Message from the May 1st Movement on May Day 2013 In 1886, 127 years ago, European immigrant workers marched in Chicago to demand an eight [...]
MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 2010 August 13-16, 2010
The Esplanade Community Group presents: Power to the People: A Night of Empowering Local Artists, Youth and Community
In Memory of the Junior Alexander Manon, a fundraising event to raise money for the Justice for Junior Campaign.
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September 2008Voting rates, especially amongst working people, has been on the decline over the last 20 years. In the last three federal elections, around a third of the population did not vote, with the 2004 election ranking as the lowest voter turnout since the 1867 Confederation of Canada. For people under the age of 30, [...]
RADIO BASICS takes to the air September 2008 on CHRY 105.5, York University community-campus radio. RADIO BASICS is a production of Basics Community Newsletter and will be featuring local, international and cultural news relevant to the people and their struggles. 2008 Show List: Sep 17, Oct 1, Oct 15, Oct 29, Nov 12, Nov 26, [...]
Interview by S. da Silva Basics Issue #10 (Aug/Sep 2008) On the 30th anniversary of Philadelphia police’s terroristic siege on the MOVE organization on August 8, 1978, Basics linked up with MOVE member Ramona Africa . Ramona Africa is the only living adult survivor of the Philadelphia police’s second major attack on MOVE’s home in [...]
by Calvin Parrish Jr.Basics Issue #10 (Aug/Sep 2008)August 30, 2008, marks what would have been the 60th birthday of the well-known Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Fred Hampton – had he not been murdered while he slept at the age of 21 years-old, by Chicago police almost [...]
by Makaya Basics Issue #10 (Aug/Sep 2008) The Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) is a national, revolutionary organization in America that was founded in the nine years Fred Hampton Jr. spent in prison. In his words:“POCC was literally birthed from behind enemy lines. Its birth canal was the concentration camps, it’s umbilical cords are the [...]
In August 2008, S. da Silva and N. Zahra of Basics Community Newsletter met with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee in Chicago in front of the historic site of the assassination of his father, Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party. They spoke about police terror in [...]
Interview by N. Zahra and S. da Silva Basics Issue #10 (Aug/Sep 2008) ____________________________________________ In June 2008, Basics visited political prisoner and former Black Liberation Army member Robert ‘Seth’ Hayes at a prison in upstate New York known as Wende Correctional Facility. Robert Seth Hayes is one of the longest held political prisoners in the [...]
by Chevy X KingBasics Issue #10 (Aug/Sep 2008) Today, peoples of African descent in Canada are referred to as “visible minorities” and are treated as foreigners everywhere they turn. However, peoples of African descent have a very long-standing history in Canada, with Africville being an important case in point.Africville was one of Canada’s oldest African-Canadaian [...]
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