Avi Lewis
Avi Lewis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and long-time television journalist. His films include The Take and This Changes Everything. He is one of the co-authors of the Leap Manifesto and is the Strategic Director and Co-Founder of The Leap.
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Views Friday, May 17, 2019 Time to Follow the Green New Leaders Last week, the first state of emergency in what many British Columbians now just call " fire season " got underway. And yet, with her Ottawa riding weeks into an epic flooding emergency of its own, our federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change urged us not to move too fast. "Climate action... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 05, 2018 The November Crisis November 2018 will have a special place in the history books — assuming, that is, the future has any time for history, or books. The month of record began right here at National Observer, when a tip from Reclaim Alberta’s Regan Boychuk resulted in one of the greatest Canadian revelations ever… of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Time to Use Our Fear as Fuel: Three Takeaways from the IPCC's New Report The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is out, and it is a dramatic development . The threat advisory from the world’s scientific climate community just went from orange to flashing red. But here’s the key takeaway: limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible, and... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 19, 2015 Why Most Of What You Think You Know About The Paris Climate Deal Is Wrong: An Annotated News Story With a little distance from the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, it’s clear that the meaning of the deal struck there is deeply contested. From the euphoric pronouncements of politicians like U.S. President Obama (this is “the best chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got”) to the... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 26, 2015 Trudeau Is Less Liberal Than You Think Our inboxes runneth over with congratulations from American friends. “Pleasure to be able to look north without wincing,” “we’re all thrilled to have regained our sensible neighbors to the north,” “Goodbye Stephen ‘Keystone XL’ Harper.” And then there was this from England: “you now officially have... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 16, 2015 'Be Joyful, Though You Have Considered the Facts' [ Editor's note: Several weeks ago, ahead of the U.S. premiere of his new film, This Changes Everything , journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis spoke with Common Dreams via phone to discuss the documentary inspired by the book of the same name, written by his wife Naomi Klein. Some of that discussion... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 26, 2015 Our Power: Battling Austerity with a Bold Green Vision Avi Lewis delivered the opening keynote at the 9 th annual Advocacy Conference of Public Interest Alberta , entitled “A Just and Fair Alberta: Making It Happen,” on April 9 in Edmonton. PIA “exists to foster an understanding of the importance of public spaces, services and institutions in Albertans... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss! In 2004, we made a documentary called The Take about Argentina's movement of worker-run businesses. In the wake of the country's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, thousands of workers walked into their shuttered factories and put them back into production as worker cooperatives. Abandoned by bosses and politicians, they regained unpaid wages and severance while re-claiming their jobs in the process. Read more |