The Carleton Burma Solidarity Committee (CBSC) was created in 2005 as a Carleton Undergraduate Students Association (CUSA) student group. The mandate of the CBSC is to raise awareness of the struggle for social justice and democracy in Burma among the Carleton student body. Since its creation, CBSC has hosted numerous public lectures and film screenings on various Burma-related issues including the use of forced labour by the Burmese junta (aka the State Peace and Development Council – SPDC for short); the complicity of Canadian companies in environmentally destructive mining joint-ventures with the SPDC; the systematic use of human rights abuses against women as a military strategy by the SPDC; and the proposed damming of the Salween River and its related human and environmental consequences.
This blog will be the place where CBSC will post information regarding upcoming CBSC events and document these activities to share with other groups fighting for social justice for the people forced to live under the oppressive rule of the military dictatorship in Burma.
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