From Cinema Politica THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 @ 7:30pm Concordia University: Henry F. Hall Bldg – Room H-110 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal QC Screening by donation, and open to the public. Film info and trailer available at: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/films/60 A CO-PRESENTATION OF: Cinema Politica (Concordia University), Save Darfur Canada & The [...]
From the Guardian. Amnesty International yesterday said the junta was still receiving military equipment from China, Russia, Ukraine, and India. The Burmese generals claim to have released all but 500 of the Buddhist monks and other demonstrators detained since last month’s pro-democracy protests. But the senior British diplomat, briefing journalists yesterday on condition of anonymity, [...]
Again from Avaaz: (and thanks thanks thanks to them again for keeping us connected and informed) Burma’s streets are quiet–no mass demonstrations, no riot police. But the calm is an illusion. Change is coming to Burma, and we are all a part of it. Here’s where we stand: The regime has massacred, tortured, and intimidated [...]
While China will try to assert itself as a new model of global development, opponents and the outside world will also see more and demand more of China. The coming year will be a tense one in Taiwan, where President Chen Shui-bian is pushing for constitutional reforms that China sees as a move towards de [...]
Despite the strong words at the U.N., veto-wielder China has made it clear it will not allow any formal action such as sanctions to be taken against Myanmar, where Beijing is lining up deals to buy huge reserves of natural gas. India, another energy-hungry regional giant, is equally reluctant to act, and the army-appointed government [...]
I saw signs of poverty everywhere in Rangoon – children with distended stomachs, people scavenging through rubbish and families buying coal to cook on open fires, owing to the intermittent and expensive electricity supply. Outside the major cities, the situation is far worse. Foreigners are rarely allowed into the northern and eastern states, but reports [...]
