[GreenYouth] Honduras Updates
[Honduras is now faced with a stalemate. Zelaya lacks the strength to overthrow the new regime installed through a military takeover by means of popular insurrection. The regime, already internationally ostracised, is in no position to subdue persistent popular protests nor gain legitimacy with the world beyond. The as yet fruitless and protracted negotiation is aptly reflective of that. Evidently, it can't go on indefinitely. This is an unstable equilibrium. This is an unstable equilibrium.] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/world/americas/19honduras.html?_r=2ref=wo http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/world/americas/19honduras.html?_r=2ref=woJuly 19, 2009 Mediator Proposes Reinstating Honduran LeaderBy ELISABETH MALKINhttp://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylLv1=ELISABETH%20MALKINfdq=19960101td=sysdatesort=newestac=ELISABETH%20MALKINinline=nyt-per CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — The mediator in talks seeking to break the deadlock between the deposed Honduran president, Manuel Zelayahttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/jose_manuel_zelaya/index.html?inline=nyt-per, and the de facto government that exiled himhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/americas/29honduras.html urged both sides on Saturday to agree to a plan that would return the ousted leader and grant a general amnesty for political offenses. The seven points proposed by the mediator, President Óscar Arias of Costa Ricahttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/costarica/index.html?inline=nyt-geo, during a second round of negotiations at his house in the capital, San José, would require the political elite of Hondurashttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/honduras/index.html?inline=nyt-geo to recognize Mr. Zelaya as the country’s legitimate president, which they have yet to do. Rixi Moncada, a representative of Mr. Zelaya, said Mr. Arias proposed during the afternoon session that the ousted president be reinstated by Friday. The two sides ended talks at 8:45 p.m. Saturday (10:45 p.m. Eastern time) and are to resume Sunday. The delegation for the de facto government asked for time to consult with officials in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Mr. Arias said that there were still many differences between the sides and that he had asked them to make one last effort to be flexible. But there appeared to be signs of movement. As the talks ended for the day, Carlos López, a member of the delegation for the de facto government, said he hoped that Mr. Arias could announce good news on Sunday. Outside the negotiations, though, both sides took a combative stance, appearing to play to their hard-line supporters. Mr. Zelaya promised to return to Honduras soon, in defiance of promises by the de facto government to arrest him. The government of Roberto Michelettihttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/roberto_micheletti/index.html?inline=nyt-per, who was named president by Congress after the military forced Mr. Zelaya onto a plane to Costa Rica three weeks ago, threw up a raft of legal objections to the idea of letting him return under an amnesty. Although Mr. Arias’s plan would restore Mr. Zelaya, it would also sharply curtail his powers and focus much of the country’s political energy on an early presidential election. Mr. Zelaya’s delegation nevertheless said it had agreed in principle to all seven points. But one of Mr. Micheletti’s negotiators, Vilma Morales, a former Supreme Court president, told local radio on Saturday that it was up to the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court and election authorities to decide on most of the points. As the talks went on, Mr. Zelaya, who was in neighboring Nicaragua, told Honduran radio that he might return home as soon as Monday. His wife, Xiomara Castro, leading protesters in Tegucigalpa on Saturday, said he would return within hours, “no matter the bayonets and machine guns” his supporters might face. Those statements could heighten tensions in Honduras, which has been paralyzed by strikes and protests since the June 28 coup. Mr. Zelayatried to fly into the Tegucigalpa airporthttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/world/americas/06honduras.html two weeks ago on a small plane provided by the Venezuelan government, but military vehicles parked on the tarmac blocked his approach. One supporter was killed when soldiers pushed back those who had come to greet him. As the talks began Saturday about 11 a.m., Mr. Arias warned both sides that Honduras was facing increasing isolation. Mr. Zelaya has been recognized as the legitimate president by the United Nationshttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org, the Organization of American Stateshttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/organization_of_american_states/index.html?inline=nyt-org and the Obama administration. The Arias proposal would move forward by a month the
[GreenYouth] Re: chinese flag ?????
YES boss sarvam hamee hei On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sebin Jacob sebinaja...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/20 ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com hey nice one but a secret.. this manorama reporter was SFI/ DYFI activist during his school/college days. Still he committed this mistake. (?!!) How could you vouch for that? Are you the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent one? -- Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth -- The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings. - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Left is wrong on Iran- Hamid Dabashi
A must read. And wanting to read what Foucault has written on Iran. Never heard of that before. This one made me to remember Said's piece on Genet and Palestine. Aryan http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/956/op5.htm 16 - 22 July 2009 Left is wrong on Iran Who are and who promoted these leftist intellectuals who question the social uprising of the people in Iran, asks Hamid Dabashi* When a political groundswell like the Iranian presidential election of June 2009 and its aftermath happen, the excitement and drama of the moment expose not just our highest hopes but also our deepest fault lines, most troubling moral flaws, and the dangerous political precipice we face. Over the decades I have learned not to expect much from what passes for the left in North America and/or Western Europe when it comes to the politics of what their colonial ancestry has called the Middle East. But I do expect much more when it comes to our own progressive intellectuals -- Arabs, Muslims, South Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. This is not a racial bifurcation, but a regional typology along the colonial divide. By and large this expectation is apt and more often than not met. The best case in point is the comparison between what Azmi Bishara has offered about the recent uprising in Iran and what Slavoj Zizek felt obligated to write. Whereas Bishara's piece (with aspects of which I have had reason to disagree) is predicated on a detailed awareness of the Iranian scene, accumulated over the last 30 years of the Islamic Republic and even before, Zizek's (the conclusion of which I completely disagree with) is entirely spontaneous and impressionistic, predicated on as much knowledge about Iran as I have about the mineral composition of the planet Jupiter. The examples can be multiplied by many, when we add to what Azmi Bishara has written pieces by Mustafa El-Labbad and Galal Nassar, for example, and compare them to the confounded blindness of Paul Craig Roberts, Anthony DiMaggio, Michael Veiluva, James Petras, Jeremy Hammond, Eric Margolis, and many others. While people closest to the Iranian scene write from a position of critical intimacy, and with a healthy dose of disagreement, those farthest from it write with an almost unanimous exposure of their constitutional ignorance, not having the foggiest idea what has happened in that country over the last 30 years, let alone the last 200 years, and then having the barefaced chutzpah to pontificate one thing or another -- or worse, to take more than 70 million human beings as stooges of the CIA and puppets of the Saudis. Let me begin by stating categorically that in principle I share the fundamental political premise of the left, its weariness of US imperial machination, of major North American and Western European media (but by no means all of them) by and large missing the point on what is happening around the globe, or even worse seeing things from the vantage point of their governmental cues, which they scarcely question. It has been but a few months since we have come out of the nightmare of the Bush presidency, or the combined chicaneries of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and John Ashcroft, or of the continued calamities of the war on terror. Iran is still under the threat of a military strike by Israel, or at least more severe economic sanctions, similar to those that are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis during the Clinton administration. Iraq and Afghanistan are burning, Gaza is in utter desolation, Northern Pakistan is in deep humanitarian crisis, and Israel is stealing more Palestinian lands every day. With all his promises and pomp and ceremonies, President Obama is yet to show in any significant and tangible way his change of course in the region from that of the previous administration. The US Congress, prompted by AIPAC (the American Israel Political Affairs Committee), pro-war vigilantes lurking in the halls of power in Washington DC, and Israeli warlords and their propaganda machinery in the US, are all excited about the events in Iran and are doing their damnedest to turn them to their advantage. The left, indeed, has reason to worry. But having principled positions on geopolitics is one thing, being blind and deaf to a massive social movement is something entirely different, as being impervious to the flagrant charlatanism of an upstart demagogue like Ahmadinejad. The sign and the task of a progressive and agile intelligence is to hold on to core principles and seek to incorporate mass social uprising into its modus operandi. My concern here is not with that retrograde strand in the North American or Western European left that is siding with Ahmadinejad and against the masses of millions of Iranians daring the draconian security apparatus of the Islamic Republic. They are a lost cause, and frankly no one could care less what they think of the world. What does concern me is when an Arab intellectual like Asad
[GreenYouth] Fwd: [Secular Perspective] Still the fear factor is continuing in Kandhamal
*Still the fear factor is continuing in Kandhamal* *By Mansoon Nohanty * On the eve of 28th August 2008, no Dalit Christian had any idea about the brewing communal violence in their life. The people who were till yesterday their friends, ready to help known to them for years, had turned into bitter foes. This the human mind could not comprehend. Those helping hands had suddenly turned into blood thirsty weapons. This incident had occurred almost year ago but still had the fear been removed from their hearts? How far have we been successful to return to them their normal lives? The answer might be “NO”. “Jai Hanuman”; this one word incites hatred into their hearts. Citing the respondents of Raikia, G Udayagiri, K Nuagaon Baliguda blocks; that night the mob had attacked them with this very word. Even now if they hear the word, it is enough for them to send them fleeing from their homes village; such is the fear of the word and its implications. “The victims had no other option but return to their villages and settle with their neighbours, which fact should not be ignored in dealing cases. “ - M. M. Praharaj, Orissa Police D.G in a press conference. The State Government knowing very well about Dalit Christians insecurity about returning to their homes still forced them to return home from the camps. As per my data in Raikia, Tikabali blocks the administration has failed to resettle them in their own village. In the Pirigargh village of K. Nuagaon block, the Dalits are not allowed to take water from the public wells. Assuming that everything is under control now the local administration is trying to wash its hands off the situation, but the truth is that the situation still persists in these villages and the people still suffer its aftereffects. Out of total effected population, more than 47% of the victims still live outside the villages in temporary dwellings. The Government claims that under NREGA there will be 100 days of work to unemployed people but how far has this been materialized is a question to reckon with. How will these people (Victims) survive without any source of livelihood? When the police refused to register their cases earlier, saying that it was false and now when the communal forces are emerging stronger than before; offenders are winning cases since no evidence is found against them and in many cases the witness are withdrawing out of fear, the dalits find themselves at the receiving end of all sorts of trouble. Due to this, the rest are loosing their faith confidence in justices and the legal process. According to one of respondent, in the case of the raped nun, if she who was being backed by the whole congregation could not get justices till now, then how can we being ordinary people expect justices? Due to this, they have left all expectations on the justice and now focusing on re-building their lives from the bits of leftovers. All these things are proving to be a tonic for the communal forces; they are emerging full fledged with more confidence than ever before. In view of facts, now we can’t overlook the on coming violence which may be more intense than before. If the facts deduced by this ordinary person have mistakes or if the views have been expressed in correctly, then it kindly be excused. “The eye believes, what it sees” -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: [GJM] PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR LIST - ABSOLUTELY VITAL ! Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 875): Criminalization of Organic Farms]
-- Forwarded message -- From: EcoTort ecot...@gn.apc.org Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM Subject: [GJM] PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR LIST - ABSOLUTELY VITAL ! Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 875): Criminalization of Organic Farms] To: MONSANTO ARE TRYING TO MAKE ORGANIC FARMING CRIMINAL ! ! ! WE HAVE TO STOP THEM ! http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222 I truly apologise to you if you don't want emails from me, some people have been complaining to my service provider about spam PLEASE TELL *ME* if you don't want to receive emails from EcoTort ! http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222 http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222 ___ Discussion mailing list discuss...@globaljusticemovement.net http://globaljusticemovement.net/mailman/listinfo/discussion_globaljusticemovement.net -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: FANATIC DALITS, EMPOWERED DALITS (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shiva Shankar sshan...@cmi.ac.in Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:07 PM Subject: FANATIC DALITS, EMPOWERED DALITS (fwd) To: '... At the end one just hopes that a radical dalit community would emerge which can critically engage with the reconstruction and reappropriation of its memory by vested interests and move towards the emancipatory agenda put forward by Phule, Ambedkar, Periyar and others.' FANATIC DALITS, EMPOWERED DALITS : Not So Fascinating World of Dalit-Hindutva Engagement SUBHASH GATADE ---the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, �a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one�s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one�s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,�an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,�this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. - Du Bois ( The Soul of Black Folks) 1. The question of mapping 'agency' as it unfolds itself in the trajectory of the oppressed has been a recurring theme in the social sciences of the 20 th century ? In his historic treatise 'Soul of the Black Folks' the legendary African-American social scientist and activist Du Bois had discussed the 'double consciousness' which inhabits the Negro ( this was the term which was used then for the African-Americans) and tried to delineate the dilemma through which every oppressed individual / formation is condemned to pass. According to Du Bois, a black individual lives with a feeling of 'twoness' in a dominant white society. On the one hand S/he is engaged in confrontation with the dominant white world to oppose racial discrimination and on the other hand s/he also yearns to become an American 'without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows'. If the feeling of 'twoness' inhabited the blacks, is it possible to think about the dalits in a Varna society on similar lines. The contradictoriness of the consciousness is very much visible in this case as well. On the one hand s/he is engaged in imitating/following the Varna hierarchy ( this process of upward mobility is variously described as Brahminisation/Sanskritisation by scholars a la M.N. Srinivas) and on the other hand one encounters a strong current of resistance to this cooption. Interestingly, as we approach the sixtieth year of India's becoming a republic when ( to quote Dr Ambedkar) we embarked on the journey of becoming a political democracy where one wo/man had one vote and the challenge of its becoming a 'social democracy' with one wo/man one value still beckoned us, an altogether different situation awaits us. We have before us dalit assertion reaching its zenith signified by a 'dalit ki beti' becoming Chief Minister of the largest state in the Indian Union and the 'guest actor role of the dalits' in the Indian polity becoming a thing of the past. And simultaneously one encounters the ideological and institutional incorporation of a section of the subalterns - namely dalits, tribals, backwards - in the unfolding Hindutva agenda also coming to its fruition. As is widely known if the 1992-93 riots in Bombay made us aware of the communalisation of a section of the women and their turning stormtroopers for the Hindutva brigade, (discussed and debat ed in detail in the volume 'Womena and the Hindu Right - ed.) throwing many of our earlier assumptions about women's empowerment to the winds, the Gujarat genocide in the year 2002 made us aware of this dangerous and the anti-human detour of the dalit consciousness. Interestingly while it is easy to comprehend dalit assertion on autonomous lines, connecting it to the glorious tradition of cultural revolts led by the likes of Phule, Jyothee Thass, Periyar, Ambedkar and others, one is normally baffled by a section of the dalits cooption by the Hindutva forces and their becoming stormtroopers for its hate agenda. The book under discussion by Mr Badri Narayan titled 'Fascinating Hindutva : Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation' (
[GreenYouth] Fwd: [Reader-list] Someone should forward this to Nandan Nilekani :)
Just See this. http://www.sathyamurthy.com/2009/07/20/someone-should-forward-this-to-nandan-nilekani/ CUSTOMER CARE IN 2050 Operator : “Thank you for calling Pizza Galaxy Kholi . May I have your…” Customer: “Hello, can I order..” Operator : “Can I have your Unique ID Number, Sir?” Customer: “It’s eh…, hold…….. ..on….. .889861356102049 998-45-54610″ Operator : “OK… you’re… Mr Singh.. Your home number is 4094! 2366, your office 76452302 and your mobile is 0142662566. Where would you want your order to be delivered sir? Home, office or the parking of Spencer Shopping Mall on Anna Salai formerly known as Mount Road from where you are right now calling us using your mobile? Customer: “Home! How did you get all my phone numbers? Operator : “We are connected to the system Sir” Customer: “May I order your Seafood Pizza…” Operator : “That’s not a good idea Sir” Customer: “How come?” Operator : “According to your medical records, you have high blood pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir” Customer: “What?… What do you recommend then?” Operator : “Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You’ll like it” Customer: “How do you know for sure?” Operator : “You borrowed a book entitled “Popular Hokkien Dishes” from the National Library last week Sir” Customer: “OK I give up…. Give me three family size ones then, how much will that cost?” Operator : “That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total is Rs 2249.99″ Customer: “Can I pay by! credit card?” Operator : “I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is over the limit and you owe your bank Rs10,720.55 since October last year. That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan, Sir.” Customer: “I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw some cash before your guy arrives” Operator : “You can’t Sir. Based on the records, you’ve reached your daily limit on machine withdrawal today” Customer: “Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready. How long is it gonna take anyway?” Operator : “About 30 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always come and collect it on your scooter.. .” Customer: ” What!” Operator : “According to the details in system, you own a Lambretta 1969 Vintage Scooter,…registration number USE 8999…” Customer: ” ” Operator : “Is there anything else Sir?” Customer: “Nothing… by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free bottles of cola as advertised?” Operator : “We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also diabetic…. …” Customer: #$$^%$...@$%^…beeepmailto:%23$$%5E%25$...@$%25%5e…beeep Operator : “Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 11th Nov 1986 you were convicted for using abusive language on a policeman who stopped you for driving through a one way, in fact you were driving a 1973 Ambassador bearing registeration number UTD 4267……. Customer: May I know the number of Mr. Nandan Nilekani? We have got more than our parents bargained for! _ reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-requ...@sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header. To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list List archive: lt;https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] BBC E-mail: Tuvalu vows to go carbon neutral
The tiny Tuvalu can teach the rest of the world on what should be done! The Indian and Chinese authorities should learn that their madness with mega dams means mega disaster. India, forget about the contentious Tipai-dam and go for solar and other alternatives. The era of large dam is gone! Muhammad Hilaluddin. ** Tuvalu vows to go carbon neutral ** The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu says it wants all its energy to come from renewable sources by 2020. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8158604.stm ** BBC Daily E-mail ** Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you want them, all in one daily e-mail http://www.bbc.co.uk/email -- Angikar Bangladesh Foundation, Sunibir, 25 West Nakhalpara, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. 01711806054(cell ). angika...@yahoo.com,hifan...@gmail.com Development in harmony with and respect of nature. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Convention to Support Decriminalisation of Same-Sexuality, Trissur, July 21
-- Forwarded message -- From: Deepa V. N. sahayatr...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM Subject: Convention to Support Decriminalisation of Same-Sexuality, Trissur, July 21 To: queerrights-ker...@googlegroups.com, lgbtdisc...@googlegroups.com CONVENTION TO SUPPORT DECRIMINIALISATION OF SAME-SEXUALITY Get together and signature campaign to urge government to uphold Delhi Hight Court Decision to read down IPC 377 On July 21, 3PM, Sahitya Akademy Hall, Thrissur Participants: K.Venu, K.K Koche, Bobby Kunju, Reshma Baradwaj, Civic Chandran, Shamsad Hussain, S.M. Salim Kumar,K.M.Venugopal, Rekha Raj, Faisal, Sunny Kapikkad, M. Kamarudheen, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Sheena Jose, Deepa Vasudevan, I. Gopinath, Adv. Asha, Elisabeth, V.R. Anoop Supporting Organisations: Sahayatrika, CENSE, GAIA, Panchami Dalit Women's Collective, FIRM-Jwala, Kerala Feminist Network, New Democratic Forum (Draft of English version of signature campaign attached). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- Position pamphlet.doc Description: MS-Word document
[GreenYouth] Fwd: [Commons-Law] Supreme Court hearing 20.07.2009 on Sec 377
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lawrence Liang lawre...@altlawforum.org Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM Subject: [Commons-Law] Supreme Court hearing 20.07.2009 on Sec 377 To: reader-l...@sarai.net, commons-...@sarai.net - Dear All,Please find below a brief synopsis of today's proceedings in the Supreme Court. We have also come to know that the Apostolic Churches Alliance had mentioned the matter today, without notice to us. We were told that the Chief Justice refused to grant early hearing of this matter, or that it be tagged along with Suresh Koushal's matter today, and that it would come up in its turn. Will get the full orders as soon as it's released. I think Voices' lobbying with the Government worked to give us a two month breather. So congratulations! Love Mayur The hearing on the SLP against Delhi HC's judgment (Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation SLP(C) No. 15436/2009) was heard by a bench comprising of the Chief Justice and Justice Sathasivam. Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati started off by saying that the Government took a particular stand before the High Court, but in light of the judgment of the Delhi High Court, the Government was reevaluating its stand, and that it needed more time to said the Government has a definite stand. He said that section 377 remains on the statute books and only a small portion of it has been taken out of the ambit of the law. (In my reading indicating that child abuse and non-consensual sex remained crimes.) He said that the section has been declared unconstitutional only insofar as it applies to consensual sexual acts between adults, and that the Government requires more time to arrive at a conclusion at this regard. He then particularly stated that the Government does not support the plea of interim stay of the judgment. The Petitioner's counsel drew attention to the submission that the provision was not being utilised against consenting adults. But the impact of the Delhi High Court's judgment, he suggested, is such that consenting adult sex between two males is legalised, whereas commercial sex between male and female continues to be illegal. The Counsel for the petitioner further argued that as a result gay marriages were taking place throughout the country. The Attorney General then interjected by stating that the judgment does do nothing to change or alter marriage laws and that marriage laws still continue to use bride and groom meaning that they are only between a man and a woman. Anand Grover then questioned the locus of the petitioner to bring this petition. He said that he was neither a party at the High Court, nor has he made any pleadings as to the nature of his right that is affected by the ruling of the Delhi High Court. The Chief Justice however, said in a public interest matter, there is no question of there being no locus. Counel for the Petitioner then interjected that homosexuals are 8 times more likely to have, and therefore spread HIV/AIDS to the general population. Anand Grover then interjected that it is because of section 377 that homosexuals are more prone to HIV/AIDS. Anil Divan, Counsel for Voices Against 377 then stated that NACO had reached a similar conclusion. Counsel for BP Singhal stated that the UK House of Lords in the decision of *R v. Brown* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Brown stated that consensual homosexuality remained a crime, and was a dangerous practice, and that consent does not necesarily mean that no crime was committed. He stated that this judgment would mean that consensual adultery, consensual gambling would all be allowed. Anil Divan, on behalf of the NGO, Voices, argued that the HC judgment is in line with the UN Resolutions, and WHO guidelines. Secondly, he said many countries including Fiji, South Africa, Canada, whole of Europe, South Africa ,Hong Kong have decriminalised the same sex conduct. CJI at this point intervened to say that our civilization is different from European civilization. Anil Divan replied saying that our culture also includes Khajuraho, and Kamasutra. The Counsel for BP Singhal then referred to Mahatma Gandhi's criticism of gay sex behaviour. As editor of the journal Young India, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in 1929 about the 'unnatural vice' in boys' school. The Petitioner's then argued that the law has been in place for more than 150 years and that the world would not turn upside down if the judgment was stayed while the government formulated its stand. He argued that there had been no conviction under S.377 and that the law was being used only against pedophiles, and therefore, a stay on HC judgment would not make any difference. He then argued that if the Chief justice was not granting a stay then, that the Chief Justice should also issue a stay on the registration of all gay marriages. The CJI said such marriages are prohibited under the Personal Laws, and the judgment did
[GreenYouth] [foil] Roberto Lovato: Obama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras
QuoteObama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras Unquote What a huge shift from September 11 1973 when Allende was deposed in Chile or April 11 2002 when Chavez was overthrown! Sukla From: Sayan Bhattacharyya ok.president+f...@gmail.comok.president%2bf...@gmail.com To: FOIL foi...@insaf.net Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:56:29 -0400 Subject: [foil] Roberto Lovato: Obama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras Obama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras by Roberto Lovato Full: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roberto-lovato/obama-has-the-power-and-r_b_222170.html [Roberto Lovato is a New York-based contributing Associate Editor with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation Magazine. He's also written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Der Spiegel, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other national and international media outlets. He has also appeared as a commentator in the New York Times, Washington Post and Le Monde and on English and Spanish language network news shows on Univision, CNN, PBS, Al Jazeera and other outlets. Lovato is the former Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), the largest immigrant rights organization in the country. ] Click here to send a message to President Barack Obama: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27531 [...] Recent declarations by the Administration -- expressions of concern by the President and statements by Secretary of State Clinton recognizing Zelaya as the only legitimate, elected leader of Honduras -- appear to indicate preliminary disapproval of the putsch. Yet, the even more unequivocal statements of condemnation from U.N. President Miguel D'Escoto, the Organization of American States, the European Union, and the Presidents of Argentina, Costa Rica and many other governments raise greatly the bar of expectation before the Obama Administration. [...] Beyond immediate calls to continue demanding that Zelaya and democratic order be reinstated, protesters in Honduras, Latin America and across the United States will also pressure the Obama Administration to take a number of tougher measures including: cutting off of U.S. military aid, demanding that Hondurans and others kidnapped, jailed and detained be released and accounted for immediately, bringing Vasquez and coup leaders to justice, investigating what U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, did or didn't know about the coup. [...] Latin American skepticism of U.S. intentions is not unfounded. [...] Click here to send a message to President Barack Obama: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27531 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
