[humanrights-movement:4508] Neoimperialism, conflicts, refugees - ranjani asian age june 20, 2011

[ranjani k.murthy]

http://www.publishaletter.com/readletter.jsp?plid=28639 a longer version will 
be publsihed 
Dear Editor:
20th of June is World Refugee Day (http://www.un.org/en/events/refugeeday/)
It is to time to examine the links between neo-imperialism, climate change, 
conflicts and refugees and its differentiated impact, and pathways to justice 
Participants from Nigeria, Zambia, Bangladesh and India in a two day module on 
'Corporate control, changes in natural resources,  climate change and its 
impact on conflicts and different marginalized groups'   discussed this issue 
over 13th and 14th of this month. They observed that over the last two decades 
(since emergence of a unipolar world based on unfettered capitalism), there was 
greater plundering of natural resources be it agriculture land, oceans, rivers, 
minerals, oils, natural gas, or forests.  What set it apart from plundering of 
last century, according to them, was that it was done openly by colonizers 
earlier, while now it was more hidden with companies/governments coming not 
only from developed countries, but also China and India and investing in the 
other three countries with the consent of government and elite of the 
respective countries.  According to participants, open changes in laws on use 
of agriculture  land for "public"
 purposes promoted privatization in India and Bangladesh, while in Nigeria and 
Zambia the Breton Woods Institutions, had promoted privatization of government 
land with people given land titles for 99 years with an option to sell it.  
While this created opportunities for women to own land, traditional ways of 
protecting land was eroded. 
Such plundering led to increasing desertification, as well as more frequent 
floods and erratic rainfall.  Conflicts broke out between affected people and 
government, and in particular between rich and poor, different ethnic groups, 
different religious groups and different caste groups as interests were 
different and pre existing hierarchies got deepened. Migration was one coping 
strategy.  Women/girls  were worse affected than men/boys by desertification, 
climate change and conflicts due to increase in work load,  sexual violence,  
health problems,  and domestic violence with crisis in ability of men to be 
socially expected bread winners.  Son preference got enhanced in India. People 
of diverse sexual and gender identities were also marginalized. Boys were 
forcefully conscripted more than girls. Participants from African countries 
suggested regional cooperation as a way out (and keep neo colonizing countries 
and companies out), perhaps South Asia
 should learn.  
A paradigm shift from human development/unfettered rights towards human and 
environmental justice was suggested by participants with the bottom 25% 
claiming rights to resources, power and agency and top 25% losing. After all, 
the pie was limited.  Security Councils at the regional level with 
representatives of poor countries dominating were seen as relevant (African 
participants), and non party social movements which challenge  state, markets, 
community, institutionalized religion, colonial education, household, marriage 
and relationships towards justice (to all marginalized groups) were seen as 
crucial by participants from all countries.  Asset and income ceiling, right of 
everybody to land to live with dignity and two room housing if nuclear, full 
and just employment, just corporatship,  community structures with oppressed in 
leadership,  separate electorate for oppressed groups, just 
marriages/relationships, inter-faith spirituality (where
 justice was placed at the center), moving beyond colonial education to just 
education  were different ideas that emerged (majority in agreement).  Pedagogy 
of oppressed institutes were another idea at sub regional/regional level. 
Only then will mother earth and human beings be left for generations to come, 
be able to live without fear.  
*Subjective interpretation of voices of participants, and gratitude to 
participants, Visthar for inviting me to be a part of this learning. 
mercyka...@yahoo.com. To Francois for centering exercises on crisis of mother 
earth

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[humanrights-movement:4507] Fwd: 1st july - come to express solidarity with struggling contract workers of chhattisgarh.

[Kamayani]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sudha Bharadwaj 
Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:16 AM
Subject: 1st july - come to express solidarity with struggling contract
workers of chhattisgarh.


dear friends,

many of you have been following up the brave struggle of contract
workers in chhattisgarh against the powerful cement multinational
holcim.
a dharna in niyogi chowk, bhilai is going on since 3rd april for
implementation of the high court order directing regularisation of
contract labour with intermittent industrial actions.
holcim has retaliated by fiing false cases of dacoity against union
leaders lakhan sahu and bhagwati sahu and another 6 comrades through
the security officers of the ambuja management, bhagwati has been
arrested and denied bail since 18th may.

despite this tough struggle, the cmm (mazdoor karyakarta committee)
has been continuing to express solidarity with all other struggles,
particularly in the wake of the arrest of environmental activists dr
harihar patel and ramesh agrawal of raigarh who have been arrested on
false complaints by jindal management. adivasi villagers continue to
demonstrate at kunjemura, raigarh against this gross injustice.

in the meanwhile the army is moving into 650 sq km of forest adjoining
abujhmaad in bastar, to which maoists have responded with a series of
attacks on camps/ police stations in the past fortnight killing a
large number of policemen.
as the real threat of civilians being killed in large number becomes
more apparent, the cg government is talking of banning pucl and the
home minister issues a mischevious false statement that "pucl supplies
weapons to naxalites!!"
a number of peoples organisations as well as pucl have organised a
convention on sedition and other repressive laws on 25th-26th june at
raipur.

it is in these circumstances that we invite all of you to join us for
1st july shaheed divas rally and public meeting at bhilai in memory of
workers martyrd in police firing and
a discussion on 2nd july on "the role of the working class in these times".

chhattisgarh mukti morcha (mazdoor karyakarta committee)

please contact:-
sudha 09926603877 kaladas 08435549641 ramakant 09926943917kalyan patel
09826689317 rajkumar 09685349162 or bhilai office (bhola sahu)
08889572906 for further details.



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predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists
of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these
lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included
racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying
them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an
exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible
for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.*
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[humanrights-movement:4506] Dimitrov vs Goebbels (Excerpts from documents)

[Venugopalan K M]

*Dimitrov: *Is it true that the National Socialist Government has granted a
pardon to all terrorist acts carried out to further the aims of the National
Socialist movement?

*Goebbels: *The National Socialist Government could not leave in prisons
people who, risking their lives and health, had fought against the Communist
peril.

*President: *Did you hear, Dimitrov?

*Dimitrov: *I did hear very well! So far as I know, Mr. President, four or
five political murders are well known in Germany. The Communist leaders Karl
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered...

*President: *That's enough! (*Dimitrov: *After that...) The question goes
very far. We have to clarify who set the Reichstag on fire. We cannot go
back here to the distant past.

*Goebbels: *It might perhaps be more expedient if we started from Adam and
Eve. At the time of these murders the National Socialist movement did not
vet exist.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1933/reich/ch06.htm
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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR



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