP raid, we document the gender-based violence against women environmental human rights defenders experienced in the context of colonialism, extractivism and systemic racism: pbicanada.org/2022/01/01/vio… #PBIaccompanies
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Hala Abou-Hassira(@HalaAbouHassira) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hisham Hawwash sera libéré le 26 février, mais 5000 autres détenus politiques palestiniens, y compris des femmes et enfants, restent en prisons israéliennes, dont 500 en détention administrative.

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After representatives of smear actress Emma Watson for mildly expressing solidarity with Palestinians, Leah Greenberg accuses them of a “perfect demonstration of the utterly cynical and bad-faith weaponization of antisemitism…”

theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

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Jimmy Thomson(@jwsthomson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a former CBCer with my own gripes about it: CBC is many things. 'Radical woke left' is truly not one of them.

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nearly one million have been killed in direct violence during the US 'war on terror'.

The killings occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Niger, Mali, Cameroon and Kenya - and those are only the countries we know about.

commondreams.org/views/2022/01/…

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Peter Kalmus(@ClimateHuman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Our central, civilizational question is this: why do nations scramble to rescue the banks but not the planet?' George Monbiot
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A coalition of public health experts sign an open letter denouncing François Legault's second curfew as 'a punishment imposed on individuals to distract from the [Quebec] government’s systematic neglect and inaction in managing the pandemic.'

breachmedia.ca/quebecs-pandem…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Une coalition d'experts signe une lettre ouverte dénonçant le second couvre-feu de @FrançoisLegault comme une « punition » imposée aux individus « pour masquer la négligence et l’inaction systémiques du gouvernement en matière de gestion pandémique. »

pivot.quebec/2021/12/30/le-…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As Katrina vanden Heuvel argues, the true security interests of the US are a reduction in tensions with Russia, more cooperation between them on climate change and the pandemic, and keeping out of .

Canada should support this approach.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My latest:

With fanfare, the Trudeau government just adopted a federal minimum wage. What the government isn't telling you is that the new minimum wage lets Canada's wildly profitable banks pay to their employees much less than a living wage.

dimitrilascaris.org/2022/01/05/can…

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Peter Kalmus(@ClimateHuman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One big problem is that a lot of people, maybe most, still think that more solar panels and electric cars is all it will take to solve climate and ecological breakdown.

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Dimitri Lascaris(@dimitrilascaris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In India’s upcoming elections, this is the kind of language being used by right-wing Hindu nationalists:

“Nothing is possible without weapons. If you want to eliminate their [the Muslim] population, then we are ready to kill them.”

newsclick.in/Right-Wing-Hat…

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