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100 Months Left for Us?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

So what can our own government do to turn things around today? Over the next 100 months, they could launch a Green New Deal, taking inspiration from President Roosevelt’s famous 100-day programme implementing his New Deal in the face of the dust bowls and depression. Last week, a group of finance, energy and environmental specialists […]

email from the head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Thank you again to Avaaz:
Here is an email from Asma Jahangir, head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for freedom of religion worldwide. Now under house arrest in Lahore, she’s one of many Pakistanis urgently asking the world community to raise our voice:
There is a strong crackdown on […]

The Devil and Darfur

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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 Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human […]

Junta - still receiving military equipment from China, Russia, Ukraine, and India.

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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, gave […]

the roar has grown deafening - pressure for Burma continues

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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 its critics at […]

Beaten and Burned Alive - High school kids in Burma.

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

An eyewitness from inside Burma reports that injured protesters are being taken to the Yay Way cemetery outside of Rangoon, and burned alive in an effort to destroy the evidence of the genocide occurring.
This shocking report comes only hours after news that dozens of high school students were shot and beaten to death.
Regardless, the junta […]


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