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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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