Download this paper as a .pdf. by Aiyanas Ormond – Feature Analysis Housing is an issue that preoccupies Vancouver. The local ruling elite is dominated [...]
Promises of community access to new sports complex go unfulfilled by Barry Marsh and Peter D’Gama (Issue #27 – Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) When [...]
Steve da Silva (BASICS Issue #27 – Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) On November 24, 2011, in “the world’s largest democracy”, the Indian state in [...]
by N. Zahra – BASICS Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) The proper nouns pertaining to the work of d’bi young have been left [...]
by Diamond Wisdom As of October 31, 2011, Housing Connections (a subsidiary of Toronto Community Housing Corporation) had its waiting list at a record of [...]
by Shane Martínez – BASICS Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) On Saturday, November 26, 2011, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and its [...]
by Noaman G. Ali “We said we would be willing—and this was just dialogue, wasn’t offers passed back and forth—that we’d take this,” Bob Kinnear makes a zero with his fingers, “provided that the Toronto Transit Commission maintains the level of service.” But according to Kinnear, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 (ATU [...]
On today’s show (9 Jan 2012), Steve da Silva interviews Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya of GlobalResearch.ca on the U.S.-Israeli war preparations with Iran. For our second feature interview, we talk with Canadian Auto Workers Local 27 President Tim Carrie about the situation of locked-out Caterpillar workers in London, Ontario.Featuring music from the Consumer Goods – ‘Hockey [...]
On this episode of Radio Basics (December 19, 2011), Steve da Silva and Kabir Joshi-Vijayan interview Russell Diabo, the spokesperson of Defenders of the Land and the Editor/Publisher of First Nations Strategic Bulletin. Diabo talks to us about the struggle of indigenous peoples against the Indian Act, lands claims processes, and the puppet governments. Click [...]
On December 17, 2011, BASICS Community News Service held its second Annual General Meeting (AGM), just a little over a year after launched as a formal mass organization with a constitution in 2010. The main tasks of the AGM included reviewing the successes of the past year, putting forward suggestions for the upcoming year, and [...]
The Sendong tragedy, above all, shows how massive deaths and destruction of properties are effects of imperialists’ plunder of the country’s resources through large-scale mining, quarrying, logging, and land conversion. The previous governments, all puppets of US imperialism, should also be held accountable for the loss of lives because they facilitated the entry and operation [...]
by Kabir Joshi-Vijayan – BASICS Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) A famished naked child with a swollen belly, too weak to brush the flies from his body or even lift his head. It’s a morbid symbol of Third World poverty. Images like this are ubiquitous in the corporate media’s coverage of impoverished countries. [...]
Editorial – by Steve da Silva (BASICS Issue #27 – Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) The courage and heroism of the peoples struggles that have ruptured the repressive political climates of many Middle Eastern countries cannot be overstated. To turn a phrase against the Orientalist outlook of Western imperialism, a proverbial genie of sorts has [...]
Indian ‘Republic Killing Its Own Children’ - Kishenji Fought for a Better World by Bernard D’Mello – Reposted from MRZine (3 Dec 2011) India’s Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, West Bengal Chief Minister (also in charge of the province’s home affairs) Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Secretary R K Singh, and the top bosses of the security [...]
by Errol Young – BASICS Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012 After predicting for years that school enrolments will drop drastically, TDSB staff are now saying that the opposite is true. This according to official TDSB reports projected enrolment numbers through to 2036 (see tables below). These new statistics pose a serious problem for [...]
by Megan Kinch – BASICS Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) When said we were heading to the ‘occupy’ protest, the cab driver turned off the meter. He told us he came here from Iran, that he had three degrees, and that he had to drive a cab every single day to make ends [...]
by Alex Felipe – Issue #27 (Dec 2011 / Jan 2012) **This article was first written up as a facebook response to the following Coke ad that went viral, “Coca-Cola Where Will Happiness Strike Next: The OFW Project” Coca-cola has just released an incredibly powerful, emotionally-gripping, viral ad targeting the Filipino community worldwide—and I hate [...]
