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Archive for September 2011
World Bank Report leaked – Carbon Market collapse
Leaked World Bank report confirms carbon market collapse
Sensitise Panchayat election candidate on Environment & Disaster management
Provision in State Panchayati Raj Act on Environment & Disaster Management: Sensitise Panchayat election candidate on Environment & Disaster management
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Taking India’s Anti-Coal campaign to the World Bank
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) – As leaders from two of the world’s largest financial institutions, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, met for annual meetings here Tuesday, a delegation of activists from India called on the World Bank to follow through with its proposal to dramatically cut funding for coal-burning power stations.
Courtesy: IPS News
JOIN AAM AADMI DHARNA WITH FAMILY ON SUNDAY 09 OCTOBER 2011
JOIN AAM AADMI DHARNA WITH FAMILY ON SUNDAY 09 OCTOBER 2011
JOIN AAM AADMI DHARNA WITH FAMILY ON SUNDAY 09 OCTOBER 2011 FROM 10 AM TO 1 PM AT RAJGHAT NEW DELHI TO DEMAND (1) UPGRADATION OF ALL STATE RUN SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO THE LEVEL OF KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS (CENTRAL SCHOOLS) AND (2) ENACTMENT OF A CENTRAL LAW TO REGULATE FEES AND OTHER CHARGES IN UNAIDED PRIVATE SCHOOLS. SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF THESE DEMANDS WOULD ALSO TAKE PLACE AT THE PLACE OF THE DHARNA. ADVOCATE ASHOK AGARWAL, NATIONAL PRESIDENT ALL INDIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION AND ADVISOR SOCIAL JURIST, M-09811101923, EMAIL:juristashok@gmail.com
Statement of Protest: David Barsamian – Founder of Alternative Radio denied entry into India
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STATEMENT OF PROTEST
We write to protest the denial of entry to David Barsamian by
Immigration Authorities at the New Delhi airport in the early hours of September 23, 2011, and we write to draw attention to the growing arbitrariness of the Indian Government in dealing with dissent of any kind.
David Barsamian is a veteran broadcaster, and founder and director of Alternative Radio, a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. For more than 25 years Alternative Radio has provided information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored in other media. Structured around intensive interviews conducted by David Barsamian, these programs are carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. He is the author of numerous books with Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali.
David is a friend for many of us, but he is an older friend of India. He first came as a young man in 1966, and has since returned innumerable times, immersing himself in its music, languages and poetry. He has taught himself Urdu and Hindi, learned to play the Sitar, and closely follows events in the sub-continent.
When he was deported on September 23 he had a visa which was valid for another 5 years, and although he last visited in February 2011, he had no intimation or warning that he was in violation of any of the conditions under which his visa was issued. The only thing that the Immigration Officers were able to tell him was that he was “banned” from entering the country, and that the reasons were a “secret”.
The deportation of David Barsamian unfortunately mirrors the manner in which Prof Richard Shapiro was arbitrarily stopped from entering India in November 2010. We are dismayed that this power to send people back from the airport is slowly becoming a weapon, used to discipline and silence people who draw any kind of attention to uncomfortable truths about India. A year later Prof Shapiro still has no formal response on why he was stopped, and when he can regain his right to travel to India, where he has family.
We therefore ask that the ban on David Barsamian and others like Richard Shapiro be revoked, and the Government of India not impede their return to India.
We demand that the right to travel and the right to free exchange of ideas between scholars, journalists, artists, and human rights defenders be respected and protected, and that government agents not authorize the denial of entry and eviction of visitors to India, or monitor their movement. Free exchange of ideas is one of the most basic human rights and values in free democratic societies. Freedom of travel is one of the most important avenues for furthering such exchange among peoples. Recognizing this, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which India has ratified, protects freedom of expression, right to travel and scientific exchange.
Signed:
1 Abha Sur, Academic
2 Amar Kanwar, Film-maker
3 Amit Bhaduri, Academic
4 Amit Sengupta, Journalist
5 Anuradha Chenoy, Academic
6 Ania Loomba, Academic
7 Angana Chatterji, Academic
8 Anthony Arnove, Publisher/Activist
9 Aruna Roy, MKSS, Activist
10 Arundhati Roy, Writer
11 Arpita Banerjee, Academic
12 Ashok Prasad, Academic
13 Ajay Skaria, Academic
14 Basharat Peer, Writer
15 Biju Mathew, Academic
16 David Ludden, Academic
17 Deepankar Basu, Academic
18 Dibyesh Anand, Academic
19 Gyanendra Pandey, Academic
20 Harsh Dobhal, Journalist
21 Hussain Askari, Journalist
22 Jean Dreze, Scholar
23 Joel Geier, International Socialist Review
24 Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Academic
25 Kamala Visveswaran, Academic
26 Lalitha Gopalan, Academic
27 Manisha Sethi, Academic
28 Mirza Waheed, Writer
29 Nagesh Rao, Academic
30 Najeeb Mubarki, Journalist
31 Nitasha Kaul, Writer
32 Noam Chomsky
33 N Raghuram, Academic
34 Madhu Bhaduri, former Ambassador
35 Mridu Rai, Academic
36 Nurul Kabir, Engineer
37 Pankaj Mishra, Writer
38 Parvaiz Bukhari, Journalist
39 Philip Gasper, Academic
40 Pranav Jani, Academic
41 Prashant Bhushan, Lawyer
42 Rahul Roy, Film-maker
43 Sanjay Kak, Film-maker
44 Satya Sivaraman, Journalist
45 Shabnam Hashmi, Activist
46 Shripad Dharmadhikary, Researcher
47 Shohini Ghosh, Academic
48 Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Artist
49 Simona Sawhney, Academic
50 Sukumar Muralidharan, Journalist
51 Suresh Nautiyal, Journalist
52 Suvir Kaul, Academic
53 Saba Dewan, Film-maker
54 Snehal Shingavi, Academic
55 Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Review
56 Tariq Thachil, Academic
57 Vandana Shiva, Academic
58 Vijayan MJ, Activist
59 Vrinda Grover, Lawyer
60 V.S.Roy David
V.S. Roy David
National Convener-National Adivasi Alliance
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Update from POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti as on 29th September 201
Dear Friends,
Thank you very much for your immediate response to our last update.
A day after the private goons attacked our people, on 27th September 2011, more than 3000 villagers dug up the main entry point of Dhinkia village from the coast side to prevent the contractors and their henchmen from building the road for facilitating POSCO project. Our villagers have erected bamboo gate at the proposed construction site to debar entry of the government officials, company staff and contractors. We are determined to stall any attempt to build the coastal road.
You may clearly understand that police in a clear nexus with ruling party leaders and contractors to trample people’s democratic movement against the steel project. Everything was done at the behest of the civil and police administration. The police had prior knowledge about the planned attack on the people. The police were not far away from where the incident took place but they remained silent as anti-socials went about beating us.
On 27th September 2011, Ms. Satyabati Swain (age – 55, w/o – Late Narendra Swain) and Ms. Anita Sharma (age – 35), residents of Govindpur village of Dhinkia Panchayat went to file FIRs at Kujang Police Station. Instead of accepting the F.I.R, Mr. Gupteswar Bhoi, I.I.C. humiliated both of them by abusing in filthy language. He has detained Ms. Satyabati Swain in lieu of showing old false cases. The complaint of Ms. Anita Sharma was accepted but the IIC is attempting to get away the name of the main culprits of the incident Mr. Pravat Nandi (owner of Paradeep Paribahan) and Mr. Bapi Circle.
At this juncture, we are requesting you to call the following authorities and write to NHRC, NCW and other human rights bodies showing the police brutalities against our villagers.
Attaching herewith the photographs of 26th incident for your information.
We shall inform you the further developments here. Kindly circulate this mail widely.
In Solidarity,
Prashant Paikaray
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no – 09437571547
E -Mail- prashantpaikray@gmail.com
Please Call…..
1 Mr. Narayan Chandra Jena,District Collectior, Jagatsinghpur,
Contact number: +919437038401 , Fax No - : +916724220299
2. Mr. Debadutta Singh, Superintendent of Police: Mobile No: +919437094678, dmjsp@ori.nic.in
Workers Struggle in Maruti-Suzuki
So far, most of the press coverage related to workers struggle in Maruti-Suzuki were primarily focused on the multinational‘s economic loss and hardly any sincere coverage to do a reality check on the worker’s struggle.
This article in The Hindu attempts to do some justice to the workers struggle there.
The multinational refuses to be sensitive to the grievances of its Indian workforce, which generates the greater proportion of the company’s profits.
When the Rich rob the Poor…
When the Rich rob the Poor its called Business
When the Poor fight back its called Violence
Courtesy: TRAP: The Real Art of Protest
