Articles by Lisa Descary
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Dec 10, 2018: Mobilizing Wins a Victory for Renters in Vancouver!On Tuesday, December 4th, something unprecedented happened.
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Nov 13, 2018: The Vancouver election is over, but the fight for the City We Need continuesWhen Jean Swanson was elected to Vancouver City Council on October 20, some activists in the City We Need campaign...
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Aug 16, 2018: Water Protectors jailed for defying Kinder Morgan injunctionOn the morning of August 15, in front of BC Supreme Court Justice Affleck and a packed gallery of activists...
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Aug 08, 2018: Interview: Derrick O’Keefe, Vancouver socialist, running for City CouncilLisa Descary from the Vancouver International Socialists interviewed writer and activist, Derrick O'Keefe.
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Aug 03, 2018: Courts side with Kinder Morgan and sentence "sinister" seniors“Your Honour, I have lived my 70 years abiding by the law.
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Jul 20, 2018: Vancouver labour council has the wrong vision for the fall electionAs a rank and file trade union member and a socialist, I am very focused on reforms that I think...
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Jun 15, 2018: Join Jean Swanson in fighting for the city we needIt’s that time of year in Vancouver when warm weather is here, and municipal political parties have begun to announce...
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Feb 08, 2018: Stop Trudeau's pipelineEver since the BC NDP government’s approval of the hated Site C dam project, many climate justice activists have felt...
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Nov 23, 2017: Kinder Morgan will be stoppedClimate justice activists in BC celebrated the cancellation of the proposed Energy East Tar Sands pipeline this October.
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Oct 24, 2017: 1917: lessons for socialists from the Russian RevolutionToday, young people in particular are more open to ideas about socialism than any time in recent history, with an...
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Jul 25, 2017: Kinder Morgan: we still say no!With the election of the Green-NDP provincial government in BC, climate activists across the province celebrated what they hoped would...
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Apr 14, 2016: Oppose the BC Liberals’ Massey megabridgeSoon after returning from the Paris Climate talks, BC Premier Christy Clark announced that her government was planning a big...
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Mar 24, 2016: Oppose the BC Liberals’ Massey MegabridgeSoon after returning from the Paris Climate talks, BC Premier Christy Clark announced that her government was planning a big...
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Mar 15, 2016: People’s Climate Assembly, VancouverOn March 3, Prime Minister Trudeau met with provincial and territorial leaders at the Vancouver Convention Centre to begin to...
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Dec 15, 2015: Labour against climate changeSomething exciting happened at the UN COP21 climate conference in Paris in December.
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Jul 12, 2015: Vancouver elementary teachers rally against school board austerityOn Monday, June 29 after school had let out for the summer, most Vancouver teachers were taking a well-deserved break.
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Mar 06, 2015: Book Review: Marx On Gender and the FamilyFeminists have often had a strained relationship with Marxism, sometimes accusing Marx and Marxists of economic determinism and even outright...