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div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThe government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province's labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months need not worry, because what the Saskatchewan government is actually doing is ema href="http://www.lrws.gov.sk.ca/modernizing-legislation" rel="nofollow"modernizing/anbsp;/emour labour laws. That's a relief, "modernizing" has such a new shiny ring to it! Who could be against "modernizing" anything?nbsp;This legislation must really be cutting-edge stuff, thinking outside the box, labour legislation 2.0 and all that! div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2013/05/on-abuse-language-saskatchewans-bill-85-and-modernizing-labour" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=l7hjJW46cB4:3x2cnks6tyM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/l7hjJW46cB4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/taxonomy/term/6669" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/duncan_0_0.jpg" alt="Duncan Cameron" title="Duncan Cameron" width="75" height="91" class="taxonomy-image-term-6669 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"May 14, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg" alt="image/jpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/node-images/nrc.jpg" type="image/jpeg; length=191183" title="nrc.jpg"Photo: Douglas Sprott/flickr/a/div /div /div /div pHow would you like to get a gift from your employer? Last year the president of the National Research Council gave each of his more than 4,000 employees a $3 gift certificate at Tim Hortons. Offered in recognition of professional contribution to the NRC, a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/nrc-staff-enraged-by-gift-cards-161407515.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Canadian Press reported/a 65 laid-off workers were naturally insulted getting the voucher for coffee and a doughnut on what turned out to be their last day on the job./pdiv class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" With the privatization of research findings, discoveries and knowledge become industrial secrets, unavailable to Canadians who have paid for it, and lost to other scientists. /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-related-items"div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item1" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/05/who-needs-science-not-harper-government" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Who needs science? Not the Harper government!/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item1-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Corporations operate on a quarterly timeline. Science operates on a generational timeline. Theories, hypotheses, insights and discoveries feed into and build on each other, over time. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item2" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2012/04/science-profit-conservatives-target-national-research-council"Science for profit: Conservatives target the National Research Council /a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item2-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The Harper government has targeted the National Research Council not because it can produce quot;innovation,quot; but because controlling what counts as research is the first step in controlling its outcomes. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka/2013/05/harper-economics-worst-all-possible-worlds" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Harper Economics: The worst of all possible worlds/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item3-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Harper Economics take the worst elements of public and private sectors, wedding them in an approach that serves neither and is destined to undermine economic, social. and environmental values. /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/public-research-dollars-private-profit" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=_QLuzfC8Cig:odK4Gbj1x5A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/_QLuzfC8Cig" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/NNI%20Lightbulb%20logo.png" alt="Needs No Introduction" title="Needs No Introduction" width="97" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-125 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//aa href="/category/bios/meghan-murphy" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Murphy_Meghan-GSWS%20photo.jpg" alt="Meghan Murphy" title="Meghan Murphy" width="67" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-15553 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divpThis episode features a panel discussion which looks at undercovered issues in the B.C. election and what our province's independent media outlets can offer to counter the more limited coverage in the mainstream media./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/23100/mdd_panel_-_2013_bc_election-_the_missing_news.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=89829147"mdd_panel_-_2013_bc_election-_the_missing_news.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction/2013/05/2013-bc-election-missing-news" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wizSoMCcTDI:DbOeeW0Lm4I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/wizSoMCcTDI" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pIn Alberta, it appears you now have more power as the president of a neighbourhood community league than as a duly elected member of a school board!/p pWith province-wide municipal elections scheduled to take place in October, that's something would-be candidates for school trustee might want to think about./p pAlbertans had a small but significant demonstration of this axiom yesterday, when Education Minister Jeff Johnson announced that if members of elected school boards won't co-operate with the government and vote the way they have been instructed, the results of their mistaken votes emwill be made/em to reflect the decision they were supposed to make./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2013/05/democracy-alberta-style-voters-can-have-any-policy-they-want-lon" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8kkkUPMaFDY:83pYyrbFcK0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/8kkkUPMaFDY" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-image field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/380x275-front-multimedia/node-images/8732632673_48fac5aff2.jpg"/div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"Adrian Dix spoke to 1000 people at a #039;rally for change#039; Sunday in Vancouver. (Photo: brent_granby / flickr)/div /div /div div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-connected-story" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"a href="/news/2013/05/filipino-community-will-benefit-bc-ndps-policy-commitments"Filipino community will benefit from BC NDP#039;s policy commitments/a/div /div /divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=aVrdW4azNDI:b99sGpSWjcc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/aVrdW4azNDI" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, May 14, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" We need people like George Heyman, the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club of BC, to get elected. /div /div /div pLast weeknbsp;stronga href="http://vanjones.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Van Jones/a/strong, the founder of the green jobs advocacy groupnbsp;a href="http://greenforall.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Green for All/a, was arrested atnbsp;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjQJQ7XQPM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"a rally/anbsp;organized to protest against a major American coal company.nbsp;/p pWhat's interesting about this is not just that Van Jones is a CNN correspondent and a former senior staffer for the Obama administration, sometimes called their "green jobs czar." No, what was really interesting is that he was standing shoulder to shoulder with the coal miners fighting to defend their pensions from a hugely wealthy coal company.nbsp;/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/bjcmqywceaah-wn.jpg-large.jpeg" alt="" title="Van Jones (in suit) getting arrested shoulder-to-shoulder with coal miners in Missouri. (Photo: @VanJones68)" width="120" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/bc-election-vote-yes-to-green-jobs-and-no-to-enbridge-and-kinder-morgan-pipelines" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wcEajW0pcNg:iPF9kvrjkwk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/wcEajW0pcNg" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, May 14, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" It#039;s been exasperating to see the BC Liberals try to court the Filipino vote through superficial events designed to be nothing but photo-ops. /div /div /div pDue to itsnbsp;a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-philippines-now-canadas-top-source-of-immigrants/article573133/" rel="nofollow"growing numbers/a, politicians have paid a lot of attention to the Filipino community in Canada as of late and with the elections in B.C. drawing to a close, there's been a noticeable effort in courting the Filipino vote./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/5608476865_c2249a120d.jpg" alt="RJ Aquino (Photo: brent_granby / flickr) " title="RJ Aquino (Photo: brent_granby / flickr) " width="120" height="144" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/filipino-community-will-benefit-bc-ndps-policy-commitments" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bOLtfpaEdJk:s2taAH9k41o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/bOLtfpaEdJk" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/redeye" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/redeye100x100_6.gif" alt="Redeye" title="Redeye" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-129 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpNestlé has reached an agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Environment that it will not face restrictions on its water use even during a drought. The Council of Canadians has made submissions to the Environmental Review Tribunal raising concerns. Emma Lui is Water Campaigner with the Council of Canadians. She speaks with Redeye host Jane Williams./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/47/rey-2013-05-13c.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=12157398"rey-2013-05-13c.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2013/05/nestl%C3%A9-waters-canada-fights-drought-limits" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=AZZSAkpMSOo:q4M1qCPDw-Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/AZZSAkpMSOo" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/redeye" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/redeye100x100_6.gif" alt="Redeye" title="Redeye" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-129 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpTwo weeks ago a delegation from Manitoba traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to urge the United Nations to challenge Canada’s record on the human right to water. Michael Anderson is Research Director with the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak. Michael Anderson speaks with Redeye host Jane Williams./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/47/rey-2013-05-13b.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=13088630"rey-2013-05-13b.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2013/05/manitoba-first-nations-challenge-canadas-record-un" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=6t1TOBUv8RA:MBZ0y58ZVjA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/6t1TOBUv8RA" height="1" width="1"/

fieldset class="fieldgroup group-tv-guide"div class="field field-type-text field-field-current-show" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Is this show currently playing? /div /div /div /fieldset div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" This Best-of-the-Net video features Canadian music star Dan Mangan, joining the growing chorus of voices opposed to the tar sands pipeline and tanker plans of Enbrige and Kinder Morgan. /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-video-information"div class="field field-type-emvideo field-field-embedded-video" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-youtube"iframe id="media-youtube-html5-1" title="YouTube video player" class="media-youtube-html5" type="text/html" width="562" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b1o_6dWPTzw?hd=1" frameborder="0"/iframe /div /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-where-to-find" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1o_6dWPTzw" target="_blank"Voices for a Clean Coast: Dan Mangan/a /div /div /div /fieldset pToday's Best-of-the-Net video features Canadian music star Dan Mangan, joining the growing chorus of voices opposed to the tar sands pipeline and tanker plans of Enbridge and Kinder Morgan. This video was produced by Tanker Free BC.nbsp;/p pThe proposed tar sands pipelines have emerged as major issues in the B.C. election. For more coverage of the B.C. campaign, visit our special elections page here.nbsp;/p pstrongAbout this videonbsp;/strong/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2013/05/best-net/video-juno-award-winner-dan-mangan-joins-growing-movement-ag" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=2FjcqqbQUpU:w2st4xKybr8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/2FjcqqbQUpU" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Monday, May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Christy Clark displays a betrays a narrow, middle-class, perspective that imagines child labour is about #039;pocket money#039; and #039;learning responsibility.#039; /div /div /div pOnnbsp;May 9, a href="http://www.firstcallbc.org/" rel="nofollow"First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition/a released a href="http://www.firstcallbc.org/about-currentProjects.html" rel="nofollow""Child Labour is No Accident: The Experience of B.C.'s Working Children.,"/anbsp;an eighteen-month research project funded by the Law Foundation of B.C./p pResearchers set out (once again) to find out how deregulating child labour has affected children and youth. Specifically we focused on three areas of potential impact: health and safety, wages and working conditions, and education. We also compared B.C.'s law with employment standards in other jurisdictions.nbsp;/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/report_screen_shotcropped.jpg" alt="" title="" width="120" height="147" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/christy-clarks-excuses-child-labour-bc-defy-logic-and-good-public-policy" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qr8-JfQg0B0:Ug2vECsh4mM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/qr8-JfQg0B0" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/media-mornings" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/w2_media_logo-600.jpg" alt="Media Mornings" title="Media Mornings" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-25144 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/new-leederz-jpg.jpg" alt="Canadian Press photo" title="Canadian Press photo" width="120" height="84" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pstronga href="http://w2media.ca/thisweek" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"This Week on Media Mornings/a/strongnbsp;is a weekly podcast of our best interviews, headlines amp; music from the past week’s dailynbsp;emMedia Morningsnbsp;/emshow, broadcast every weekday at 7 a.m. on 100.5 fm. This week, we present anbsp;stronga href="http://w2radio.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/this-week-on-media-mornings-vol-11-may-11-bc-election-special-jane-sterk-green-party-bc-leader-shane-simpson-bc-ndp-sam-sullivan-bc-liberals-charlie-smith-straight/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"BC Election Special/a/strongnbsp;before the polls open on Tuesday, May 14./p pnbsp;/p pstrong03:00 /strong—nbsp;This week’s topnbsp;strongnews headlines./strong/pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/34270/thisweekmediamornings-2-mar10_6.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=107395575" title="thisweekmediamornings-2-mar10_6.mp3"A 2013 provincial election podcast of the best headlines amp; interviews with the candidates amp; commentators on Media Mornings/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/media-mornings/2013/05/this-week-on-media-mornings-vol-11-special-bc-election-podcast" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=zyk7u8zrVmo:X86R2tZuY2o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/zyk7u8zrVmo" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/media-mornings" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/w2_media_logo-600.jpg" alt="Media Mornings" title="Media Mornings" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-25144 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpJane Bouey and Mayaan Kreitzman speak with a href="http://mableelmore.bcndp.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"NDP MLA/a for a href="http://election.thetyee.ca/riding/vancouver-kensington" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Vancouver-Kensington/a, Mable Elmore about affordability amp; the high cost of living in BC, access to education, the Filipino community, temporary foreign workers, and the upcoming election in BC./p pMedia Mornings daily election coverage on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM.nbsp;a href="http://w2media.ca/election" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"w2media.ca/election/a/pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/23100/bc_election_-_mable_elmore_-_rabble.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=9500725"bc_election_-_mable_elmore_-_rabble.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldsetdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=JMJixvp_FU8:q3xfC-BIjUs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/JMJixvp_FU8" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThe 19th century British schoolteacher, social reformer and mathematician George Boole was not what you would call a 'market-oriented' kind of guy./p pHis life and work had little connection to the worlds of business and entrepreneurship, and the profit motive was almost entirely alien to his central preoccupations./p pAnd yet, nearly 160 years after his death, Boole is viewed as one of the fathers of computer science -- the scientific foundation of the hugely profitable, multi-trillion dollar business of digital electronics./p pApple, Microsoft, Blackberry, IBM, Intel -- they all owe their existence to an obscure mathematician who died in 1864./p pYou can't get more market-oriented than that./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/05/who-needs-science-not-harper-government" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=5QfFYID-_v4:2B9QmRC88bo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/5QfFYID-_v4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pDon't media just adore a two-horse election race. And in B.C., which heads to the polls tomorrow (May 14), the latest opinion polls bear that out with an ever-nailbiting NDP lead over the Liberals./p pThough only two parties are considered contenders for a majority, on Friday, Green Party leader Jane Sterk in factnbsp;stronga href="http://www.timescolonist.com/dix-says-liberals-playing-a-game-by-encouraging-victoria-voters-to-support-greens-1.175855" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"featured prominently/a/strongnbsp;at the top of a full-page advertizement in the emVictoria Times-Colonist/em, under the headline: 'Who is strong enough to stand up for B.C.? ... Jane Sterk and the Greens have strong, clear views about how to protect our coast.'/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-p-ball/2013/05/these-two-parties-just-dont-understand-bc-green-leader-jane-ster" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=7-XFx_spKQQ:r_UzJaKbfSw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/7-XFx_spKQQ" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Monday, May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" While the BC Liberals have stepped away from envisioning a greener economy, the NDP is saying little to fill the void, according to observers. /div /div /div pThere was a time when the British Columbia Liberal Party had some vision for how the government might reshape the provincial economy to provide good jobs and benefit the environment, said Mark Jaccard, a professor of environmental economics at Simon Fraser University./p p"Prior to Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell did contact me from time to time," said Jaccard in a phone interview from Washington, DC where he was attending a meeting. "Green jobs from reducing greenhouse gasses in our province were something BC Liberals talked a lot about. She has changed the discourse."/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/3195664686_fd76ef9b5f.jpg" alt="" title="Protest calling for better public transit, and green jobs. (Photo: stopthepave / fickr)" width="120" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/bc-election-more-vision-needed-clean-green-jobs" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qSSV1n6Xvak:mkfB57f-iwo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/qSSV1n6Xvak" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Monday, May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Veteran filmmaker and Occupy activist Velcrow Ripper has launched a new app designed to inspire a new breed of Occupy protests. /div /div /div pVeteran filmmaker and Occupy activist Velcrow Ripper has launched a new app designed to inspire a new breed of Occupy protests./p pnbsp;The app is part of the global release of Mr. Ripper's newest documentary a href="http://occupylove.org/" rel="nofollow"Occupy Love/a, a film that traces the origins of the Occupy Movement and then explores the thematic relationships between the protests against Wall Street with other global movements such as the Arab Spring and the European Summer./p pnbsp;"The real aim of the Occupy protests," says Mr. Ripper, "goes deeper than politics. I believe that what we were showing out there, in a very new way, was the power of communal and expansive connection, as opposed to individual action. Love unites us, just as greed divides us."/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/logo_3.png" alt="" title="" width="120" height="47" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/want-to-start-next-occupy-revolution-theres-app" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=MmxaDI1gSww:oZXShmKxZbI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/MmxaDI1gSww" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/redeye" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/redeye100x100_6.gif" alt="Redeye" title="Redeye" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-129 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpThe vast majority of prisoners in Guatanamo are now on hunger strike in protest against their continued detention without charge or trial.nbsp; Some have been on hunger strike for three months. The strike has aroused a wave of protest around the world. Diane Wilson is a co-founder of CODE PINK. She is on hunger strike in solidarity.nbsp; Diane Wilson speaks with Redeye host Mordecai Briemberg./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/47/rey-2013-05-13a.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=12995788"rey-2013-05-13a.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2013/05/guantanamo-hunger-strike-garners-widespread-support" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=8E8rv0hYP00:QSgzDB0fTSI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/8E8rv0hYP00" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Monday, May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Bill McKibben: quot;The only question now is whether the relentless rise in carbon can be matched by a relentless rise in the activism necessary to stop it.quot; /div /div /div pWe did it, and it's nothing to cheer about./p pThe worldnbsp;a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/news/916" rel="nofollow"hit/anbsp;the "a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-2" rel="nofollow"sobering milestone/a" of 400 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 on Thursday—a first in human history -- marking "a moment of symbolic significance on road of idiocy" the world has chosen, as well as a call for urgent climate action./p pReaching this threshold level represents a global failure to address the runaway greenhouse gas emissions; as Al Gorenbsp;a href="http://blog.algore.com/2013/05/400_ppm.html" rel="nofollow"wrote/anbsp;today, it shows "we are reaping the consequences of our recklessness."/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/400ppmnoaa.jpg" alt="" title="" width="120" height="72" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/march-to-disaster-continues-world-reaches-400ppm-milestone" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=PY3sVl-_SQQ:Um_0dXOfro4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/PY3sVl-_SQQ" height="1" width="1"/

fieldset class="fieldgroup group-tv-guide"div class="field field-type-text field-field-current-show" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Is this show currently playing? /div /div /div /fieldset div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"May 13, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Phyllis Bennis: The humanitarian disaster in Syria is mostly ignored as external powers vie for position to control outcome of civil war. /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-video-information"div class="field field-type-emvideo field-field-embedded-video" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-youtube"iframe id="media-youtube-html5-2" title="YouTube video player" class="media-youtube-html5" type="text/html" width="562" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RbeUKWoXfFg?hd=1" frameborder="0"/iframe /div /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-where-to-find" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbeUKWoXfFg" target="_blank"Drums Beat for US Military Intervention in Syria but Israel finds a Weakened Assad quot;Convenientquot;/a /div /div /div /fieldset pAn interview with Phyllis Bennis broadcast on The Real News Network. The humanitarian disaster in Syria is mostly ignored as external powers vie for position to control outcome of civil war./pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=NtmahBjyz0c:WVMy4x6RIZs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/NtmahBjyz0c" height="1" width="1"/