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Why We Should Welcome Boatful of Tamil Refugees Into Canada

Harsha Walia a Vancouver-activist with No One Is Illegal and other groups, had the following opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun: From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis travelling with 900 Jewish asylum seekers, to the boats with 600 people from China’s Fujian province …

Pass the Roti on the left hand side

Just like to quickly give props to this blog, which i just had pointed out to me: Pass the Roti on the left hand side – a good source of progressive and antifascist news and analysis from and about South Asia. Check it out!

[Montreal] Protest the Slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka!

The following from the Montreal Tamil Action Committee, about an emergency response to the massacre in Sri Lanka: WORK TOGETHER TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER! Emergency Rallies in Montreal and in Ottawa! =======================>Wednesday February 4TH5 to 7pmComplex Guy Favreau on 200 Rene Levesque west Tamils and non-Tamils alike must work together …