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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’ll be fun to watch AOC join Jagmeet Singh for some online gaming.

But how about the NDP emulate her democratic eco-socialist politics, not just her style?

Let me share a disappointing story about how closed off the NDP establishment is to that idea...
A year ago, an offer was made to top party brass that one of AOC’s advisors give NDP MPs a briefing on the Green New Deal.

It’s the heart of her agenda, weaving together working class interests, climate action & racial justice. It's what makes her her.

What was their response?
They said no.

"MPs are already prone to forget they need to focus on bread and butter issues," was the brass's response.

Huh?

The Green New Deal...IS the bread and butter issue of our time, an epic program to radically improve peoples lives while staving off climate breakdown.
That the NDP brass see the Green New Deal as a liability, and so woefully misunderstand it, tells you a lot: afraid of connecting the dots, insulated from movements, they remain stuck in incrementalism while our economic and ecological realities scream for boldness and bravery.

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22 Sep
I’ve noticed a genre in media coverage of Justin Trudeau's environmental politics, basically fan fiction shrewdly nurtured by Liberals, that disguises his steadfast support for oil barons and excuses woefully inadequate measures.

It’s The Story of the Thwarted Hero.

A thread..
The story: Trudeau is a climate warrior whose ambitions always founder on hard, unavoidable realities.

Its aim: lower expectations, marginalize visions like Green New Deal, and manufacture consent for a corporate environmental agenda, which is what Liberals are actually about.
This week: Trudeau is “itching to deliver” a bold climate plan but is supposedly stymied by the pandemic – except, hello, a major green reconstruction could simultaneously address crises of public health, joblessness, racial inequality, and climate breakdown!
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20 Sep
U.N. ambassador Bob Rae was on CBC radio just now responding to the U.N. report that names Canadian government for fuelling the Saudi war on Yemen. His apologetics were something to behold.
He trotted out an old Liberal line that I thought had gone into disuse - that the weaponized military vehicles Canadian is selling to the Saudis are just “jeeps.” “It’s not what you'd call a weapon,” he said.

That’s some kind of jeep...
He said “the conflict in Yemen is terrible and we're trying to do everything we can to contribute to bringing it to an end.”

Continuing to allow Cdn companies to export military vehicles, rifles, surveillance tech, aircraft & provide pilot training is...a great way to do that.
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28 Apr
It’s good to dunk on Ivison but what's being missed is he’s merely a goofy right-wing exponent of the Canadian establishment's outlook: anxious to crush our rising expectations for governments post-pandemic to actually do more for our well-being..[THREAD]
Here’s the Liberal gov's budget officer spelling out the elite fear that post-pandemic, it may be politically hard to rollback new economic assistance – what he calls “entitlements," an old establishment codeword for “the rabble expecting and getting more than they deserve.” Image
In their own effort to batter the expectations of Canadians and prime us for a post-pandemic attack on public services, the Conservative party and its network of right-wing think tanks and pundits are not exactly... subtle.
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5 Apr
Boyce Richardson, one of Canada’s greatest anti-establishment journalists, passed away in March. He despised inequality, sided with workers against newspaper barons, ghostwrote for the ANC, and amplified Indigenous struggles for decades. I wrote about him: findingthecracks.substack.com/p/the-socialis…
Police ransacked his home and looted his footage of the Cree fight vs the James Bay mega-dam in 1970s. Pierre Trudeau tried to shut down another documentary of his. It was only when he was no longer active that it became safe for the government to award him the Order of Canada.
It’s revealing about the perspective and priorities of Canada’s journalist class that while they universally feted Christie Blatchford, they’ve scarcely said a word about a man who always sided with the downtrodden and dispossessed that she made a living attacking.
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28 Feb
A THREAD: In past days, Canadian politicians and media have invoked the spectre of “outside agitators” to infantilize and dismiss Indigenous peoples’ protests, and undermine the vital work of solidarity. It’s a racist myth deployed frequently in Canada's history. Some examples...
In the 1870s to 1890s, the Canadian government pushed Indigenous peoples to take up farming on the prairies, but denied them technology and market access, and gave good land to white farmers. When Indigenous peoples petitioned for changes, guess who government officials blamed?
In 1927, as BC First Nations pushed for their Aboriginal title to be recognized, a Canadian parliamentary committee recommended making it illegal for Indigenous people to hire lawyers to advance their claims (that prohibition would stand till 1951). Their justification?
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22 Nov 19
Review finds no ‘credible link’ between assembly of Death Star and obliteration of planet

Remarkably little attention has been paid to the Trudeau gov.’s review of weapons exports to Saudi Arabia released last week.

Delayed for an entire year, conveniently published after the election, it's a shameless whitewash of Canadian complicity in the Saudi war on Yemen.
The review claims no Canadian-made military equipment has been used in Yemen.

It's a lie.

The Saudi coalition has deployed:

❌4-1/2 foot sniper rifles
❌combat vehicles
❌spy aircraft
❌planes refitted to carry 6,000 pounds of bombs
❌drone pilots trained by Canadians
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