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Massive truck drivers strike shakes Iranian government
Oct 16, 2018Asia Pacific CurrentsThe working class in Iran is facing increasingly desperate economic and political situation. In response, demonstrations and protests are increasing.
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Massive protests shake up politics in Hong Kong
Jun 26, 2019Asia Pacific CurrentsThe question of the relationship between Hong Kong and the Chinese government is not clear and a proposed extradition bill saw the biggest demonstration ever in Hong Kong.
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Canada's role in the austerity and uprising in Chile
Oct 25, 2019Brent PattersonWhat are the Canadian links to the social uprising in Chile that has claimed at least 18 lives over the past seven days?
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Protesters shut down Auckland as Canada's trade minister signs the TPP
Feb 5, 2016Brent PattersonAs Canadian trade minister Chrystia Freeland signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Auckland yesterday, more than 1,000 people shut down the central part of the city in...
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Vancouver residents and women's groups demand mayor enforces the law...
Jun 16, 2016Meghan MurphyOn June 14, almost 100 people gathered at City Hall to protest Gregor Robertson's lack of action on prostitution in Vancouver.
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Major Honda strike in northern India continuing
Oct 10, 2016Asia Pacific CurrentsLabour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region and interview with Shivani, union organizer, on the continuing Honda protests.
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Fresh arrests hit human right activists in Hong Kong
Aug 25, 2017Asia Pacific CurrentsThe so called umbrella protest movement in Hong Kong in 2014 was unprecedented. The latest arrests shows that the Hong Kong government is still trying to suppress it.
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Opposition to war in the Korean Peninsula grows
Sep 24, 2017Asia Pacific CurrentsKoreans still have a vivid history of the last war in the 1950s. Workers are at the forefront of the efforts to stop another conflict breaking out.
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Fight against Australia's inhumane refugee policies continue
Nov 8, 2017Asia Pacific CurrentsThe situation on Manus Island continues to deteriorate for the refugees abandoned there, but actions in support of them are taking place all over Australia
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Demonetization, economic reforms and workers protests in India
Nov 13, 2017Asia Pacific CurrentsThe demonetization program of the Modi Government in India is emblematic of the cuts that workers under his government are been forced to make
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Iranian workers' mass protests undermine government's authority
Feb 5, 2018Asia Pacific CurrentsAn in-depth look at the recent mass protests in Iran and their significance, and labour updates from across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Has the U.S. remembered that politics is more than going to the polls?
Mar 18, 2018Rick SalutinThe U.S. has seen a return to marches, protest, chants and strikes -- necessary acts that are also fun, writes Rick Salutin.
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The struggle for refugee rights in Australia continues
Mar 28, 2018Asia Pacific CurrentsA conversation with Umesh Perinpanayagam from the Tamil Refugee Council about the situation for Tamil refugees in Australia.
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Kinder Morgan protestors plan and rest
Mar 30, 2018Megan Devlin'A good reminder of why you're doing it': Ceremonies and teaching followed a week of demonstrations where 173 people were arrested in Burnaby.
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Workers go on the offensive in South Korea
Jul 18, 2018Asia Pacific CurrentsEven though the workers' movement in South Korea was central in bringing down the corrupt Park Geun-hye government, the offensive against workers, the wages and...
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Massive truck drivers strike shakes Iranian government
Oct 16, 2018Asia Pacific CurrentsThe working class in Iran is facing increasingly desperate economic and political situation. In response, demonstrations and protests are increasing.
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Massive protests shake up politics in Hong Kong
Jun 26, 2019Asia Pacific CurrentsThe question of the relationship between Hong Kong and the Chinese government is not clear and a proposed extradition bill saw the biggest demonstration ever in Hong Kong.
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Canada's role in the austerity and uprising in Chile
Oct 25, 2019Brent PattersonWhat are the Canadian links to the social uprising in Chile that has claimed at least 18 lives over the past seven days?
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Protests have changed and so have protest songs
Mar 25, 2021Penney KomeIn the 21st century protest songs offer music to live by, if not to march to.
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When we were young
May 26, 2021Shama NaqushbandiI was nobody -- impressionable and uncut, fresh from constitutional law and letter writing. I still believed I could change the world.
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