June 2010
Voluntary work in a Palestinian refugee camp
In August 2009, an international youth brigade visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein El-Hilweh starting the joint project of Sumud and the Palestinian-Lebanese association Nashet.
Conference on Volontary Service
In a society shaped by egoism and indifference, new experiences of social engagement, voluntary service and brotherhood/sisterhood emerge.
Despite public claims Mubarak continues to support the blockade
Popular Egyptian Convoy to break the siege of Gaza
A convoy organized by Egypt’s political forces took off to Rafah, 11 June, in an effort to end the blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007.
Letter by Abnaa elBalad Movement
Dear Participants and Supporters of the 2nd Haifa conference for the Return of the Palestinian Refugees and the Democratic Secular State in Historic Palestine,
G N Saibaba, Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), India
The Gnaneshwari Express on 28 May 2010 and a goods train tragedy near Kharagpur in West Bengal in which 80 people were killed and 200 injured was attributed to CPI(Maoist) and Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) by the media. The media unscrupulously played false news stories blaming CPI (Maoist) and Peoples Committee for two days. Some political parties like Trinomial Congress and the ruling CPI(Marxist) also blamed these organisations without any verification. Significantly Union Home Minister Chidambaram has declined to attribute the blame on the CPI (Maoist) and also announced that there was no evidence of any bomb blast in the incident.