[humanrights-movement:4322] Urgent Action Alert against the unlawful and forceful land acquisition for POSCO - by POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
*The callous and unaccountable Naveen government has shown it's yet another* *dirty face today when the police force quietly entered Polang village in* *Jagatsingpur district of Odisha at wee hours to acquire land for handing* *over to the POSCO Company. Prior to this game-plan, the state government* *had informed to the media that there would be no acquision of land on 18th May* *2011. Now it's confirmed that the state government was lying to the people* *of the state and create a ambience of confusion for smooth acquisition and* *hand over of land to the said Multinational Company (MNCs). The inference:* *in order to protect the interest of the MNCs, the state government could* *play treachery with its own people who voted it to power.* * * *Around 20 platoons of police are currently camping at Balithutha , the* *strategic entry point to the proposed villages area. It was informed that at* *around 4 a.m. today , 4 platoons of police force entered in to the Polang* *village and started destroying the beetle vines. The process is supervised* *by the district administration of Jagatsingpur and Industrial Development* *Corporation (IDCO). The administration is planning to destroy the beetle* *vines, take into control the plantations, prawn cultivation areas,* *agricultural lands and the homestead land of the people.* * * *As part of *'Pratirodh and Pratibad Divas' *( Obstruction and Opposition* *),the people from Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gada Kujang Panchanyats have come out* *in thousands and undertaking massive demonstration at Balitutha opposing* *the deceitful, illegal and forceful land acquisition. People are already* *blocking the connecting road from Balitutha to Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gada* *Kujanga. It may be pointed out that the police force which has gone for* *acquisition of land in Polanga village will return on the way connecting* *Gadakujanga and Balitutha. With the people determined to continue their* *struggle in a peaceful manner, uncertainty looms large over the attitude of * *the government toward the peacefully protesting mass.* * * *With the heavy presence of the police force near Balitutha and other* *strategic points like Trilochanpur and sea route connecting Paradeep to* *Dhinkia which is empowered by the green signal to the POSCO project by the* *Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Government of India, an* *unpredictable atmosphere of aggression and intimidation is created. It may* *be noted that section 144 has been declared by the administration at* *Balitutha.* * * *Ironically, the Polanga village where forceful land acquisition is going on * *inhabits tribal people. Moreover, under Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), no* *forest land could be acquired without the approval of Palli Sabha. The state* *government is therefore out rightly rejecting and dis-respecting the* *authority of Palli Sabha under the FRA.* * * *It may be informed that today a demonstration is taking place MoEF* *(Paryavaran Bhavan), near CGO complex, New Delhi and four left parties (* *SUCI, CPIM(L), CPIML (New Democracy), CPIML (Liberation)) are demonstrating * *in Bhubaneswar against land acquisition.* * * *At this moment of uncertainly and threat to the life and livelihood of* *people, we sincerely request your presence in our area to strengthen our* *fight against unlawful act of the government carried out at the behest of* *the POSCO company. We also request you write letters of opposition to Chief * *Minister so also call the Chief Minister to express disapproval of his* *policy of use of force.* * * *Kindly circulate the appeal widely.* * * *In Solidarity,* * * *Prashant Paikary* *Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti* *Mobile no - 09437571547* * * ** ** * * **Please send your letter in the following addresses** * * *1. Shri Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister's* *Office, Room number 152, South Block, New Delhi, Fax: + 91 11 2301 6857.* *manmo...@sansad.nic.in* * * *2. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forest, CGO* *Complex, Lodi Road, Paryavaran Bhavan, New Delhi-3 jai...@sansad.nic.in* * * *3. Shri Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa, Address: Naveen Nivas,* *Aerodrome Road, P.O.-Bhubaneswar, Dist.-Khurda Pin -751001(Orissa), Tel.* *No.(O) 0674- 2531100,2535100 (FAX) Tel. No.(R) 0674- 2590299,* *2591099,2590844,2591100,2590833, Email : c...@ori.nic.in* * * *4. Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India, Faridkot* *House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001, Tel: +91 11 230 74448, Fax: +91* *11 2334 0016, Email: chairn...@nic.in* * * *5. T. Theethan, IAS, The Joint Secretary, National Commission for SC,* *5th Floor, 'B' Wing, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi 110103, India.* *Email:jointsecretary-n...@nic.in* * * *6. Narayan Chandra Jena, District Collector. Jagatsinghpur, Contact number* *09437038401* -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204
[humanrights-movement:4324] Fwd: Saheli Fire: An update appeal to help us rebuild our office [2 Attachments]
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[humanrights-movement:4325] Action Alert:: Golibar Slum Dwellers face illegal demolition, Kindly call Maharashtar CM Office to protest.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan gbgbando...@gmail.com Date: Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM Subject: Action Alert:: Golibar Slum Dwellers face illegal demolition, Kindly call Maharashtar CM Office to protest. Action Alert 19 May 2011 The bulldozers at Golibar a 50 year old slum are once again out to demolish and evict the slum dwellers who have been fighting the corruption and land grab by Shivalik Ventures in which the 2G Spectrum scam ridden Unitech has a stake. In the past the slum dwellers have repeatedly opposed and exposed the illegal acts of the private developers who are all out to grab the land. It was only after the expose that the Chief Minister of Maharashtra scrapped the two 3K projects. This has been welcomed by us but we also await the scrapping of the Golibar Project. Yesterday when the slum dwellers opposed the eviction drive 12 slum dwellers including 6 women were arrested and today will be produced before the Magistrate. Yesterday it was a familiar scene. A hundred policemen crowded the narrow corridor that is the entry to our homes. The Collector’s men raised their mobile loudspeakers and read out a ‘33/38’ eviction notice, asking us to co-operate in their efforts to break their houses. It’s besides the point that in no language, legal or otherwise, does ‘eviction’ mean ‘demolition’. It’s also besides the point that the so-called notice was dated from more 90 days earlier, making it redundant as a legal order. Nor does it matter, perhaps, that the High Court has ruled in our favour in a (criminal) case of fraud and forgery against Shivalik builders – the very builders that the police and collector’s office came to serve today. We all request you to kindly call the Chief Minister, Maharashtra-Office and request them to stop the forcible eviction of slum dwellers. In Solidarity, Medha Patkar, Santosh Daonkar, Simpreet Singh, Prerna Gaikwad, Ajit Chief Minister, Maharashtra office-022 22025151 Fax No 022-22817068 -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4326] Gorakhpur Update - 20.5.11 : Condition of three workers worsens on the fifth day of fast-unto-death
मज़दूरों को मुआवज़ा तथा वी.एन. डायर्स के दो कारखानों में तालाबंदी खत्म कर सभी 18 निष्कासित मज़दूरों की बहाली की मांग पर 16 मई की सुबह से भूख हड़ताल शुरू की गई थी। एक मज़दूर की मां सुशीला देवी, तीन मज़दूर बिंदेश्वर राय , सुशील श्रीवास्तव और महेश पाठक तथा स्त्री कार्यकर्ता श्वेता भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे हैं जिनमें से सुशीला, श्वेता और महेश पाठक की हालत बिगड़ गई है। 18 मई की रात प्रशासन ने महेश पाठक को उठाकर जिला अस्पताल में भरती करा दिया था लेकिन उन्होंने वहां भी अनशन जारी रखा और 19 मई की सुबह फिर से आकर भूख हड़ताल में शामिल हो गए। इलाके के कई कारखानों के सैकड़ों मज़दूर भी दिनो-रात धरनास्थल पर मौजूद रह रहे हैं। इस बीच प्रशासन पूरी तरह मालिकान के पक्ष में काम करते हुए लगातार धरना और भूख हड़ताल को खत्म कराने की कोशिशों में लगा है लेकिन मज़दूरों की मांगों पर कोई ध्यान नहीं दिया जा रहा है। पहले दिन दो दौर की असफल बातचीत हुई थी जिसमें मालिकान निष्कासित मज़दूरों को वापस नहीं लेने पर अड़े हुए थे। उसके बाद से प्रशासन ने वार्ता की कोई कोशिश नहीं की। कल रात भी पुलिस और प्रशासन के बड़े अफसरों की अगुवाई में पुलिस बल मज़दूरों को हटाने की तैयारी में था। इसकी भनक लगते ही धरने पर बड़ी संख्या में बैठे सभी मज़दूरों ने लंबी-लंबी रस्सियों से एक-दूसरे को बांध लिया। जब लगा कि भारी बल प्रयोग किए बिना मज़दूरों को हटाया नहीं जा सकता तो पुलिस वापस लौट गई। गोरखपुर में 3 मई को हुए गोलीकांड और उसके बाद मज़दूरों के बर्बर दमन के बाद भारी जनदबाव और मज़दूरों के संकल्पबद्ध प्रतिरोध के कारण ज़िला प्रशासन और अंकुर उद्योग के मालिकान को झुकना पड़ा था और मज़दूरों को एक आंशिक जीत हासिल हुई था। मई दिवस की रैली में भाग लेने के कारण अंकुर उद्योग से निकाले गए 18 मज़दूरों को काम पर रख लिया गया था और कारखाना 11 मई से चालू हो गया। लेकिन वी.एन. डायर्स के मालिक तालाबंदी खुलवाने और 18 मज़दूरों की बहाली के मुद्दे पर अड़े हुए हैं। मज़दूरों ने आंदोलन के पक्ष में जनसमर्थन जुटाने के लिए आज पूरे गोरखपुर शहर में साइकिल रैली निकाली। आंदोलन के समर्थन में गीडा औद्योगिक क्षेत्र के मज़दूरों ने भी कल अपने इलाके में जुलूस निकालकर प्रदर्शन किया था। बरगदवा के विभिन्न कारखानों के मज़दूरों का एक बड़ा प्रदर्शन करने की तैयारी की जा रही है। इस बीच पत्रकारों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं की एक जांच टीम गोरखपुर में मज़दूरों पर हुई फायरिंग, दमन और श्रम कानूनों के उल्लंघन के आरोपों की जांच करने कल गोरखपुर पहुंची। जांच टीम के सदस्य कल बरगदवा में धरनास्थल पर भी गए और मज़दूरों से बातचीत की। पिछले 2 सप्ताह से भी अधिक समय से जारी मज़दूरों के आंदोलन के प्रति प्रशासन के लगातार दमनात्मक रवैये और उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार की उपेक्षा की कड़ी निंदा फिर तेज़ हो गई है। *Citizen's Front in Support of Gorakhpur Worker's Movement* Contacts: 9936650658 (Katyayani), 9910462009 (Satyam), 8447011935 (Sandeep) E-mail: satyamva...@gmail.com, sandeep.sam...@gmail.com -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4330] Fwd: Press Release: 25 Workers injured in Lathicharge, leader of Gorakhpur Workers Movement Arrested - Taken to undisclosed location. 75 other workers arrested
of workers sitting on dharna tied each other through big ropes. When police saw that the workers could not be removed from the spot without the use of heavy force, it withdrew. The administration and owners had to relent in face of the massive public pressure and resolute struggle of the workers after the 3 May firing and brutal police repression of workers in Gorakhpur, and the workers achieved a partial victory. All the 18 workers of Ankur Udyog who were dismissed after they went to participate in the May Day rally in Delhi were taken back and the factory started from May 11. But the owners of VN Dyers Ltd. are adamant on their demands. Even the administration was making no attempt to call the owners for talks. They wanted to break the movement by tiring out the workers. But the workers are ready to fight it out. The workers staged a bicycle rally in the Gorakhpur city today to gather popular support in favour of the workers’ agitation. Even the workers of GIDA industrial area staged a demonstration in their area in support of the agitation. The workers of various factories of Bargadwa are planning to stage a huge demonstration. Meanwhile an investigation team of journalists and social activists reached Gorakhpur to investigate the incident of firing on workers, their repression and the accusations of violation of labour laws. The members of the investigation team also went to the spot and talked to the workers. The strong condemnation of the continued repressive attitude of administration towards the workers agitation going on for more than two weeks and its neglect by Uttar Pradesh government is building momentum once again. Citizen's Front in Support of Gorakhpur Worker's Movement Contacts: 9936650658 (Katyayani), 9910462009 (Satyam), 8447011935 (Sandeep) E-mail: satyamva...@gmail.com, sandeep.sam...@gmail.com -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4335] 73 workers detained including two ‘satyagrahi’; leaders taken to undisclosed location
In a blatant move, Gorakhpur administration has arrested 73 workers including two women ‘satygrahi’ Shuheela Devi, mother of a worker and Shweta Kaul, student activist, last evening. Their leader, Tapish Maindola, was taken to undisclosed location and leaving c0-workers in fear of some mis-happening. The three other workers on fast were Bindweshwar Rai, Susheel Srivastava and Mahesh Pathak. Health condition of Susheela, Shweta and Mahesh Pathak among them has worsened. Last Saturday, hundreds of peaceful demonstrators had decided to move to DM office, infuriated over administrations negligence and ignorance. In the evening, all the workers tied themselves with a long rope and started moving towards office where they were stopped by the heavy police force under the direction of DIG and were detained near Gorakhnath Templehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorakhnath_Math. According to latest updates, the police resorted to lathi charge and dispersed the workers arresting 73 of them. But the police did not officially record the arrest of 30 of them and their leader Tapsih. Despite this development about 250 workers are still sitting on a dharna at the townhall near Gandhi statue. The City Magistrate, JK Singh and District Magistrate, AK Shukla did not respond to the call even after repeated efforts. Dy Labour Commissioner, SP Shukla, is ignorant about the developments and accepted that he didn’t try to pacify the existed feud. Earlier, Gorakhpur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorakhpur Administration had not responded to ‘series of fasts’ organized by the workers of factory between May 9 and May 15, for the re-instate of 18 workers, ending up in the lock out of two factories of V.N. Dyers. Judicial enquiry into 3rd May firings on workers and for their proper compensations was the demands of protestors at Town Hall of Gorakhpur City. Neither Administration nor the factory owners tried to pacify the conflict. They all had been acted insensitively without taking any cognizance about this protest. Administration have been brazenly took side of the factory owners. This infuriated the protestors to take on this ‘insensitivity’ by their horn. They decided to go on ‘fast unto death’ from 16th May at Town hall. The five members from workers group including two women also had joined the protest. http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/73-workers-detained-including-two-%E2%80%98satyagrahi%E2%80%99-leaders-taken-to-undisclosed-location?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4339] Condemn repression of workers’ movement in Gorakhpur PL SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY
To: Ms Mayawati, The Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh Respected Madam, We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the repression of the workers’ movement in Gorakhpur by the district administration and police machinery. Workers of Gorakhpur have started a peaceful 'Workers’ Satyagraha' since May 16 for their demands related to the incident of firing on workers by the hired goons of factory owner on May 3 in Ankur Udyog Ltd, a yarn factory in Bargadwa industrial area of Gorakhpur in which 19 workers sustained injury. Instead of paying attention to the genuine demands of the workers, the district administration is unabashedly taking the side of factory owners and is hell bent on crushing the entirely peaceful movement. As part of the workers’ Satyagrah the workers have been undertaking fast-unto-death and staging dharna since the morning of May 16. But on May 20, in order to disperse the workers, this peaceful satyagrah was dealt with heavy lathi charge by police force in the presence of the DIG and 73 workers were taken into custody. Most of them were released by late night but a B. H. U. Student Shweta, woman worker Susheela Devi and 12 others were arrested. The police took away labour leader Tapish Maindola from some other place and was refusing to show his arrest till today morning. Later in the afternoon Tapish was suddenly presented before the court. The Police have registered a case of attempt to suicide under section 309 against all the labour leaders. It is ridiculous because most of the arrested leaders were not among those who sat on the fast. Shweta and Susheela Devi whose health had worsened after five days of hunger strike have been later released on bail. Rest 12 workers have been sent to jail. It is noteworthy that some police and administrative officials had been continuously warning the workers' leaders of 'dire consequences'. They had been particularly targeting Tapish, Pramod Kumar and Prashant and branding them as 'Maoists-Terrorists'. On May 21, when hundreds of workers started proceeding towards the office of district collector according to a pre announced program, the police resorted to lathi charge at several places and did not allow them to assemble. After that the workers tried to stage a dharna at Gandhi statue in Town Hall but the police did not let them reach even there. For hours, the office of district collector had turned into a cantonment and the police personnel chased out the workers by searching in the neighbouring areas. As soon as police was finding four to five people looking like workers, they were dispersed through lathi-charge. This naked reign of terror continued throughout the day. Although most of the arrested workers were released, 12 labour leaders including Tapish are still in jail and are being implicated in false charges. It is indeed shocking to learn that instead of rule of law, naked reign of terror prevails in Gorakhpur. Even after more than two weeks of the firing incident, no action has been taken by police to arrest the culprits. No action has been initiated against the officers who were responsible for letting the goons go scot free after firing on workers despite the fact that the goons were captured by the workers when the police arrived on the spot. Even though the factory owner of Ankur Udyog Ltd was forced to end the illegal lock out and take back the arbitrarily dismissed workers after massive protest by the workers on 9th May, the illegal lock out in the two factories of V.N. Dyers still persists and 18 dismissed workers from these factories are yet to be taken back. Under these disturbing circumstances we demand from you to take immediate action to restore the rule of law in Gorakhpur by taking following steps: • Immediate release of all the labour leaders and revocation of all the false charges slapped on them • Arrest of the accused of the firing incident on 3rd May • Action against the guilty officers who allowed the goons to escape • Judicial enquiry of firing and repression, • Compensation to the injured workers • Ending the lock out in the two factories of V.N. Dyers and reinstatement of all the 18 dismissed workers http://www.petitiononline.com/mayawati/petition.html -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk
[humanrights-movement:4349] Fwd: Khar Golibar- Mumbai, Medhatai Patkar's Indefinite Fast
in obtaining favourable orders from the Courts and began forcible and illegal demolition of houses in the slum. While 167 families have voluntarily shifted, but 48 houses were demolished in January 2011, and on 19th and 20th May 2011, 24 houses in total were demolished.** The slum dwellers have already initiated criminal action in regard to the fraudulent document purported to be the General Body Resolution dated 7th February 2009 and can always avail of the necessary civil remedies available to them, there is one another important aspect that is of mammoth proportions and consequences, and this being the link of this, and other projects of Shivalik Ventures, to the 2G scam. *Who is Shivalik Ventures?* Unitech owns 50% of shares of Shivalik Ventures Pvt. Ltd. even as per its own website and Annual Report 2009-10 (page 52). The Annual Report 2009-10 of Unitech further provides under the heading “Capital Commitment” that: “Investment in 10,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each at a premium of Rs. 9990/-per share aggregating of Rs. 1000 crore has been made in joint venture company, Shivalik Ventures Pvt. Ltd. An Amount of Rs. 442.77 crore has been paid against the allotment of fully paid-up shares. The balance securities premium of Rs.557.23 crores will be accounted for on payment.” As pointed above, Shivalik Ventures, in turn, has entered into an agreement of Joint Venture on 2nd March 2008 with M/s Madhu Construction Company to jointly develop Ganesh Krupa slum at Golibar. It is important to highlight the period during which Unitech has entered into re-development of slums in Mumbai since it corresponds to the period during which it illegally secured thousands of crores in the 2G scam. The Director of Unitech has been included in the charge sheet filed by CBI and has been under arrest since then. And as per the CAG report, Unitech after availing the Spectrum licence in September – October 2008 for Rs 1658 crores subsequently sold it off to Telenor company at the rate of Rs 6120 crores. According to CBI, Unitech was alloted Unified Access Service licenses in 22 circles for Rs.1,658 crores, 60% of which it offloaded to Norway's Telenor even before roll-out. We are apprehensive that this illegal gratification enjoyed by the Company has been diverted and invested in its 50% equity at the Shivalik Ventures Pvt. Ltd. and the same is being channeled into the developmental projects of Shivalik Ventures including the slum projects in Golibar. *Why is Medhatai on an indefinite fast?* Previous attempts to initiate corrective action from the government’s side have met with no success. Along with Medhatai, a large delegation of 10,000 strong from different slums in Mumbai had even marched to Azad Maidan in April to raise the issue of redevelopment. Despite this, today the police and collector’s men have entered Ganesh Krupa with impunity and razed it to the ground with a bulldozer. An indefinite fast is now the only alternative left. These are the demands: · Revoke 3k clause and thus cancel the agreements between builders and SRA for the 6 projects where 3k has been applied. · Review SRA scheme itself and modify it to allow Self-development as an option. · Implement Rajiv Aawas Yojna across the slums in Mumbai. This scheme is not biased like the SRA and promises a house to everyone without one, irrespective of a date. *What can I do?* Stand in support of the movement, by sending your delegations or representatives to golibar. Help us to pressurise the CM to cancel the 3K clause across Mumbai, and implement the Rajiv Aawas Yojna. Spread the word to the media, and/or, cover the story yourself. -- *National Alliance of People’s Movements *National Office: Room No. 29-30, 1st floor, ‘A’ Wing, Haji Habib Bldg, Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai - 400 014; Ph: 022-24150529 6/6, Jangpura B, Mathura Road, New Delhi 110014 Phone : 011 26241167 / 24354737 Mobile : 09818905316 E-mail: napmin...@gmail.com | n...@napm-india.org Web : www.napm-india.org -- This mailing list is for dissemination of news and views on the communities struggles in India defending their land, water, air, rivers from hungry predatory corporations, policy formulations, announcements on struggles, action alerts and request for support. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups National Alliance of People's Movements group. To post to this group, send email to napmin...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to napm-india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/NAPM-India?hl=en-GB -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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
[humanrights-movement:4363] Repercussions of the Velusamy Judgement - From Majlis
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[humanrights-movement:4366] Govt written commitment can only break Medha’s fast
By Newzfirst5/26/11 Emailhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/govt-written-commitment-can-only-break-medha%E2%80%99s-fast?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome Printhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/govt-written-commitment-can-only-break-medha%E2%80%99s-fast?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome[image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend] http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/[image: Bookmark and Share]http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=newzfirst MUMBAI - Even though the Maharashtra government offered to probe the controversial slum projects, activist Medha Patkar will continue her fast as the former failed to promise a time-bound inquiry as demanded by her. The five-hour-long meeting between chief secretary Ratnakar Gaikwad and Patkar on Wednesday, failed to yield any result. Patkar, who has been on indefinite hunger strike since last Friday, has been demanding changes in the slum rehabilitation policy and probe into slum projects including the one at Golibar near Khar. Speaking to newzfirst.com http://www.newzfirst.com/ , Madhuri Vairath of NAPM said, “5 hrs long meeting did not yield any results as Chief Secretary of Government did not commit anything in written. He accepted only few of our demands, that too, verbal consent. Medhaji is not going to end fast unless we get written commitment from the Government” “Medhaji’s health is deteriorating day by day; her blood pressure is low and have started vomiting” she added. Denying breaking her hunger strike, Patkar said, “I will continue my fast till the government agrees to our demands and gives a written commitment.” The activist sought an inquiry by the high power committee in a time-bound manner. The panel was set up in 2005 and consists of four members of the NAPM, but has met only four times. The meeting took place in two sittings. In the first sitting, Gaikwad agreed to discuss the implementation of the Rajiv Awas Yojana, an inquiry in the Golibar redevelopment and other projects under controversial 3K clause of the Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971, and stay on the demolitions at Ganeshkripa Society till the inquiry is over. “We will probe the ongoing projects under this section. A decision about the 3K section can be sought accordingly,” he said. The second sitting, however, ended on an ugly note after Patkar walked out from the meeting citing dissatisfaction over oral assurances from the government. People from nook and corner of the state have joined in relay fasting. Many eminent personalities and social activists like Anna Hazare, Swami Agnivesh, GR Khairnar and Arvind Kejriwal have extended support to Medha Patkar. Organizations like Republican Panthers, Ekveera Sez Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti, Tata Dharan Grast Sangharsh Samiti, farmers from Malegaon, Chemical Mazdoor Sabha, Shramik Janta Sangh, India Against Corruption, Brihan Mumbai Niwas Abhiyan Samiti, SUCI, Lok Jagran Manch, Brihanmumbai Nivara Abhiyan Samiti, and many others have joined the protest. Apart from Delhi and Aurangabad, demonstrations were also held in Thrissur and Calicut. Similar events are being planned in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala and other places. Supporters have also started an online petition addressed to Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prime Minister and Smt. Sonia Gandhi, President INC. International support is also being mobilized and emails are being sent to the CM demanding for putting a moratorium to all demolitions until an independent enquiry is held in to the 3k clause related projects and SRA is completely reviewed http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/govt-written-commitment-can-only-break-medha%E2%80%99s-fast?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit
[humanrights-movement:4368] Interview with Dr Binayak Sen in hindi
Ashish Kumar 'Anshu' ashishkumaran...@gmail.com Dear friends Please find an interview with Dr Binayak Sen which was recorded before announcement of his appointment in Planning Commission http://mohallalive.com/2011/05/27/an-interview-with-dr-binayak-sen/ regards -- आशीष कुमार 'अंशु' -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4376] Fwd: Oppose the illegal detention of human rights activist Gautam Navlakha in Kashmir
-- Forwarded message -- From: Satyam . satyamva...@gmail.com Date: 29 May 2011 12:36 Subject: Oppose the illegal detention of human rights activist Gautam Navlakha in Kashmir *Oppose the illegal detention of human rights activist Gautam Navlakha in Kashmir* Well known human rights activist and Editorial consultant of Economic and Political Weekly, Gautam Navlakha was detained at the Srinagar airport on May 28 and was denied entry in Srinagar. Mr Navlakha was on a private visit to Kashmir with his friend. He was detained as soon as his flight reached Srinagar and was asked to go back to Delhi. Since there was no flight available on that day, he was kept in police custody in an undisclosed location and not allowed to meet anyone. It was learned that he will be put on a flight back to Delhi on May 29. Mr Navlakha has been vocal in raising issues of human rights violations in Kashmir and opposing the heavy presence of armed forces in the state. He is also in the forefront of the campaign to revoke the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act which gives arbitrary powers to the armed forces to arrest and kill and is hated by the Kashmiri masses. The denial of entry to a noted public intellectual and activist like Gautam Navlakha raises urgent concerns about the status of freedom of speech and movement in Kashmir. This act by the Indian state once again proves that truth is the most dangerous thing for all repressive regimes. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the illegal detention of Mr Navlakha and demand that the Indian government should apologize to him and must allow him to go back to Kashmir. We also appeal to all intellectuals and democratic rights organizations and activists to stand by Gautam Navlakha and put pressure on the Indian and JK government to respect his democratic rights. *Katyayani*, Chairperson, Rahul Foundation *Satyam*, Secretary, Rahul Foundation See link below for the press release by IPTK: http://kafila.org/2011/05/28/gautam-navlakha-detained-entry-into-kashmir-press-note-from-iptk/ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4381] Bihar Panchayat Elections: violence against women increased
Bihar Panchayat Elections: violence against women increased By Jitendra 5/30/11 Emailhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/bihar-panchayat-elections:-violence-against-women-increased?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fin+focus Printhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/bihar-panchayat-elections:-violence-against-women-increased?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fin+focus [image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend] http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/ [image: Bookmark and Share]http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=newzfirst PATNA - As administration has numbers of reasons to pat own back for successful conducting of the Panchayat Election, violence cases during the poll have also provided them an opportunity to re think over its strategy. In a press note released by State Election Commission(SEC) on the eve of concluding of the Panchayat elections, claimed that no case of poll related violence has been registered which could affect the voters. The average percentage of the voting in this election is 61.41%, which is 10% more in comparison to year 2006, Panchayat elections. The said average is even more than the polling percentage of last assembly and parliament election in the state. About 14 cases of police firing, 13 cases of seizure of illegal weapons along with 238 bullets and seizure of 1699 vehicles, 188 mobiles, 493 litres of wines, are reported. Recovery of Rs 10,68,262, arrest of 8328 people and 604 charge-sheets are submitted against the offenders. 649 booths across the state will witness the re-polling in coming days. According to SEC, only at 125 booths, re-polling was carried out due to electoral malpractices, whereas, rest are related to printing and logistics error. Elections in Bihar were once infamous for violence and booth capturing. In the 1999 Lok Sabha polls, 74 people were killed in poll-related violence and about 20 people were killed in the 2004 general elections. About 15 people in this Panchayat Election, 18 people during 2006 Panchayat Election and 158 people during the 2001 Panchayat elections were killed. Only two cases of Naxal related violence are cropped up. One polling official was killed and two were injured in a landmine blast in Jamui district during the ninth round of the Panchayat polls. The Maoists had kidnapped seven officials, who were later released. The first round of panchayat polls saw a police officer and a woman voter being killed in a rebel attack in Jamui. The second and eighth round also witnessed one death each. Three people were killed on eve of second phase of election in Behrampore village of Vaishali district. *Trend of violence* Any form of violence do affects women community profoundly. Recently concluded election too has proved this argument. There were number killings taken place in which though women were not made direct target but their husbands became soft target. Mukhiya(Village head) Sudha Devi’s husband was killed in Biharsharif district, Zila Parishad (District Council) candidate’s Manju Kumari’s husband was shot dead in Madepura and husband of village sarpanch candidate was killed in Sitamarhi, were the few cases came to limelight through media. There were cases of abduction of women candidate’s husband like in Sitamarhi. Few cases in which women candidates’ houses were plundered and robbed. In one case, woman mukhiya, Malo Devi was shot dead in Dhobdeeeh Panchayat of Biharsharif. Whereas, a sitting ward member died in mysterious condition at fulwarisharif in Patna. In one more case a husband stabbed wife who was the candidate of Mukhiya, after she ignored his diktat of not to go out for campaign. *Results* The current trends of the Panchayat election results are showing another astonishing trend. About 80 per cent of the elected candidates are first timers. ‘It is answer to those who raised concern that present Mukhiya abuses his/her position to influence voters’ said SEC in its press release. http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/bihar-panchayat-elections:-violence-against-women-increased?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fin+focus -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1
[humanrights-movement:4384] Defend Teesta Setalvad! Demand Justice in Gujarat!!
*Subject:* *Defend Teesta Setalvad! Demand Justice in Gujarat!!* Summary: To defend Teesta Setalvad and to demand justice in Gujarat, please sign the petition at this link: http://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.htmlhttp://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.html Dear friends, Teesta Setalvad, Secretary of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and recipient of the Nuremberg Human Rights Award in 2003 is being relentlessy harassed and intimidated by the Government of Gujarat because she has been a tireless campaigner in the struggle to seek redress and justice for the victims of the horrific carnage in Gujarat in 2002. In a concerted attempt to intimidate human rights defenders like Teesta Setalvad, the Gujarat Government, through its police, is continually hounding her. She now faces at least three fabricated criminal investigations, forcing her to apply for multiple anticipatory bails. Now the latest appears to be a doctored charge-sheet. This intimidation comes at a time when finally, after nine long years, serious allegations against the Chief Minister Narendra Modi for masterminding the criminal conspiracy to commit mass murder have reached a pivotal stage. In a pathbreaking development, the Supreme Court of India, on May 5, 2011, directed the amicus curiae to examine all evidence and meet all witnesses, and report back to the court whether a case exists against the Chief Minister and 61 others. Serving and retired Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have testified to the illegal and unconstitutional instructions given on February 27, 2002, by Narendra Modi that led to the carnage. In the ensuing days, at least 2,500 people, mostly Muslims, were murdered. Rape and other terrible acts of violence were committed while the state police and administration stood by. Prosecution of all those responsible for these crimes is essential for justice, peace and reconciliation. It will help guarantee that similar crimes are not committed in the future. The Government of Gujarat is seeking to thwart the judicial process through its persecution of Teesta Setalvad. Please join us in defending Teesta Setalvad! Pleas be a part of the struggle for justice for the victims of the 2002 carnage! Please sign the petition at the link below! Please forward it to your friends.! http://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.htmlhttp://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/guj2002/petition.html Sincerely, Bindu T. Desai PS: For more background and details, please visit the following link: http://www.cjponline.org/teesta.htmhttp://www.cjponline.org/teesta.htm http://www.cjponline.org/teesta.htm -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4386] FwdSupreme Court to CG Govt: Is call for revolution an offence? (plus Binayak Sen on Lokpal)
after being convicted and jailed for sedition in Chhattisgarh, is in town ahead of a meeting organized by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) to garner support to scrap India’s antiquated sedition law. “I am not the only victim of the law. There are hundreds of others who are. There are even more who are against it. It is a British law created to use against freedom fighters. Such a law is not the sign of a free country. The PUCL aims to collect over 10 lakh signatures of citizens against the law and present it to Parliament,” he said. Sen emphasized that financial, social and political inequality has brought India to the brink of famine. According to the World Health Organisation, if more than 40 per cent of the population has a BMI of less than 18.5, it can be considered to be in a condition of famine. But 37 per cent of India’s adult population has a BMI below 18.5, he said. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4387] Fwd: Gorakhpur workers movement - Workers occupy locked out mill
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sandeep sandeep.sam...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:46 AM *Gorakhpur workers movement - Workers occupy locked out mill* Workers in Gorakhpur have occupied a locked out yarn mill since Monday to press for their demands. Workers in Gorakhpur have been agitating for several weeks on their demands. The struggle intensified after May 3 when hired criminals called by the owners of a factory fired on them injuring 19 workers. The lock out in two factories of VN Dyers Ltd - a textile mill and a yarn mill - is going on since April 10. 18 workers of these two mills have been dismissed by the owners. The workers are demanding the reinstatement of dismissed workers, opening of the locked out mills and a high level enquiry into the firing incident. The owners, the labour department and the local administration have been trying to tire out the workers or break their unity, but have failed. For the past some days, the owners have been trying to start the mills without the sacked workers but the workers have resolutely refused to go back to work unless their dismissed co-workers are taken back. The owners were also threatening to start the mill by taking in new workers. In the meanwhile, workers has gained another small victory. The SHO of Chiluataal police station has been transfered, who was involved in brutal lathi charge on workers and repression of movement. Workers alleged that SHO Mr. Gajendra Rai was acting as a henchman of industrialists. On Monday, the workers entered the yarn mill and occupied all its shops. They have not budged from their positions since then despite threats and intimidation by the police and PAC (provincial armed constabulary). Meanwhile, a large number of workers are on the vigil outside the factory and have been supplying food to the workers inside. The Joint Front for Struggle on Workers' Rights has said that the workers will not leave the mill until all the dismissed workers are taken back and a decision is announced to start the mills without any conditions. Meanwhile, activists supporting the Gorakhpur workers movement have conveyed to the state government and the local administration that if the workers’ demands are not met, a large protest rally by several trade unions will be held in Gorakhpur. They criticized the state government's approach of treating the movement as a 'law and order problem' and have urged the authorities to look into the basic cause of the movement - which is rampant violation of labour laws in all the industries in Gorakhpur. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4391] Pijush Guha's Supreme Court order granting bail
SLP(Crl.) No. 4387 of 2011 1 ITEM NO.8COURT NO.4 SECTION IIA S U P R E M E C O U R T O FI N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl) No(s).4387/2011 (From the judgement and order dated 10/02/2011 in IA No. 1/2011 CRLA No. 54/2011 of The HIGH COURT OF CHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR) PIJUSH @ BUBUN GUHA Petitioner(s) VERSUS STATE OF CHHATISGARH Respondent(s) (With appln(s) for bail, permission to place addl. documents on record and office report) Date: 31/05/2011This Petition was called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE G.S. SINGHVI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRAMAULI KR. PRASAD [VACATION BENCH] For Petitioner(s)Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Grover, Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, ADv. For Respondent(s)Mr. Uday U. Lalit, Sr. Adv. Mr. Atul Jha, Adv. Mr. Santosh Mishra, Adv. (NOT PRESENT) UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following O R D E R The reply affidavit filed on behalf of the respondent - State of Chhatisgarh is taken on record. We have heard learned counsel for the parties atlength and carefully perused the record. We SLP(Crl.) No. 4387 of 2011 2 have also gone through the documents filed along with the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the State of Chhatisgarh. Ordinarily, this Court does not interfere with the exercise of discretion by the High Court inthe matterof grant/refusalof bail when appeal againstconviction is pending but, keeping in view the fact that the co-accused Dr. Binayak Sen has already been granted bail by this Court, we deem it proper to pass similar order. Accordingly, the Special Leave Petition is disposed of with the direction that the sentence awarded to the petitioner shall remain suspended and he be released on bail on furnishing bail bond in a sum of `2 lakhs with two sureties of `1 lakh each to the satisfaction of the trial court. (KALYANI GUPTA)(PHOOLAN WATI ARORA) COURT MASTER COURT MASTER -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4394] Public Meeting on 'Human Rights Violations in Kashmir'- 7TH JUNE
Public Meeting on 'Human Rights Violations in Kashmir' Time 07 June · 16:00 - 18:00 -- Location Press Club Mumbai, Maharashtra -- Created by: KASHMIR SOLIDARITY GROUP, MUMBAIhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162947457068503, Kamayani Bali Mahabal http://www.facebook.com/kamayani -- More info Invites you to a Public Meeting on 'Human Rights Violations in Kashmir' Date - 7th June, 2011 Time - 4 p.m Venue - Press Club,Mumbai Speakers - 1.Parveena Ahangar - Founder of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), Kashmir 2. Freny Maneckshaw- Senior Journalist who was recently in Kashmir will share her experiences 3.Dilnaz Boga - Journalist and Film Maker- Moderator Kashmir Solidarity Group is a broad network of individuals and organisations working on highlighting issues concerning Kashmir, in Mumbai. This group was formed in 2010 following the developments in the valley since February last year, which led to a strong upsurge by the youth of Kashmir. In this meeting we will lay emphasis on the human rights violations in the valley. You all are invited to participate in this very important programme along with your interested friends. Please feel free to pass on this message to others also. On behalf of Kashmir Solidarity Group -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4395] : Update - A major victory for the agitating workers in Gorakhpur
was forced to call the owners and the workers for talks on Wednesday night and a decision to end the standoff was taken after 3 hours of negotiations. Apart from the DM and DLC, the two owners and four workers from the yarn mill and three from the textile mill were present in the meeting. The Joint Front for Struggle on Workers' Rights has welcomed the decision and said that this victory is the result of the resolute struggle of all the workers of Bargadwa who stood united against the might of the capitalists and the state. However, it cautioned the workers against complacency as the administration and management have gone back on their word several times in the past. Besides, the struggle for justice in the case of the firing on workers will continue. False cases against workers have yet not been revoked. The front thanked all those who have supported their struggle in various ways. It also asked all the intellectuals, social activists, jurists, media persons and trade unions to continue their campaign to demand high level enquiries in the firing incident as well as the rampant violation of labour laws in almost all the industries in Gorakhpur.** * * *Citizen's Front in support of Gorakhpur Worker's Movement* ***Contacts: *9936650658 (Katyayani); 9910462009 (Satyam); 8447011935 (Sandeep) Email: satyamva...@gmail.com / sandeep.sam...@gmail.com *Website: www.workerscharter.in satyamva...@gmail.com* Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Workers-Charter-Movement-2011/217462924935252http://www.workerscharter.in/ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4402] Fwd: Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur
-- Forwarded message -- From: charu pathak charuchandra1...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM Subject: Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur To: *Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur and the repression of workers' movement* New Delhi, 3 June. The three-member fact-finding team comprising media persons and social activists which enquired into the incident of firing on factory workers on 3rd May in Gorakhpur city of Uttar Pradesh has raised questions on the role of the local administration and police while demanding a high-level enquiry in the incidents. The fact-finding team which visited Gorakhpur from 19 to 21 May released its report in New Delhi today. The team included Delhi-based journalist Nagarjuna Singh, political commentator and activist from Kolkata Sourav Banerjee and documentary filmmaker from Delhi Charu Chandra Pathak. The team met a number of officials, trade union leaders, workers, social activists, politicians, media persons and concerned citizens in Gorakhpur to collect facts and opinions about the incident of firing, police action on workers and the continuing labour unrest in Gorakhpur. The report says that the immediate cause of the firing was that around 1500 workers of several factories went to New Delhi to participate in the May Day rally organised by the Workers Charter Movement despite the opposition of factory owners. 18 leading workers of a yarn mill Ankur Udyog Ltd. were suspended. On the morning of 3rd May when some armed persons attacked the workers and were trying to forcefully take workers leader Prashant inside the factory premises, the workers protested and threw stones in their defence. This was followed by firing from within the factory gates which caused injuries to 19 workers and a girl student. The fact-finding team concluded that the 3rd May incident is not an isolated incident but culmination of the conflict between workers and factory owners in Gorakhpur since two years. The workers are struggling for their basic rights for more than two years which has infuriated the owners. The administration is not responsive to the workers' demands. The enquiry brought into sharp focus the fact that the workers are not being heard and the callousness and repeated use of force by the administration is worsening the situation. The team has demanded that the UP government must order a high-level enquiry into the firing in Ankur Udyog Ltd. The report has termed the divisional commissioner's order of magisterial enquiry as preposterous because the role of the local administration in the episode is under a cloud. The other recommendations of the report include arrest of named accused of the firing, solution of problems of workers by negotiations held in cordial atmosphere with workers and their leaders, an enquiry into the compliance of labour laws in factories of Gorakhpur, enquiry into the role of the police and payment of compensation to the injured workers. *-- Nagarjuna Singh, Senior Sub-Editor, Hindustan, New Delhi* *Ph**: 9953623417, Email: nagarjuna.si...@gmail.com* *-- Sourav Banerjee, Ph: 9811841341, Email: **souravbanerje...@yahoo.co.in** * *-- Charu Chandra Pathak, Ph: 9818376996, Email: charuchandra1...@gmail.com* ** -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4405] Haryana khaps to join Ramdev fast
Haryana khaps to join Ramdev fast Sukhbir Siwachhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Sukhbir-Siwach.cms, TNN | Jun 4, 2011, 02.50am IST Articlehttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast/articleshow/8718716.cms Comments (7)http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast/opinions/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms#write http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast/articleshow/8718716.cms?prtpage=1 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khaps-to-join-Ramdev-fast-/articleshow/8718716.cms Read more:Khap leadershttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Khap-leaders |Baba ramdev fasthttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Baba-ramdev-fast CHANDIGARH: Haryana's infamous khap leadershttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/khap-leadershas decided to pitch for Baba Ramdev in Delhi http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi on Saturday with a large number of supporters. Khap leader Om Parkash Dhankhar, who is coordinating with other khap leaders of Haryana to mobilize support for the yoga gura, on Friday claimed that more than 50,000 people from the state would participate in the indefinite hunger strike called by Baba Ramdev to press for his demand to bring back black money stashed in tax havens abroad. As many as 170 khaps and 28 Jat outfits from Haryana have decided to support the agitation, said Dhankhar, president of the Dhankhar khap. Seven vehicles from Beri village and four cars from Dhakla village of Jhajjar district have gone to Delhi. Besides trains and government buses, people have arranged cars and private buses to reach Delhi, said a source. Some khap leaders have even agreed to sit on indefinite hunger strike. While facing flak for running kangaroo courts, which even lead to death sentences for runaway couples in Haryana, the khap leaders said it's the right time to hit out at corruption. Pradeep Mathur, a follower of Baba Ramdev, claimed that khap panchayats are working in the right direction. ``In the movement against corruption, we want support from every corner,'' he added. Secretary of Meham Chaubisi Sarv Khap Panchayat, Ramphal Rathi said their panchayat has sent a resolution in support of the movement against corruption. Leader of Hooda khap Shri Krishan Hooda and Jai Singh Ahelawat of Ahlawat khap also expressed their support for Ramdev. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4413] Videos - Right To Dissent- art festival
Dear all Many of you know that Dr. Binayak Sen and Ilina Sen were in Mumbai recently to take part in a week long event, ‘Right to Dissent’, that included art exhibition, film screenings, panel discussions etc, convened by artist Tushar Joag in collaboration with the Committee for the Release of Binayak Sen (CRBS). Here are some videos of the last day of the event, that includes a hilarious, satirical and allegorical Dastangoi performance ‘Dastaan-E-Sedition’ and speeches by Binayak, Ilina, Flavia and Mihir Desai. - Dastangoi Performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPR2V59468 - Binayak Sen’s Press Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOp-h0baqwk - Ilina Sen on Binayak’s Arrest and the trauma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4rbZCqgwA - A Brief History of Sedition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBiel1wB1A - Flavia Agnes’ speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfjqWcjheVg - Binayak Sen’s Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk69JRYPVTc - Right to Diisent, art festival- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDSipaNtRvg -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4414] Another police officer blames Modi
-- Forwarded message -- From: teesta setalvad teestatee...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:05 AM Subject: Important To: justice-and-guja...@googlegroups.com 2002 riots: Another police officer blames Modi India http://ibnlive.in.com/india/ 2002 riots: Another police officer blames Modi Meghdoot Sharon http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Meghdoot+Sharon.html, Gaurav Shah http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Gaurav+Shah.html, CNN-IBNhttp://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html Updated Jun 06, 2011 at 08:58am IST 8 Gujarat http://ibnlive.in.com/newstopics/Gujarat.html 2002 riotshttp://ibnlive.in.com/newstopics/2002-riots.htmlNarendra Modihttp://ibnlive.in.com/newstopics/Narendra-Modi.html Video Click to play video *New Delhi:* Yet another top police officer in Gujarat has gone public, raising questions over the conduct of the Gujarat police force in controlling the communal riots in 2002. Retired Gujarat Director General of Police RN Bhattacharya has said that there was a feeling among officers that the lower rank officials had failed to safeguard the rights of the citizens. As the head of the IPS Officers' Association, he even called for a meeting to discuss the issue. As many as 40 officers attended the meeting, even as riots were on and passed a resolution that they must fulfill their constitutional duty. It would have been impossible at that time. But the response of these 40 IPS officers was a sequel to the feeling that on the ground level, things are not being properly done, said Bhattacharya. Bhattacharya has also questioned the stand taken by the state government in the Nanavati Commission that IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt is not a credible witness and his statements and affidavit cannot be entertained. Bhatt too had earlier raised questions over the Gujarat police's role, indicating that was the result of instructions given by state Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002. How can a counsel say such a thing? It is beyond me. I have worked with Sanjiv Bhatt when I was DG, Intelligence. I have found him to be a highly reliable man, Bhattacharya claimed. While the Supreme Court will finally decide on Modi's role in the riots, this fresh revelation does strengthen allegations that the Chief Minister did ask the police officers to go slow against rioters during the post Godhra riots. http://teestasetalvad.blogspot.com/ www.cjponline.org www.gujarat-riots.com www.sabrang.com -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4421] Protest against attack on housing rights activist Mr. Sandeep Yavle in Mumbai.
Protest against attack on housing rights activist Mr. Sandeep Yavle in Mumbai. Mr. Sandeep Yavle, housing rights activist of Mumbai who is in the forefront of exposing corruption and exploitation of builders in the name of SRA was attacked on June 1st in his office at 10.15 am. Sandeep was preparing for an interview with news channel ‘TV 9’ on the issues of demolition of houses by builders in the name of SRA in the slums of Ram Nagar Ghakhopar. The builders had demolished houses leaving live wires and clogging sanitary lines. The SRA Project in Ghatkhopar Ramnagar has started from 2006 by Satra Property Developers. Many people have objections regarding the project with regard to the nature of transit accommodation, forgeries and corruption being perpetuated by the builders and the concept of vertical development. About 40,000 sq m is being developed by Satra developers in the area while the one in question is about 29000 sq mts. Mr. Yavle was attacked by about 150 people under the leadership of the local shiv sena leaders and was instigated by their zonal leader who is also the project director of Satra properties. False information was spread among the public and people were instigated against Sandeep that he was try to scuttle the project. The mob which included outsiders from the area thrashed Sandeep in his chest, head and shoulders. His kurta was torn and one of his colleagues is admitted in the hospital with head injuries. The mob also took away a camera, mobile, recorder, documents and Rs 7000/- in cash. The immediate provocation may have been the inclusion of the said project in the list of SRA projects that will now be scrutinized by a committee composing members of Government and NAPM. This committee was set up after a hunger strike by Ms. Medha Patkar for 9 days at Golibar last month. Sandep was active in the struggle at Golibar struggle for bringing accountability to Builders. Sandeep was also accessing the relevant document by RTI and was inspecting them for the last one month which shows the manipulation done by the builders. The police have refused to file an FIR in-spite of activists going to the police station and giving written application. The police is threatening to put false cases against sandeep. Members of the local community say that the attempt was to scuttle protests and teach a lesson to those inquiring the corruption in SRA. Kindly write letters to police commissioner asking him to take action against the perpetuators of violence against Sandeep Yavle. Mr. R. R Patil, Home Minister, Maharashtra: 022 22025014, 22022401. Mr. Arup Patnaik, Commissioner of Police, 022- 22620826 - _ Maju Varghese, YUVA, New Naigoan Municipal School, Hindamata, Dadar, Mumbai, INDIA. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4422] AFSPA an evil law; army not needed in residential areas: jethmalani
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 Invite To Newzfirst [image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend]http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/ AFSPA an evil law; army not needed in residential areas: Jethmalani By Newzfirst 6/6/11 Emailhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/afspa-an-evil-law-army-not-needed-in-residential-areas:-jethmalani?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome Printhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/afspa-an-evil-law-army-not-needed-in-residential-areas:-jethmalani?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome [image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend] http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/ [image: Bookmark and Share]http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=newzfirst SRINAGAR - Noted jurist and senior BJP leader Ram Jethmalani today termed the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as an evil law saying the army was not needed in residential and urban areas. AFSPA is basically an evil act and can only be justified by a grave necessity. I believe the conditions can be created in which the act should go, Jethmalani told reporters at the conclusion of five-day visit of Kashmir Committee headed by him. The former Law Minister during the Atal Behari Vajpayee-led NDA government at Centre said the presence of army was necessary for security and to prevent the infiltration of militants from across the Line of Control. You don't have to post them in residential and urban areas. Put them at some place near the border where they can stop infiltration, he said. Jethmalani said everything was possible with cooperation and goodwill. http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/afspa-an-evil-law-army-not-needed-in-residential-areas:-jethmalani?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4423] 200 arrested for opposing POSCO project
200 arrested for opposing POSCO project Published: Monday, Jun 6, 2011, 16:41 IST Place: Bhubaneswar | Agency: PTI About 200 leaders and activists of five political parties today courted arrested here while trying to enter into Orissa secretariat as part of their civil disobedience agitation against alleged forcible land acquisition for POSCO project near Paradip. The leaders of CPI, CPI(M), Forward Bloc, RJD and Samajwadi Party along with their supporters held a rally on Mahatma Gandhi Road before marching towards the state secretariat. The agitators were prevented from entering the restricted zone around the secretariat by security personnel. The agitators were taken into custody for trying to break law. They were latter freed on personal release bond, said DCP Nitinjit Singh. Demanding relocation of the proposed POSCO project from fertile land in three gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Gadakujang, CPI state secretary Dibakar Nayak justified their attempt to break laws. When the state government breaks laws to acquire land for POSCO, we do not see any wrong in civil disobedience agitation by the five political parties, Nayak said demanding immediate halt on use of force to acquire land for the South Korean steel major. Meanwhile, district administration of Jagatsinghpur today acquired 50 betel vines and distributed compensation of Rs84 lakh in Nuagaon area of Gadakujang gram panchyat. So far we have acquired 645 betel vines and distributed Rs6.85 crore among land losers, said a senior revenue department official. As the land acquisition in Gadakujang gram panchayat was completed, the district administration was preparing to enter into the trouble zone of Dhinkia. We will move to Dhinkia area in a day or two, another official said. Tension prevailed in the area as about eight platoons of (about 250 personnel) armed police staged a march past in Nuagaon area bordering Dhinkia gram panchayat. We are ready to face the police. Our people are committed to prevent police and state government officials from entering our villages, said POSCO Pratorodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) president Abhay Sahu adding villagers would give appropriate reply if police used force for land acquisition. PPSS, the body opposing the South Korean steel major, has deployed its activists, mostly women, round the clock at all entry points to Dhinkia area. We are ready to take on police and the state government if they attempt to enter into our villages in Dhinkia gram panchayat, said Manorama Khatua, the leader of PPSS's women wing. The district administration, however, maintained that it would acquire government land under encroachment by the people in Dhinkia area. No private land from Dhinkia area will be acquired as directed by the state government, district rehabilitation and resettlement officer Surjit Das said. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_200-arrested-for-opposing-posco-project_1551808 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4424] Press Conference on Repression in POSCO Project
*Press Invite* ** *This morning (6 June) over 10 platoons of riot police have been stationed face to face with thousands of villagers rightfully and peacefully resisting forcible takeover of their lands for the POSCO project in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha. The communities are resisting brutal police action that is being engaged to illegally and wrongfully dispossess communities from their farming and forest lands against their will and also in violation of assurances made by the Odisha Govt before the Odisha High Court. POSCO is the single largest FDI in **India** and is being aggressively promoted by Odisha and Indian Governments to advantage some of the biggest American Banks and Warren Buffet who form key investors of this investment. It is critical that the POSCO investment is exposed for what it truly is: the unprecedented legalised loot of our natural resources, a crime far worse than the 2G and Commonwealth scams. Addressing such concerns and to request the media to focus on the blatant violation of human rights being engaged in to promote POSCO, a Press Conference is organised as follows:*** *PRESS CONFERENCE * *on * *Ongoing Repression and Forcible Land Acquisition for POSCO in Odisha** * *and * *Release of Report of Environment Support Group on * *Environmental and Social Consequences of the POSCO Project* * * *Date: **7 June 2011** * *Venue: Indian Women’s Press Corps, Janpath (near Le Meridian Hotel)* *Time: **11.30 AM** * * * *To Be Addressed By: * *Leo F. Saldanha, Environment Support Group, **Bangalore** * *Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Campaign for Survival and Dignity * *Rajendra Ravi, NAPM * *Mamata Dash, NFFPFW* *Kavita Krishnan, **CPI**(ML) Liberation * *And other social activists and political leaders * * * *Organised by ESG (**Bangalore**), NAPM, **Delhi** Support Group, Campaign for Survival and Dignity, National Forum of **Forest** People and **Forest**Workers (NFFPFW), All **India** Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) and All **India**Students' Association (AISA) * Contact numbers: 9560756628, 9868337493, 9868259836 ** -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4426] REMINDER- Public Meeting on Human Rights Violations in Kashmir TODAY
*Public Meeting on 'Human Rights Violations in Kashmir'* *Kashmir Solidarity Forum* Invites you to a Public Meeting on *'Human Rights Violations in Kashmir'* *Date - 7th June, 2011 Time - 4 p.m Venue - Press Club,Mumbai* Speakers - 1*.Parveena Ahangar* - Founder of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), Kashmir 2. *Freny Maneckshaw*- Senior Journalist who was recently in Kashmir will share her experiences 3.*Dilnaz Boga -* Journalist and Film Maker- Moderator Kashmir Solidarity Group is a broad network of individuals and organisations working on highlighting issues concerning Kashmir, in Mumbai. This group was formed in 2010 following the developments in the valley since February last year, which led to a strong upsurge by the youth of Kashmir. In this meeting we will lay emphasis on the human rights violations in the valley. You all are invited to participate in this very important programme along with your interested friends. Please feel free to pass on this message to others also. On behalf of Kashmir Solidarity Group -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4431] Fwd: Urgent appeal for Ramesh Agrawal and Harihar Patel- PL CALL
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Agarwal samsnomadiche...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:38 PM Dear all, In addition to the contact list Kanchi provided, contact the Raigarh Superintendent of Police, Rahul Sharma directly... Office email: sp-raigarh...@nic.in Personal email address: rahulips2...@yahoo.co.in Mo: 9425507181 Office Tel: 07762-22 Home Tel: 07762-44 Ask him if he has followed up on his claim of suspending the CG police officers responsible for Agrawal's illegal handcuffing. And demand the immediate release of both Patel and Agrawal! In solidarity, Samantha Agarwal - Samantha Agarwal India Mobile: 8084829006 You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise -Maya Angelou -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4436] The March from Tarapur to Jaitapur
Wave* One thing is clear – anti-nuclear struggles are at present on the rise. On 26 March 2011, a silent demonstration of about 700 activists took place in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu. The first two 1,000 MW reactors of this plant with Russian VVER-1000 technology are supposed to go critical in June. This is likely to be delayed, as the Coastal Regulation Zone clearance has not been obtained. The contract for this plant goes back to the 1980s and the process was held up due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Around two years ago, the prime minister announced proudly the acquisition of Russian submarines, which could keep safe our nuclear war heads. These submarines were indeed the reason why we bargained for a technology which was thought to be less safe than the Chernobyl type reactor before Chernobyl happened. In the mean time, the people of Kudankulam can look forward to six such reactors. The fishing community has consistently protested and the final leg of the Coastal March of the NFF “Protect Waters Protect Life” ended in a shoot-out by the police, in which six fishermen were gravely injured on 1 May 1989 in Kanyakumari (Dietrich 1989). Today, fishermen’s organisations in Kerala are expressing their resistance against the Kudankulam project as well. The protest by the inland population has risen on and off, but has remained rather subdued. In West Bengal, the struggle against the Haripur nuclear plant has a long-standing history and since recently, even Prakash Karat of the CPI-M has ventilated doubts whether this is the right place for such a project. The proposed Gorakhpur nuclear power plant at Fatehabad district in Haryana has been described as “Nuclear Madness at Delhi’s Doorsteps” by Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha and Delhi Platform. Representatives of all these struggles were present in the march from Tarapur to Jaitapur. To sell nuclear options as a solution to global warming and an anti-dote to peak oil is a blatant absurdity. However, the neo-liberal ruling classes are doing just that. The Germans, living on after two world wars, feel a greater sense of urgency to review their options and a southern state Baden-Württemberg, has just elected the Greens to power, after having been run by the Christian Democrats for 58 years. Yet, the fact that Japan is now queuing up to sell its nuclear technology abroad, shows how very difficult it is to get rid of the spectre of devastation. In order to break out of the vicious circle of denial, we need a much deeper analysis of the neocolonial process of globalisation. The connection between energy options and warfare has to be recognised. The present approach towards growth, extraction and devastation of nature and human communities needs a drastic change. For this, the unorganised workers, peasants, subsistence producers, forest dwellers, dalits, adivasis, women, and indigenous people in the north-east need to build alliances. The ongoing warfare against the internal colonies has to be seen eye to eye. The marchers got a mild taste of this internal warfare. The anti-nuclear struggle is the tip of an iceberg, and we need less wasteful, less destructive and decentralised energy options. It is difficult to think these options today, but how many Fukushimas do we need to rekindle our imagination? *Reference* Dietrich, Gabriele (1989): “Kanyakumari March: Breakthrough Despite Break-Up”, *Economic Political Weekly*, 20 May, pp 1087-88. http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle? Treat yourself at a restaurant, spa, resort and much more with *Rediff Deal ho jaye!http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://dealhojaye.rediff.com/___cmp=signaturelnk=rediffmailsignaturenewservice=deals * -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights
[humanrights-movement:4439] Fwd: Appeal: Nation's conscience must be awakened to anti-POSCO struggle
corruption. Instead, Jairam Ramesh claimed he was working towards “cooperative federalism” and on the basis of his “faith and trust” in the Odisha Government approved the project's environment and CRZ clearances on 31 January 2011 and subsequently the forest clearance on 2nd May. This was despite absolute evidence that the Forest Rights Act had been fundamentally violated by deliberately overlooking Gram Sabha resolutions (convened by the constitutionally empowered Panchayats in the project affected villages) that clearly rejected the project. Ramesh, thus, became a party to the fraud in environmental decision-making and also directly responsible for the dangerous situation that is developing in the POSCO affected villages today. We fear that the exigent State police action that is now underway in these villages may result in another Kalinganagar or Nandigram type of situation. The scant attention paid by mainstream political parties, the media and the public is only strengthening the Navin Patnaik Government to disregard Constitution norms and act ruthlessly to secure lands for the advantage of POSCO. In an effort to prevent such a carnage from taking place, various eminent people in the country have intervened and appealed to the Prime Minister of India to “immediately ask the Odisha government to halt this illegal attack, to withdraw all clearances given in violation of law, and to take an impartial position in the court cases filed by the people. Failure to stop this attack will show that the UPA government's much vaunted concern over issues of displacement, forest rights and inclusive growth is simply an eyewash.” A copy of this appeal is enclosed. While endorsing these demands, we additionally urge that: 1. The Odisha Government must immediately withdraw its police operations and forcible acquisition of land for POSCO. 2. The Central Bureau of Investigation must immediately expand the scope of its ongoing investigations against A Raja by reviewing his role in the POSCO clearances, and that of all those who have been involved in illegally promoting this scandalous project, possibly including then Finance Minister and presently Home Minister, Chidambaram. 3. The scandalous POSCO project must be scrapped as its benefits will be accrued mainly by major American financiers (including Warren Buffet) who are major stockholders of this South Korean company. *Issued by: Environment Support Group (Bangalore), Campaign for Survival and Dignity, National Forum of Forest People andForest Workers (NFFPFW), National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), Delhi Solidarity Group, All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) and All India Students' Association (AISA) * Contact numbers: 9560756628, 9868337493, 9868259836 ___ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4448] Maharashtra bills law to punish officers
-- Forwarded message -- From: eviction watch evictionwa...@yuvaindia.org Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM Dear all, Greetings! As many of us has feared, the state has taken to selective usage of clauses in RAY. While the eligibility discussion and universalisation of basic services are not being held, the Maharashtra govt already made amendments for the punitive clause. What we demand is a punitive clause for those who are responsible for building mass housing and are not doing it.. slum free city is an illusion in the present mode of development and it can be achieved only through cohesion, bulldozing even the limited survival rights of the urban poor. http://www.indlawnews.com/ Thursday, June 09, 2011 (+5:30GMT) http://www.indlawnews.com/Newsdisplay.aspx?c05cc5e9-4404-46ae-8c69-e6c4bfaa9b4d *Maharashtra Government to introduce legislation to check unauthorised structures* *6/7/2011* 7.6.2011 (UNI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said the government would introduce a legislation soon to check the rampant growth of unauthorised structures in the state. He was speaking at a function here held to hand over keys to the allotees of the tenemants under the BSUP programme in the city. Also present on the occasion were Union Secretary in the Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation department Ms Kiran Dingra, Thane Mayor Ashok Vaity, Guardian Minister Ganesh Naik, Minister for Tribal Development Rajendra Gavit and the Legislative Council Deputy Speaker Vasant Davkhare among others. Mr Chavan said the state government had already passed a law to fix the responsibility of the unauthorised constructions on the ward officer and the police officer of the area and the action to be taken by them. The Chief Minister said this had been done as per the Model Law of Property Rights for Slumdwellers suggested by the Centre and which was presently lying with the President for a nod. Under this law, the ward officer and local police will be responsible for any unauthorised constructions in their area, he said and pointed that besides Maharashtra, it will be adopted by the other states as well. He said the officials cannot shirk their responsibility by saying that they were not aware of the unauthorised constructions in their areas. They also cannot ignore complaints from the elected representatives, he pointed. Expressing his concern over the pace of urbanisation and the growth in the size of population of Thane city in the next decade, he asked the planners not to ignore the need for affordable housing of the economically backward and slum dwellers. After inspecting the housing scheme coming up at Kausa under the BSUP programme of the Centre, Mr Chavan said a total of 10,000 tenements will be given to the needy in the present scheme in Thane. He said of the total population of 20 lakhs in the city, nearly 30 per cent reside in slums that account for six lakhs population and two lakh tenements were needed for them. For this, the grassroots level officials and the elected representatives should work jointly, he said. 'We should aim at making Thane a slum-free city and there is no paucity of funds for the same. This will be done under the BSUP and the Rajiv Awas Yojana,' he said. In her speech, Ms Dingra said the city of Thane was growing at a rapid speed and the Mayor and the other officials of the civic corporation should plan for the future to provide better civic amenities. Mr Vaity urged the Chief Minister to hold at least one meeting of the elected representatives from Thane district to resolve the pending issues and the issues that come up from time to time for the planned growth of the city. He also submitted a memorandum enlisting more than a dozen demands to the Chief Minister. The Municipal Commissioner R A Rajeev gave details of the entire scheme and the progress done so far. UNI -- _ Maju Varghese, YUVA, New Naigoan Municipal School, Hindamata, Dadar, Mumbai, INDIA. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group
[humanrights-movement:4450] Fwd:URGENT PRESS RELEASE: OVERNIGHT OR DAWN POLICE ATTACK IMMINENT ON POSCO AFFECTED VILLAGES
*URGENT PRESS RELEASE* *09 June 2011* *OVERNIGHT OR DAWN POLICE ATTACK IMMINENT ON POSCO AFFECTED VILLAGES* The Odisha police have called in heavy reinforcements and are moving into positions all evening around the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur in Jagatsinghpur District of Odisha state. These villages form the epicentre of over 6 years of successful peaceful resistance to the scandalous POSCO steel-mining-power-port project – the world's largest. This project is being pushed through by Odisha and Indian Governments in blatant violation of fundamental rights and a variety of environmental and economic laws of India. According to confirmed sources within the Odisha establishment, the attack on this peaceful resistance is more than likely early morning tomorrow, if the police do not unleash terror overnight. The resilient people of these villages including women, children, elders, youth and men are holding overnight vigils along the borders of their villages now and will stay so till the police withdraw. An alarming aspect of such abuse of police powers is that over 26 platoons of police have been mobilised around these villages over the past two weeks. Such heavy police presence betrays the Odisha Government's claims that the acquisition of land for the project is peaceful. The current Senior Police Officer in charge of the operation is the former Superintendent of Police of Kalinganagar, who had ordered firing on villagers protesting the Tata Steel plant, killing many tribals and injuring scores more. Under this officer's ruthless leadership, the Odisha police has effectively declared an emergency on the resisting villages, completely halting normal life over the past several weeks. It is more than likely now that a needless carnage will result because of the such strong arm tactics of the police. On behalf of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samithi (PPSS), this urgent release is being made requesting your earliest attention to this impending disaster. *India could do well without another Kalinganagar, or Nandigram, and the role of the mass media is critical in preventing such an incident.* For more details about the ground situation, please contact: Prashant Paikray, Spokesperson, PPSS: Cell: 09437571547 prashantpaik...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc1214.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=prashantpaik...@gmail.com Ranjan Swain of PPSS: Cell: 09178643193 __._,_.___ - -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4452] UPDATE 2 26 Platoons Police moving to Dhinkya , to Forcefully Displace people for POSCO Project
-- Forwarded message -- From: Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Urgent Alert : 26 Platoons Police moving to Dhinkya , to Forcefully Displace people for POSCO Project Upadate 2: Around 300 Policemen have reached Dhinkya face by 2500 Villagers , the police is threatening action, if people refuse to leave their villeges make a phone call to selected phones like Collector of Jagatsingpur, SP of jagatsingpur, chief secretary and chief minister If you Know Phone no's of these people, please send it to me Some Numbers i collected Last year are available below 1. Collector 06724- 220199, 2. ADM (ph: 09937755508) 3. Naveen Pattnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa Tel. No.(O) 0674- 2531100,2535100 (FAX) Tel. No.(R) 0674- 2590299, 2591099,2590844,2591100,2590833 Email : c...@ori.nic.in 4. Home secretary, ph: 0674-2531515, 5. SP 's Mobile Debodatta Singh( Not sure he changed or not) 09437094678 6- Prime Minister of India – Shri Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, + 91 11 2301 6857 manmo...@sansad.nic.in You can find Background of the issue in http://orissaconcerns.net/anti-posco/ A Quote from MOEF commitees Majority Report Those who keep talking of the POSCO project as one of “national importance” should answer these questions: *would any other country in the world tolerate such violations of their law? Would South Korea tolerate an Indian company grabbing their land, breaking their laws and threatening to cause an environmental disaster? Is this what development means – robbing thousands of their lands and threatening lakhs with water shortage and other catastrophes?* On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: Just Received following sms Update from Anti Posco Protesters in Orissa 26 Platoons of Police trying to move to Dhinkya , to forcefully displace people, for POSCO project . Attack Expected at any time Condemn Police action . Inform all your media Friends We need to plan immediate steps to prevent Bloodshed and to stop police action. Anivar -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4457] Sign this petition:Condemn Assault on anti-POSCO Protesters
we hope to release before it gets too late so the more signatures we get the better :). The petition can be signed here: http://www.petitiononline.com/posco/petition.html or by sending a mail endorsement (I am collecting them). Thanks a lot Shankar Gopalakrishnan Campaign for Survival and Dignity PETITION We condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing assault on the anti-POSCO protesters in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. After arresting and beating people last week, today more than one thousand police surrounded the area and laid siege to those protesting. Women, children and men spent the entire day in intense heat in order to stand vigil against the illegal attack on their lands. Both people and police officials have lost consciousness from the heat; the police snuck in from one direction and destroyed some vines. Dhinkia gram panchayat, where the crisis is occurring, contains around 2/3 of the land sought by the steel plant and the majority of those affected. This horrific attack comes at a time when two cases by the villagers are pending in the Orissa High Court, and when there is a criminal complaint against the District Collector for lying and fabricating the evidence that was the basis of the clearance to take the land. It also comes after three official committees found the land grab to be illegal and in violation of the Forest Rights Act, and after it was exposed by international experts that the project has no benefits for the local or national economy (while providing a minimum profit of Rs. 1,95,000 crores to POSCO). That the Orissa government itself sees no great urgency in this project can be seen from the fact that the MoU with POSCO has not been renewed for over a year, and its renewal was deferred again just three days ago. There is thus not even any agreement on what the project will be when it comes up. Why then this inhuman attack on those seeking to defend their rights? Can it be anything other than an attempt to terrorise the protesters and all others who may dare to oppose the crimes of the state? Clearly the State government, with the support of the Centre, is not concerned about the law, the people, the environment or development. Yet again we see the use of police terror to loot our people for private profit. No words of condemnation are sufficient for this heinous crime. Sincerely, The Undersigned -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Free binayak sen US Campaign group. To post to this group, send email to freebinayaksen...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to freebinayaksen-us+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/freebinayaksen-us?hl=en. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
Re: [humanrights-movement:4460] Sign this petition:Condemn Assault on anti-POSCO Protesters
Dear all PL SIGN THE PETITION http://www.petitiononline.com/http://www.petitiononline.com/posco/petition.html posco/petition.html http://www.petitiononline.com/posco/petition.html CLICK AND on the link and sign thanks kamayani On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:17 PM, ranjani k.murthy rk_km2...@yahoo.comwrote: include my name ranjani --- On *Fri, 10/6/11, Ramu Lalita Ramdas lram...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Ramu Lalita Ramdas lram...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:4458] Sign this petition:Condemn Assault on anti-POSCO Protesters To: humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, 10 June, 2011, 6:50 PM Dear Friends, Please include our names. Regards Admiral L Ramdas and Mrs Lalita Ramdas On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Kamayani kama...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=kama...@gmail.com wrote: we hope to release before it gets too late so the more signatures we get the better :). The petition can be signed here: http://www.petitiononline.com/posco/petition.html or by sending a mail endorsement (I am collecting them). Thanks a lot Shankar Gopalakrishnan Campaign for Survival and Dignity PETITION We condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing assault on the anti-POSCO protesters in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. After arresting and beating people last week, today more than one thousand police surrounded the area and laid siege to those protesting. Women, children and men spent the entire day in intense heat in order to stand vigil against the illegal attack on their lands. Both people and police officials have lost consciousness from the heat; the police snuck in from one direction and destroyed some vines. Dhinkia gram panchayat, where the crisis is occurring, contains around 2/3 of the land sought by the steel plant and the majority of those affected. This horrific attack comes at a time when two cases by the villagers are pending in the Orissa High Court, and when there is a criminal complaint against the District Collector for lying and fabricating the evidence that was the basis of the clearance to take the land. It also comes after three official committees found the land grab to be illegal and in violation of the Forest Rights Act, and after it was exposed by international experts that the project has no benefits for the local or national economy (while providing a minimum profit of Rs. 1,95,000 crores to POSCO). That the Orissa government itself sees no great urgency in this project can be seen from the fact that the MoU with POSCO has not been renewed for over a year, and its renewal was deferred again just three days ago. There is thus not even any agreement on what the project will be when it comes up. Why then this inhuman attack on those seeking to defend their rights? Can it be anything other than an attempt to terrorise the protesters and all others who may dare to oppose the crimes of the state? Clearly the State government, with the support of the Centre, is not concerned about the law, the people, the environment or development. Yet again we see the use of police terror to loot our people for private profit. No words of condemnation are sufficient for this heinous crime. Sincerely, The Undersigned -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Free binayak sen US Campaign group. To post to this group, send email to freebinayaksen...@googlegroups.comhttp://mc/compose?to=freebinayaksen...@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to freebinayaksen-us+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comhttp://mc/compose?to=freebinayaksen-us%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/freebinayaksen-us?hl=en. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.comhttp://mc/compose?to=humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights
[humanrights-movement:4461] POSCO Resistance intensifies as forceful land acquisition begins
BHUBANESWAR - In a move to sabotage the resistance towards land acquisition for POSCO project, Government of Odisha has deployed 26 platoons of police. The Odisha police have called in heavy reinforcements and are moving into positions all evening around the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur in Jagatsinghpur District of Odisha state. These villages form the epicenter of over 6 years of successful peaceful resistance to the scandalous POSCO steel-mining-power-port project – India’s biggest FDI. This project is being pushed through by Odisha and Indian Governments in blatant violation of fundamental rights and a variety of environmental and economic laws of India. Speaking to newzfirst.com, Prashant Paikray, Spokesperson of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samithi (PPSS), said, “We three thousand and odd people have confronted police force with four layers of human chain surrounding beetle vines; it comprise children, women, elders and young men. Armed Police have imposed section 144 and have warned the villagers to vacate or to face the police action. But we will not...” “An alarming aspect of such abuse of police powers is that over 26 platoons of police have been mobilized around these villages over the past two weeks. Such heavy police presence betrays the Odisha Government's claims that the acquisition of land for the project is peaceful.” According to statement issued by PPSS, The current Senior Police Officer in charge of the operation is the former Superintendent of Police of Kalinganagar, who had ordered firing on villagers protesting the Tata Steel plant, killing many tribals and injuring scores more. Under this officer's ruthless leadership, the Odisha police have effectively declared an emergency on the resisting villages, completely halting normal life over the past several weeks. It is more than likely now that a needless carnage will result because of the strong arm tactics of the police. Last month Jairam Ramesh-led Environment Ministry gave the go-ahead to the Korean steel giant to build the steel plant, but the farmers are still agitating against land acquisition. Earlier, to obtain the clearance from environment ministry, Government of Odisha had sent ‘categorical’ assurance to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, claiming that no one in the proposed POSCO project area is eligible under the Forest Rights Act. The Ministry's request for a categorical assurance had come after two Committees had already exposed that the Government of Odisha had lied on this matter. Brutal police tactics, criminal intimidation and illegal methods are being employed here to wrest from these peacefully protesting villagers 4000 acres of extraordinarily fertile agricultural and forest land to establish the single largest industrial foreign investment conceived in recent times. The project involves the establishment of a mega steel plant (12 MTPA), backed by a massive coal-fired thermal power plant (400 MW expandable to 1,100 MW), and a major captive port for handling the world's largest cargo ships (Capsize, usually more than a quarter km. in length). The project involves further land acquisition for a captive iron ore mine requiring 6,100 acres of predominantly forest land in Khandadhar Hills of Sundergarh district and at least 2,000 acres more for a massive gated township to house POSCO employees. In addition, there would be dedicated water, road and rail linkages that will further exacerbate the displacement and environmental destruction caused by the project. The statement of Samiti has also requested concerned citizens and authorities for earliest attention to this impending disaster. http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/posco-resistance-intensifies-as-forceful-land-acquisition-begins?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options
[humanrights-movement:4468] POSCO Agitation intensifies, 2000 villagers blockade police
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[humanrights-movement:4470] MiD DAY journalist shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mumbai
*Mumbai: * A senior investigative journalist working with MiD DAY was today shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified persons in Mumbai. The victim, Jyotirmoy Dey, was rushed to the Hiranandani hospital where he was declared brought dead. The incident occurred in the suburban Powai area of the city. According to police, four motorcycle-borne men fired at Mr Dey this afternoon. The shooters escaped from the spot, police added. Approximately, 9 entry-exit wounds were found which means at least 5 bullets were fired, Vishwas Nagare Patil, Additional CP, Special Branch, Mumbai Police said. The deceased headed the crime bureau of the publication. Reacting to the incident, Maharashtra PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal told NDTV that he was 'shocked' by the attack. He further added that it appeared to be a handiwork of the underworld. The way he was killed shows that it was a well-planned attack...must be an attack by underworld, Mr Bhujbal said. Meanwhile, Sachin Kalbaug, the Group Editor of MiD DAY also expressed 'shock' over Mr Dey's death. Speaking to NDTV, Mr Kalbaug though said holding the underworld responsible for the journalist's death would be premature. Mr Dey is considered to be arguably India's best-connected writer on the Mumbai underworld. He spent most of his reporting career bringing out accounts of the goings-on in the Mumbai underworld for several newspapers including the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of 'Zero Dial: The Dangerous World of Informers' and 'Khallas' - considered a dictionary on the Mumbai underworld. Mr Dey also wrote extensively about fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, Chotta Rajan and others. He was reportedly working on a series on Dawood when he was killed today.** Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-midday-journalist-shot-dead-111634?cp http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-midday-journalist-shot-dead-111634 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4471] Silencing Dissent :CG Govt threatens to ban PUCL:OPEN Magazine
Date: 11 June 2011 Subject: Silencing Dissent :CG Govt threatens to ban PUCL:OPEN Magazine Silencing Dissent | OPEN Magazinehttp://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/silencing-dissent http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/silencing-dissent# http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/silencing-dissent# http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=openmagsource=tbx-250lng=en-USs=facebookurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openthemagazine.com%2Farticle%2Fnation%2Fsilencing-dissenttitle=Silencing%20Dissent%20%7C%20OPEN%20Magazineate=AT-openmag/-/-/4df3af9e1b26520b/1uid=4df3af9e7672fc1dpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openthemagazine.com%2Ftt=0 http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/silencing-dissent# http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=openmagsource=tbx-250lng=en-USs=diggurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openthemagazine.com%2Farticle%2Fnation%2Fsilencing-dissenttitle=Silencing%20Dissent%20%7C%20OPEN%20Magazineate=AT-openmag/-/-/4df3af9e1b26520b/2uid=4df3af9e975b518fpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openthemagazine.com%2Ftt=0 http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250pub=openmag 11 June 2011 Silencing Dissent The Chhattisgarh government speaks of banning civil rights group PUCL BY Rahul Panditahttp://www.openthemagazine.com/category/author/rahul-pandita [image: HARASSED Dr Binayak Sen is the vice-president of PUCL] HARASSED Dr Binayak Sen is the vice-president of PUCL While it is becoming clear that New Delhi is hellbent on silencing voices of dissent, sometimes state governments too go to a farcical extent in the name of maintaining ‘law and order’. The civil liberties group PUCL is planning a state convention titled ‘Patriotism, Sedition and State Power in Independent India’ in Chhattisgarh on 25-26 June. This has worried the state government so much that state home minister Nanki Ram Kanwar told a national Hindi daily that PUCL supplies arms to Naxalites, and that the state government was contemplating imposing a ban on PUCL and other such “suspicious” organisations. There are reports that the state intelligence has issued letters to the police chiefs of all 18 districts in the state, seeking information on PUCL activities. This information was to be reportedly sent by 20 May. Kanwar also reportedly declared that social activist Swami Agnivesh will be banned from entering Chhattisgarh. PUCL is a leading civil liberties organisation founded by socialist leader Jai Prakash Narain in 1976. Many prominent people such as Justice Rajinder Sachar and Arun Shourie have in the past held positions in its national executive. Kanwar is also reported to have claimed that the PUCL had summoned members from abroad to argue the case of Dr Binayak Sen which, according to him, proved that Naxalites were getting full support of the organisation. He conveniently forgot that Dr Sen is the national vice-president of the organisation. “This statement (by Kanwar) is in line with the whole polarised environment the state has constructed in the last ten years,” said PUCL’s general secretary, Pushkar Raj. “It is very disturbing. The government wants to suppress all kinds of dissent. Such statements by state executives are irresponsible,” he said. The PUCL national executive is now contemplating a legal recourse. ‘Instead of paying attention to mafia-style operations by industrialists, liquor barons and real estate dealers, resulting in brutal attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and social movement leaders, the Home Minister of Chhattisgarh government is leading the vilification campaign and ruthless repression (sic) in suppressing the genuine voices of dissent and democracy,’ said a press-release issued by the Chhattisgarh PUCL. It is not clear now whether PUCL will go ahead with its convention. Pushkar Raj said that that was a call the state chapter would have to take, depending on local conditions. -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send
[humanrights-movement:4480] Baba Ramdev's trust got Nepal land at cheap rate, sold if off at market price
'Baba Ramdev's trust got Nepal land at cheap rate, sold if off at market price' Rohit Singh | Kathmandu, June 13, 2011 | Updated *11:07 IST* [image: Baba Ramdev] Yoga guru Baba Ramdev at his ashram in Haridwar. UTILITIES http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/#http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/# GET SOCIAL[image: Comment]http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdevs-trust-under-scanner-in-nepal-over-land-deals/1/141301.html#comment [image: plus] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=20 RELATEDS - Ramdev declares his assetshttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdev-declares-his-assets/1/140971.html - CBI, I-T probe Ramdev's empirehttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdev-firms-under-cbi-i-t-scanner/1/140628.html - Ramdev ends nine-day fasthttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdev-breaks-his-fast-against-black-money-on-9th-day/1/141244.html - I have forgiven govt, says Ramdevhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/i-have-forgiven-govt-says-baba-ramdev/1/140702.html - Will raise nationalist force: Ramdevhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdev-says-he-wants-to-raise-nationalist-force/1/140907.html - The rise and rise of Baba Ramdevhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Video/141217/42/the-rise-and-rise-of-baba-ramdev.html Yoga guruhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/advanced_search.jsp?searchword=baba+ramdev Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeethhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/oppn-seeks-probe-in-ramdev-trust-land-deal-in-himachal/1/141038.html has come under scanner in neighbouring Nepal for a slew of dubious land deals. The trust had acquired more than 800 ropani (over 100 acre) land at discounted rates in 2007 following a nod from the Nepal government. However, it was later sold at market price, a Headlines Today investigation has revealed. Though land was acquired for building yoga and ayurveda centres, locals have accused Patanjali of selling off over 500 ropani land at the prevailing market rates to private companies and individuals over the last one year. The land was sold to some builders also at a rate 10 times its original value, villagers alleged. The residents of Sanga, a village around 20 km from Kathmandu, have been infuriated as many of them had sold vast stretches of land to Patanjali on promises that it would be used for yoga centres. They now feel cheated. Shyam, a resident of Sanga, said, Patanjali purchased 800 ropani land here to build yoga and ayurveda centre and other educational institutes. But Kathmandu Homes has purchased land from Patanjali to use it for commercial complex. The officers of land registry office of Nepal confirmed the villagers' allegations. Ved Prasad Aryal, information officer in Kabre district land registration office, told Headlines Today: Patanjali had purchased more than 500 ropani land and later sold it to seven private players for housing and commercial purposes. Some locals even complained of defaulting in payment for their plots by Patanjali. Some villagers alleged that the cheques given by Patanjali as compensation for their land bounced. Nar Bahadur Tamag, a villager, said, We got cheques for the land we gave but Patanjali Yogpeeth's cheque has bounced. According to documents accessed by Headlines Today, the land purchased by Patanjali was much more than the sanctioned limit one can purchase in Nepal. Clearly, rules were bent by the Nepal government to suit requirements of the Patanjali. However, Patanjali's Nepal unit rubbished all reports against it. Its convenor Saligram Singh said, Why Ramdev and Balkrishna do any sort of business in Nepal? We were never involved in such illegal practice ever. While the income tax department sleuths probe Ramdev's vast assets in India, clearly troubles for him and his key aide Balkrishna are mounting in the adjoining Himalayan republic also. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/baba-ramdevs-trust-under-scanner-in-nepal-over-land-deals/1/141301.html -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email
[humanrights-movement:4491] FILM SCREENING “UPAASMAR – THE TASTE OF HUNGER”
FILM SCREENING “UPAASMAR – THE TASTE OF HUNGER” Time 16 June · 18:30 - 20:30 -- Location Grant Medical College Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals Ramchandra Bhatt Marg, Mazagaon Mumbai -- Created by: Kamayani Bali Mahabal http://www.facebook.com/kamayani -- ForSupport India's indigenous peoples' rights to natural cultural resources http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_325784680699 -- More info MEET THE YOUNG DOCU-FILMMAKER AJAY SAKLANI, INTERACT IN PERSON “UPAASMAR – THE TASTE OF HUNGER” A HARD-HITTING DOCUMENTARY REFLECTING THE REALITY OF THOUSANDS OF CHILD DEATHS IN MELGHAT, MAHARASHTRA. Date: 16th June, 2011 Time: 6:30 PM Venue: Grant Medical College Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals Ramchandra Bhatt Marg, Mazagaon Mumbai, India PATIENCE : THEIR ONLY HOPE FOR SURVIVAL Helpless hunger, mourning faces are the everyday feature at the tribal settlement of Satpuda wilderness, where the devil of malnutrition has eaten thousands of infants. Even before they are able to stand on their feet, even before they feel the love and affection of their parents, the children of Melghat experience what hunger is? Somewhere in the untouched dark corner of shining India, inhabitants of tribal villages of Melghat are still deprived of basic amenities like drinking water, food, education, health, electricity and connectivity to the world. The children are deprived of basic nutrition and as they become victims of life-threatening diseases – Malnutrition prominent among them. What is worse is that the increasing rate of the infant mortalities here has become a lucrative business for people in politics and governance. Shocking enough is to know that a lot of money is said to have been spent and lot of schemes introduced to curb malnutrition, yet, children continue to die. ‘Upaasmaar – The taste of hunger’ is a small effort to take these aggrieved and pained voices to all sensitive people of the world and to shine a torch on shining India’s dark corner. Ajay Saklani (SILENT JOURNO) Ph: +91-9871179766, +91-9811664813 Email: i...@silentjourno.com Website: www.silentjourno.com *** Join us in our crusade against inequality, malnutrition and child deaths -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4493] Fwd: Attack by company security guards on activists addressing public meetings in support of Maruti Suzuki workers
raise their voice unitedly against their exploitation. That's why the demands of Maruti workers find resonance accross the region. If the Maruti strike is crushed the owners will become even more aggressive in the factories of Gurgaon and the workers' voice will be even more stifled. – *Citizens Front in Support of Workers Movement of Maruti Suzuki, New Delhi * Sandeep, Phone: 8447011935, Email: sandeep.sam...@gmail.com – Roopesh Kumar*, Bigul Mazdoor Dasta, Delhi* Phone: 9213639072, Email: bi...@rediffmail.com – Ajay Swami, *Delhi Metro Kamgar Union* Phone: 9540436262, Email: ajay...@gmail.com *Website: http://workersresist.net* -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4495] Fwd: Urgent, please sign Demand Maruti Suzuki India and Suzuki Motor Corporation to stop their brutal tactics against agitating workers at Manesar accept their right to
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE IT WIDELY, NOW --- *FWD: Bigul Mazdoor Dasta* sends you the enclosed page from PetitionOnline.com: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/maruti/petition.html Personal comments: I have created an online petition to Demand Maruti Suzuki India and Suzuki Motor Corporation to stop their brutal tactics against agitating workers at Manesar accept their right to organise! -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4498] Can Army Kill, Rape Yet Enjoy Immunity?: Supreme Court to Govt
Date: 16 June 2011 Subject: Can Army Kill, Rape Yet Enjoy Immunity?: Supreme Court to Govt news.outlookindia.com | Can Army Kill, Rape Yet Enjoy Immunity?: SC to Govt http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?725176 Can Army Kill,Rape Yet Enjoy Immunity?: SC to Govt PTI | New Delhi | Jun 16, 2011http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=6/16/2011 Irked by the Centre's diametrically diverse views on army and para military forces' immunity from criminal prosecution in fake encounter killings, the Supreme Court today asked the government to spell out its position on the controversial Armed Forces Special Power Act and other laws. You cannot say that an army man can enter any home commit a rape and say he enjoys immunity as it has been done in discharge of official duties, the apex court remarked. The apex court made the remarks after senior counsel Ashok Bhan, appearing for the Centre, voiced divergent views on two separate encounter killings involving military personnel in JK and Assam. In the 2004 Chattisingpora killing in JK, where seven youth were killed in an alleged fake encounter by Rashtriya Rifles personnel, Bhan sought prosecution of the army men whereas in a similar alleged fake encounter by CRPF men in Assam, the counsel said they enjoyed immunity. How can you adopt diametrically different views? the bench said, to which Bhan admitted it was compulsions of his professional duties. He urged the court to de-link the two issues and deal with them separately. However, the bench said since the issue involved vital questions of law relating to public, the matter would be taken up for a detailed hearing immediately after vacation. Filed On: Jun 16, 2011 18:25 IST , Edited On: Jun 16, 2011 19:46 IST -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4507] Fwd: 1st july - come to express solidarity with struggling contract workers of chhattisgarh.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sudha Bharadwaj advocatesudhabharad...@gmail.com 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. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4509] Fwd: An Appeal to the Parliament to Repeal the Sedition Law
-- Forwarded message -- From: pucl nat pucl...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:04 PM Subject: An Appeal to the Parliament to Repeal the Sedition Law Dear Colleague, A recent Convention organized by People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) and participated in by other Human Rights organizations heard accounts of widespread and systematic misuse of the sedition law across India. All forms of democratic struggles - from farmer’s agitations to citizens protesting against state policies - have been criminalized and prosecuted under sedition laws. Consequently, thousands of ordinary citizens have not only suffered violation of fundamental freedoms and liberties but also forced to undergo major personal, emotional and financial hardships due to imprisonment and in the process of seeking legal remedies. The Convention, therefore, resolved to launch a nation-wide signature campaign to collect at least a million signatures to present it to Parliament demanding the immediate repeal of Sedition Law, i.e., Sec. 124 (A) IPC. Kindly find enclosed herewith “An appeal to the Parliament to repeal the Sedition Law”, for signature campaign. Thanking you, Sincerely yours, (Pushkar Raj) General Secretary -- Pushkar Raj General Secretary, PUCL PUCL National Office: 270-A, Ground Floor, Patpar Ganj, Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi-110091 Ph. 011-22750014, 09810656100 www.pucl.org -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1*http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. An Appeal to the Parliament to Repeal the Sedition Law.doc Description: MS-Word document
[humanrights-movement:4527] UID: we do have doubts, concerns and confusion
and Germany look upon the project as a violation of privacy. Political pundits in these countries have termed it the “national e-surveillance act.” The government has shown sheer urgency in going for the UID project. If the project fails to confront the various questions and doubts being raised, it would hurt democracy. This is a dark joke making its rounds in the political corridors with the idea of investing an identity in every citizen. It is prudent at this stage for the government to have a frank debate on the matter and to put in public the entire structure before it goes into investing this enormous amount of money which could otherwise be used to lift millions out of poverty. (The writer's email is trulyak...@gmail.com) -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4533] The Sonia Sibbal Plan : To jail every citzen for 2 years under the Sarkari Lok Pal Bill
http://indialawyers.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/govts-lokpal-bill-vs-jan-lokpal-bill-comparative-chart/ Rather than gunning for the corrupt and corruption, governments Lokpal seems to be gunning for those who complain against corruption. How will Governments Lokpal work? * Suppose some citizen files a complaint to Lokpal against some corrupt government servant. Before the investigations actually start, the government servant can file a cross complaint against the citizen straight to the special court, without any preliminary enquiry by any agency, that the complaint is false or frivolous. The government will provide free advocate to the government servant to file this case. The citizen will have to defend himself on his own! Then there is stiffer punishment for the complainant than the corrupt government servant. If the Special Court concludes that the complaint is frivolous or false, the citizen faces a minimum of two years of punishment. But if the corruption charges against government servant are proved, there is a minimum of six months of punishment for the corrupt government servant!* Governments Lokpal will have jurisdiction over all NGOs in the country but it will have jurisdiction over less then o.5% of all government employees. Government argued that the Lokpal would get overwhelmed with too many cases if all public servants were brought under its ambit. So, government has restricted its jurisdiction only to 65,000 Group A officers. Also, state employees will not be covered by Lokpal. There are 4 million central government employees and 8 million state government employees. In sharp contrast, all NGOs are covered under governments Lokpal, small or big, whether in state or centre. Even unregistered groups of people in remote villages are covered under the ambit of Lokpal. So, in a remote village, if a group of youngsters detect corruption in panchayat works using RTI, the youngsters can be hauled up by Lokpal but Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Sarpanch, BDO or their corruption. Whereas Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Delhi government officials, it would have jurisdiction over all RWAs in Delhi. All small neighborhood groups who raise donations to do Ramlila or Durga Puja would be under Lokpals scanner. Lokpal could haul up activists from any of the farmers, labour, anti-corruption, land, tribal or any other movements. All the movements whether registered or not, are under the jurisdiction of Lokpal. There are 4.3 lakh registered NGOs. But there would be several million unregistered groups across the country. Lokpal would have jurisdiction over all of them. No one can dispute the fact that corruption in NGOs needs to be addressed. But how can you leave most public servants out of Lokpals purview but bring NGOs upto village level within its purview? http://indialawyers.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/govts-lokpal-bill-vs-jan-lokpal-bill-comparative-chart/ -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4553] Fwd: A defamation case, worth of Rs. 25 Crores have been filed against ‘The Times of India’ and Rohit Prajapati by Vapi Industries Association (VIA) and United Phosphorus L
to adhere to environmental norms, and attempts to create norms, have been viewed with deep hatred by industry and government alike. The first hearing of the case is on 20th July 2011. Probably this is the beginning of the “action” and many more such legal and “other action” may come in coming days from others also. We are determined to fight these legal and other battles which we may have to face in the coming days and for that we need your full support – through legal aid, political campaign, and perhaps financial contribution if we appeal for it. Rohit Prajapati Swati Desai Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti ** ** ___ * * Rohit *P* rajapati *T* rupti *S* hah ****37, Patrakar Colony, Tandalja Road, **** Post-Akota, Vadodara - 390 020 ****GUJARAT, INDIA ****Phone No. *+ 91 - 265 - 2320399 ***** Email No: *rohit.prajap...@gmail.com * -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4561] The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Salwa Judum and the Supreme Court
in Article 14 of the Constitution. Article 21, the right to life clause, was also hit, as the State displayed insensitivity towards the lives of SPOs, placing them in danger without giving them the necessary education and support they needed. There was some clever craftsmanship here, but perhaps also a deeper point, with the Court regarding the SPOs as victims rather than perpetrators. The appointment of SPOs was thus struck down, and the State of Chhattisgarh was asked to “immediately cease and desist from using [them] in any manner or form.” The Union was also barred from funding the project; all arms were to be recalled; the SPOs were to be given appropriate security; and, most important, the State of Chhattisgarh was asked to ensure that no private group engaged in counter-insurgency activities. Finally, the Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate alleged acts of violence. On each of these issues, the Court's view was crystal clear and powerfully articulated. The ratio of the interim order, i.e. the operative part of a legal decision which binds further state action and future cases, is carefully constructed, and holds important implications for the exercise of executive power. There are other legal aspects of the decision that merit reflection. Article 355 of the Constitution, an often forgotten provision, mandates that the Union ensure that every State government acts in accordance with the Constitution. The Court correctly criticised the Union's hands-off policy on SPOs, which involved funding the project but no follow through on how precisely these forces were functioning. Sadly, though, these legal niceties have been nicely ignored in much of the public debate the judgment has triggered. Many commentators appear far too fascinated with the rhetorical flourish with which the decision begins, rather than the true legal character of the order. Admittedly, the widely publicised, ideologically-ridden narrative is bewildering and was unnecessary; it had no bearing on the dispute being debated. But it is also precisely for this reason that we ought not to belabour it. The affinities of individual judges can help us develop some sort of institutional sociology of the Supreme Court. Such a sociological study would be illuminating, but we mustn't confuse it with the legal impact of the case, and fail to appreciate the varying significance of these issues. The anti-neo-liberal lecture in the case binds no one, not even the judges themselves. The ideological position espoused in the preamble may have generated a fierce debate, yet the character of the battle against insurgency operations is more important than it. The ratio of the judgment in *Nandini Sundar* will outlive its rhetoric. Many have criticised the judges as being a little too judgmental. As we unpack the details of the decision, we ought not to be guilty of the same charge. *(The author is at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.)* -. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4571] Don’t let Mumbai blasts investigations fall victim to prejudice and shortcuts
*Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA)* 15th July 2011 *Don’t let Mumbai blasts investigations fall victim to prejudice and shortcuts* JTSA offers its heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved and the injured in the Mumbai serial blasts. We sincerely hope that the perpetrators of this mindless violence will be brought to justice swiftly. There are early indicators though that this investigation will be marred by prejudiced investigating agencies. There are news items appearing in various media outlets which cite the interrogation report of Md. Salman, a supposed operative of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) to establish that Mumbai was on IM’s sights. Already we see that, though the Home Ministry has restrained from holding any group culpable, the investigation is being gently pushed in one direction. But even if one leaves aside for a moment the criticism that investigators react in stereotypical ways, their compass needle invariably pointing towards Azamgarh, there are serious issues arising out of this reliance on Salman’s interrogation report for getting to the bottom of the Mumbai serial blasts conspiracy. Recall that Md. Salman, arrested by the Uttar Pradesh ATS from Siddharthnagar on 6 March 2010, was acquitted in the 2008 Delhi blasts earlier this year. This acquittal was at the point of charge, even before the trial proper had begun—which points to the flimsiness of the prosecution’s case against him. The prosecution had claimed that Salman was a key member of the IM on the basis of what the recoveries they claimed they had made at the time of his arrest. These were notably: a) A *Fake Passport*: N*o passport* was ever produced in the court.—only a photocopy with a false name which gave his age as 27 years was presented. b) *A health card* from Saudi Arab, which again listed his age as 27 years. Acquitting him, the Additional Sessions Judge stated that if Salman had been arrested in possession of a fake Nepali passport and a health card from Dubai, these were charges that should be dealt with separately. “How does that (this evidence) make Salman a conspirator in these cases?” she had asked the prosecution. Not surprisingly, *the police did not book him under the relevant charges at the time of his arrests, raising the suspicion that these seizures were never made in the first place, but planted by the police later in order to mislead the courts about Salman’s age.*Salman’s high school certificate clearly shows that he was a minor at the time of the Delhi blasts and, even if accused, ought to have been tried under the Juvenile Justice Act. In an instance, where the courts have thrown out the prosecution’s ‘evidence’ and where there has been such grave suspicion of fabrication of evidence, how credible can the interrogation reports of Salman be? Are we going to go down the same convenient route of usual suspects, easy arrests, and quick confessions yet again? * * Sd/ Manisha Sethi, Sanghamitra Misra, Ahmed Sohaib, Adil Mehdi, Tanweer Fazal, Ghazi Shahnawaz, Arshad Alam, Farah Farooqi, Anwar Alam, MS Bhatt, Azra Razak, Ambarien Al Qadar, Haris Haq, -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4578] Fwd: POSCO: lathi charge in Nuagaon
-- Forwarded message -- From: Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:02 PM S -- Forwarded message -- From: Shankar Gopalakrishnan shankargo...@myfastmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM Subject: POSCO: lathi charge in Nuagaon Dear all, Today eight platoons of police tried to enter the forests around Nuagaon to fell more trees and were met with strong protests by the people of Nuagaon, particularly women. The entirely male police force - without any women police - then lathi charged the women. Many sustained injuries in the process and one woman was seriously injured; she has now been hospitalised. Following the lathi charge the entire village mobilised to support for the protest and the police were forced to retreat. They left after promising the people that they will not come again. When asked what their demand is, the people protesting demanded that the police and administration should get out of their village and not come back again. The handful of pro POSCO UAC leaders in the village remained silent during these events. Thanks Shankar ___ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4579] Fwd: Statement for Endorsement about Police Lathicharge on Anti-POSCO Protesters Odisha
-- Forwarded message -- From: Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:25 PM *(P**ease Send your Endorsements to asit1...@gmail.com and circulate this statement widely) * * * *JOINT STATEMENT CONDEMNING ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OF NUAGAON** * *(Anti-POSCO Struggle Area Odisha)* Today eight platoons of police attacked and lathi charged peaceful protesters in the village of Nuagaon, Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha. The protesters, despite being mainly women, were attacked by an entirely male police force, resulting in injuries to several and serious injuries to one woman, who has now been hospitalised. The protesters were seeking to protect their forests and trees from being cleared by the police as part of the government's land grab for the POSCO project. After the lathi charge the entire village joined the protest, eventually driving the police back and forcing them to retreat. We strongly condemn this brutal attack on a peaceful protest by people seeking to protect their legal and democratic rights. This attack disproves the Odisha government's brazenly false claims that no force is being used to take land for POSCO. Nuagaon, one must remember, is also one of the villages where the government claimed that land takeover is proceeding peacefully - a result not of consent by the people but of the overwhelming threat of force from the government. Today, when people have actually shown their will, the government has shown its true intent. One must remember that the people of Nuagaon, like all those affected by the POSCO project, have legal rights to their forest and also enjoy the legal power to protect these forests when they wish. This was upheld by three different committees of the Environment Ministry, which went on to, in an act of brazen illegality, clear the takeover of land anyway. Both the Odisha government and the Centre are engaged in a gross violation of law, a resource grab of land and forests that belong to the people for a private multinational company. This attack further comes at a time when the Odisha High Court is hearing, on a daily basis, the petition filed by the villagers against this illegal land grab. We demand: · An immediate halt to all police operations in the proposed project area and the withdrawal of the police from the area; · The cancellation of the illegal forest and environmental clearances granted to the POSCO project; · The implementation of the Forest Rights Act and all other pro people laws in the area; · Prosecution and punishment of the officials and police responsible for the atrocities and violations of law in the area; · A cancellation of the POSCO project and an end to the six year long attack on the people of the area for the purposes of this project. Sincerely Socialist Front Dr. Sunilum (Kishan Sangarsh Samity M.P.), INSAF Shankar Gopal Krishnan Asit Das (POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Delhi) Anivar Aravind (Moving Republic) Orissa Concerns.org ___ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4583] Petition for release of 2011 Jonathan Mann Global health award for health and human rights
*Dear all Physician for Human Rights is organizing a global day of action tomorrow(19 july 2011)to advocate for the release of the 2011 awardee of the Jonathan Mann Global health award for health and human rights. Sign the petition for the release of Arash Alaei* http://iranfreethedocs.org/ PL SHARE WIDELY Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4589] Indian farmers protest massive steel plant:Faiza Khan in Al Jazeera
knows where they went. -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4593] Fwd: NHRC shoots Notice to Orissa Govt on Police Atrocities on Anti Posco villagers
-- Forwarded message -- From: Section Office M-1 NHRC so1.n...@nic.in Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM Subject: Case No. 1197/18/23/2011/OC *NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION* *(LAW DIVISION)* *FARIDKOT HOUSE* *COPERNICUS MARG, NEW DELHI – 110001* *Tel No. : 011-23385368* * Fax No.: 011-23386521 * *Telegraphic Add.: HUMANRIGHTS”* * Home page : **http://nhrc.nic.in/* http://nhrc.nic.in/ *Case No. 1197/18/23/2011/OC* *NOTICE* To, THE CHIEF SECRETARY GOVT.OF ORISSA, BHUBANESWAR WHEREAS the complaint/intimation dated 10-06-2011 received from ANIVAR ARAVIND in respect of PEOPLE OF JAGATSINGHPUR was placed before the Commission on 05-07-2011. AND WHEREAS upon perusing the complaint the Commission has passed the following order. The Commission has also received following complaints alleging police action against the protesters in Govindpur and Dhinkia villages of Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa, who were protesting against the forceful land acquisition by the Govt. of Orissa for the proposed POSCO Project. The Commission has already taken cognizance of the matter in case No. 1126/18/23/2011 and vide its proceedings dated 28.6.2011 has called for a detailed report from the Chief Secretary and DGP, Orissa. Since the Commission has already taken cognizance of the matter, all these cases be linked with case No. 1126/18/23/2011 and a copy each of the complaints in these cases be sent to the Chief Secretary and DGP, Orissa. Put up alongwith the main file. NOW THEREFORE TAKE NOTICE that you are required to submit the requisite information/Report within 4 weeks from the date of receipt of this notice. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that in default the Commission may proceed to take such action as it deems proper. Given under my hand and seal of the Commission, this the day of 12 July 2011. (BY ORDER) ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (LAW) Encl : Copy of the complaint. Note :- 1. The information /report shall be furnished only by the authority which is called upon to do so. 2. Please quote the Case No. referred above in all future correspondence / reports. CC to: *The Home Secretary* *GOVT OF ORISSA, BHUBANESHWAR* *ANIVAR ARAVIND* *anivar.arav...@gmail.com* anivar.arav...@gmail.com *ORISSA, ORISSA* ___ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4600] Now, global health movement calls for Jeyakumar’s release
By Aliran, on 21 July 2011 [Translate] http://aliran.com/6104.html email print http://aliran.com/6104.html Digg Digg http://www.diggdigg2u.com/ It’s not just doctors in Malaysia who are clamouring for Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj’s immediate release. Now the global *People’s Health Movement* has added its voice to the demand. [image: people's health movement]http://aliran.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/peoples-health-movement-logo.png To: Prime Minister YAB Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Home Minister YB Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein IGP Tan Sri Ismail Omar 20 July 2011 Dear Honourable Ministers *Arrest and detention of Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj* The People’s Health Movement, a global network bringing together grassroots activists, civil society organisations, academics and health workers from around the world, strongly condemns the arrest and detention of Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj and five others under the Emergency Ordinance. We have heard that due to ill health, Dr Kumar has been moved to hospital. Dr Kumar, who has been involved with People’s Health Movement since our inception, is well respected for his contributions to public health and social justice. Since completing medical school, Dr Kumar has spent significant time working in some of the most remote rural areas, working tirelessly to bring services to the poor and marginalised and to address the structural and social determinants of health. He has also worked on a number of national initiatives to improve equitable access of health services to the poor. Given Dr Kumar’s standing in the community and his professionalism and commitment in serving and bringing health services to all people of Malaysia, we feel it imperative that the authorities expedite his release, together with the other five people who remain in detention. Furthermore, as co-health-workers, we are deeply concerned about further adverse effect the arrest and detention will have on Dr Kumar’s health. Yours sincerely Bridget Lloyd On behalf of the People’s Health Movement Steering Council Facsimile to: 1. YAB Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister, Malaysia Fax: +60 3 3444 2. YB Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein Menteri Kementerian Dalam Negeri – (Home Minister) Fax: +60 3 88891613/+60 3 88891610 3. Tan Sri Ismail Omar Ketua Polis Negara (IGP) Fax: +60 3 22725613 *The Peope’s Health Movement has bases in more than 70 countries (country circles). In 2000, 1453 participants from 92 countries attended an assembly in Bangladesh which endorsed the global People’s Charter for Health. More information at http://www.phmovement.org/en* Related posts: -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4603] India's human rights record makes a farce of its democracy | Guardian
. -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4605] Japan Tsunami Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
*Leuren Moret* is a lobbyist on issues of radiation and public health, specifically advocating against the use of depleted uraniumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium ammunition.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-0[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-Harding-1 She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-2[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-3. She was appointed a citizen member of the City of Berkeley Community Environmental Advisory Commission on September 6, 2001 [5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-4 and served until her termination [6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-5 on January 4, 2006. Moret describes herself as a whistleblower on nuclear weapon research and states that her 2000 visit to the Peace Museums at Hiroshimahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima and Nagasaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki changed her life. Her efforts are focused on educating people about the negative impact of radiation on health and advocates against testing of nuclear weapons. The Tehran Times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Times has described her efforts as a crusade.[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret#cite_note-6 Moret declared on March 21, 2011 that the “Japan Earthquake and “accidents”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami that occurred March 11, 2011, were deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare. She claimed further that the attack was carried out using HAARPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAARP technology by the Central Intelligence Agencyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency, the United States Department of Energyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy, and British Petroleum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Petroleum on behalf of London Banking interests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE3uLOsVBfs -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4611] This is not help- Dr Sanjay Nagral
This is not help While people meant well when they piled the injured in a truck after the recent bomb blasts, it points to the sorry state of emergency aid in our country, says Dr Sanjay Nagral There were many images of the aftermath of the July 13 Mumbai bombings. But one photograph stood out for a symbolism independent of the bigger tragedy. It was a picture of the injured from the Zaveri Bazaar blast site piled up on each other in a truck. While it was a well-meaning act by those who only wanted to help, it was a shocking comment on the poor infrastructure of our medical disaster management system. As one involved in treating victims of the 1992 riots, and the 1993 and 2006 blasts, I can’t help pointing out how little has changed on this front over the last two decades. Victims are still brought to hospitals in makeshift vehicles without any first-aid and transport protocol. It’s a tragedy within a tragedy. It was established decades back that emergency medical measures in the first few minutes after a grievous injury make a difference between life and death. The concept of a ‘golden hour’ in trauma care evolved on this understanding. Most countries have medical transport systems manned by trained paramedics who deliver treatment on the way to a hospital. Treatment in this golden hour comprises maintaining breathing, administering intravenous fluids and stopping bleeding. Little has changed since the 1992 riots; victims are still transported to hospitals without any first-aid and transport protocol These measures need basic training and equipment and not costly, sophisticated technology. Transport protocols also prevent worsening of injury by supporting the spine and fractured limbs. Even in large metros, all this starts only if you reach a reasonably equipped hospital. On-the-spot medical help is non-existent and ambulances are white coloured vehicles with sirens, nothing more. Mumbai has only a handful of ambulances capable of offering resuscitation. There is no protocol as to where a victim should to be taken to. These decisions are made by passers-by or police. Considerations such as affordability and familiarity play a bigger than proximity and capability of the medical facility. Thus, an opportunity to deliver life-saving treatment is lost. In mass casualties, a system called ‘triage’, in which the injured are prioritised based on severity of injury, is recommended. Any healthcare worker involved in treating trauma victims will admit that we are far from implementing these strategies on the spot, during transport or in hospital casualties. Sanjay Nagral is a consultant surgeon in the Surgical Gastroenterology dept at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre Ironically, healthcare has grown hugely in technology and specialisation in the last decade in urban Indiahttp://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4. In a bizarre dichotomy, you can get a liver transplant in Mumbai, but die of lack of basic care half-an-hour away bleeding on a road. The reason can’t be lack of awareness of policymakers, but insensitivity and bias. It reflects the low priority given to organised public health. While cardiology and joint replacements attract medical tourism, trauma care does not. The medical profession shares complicity too. In our infatuation with speciality medicine we have sidelined emergency medicine. And it is not only during mass casualties that the system shows utter disregard for proper emergency care. We see it every day. Thousands of victims of road accidents don’t get emergency care they deserve on the spot. Last year, Bombay High Court directed the state to provide medical care at stations to those injured in train accidents. Victims lie bleeding for hours for want of a stretcher or an ambulance. If the system is not in place for everyday accidents, it won’t work during an emergency. In the debate on the blasts, there was plenty written about prevention through gathering ‘intelligence’. In the context of modern terror, this is a long term goal. But the treatment of the injured is a matter of well equipped ambulances, trained personnel and proper linkages with existing hospitals. None of these require large money or technology. What’s required is political will to acknowledge the issue and act on it. While individual acts of commitment by people present at disaster sites and doctors are laudable, they are poor substitutes for organised, effective emergency care. Let there be no picture of injured being carried in a truck to a hospital when Mumbai faces a disaster again. http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/82/2011072420110724024227879db3f99d9/This-is-not-help.html -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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
[humanrights-movement:4616] FILM ON Sudhir Dhawale -
Dear all Following is film made by prasad pullarwar and freinds ,students in free binayak sen campaign ON SUDHIR DHAWALE , do sharE widely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSvu79Wcjcs in solidarity kamayani -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4625] FREE VIKRAM BUDDHI NOW- PL SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY
Dear all Vikram Buddhi, was released on May 06, 2011 after serving his 57 months imprisonment. On his release he was picked by immigration authorities and now he is held at Rolling Plains Regional Jail and Detention Center at Haskell, Texas. http://www.change.org/petitions/free-vikram-buddhi-now- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4629] The UID Aadhaar Project Will Make Constitution Of India A Dead Document
://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-india-focus-on-homeland-security/2011/07/19/gIQAQ56HOI_story.html 4. Gopal Krishna; “ *NIAI Bill, Wikileaks, World Bank L-1 Identities Solution *”; www.countercurrents.org , January 22, 2011. 5. Vombatkere, S.G., “ *Deepening India-US Strategic Ties - Evidences and Repercussions *”, Mainstream, New Delhi, Vol XLVIII No 40, September 25, 2010, p.13-15. *Notes * Note 1 . The basis for selecting Mr.Nandan Nilekani for appointment as UIDAI Chairperson with cabinet rank is arbitrary and not beyond question. No doubt the UIDAI Chairperson should possess experience in systems engineering but he/she should also have experience in public administration since the UID project deals with government systems and the public, involving legal and constitutional issues. Transparent selection of an individual from a panel of eligible persons would have constituted due process of democratic governance. Avoidance of due process speaks poorly of governance and raises doubts about hidden agendas. Note 2 . Natgrid c/o Ministry of Home Affairs, will ensure that India has a world-class integrated national security database that can be accessed by the security agencies as required. This national security database is inter-operable with other relevant databases, so that all terror threats can be detected and acted upon in a timely manner. This ambitious project will be implemented without infringing upon the privacy of individuals whose details -- banking, insurance, immigration, income tax, telephone and internet usage -- will be on Natgrid. The data collected will also have to be safeguarded from hackers. The goal of Natgrid will be to achieve quick, seamless and secure access to desired information for intelligence/enforcement agencies in India. http://www.skoch.in/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=1682 . ** S.G.Vombatkere retired as major general after 35 years in the Indian military. He is engaged in voluntary social work, and is member of the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). As Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Iowa, USA, he coordinates and lectures a course on Science, Technology and Sustainable Development for under-graduate students from USA and Canada. He holds a master of engineering degree in structural engineering from the University of Poona and a PhD in civil structural dynamics from I.I.T, Madras. E-mail: sg9k...@live.com ___ core-group mailing list core-gr...@lists.nouid.in http://lists.nouid.in/listinfo.cgi/core-group-nouid.in To ensure your mail reaches the recipients without delay please: - Post only in the To: or Cc: field to a maximum of 3 addresses - Do not copy to the BCC field Group Moderators -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4636] Fwd: No marriage registrations without Aadhaar!
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-marriage-registrations-without-aadhaar/171249-60-121.html No marriage registrations without Aadhaar! Nagaraju Koppula The New Indian Express HYDERABAD: Aadhaar card numbers are likely to be mandatory not only for getting LPG gas connections, ration from fair price shops but also for registration of marriages, land and vehicle registrations and bank transactions. The state government is mulling this to persuade those who have not registered for the Unique Identification cards. 90 per cent of the people in Hyderabad have registered their names for the Aadhar cards. The other 10 per cent is mainly from the IT sector, state and central government departments. “100 per cent registration is likely to be completed in the state capital by September. Once that happens, Aadhar card numbers will be made a must for citizens,” said director of civil supplies KRBHN Chakravarthy. Aadhaar in-charge and assistant supply officer MS Seshagiri Rao said that the Aadhaar card number would be mandatory for health checkups in public and private hospitals. It will also be used in police stations and courts to clear cases as soon as possible. Aadhaar cards are intended to ensure efficient access to national and state schemes. He said that of the total population of 42 lakh (as per 2011 census) in Hyderabad, 37 lakh have registered for the cards. 12 lakh people have received them and rest are awaiting cards. Chakravarthy also said the government is working on correcting wrong details in cards and will come up with a software for it. However some city residents are not happy with the management of the UID card distribution. MD Alim, a resident of Rasoolpura said,”I registered my name for the Aadhaar card number in February but I have not got it yet. Moreover, the fair price shops in the city are asking me the Aadhaar number or the receipt of the registration when I go to buy ration. Why do they ask this even before the completion of the project?” he asked. � ___ core-group mailing list core-gr...@lists.nouid.in http://lists.nouid.in/listinfo.cgi/core-group-nouid.in To ensure your mail reaches the recipients without delay please: - Post only in the To: or Cc: field to a maximum of 3 addresses - Do not copy to the BCC field Group Moderators -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4637] Kashmir's 'half-widows in precarious state' - Al Jazeera
a peaceful solution. The disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, a major source of tension that has fuelled two of three wars fought by the two neighbours since 1947, will continue to be discussed with a view to finding a peaceful solution, Krishna said. Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir. *Kashmir: the forgotten conflict – a special series on the dispute in Kashmir launches on www.aljazeera.com on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.* -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4638] Unjustified detention prompts Kumar to launch hunger strike
july 29, 2011 *FMT LETTER* From P Ramakrishnan, via e-mail Aliran is gravely concerned to hear that MP Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, one of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia 6 who have been unjustly and unjustifiably held in detention under the Emergency Ordinance, has decided to go on hunger strike. PSM Central Committee member and Kumar’s wife Rani Rasiah, together with party colleagues, announcing today that the detained MP has started a hunger strike We know Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, a long-standing and outstanding Aliran member, well enough to know that he does NOT engage in such acts for theatrical effect. Rather, given his steadfast and tenacious character in facing threats and intimidation from the police before, there is every reason to expect that Jeyakumar Devaraj is conducting his hunger strike with complete seriousness. At the same time, knowing he has a poor heart condition that has required treatment and hospitalisation during the period of his detention, we can only be alarmed at the potential damage to his health that this action may bring about. We understand his frustration and impatience with the endless and pointless attempts by his police interrogators to extract confessions of guilt where none exists except in the imagination of the Special Branch officers and the political masters whom they serve, in particular Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and Minister of Home Affairs Hishammuddin Hussein. Perhaps our politicians have become so used to believing that all politics is about perceptions and images that can be moulded by lies, distortions and propaganda that they cannot anymore recognise that there can be politics of the highest moral level, such as that exhibited by Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj and his fellow detainees from PSM. Politicians like Najib and Hishammuddin and the Inspector-General of Police have been issuing irrelevant and self-serving warnings about how Bersih 2.0 was trying to import the Arab Spring into Malaysia. Let them, who try to hoodwink the Malaysian public and frighten others with images of chaos, remember how the uprising in Tunisia began with the needless self-immolation of one protester. We in Aliran, together with other concerned citizens, non-partisan but admiring and supportive of the courageous stance of Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj and the other members of the PSM 6, demand their immediate release from an unjust imprisonment. Free Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj! Release the PSM 6 unconditionally! Now! *The writer is president of Aliran* * * * http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/07/29/unjustified-detention-prompts-kumar-to-launch-hunger-strike/ * -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4643] Peoples’ Health Movement in India: Looking Back at Dalli Rajahara - Achievements and Problems at Sanhati
Rajahara earlier. The services of the hospital of Bhilai Steel Plant was also inadequate. The unexpected popularity of the workers’ hospital forced the goverment to establish one more hospital in Rajahara and seven primary health centers in Donti Lohara assembly constituency. This compelled the steel plant to construct a hospital with over 100 beds. Apart from this, when the movement launched its struggle against superstitions and harmful customs, the struggle against feudal values also aligned with it. In the struggle against the exploitation of multinationals in the pharmaceutical industry, the anti-imperialist struggle also merged with it. *Some problems of Dalli Rajahara health movement* (a) In the primary stage, people faced problem of language and system for articulating their health problems were inadequate. By undertaking different experiments, examining them, learning from the mistakes, some of these problems were overcome. Generally the people who prepared health campaign materials and doctors, although well-wishers of the masses, were detached from them, preparing these campaign materials while staying in big towns and cities, or worse, following foreign health institutions. They did not have any parameter to judge their efforts to make this material comprehensible to the masses. Rajahara health movement could surmount this obstacle only by knowing the ‘pulse of the people’. (b) Shaheed Hospita lis a workers’ hospital. It is run mainly by the workers. When workers turn managers then some problems also surface. Sometimes the behaviour of these managing workers with the salaried staff of the hospital is exactly similar to what they face at their respective workplaces from the managers. Only an incessant political and ideological struggle can fight this tendency. (c) All salaried staff of the hospital are from worker-peasant families. While selecting them, their faith in the ideals of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha is gauged. Despite this, some of them reflect the mentality of merely a paid staff of any hospital. Resolution of this problem is possible through regular discussion around politics of health, issues of general political nature and contemporary developments. This can also be tackled through participation in organisational work, apart from healthcare work. (d) In the running of the hospital, a contradiction lingers on regarding lack of democracy and centralisation. The decision making committee consists of doctors and other health workers, where are all equally capable. Here tendencies like following individual whims, not caring about operationalising directives, have been observed. In contrast to this tendency, sometimes frustrating levels of over-centralisation is also seen. Despite all this, this health movement has withstood all the tests of an experimental system of democratic centralism. (e) Another gigantic problem was a lack of doctors-intellectuals. Chhattisgarh has not been able to give this movement idealist doctors. This health movement could not address this lacuna. It is only with the development of a revolutionary student-youth movement can this problem be fully solved. On 28th September 1991, Shankar Guha Niyogi was martyred during Bhilai workers movement. The organisation has been conducting ideological struggle on questions like class struggle versus class collaboration, democracy versus centralism, after that. While a leader of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha and some doctors of Shaheed Hospital were expelled, some have left the hospital frustrated. The health programme was also affected by the breaking up of organisation. The hospital grew in size but its ideals were defeated. New doctors came, not fired by any idealist thinking, but just to spend some time before joining a government job or availing postgraduate admission. There is no sense of responsibility towards reasoned medical care among them. Some even got involved in corrupt practices. Old doctors and health workers also failed in carrying out ideological battles alongside treating their patients. It can be said, in lieu of a conclusion, that the Chhattisgarh workers’ health movement has not lost, neither has it been decimated. Following the initiative of the Shaheed Hospital, Belud Shramjeevi Hospital, Chengayil Shramik-Krishak Maitri Swasthya Kendra and Shramjeevi Swasthya Udyog, Kamarhati Jasewa Clinic and Dr. Bhaskar Rao Janswasthya Committee, Sarvedier Suderban Shramjeevi Hospital are working in West Bengal. But they have not had the opportunity, like the Shaheed Hospital, to work as part of a broader social movement. Despite all the limitations, they are attempting new experiments involving the ideals and experiences of Shaheed Hospital. They are trying to convey the message of Shaheed Hospital in the adjoining states of Tripura, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh by preparing activists of the mass organisation as health workers. -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype
[humanrights-movement:4644] Who said doctors can’t be ethical and successful?
Who said doctors can’t be ethical and successful? When doctors enrolled themselves in the profession, they are bound to observe certain professional ethics and decorum. That is not for sainthood but for the upkeep of a certain code of professional conduct which was practised by our seniors. That gave us the social recognition and dignity we earned collectively. Now there is value erosion, everybody admits. Breach of medical ethics is seen not as grave, restrained and punished timely, but is being overlooked and condoned easily as an “inevitable evil of the prevailing conditions.” The strength of the majority is not used to correct the wrongdoing of a minority, but to justify its misdeeds and approval by the whole body as a “survival strategy.” Professional associations are also resorting to strikes to safeguard their business interest and protection from the “public” whom they are supposed to serve. The old fashioned and the not-so-smart ethically practising doctors are becoming a minority. Even a laughing stock! No wonder, the same society that treated us once as “god” is now treating us as “dogs” as lamented by Dr. Manorama Gadde (Open Page, The Hindu, July 17, 2011 http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article2233675.ece). Who is at fault? Rather than taking it to the “media” accused of using “doctors as punching bags,” it is high time for introspection. What happens, for example, if we refuse to pay 25 per cent of the fees to the local RMPs to get referral cases? My firm belief is that if a doctor is ethical, skilled and very good in his/her profession, people flock to that doctor. Client satisfaction is the best advertisement for a doctor or hospital. People may be unlettered, but their wisdom can differentiate the bad from the good doctor. It is only the mediocre and below average who need advertisement props. I have seen very poor patients travel from far off tribal areas and districts and across State borders to Ganiari near Bilaspur city to receive the good services of a group of committed specialist doctors who passed out of the AIIMS, Delhi. These doctors do not even put up a decent nameboard. I started paediatric practice in a 150-bed mission hospital in a rural area where not more than five or six patients came a day. Within a few months, the number grew up to almost 90, and it became unmanageable for me as a specialist to give quality time and attention to my patients. Finally, I was compelled to restrict my outpatient tokens. Many local practitioners referred patients to me, instead of to the district headquarters hospital, because they knew I did not pass any remark on the missed diagnosis or the not-so-correct case management by the referring doctor. Moreover, would get a return referral slip, in a sealed cover, on what the diagnosis turned out to be upon investigation and the lines of management that I followed. *In India, no qualified doctor willing to practise ethically is going to starve. There is enough revenue generation from consultancy for everybody’s need, but may be not enough to everybody’s greed.* The “greed” is often perceived and firmly believed as “need” when you actually embark upon certain ambitions of life for the sake of survival in cut-throat competition. One more building block, one more operation theatre, a CT scan machine and similar sorts, for which banks are ready to advance loans fast but also quick to retract when EMIs are delayed. The stress is passed on to the middle class patients who might not have actually needed it at all. Why join that rat race? *By Dr. K.R. Antony* *(The writer is a former Health Nutrition Specialist for UNICEF and former Director, State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh. His email id is kranton...@gmail.comhttp://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/kranton...@gmail.com )* http://dendrytes.com/Blog/archives/646 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights
[humanrights-movement:4647] Endorse against South Central Railway for arresting and fining the members of Hijra Comminity
Please endorse against South Central Railway for arresting and fining the members of Hijra community *PL** SEND YOUR ENORSEMENTS BY AUGUST 3RD TO - rituparna.bo...@gmail.com* We, the undersigned concerned groups and citizens, strongly condemn the recent actions of South Central Railway officials in arresting and fining of members of the hijra community on its railway network. We additionally protest their discriminatory, prejudiced and defamatory language in speaking of the hijra community in their subsequent press release. On July 12, 2011, South Central Railway (SCR) reported (via Press Release No. 115http://tinyurl.com/3hva9ro), that in a series of concentrated, ’special drives’, 212 hijras and transgender people were arrested and prosecuted, and that an amount of Rs. 34,150 was collected in fines from them, with 11 hijras being sent to prison. The statement from the South Central Railway clearly uses the language of ‘eradication of the hijra menace’ making it apparent that these special drives” are not actions to maintain law and order but to target and defame a community in particular. The South Central Railway has not only engaged in this persecution but has also declared this action with pride! These actions seem to be completely out of sync with some recent positive developments and make us wonder if Indian public servants are completely oblivious of the 2009 decision of the Delhi High Court which read down Section 377 of the IPC! In addition, India has also been at the forefront, globally, as far as the recognition of genders other than male and female, including the Hijra identity. Recent announcements by different state bodies, such as the National Election Commission explicitly recognise the existence of 'other' genders. Even the application for a visa to visit India now offers three categories for gender. These are some progressive steps taken by the State to begin addressing the historical marginalization of other genders and their/our exclusion from jobs, public services and access to basic rights. It must be remembered that under colonial rule, there was a targeted persecution of the Hijra community under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 and only recently some steps like the ones mentioned above have been taken by the State to undo the effects of this history. Against this background, the actions of the SCR militate against these recognitions which deserve to be celebrated. In persecuting a particular community as opposed to maintaining law and order within their constituency in a just and neutral manner, the actions of the South Central Railways is unacceptable. It is imperative that officers of the state are not prejudiced by existing social stigma and discrimination and perform their duties with utmost integrity and protect the interests of marginalized sections of society at all costs. *We demand:* ·That those 11 Hijras who have been imprisoned be released at the earliest and this information be made public. ·That South Central Railways officials issue an immediate public apology for their actions and the defamation of an entire community, especially the language used in the press release. ·That the officials responsible for ordering this ‘special drive’ are subject to a departmental enquiry, and that the fines collected from the Hijra community are returned. ·That the South Central Railway initiate sensitization programs of gender and sexuality that will acquaint them with realities beyond their own, and ·That they publicly commit to protect and encourage a dignified living for Hijra communities, and provide alternative livelihoods within its railways network. Signed: Deepti Sharma Gautam Bhan Sumit Baudh, New Delhi L Ramakrishnan, Chennai Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore Rituparna Borah, New delhi Shalini Krishan Elakshi Kumar Ponni Arasu, Chennai Suchi Kushwah, New Delhi Shalini Sharma, Researcher, London Pramada Menon, New Delhi Charan Singh Sophia Murphy, New Delhi Adhikaar, New Delhi Aditya Bondyopadhyay, New Delhi Partners for Law in Development, New Delhi Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Mumbai Meena Seshu, Sangram -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http
[humanrights-movement:4652] Seven workers exposed to radiation at Kakrapar- todays dna
Seven workers exposed to radiation at Kakrapar Incident took place 2 months back but it came to light only after workers submitted memorandum to Tapi collector Rishi Banerji l Surat In an incident that could be shocking, seven persons working at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station near here were exposed to high level radiation but officials allegedly tried to cover it up. Though the incident took place two months back, it came to light only when the affected workers submitted a memorandum to Tapi district collector on Saturday. In the memorandum, they have sought action against those responsible for the mishap. On the day of the mishap, the seven persons were doing painting work at the SFTD (Spent Fuel Transfer Duct) tunnel of Kakrapar Atomic Power Station, located near Vyara in Tapi district. Station officials had asked them to finish the painting work before 1:00 pm on that day. While the seven were working inside the SFTD tunnel, the refuelling operator in the control room accidentally discharged a pair of spent fuel bundles into the tunnel. This made the workers inside the tunnel come in contact with high radiation. Four of the workers were exposed to more than 5000 MR radiation, while three others to less than 5000 MR. But officials neither provided any treatment to the workers nor took any action against the operator. The Direct Radiation Dosimeter, which was given to us as a safety device against radiation, stopped functioning when the spent fuel bundles were released into the tunnel. This made us realise that we had come in contact with high radiation levels. After that incident, we have been offered neither any work nor any compensation by the authorities, Dilesh Chaudhry, one of the workers, said. The operator was not aware that the seven persons were working inside the tunnel. This is totally a human error and we are trying to help all the seven workers, said JP Dutta, director of atomic power station at Kakrapar. Power plant has become a curse for Kheda village, -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4656] FYI - Debate on Mining and its Ecological, Social and Political Impact
-- Forwarded message -- From: vand...@vandanashiva.com vand...@vandanashiva.com Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:22 PM Dear Friends, Dr. Vandana Shiva was invited by CNBC on Karan Thapar's show. They had a debate on Mining and its ecological, social and political impact. The panelist included Justice Santosh Hegde, Lokayukta, Karnataka, Mr. Samar Halarnkar, Editor at Large,Hindustan Times and Dr. Vandana Shiva, Founder Director, Navdanya. The debate covered the following issues - Does mining need more regulation or less regulation? Have deregulation of mining increased corruption? Will the corruption associated with mining be addressed by one or two officials or by respecting the rights of people and the laws such as PESA and the Forest Rights Act? These issues become vital in the context of the Mining Bill coming up in the Parliament. Please watch the debate. Telecast timing - August 1, 2011 at 10.30 pm August 2, 2011 at 4.30 pm Warm regards, Priya ___ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4663] Land acquisition in Punjab: Lathi-charge killed one, hundreds arrested
Land acquisition in Punjab: Lathi-charge killed one, hundreds arrested By Newzfirst Correspondent8/3/11 Emailhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/land-acquisition-in-punjab:-lathi-charge-killed-one-hundreds-arrested?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome Printhttp://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/land-acquisition-in-punjab:-lathi-charge-killed-one-hundreds-arrested?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome[image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend] http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/[image: Bookmark and Share]http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250username=newzfirst GOVINDPUR - One farmer was killed and several were injured as police resorted to indiscriminate lathi-charge in Barnala-Bhikhi road leading to Govindpur. In order to prevent the workers of 17 farmer-labour unions marching towards Govindpur, to protest against forcible acquisition of their fertile lands, the police resorted to brutal repression. In an overnight swoop, hundreds of activists were taken in custody throughout Malwas belt. The police put up barricades, on all roads leading to Mansa District and had deployed armed commandoes there. Speaking to newzfirst, NK Jeet of Lok Morcha Punjab, “the police resorted to brutal lathi-charge at village Dunneke on Barnala-Bhikhi Road. One farmer, whose name is reported to be Narinjan Singh of village Hamidi has been killed in this lathi-charge, while a large number of protestors have been injured. The police smashed all the vehicles on which the protestors were traveling.” “In another barricade near Maur Mandi in Bathinda District, police resorted to lathi-charge and firing, injuring scores of people. In village Daske, Sangrur District, protestors were successful in over-running the police barricade and marching ahead. There is curfew like situation in village Govindpur.” he added. According to NK Jeet, “It is nothing but brutal repression on farmers agri laborers who are fighting for their rights by protesting forcible land acquisitions. Today’s events have shown that the SAD-BJP Govt of Punjab can go to any extent to safeguard the interests of Malik Bhagos. It can kill, maim, incarcerate, uproot any one to please industrialists and propertied people, MNCs and their Indian agents. In the process it can violate with impunity its own declarations and promises.” “We will not stop our struggle for Justice; until we repossess the forcibly acquired land and until the victim farmers get the justice” he added. Farmers across the state of Punjab are protesting the forcible acquisition of 166 acres of fertile and irrigated land by the administration to establish a thermal power plant, which will also lead to displacement of about 100 families. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4673] Online petition- stop criminalization of abortions in Poland
Dear Freinds , In Poland *lawmakers are working on draft legislation to ban abortions altogether, even for women who were raped, or carrying deformed foetuses or face health risks. * Please do sign the online petition and share widely and support campaign f our friends in poland . http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-criminalization-of-abortion The petition goes to the PM and ASTRA - Central and Eastern Europe Women's Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights)- You can also support ASTRA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/ASTRA-Network/113128578712592 - Your Excellency, I write to express my concern that the draft text for the new bill on abortion: The law on changing the Law on family planning, protection of the human fetus and conditions for legal abortion - to be discussed by the Parliament's Committee by the 1st of September - contains provisions that will result in violations of women's sexual and reproductive rights and health. The international human rights standard is to liberalize abortion laws to make it safe and accessible to women and thereby lessen maternal mortality related to unsafe abortion. The language used in the draft of the new bill regarding the right to life does not correspond to that used in international and European human rights instruments - to which Poland is also party - as it unconditionally prohibits abortion, thereby leading not to lessening the number of women inducing abortion but only makes it dangerous for women who will undergo clandestine and unsafe abortion. Passing the bill will increase maternal mortality, abortion-related injuries and deaths are likely to be especially high among poor women, who can't afford to travel abroad. As a result, many of them might try self-induced abortions. It is unacceptable that in the 21st Century, a European country includes in its legislation a provision which directly endangers women's lives. I trust that you will do your best to ensure that Poland considers reviewing its legislation regarding abortion in a forward-looking legislation, taking the lead in promoting women's sexual and reproductive rights. Sincerely yours, ___ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4679] LETTER TO CM MAHARASHTRA- SEEKING ENDORSEMENTS
Dear all Today it was reported in Media that in maharashtra legislative assembly yesterday there was a demand to treat female foetcide as murder. The article is here http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730220 Please send your endorsements as concerned individuals, organisations and networks by August 7th, Monday Noon to me. *To* * * * Mr Prithviraj Chavan* *Chief Minister* *Maharashtra* * * *Sub- Demand of treating female foeticide as murder* * * * * *We are appalled at the statement made by Pankja Munde-Palve (BJP) and Jitendra Awhad (NCP) at the legisltative assembly session on 4th august 2011 demanding that female foeticide should be treated as murder case and culprits should be booked for offence of murder under section 302 of Indian Penal Code.* * * *. Making foeticide a murder charge will only increase illegal abortions and also make access to safe abortion difficult for women, who already do not have much choices regarding their own reproductive rights. Safe and legal abortion is a woman’s right. Sex selection abortion amounts to discrimination against a particular sex, in most cases, female sex. Abortion is legal in India.* * * *The MTP Act, 1971 spells out the conditions under which it can be carried out. Abortion for the purposes of eliminating a certain unwanted sex is illegal. In other words, abortion for the purposes of sex selection is illegal. It is also important to remember that those who want to use abortion for elimination of the female foetus have to first determine the sex of the child. Rightly this process of selection which is the first step is being regulated and monitored through the PNDT Act. Female foeticide is a symptom of devaluation of female lives, unless we are able to deal with all those social and economic factors that are going into the culture of son-preference and daughter-aversion, the child sex ratio will go on plummeting . * * * * * * We strongly condemn this statement and urge the Government to stop using anti- abortion stands for curbing down the child sex ratio. Safe and legal abortion is a right guaranteed by MTP act. Checking sex selection requires proper implementation of the PCPNDT act and monitoring by the government and not by introducing such draconian measures.* *cc- Maharshtra Health Minister, Suresh Shetty* * cc- Pankaja Mundhe* *cc-**Jitendra Awhad (NCP)* * ENDORSE* * * *1. Name, Organisation/ Network, Place* * * Kamayani Bali MahabalForum against sex selection FASS Mumbai Manisha Gupte MASUM Pune Leni Chaudhuri Mumbai -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4697] Salwa Judum: When the government defends the indefensible
hotheaded'. When confronted by Nitya Ramakrishnan with the evidence of an SPO who had an arrest warrant for rape against him, but was moving freely and even attacking government supplies to affected villages, he volunteered to ensure that such egregious cases were punished. Despite Salve being given a list of offending SPOs, the Chhattisgarh government has taken no action. The Chhattisgarh affidavit on SPOs was so patently ridiculous -- such as the claim that they learnt the principles of forensic science, human rights, Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, the history of Bastar and the use of guns, all in a matter of two months -- that Krishnamani appearing for Chhattisgarh conceded on April 5, 2011, that: 'The number of SPOs should be reduced. They should be given alternate employment. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran sent his children to London [ Imageshttp://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=london ] to study, he should have sent them to fight. Instead the children of the poor were sent to fight.' Desai consistently argued that this was not an adversarial litigation but one in which the government should be equally concerned since it concerned the poorest citizens of this country. Moved by the stark evidence of humanitarian crises, Subramanium repeatedly asked for time to consult the highest authorities. At one point he offered to persuade the Centre and Chhattisgarh government to facilitate a visit by the petitioners to see what work was being done on the rehabilitation front. Predictably, the Chhattisgarh government betrayed him by posting SPOs after us. Just as they betrayed K K Venugopal who reported in court in February 2010 that all schools had been vacated by the security forces, only to have this proved wrong in 2011. The lawyers -- on our side and theirs -- were not the only ones to whom it was patently obvious that wrongdoing was being committed on a massive scale. In December 2008 itself, the then Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan [ Imageshttp://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=justice+k+g+balakrishnan ] and Justice P Sathasivam asked the Chhattisgarh government to show what action they had taken to implement the NHRC recommendations -- to file FIRs, compensate all victims, regardless of whether the perpetrators were security forces or Maoists, to close down camps and rehabilitate people in their villages. In November 2009, the Chief Justice asked in surprise: Has the Salwa Judum not been disbanded yet? In February 2010, when it was clear that the State was doing nothing, the court asked the petitioners to frame a rehabilitation plan. Much of the discussion since then has centred around the need for a high level monitoring committee, with the court asking us at one point to get consent letters from people willing to serve on such a committee. To attribute the current order to some assumed ideological preference is to ignore the entire history and facts of the case. The matter is far from over. In creating an auxiliary police force consisting of the same SPOs that they were ordered to disband and disarm, the Chhattisgarh government has once again clearly betrayed its contempt for the court and the Constitution. The lawyers on both sides have their work cut out for them, as do the judges. But the question arises: can governments which consistently let their lawyers down, be trusted to uphold the rights of their people? How much longer will the State fight against its own citizens, inside and outside court? *Nandini Sundar teaches sociology at Delhi [ Imageshttp://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi ] University and is the lead petitioner in the case in which the Supreme Court orderedhttp://www.rediff.com/news/report/supreme-court-strikes-down-salwa-judum-orders-cbi-probe-in-agnivesh-attack/20110705.htm the disbanding of the Salwa Judum.* * * -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email
[humanrights-movement:4703] “Safe and legal abortion is a woman's right”
“Safe and legal abortion is a woman's right”SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SHARE http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=20 · COMMENThttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2340765.ece#comments · PRINThttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2340765.ece?css=print · T+ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2340765.ece# Over 250 activists and groups have protested against the recent suggestions by two MLAs in the Maharashtra Assembly that “female foeticide” be treated as murder. A letter sent to Speaker Dilip Walse Patil on Tuesday, at the initiative of the Forum Against Sex Selection (FASS), a network of 22 organisations and over 16 individuals, expressed concern at the statements made by Pankaja Munde-Palve (BJP) and Jitendra Avhad (NCP) that female “foeticide” be treated as murder and culprits be booked for the offence of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The letter said that first of all abortion should not be referred to as foeticide, which had anti-abortion implications. Women had the right to decide when and whether or not they should bear and give birth to children. Making sex-selective abortions (wrongly referred to as “female foeticide”) a murder charge, would only increase illegal abortions and also make access to safe abortion difficult. Safe and legal abortion is a woman's right and abortion is legal in India. Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP Act) spells out the conditions under which it can be carried out. Sex-selective abortion, however, amounts to discrimination against a particular sex, in most cases, female sex. Sex-selection in favour of the male child is a symptom of devaluation of female lives. It is important to remember that those who want to use abortion for elimination of the female foetus have to first determine the sex of the child. Rightly, it is this process of pre-natal selection which is a crime, and it is being regulated and monitored through the Preconception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex selection) (PCPNDT) Act. The letter said: “Unless we are able to deal with all those social and economic factors that are going into the culture of son-preference and daughter-aversion, the child sex ratio will go on plummeting. But the solution is not to curb the legal right to abortion. Rather the PCPNDT Act should be enforced, and clinics that offer prenatal sex testing should be weeded out.” The letter condemned the demand to make abortion a crime and urged the government to stop using anti-abortion stand for curbing the plummeting child sex ratio. Checking pre-natal sex selection required the proper implementation of the PCPNDT Act and monitoring of sex-selective procedures by the government. It could not be achieved by introducing such draconian measures that curb women's right to safe and legal abortion. The letter was endorsed by the FASS, Mumbai; health activist Manisha Gupte of the MASUM, Pune; Vibhuti Patel, Head, Department of Economics, SNDT University, Mumbai; S. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences; Mohan Rao, the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU, New Delhi; Chayanika Shah, researcher and activist, Mumbai; and Uma Chakravarty, historian. Keywords: legal abortionhttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2340765.ece# , female foeticidehttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2340765.ece# -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4707] Chhattisgarh govt forms new tribal force to get around SC ban
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/chhattisgarh-govt-forms-new-tribal-force-to-get-around-sc-ban-/445656/ Chhattisgarh govt forms new tribal force to get around SC ban Chhattisgarh govt forms new tribal force to get around SC ban BS Reporter / New Delhi August 12, 2011, 0:24 IST To counter the Supreme Court ban on using tribals as special police officers (SPOs) in Naxali-hit areas, the Chhattisgarh government has decided to form a Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Force. It has issued an ordinance to employ 6,000 tribals who were part of the erstwhile ‘Salwa Judum’ and ‘Koya Commandos’ funded by the state government. Chief minister Raman Singh said the Naxal problem could only be solved through discussion and by developing those areas but there was a need to seal the jungles in inter-state areas and deploying special forces that are properly armed. “We fully respect the judgement of the Supreme Court. The state government has issued an ordinance to form the Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Force and over 6,000 tribals will be part of this force,” said the CM. He said governments should be prepared for a long battle with Naxalites and there was no way to go backwards on the issue. The Supreme Court had recently banned the Chhattisgarh government from using tribals as SPOs to fight Maoists and both the Union government and the state government have decided to file a review petition against the judgement. “If we disarm the SPOs, who will protect them and their families, who have already seen the deaths of family members? The state has now provided these SPOs with a uniform, better pay scales and insurance to live a life of dignity,” argued Singh. He said there was only one Veerappan who managed to evade arrest for 12 years but Chhattisgarh had thousands of Veerappans, armed with dangerous weapons. The government has also asked the Union government for a Rs 125 crore package to help tackle the Naxalite menace by upgrading technology to detect improvised explosive devices, a favoured strategy of the latter. - -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4714] Revamping PDS: a tale of two States- Hindu
of doorstep delivery of ration at the fair price shop and intimated people of it by SMS alerts. We also set up a dedicated call centre to receive complaints and grievanceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaints_and_Grievances. Finally, we brought the supply chain under online monitoring to plug leakages, says Rajeev Jaiswal, Joint Director, Chhattisgarh food and civil supplies department. And why did Chhattisgarh decide to skip UID and food coupons? Look, the system that is in place is not faulty, its implementation is. We thought messing with the existing system would create a new set of problems. For instance, old or disabled people often have neighbours or relatives bring them their ration. That is not possible with the UID or food coupons. As for bogus cards, we eliminated over 2.5 lakh bogus cards through door-to-door physical verification, says Mr. Jaiswal. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4715] Chattisgarh: Deputy Sarpanch arrested for speaking against atrocities - Newzfirst
http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/chattisgarh:-deputy-sarpanch-arrested-for-speaking-against-atrocities?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome Chattisgarh: Deputy Sarpanch arrested for speaking against atrocities - Full Story - Newzfirst Sat, 13 Aug 2011 Chattisgarh: Deputy Sarpanch arrested for speaking against atrocities By Newzfirst Correspondent 8/12/11 BIJAPUR - In a shocking incident of sabotaging the struggle for justice, Chhattisgarh Police have arrested an elected representative of village for speaking out the facts about the police aggressions in Bijapur District. Sadanandam aged about 28 years, Deputy Sarpanch of Kamlapalli Panchayat of Bijapur district was put behind bars for speaking out the police atrocities to the media and the people. Sadanandam is now accused in the murder charges of a SPO, which took place reportedly by Maoists in last month. Sadanandam who also run a FPS was summoned by the police on 8th of August on the pretext of some important discussion. As he went to the station, Police chained him and arrested without giving any reasons. Later he was produced in the district court of Bijapur on following day on the charges of murder of an SPO. Subsequently his bail was denied by the Magistrate and he has been sent to the jail. It all started with the arrest of two labors in Madded Village of Kamlapalli Panchayat on 28th of July. The duo identified as Suresh and Rajesh of a nearby village called Tummirguda, 3 kms away from Madded. According to Afzal, an activist from Bijapur district, “the duo was standing on a road side as they had no work that day. Suresh was a mason and Rajesh, a 12th passed youth working as collie for perceiving his higher studies, were picked by the police without any reason even after the enquiry.” Mothers of duo rushed to the Police Station as soon as they learnt about the detention. Though, initially police denied any detention, fortunately they saw their sons being tortured in the custody by the police. As villagers came to know about this they started to gather in front of the police station. “But, they were threatened with the dire consequences in-case of proceeding further and were abused. Police reportedly dispersed the crowd and challenged them saying “bring the person he who informed you about this detention, we will leave these boys” “he said. On August 7, six persons including a pregnant woman were arrested by the same police. Learning the news of arrest villagers including women surrounded police station and blocked the main road. Bowing down to the pressure police released all the six persons. “But, on 8th of August, Police summoned Sadanandam on the pretext of discussion, and arrested him as he was the person who used to educate the villagers and media about the developments and their rights. Even his family was not allowed to meet him, and was not aware of the allegations on him.” He explained. “Family members managed to speak to him in the court premises and were advised by him to not to proceed further as Police will frame other villagers too” he said. The hardship being faced by the villagers on the context of countering Maoists he explained, “About seven people who were fishing at poliwork cannel, near Gorla village, were taken away by the CRPF personnel without any reason. As Sarpanch approached CRPF camp to know the whereabouts of those people, he was abused, tortured and threatened saying he will be arrested for being a Maoist.” “Nobody knows about those people till now” he added. -- -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4716] Inquisitive UIDAI wants all details about you and I
Big Brother watching Inquisitive UIDAI wants all details about you and I Bangalore, Aug 12, DHNS: The Unique Identification Authority of Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_India(UIDAI), Karnataka, which is all set to begin its ambitious “Aadhar” enrolment in Bangalore from August 17, has kicked up a row even before its formal launch by “surreptitiously” widening the scope of the ID card beyond the officially stated position. On the second day of the special enrolment for mediapersons and their families in the City — as a precursor to the launch for general public —there were heated arguments between applicants and officials, as the enrolment forms distributed by the officials did not match the forms put out by the UIDAIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_Indiaon its website and seemed to be far wider in its scope, seeking personal details. Several applicants for enrolment objected to the columns asking for details of bank account numbers and the LPG gas connection numbers. Some people who had not brought their passbooks or gas connection receipts were turned away, leading to protests. The officials later clarified that the submission of the information they sought was “voluntary” and continued registering others who had left the columns in the application form unfilled. In fact, there is a wide disparity between the form specified by the UIDAI on its official website and the one being used by its Karnataka unit. The official form has three parts: Part A seeks details like name, gender, age, name of father/husband/guardian and the residential address. Part B seeks “additional information” like phone number/ mobile number and email address which are all “optional”. Part C deals with “financial information” like bank name, branch and account number with a clause “I want to link my existing bank a/c to Adhaar and I have no objection on this issue.” It is operational only if the assignee affixes his signature. The form printed by the Karnataka UIDAI does not make any of the information sought optional. In fact, it goes well beyond its stated objective by including a section titled ‘Data collection for state government.’ It is a long list, starting from “availing any social security pension” to “Sandhya Suraksha,” “physically handicapped person”, “destitute/widow pension”, “old age pension”, “ration card”, “NREGA job card”, “member of milk cooperative society”, and so on. The bio-metric details of all ten fingers, the iris and the face of the applicants are mandatorily captured. The form requires the assignee to put his signature to the clause, “I have no objection to my identity being authenticated for delivery of services from time to time by agencies to whom I present the UID number and I am aware that information provided by me for securing UID number shall be used for authenticating my identity.” Neither state e-governance executive officer D S Ravindran nor principal secretary, department of IT/BT and e-governance M N Vidyashankar was available for comment, despite repeated attempts to contact them on the phone. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/183411/inquisitive-uidai-wants-all-details.html#top -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4717] Binayak Sen: ‘Proud to be convicted under same law as Gandhi’
Binayak Sen: ‘Proud to be convicted under same law as Gandhi’ 13 August 2011, 11:54 pm From the Hindustan Timeshttp://www.hindustantimes.com/Proud-to-be-convicted-under-same-law-as-Gandhi/Article1-733126.aspx : Introduced as the ‘man who stands up for everything that Xavierites believe in’, human rights activist Binayak Sen on Saturday captivated 300 students and professionals with his speech at Malhar, the annual festival of St Xavier’s College, Dhobi Talao. “I am proud to say that I was convicted under the same law that Mahatma Gandhi was during the British rule. It is ironic that the British who made the law have now repealed it in their own country, but the same sedition laws continue to exist in ours,” said Sen in his keynote address at the Conclave — an event meant to inspire and provoke young minds into tackling socio-economic issues. The 40-minute speech was followed by a discussion where Sen tackled questions on violence, the media and life in prison among others. “There is no access to justice for the poor in our country. For us to truly move forward, we must start eradicating the inequality we are surrounded by,” he added. The audience, which comprised of students from various city colleges, also had academicians and professors who were impressed by the quality of Sen’s speech. “I hope that students can use such an experience to find out about issues that affect our country,” said Nandini Sardesai, former head of department of Sociology at St. Xavier’s college. The Conclave also held three forums and a town hall session on subjects such as ‘corruption’ and ‘culture and identity’, attended by Aruna Roy, Anupam Kher and Nandita Das. Praising festivals for providing an unstructured learning environment, theatre personality Alyque Padamsee, who was present as one of the speakers said, “Malhar gives young people a chance to interact with people from different cultures, arts and professions. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4718] [Behind Closed Door] Riot On Indian Cricketers
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-12mIE_n1KIs/TkdjvBZlHwI/AWU/qr3g91Z2qs8/s1600/2011+8+%2528Aug%2529+14th.jpg *Sign On Closed Door:* MAHARASHTRA POLICE CONTROL ROOM Sir I have an idea about out officers who killed farmers. Send them on riot control duty in the UK. *The Riots ARE in control in UK now.* I’m talking about the riots on Indian cricketers sire. The coveted test cricket crown is stolen and a nation’s ego set on fire. We can send our in-form Pune police to shoot sense into English cricketers. -- Posted By Satyen K. Bordoloi to Behind Closed Doorhttp://behindacloseddoor.blogspot.com/2011/08/riot-on-indian-cricketers.htmlat 8/14/2011 11:30:00 AM -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4720] State orders banks to stop UID enrolments
State orders banks to stop UID enrolments *Prajakta Chavanhttp://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Prajakta%20Chavan, Hindustan Times* Email Authorprajakta.cha...@hindustantimes.com?Subject=State%20orders%20banks%20to%20stop%20UID%20enrolments Mumbai, August 14, 2011 First Published: 01:23 IST(14/8/2011) Last Updated: 01:25 IST(14/8/2011) Unique identification (UID) enrolment centres in the city will reduce drastically because the state government’s information technology (IT) department has asked all non-state registrars to stop their operations until they sign an agreement with them. Non-state registrars include nationalised banks such as Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Union Bank of India, State Bank of India and LIC, India post, who have signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre to carry out UID enrolments. The department will also ask non-state registrars to carry out their operations in remote areas instead of metros. As a result, the UID centres in the city are expected to close down. “In the metros, majority of people have the required documents to avail of the government-run schemes. People in interiors, however, do not have such proofs and therefore they do not get the benefits, which they deserve. Since, UID registrations are undertaken mainly to identify people who require benefits of government-run schemes, we will request non-state registrars to focus on remote areas,” said Dr Santosh Bhogle, under secretary (IT). In the letter addressed to all non-state registrars and local authorities, the department has stated, that certain non-state registrars are not complying with the state’s decision, specifically of filling the know your resident (KYR) form prescribed by the state. “This data will be utilised to provide to both the state and central government. Therefore, it is important to both the governments. Certain non-state registrars, however, were providing data only to the Centre. To streamline this, all non-state registrars need to sign an agreement with the state and only then begin enrolment activities,” Bhogle said. Mahesh Narvekar chief officer of the civic body’s disaster cell and in charge of UID enrolments said, “We received the letter around 4-5 days ago. We have instructed all non-state registrars to stop work. We have also instructed ward officers to keep a check on their centres.” *http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/733130.aspx*http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/733130.aspx# -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4726] Encounter killing of village headman sparks unrest in Dantewada - The Hindu
. While Dilip worked as an informer, the Maoist Madkami Massa is believed to be an explosives expert, but we have no other information on him,” said a police source. “It is possible that the CRPF found out that there was a Madkami Massa in Chikpal and killed the wrong man.” Sources in the CRPF dismiss this suggestion. “We also arrested Dilip and handed him over the police. Why would we kill Massa?” asked a senior CRPF officer, seeking anonymity as he is not authorized to speak with the press. But Chikpal’s villagers want to know how a man who they say was picked up by the CRPF from his village at noon on August 5, reappeared as a corpse at a spot 15 km away on the morning of the next day. “The force picked up a man in broad daylight in front of an entire village,” said Konta MLA Lakma, “Then they said they didn’t have him. Then he was killed in an encounter. I knew Massa. He was a very nice man. He was a wealthy landowner. He was not a Maoist.” -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4727] PUBLIC MEETING- STATE REPRESSION AND DEMOCRACY
PUBLIC MEETING- STATE REPRESSION AND DEMOCRACY Time 16 August · 16:00 - 21:00 -- Location Vanmali Hall 3rd floor, near chabil das school, dadar west Mumbai, India -- Created by: Kamayani Bali Mahabal http://www.facebook.com/kamayani -- For FREE DR BINAYAK SEN CAMPAIGNhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/14205312918/ -- More info SUDHIR DHAWALE MUKTATA ABHIYAN INVITES YOU AT THE [PUBLIC MEETINGS TO BE ADDRESSED BY DR. BINAYAK SEN(PUCL) J V PAWAR(WRITTER) VAISHALI PATIL(ACTVIST IN JAITAPUR) KIRTI DHOLE , FREIZ MITHI BORWALA SHYAM GOYAL (ACTIVIST IN SAFAI KAMGAR) FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT- SHYAM SONAR/ JATIN DESAI-/ ANAND PATWARDHAN / J.V.PAWAR /PRABHAKAR NARKAR / SUMEDH JADHAV/8080829499/9702707583/986926876 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4728] Vande Mataram: an apology to Mother India
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[humanrights-movement:4732] Joint Statement on Martyrdom of Shehla Masood- SEEKINGE NDORSEMENTS
against the firm in Madhya Pradesh High Court. The company claims that it is fully compliant with all laws, including environmental norms. The domestic diamond processing industry generates revenues of more than Rs 70,000 crore annually but is facing a shortage of 30 per cent in its requirement of roughs. Rio, a Reliance Industries’ subsidiary has been prospecting for diamond in the country. The Reliance subsidiary holds a prospecting licence for about 1800 sq km spread over Rewa, Siddhi and Satna in Madhya Pradesh. 9th April, 2011: Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notices to the Centre and the state government on illegal mining of diamonds by international mining companies. The court has asked both the governments to reply in this matter within four weeks. Considering the act of illegal mining as a serious offence, a double bench of Chief Justice Sayed Rafat Alam and Justice Sushil Harkauli rapped the Forest Departments, Mining Secretaries of the state as well as the Centre and issued notices against them in addition to the MP Pollution Control Board and Chattarpur Collector. The issue of illegal diamond mining came to light when a PIL was filed by a social activist. The PIL stated that an Australian mining company, Rio Tinto, has been carrying on exploitation of mineral resources in Chattarpur district violating the prescribed provisions. The PIL said that under Section 2 of the Forest Preservation Act, permission from the Central government is required to carry on mining trade in any part of India. Other than this, a no objection certificate (NOC) from Pollution Control Board is mandatory. The counsel of the petitioner, Vipin Yadav, told the court that the Collector of Chattarpur had written a letter to the Revenue Department in this context, but no action was taken. Yadav added, “This proves that the officials of Forest and Revenue departments are working hand-in-hand and foreign companies are making profit at the cost of our country’s natural resources.” 25th July, 2011: A letter on Illegal Diamond mining project in district Chhattarpur, MP was submitted to the Parliamentary Petitions Committee by ToxicsWatch Alliance. Subsequent to this a letter was sent to Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan by Shehla Masood on 25 July, 2011. She had also filed Right to Information application in this regard. 16 August, 2011: Shehla Masood killed in Bhopal http://toxicswatch.blogspot.com/2011/08/joint-statement-on-martyrdom-of-shehla.html -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4750] Report on the All India Anti-nuclear convention held in Delhi on 10th August
An All India Anti-Nuclear Convention was held in New Delhi on 10th August from 10:30 am to 4: 30 pm, at the Speaker’s Hall in the Constitution Club. Activists from various states of India including from Maharashtra, MP, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi attended. The convention focussed attention on three slogans: 1. Stop construction of all new nuclear power plants; 2. Shut down all existing nuclear power plants; and 3. Implement universal nuclear disarmament. A fourth slogan “Immediately stop all uranium mining” was also added consequent upon the discussions in the convention. The convention was attended by persons from Maharashtra, MP, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, etc. Most of the people attending were those actually involved in struggles against nuclear plants. The convention, presided over by Com. Sanjay Singhvi, Gen. Secretary, TUCI was inaugurated by Com. K. N. Ramachandran, General Secretary, CPI (ML). In his inaugural speech he pointed out that nuclear power was being foisted upon the neo-colonial countries by imperialism only to assuage its own crisis. Coms. Pravin Gavankar and Mansoor Solkar of the Janhit Sewa Samiti and the Machhimar Kriti Samiti told of their experiences in the struggle in Jaitapur. Com. Rajkumar and Com. Dube of the Chutka Parmanu Sangharsh Samiti addressed the convention on the struggles against the proposed nuclear power plant in Chutka. They raised very pertinent points about the inflated projected per capita consumption of energy by the Government. A discussion also ensued on the meaning of development. Coms. Adwait Pednekar and Achin Vanaik provided expert inputs on various issues and Coms. Arun Velaskar, Madhu Mohite and Ramesh Gautam, also stated their views., The convention ended with a resolution being passed resolving to build up an All India Democratic Anti-nuclear Movement. However, to enable other organisations also to come together, only an Organising Committee was formed and charged with contacting other organisations all over India which accept the four basic slogans. A copy of the resolution passed is also enclosed (Sanjay Singhvi) Organising Committee for All-India Democratic Anti-nuclear Movement, Phone : 0986904775 PS : Have tried to send to at least one in each state but if any missed, please pass it on. Sanjay -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4766] Fwd: Aam Jan Lokpal, UIDs: A Third View By Gopal Krishna
to sarkari Lokpal, which is fine. While Hazre's team and related NGOs seem to be articulating the repressed anguish of vast majority of those who suffer from black money, but they have so far not shown any blueprint of that can dismantle the political and economic system that is based on corporate corruption and show what changes will enable its replacement. The formation of non-governmental institutions through laws of 1860 and 1882 is legal but it isn't social, democratic or constitutional. Most of these NGOs do not remember the that Mahatma Gandhi had opposed the Asiatic Registration Act, 1907 because he opposed finger print based identification of the British government under the law which gave identity cards to Asians and Indians. He had termed this law as Black Act and burnt it after his research showed that fingerprints based identification was needed only for criminals. Anna Hazare's team and related NGOs must look in the mirror of Mahatma Gandhi too. In fact, except for few non-governmental institutions most are banyan trees in a pot and rootless. Their existence alone is a constant reminder of the acts of omissions of the British Parliament in the aftermath of 1857. These institutions do not represent the general public. If some of them speak about the dictatorship of companies, their crimes and about their funding of political parties openly, one can respect them, but they cannot say that they represent the citizens of India. As per a 2009 estimate there are 3.3 million Non-Governmental Organisations more than schools and hospitals in the country. If all of them come together even then none can say that they are speaking on behalf of all the citizens of India. As a consequence of the legislation of 1860 and 1882 by the British Parliament, undivided India (including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka [ Images ]) although people of this region are crying tears of blood, there is apparently an insurmountable difficulty in building a robust people's movement. Non-governmental institutions in general have fragmented the people's movement by usurping citizens' space by 'representing' them and not letting them represent themselves through sponsored platform politics instead of people's politics. For the sake of citizens sovereignty of the present and future generations and as a step in the direction of freedom movement that commenced in 1857, these laws must be repealed. There is a need for a white paper on non-governmental institutions that came into since 1860. There are some people among them who realize that NGO-based movements will eventually reveal their fake character but still they remain associated with them in the absence of visible alternatives for peoples' movement. There is surely a scope for dialogue between Aam Jan Lokpal who hope for genuinely democratic peoples' movement and the Jan Lokpal if they can communicate that they support the call for repeal of NGO-related laws of the British Parliament, Company Bill, and National Identification Authority of India Bill that is meant to provide pre-dated legislative approval for the UID exercise, besides creating a shared holistic manifesto for change, instead of talking in fragments, then a democratic platform can be built where being citizen is the only condition for its membership and not being a professional or the association with any corporate entity in myriad disguises. *Gopal Krishna*, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) E-mail: krishna2...@gmail.com Web:toxicswatch.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups binayakplanning group. To post to this group, send an email to binayakplann...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to binayakplanning+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/binayakplanning?hl=en-GB. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights
[humanrights-movement:4787] Finally, Uttarakhand’s ‘Binayak Sen’ Rahi freed
*Finally, Uttarakhand’s ‘Binayak Sen’ Rahi freed * *Denies being zonal commander of CPI (Maoists) Tribune News Service* Dehradun, August 21 Former journalist Prashant Rahi was freed from Roshanabad situated Haridwar district jail today. His family members, including wife Chandra Kala Tewari, daughter Shikha and friend Jeevan Chand greeted him outside the prison. Rahi, who is popularly known as Uttarakhand’s Binayak Sen, today denied being zonal commander of the CPI (Maoists) or having links with any armed struggle. However, he admitted being sympathiser of the Maoist movement. Interacting with mediapersons in Dehradun, Rahi said the Uttarakhand Police wrongly portrayed him as a Maoist commander and the laptop and the hard disc shown to be confiscated from his possession were all concocted. Rahi was arrested by the Uttarakhand Police on December 22, 2007, primarily on the charge of being a zonal commander of the CPI (Maoists), a charge which he has denied all through. The Uttarakhand Police had claimed that Rahi was a threat to the security of the state due to his Maoist links. A week ago, the Nainital High Court had granted bail to Rahi, following which he was released from the Hariwar jail today. Rahi alleged that he was tortured by the police when he was in the jail. He claimed that he was picked up from Dehradun itself on December 17, 2007, and not arrested at Nanakmata as claimed by the police. “I was picked up from Araghar Chowk, Dehradun, by policemen in civil clothes, who came in a Maruti van. I was blindfolded and taken to Haspur Khatt in Udham Singh Nagar, from where I was shown as arrested,” Rahi alleged, adding that during the way he was tortured. He said during his imprisonment, no journalist was allowed to meet him. “A few, who came to meet him, visited him in disguise of friends and not mediapersons,” he added. Rahi expressed gratitude to the mediapersons and his friends for their unstinted support to him all through his ordeal. Referring to his future course of action, Rahi said he would now continue to raise the issue of landless and poverty-ridden classes. He also expressed his concern over various innocent Maoist sympathisers languishing in jails. He said he would work for the release of those sympathisers. Shikha, who had launched a crusade for her father’s freedom, and Revolutionary Democratic Front’s Uttarakhand president Jeewan Chand were also present. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4788] Jan Lokpal Bill not understood by most people: Aruna Roy
opposed the CBI being kept under wrap by the government. We say things that the government doesn't like. We hold that freedom very dear, Roy said. Asked if Hazare's movement infringed on Parliament's privileges, Roy said, All these protests are important and then they work. But to say finally now that only my version should go in and that no other version should be debated and that should be passed is, looking at parliamentary privileges, already the opposition parties have disagreed the government bill... There are other opinions. We pay them salary just to do this job. ___ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4789] Jan Lokpal or Janvirodhi Lokpal?
Jan Lokpal or Janvirodhi Lokpal?http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=3569:jan-lokpal-or-janvirodhi-lokpalcatid=119:featureItemid=132 Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:07Written by kuffir By *People for Constitution, Democracy and Human Rights (PCDHR, Nagpur)* Recent stir by Anna Hazare (Original name unknown/ Education unknown) Co. for an Ombudsman for corruption in the name of Jan Lokpal is an 'extra-constitutional method', bypassing the Parliamentary process which is at the heart of Constitutional Democracy which 'We the People' of India have adopted. Secondly the demand in their version of Lokpal, Jan Lokpal, to bring the Judiciary and Members of Parliament under the ambit of anti-corruption law is anti-Constitutional. This will make the Lokpal superior to the parliament judiciary and snatch the sovereignty of the people of India which is exercised through elected representatives and judicial exercise to protect the Constitution. Whereas there is provision in Hazare's bill to bring every 'public servant' from Chaprasi to Prime Minister under Lokpal, it shamelessly leaves the Private Sector, charitable, religious institutions and NGOs out of it. This is nothing but an attack on 'state' by the 'market media forces' and 'religious brahmanical groups' to maintain caste and bring in 'caste capitalism'. This is a conspiracy to subvert the Constitution the methods of fasting are worse than physical violence as they destroy the essence of discussion, debate and reasoning which democracy essentially requires. Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar in his historical speech delivered to the Constituent Assembly on 25th Nov. 1949 advised the people of India to adopt Constitutional methods for attaining their social and economic objectives. He particularly warned and advised (the people) to leave the revolutionary and civil disobedience methods that Marxists and Gandhians pursue. Hazare, by resorting to coercive fasting methods, is in fact destabilising democracy and restraining the sovereignty of the people of India by disallowing a healthy debate on Lokpal. Whereas there is every protection for the complainant whistleblower in Hazare's bill; there is none for the accused public officials; even if they are acquitted by the courts of land. Why should not the false complainants whistleblowers, if proved by the court of law, also be penalized with minimum years of imprisonment along with fine for the loss of dignity professional career of the accused? If Hazare co. believes in constitution democracy they must either find one M.P. to table a private member bill in the Parliament or get their own M.P.s elected by forming a political party. Let the people of India know whether the so-called civil society (which in fact it is not, because it is a clique of some individuals of particular castes without a desire to be a democratic society with a public conscience as Dr. B.R.Ambedkar envisaged) truly represent them. Remember that it is parliament which is accountable to the people, the civil society is accountable to none. The very reluctance of Hazare co. to talk of corruption in private sector, media and religious charitable institutions, while displaying willingness to bypass parliamentary processes, reflects their 'undemocratic mentality'. They have hardly fought in any cause for eradication of socio-economic inequalities injustice that 'caste brahmanism' have perpetuated, denying humanity to 100 cr SCs,STs, DT/NTs,OBCs, Religious Minorities, and women of India. The media in India, it seems is not the 4th pillar of democracy; but the 1st pillar of plutocracy and*brahmocracy*. It is dishonest afraid to call 'Ambedkarites' and the representatives of Dalits, Tribals, Backwards Religious Minorities for debate discourse on vital issues of national life. It is doing its duty dishonestly by allotting precious time to hooligans children who hardly understand anything about the constitution or corruption. What a sham in the name of public opinion! The UPA government led by brahmanical Congess of the day is also insincere as far as its 'Constitutional morality' is concerned. While it has not done enough to realise the principles of Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity by establishing 'social economic Justice' and building a just moral social order; now it is foolishly violating the 'Fundamental Rights' of protestors ( and making them more important rather than redundant). It seems that the Congress deliberately arrested Hazare and unlawfully allowed him to stay for 2 days in Tihar jail violating the jail manual to make him a hero so as to create public hue and cry to run the media show. It strongly seems that the whole show is managed by Hazare co. with backdoor support of anti-democratic anti-constitutional brahmanical forces ; supported or opposed by the BJP Congress. It is really an 'extra-constitutional method' to subvert constitutional democracy and maintain the hegemony of
[humanrights-movement:4791] Slain SPO was sent on duty with arms, says father.
*At one side Govt of Chhattisgarh has told the Supreme Court that all the arms from Special Police Officers have been taken away in the state and they are not deployed in any anti Naxal operations as per the Supreme Court’s order but one SPO was killed in Naxal attack on 19th. Father of the SPO tells him that his son Kursam Asant Kumar was sent on patrolling duty by the officers and he was armed. * * * * * *http://cgnetswara.org/index.php?id=6851* -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4798] RTI activist attacked in Gujarat, critical
RTI activist attacked in Gujarat, critical Tue, Aug 23 2011 20:00 IST | 0 Views | Add your commenthttp://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html#addComments *FONT SIZE:* AAA *SHARE:* http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html#http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html#http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=unknownsource=tbx-250lng=ens=redditurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prokerala.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fa242153.htmltitle=RTI%20activist%20attacked%20in%20Gujarat%2C%20criticalate=AT-unknown/-/-/4e5474f963c8349b/1frommenu=1uid=4e5474f9e9ed9e1dct=1tt=0http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=unknownsource=tbx-250lng=ens=stumbleuponurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prokerala.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fa242153.htmltitle=RTI%20activist%20attacked%20in%20Gujarat%2C%20criticalate=AT-unknown/-/-/4e5474f963c8349b/2frommenu=1uid=4e5474f98c50ffc7ct=1tt=0http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html#http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=unknownsource=tbx-250lng=ens=gmailurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prokerala.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fa242153.htmltitle=RTI%20activist%20attacked%20in%20Gujarat%2C%20criticalate=AT-unknown/-/-/4e5474f963c8349b/3frommenu=1uid=4e5474f910c5477cct=1tt=0http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250winname=addthispub=unknownsource=tbx-250lng=ens=bloggerurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prokerala.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fa242153.htmltitle=RTI%20activist%20attacked%20in%20Gujarat%2C%20criticalate=AT-unknown/-/-/4e5474f963c8349b/4frommenu=1uid=4e5474f9fff4c14dct=1tt=0http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html#http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a242153.html# Ahmedabad, Aug 23 A 39-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist is fighting for his life in Rajkot city of Gujarat following an acidattack on him, police said Tuesday. Jaysukh Bambhaniya, a tribal from the union territory Diu’s Dangarwadi area, had filed an RTI application in nearby Una municipality of Gujarat some time ago. “Last night, he was on his way home, when a group of people attacked him with weapons and threw acid on him. Jaysukh was lucky since a police van happened to pass that way around the time he was being attackedand the miscreants fled. His condition is critical and he has been shifted to a hospital in Rajkot,” sub-inspector B.H. Jadeja of Una police station said. The police have no clue about the information he had sought through his RTI plea. “In statement to the police, he has alleged that Shamji Solanki, vice president of Una municipality, was responsible for the attack,” Jadeja added. Rights activists in the state have condemned theattack. “We condemn the attacks on RTI activists. The death of Bhopal’s RTI activist Shehla Masood was very painful for us. RTI activists should not fight alone. They should seek help from other activists. Whatever information he/she receives, they should share it with others also,” said Bharatshin Jhala, an RTI activist. An RTI activist was killed outside the Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad last year after he sought to expose the mining mafia. Bhagu Devani, a Porbandar RTI activist, was also attacked recently. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4808] PL FWD OMCT APPEAL FOR SHEHLA MASOOD
...@nic.in ; ion...@nic.in · Gopinathan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Geneva), Rue du Valais 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 906 86 86, Fax: +41 22 906 86 96, Email: mission.in...@ties.itu.inthttp://www.omct.org/human-rights-defenders/urgent-interventions/india/2011/08/d21392/ · Embassy of India in Brussels, 217 Chaussée de Vleurgat, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, Fax: +32 (0)2 6489638 or +32 (0)2 6451869 Please also write to the diplomatic representations of India in your respective countries. *** Geneva-Paris, August 24, 2011 * * Kindly inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code of this appeal in your reply. The Observatory, an OMCT and FIDH venture, is dedicated to the protection of Human Rights Defenders and aims to offer them concrete support in their time of need. To contact the Observatory, call the emergency line: · E-mail: appe...@fidh-omct.org · Tel and fax OMCT + 41 22 809 49 39 / + 41 22 809 49 29 · Tel and fax FIDH + 33 1 43 55 25 18 / +33 1 43 55 18 80 * * -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4816] An open letter on the ‘Harud’ literary festival
An open letter on the ‘Harud’ literary festival AUGUST 25, 2011 tags: Freedom of Expression in Kashmirhttp://kafila.org/tag/freedom-of-expression-in-kashmir/ , Harud Literature Festivalhttp://kafila.org/tag/harud-literature-festival/ ,Kashmir http://kafila.org/tag/kashmir/, Kashmir human rightshttp://kafila.org/tag/kashmir-human-rights/ by Shivam Vij *Given below is an open letter signed by fourteen of us. Should you want to add your name to it, please do so in the comments section of this post. I shall update the names of the signatories on the post itself.* A literary festival, by definition, is an event that celebrates the free flow of ideas and opinions. It not only assumes a freedom from fear. It demands a certain independence of mind and spirit. To hold it in a context where some basic fundamental rights are markedly absent, indeed, denied to the population, is to commit a travesty. In fact, as literary and artistic festivals held elsewhere, Israel and Sri Lanka for example, show, such events are sometimes used to falsely assert the existence of basic freedoms, even as they are denied to larger sections of the population. In Kashmir, with its history of intense repression and brutality, markedly so in the last two decades, a context where deaths in custody, torture, rape, disappearances, curbs and assaults on the press and human rights activists are rife, where thousands of teenagers and even pre-teens have recently been arrested, slapped with FIRs and draconian laws, where infamous laws like the PSA and AFSPA are fully operational, indeed, are the operative principles, where dissent and the expression of political realities is sought to be curbed by brute force, holding such a festival raises those core issues about basic ideals and freedoms. Our concerns are also heightened by reports that the festival is sought to be denoted as being an ‘apoliticalhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/12/kashmir-literary-festival-controversy’ event, that, yet, people will be free to speak what they want and that no one has the right to deny Kashmiris a chance to listen to writers. Beyond the absurdity of asserting that art and literature has nothing to do with politics, our issue is precisely that people are not allowed to speak their minds in Kashmir. Indeed, that a political reality is denied, even criminalised, in the state. The argument about freedom to speak and listen, thus, is disingenuous precisely because no such freedoms exist in Kashmir. Even the proposed venues, apart from being well-known for their linkages with the repressive state, highlight that fact. What is the efficacy of having a part of the event in Kashmir University, when that most basic of rights, that of forming a student union, is denied to the students? Can there be discussions on ‘militarisation’ and ‘Azadi’, core issues in Kashmir, just as there have been discussions in the Jaipur festival on Kashmir and Maoism? Even if such discussions were to be held, would that not be in a bubble, a miasma of freedom, while even the right to life and dignity is being violated outside on the streets? We fear, therefore, that holding such a festival would, willy-nilly, dovetail with the state’s concerted attempt to portray that all is normal in Kashmir. Even as the reality on the ground is one of utter abnormality and a state of acute militarisation and suppression of dissent, rights and freedoms. We would firmly support the idea of a literary/artistic festival in Kashmir if we were convinced that its organising was wholly free from state interference and designs, and was not meant to give legitimacy to a brutal, repressive regime. This letter is an attempt to state our position and to urge the festival participants to ponder some of these issues and concerns. *Signed:* 1. Basharat Peer (Author and Journalist) 2. Mirza Waheed (Author and Journalist) 3. Najeeb Mubarki (Journalist) 4. Insha Malik (Research Scholar) 5. Sanjay Kak (Documentary Filmmaker and Writer) 6. Gautam Navlakha (Rights Activist and Writer) 7. Anjum Zamrud Habib (Author and Social Activist) 8. Mohammad Junaid (Research Scholar) 9. Parvaiz Bukhari (Journalist) 10. Hilal Mir (Journalist) 11. Arif Ayaz Parrey (Lawyer and Writer) 12. Suvaid Yaseen (Research Scholar) 13. Shivam Vij (Journalist) 14. Arshad Mushtaq (Theater Artist) - http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/an-open-letter-on-the-%e2%80%98harud%e2%80%99-literary-festival/#print -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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
[humanrights-movement:4817] Office of janlokpal bill
are actually incapable of reforming their political systems than solve any problems. The solution sounds more like a line from popular Hindi films – a doctor emerging from a patient’s room announces solemnly, “*Meine injection de diya hai. Jaldi hi hosh aa jayega*.” If anything has to be implemented, there has to be debate among as many people as possible rather than a celebration of number gathering and moving through the crowds of Ram Lila Maidan, and announcing self righteously, ‘Oh, I have found my five Muslims, three Christians, 100 women – some of them working class and some house managers from middle class, ifthar at Anna’s Rasoi’. Great – your carnival has arrived and other‘left minded, secular and non party non organized (how many nons do you need to make a perfectly harmless ghetto?) can drop their suspicions and join Anna. I am suggesting extreme caution in making statements which imply that the campaign has ‘empowered’ people so that now they address their questions directly to the PM and other ministers… *Mein Pradhanmantri ji se yeh poochna chahta hoon*… They’ve always done it. I think Nivedita Menon has stayed away from UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, CG and MP for too long, and watched far too much NDTV. People in these and many other States do articulate in this fashion… She would have known had she watched their local channels and heard radio broadcasts. To Nivedita’s anecdotes like that of a woman from Nasik who found the place cordial, warm and carnivalesque – I met a couple of families who after having Hyderabadi chicken at Andhra Bhawan and having shopped in CP came around to ‘check out’ the scene in Ramlila Maidan and also to lend support. What do our anecdotes achieve? They only prove that there are disparate groups with disparate motivations participating in this ‘carnival’. Of course there is nothing wrong if disparate interests, groups and people with disparate tendencies forming a front for/ against a cause. But one needs to be running like hell from comparisons with Tahrir Square. Comparing nations like Egypt and Syria suffering from 3-4 decades of autocratic regimes to a democracy of inequality like India… Not surprisingly, in a crunch situation, nuance is the first casualty. In Egypt not just a regime but the whole constitution was sought to be changed which could potentially address not one issue like bureaucratic corruption but the entire system. Nivedita Menon should also realize that when one leaves self-analysis for too long, one sometimes feels compelled to do it too quickly… And an idea to piggy-ride a myopic campaign is its immediate outcome. *Any Lokpal?* Nothing can remotely come in defense of this thoroughly corrupt and repressive government… but does the answer lie in this version of the Bill? Those critiquing Anna Hazare’s campaign are not necessarily puritans looking to align with like-minded groups and ideas. They too are aware of methods of political maneuverings and how these can be used to subvert causes. I agree with Nivedita Menon that the government’s version of Lokpal Bill is rubbish but so is the idea of Lokpal because it stems from short sightedness. We cannot reform electoral process, we cannot reform judiciary, cannot reform police, cannot work towards strengthening CVS, CAG, cannot move to have right to recall public representatives – so we will have one super master to oversee all these. Of course we know if that master also happens to be corrupt we can ask Anna to go on fast to get us a dictator, preferably from the army, and if that’s not viable for some reason then Anna can become our dictator, officially. And if that too doesn’t work we can always pray to God. Finally I also agree that this ‘movement’ doesn’t need us. It doesn’t need anybody who can question it. http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/the-office-of-the-jan-lokpal-and-some-thoughts-on-nivedita-menon%E2%80%99s-post-guest-post-by-anish-ahluwalia/ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com
[humanrights-movement:4819] Fwd: IS IT THE BEGINING OF THE END OF VEDANTA (Dur.10.07)
-- Forwarded message -- From: MAHAMMAD ASHLAM mahamad.ash...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:42 PM Subject: IS IT THE BEGINING OF THE END OF VEDANTA (Dur.10.07) The brazen violations of the law of the land by Vedanta's Lanjigarh refinery are being exposed one by one. After the MoEF cancelled environmental clearance for mining on Niyamgiri and the proposal for expansion, the Orissa High Court has recently come down heavily on Vedanta on the same issues. The Central Pollution Control Board also seems to be questioning the plant's utter disregard for laws. One the other hand, the fight put up by local adivasis to save their mountains, forests, and livelihoods is intensifying by the day... All these indicate an imminent end to Vedanta's fictitious 'Mining Happiness'. --- An exclusive report by KBK Samachar. link-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SE-jvraO0 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
[humanrights-movement:4821] Level of Naxal Violence Declines this Year
FYI Level of Naxal Violence Declines this Year The level of Naxal violence and attack on security forces have declined this year. The year 2011 (up to August 15) has recorded 1128 incidents of naxal violence and killing of 93 security personnel compared to 1429 incidents of violence and killing of 218 security personnel during the corresponding period of 2010. No operation codenamed ‘Operation Greenhorn’ has been launched by Government of India. However, anti-naxal operations are carried out by the security forces in the Naxal affected states on a continuous basis. At present, 71 Battalions of Central Armed Police Forces, 01 Nagaland India Reserve Battalion and 09 Commando Battalion for Resolute Action(CoBRA) have been deployed in Naxal affected states to assist state forces in anti-Naxal operations. Drones are not likely to be deployed in anti-Maoist operations. This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Jintendra Singh in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. http://pib.nic. in/newsite/ erelease. aspx?relid= 74906http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=74906 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the 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.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1* http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups humanrights movement group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
