RALLY FRIDAY at 5 pm.
Be part of the co-ordinated actions taking place across Canada, the United States and other countries this weekend to declare with one voice, NOT ONE MORE DEATH! STOP THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN! INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT IN WAR!
WINDSOR Anti-War Rally and Demonstration
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
5 to 6 pm.
Corner of Goyeau and Wyandotte
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!
U.S. OUT OF IRAQ!
NO TO AN ATTACK ON IRAN!
Windsor Peace Coalition www.windsorpeace.org
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Rally Across the World for December 8, the International Day of Climate Action!
Join millions of people in 70 countries (and counting) who will be on the streets to demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilization of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in preventing dangerous climate change.
As heads of state meet in Bali, Indonesia for the UN Climate Negotiations to negotiate the our future, on December 8 the youth of Canada can stand in solidarity with millions world wide to demand our leaders take real action.
We also demand that the long-industrialized countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases up to now take most of the responsibility for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.
In Canada, the case is particularly severe: Canada declared our Kyoto targets unachievable and joined Bush's club of polluting nations who think "voluntary targets" will reach our commitments. December 8 is our day to tell our government that the only path to a stable climate runs through Kyoto!
The CYCC is joining ACT for the Earth in organizing actions nationwide, through local, city and rural based coalitions.
Rallies are currently planned for Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Lethbridge, details, including contact information, are here: http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/index.php?cmd=Main.ShowCountry&id=11〈=en&PHPSESSID=af91db948f12ce81b964e22976a0ea84#country11
No rally planned for your location? Plan one! Contact actions@ourclimate.ca, director@ourclimate.ca, or campaigns@actfortheearth.org to get involved!
CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR NEW RALLIES:
www.ourclimate.ca
www.actfortheearth.org/stopclimatechaos
Follow what's going on at the UN: www.cydbali.org
www.globalclimatecampaign.org
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Barbara Hayes
National Director
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Directrice nationale
Coalition canadienne des jeunes pour le climat
office: 613-241-1615
cell: 613-255-5724
skype: barbarajeansophia
Saturday, October 20, 2007
A Short History of Economics
Marilyn WaringMarilyn Waring is a lecturer, writer and development consultant. She is also a farmer and she says herself that it is this calling that has had the most profound influence on the way she understands the economy. Unfortunately, Waring's ideas have never seriously influenced the way our Canadian economic system works. However, Marilyn Waring has been a great inspiration to many people, especially women, who feel that the current economic system excludes much of life.
Waring says that when economy includes only activities which involve monetary transactions, much of women's productive and reproductive work is excluded. Bearing children, mothering, tending a garden, feeding one's family, milking a family cow, raising sheep for wool you use yourself, all of these are excluded as economic activities and do not find their way into any country's System of National Accounts. In other words, through a traditional understanding of the economy, much of the work of half of the population becomes invisible. (See Julie's story.)
According to Waring, mainstream economics has also not found a way of counting the resources on which valued production is based, namely the earth. For example, activities which involve monetary transactions count as production even when they involve the degradation of the earth's resources, such as strip-mining. A sunset has no value, nor a mountain, and trees only count when they have been chopped down and sold. At the same time, Waring criticizes traditional economics for not finding a way to value community well-being. By current thinking, war and disaster are 'good for the economy' because they create jobs such as arms production and clean-up.
Waring's video Who's Counting? is available at public libraries and universities across Canada as are her books, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth and Three Masquerades: Politics, Work, and Human Rights.www.unpac.ca/economy/historyecon.html
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Redistribution of Wealth
Three Models of Global Community.
Debates about global justice tend to assume normative models of global community without justifying them explicitly. These models are divided between those that advocate a borderless world and those that emphasize the self-sufficiency of smaller political communities. In the first case, there are conceptions of a community of trade and a community of law. In the second case, there are ideas of a community of nation-states and of a community of autonomous communities. The nation-state model, however, is not easily justified and is one that has been criticized extensively elsewhere. The model of a community of trade underlies both advocates of market-oriented development and exponents of global schemes of redistribution of resources and incomes. I analyze the work of Charles Beitz, Peter Singer, and Thomas Pogge to show that the assumption that global interdependence is beneficial is poorly justified. The model of a community of law, as seen in the work of Henry Shue and others, is the basis for arguments against state sovereignty and in favor of international human rights regimes. I argue that this model suffers either from a problem of practicability or of hegemony. Finally, the model of a community of autonomous communities uses notions of patriotism and sovereignty to maintain that disengagement and independence are the best routes to global peace and justice.
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