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On 9/2/08, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *i did.* > > On 9/2/08, anil tharayath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dear friends >> >> Please flood the ministers inbox with this appeal drafted below. Its high >> time we do it. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.kerala.gov.in/> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Dear Sir/ Madam >> >> The lives and livelihoods of over 20,000 Dalits, Adivasis and others, >> peacefully protesting for land at the Harrison Malayam Private Ltd >> plantation in Chengara, Pathanthimthatta are in danger. A group of trade >> unions claiming to represent the plantation's retrenched rubber workers have >> announced plans to march and reclaim the land from the peaceful protesters >> on Wednesday, September 3rd. >> >> The trade unions, including CITU, INTUC, AITUC, UTUC, HMS and others, in >> collusion with company goons, have already succeeded in manufacturing a >> human rights crisis in the area. Together, they have been blocking food, >> medicines and other essential materials from entering the plantation for the >> past one month, terrorizing the peaceful protesters and their children. >> Women have been the targets of brutal attacks by the workers of the trade >> unions and other hired henchmen of Harrison Malayalam Ltd. >> >> Many women have testified that the attacks happened in the presence of the >> police, who remained mute spectators and whose inaction encouraged the >> perpetuators further. The police have also colluded in preventing civil >> society groups from entering the site. >> >> The proposed March could potentially deteriorate the law and order >> situation in the already fragile areas of Chengara further. In the light of >> past actions, which were used as a cover up to inflict physical harm and to >> denigrate the dignity of the protesting Dalits and Adivasis, we urge you to >> take immediate actions to thwart attempts of a March on September 3rd. >> >> We strongly feel that government can no longer sit idly and allow the >> rights and lives of marginalized peoples' to be violated in this manner. >> Under no circumstances should union activists and company goons be allowed >> to march on the plantation this Wednesday. >> >> >> We demand: >> >> 1. Immediately intervene to stop the September 3rd planned assault on the >> peaceful protesters by trade unions and company goons. >> >> 2. Take immediate action against those responsible for the blockade, >> ensuring the immediate lifting of the blockade, and restore normalcy to >> people's lives. >> >> 3. Immediately initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of >> the sexual assault of the four women at the struggle site on August 7th >> 2008. >> >> 4. Enter into a dialogue with the protestors and take measures to >> distribute land to the landless. >> >> >> -- >> "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas >> are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than >> ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the >> bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events >> manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against >> them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... >> that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who >> would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault >> >> ANIL >> >> Anil Tharayath Varghese >> National Centre for Advocacy Studies >> Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony >> Pashan, Pune 21 >> Phone - 02022952003/4 >> Mobile - 09890387877 >> email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
