Global Peace And Justice Newsletter 274

WHAT’S ON IN AUCKLAND

JOIN THE RAT PATROL AGAINST UNFAIR DISMISSALS:

From March '09 workers in small businesses will be able to be sacked for any reason, or no reason at all, in their first 90 days of employment. The RAT PATROL has been launched by unions and community groups to make sure no worker get unfairly dismissed under the new law. The Rat Patrol received a great response in Coyle Park last weekend, with hundreds of workers taking leaflets for the demonstration on 28 February.  There is loads of anger in the community about the new law, and people love the idea of bringing the giant inflatable rat to shame their own rat bosses. Come along over the next few weeks to give us a hand with the leaflets and sign-ups:

FRIDAY 6 FEB WAITANGI DAY FESTVAL: www.nativenoise.co.nz) - OKAHU BAY - meet 10am Unite office, 6a Western Springs Road, or around 11am at Okahu Bay

SUNDAY 8 FEB - LANTERN FESTIVAL, ALBERT PARK.  Meet 6pm on Princes Street, opposite the Maidment Theatre.

SATURDAY 14 FEB - MANGERE MARKET.  Mangere Community Law Centre have reserved a joint space for the Rat Patrol and the campaign to defend Community Law Centres.  Meet 9am Unite Office or 10am at Mangere Market, Mangere Town Square off Waddon Place (meet next to the Maori Wardens building).

SAT 14 FEB - CROSS ST CARNIVAL - DETAILS TBC

SUNDAY 15 FEB - AVONDALE MARKET (MORNING) - DETAILS TBC

SATURDAY 21 FEB - OTARA MARKET (MORNING) - DETAILS TBC

Let us know which events you can can help out at, and which other events you'd like to take the rat to. The leaflet can be DOWNLOADED - you can use them anywhere, so sign up your friends and workmates, and send the names back in so we can keep building the RAT PATROL. If you can't find the rat when you get to the event, text me on 0210 358 513 and we'll try to locate you... Hope to see you all tomorrow, Nicola

REGISTER AS A RAT PATROL MEMBER to join the emergency solidarity pickets against unfair sackings. Our goal is to have several hundred people registered as willing and able to respond to appeals for help on short notice. Register with your email address and/or mobile number for text messages. To join email wewontpayforyourcrisis@gmail.com

Downloadable poster here: http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76759/index.php

Saturday, February 7, 2pm, QEII Square, Customs Street and Queen St intersection, Outside Downtown Shopping Centre
RALLY FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE  - On the First Saturday of Every Month. Come support JUSTICE and PEACE based on: 1. End 41 years of Israeli Occupation of the West Bank & Gaza Strip  (including East Jerusalem); 2. Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees; 3. Share Jerusalem; 4. Vacate all settlement colonies in Israeli occupied Palestine; 5. Stop Israel's annexation / apartheid wall in occupied Palestine. PROTEST ISRAELI  WAR CRIMES - MASSACRE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA & PRESSURE NZ GOVERNMENT TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT PALESTINIANS  www.palestine.org.nz 

Saturday, February 14, 8pm, Tom Fordes Bar, Anzac Ave
Joe invited you to "A Valentine for Palestine" on Saturday, February 14 at 8:00pm. Event: A Valentine for Palestine "Practical Solidarity with the People of Gaza". What: Concert Host: Socialist Aotearoa. Start Time: Saturday, February 14 at 8:00pm End Time: Sunday, February 15 at 2:00am. Where: Tom Fordes Irish Bar and Political Museum. To see more details and RSVP, follow the link: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=62991317752

Sunday, February 15, 11:00am - 6:00pm, 20 PARK ROAD, GRAFTON, OPPOSITE GRAFTON HOSPITAL, AUCKLAND DOMAIN!!!!!! (Changed from previous notice)
JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE SOCCER TOURNAMENT: We are happy to announce that Justice For Palestine will be holding its first Soccer Tournament on 15/02/2009. There will be about 8 teams competing to win the trophy at the end of the day. We are also going to be selling food, t-shirts, and Kafeyahs (Palestinian Scarf). Again, 100% of the proceeds will go to provide aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza. Come out, bring your family and friends, enjoy the sun, soccer games, food, games for the kids and most importantly help us raise money to provide food and humanitarian aid for Palestine. For more information you can contact: Saraa Nabhani: 0211860140; Ali Navy: 0211811139.

Saturday, February 28, 12 noon, Aotea Square, Queen St
FEB 28: JOIN THE RAT PATROL AGAINST UNFAIR DISMISSALS: On Saturday February 28th come out on the streets to show Auckland that the Rat Patrol will be on hand to deal with unfair dismissals. Downloadable poster here:
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76759/index.php

Monday March 2nd, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn.
MARCH GPJA FORUM –The Roger Award Ceremony. Not all the glitz and glamour of Oscar night but this forum will feature the official announcement of the winner of the Roger Award for the worst multinational company operating in New Zealand in 2008. Live music with food and drink available. No need to get your glad rags on but get ready for a good evening. A DVD on the winning multinational will also be a feature of the evening. All welcome – no entry charge!

Tuesday, March 3, 5-6.30pm, Pacific Media Centre, WT002, AUT Tower Building, AUT University
"SURVEILLANCE AND THE MEDIA: WHAT THE SIS PAPERS REVEAL". Murray Horton, secretary of CAFCA. Themes such as:Democracy, civil society and surveillance; How SIS methods have changed since the Cold War; Implications for our Asian and Pacific neighbours, notably Fiji, East Timor and Indonesia-Papua; Why journalists need to scrutinise state surveillance and the anti-terror laws far more proactively than they do; How ordinary citizens (inc. journalists) seek this state information under the OIA.

Monday, April 6, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn.
APRIL GPJA FORUM: HAITI TODAY: FIVE YEARS OF UN-SPONSORED MILITARY OCCUPATION BRINGS DISASTER. In February, 2004, the elected president and government of Haiti were overthrown by a right-wing paramilitary rebellion backed by troops from the United States, France and Canada. A foreign-appointed, regime of human rights violations ruled Haiti for the two years that followed. An elected government has ruled Haiti since early 2006. But the real power is held by a 10,000-member, UN-sponsored military occupation regime. Poverty, human rights violations and environmental degradation are worsening dramatically in a country that was already the poorest in the Americas. Hear: Roger Annis, a coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Netowrk and participant in a human rights factfinding mission to Haiti in August 2007.

Tuesday, April 7, 6pm, Unite Centre, 6a Western Springs Rd, Morningside
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS HOME IN CANADA. During the October, 2008 federal election in Canada, all the parties represented in the federal Parliament peddled a myth that Canada would escape the worst of the U.S.-sparked financial collapse. This in a country where the U.S. market consumes 76% of all Canadian exports. The economic situation in Canada is deteriorating rapidly, presenting new difficulties and challenges for the country's trade unions and social movements. As well, renewed demands for political  sovereignty are emerging among the French-speaking Quebecois nation that numbers 7 million and the one million Indigenous peoples. Speaking on the political situation in Canada today: Roger Annis, aerospace worker in Vancouver, long time socialist and trade union activists, editor of Socialist Voice.

TO THOSE INTERESTED IN ANOTHER SOCIETY: CAPITALISM CRASHES – WHAT’S THE LEFT DOING?
     Capitalism ‘s crisis is not a temporary blip in the machine. It is a serious far-reaching failure of the systems that enable capitalism to exist.
     2009 is very likely to show that as always the poor and the workers will be asked to bear the brunt and rebuild the system that oppresses them. Capital and its governments are using the peoples money to prop up the bankers and speculators.
     How will working people and citizens generally react when they realise they are required to bear the losses for the sake of the failed operators of the capitalist machine. Will they just grumble in private or will they resist?
     The Left is responsible for informing them and encouraging resistance to failed capitalism

A FORUM TO BUILD RESISTANCE?
A Social Forum Meeting in Aotearoa in 2009 would provide a non-sectarian and open means of bringing together those who want to take action against the crisis, and find ways to build resistance.
     The WORLD SOCIAL FORUM motto, ‘Another World is Possible" does not define what it is seeking, but allows for people of differing views to put their ideas forward under that broad banner.
     Looking ahead it will take some months for people to realise that the Key solution is not all tax breaks and cosy policies. The crisis is here now. By the Budget in May people will begin to learn that the crisis of the rich is to be solved at the expense of the lower paid.
     The best time to give major publicity to resistance therefore is toward the end of 2009 – say at Labour Day weekend. And leading to that a series of actions and statements could help alert the exploited to what is being done to them.
     I am writing to you to see if you think this or some alternative action can help people become more conscious of what is happening and to resist.My email address is jimddig@clear.net. nz, my address 47 Fairview Crescent Wellington 6012, my phone (04) 9386943.  DO YOU WANT TO BUILD RESISTANCE TO CAPITALISM? PLEASE LET ME KNOW URGENTLY! -JIM DELAHUNTY

DONATE TO PALESTINE MEDICAL RELIEF SOCIETY.
Send donations c/- ARENA. The Arena bank account number is 06 0807 0122658 23 - National Bank, Fitzgerald Ave Christchurch branch.  The 23 account is the international programme account. We shall apply for HAF funds in the February round, or if the government provides a special fund for Palestine. The situation for the PMRS is serious with the Israeli military advancing towards the PMRS head office in Gaza on the 15th Jan - see their website for full details".
http://www.pmrs.ps/last/index.php

BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS AOTEAROA
http://big.org.nz/boycottisraeligoods/index.php

PLEASE SUPPORT THE "SAY NO TO KWILA" CAMPAIGN
The Rain Forest Action group supported by the Indonesia Human Rights Committee plans a series of demonstrations against the sale of furniture made from rainforest kwila from West Papua. If logging continues at present rates kwila faces extinction in 35 years.  Illegal and indiscriminate logging destroys the foodbasket of indigenous people. All demonstrations at Four Seasons Stores on the Saturdays: 31 January, 7 February, 14 February and 21 February. Timing 1-3 pm. Location of stores: 52 Lincoln Rd - opposite Waitakere Hospital; 500 Ti Rakau Drive, Botany; 1/14 Link Drive Wairau Valley. Please let us know if you can help- and which venue you prefer - transport is being co-ordinated  email Ryan  ryanbk@gmail.com  or email   Maire: PEACE SCHOLARSHIPS / WHITE POPPY APPEAL
this is a follow up to last year's advisory about the changes to the annual white poppy appeal - from this year the appeal will be held in April, with the proceeds going to the new peace scholarships which will be offered for the first time in 2009. There are two sections below: how you can support the appeal, and some background information. This message will be available online at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/poppy09.htm  later today.

2009 NATIONAL PEACE WORKSHOPS MARCH 27-29, WHANGANUI
     Kia ora, The 2009 National Peace Workshops (NPW) will be held from 6pm, Friday 27 March to 3pm, Sunday 29 March at the Quaker Settlement, Whanganui. There are two sections below: the first has a brief description of this year's NPW and an invitation to your group to contribute an update on your campaign/s as part of the NPW programme, as well as leaflets and other resources if you wish; the second is to ask if your group wishes to be a co-sponsor of the 2009 NPW. If you have received this message via an e-list, or a forwarded copy, please reply to pma@xtra.co.nz
2009 NATIONAL PEACE WORKSHOPS: CAMPAIGN UPDATES, LEAFLETS AND RESOURCES
     The theme of the NPW this year is 'Promoting peace through active non-violent resistance' and the main focus will be participatory discussion with Maori, Pacific and Pakeha contributors who have experience of community and individual non-violent resistance, and/or non-violent direct action in Aotearoa and overseas. There will also be space for campaign updates from peace and related groups.
     Could you please let us know as soon as possible if you wish to contribute a campaign update, and on what topic. If you are planning on attending for only part of the weekend, please let us know when you will be there. Campaign updates will most likely be scheduled for the Friday night plenary session, and will comprise a brief overview so that participants know who to talk with during the weekend to follow up on the topics that particularly interest them. There are some scheduled sessions over the weekend, but as at last year's NPW, the programme is flexible and will be ultimately determined by the participants - where there is a sufficient level of interest in any particular campaign or topic, space will be available for a plenary or parallel session to explore that further.
     You are welcome to bring leaflets or other resources to the NPW. If no-one from your organisation is able to attend, we will take them for you (please post copies to Peace Movement Aotearoa by 14 March).
NATIONAL PEACE WORKSHOPS SPONSORSHIP
     As with previous NPW, we are inviting your organisation to co-sponsor the 2009 NPW - this is particularly important because these NPW are residential and substantial subsidies are required to ensure that those who wish to attend are not prevented from doing so because of the cost. Co-sponsorship comprises a donation of $100 (although if you are able to give more that would be very gratefully received) - in return co-sponsoring organisations will have their name will be included in publicity material, on the 2009 NPW web page at  http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/npw09.htm  and in any published report.
     The initial 2009 NPW publicity material will be distributed on Tuesday, 10 February (along with the registration forms), so rather than waiting until cheques are received to add co-sponsor's names to the publicity material, we will add yours just as soon as we receive a message letting us know that your organisation wishes to be a co-sponsor.
     Co-sponsor cheques should be made payable to 'Peace Movement Aotearoa: Special Projects' and posted to Peace Movement Aotearoa, PO Box 9314, Wellington 6141, as soon as possible. Please remember to include your postal address so you can be sent a receipt. Thank you

WORLD AT A CROSSROADS: FIGHTING FOR SOCIALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - International speakers from: VENEZUELA, ARGENTINA, CANADA, PAKISTAN, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES, TIMOR LESTE, INDIA, AUSTRALIA … and more Easter 2009, April 10-12. Sydney. Venue: Sydney Girls High, Cnr Anzac Pde & Cleveland St, Surry Hills. For more info’ and to buy your tickets: Email: dsp@dsp.org.au  or sydney.resistance@gmail.com Phone: (+ 612) 9690 1230 Visit: www.WorldAtACrossroads.org 

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE WILL EXAMINE THE 5TH PERIODIC REPORT OF NEW ZEALAND ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
Dear Colleagues, As you probably know the UN Human Rights Committee will examine the fifth periodic report of New Zealand on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in October 2009. The Committee will start to draft a 'List of Issues' in May 2009, which will be adopted during its July session. This List of Issues will identify and ask the State about issues of concern and difficulties in implementing the ICCPR and form the basis of the dialogue with the State representatives in October. It is therefore important for NGOs to provide the Committee with information on their concerns, comments on the State report and observations on the implementation of the Committee's previous Concluding Observations before the drafting of the List of Issues (by 30th April 2009) so that these may be included in the List of Issues and addressed throughout the reporting process.
     The CCPR Centre is a new NGO working to promote NGO involvement with the Human Rights Committee, including by providing information and support in drafting NGO reports. One of our objectives is full coverage of the rights guaranteed by the Covenant in NGO reports on each State. We would therefore be interested in knowing whether you are planning to submit an NGO report to the Human Rights Committee and would be happy to provide any support we can (unfortunately we are not able to provide financial support). If you would be interested, I can send you our draft guidelines for NGOs reporting to the Human Rights Committee, and, if you do not already have them, the State report and the Committee's previous Concluding Observations.
     If you have any questions about the reporting process or the CCPR Centre please do not hesitate to get in touch and feel free to forward this message and my contact details to any of your NGO colleagues who might be interested.
     Best wishes, Peggy Brett, Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), Rue de Vermont 37-39, PO Box 35, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. Tel: +41 (0)22 594 38 03. E-mail: pbrett@ccprcentre.org   Website: www.ccprcentre.org

IV EDITION OF MAY DAY WORLD BRIGADE OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA
Dear Friends: The celebration of May Day is a tradition of the world proletariat. All over the world the working class, main character of our contemporary times, claims for their rights and interests through different expressions of revolutionary activities.  In 2009, Cuban working class will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution:  half century of workers’ power, of fight against the American empire and of working-class internationalism. The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) invites you to a new edition of a May Day World Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba. Friends from all over the world will attend the fourth edition of the Brigade to participate in all activities for the celebration and share with the Cuban workers and people. The program prepared for this celebration includes visits to places of historical, cultural,      The growing participation in Brigades from all over the world is a prove not only of the motivation for learning about Cuba but also of the solidarity with Cuba that extends worldwide encouraged by the commitment of the Cuban Revolution to fight against the blockade imposed by the USA government and for the right of being a sovereign and independent nation. By attending the Brigade, a member is committed to comply with the Program and to keep a proper behavior, discipline and living together standards. The consumption of drugs or any other hallucinogenic substances is totally illegal and penalized by the prevailing legislations in our country. Inscriptions are available up to April 1st 2009. You are supposed to inform us the airline, date and time of arrival. We are looking forward to hosting you!!!! Leopoldo Alfredo Valle Álvarez, Director. EMAIL:4th Edition of May Day International Brigade. GIVE TALKBACK RADIO A CALL
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BEST ON THE WEB

NEW ZEALAND

David Robie's blog Cafe Pacific has a good summary of the story from last week about the NZ SIS and what the released files reveal.  David welcomes comments and follow up.
http://cafepacific.blogspot.com
http://cafepacific.blogspot.com/2009/01/maire-tackles-sis-for-breakfast.html

Maire Leadbeater Talks About SIS Spying On Her For 50 Years On TVNZ's "Breakfast" News
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/coming-up-breakfast-2456742/video

Europa and Kenneth talk about minimum wage - Unite union
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSy4BIoT7R8

Matt McCarten: Cheap talk not the way to get NZ out of this crisis
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10554500

Gordon Campbell on Obama’s closing of Guantanamo
http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-on-obamas-closing-of-guantanamo/

INTERNATIONAL ANTIWAR COMMENT & ACTION

An Open Letter To The Israeli Ambassador
http://newmatilda.com/2009/01/27/open-letter-israeli-ambassador

South African dockworkers announce ban on Israeli ship; Palestinians salute decision
http://links.org.au/node/888/10860#comment-10860

Chavismo: Christian, pro-Muslim, pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi - By Roy Chaderton Matos, Venezuela's ambassador to the Organization of American States.
http://links.org.au/node/889

JEWSISH AND ISRAELI OPOSITION TO WAR
http://links.org.au/node/851

Letter from the historian Andre Nouschi to the Israeli ambassador in France: Below is a letter from the historian Andre Nouschi to the Israeli ambassador in France. Professor Nouschi is 83 and was born of Jewish parents in the city of Constantine in Algeria. He was lecturer in the University of Tunis and is honorary professor in the University of Nice.
http://www.libya-almostakbal.net/Motafarreqat2009/letter_to_israeli_ambassador_france_280109.html

Erase my grandfather's name at Yad Vashem, by Jean-Moïse Braitberg
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/world-affairs/310123-jean-moise-braitberg-erase-my-grandfathers-name-yad-vashem.html

Forwarded from the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israeli feminist peace organization which is dedicated to ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights and reaching a just peace in Israel/ Palestine. For more information about the Coalition, go to http://coalitionofwomen.org/home
Launch announcement: Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation? Announcing a new on-line database
http://www.whoprofits.org

FEATURES ON PALESTINE

Gaza: Where To From Here? By Antony Loewenstein
http://newmatilda.com/2009/01/28/gaza-where-here

Hamas and Palestine’s right to exist
http://links.org.au/node/879

Peace Recedes as Israeli Settlements Expand
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45591

"Why the Only Solution for Jews and Palestinians is a One State Solution" - For a durable solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Bible and the Quran must be de-politicized. In political terms, de-politicization means a single secular democratic state for Jews and Palestinians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21893.htm

FILM & VIDEO ON PALESTINE

Video: Gaza survivor describes day 48 members of family were killed in attack - Guardian - 10-year-old Mona Samouni describes how she became one of the very few survivors of the Samouni extended family, after an attack on the densely populated area of Zeitoun
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=51438&s2=02

GENERAL NEWS ON PALESTINE

Gaza: What an Aid Worker Saw, Then and Now: As fears rise of renewed violence in Gaza, Elena Qleibo, a French-Costa Rican aid worker from Oxfam, gives IPS a first-hand account of surviving Israel's three-week bombardment of Gaza.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45637

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland: Officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/01/gaza-food-crisis

When Did We Stop Caring About Civilian Deaths During Wartime? By Robert Fisk - I wonder if we are "normalising" war. It's not just that Israel has yet again got away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21886.htm

WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: 'It Is Time to Aim Beyond Capitalism' Alejandro Kirk interviews Walden Bello
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45547

What Cooked the World's Economy?
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/

World Growth Grinds to Virtual Halt, IMF Urges Decisive Global Policy Response
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2009/RES012809A.htm

Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/29-12

The game changer By George Soros
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49b1654a-ed60-11dd-bd60-0000779fd2ac.html

Bailouts for Bunglers By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/opinion/02krugman.html?pagewanted=print

Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22333

BOLIVIA

In Bolivia, a Tight Grip on the Next Big Resource
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=117236

CUBA

Cuba’s revolution 50 years on
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c0877cdc-e693-11dd-8e4f-0000779fd2ac.html

Seumas Milne: The seeds of Latin America's rebirth were sown in Cuba - There was one region that saw the bankruptcy of neoliberalism - and now the rest of the world is having to catch up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/29/che-guevara-venzuela-cuban-revolution

FRANCE

Huge crowds join French strikes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7857435.stm

BBC: French government fears rise of the left   "We are seeing a radicalisation, perhaps the beginning of a very big movement. I am not a clairvoyant, but I live in France, I have a lot of contacts with a wide range of people and it's not just leftists, not just militants who cannot accept the injustice. Inequality is growing in Europe and inequality is always the cause of revolt".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7861774.stm

IRAQ

Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans - Now that Bush is gone, perhaps the United States can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21888.htm

USA

Hillary Clinton and James Steinberg "Talk Tough" on Latin America
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1518/1/

Guantanamo, The Inside Story By Yvonne Ridley: First hand account of a journalist who visited Guantanamo prison
http://www.countercurrents.org/ridley020209.htm

SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka: Genocide of the Tamil minority
http://links.org.au/node/885

TamilCanadian was designed to provide information about the culture and history of the Tamil people from the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), specifically in regard to those Tamil's who are currently living abroad. The culture and history of the Tamil people of Eelam has a history traced back many thousands of years, and provides a wealth of knowledge steeped in ancient tradition and religion. Unfortunately due to the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Sri Lankan government, the Tamil culture is on the verge of being destroyed. Our humble attempt is to broadcast to the world our struggle to preserve and save our culture from the Sri Lanan government's campaign of genocide against the Tamil people.
http://www.tamilcanadian.com/

Tamil Solidarity Resources
http://tamilsol.blogspot.com/

Sri Lankan  Tamils Fearful For The Future By Inter Press Service
http://www.countercurrents.org/ips040209.htm

VENEZUELA

Luis Bilbao: Venezuela and `the rebirth of the idea of revolution'
http://links.org.au/node/886
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