CONTENTS

1. CALLS TO ACTION
2. EVENTS
3. ARTICLES

Mercury Justice for Grassy Narrows

Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Ford, I am writing to demand that you live up to your obligations to Grassy Narrows First Nation.

I demand that you:
1. Compensate everyone in Grassy Narrows fairly for the mercury crisis,

2. Respect the Grassy Narrows Indigenous Protected Area and end industrial threats to Grassy Narrows including mining,

3. Shut down the Dryden mill that continues to worsen the mercury crisis,

4. Say no to nuclear waste disposal in Grassy Narrows’ headwaters,

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Protect CUPW’s right to free and open bargaining!

Canada Post is a national, public corporation that belongs to all Canadians. A fair deal for postal workers is a fair deal for each and every one of us. Let’s call on the Liberal government to protect workers’ rights and defend our public postal service for everyone.

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No Room at the Inn

When: December 12th, 12pm

Hospital discharges, what rights do patients & their substitute decision-makers have?

Jane Meadus, lawyer and advocate at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly and Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition have this important conversation.

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How will the Trump Victory affect SfP’s Work?

When: December 12th, 6pm
Where: Friend’s House, 60 Lowther Ave

Join other Science For Peace (SfP) members and supporters for an informal discussion on reducing nuclear war risks and addressing environmental devastation in the new era. Five-minute introductions: Jorge Filmus, Richard Sandbrook and Arnd Jurgensen.

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Road to Resistance ‘Bad Boss’ Tour

When: December 13th, 12pm
Where: 200 Front St W.

Join Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW) as we embark on an epic Road to Resistance ‘Bad Boss’ tour on. Over the next 12 months we will be targeting bad bosses and their enablers in government to demand respect and dignity for migrant workers across Ontario. The December 13th tour will visit employer enablers such as the WSIB, Ministry of Labour and a whole cast of characters who are denying migrants fairness at work.

While charities highlight the season as a time of giving for the less fortunate, we are organizing with workers to take back what has been denied by governments, and to take back wages owed by greedy bosses.

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CUPE 79 – Senior Services & LTC Members Deserve A Fair Deal

When: Friday, December 13th, 2:45pm
Where: Carefree Lodge, 306 Finch Ave E (Bayview and Finch)

Join CUPE Local 79 demand a fair deal for Senior Services and Long-Term Care members in bargaining with the City of Toronto.

The division has some of the highest staff vacancy rates at nearly 10% or the equivalent of over 450 permanent positions. Recently, the employer has also started to crack down on the organizing work the Local is doing across the long-term care homes.

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Freedom Fete

When: Friday December 13th, 7pm
Where: United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St

Come Free-Up! Come dance the night away with DJ Zehra AND support the Toronto Community Justice Fund with your donations!!

There will be raffle prizes and performers through-out the evening. Guests will be provided with 1-free alcoholic drink ticket and snacks + non-alcoholic drinks.

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Peacebuilding Next to Russia

When: Saturday December 14th, 12pm

Finland and Russia not only share a 1,340-kilometer (833 miles) border, but also a long history. There have been many conflicts and disagreements, many of which have been resolved without violence and war. Now, as tensions build, it is important to hear from advocates for peace, nonviolent resolution to conflicts, and ways to reduce the tension.

Sponsored by: Illinois for a World BEYOND War; Friends Society (Quakers) of Finland; Women for Peace, Finland; and World BEYOND War.

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Gaza Square

When: Every Sunday, 11am to 1pm
Where: 371 Wallace Ave

We’ll be at Gaza square once again this Sunday morning with hot chocolate and coffee, buttons and posters, lawn signs and colourful chalk! Come say hi and meet your fellow neighbours/organizers as we make our presence known and continue to build safety in our community!

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Should a Public Telecom Be An Election Issue?

When: December 15th, 7pm

In the midst of financial hardship, overpriced and underserviced digital accessibility is being foisted on those who need them most but can afford them least: Indigenous communities, rural residents, students, social service recipients (ODSP/OW) and the working poor.

Join us as Cory Doctorow, a trailblazer in the fight to expose the digital oligopolies’ predatory machinations and to democratize the internet, will make a social, technological, and political case for New Democrats to embrace the demand for a public telecom in the upcoming elections next year. Cory, a journalist, activist and the author of 30 books, describes what the corporate telecoms have done to the digital realm with the most popular new word introduced in 2023: “enshittification.”

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Weekly Phone-zap for Palestine

When: Mondays at 12:30pm

Week after week, we’re keeping the momentum going with our Monday lunchtime zaps.

Our collective action is making waves, but we need to ensure our elected officials continue to feel the pressure until real change happens.

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Canadian Foreign Policy Hour with Yves Engler

When: Mondays at 6pm

Join author Yves Engler on Mondays for a weekly news roundup and interactive discussion about Canada’s role abroad. This weekly session will delve into the latest developments on subjects ranging from military affairs and Canada’s role in Ukraine to its contribution to Palestinian dispossession, and the exploitation of African resources. Join Yves for a critical take on Canada’s foreign policy. Questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome.

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Fighting to Win

When: January 6 to March 31 (Mondays 6pm)
Where: Carrot Common (near Chester station)
No course fees; donations gratefully accepted.

Facilitated by John Clarke, former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

Drawing on the examples provided by a wide range of struggles, the course will look at how working class and popular struggles have won important victories. It will also consider, however, the strategies that have been used by those in power to contain and demobilize social resistance. Finally, it will explore the approaches that are needed today to fight back effectively in these volatile and uncertain times.

Space in this course is limited, registration required.

Israel’s Sick Sense of Humour

By Judy Haiven

With all the talk about a ceasefire in Lebanon, the following news about AI (artificial intelligence) may have got lost. The Israelis and their supporters like to laugh about the thousands left severely injured or blinded and the dozens killed in Lebanon in late September when Israel detonated tens of thousands of pagers at one time. Quite a joke! Or when Israel programmed implosions of thousands of walkie-talkies which killed 20 and seriously injured another 450 in Lebanon. Israel suspected the pagers and walkie-talkies belonged to Hezbollah ‘militants’. So were the killings and maimings justified? Really?

Source: The Bullet No. 3066

In Ukraine, the Real Desire to Sacrifice Oneself for the State is Very Weak

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian sociologist who was politically active and took part in several left-wing initiatives in Ukraine before moving to Germany in 2019. Ishchenko currently works at the Freie Universität in Berlin and continues his research on the Ukrainian “revolutions,” the left, and the political violence of the extreme right, which he has been studying for 20 years. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, he has also written extensively in several international media outlets on different aspects of the conflict. He was interviewed by Philippe Alcoy and Sasha Yaropolskaya for the journal Révolution Permanente.

Source: The Bullet No. 3067

IJV Condemns Police Repression Against Palestine Solidarity Movement

By Independent Jewish Voices

Across Canada and internationally, we are seeing a marked rise in violent repression of the Palestine solidarity movement. Independent Jewish Voices condemns the mounting criminalization of Palestine solidarity activism, and the use of excessive force by police to intimidate and harass activists. On October 15, 2024, the Canadian government listed the group Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a “terrorist entity” under the Criminal Code, in response to months of pressure by pro-Israel lobby groups, a few Liberal MPs and the opposition Conservatives.

Source: The Bullet No. 3068

The Conflicted Transformation of CAW-Unifor: A Review of Shifting Gears

By Herman Rosenfeld

Recent commentaries on the political trajectory of the major private sector union in Canada, CAW-Unifor, have often had a rather simplistic and problematic perspective. That the CAW-Unifor (the latter being the new name and re-foundation of the union in 2013) drifted from a left, struggle-oriented approach, summarized in the slogan “Fighting back makes a difference,” toward a more collaborative centrist and Gomperist political approach, as the union distanced itself and ultimately moved away from the New Democratic Party (NDP).

Source: The Bullet No. 3069