[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index
][Thread Index
]
Students activities in India (r)
- Subject: Students activities in India (r)
- From: frdc@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 06:57:00
Dear Poe Ziwa:
Please keep me informed of your work in India. I am coordinator of
the Massachusetts Burma Roundtable. For the past two years, we have
organized speakers and video presentations, demonstrations outside
companies that do business in Burma such as PepsiCo and Texaco and
letter writing campaigns to our representatives in the U.S. Congress.
We have also supported legislation in the Massachusetts State House
that would the state's purchasing managers from buying any goods or
services from companies doing business in Burma. This legislation
recently passed the Massachusetts House and is now being debated in
the Massachusetts Senate.
The internet is an excellent means of communication between Burma
action groups around the world. I would encourage other groups to
post news of their activities.
Simon Billenness
--------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 19:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: Conference "reg.burma" <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Students activities in India
To: Recipients of burmanet-l <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
The first ever confrence of the all India based Burmese democratic
forces was successfully held in June-July 1994 in New Delhi. The
result of this was that all the scattered Burmese democratic groups
based in India came under one banner, namely,the All Burma Students
League(India).While their headquarters in New Delhi,they have two
regional offices in Manipur and Mizoram.Their main activities in
India have been non-violent in nature,and have been directed towards
carrying on propaganda warfare against SLORC.
They want the people of India and the international community to know
the reality of Burma, to relize the seriousness of the situation and
the sufferings of the innocent people under the brutal militiary
junta. their activities include the publication and distribution of
news bulletins, pamphlets and books; the organization of seminars,
discussions and art exhibitions highlighting their movement and as
well as staging protest rallies and demonstrations in front of SLORC
embassy in New Delhi on every remarkable day in Burmese history.
For implementing our political activities they have created fund
raising programmes,organizing Burmese food selling and presentation
of musical evenings. They also sell paintings by the renowned Burmese
pro-democracy artist Ko Sitt Nyein Aye at the various Art Exhibitions
as well as producing and selling of T-shirts,postcards,audio and
video cassettes related to their democratic movment.
(ABSL Fist News Bulletin)