Students activities in India (r)

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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

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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)