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Courtesy The Real News

“Robin Hahnel spoke at UT-Austin to scholars, students, and activists. He discusses alternatives to corporate capitalism, different economic visions, and Venezuela’s social economy, which he describes as ‘the first great social experiment of the 21^st. Century.’

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“A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters conference on April 14 to speak out about the ‘dangerous lack of diversity of opinion’ that characterizes the state of broadcasting today.”

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MayDay for Our Millennium

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The Canadian peace movement has just held a series of marches to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and to call on the Canadian government to end our military involvement in Afghanistan. A majority of Canadians want the troops home, and over sixty per cent oppose extending the mission past 2009. Yet, almost every Liberal MP lined up with the Conservatives on March 13 to support Stephen Harper’s plan to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan to 2011.

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Every year around this time advertising for Mayworks begins — but you won’t likely see any sign of it on billboards, or even in newspapers. That’s because Mayworks is a low-budget arts festival that depends mostly on word of mouth, notices to unions and flyers on telephone poles to bring out audiences. Each year the crowd gets bigger, as does the program, which is all about getting artists and workers together to celebrate.

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Global migration has been increasing rapidly over the last decades within and between states. A disquieting aspect of this has been the growth of migrant workers who are non-citizens and thus lack ‘status’. Many of these workers are coming as part of formal government programs, especially in areas of domestic workers and seasonal agricultural workers, but also in others. They are especially ‘workers of colour’ from the global south. These programs have been expanding rapidly in Canada, and the Conservative government of Stephen Harper appears set to expand them even further. These developments have sparked demonstrations for migrant rights in many parts of the world, particularly in North America. People will again be marching this week in Canada, largely under the banner of ‘No One Is Illegal’. The following report emerges from a submission to the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. It outlines vividly why unionists and workers should all be out marching in solidarity with migrant workers across Canada and North America.

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