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UXBRIDGE, CANADA – Last Tuesday (May 21^st) over 50 Ontarians and a group from Montreal rallied outside an industry sponsored conference in Sarnia, Ontario. The two-day "Bitumen-Adding Value" conference presented tar sands bitumen from Alberta as "Canada's national opportunity." Those who rallied outside the conference building disagreed.  

I arrived in Sarnia a few days before the rally. During this time, I was fortunate enough to have some amazing discussions with other Ontarians about Enbridge's plans to ship bitumen through Ontario and Quebec via the not-up-to-modern-standards Line 9 pipeline and how Canadians can act in solidarity with First Nations peoples to move the First Nations-...

By Marilyn Reid May 11th.    Trade Organization (WTO) rules and corporate monopolies placed Third World countries and their people at a severe and unfair disadvantage. It was assumed the bad guys, those who profited, were us, via our governments. After all, those big corporations making enormous profits at the expense of poor and hungry people in the Global South all had their head offices in rich countries - and so must be ours. But they really aren't, are they? Whether it's the way big corporations now constantly outsource to the cheapest location, use tax havens to avoid paying taxes, or play regions off against one another, multinationals show no allegiance to countries or communities.

Actually, it's much more serious than that. There is an enormous and deliberate power shift taking place, away from the control of nation states and into the hands of an increasingly interconnected web of multinational corporations. How interconnected? By...