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• The Rights of Nature
• Blue Covenant
• Too Close for Comfort
• On the Road

Word Warriors - Changing the political landscape action by Murray Dobbin
If you are a social or political activist, you have heard the declaration a hundred times: the media is terrible – how can we win with such a biased media? The problem is that everyone complains about the media but few do anything about it. Word Warriors is designed to help you quit complaining and start acting.

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What would our world look like if nature had rights?

The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, launch in New York City on April 21, 2011. The book is published jointly by The Council of Canadians, Fundación Pachamama and Global Exchange (2011).

Read about the book at www.canadians.org/rightsofnature.

Purchase a book

The book - The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth - can now be purchased on-line at canadians.org/rightsofnature.

The Council of Canadians and partners launched the book on April 21 in New York City and it can now be purchased through our website for $15 (tax, shipping and handling included). While buying the book, you can also make a donation to support our work and/or purchase a 1-year Council of Canadians’ membership for $45.

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Harper's assault on democracy

Author and Rabble.ca columnist Murray Dobbin details the harm Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing to the political and social fabric of Canada in a new, hard-hitting essay commissioned by the Council of Canadians titled Harper’s Hitlist: Power, Process and the Assault on Democracy.

As Dobbin explains in the opening paragraphs of the essay, “This study is intended to examine the most serious violations of democracy committed by the prime minister and his government. Some are clearly more serious than others. But taken as a whole they add up to a dangerous undermining of our democratic traditions, institutions and precedents – and politics. These violations are not accidental, they are not incidental, and they are not oversights or simply the sign of an impatient government or ‘decisive’ leadership. They are a fundamental part of Harper’s iron-fisted determination to remake Canada, whether Canadians like it or not.”

Read the report here »

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updated March 1, 2012