May 22, 2012 – BASICS Community News Service reports on the 100th day of the Quebec Student Strike. We spoke with Amelie, a student at [...]
On May 1st, 1886, workers in Chicago were shot down as they marched for an 8-hour workday. Ever since then, May 1st or May Day [...]
by Jasmine Green As of April 12th, student associations representing over 171,000 students from Quebec’s universities and CEGEP programs have gone on strike and organised [...]
By Mike Brito. Some recent numbers coming out from Statistics Canada show that unemployment rates across the country are reaching levels above 17% for people [...]
Unite the struggles of the people on International Workers’ Day for an Anti-Capitalist May Day! Nathan Phillips Square – Toronto City Hall Rally and Food [...]
by Kevin Edmonds It has been more than two years since Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake in January 2010, and the failed reconstruction [...]
by Kabir Joshi-Vijayan On the evening of May 5th 2010, 18-year old Junior Alejandro Manon was driving with a friend near Keele & Steeles when [...]
By Corrie Sakaluk Don Drummond is Premier Dalton McGuinty’s invited Chair of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. He is currently Matthews [...]
by SKS The New York Times has repeated the lie that Anders Behring Breivik, the butcher of Oslo and is a fundamentalist Christian. He is [...]
Philippines, 2011 – This past summer 3 basics correspondents went to the Philippines to report on the social conditions and the people who are organizing to change their society in the interest of the oppressed. This is a short documentary of the situation of the urban poor in the Philippines as told through a song written [...]
Click Photo for BASICSnews.ca photo collection at Flickr. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2012 Bill Dores, International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) Vice Chairperson for External Affairs and ILPS-US Country Co-Coordinator (ilps.us.icc@gmail.com) Valerie Francisco, GABRIELA USA Chairperson and representative to ILPS-US Country Coordinating Committee (chair@gabusa.org) CHICAGO, IL– Over 300 anti-imperialist and progressive community activists from [...]
An evening with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Wednesday, May 9th at 6.30 pm. OISE 5250 (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto) In the imperialist countries of the United States of America and Canada, the Native peoples’ struggle for self-determination and liberation is essential to any revolutionary strategy against capitalism. Built on the [...]
#May1TO: Unite the Struggles of the People on International Workers’ Day for an Anti-Capitalist May Day: Rally starts at City Hall and marches to Alexandra Park for a Cultural Festival 4pm: Rally and Food (Not Bombs!) @ Nathan Phillips Square 5pm: March 7pm: Cultural Festival @ Alexandra Park (Dundas and Bathurst) On May 1, 2012, [...]
April 2012 – BASICS Community News Service reports on the struggle of low-income residents unfolding in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood in Vancouver to oppose a new condo development that will drive up rents and drive them out. Contextualized with a historical overview of the DTES, residents describe the effects that gentrification has had on [...]
[Source: ACTION] Coldwater Heritage Museum Board of Ditrectors have requested to the organizers of an Anishinabek Oshkimaadzig Camp to pack up and leave the Museum’s property as soon as possible in a show of good faith after setting up camp without permission. The Camp has been set up for over a week by three Anishinabek [...]
Video from April 15 panel discussion about the right to rebel. On April 15, 2012 at the Strathcona Community Centre, activists gathered to hear from a panel on diverse areas of the fight to combat ongoing criminalization of resistance to imperialist and capitalism forces. These struggles touch every corner of the earth, with systemic oppression [...]
By Mike Grant and Martin Cook The government recently announced that, in 10-15 years it will raise the age of eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) from 65 to 67. Their decision will affect the vast majority of us living in Canada and with the greatest impact falling on those of us working low paying [...]
April 21, 6:00pm – Holy Rosary Parish Hall, St. Clair West (just east of Bathurst Street) We are inviting you to the upcoming 4th year CORDILLERA DAY celebration in Toronto, Canada on APRIL 21, 2012 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm at the HOLY ROSARY Parish Hall on St. Clair West (just east of Bathurst [...]
by Peter Braun The austerity agenda that governments worldwide are currently imposing upon workers, students and poor people is now being brought to bear on the post-secondary education system in Canada. In Ontario, this has become especially apparent with the so-called “three-cubed” document, recently leaked to the public. Although this document is merely a “background paper,” and [...]
Get on the bus from Toronto! Support the Walk for Peace, Respect, and Friendship. April 28, meet at Keele Station, 12:15pm. Reserve your spot today at http://april28coalition.wordpress.com/. At 2 PM on Saturday, April 28, 2012 the Six Nations [Haudenosaunee] people of the Grand River territory and their allies will be holding a walk and rally [...]
