The arrests by the State of Maharashtra of a cultural group must be condemned
and deplored and their release agitated for.
Niloufer Bhagwat
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Subject: [humanrights-movement:5961] Reminder--Press Conference-formation of
Kabir Kala Manch Defense Committee- MAY 11
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Announcing -formation of Kabir Kala Manch Defense Committee
Date: 11th May, 2012, Time 4 pm.
Venue: Press Club
Speakers: Ms. Teesta Setelvad, Ms. Ratna Pathak Shah,
Shri. Anandraj Ambedkar, Mr. Sudhakar Suradkar, Com.Prakash Reddy,
Advocate P.A. Sabastian,
J.V. Pawar, Mr. Anand Patwardhan.
Jai Bhim Comrade a documentary film by Anand Patwardhan on the
continuing atrocities inflicted on Dalits and on their resistance to this
through poetry and music, recently won a National Film Award. On the 19th of
April the government of Maharashtra further honoured the National awardees, and
Anand Patwardhan received Rs.51,000 for Jai Bhim Comrade.
A different fate is currently being faced by members of the Kabir
Kala Manch (KKM) who feature prominently in the film Jai Bhim Comrade. While
Deepak Dengle is in prison, many other members including lead singer-poets
Sheetal Sathe, Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Sachin Mali and a few others
have gone underground after threats from the police. All are all charged with
being Naxalites and the ATS is using an uncritical media, like the Indian
Express, to plant regular allegations against KKM. Even these allegations do
not accuse the KKM of any violence, but is dependent on guilt by association.
It is not so long ago that Dr. Binayak Sen was similarly charged and
jailed for close to 3 years before the Supreme Court intervened to grant him
bail. Binayak Sen had by then become an international cause célèbre. It was
hoped that his release on bail would put a brake on the targeting of innocent
civilians for the mere “crime” of taking up the cause of the poor.
The attack on KKM shows that this is not the case and consequently
many Indian citizens have decided to initiate a Kabir Kala Manch Defense
Committee.Anand Patwardhan will donate the Rs.51,000 he received from the
government of Maharashtra towards this committee and will be amongst the
several speakers at the Press Conference.
Excerpts from Jai Bhim Comrade will be screened at the Press
Conference.
Contact: Sumedh Jadhav Anand Patwardhan
9869268768
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