Post Amm80rFbpTqSSRUTsu by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #Amm7UVwpUuUH7aHfkW by jmcnaughton@freefree.ps
2024-10-06T00:28:09Z
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@Rural_Canadian I am also angry and disappointed with the CBC over their coverage of this genocide that is still being conducted by Israel a year later.I think we still need the CBC though, just a better CBC.
(DIR) Post #Amm7WBU2YRFmEPc9JY by jmcnaughton@freefree.ps
2024-10-05T15:56:57Z
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Al Jazeera's The Listening Post interviews journalists from BBC and CNN to document biases against Palestinians in newsrooms.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmk4efA2t0@palestine @lebanon #Palestine #Lebanon #gazagenocide #Gaza #FreePalestine #media #cnn #bbc
(DIR) Post #Amm7WDfoPdrH1V8ZwO by jmcnaughton@freefree.ps
2024-10-05T15:59:12Z
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@palestine @lebanon See also: https://breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewashed-israels-crimes-gaza-firsthand/Written by a former CBC producer who left after speaking out.#Palestine #Lebanon #media #cbc
(DIR) Post #Amm7WFLKCmeuCXZFHk by jmcnaughton@freefree.ps
2024-10-05T16:12:05Z
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@palestine @lebanon "In the future, when we have a museum for this genocide, we will have a special place, where we put the pictures of the journalists who allowed it to happen. There will be a wing for the CNN, the BBC, and the Times journalists who were the enablers of the genocide. The Palestinian people will remember them." -- Ghassan Abu Sitta, reconstructive surgeon, interviewed in the Al Jazeera documentary "Exposed".#media #Palestine #Lebanon #genocide #gazagenocide #Gaza
(DIR) Post #Amm7dEXhZyq9kJgkC0 by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T01:40:01Z
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@Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon I share your frustration with the neo-liberal drift of the CBC over the years, particularly at a time like this when we live in a world of genocide being live streamed.But I think some of public broadcasting under neo-liberalism means enshttifying it to the point where we all don't care if it disappears.In that sense it's a lot like other public services.
(DIR) Post #Amm7gNxJ2SBdoCARfs by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T01:47:33Z
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@Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon At least some of them are talking about it via alternative outlets like "Breach Media".That's something else we need, a robust reader/listener/viewer funded alternative media.https://breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewashed-israels-crimes-gaza-firsthand/
(DIR) Post #Amm7i4YS8phCDWLa0u by kneworldodor@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T02:17:15Z
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@leftylabourtech @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon Did you notice there was a CEO moving between commonwealth countries enshitifying each postal service like that was his job? Wonder who CBCs new CEO will be and what their backstory is?
(DIR) Post #Amm7j04KJ03mashL6m by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T02:29:54Z
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@kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon The enshittification of Canada Post began much earlier. In the 1980's Mulroney brought in an ex-Chrysler Canada CEO to run the place.
(DIR) Post #Amm7lMgJCfC1Ixaja4 by jmcnaughton@freefree.ps
2024-10-06T02:40:39Z
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@leftylabourtech @kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian My father was a letter carrier for Canada Post in the 1980s. So many of the letter carriers got shoulder injuries from all the weight they were asked to carry. Some of them got hanging scales to wear on their belts so they could weigh their bags before leaving the depot.Canadian Union of Postal Workers are a cool union!https://www.cupw.ca/https://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/our_plan
(DIR) Post #Amm7nrh2sAse4880kS by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T02:53:03Z
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@jmcnaughton @kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian When it converted to a crown corporation from a government department in 1981, former TTC head Michael Warren was made CEO. He got sick of the political interference when Mulroney came in that he quit. And the ex-Chrysler dude came in because no one else wanted the job under the Mulroney Tories. It was also the first time they actively tried to scab a strike.
(DIR) Post #Amm7rt1Bt9wjKiT7Dc by kneworldodor@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T02:54:52Z
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@leftylabourtech @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon The decline started in the mid 70s. Not just the postal service but most of the progress made by working class post WW1.Tommy Douglas was right.
(DIR) Post #Amm7sgxMDgaaDJ3lBY by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T02:57:49Z
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@kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon I would say WWII though. Neo-liberalism was the "counter reformation" against post WWII reformist Keynesian capitalism.It's been downhill since.
(DIR) Post #Amm7sidvwsExRdzHBg by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T03:00:59Z
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@kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon Nora Loreto has written an excellent book that documents the rise and fall of Canada's social safety net.It's worth reading.https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459753105-the-social-safety-net
(DIR) Post #Amm80pPoeYoylWFbW4 by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T03:08:46Z
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@Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @kneworldodor The shift from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism played out differently in different countries, but happened everywhere.In Canada, it was the Canada/US FTA that cemented the neo-liberal counter-reformation.
(DIR) Post #Amm80rFbpTqSSRUTsu by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-06T03:14:47Z
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@Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @kneworldodor Of course in Chile, the birthplace of neo-lberalsim, it took a fascist coup to implement it.In the US, it was Reagan's mass firing of striking air traffic controllers. In the UK, it was Thatcher breaking the coal miner's union.
(DIR) Post #Amm84miOdQG5Y5pOzY by kneworldodor@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T04:44:59Z
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@leftylabourtech @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon Before WW1 miners and their families on the BC Alberta border were attacked by the private strike breakers with equipment and weapons. On Vancouver Island striking miners were reminded of their place by a general and his troops "on training maneuvers. " After WW1 the country was full of veterans accustomed to hardship, violence, and working together. General strikes and demonstrations gave us progress.
(DIR) Post #Amm84vPEK3H6VFviro by kneworldodor@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T04:51:02Z
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@leftylabourtech @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon After WW2 there were more of these men and women that had solid ideas about freedoms, rights and responsibilities. By the mid 70s these people were passing 50. Today there are few left that personally witnessed the potential of populist dictatorships. It's not an accident that oligarchs and fascists have gained power as these memories faded.
(DIR) Post #Amm88gIuPffAp7lSrY by leftylabourtech@mstdn.social
2024-10-07T21:07:34Z
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@kneworldodor @Rural_Canadian @jmcnaughton @palestine @lebanon After WWII, folks had been through a decade of depression and then war. Coming back to unemployment, as many did after WWI, the ruling class knew wasn't going to fly.Also, the growing popularity in Canada of the CCF scared the crap out of them, particularly after the 1944 win in Saskatchewan.So, the ruling elites knew they had to bring in at least "some" reforms.