[humanrights-movement:7517] Fwd: The Real Network of Death - ISIS Atrocities Pale When Compared to those of the U.S. Masters of War

2014-09-26 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Marx Laboratory marx.laborat...@gmail.com Date: Sep 26, 2014 6:02 PM Subject: The Real Network of Death - ISIS Atrocities Pale When Compared to those of the U.S. Masters of War To: Marx Laboratory marx.laborat...@gmail.com Cc: The Real Network of

Re: [humanrights-movement:7033] Fwd: 5000 FB COVER

2013-09-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
Any party could declare anyone PM Candidate. Nevertheless,in 2014 , the old tricks need not work so well for the divisive fascists and their corporate mentors. It may be the politically conscious electorate of India who will ultimately throw the much hyped fascist -civil war monger to the dust bin

[humanrights-movement:6925] Does the recent killing of a Muslim youth in Kerala resemble in some respects Trayvon Martin's case ?

2013-07-16 Thread Venugopalan K M
Does the recent killing of a Muslim youth in Kerala resemble in some respects Trayvon Martin's case ? On the 7th of this month, Sabith, an innocent eighteen years old ,working in a textile shop at Kasargod (Kerala) was stabbed to death in broad day light near his residence just few kilometers away

[humanrights-movement:6834] FF Committee Report Released in the Press Conference at Kannur on 17-05-2013 on Narath arrests

2013-05-17 Thread Venugopalan K M
Fact Finding Committee Report on Narath Arrests Kannur, 17- 05 - 2013 Following the news reports about the arrest of 21 Muslim youths under UAPA in Narath (Kannur dt.) by the Kerala police, a team of National Confederation of Human Rights (NCHRO) visited the place yesterday and today, met the

[humanrights-movement:6118] Why is India so bad for women? Helen Pidd

2012-07-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
Why is India so bad for women?*Helen Pidd * Monday 23 July 2012 Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. But how is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy? In an ashram perched high on a hill above the noisy

[humanrights-movement:5982] Fwd: Let us hold our breaths..Will it all happen with the approval or connivance of a Communist Party's State leadership..!?

2012-05-16 Thread Venugopalan K M
--[ Update and Thinking in Retrospect on TPC Murder, Onchiyam ] Hardly a few hours past the dastardly crime, Did Kairali and People Channels [owned by the CPI(M)] try to bring in the Muslim terror angle?They reported that ... the incident took place near a mosque ...as though only one name were

[humanrights-movement:5795] The Case That Never Was: A JTSA Report on the ‘SIMI’ Trial of Jaipur

2012-04-07 Thread Venugopalan K M
media | politics | dissent Home About The Case That Never Was: A JTSA Report on the ‘SIMI’ Trial of Jaipur April 7, 2012 tags: Indian Muslims, Jaipur blast, Rajasthan, Students Islamic Movement of India, terrorism, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by Shivam Vij In September 2001,

[humanrights-movement:5723] Koodankulam Crisis: HC instructs TN Police to ensure access to essential needs

2012-03-22 Thread Venugopalan K M
CHENNAI – In a directive to the Tamil Nadu Police, the Madras High Court today ordered Police to ensure the uninterrupted access to basic amenities like electricity, food, milk and water for villagers protesting against Koodankulam nuclear power plant. The Judges, Chief Justice EQ Iqbal and T.S

[humanrights-movement:5725] Koodankulam Crisis: Letter from SP Udayakumar

2012-03-22 Thread Venugopalan K M
..On March 21, my mother had received a phone call from one advocate by the name T. Udayakumar and he claimed he was calling from the DGP office in Chennai. He asked my mother to ask me to leave the protest so that all the cases against me would be dropped and I would get whatever I ask for. My

Re: [humanrights-movement:5586] Benegal pulls out of jury on Vedanta-promoted film competition- PTI

2012-02-24 Thread Venugopalan K M
Congratulations to Shyam Benegal for his most sensible response to an important campaign spearheaded by Adv Kamayimni Bali Mahabal and joined by the concerned human rights activists. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Kamayani kama...@gmail.com wrote:

[humanrights-movement:5520] Petition in Worldwide Solidarity with the Real Egyptian Revolution( fwd from Socialistworker.org magazine )

2012-01-31 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://egyptsolidaritycampaign.org/ Petition in Solidarity with the Real Egyptian Revolution One year ago brave activists in Egypt electrified the world. Sweeping into Tahrir Square in Cairo, and similar sites in other cities and towns, protesting outside government offices, and striking for

[humanrights-movement:5173] Prof Angela Davis, AfroAmerican academic, writer and Marxist activist Speaks at the OWS rally on Oct 28th : Occupy Philly! Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-30 Thread Venugopalan K M
*Prof Angela Davis, Afro American academic, writer and Marxist activist speaks at the OWS rally on Oct 28th, West Philly ,US :* “I want to thank you for helping to reinvent our political universe ..We talk about the importance of building a movement that is inclusive...Movements in the past have

[humanrights-movement:4975] Fwd: Exercises in Cover up, David Barsamian and Arndhati Roy

2011-09-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
*Arundhati Roy said to David Barsamian in a Feb 2011 interview that took place during his last visit in India: Even the middle class who have been benefited by neoliberal policies of the last two decades have slowly started recognizing what is actually happening to the majority of people ,the

[humanrights-movement:4971] Judicial Execution in Georgia state,US : ' He said he was not personally responsible for what happened that night, that he did not have a gun. - Last Words Uttered by Troy

2011-09-22 Thread Venugopalan K M
Davis, strapped to a gurney, lifted his head up and turned towards the witness area's first row where MacPhail's relatives and friends sat. Davis said according to CNN's blog: 'Despite the situation you're in, (I) was not the one who did it.' He said he was not personally responsible for what

[humanrights-movement:4953] PLEASE REMEMBER TO SIGN THE PETITION ONLINE Abandon Koodamkulam Nuclear Project

2011-09-15 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?kankersg -- To: Hon'ble Prime Minister India, CMs of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and Members of Parliament Abandon Koodankulam project Hunger strike at Kudankulam demands a resounding No to Nuclear power As the villagers started an indefinite

[humanrights-movement:4948] Fwd: Abandon Koodamkulam Nuclear Project Plz Sign the Petition Online

2011-09-13 Thread Venugopalan K M
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Abandon Koodamkulam Nuclear Project hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/kankersg/http://www.petitiononline.com/kankersg/ I personally agree with what

[humanrights-movement:4946] UP news Latest: SC orders CBI probe into Banda rape case

2011-09-12 Thread Venugopalan K M
SC orders CBI probe into Banda rape case *Zeenews Bureau* ..The petitioner have alleged that the authorities had committed a grave error by foisting false cases against the victim, who was a minor and was entitled to protection under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA). [image: SC

[humanrights-movement:4940] Fwd: [IHRO] Why this sudden change of heart?

2011-09-10 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: psn.1946 psn.1...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:11 AM Subject: [IHRO] Why this sudden change of heart? To: IHRO i...@yahoogroups.com, bharat-chintan bharat-chin...@googlegroups.com Cc: group chen...@yahoogroups.com, samuk...@yahoogroups.com

[humanrights-movement:4924] Fwd: Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, Green Party leader peace activist, after her returning from a Fact Finding Mission Libya, Tours US Cities to tell the Truth A

2011-09-07 Thread Venugopalan K M
Cynthia McKinney, former congresswoman, Green Party leader peace activist, after her return from Libya on a fact finding mission says : I'm making new friends in twenty cities across this country. .people want the truth..NATO is bombing a town which is very much like Baltimore..it is collective

Re: [humanrights-movement:4927] An Absolutely Unparalleled AmazingFeat Two Indian Billionaires in the first 50 list of Fortune 500 Companiesequal to the net worth of approximately 55 Chinese Billionai

2011-09-07 Thread Venugopalan K M
The Indian media for reasons best known is not reporting the economic, financial and political developments in the world ..You said it! I wish to add that this may even be more exceptional to the kind of monopoly of CNN- Murdoch on media in the world. Their Indian counterparts probably have

[humanrights-movement:4896] Team Anna Successfully Blocked the People from Questioning the Fountainhead of Corruption...Capital. A FACE BOOK NOTE by Sushantha Roy

2011-09-03 Thread Venugopalan K M
Team Anna Successfully Blocked the People from Questioning the Fountainhead of Corruption...Capital. I have been thinking about this for days cannot finally brush it off as idle speculation. The entire Anna movement seems to have been designed to mortally weaken the govt( as in the people's

[humanrights-movement:4847] Fwd: Forgive Me,Your Honour Dear Jan Lokpal, If it Looks Bit Absurd!

2011-08-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
* Dear Jan Lok Pal, I hear that you are pleased to investigate all corruptions practiced by public servants , without discriminating between high and low levels of accountability of the offices in question... Your promoters seem to claim that it is an added tooth to your ability to uproot the

[humanrights-movement:4711] 'Devaprashnam' at Padmanabhaswami temple Accompanied by the Usual Hypes: Will the Law Rise Up to Peoples' Expectations to Stop This Nonsense?

2011-08-12 Thread Venugopalan K M
Ordinary Keralaites sitting in their drawing rooms, could perhaps view only with outrage the story presented by the electronic media on 'devaprashnam' in Padmanabhaswamy temple. It challenged not just the the spirit of public interest, law and the constitution, but also the common sense of the

[humanrights-movement:4506] Dimitrov vs Goebbels (Excerpts from documents)

2011-06-19 Thread Venugopalan K M
*Dimitrov: *Is it true that the National Socialist Government has granted a pardon to all terrorist acts carried out to further the aims of the National Socialist movement? *Goebbels: *The National Socialist Government could not leave in prisons people who, risking their lives and health, had

Re: [humanrights-movement:4476] List of Police Firings in India (work in progress)- Javed Iqbal

2011-06-12 Thread Venugopalan K M
Just came across the report about a fact finding mission in Forbesgunj by CPI(ML)Liberation. The number of people dead in the police firing and atrocities is given as 4; let the exact figure be checked,though it doesn't affect our understanding of the systematic pattern of such heinous crimes

[humanrights-movement:4409] Fwd: Pranaayaam Was Never So Painful article by Shuddhabrata Sengupta

2011-06-04 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Venugopalan K M kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM Subject: Pranaayaam Was Never So Painful article by Shuddhabrata Sengupta To: ...Crowds are running helter-skelter. I can see an atmosphere of total chaos unfold before my eyes

[humanrights-movement:4163] Fwd: Binayak Gets Bail - When Will all our Binayaks Get Justice

2011-04-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kavita Krishnan kavitakris...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:37 PM Subject: Binayak Gets Bail - When Will all our Binayaks Get Justice To: Binayak Gets Bail: When Will All our Binayaks Get Justice? Dipankar Bhattacharya Dr. Binayak Sen

[humanrights-movement:3973] Why is the U.S. afraid of Malalai Joya? Khury Petersen-Smith writes about Malalai Joya and her struggle to speak out. March 24, 2011

2011-03-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
WOMEN'S RIGHTS activist and former member of Afghanistan's parliament Malalai Joya is fearless. She has stopped at nothing to raise her voice against the dual enemies of freedom and women's equality in her country: the misogyny of Afghan warlords and the brutal U.S./NATO occupation. She has been

[humanrights-movement:3606] Repeal UAPA Now!- Online Petition

2011-01-26 Thread Venugopalan K M
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Repeal UAPA Now! hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/rpluapa/http://www.petitiononline.com/rpluapa/ I personally agree with what this petition says, and

[humanrights-movement:3509] Investigate the Hindutva Terror Network!

2011-01-10 Thread Venugopalan K M
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Investigate the Hindutva Terror Network! hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/megha00/http://www.petitiononline.com/megha00/ I personally agree with what

[humanrights-movement:3343] The Binayak Sen Case Update : Five days later, on December 24, the Raipur sessions court will deliver its verdict in the Dr Binayak Sen case. Supriya Sharma in Raipur puts

2010-12-19 Thread Venugopalan K M
The Binayak Sen Case Update Five days later, on December 24, the Raipur sessions court will deliver its verdict in the Dr Binayak Sen casehttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Dr%20Binayak%20Sen%20case. Supriya Sharma in Raipur puts together the legal evidence and arguments by both

[humanrights-movement:3344] Fwd: Invitation to a screening : Witness Safai Karamcharis (Manual Scavengers) from across India Declare their Liberation from the Inhuman Practice

2010-12-19 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shiva Shankar sshan...@cmi.ac.in Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM Subject: Invitation to a screening To: SAFAI KARAMCHARI ANDOLAN invites you to witness safai karamcharis from across India declare their liberation from the inhuman practice of

[humanrights-movement:3324] Amend the Bill for Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

2010-12-14 Thread Venugopalan K M
To introduce bills for the protection of women has been a standard device by governments intent on proving how progressive they are. This is nothing new, since even the colonial rulers did this. Yet,from the colonial imperialists to the present, such bills are very often intentionally flawed ones.

[humanrights-movement:3301] Two hours before 26/11 attacks, Hemant Karkare called me to say his life under threat: Digvijay Singh [Seema Chishti,Indian Express ]

2010-12-11 Thread Venugopalan K M
Two hours before 26/11 attacks, Hemant Karkare called me to say his life under threat: Digvijay Singh Seema Chishti In a startling revelation days after the second anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has said that two hours before the first

[humanrights-movement:3303] Are WikiLeaks Being Exploited by the Neighbouring States for Propaganda? (Story in Guardian.UK)

2010-12-11 Thread Venugopalan K M
..They read like the most extraordinary revelations. Citing the WikiLeakshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/wikileakscables, major Pakistani newspapers http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/newspapers this morning carried stories that purported to detail eye-popping American assessments of

[humanrights-movement:3299] Naomi Wolf Writes To Interpol By Naomi Wolf 11 December, 2010

2010-12-10 Thread Venugopalan K M
Naomi Wolf Writes To Interpol *By Naomi Wolf* 11 December, 2010 *Antiwar.com*http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/09/naomi-wolf-writes-to-interpol/ Dear Interpol: As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and

[humanrights-movement:3272] Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) Announce New Web Portals to Make Available All Evidence of Gujarat- 2002 Crimes [Excerpted Text]

2010-12-05 Thread Venugopalan K M
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) Announce New Web Portals to Make Available All Evidence of Gujarat- 2002 Crimes [Excerpted Text] ..Now in a renewed attempt to make available all this evidence, is the new portal www.gujarat-riots.com http://ww.gujarat-riots.org/ . Sequentially all

[humanrights-movement:3266] State Terrorism – Shah ina Responds Mon, 29/11/2010 - 12:50 — Shahina K K (Transl ated from the original in Malayalam)

2010-12-04 Thread Venugopalan K M
*State Terrorism – Shahina Responds** * Mon, 29/11/2010 - 12:50 — Shahina K K (Translated from the original in Malayalam) Investigating cases is the work of the police, and not of the media; I am under no misapprehension on that front. Yet when the stories circulated by the police challenge

[humanrights-movement:3262] Withdraw false case against Shahina K K, Support Press Freedom Petition

2010-12-03 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://www.petitiononline.com/shahkk12/petition.html Withdraw false case against Shahina K K, Support Press Freedom Petitionhttp://www.petitiononline.com/shahkk12/petition.html www.petitiononline.com Withdraw false case against Shahina K K, Support Press Freedom Petition, hosted at

[humanrights-movement:3257] Two Documents on Police Slamming False Case on K K Shahina, Tehelka Reporter in Connection With Her Investigative Report Exposing the Fabricated Evidences by Karnata Police

2010-12-02 Thread Venugopalan K M
*1.* *Statement on Decisions Taken in Preliminary Meeting in Delhi on K K Shahina * Today a group of academicians, journalists, activists and students, met at TEFLAS in JNU, Delhi, to discuss the issues related to the slamming of a police case under IPC Section 506, against K K Shahina, a

[humanrights-movement:3252] Fwd: Frame up after Frame up: In Defence of K.K. Shahina

2010-12-01 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:25 PM Subject: Frame up after Frame up: In Defence of K.K. Shahina To: tharapazhay...@gmail.com, kmvenuan...@gmail.com K K Shahina Falsely Implicated by Karnataka Police taking revenge on her Tehelka

[humanrights-movement:3243] We Are Not All in the Same Boat By Jacqueline S. Homan

2010-11-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
If you were one of those whose votes, cultural capital, campaign contributions, election volunteering activities placed the last three decades of neoliberals and neocons in office that have deprived poor women of bodily autonomy and bodily integrity in the name of “pro-life” morality and then

[humanrights-movement:3129] Fwd: [Secular Perspective] Islam and modern age

2010-11-02 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: CSSS c...@mtnl.net.in Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM Subject: [Secular Perspective] Islam and modern age To: FIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR ISLAMIC WORLD Asghar Ali Engineer *(Islam and Modern Age, November 2010)* There is no doubt or debate

Re: [humanrights-movement:3135] A Public Statement - Please Circulate Widely

2010-11-02 Thread Venugopalan K M
Good idea to propagate this message. Thanks On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, ram puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Anuradha Bhasin anus...@gmail.com Dear Friends, The attached public statement is a protest against the attempt to revive

[humanrights-movement:3127] Arundhati's House Ransacked by a Gang of Mahila Morcha Women Under Full Media Coverage!

2010-10-31 Thread Venugopalan K M
...So, while the Government is showing a degree of maturity, are sections of the media and the infrastructure of democracy being rented out to those who believe in mob justice? I can understand that the BJP’s Mahila Morcha is using me to distract attention the from the senior RSS activist Indresh

[humanrights-movement:3109] Fwd: [New post] WikiLeaks, Azadi and Arnab Goswami: Monobina Gupta

2010-10-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
'Little wonder then that the image of Kashmiri youths throwing stones is played over and over again accompanied by texts and voiceovers which erase contexts; whereas the video of Kashmiri youths stripped and herded by security forces, barely finds mention in the media. In a *Times of India*

Re: [humanrights-movement:3041] invitation to the Seminar on Ayodhya Judgment

2010-10-04 Thread Venugopalan K M
Please find this and a few other related responses compiled in single blog: http://venukm.blogspot.com/ In solidarity, K M Venugopalan On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM, ram puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: neha dabhade ndaba...@gmail.com

[humanrights-movement:3021] The Ayodhya Verdict: A Blow to the Spirit of Modern India [Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation.]

2010-10-02 Thread Venugopalan K M
Here's is the full text of a statement issued by Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation. * * * *The Ayodhya Verdict:* A Blow to the Spirit of Modern India On the eve of the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya, we had said the

Re: [humanrights-movement:3023] The verdict on Ayodhya: a historian Romila Thapar's 's perspective

2010-10-02 Thread Venugopalan K M
Invite you to visit the blog on the topic, containing some important responses from* progressive /secular sections of the intelligensia*...just trying to compile them into one blog, adding from the web either as direct texts or as links ;kindly help by sending similar texts/links which might help

[humanrights-movement:3013] Opening the Pandora's Box- [About the Ayodhya Judgment]

2010-10-01 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://kafila.org/2010/10/01/opening-pandoras-box/ -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR

[humanrights-movement:2994] Sign an Open Letter to the CJI in Support of Prashant Bhushan

2010-09-27 Thread Venugopalan K M
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Sign an Open Letter to the CJI in Support of Prashant Bhushan hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CJI/ http://www.petitiononline.com/CJI/ I personally

[humanrights-movement:2892] Kashmir: An Epitome Of Struggle By Naveed Qazi

2010-08-24 Thread Venugopalan K M
...There is growing tendency in the world to resolve differences through continued negotiations, and the realization that decisions imposed through violence do not provide lasting peace and stability... http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi230810.htm -- You cannot build anything on the

[humanrights-movement:2881] The media and the Great Kerala Terrorist Hunt Posted on August 20, 2010 by B.R.P. Bhaskar by B.R.P.Bhaskar ( CounterMedia)

2010-08-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
..Most media persons perhaps do not realize that they have become convenient tools in the hands of the authorities. Editorialized reports appearing in the CPI-M daily Deshabhimani, which acts as drum-beater for Kerala’s own War on Terror, are a giveaway: they reveal the political motivation behind

[humanrights-movement:2819] US War Criminals Threaten WikiLeaks,Private Manning By Patrick Martin

2010-08-06 Thread Venugopalan K M
US War Criminals Threaten WikiLeaks,Private Manning By Patrick Martin http://www.countercurrents.org/martin060810.htm The most strident rhetoric has come from the ultra-right. Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan, a former FBI agent who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told a

[humanrights-movement:2802] Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran Part I: Global Warfare By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 1, 2010

2010-08-01 Thread Venugopalan K M
“ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- [Albert Einstein] The media, the intellectuals, the scientists and the politicians, in chorus, obfuscate the untold truth, namely that war using nuclear warheads destroys

Re: [humanrights-movement:2738] Appeal for Kashmir

2010-07-09 Thread Venugopalan K M
In solidarity, K M Venugopalan (Kerala) On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, ram puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.com wrote: 9 July, 2010    New Delhi, India To, National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for the Protection of

[humanrights-movement:2733] A Dialogue with God and Dialogues that go missing by Sudeep KS and Bobby Kunju

2010-07-08 Thread Venugopalan K M
A Dialogue with God and Dialogues that go missing by Sudeep KS and Bobby Kunju [Inviting to a discussion on rhetoric and hate talk versus genuine debate on secularism and terrorism] http://kafila.org/2010/07/09/a-dialogue-with-god-and-dialogues-that-go-missing/ You cannot build anything on

Re: [humanrights-movement:2697] Dalit Woman Paraded Naked in Wadala- NEED TO PROTEST NOW

2010-06-27 Thread Venugopalan K M
What is shocking more than the crime itself, is reported complicity of the crowd which even included few women. This is does not just seem to be a case of atrocity against dalits. It has rather surfaced from the underbellies of a larger socio-political and cultural millieu in which

[humanrights-movement:2673] Fwd: {feminists-kerala} Judith Butler Turns Down Civil Courage Award from Berlin Pride: 'I Must Distance Myself from This Racist Complicity' by SUSPECT

2010-06-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Venugopalan K M kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM Subject: {feminists-kerala} Judith Butler Turns Down Civil Courage Award from Berlin Pride: 'I Must Distance Myself from This Racist Complicity' by SUSPECT To: http

[humanrights-movement:2653] Death And The Maiden By S V Rajadurai and V Geetha (fwd)

2010-06-17 Thread Venugopalan K M
Death And The Maiden *By S V Rajadurai and V Geetha* 17 June, 2010 *Countercurrents.org * ..There is a civic decorum that democratic life demands we share, and the media is as much a party to this compact. But when the media presents such photos without comment, and agrees to treat a section

[humanrights-movement:2634] Operation Green Hunt's Urban Avatar By Arundhati Roy (fwded)

2010-06-15 Thread Venugopalan K M
Operation Green Hunt's Urban Avatar By Arundhati Roy 14 June, 2010 The Dawn ..The day after the meeting, the Press Trust of India (PTI) put out a brazenly concocted account of what I had said. The PTI report was first posted by the Indian Express online on June 3rd 2010 at 13.35 pm. The

[humanrights-movement:2630] On Communal/Social Profiling in India ( by Subhash Gatade)

2010-06-14 Thread Venugopalan K M
..One can go on enumerating instances where minorities have got a rough deal at the hands of the powers that be or how the articulate sections not bothered to ensure building of a more inclusive, non-discriminatory atmosphere at every pores of our society. An outcome of this situation is very

[humanrights-movement:2609] Fwd: Asianews: Indian activist: Bhopal ruling, symbol of decayed justice

2010-06-09 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:50 AM Subject: Asianews: Indian activist: Bhopal ruling, symbol of decayed justice To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com K M Venugopalan saw this story on Asianews and thought you should see it. *Message:*

[humanrights-movement:2606] Fwd: Israel's Legitimacy and the Power of its Lobby in the US by Matt Siegfried (Excerpts from an article in Radical Socialist )

2010-06-08 Thread Venugopalan K M
Israel's Legitimacy and the Power of its Lobby in the US Matt Siegfried ..Though – and this underlines my point I hope – Saudi Arabia (a bête noire only a spot below Iran in Israeli eyes) remains as key to US interests in the region as Israel (though in different ways).  The close ties to the

[humanrights-movement:2599] Fwd: Digg Story: YouTube - Pt. 11 of 18 - INDIA'S WAR ON PEOPLE - Gautam Navl

2010-06-05 Thread Venugopalan K M
I wanted to share this story with you: http://digg.com/d31T9ac?e --- YouTube - Pt. 11 of 18 - INDIA'S WAR ON PEOPLE - Gautam Navl In what is Arundhati Roy's first public meeting in India after her visit to Maoist controlled territories in Dantewada, she outlines her opinions... +1 person dugg this

[humanrights-movement:2586] (Fwd)Nirupama’s Murder : The Violence Of The High-Born By Kavita Krishnan

2010-05-27 Thread Venugopalan K M
Nirupama’s Murder: The Violence Of The High-Born By Kavita Krishnan http://www.countercurrents.org/krishnan260510.htm A civilised letter from a ‘high-born’ father! Quite a contrast to that post mortem report which testifies to the fact that three people (including, probably, her mother) in

[humanrights-movement:2587] Minority Images In The Indian Print Media By Siddharth Varadarajan (countercurrents)

2010-05-27 Thread Venugopalan K M
..If a madrasa is involved in illegal activities, or if its funds are coming in an unregulated fashion, you have the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) that regulates conditions under which any charitable organization registered by the government can receive money from abroad and what kind of

[humanrights-movement:2585] Caste and the Census- by Gail Omvedt(fwd)

2010-05-26 Thread Venugopalan K M
Caste and the Census http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2385/ By Gail Omvedt. *Also published in Frontier and Forward* “See no caste, hear no caste, speak no caste.” The policy of the Indian elite towards the issue of caste has been that of the three monkeys: one of denial. It doesn’t exist; if it

[humanrights-movement:2581] Fwd: Mentorship Programme for Dalit and Adivasi students (fwd)

2010-05-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shiva Shankar sshan...@cmi.ac.in Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:32 PM Subject: Mentorship Programme for Dalit and Adivasi students (fwd) To: '... ‘The death of Merit’ is a documentary based on the testimonies of the family members of Bal Mukund

[humanrights-movement:2575] Where Are the Beautiful People? [article by Manu Joseph, Journalist and emerging novelist ]

2010-05-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
*** ..Web 2.0 has revealed the world as a place festering with an inordinately high number of dim, hateful people whose views, in the older days, would not have got past the doormats of a newspaper office, but are now broadcast for all to see.. ..The silence of the liberal population in the Kasab

[humanrights-movement:2572] Request for Information(fwded)

2010-05-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
Please respond to this message from Prof Shiva Shankar (fwded): S Shiva Shankar sshan...@cmi.ac.in Dear Friends, can you provide me with an estimate of the number of Tribal Peoples killed by the police forces in this 'Green Hunt'? The numbers of people killed since Salwa Judum started?

[humanrights-movement:2545] 'Social Activist' , scholar editor of the Womens Magazine MANUSHI Supports 'League Of Honor Killers' ?!

2010-05-12 Thread Venugopalan K M
Is the Politics of Identity is 'maturing' in India to take its toll on women's rights, democratic rights, Individual's Constitutional Rights so on and so forth?. Invite you all to read this article League Of Honor Killers written by Raja Jaikrishan.

[humanrights-movement:2547] Why Not UAPA 2008 Applicable to Bal Thakre? (copy paste from a debate elsewhere)

2010-05-12 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2010/05/11/sympathies-in-extremis/ ..One might pause to ask, ‘Why is not the UAPA, 2008 applicable to Bal Thackeray who has, for decades, led the movements against sections of innocent people like the *lungiwallahs* or the *Musalmans* or Raj Thackeray whose

[humanrights-movement:2500] Fwd: 'Honour Killings':What needs to be done (The Hindu:26-04-2010 ; Article By S Viswanathan )

2010-04-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
“...Any displeasure caused to the upper caste people may lead to the cancellation of the annual temple festival. And that in turn will invite the wrath of Mari Amman [the presiding deity of the local temple]. That we cannot ignore, sir...”

Re: [humanrights-movement:2490] Fwd: Please endorse Statement ontheKhap Maha Panchayat

2010-04-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
I endorse the statement. In solidarity, K M Venugopalan Kerala On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Niloufer Bhagwat niloufe...@vsnl.netwrote: The Union of India is unable to deal with defiance to the Constitution and laws on its doorsteps , even as it sends para military forces for more

[humanrights-movement:2439] Subject: ACHR - Arrest of prominent human rights activist, Kirity Roy, condemned

2010-04-07 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pinaki pina...@ymail.com Subject: ACHR - Arrest of prominent human rights activist, Kirity Roy, condemned http://www.achrweb.org/press/2010/IND07-2010.html Arrest of prominent human rights activist, Kirity Roy, condemned - UN Human Rights Chief and

Re: [humanrights-movement:2417] 'Now, nobody can call my son a terrorist'

2010-03-30 Thread Venugopalan K M
Even more important is a comment there (in the NDTV link, provided in your post). The comment posted on 29-03-2010 by one Naveed reads :- After the opening of Israel Counsel such conspiracies are becomming common. To abate this BJP is playing to their tune and even our officers are getting

Re: [humanrights-movement:2394] Is it a crime in Gujarat to fight for people's rights ?

2010-03-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
I endorse the statement In solidarity, k M Venugopalan On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:12 PM, ram puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: sachin pandya sachinan...@gmail.com Dear friends, please endorse the statement. Avinash Kulkarni has been

[humanrights-movement:2322] Fwd: Press Note issued to International Indian Media in N Delhi 5 March

2010-03-08 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shiva Shankar sshan...@cmi.ac.in Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM Subject: Press Note issued to International Indian Media in N Delhi 5 March To: '... If the total number of government forces presently engaged in this operation is taken in its

[humanrights-movement:2323] Fwd: Some Voice in the US still struggling

2010-03-08 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rinita Mazumdar revfemini...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:01 AM Subject: Some Voice in the US still struggling To: wcc...@googlegroups.com Amazing there is almost NO CELEBRATION IN THE USA OF MARCH 8th, so have they done a good job of

[humanrights-movement:2301] Fwd: [New post] Statement of Concerned Citizens and Feminists on the Death of W R Varadarajan

2010-03-03 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kafila no-re...@wordpress.com Date: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:54 PM Subject: [New post] Statement of Concerned Citizens and Feminists on the Death of W R Varadarajan To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com http://kafila.org/author/ponni/ Statement of Concerned

[humanrights-movement:2275] Fwd: [ANN:2738] Fwd: The number of people detained in Sabarmati Ashram has gone up to 5,000

2010-02-24 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: SUNDARA BABU babuu...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM Subject: [ANN:2738] Fwd: The number of people detained in Sabarmati Ashram has gone up to 5,000 To: activism-news-network activism-news-netw...@googlegroups.com Forwarded

[humanrights-movement:2268] To Get Away With Murder, Chhattisgarh Style By Javed Iqbal

2010-02-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
To Get Away With Murder, Chhattisgarh Style By Javed Iqbal 23 February, 2010 Moonchasing.wordpress.com Sets: The Supreme Court and the inaccessible jungles of Dantewada. Cast – missing witnesses and supreme court petitioners, a controversial activist, a young superintendent of police, counsel

[humanrights-movement:2248] POLITRICkS of TERRORISM

2010-02-20 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: kmveunuan...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM Subject: Do we have to politicize everything? « DougDisneyland To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com  Politricks of Terrorism..?

[humanrights-movement:2220] Online Petition and the facebook links Justice for Chithralekha,

2010-01-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
Sign the online petition http://www.facebook.com/l/3f75a;www.petitiononline.com/lekha/petition.html and join the FB group http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?dropref=mb#/group.php?gid=275224676295; You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot

[humanrights-movement:2216] Online Petition Chithralekha, with Content Added : there was an earlier version with text content missing

2010-01-27 Thread Venugopalan K M
Please find the Chithralekha petition online here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/lekha/ http://www.petitiononline.com/lekha/ -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations

[humanrights-movement:2214] JUSTICE FOR CHITHRA LEKHA Online Petition

2010-01-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: JUSTICE FOR CHITHRA LEKHA hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/chithra/http://www.petitiononline.com/chithra/ I personally agree with what this petition

[humanrights-movement:2202] Fwd: Is Manu Smiling? Parallel System of Administration of Justice Spreading Beyond the Heartlands of the Khap Panchayats [EXCERPTs from Contercurrents article by Pradeep

2010-01-16 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Venugopalan K M kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM Subject: Is Manu Smiling? Parallel System of Administration of Justice Spreading Beyond the Heartlands of the Khap Panchayats [EXCERPTs from Contercurrents article by Pradeep

[humanrights-movement:2197] Fwd: The #039;Left#039; that takes Pride in Bullying

2010-01-10 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: kmvenuan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM Subject: The #039;Left#039; that takes Pride in Bullying To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com *Payyanur:* A small town in the northern Kannur district of Kerala is in focus again, for its characteristic

[humanrights-movement:2198] A 'Left' That Takes Pride In Bullying

2010-01-10 Thread Venugopalan K M
- http://bit.ly/4v97Cc -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com

[humanrights-movement:2141] Fwd: [ANN:2263] NFFPFW condemns killing and attack upon tribals and peasants at Narayanpatna, Orissa

2009-11-25 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: NFFPFW nffpfwin...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:09 PM Subject: [ANN:2263] NFFPFW condemns killing and attack upon tribals and peasants at Narayanpatna, Orissa To: ** *National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers(NFFPFW) condemns

[humanrights-movement:2134] Prime Minister Dr Manmohan is trying to take India closer to US both strategically and economically --

2009-11-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2009/11/20091123225343115675.html Is Prime Minister Dr Manmohan is trying to take India more dependent on the US, both strategically and economically? -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you

[humanrights-movement:2135] Womens' Organizations Resolve to End Police Paramilitary Violence Against Women All Over India.

2009-11-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
*Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression** * *Statement of women’s organizations on * *the increasing state violence on people's movements and sexual violence on women * *by the police, paramilitary and army. * *Bhopal**, 24th and 25th October 2009 * We, the undersigned

[humanrights-movement:2136] Fwd: [indiathinkersnet] Naked parade of women ...Is this becoming our national passtime ?

2009-11-23 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: indiathinkers...@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Naked parade of women ...Is this becoming our national passtime ? To: indiathinkers...@yahoogroups.com Pregnant UP woman beaten up, paraded naked

[humanrights-movement:2127] Fwd: Fw: AIPWA Statement against anti-woman resolutions of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind

2009-11-19 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: poarkodi natarajan poar_k...@yahoo.co.in Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM Subject: Fw: AIPWA Statement against anti-woman resolutions of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com - Forwarded Message *From:* Kavita Krishnan

[humanrights-movement:2125] From a debate (NO FICTION) ...Thought it might interest you

2009-11-18 Thread Venugopalan K M
*'Dalit' :-*Can some body enlighten me please why when a Dalit starts speaking up she is either referred to Vedas or to Marx’s capital ?? Cant they just see that both of them have been rejected lock, stock and barrel by the Dalits and it has happened more because both these ’sacred’ texts have

[humanrights-movement:2119] Fwd: [indiathinkersnet] Fw: Probe ordered into Karkare's missing bulletproof vest

2009-11-17 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Abhiyya abhi...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Fw: Probe ordered into Karkare's missing bulletproof vest To: Also read: Where Is Hemant Karkare’s Bullet Proof Jacket ? *By Subhash Gatade*

[humanrights-movement:2120] Fwd: Article from SocialistWorker.org

2009-11-17 Thread Venugopalan K M
Please go through this link about the other side of the tragic shoot out killing 13 people, by an American citizen of Palestinian origin,who has been working in the American Military as a Psychiatrist. View original article here: http://socialistworker.org/2009/11/09/making-of-a-tragedy Comment

[humanrights-movement:2110] (Fwd) Invitation : A doc umentary film that exposes official India’s cruelest secre t (1 hour, 5 minutes; English)

2009-11-15 Thread Venugopalan K M
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rajesh Ramakrishnan rrajes...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:39:34 +0530 Subject: Delhi 20 Nov: Documentary Film Screening: TORTURED HUMANITY Friends, YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A SCREENING OF A UNIQUE FILM MARICH

[humanrights-movement:2078] Re: JTSA terms the SC judgement on Batla House 'encounter' highly unfortunate; will set a dangerous precedent

2009-10-30 Thread Venugopalan K M
The verdict seems to quietly uphold the infamous logic of collective conscienceof the nation, which would even demand instant deaths to any one accused by the police of having links with terrorism or even suspected so. In the context of the death sentence pronounced against Afsal Guru in the

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