KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights On the fourth year of disappearance of Leo Velasco, an NDFP [National Democratic Front of the Philippines] consultant for the peace talks, her daughter, Lorena “Aya” writes a letter to him as she and other relatives of missing consultants stage a protest action in front of the …
Group also condemns state atrocities and criticizes filing of false charges against Dr. Ilina Sen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Free Binayak Sen Campaign, Toronto Chapter There has been world-wide condemnation of the sentence of life-imprisonment for sedition handed out to noted human-rights activist and physician Dr. Binayak Sen, along with two other accused, on Dec …
by Noaman G. Ali December 12, 2010, Kathmandu Reporting for basicsnews.ca Noaman Ali is the Assistant Editor / Vice Chairperson of BASICS Community News Service. This article was written directly from Nepal, on the second day of the 18th National Convention of the All Nepal National Independent Students’ Union (Revolutionary). “No, we do not accept …
Pragash Pio – BASICS Issue #22 (Sep/Oct 2010) The August 13 arrival of the MV Sun Sea, with 492 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka—380 men, 63 women and 49 children—has been met by a wave of racism and xenophobic hostility in Canada. Unfounded accusations of terrorism and human trafficking spread by the Government of Sri …
Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of TamilsEditorial Note: In response to the solidarity work of the Tamil human rights organization Canadian HART in Venezuela, SriLanka has extended its campaign of misinformation into the Bolivarian nation and across Latin America in an attempt to turn the Latin American people against the Tamil struggle for justice …
Rule of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ending, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III expected to assume office on June 30.by J.D. Benjamin – BASICS Issue #20 July/Aug 2010 With the widely despised and thoroughly corrupt regime of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on it’s way out of office, peoples’ organizations in the Philippines and around the world are already …
by Derek Rosin – BASICS Online June 2010 In early May, the revolutionary movement in Nepal under Maoist leadership called for and launched a general strike that shut down the whole country. Their main demand in the strike was the resignation of the government led by M.K. Nepal, leader of the Unified Marxist-Leninists (UML) party. …
by Eric Ribellarsi, Reporting from Nepal – BASICS Issue #20 July/Aug 2010 (Reprinted with permission from author – Originally printed at firecollective.org) Going into May, Nepal’s Maoist movement put forward a series of demands, particularly the resignation of Prime Minister M.K. Nepal. He represents a corrupt party called the Unified Marxist Leninists (UML), a status …
…and Keeping the Freedom Flame Alive by Jeevini Sivarajah & Pragash Pio – BASICS Issue #20 July/Aug 2010 At the end of May 2009, the Sri Lankan army brutally murdered tens of thousands of Tamil civilians with heavy artillery, mortars, bombs, rockets, and even chemical weapons in the name of ‘fighting terrorism’. While thousands of …
Press Release – April 8, 2010 Twenty-two Canadian citizens, including representatives from churches, labour unions, academics, lawyers and a sitting Member of Parliament, Don Davies, are preparing to head to the Philippines as part of an international observers mission during that country’s upcoming presidential elections. On election day, scheduled for May 10, 2010, more than …