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$2 | No 617 | June Revolution in Sudan Page 3 Abortion Canadian rights under attack page 4-5 Green genocide party is not so green page 2 Justice for Foodora Workers Page 6 Booksmart: Smarter than Superbad page 7 Photo: Glassghost, CC-BY-NC 2.0 fter almost three years of hearings, actions detailed within this report. The national people as lazy freeloaders. When challenged from the settler population. the National Inquiry into Missing inquiry’s findings support characterizing these she refused to remove the letters, calling them There’s a long way to go. The latest stats and Murdered Indigenous Women acts, including violence against Indigenous “edgy and opinionated” rather than racist. It show that 60% of Indigenous children on re- Aand Girls has issued its final report. It women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, as took months for the Senate to censure her, a slap serves live in poverty. Indigenous youth counted concludes that the thousands of deaths and dis- genocide.” on the wrist in the form of a brief suspension. for 46% of young people admitted to youth cor- appearances are part of a “Canadian genocide” rectional services (2016-17) while accounting fueled by “state actions and inactions rooted in Police obstruction Trudeau words ring hollow for only 8% of the population. Governments colonialism and colonial ideologies.” The authors acknowledge that they cannot accu- Justin Trudeau supported the Inquiry verbally, refuse to acknowledge environmental racism, Some politicians are more upset about the use rately count the victims largely because police but refused to acknowledge the word “geno- like the mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows. of the term genocide than the systemic violence. forces–especially the RCMP–refused to coop- cide”. As long as he is bent on forcing oil pipe- And reports of racist abuse of Indigenous sexual Bernard Valcourt, a Minister of Aboriginal Af- erate. Of almost 300 documents and reports re- lines through Indigenous territories his words assault victims at the hands of police continue fairs during Stephen Harper’s Conservative quested by the Inquiry, the RCMP has delivered ring hollow. to surface. regime, dismissed the report as “propagandist”. only 107. And many of those were so heavily The Report, entitled Reclaiming Power and The MMIWG Inquiry and labeling Canada’s “I take offence to Canada being accused of redacted and edited as to be useless. Place, is over 1200 pages and contains more colonial past and present “genocide” is an im- genocide. My comprehension of genocide is The obstruction by the state police is evidence than 200 recommendations. There are chapters portant step forward. But the lack of implemen- measured by what genocide really is.” that genocidal practices are not a thing of the on confronting oppression, the Right to Culture, tation of the Truth and Reconciliation Report The use of “genocide” is in line with research past, but bred in the bone of the colonial Ca- the Right to Health, the Right to Security, and recommendations is a warning that the Canadian co-authored by Bernie Farber, past CEO of the nadian state. Witness Senator Lynn Beyak, who the Right to Justice. state will not change its ways without struggle. Canadian Jewish Congress. “Genocide is the posted racist letters to her website defending the As well as challenging federal and provincial sum of the social practices, assumptions, and residential schools, and portraying Indigenous governments the Report calls for more solidarity •For full coverage socialist.ca/node/3872 Greens profit from climate A grayer shade of movement in by-election Green by Brian Champ for the transition. To achieve this we need a massive, The Green party is on a roll. And the united movement for urgent climate climate crisis is a key election issue. action that must attempt to address After forming the official opposition historical grievances, including racist in PEI in April, in May they won their oppression of first nations who have second federal seat in the Nanaimo- stood up against the degradation of Ladysmith by-election. their lands, waters, skies and bodies. Paul Manly captured 37.3% of the The scale of the crisis and the failure The recent surprise by-election win vote, rising 17.5% over his share of of our rulers to reform the system in Nanaimo gave the greens two seats the vote when he ran in 2015. The has made revolutionary change seem in parliament. In the PEI election NDP and Liberal vote both dropped more and more realistic. they came from nowhere to become by over 10%. the official opposition. The party The NDP lost the seat and came in Green New Deal and is consistently polling above 11 % third due to their terrible environmental student strikes heading toward a national election. record. In government, they approved Good news is that many are not Pundits are gushing that perhaps this the Site C dam and rammed through waiting for electoral politics. The is a breakthrough moment for Green the Liberals’ failed Liquid Natural The streets help Greens at the ballot box Julia Hawkins CC BY 2.0 fantastic student climate strikes that leader Elizabeth May. Gas terminal. The federal NDP has are happening every Friday, mobilized The Greens are the beneficiaries supported the same oil interests as the climate crisis concerns with talk about systems are organized, and food, 1.6 million students on March 15 of growing concern about climate two main parties, and are unable to “bold solutions to the challenges energy and materials are consumed”. demanding real action to reduce carbon change. Their popularity bump was consistently oppose pipeline projects. we face”; that we need to “stop In this system the key decisions are emissions. This happened alongside the result of voters dismayed over A new, more radical environmental subsidizing fossil fuels and invest in made by an unelected elite that ensure the direct action group Extinction Trudeau’s bailout of the K-M pipe- platform has been rolled out, but too green jobs”; and that politicians need it is an exploitative, oppressive and Rebellion (XR) that clogged 5 major line project and the NDP equivoca- late to affect the by-election. to “plan beyond a four year election environmentally destructive system London thoroughfares for 11 days and tion over fossil fuels. The BC Greens hold the balance cycle and ensure a secure future for so the profits are maximized. And forced the UK parliament to declare a The glimpse of power, however of power in BC, and could have our children.” He also called for a the development of capitalism is climate emergency. dim and distant, must have been too threatened to bring down the national moratorium on fracking. intertwined with the development and The Green New Deal (GND) that much for May. She chose this exact government on these issues, and The Green party doesn’t see itself exploitation of fossil fuels. has shaken up US politics is a plan to moment to remind everyone that her possibly swayed the NDP, but they as ‘right’ or ‘left’. But this means they Sending signals to the market, tax the rich’s profits to pay for the just party is Green in name only. Her call did not. accept the logic of capitalism, and with a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade transition to an environmentally sus- for a ban on “foreign” oil, coupled All political parties have failed claim that profits can be made while emissions scheme is not enough. A tainable economy, while addressing with greater support for the Alberta on this issue. The latest reports from transitioning to the carbon neutral credible plan would invest massively economic and racial inequality. It’s tar sands caused a national outbreak the IPCC show that there are only 11 economy. in renewable energy jobs, jobs popular because it speaks to the hopes of jaw-dropping and spit-takes. years left to reduce emissions enough But the climate science is clear that improving energy efficiency and of millions who are concerned about “As long as we are using fossil to prevent runaway global warming to avoid the worst ravages “would jobs in the public services to which the future, but are also not satisfied fuels we should be using our fossil that would devastate the earth’s require large-scale transformations of workers in dirty industries could with the status quo. fuels,” May explained. And with ecosystems and make life very hard the global energy–agriculture–land- transition. Instead of a regressive tax The future of the GND is not guar- that her environmental policies indeed for those who survive. economy system, affecting the way in on the consumption of dirty energy, anteed but there is a movement mobi- aligned with Andrew Scheer’s Con- Paul Manly was able to voice which energy is produced, agricultural the profits of corporations should pay lizing to build it. servatives, and even oil industry shill Ezra “Ethical Oil” Levant. The business press – the same folks who endorse the Tories in every election – responded with equal parts ap- Mark Norman, Big Business proval and confusion. People who have scrutinized the Greens’ platform are less per- plexed. May’s party has always endorsed “market solutions”. For and military excess instance, subsidies and handouts to petro-corporations are a problem by Kim McAuley tember of 2014, to Davie Shipbuilding, chaotic, inefficient and suffering from Crown alleging it didn’t have enough because they interfere with “free” its lobbyists and the media. Vice Ad- delay. evidence to convict him. markets. May is not opposed to the While Grassy Narrows endures end- miral Mark Norman was charged with Trudeau’s new government ulti- On May 14, Scheer asked Trudeau K-M pipeline in principle, because less suffering waiting for a treatment Breach of Trust in relation to these mately finalized the contract with to apologize to Mark Norman.