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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s speech on climate change to Copenheganhttp://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5013

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(via Indiatogether, link is here)Loha Garam Hai tells the story of how people struggle with India's most polluting industry - the sponge iron industry. The 43-minute film presents a picture of an industry allowed to grow unfettered and unhindered by various laws, often with administrative connivance. Through graphics, title cards, data and interviews with people - both ordinary men and women, and

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An air-conditioning manufacturer has an advertisement showing an TV these days which goes something like this ...जो इतनी बिजली बचाए कीगाँव गाँव को बिजली पहुंचाएThe A/C saves so much energy that it helps electrify villages.What a sham!What about not using A/Cs in the first place? What about equal accessto electricity and then the question of giving A/C usage priority?What about people who are

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P. Sainath writes on the recession, GDP and HDI. Assets of the billionaires and their global ranking may be going down, but what is the status on the other-side of the tip of the pyramid?HDI Oscars: Slumdogs versus millionairesWhat does it mean to rank much better on GDP per capita than in the HDI, as we do? It means we have been less successful in converting income into human development.

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tap water biomasswalkingcyclingbraking

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Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our TimesBy Kancha Ilaiah.Illustrations: Durgabai Vyam.Navayana catalog entry is here.work, pay, an older entry somewhat related to the topic of the book.the book foreword ...Teaching Dignity of Labour in Our TimesIn March 2006, when the Union government announced 27 percent reservation in central education institutions for communities

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(a friend mailed this ...)The Development Sector- Ross CogginsExcuse me, friends, I must catch my jetI`m off to join the Development Set;My bags are packed, and I`ve had all my shotsI have traveller`s checks and pills for the trots!The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our vision global; Although we move with the better classes Our thoughts are always with the

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am thankful my parents did not read this.wt*#$%yeah, my reaction as well.this is child abuse.

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Sion railway station has been computerised. Was waiting in linefor about 20 minutes today morning to get a ticket.Was reminded of this, that I had written earlier.* * * * also, a Sion-related Marathi song, typed in English ...sion aaya sion aayadadar matunga sion aayakurla ghatkopar mulund ke baadthana mumbra kalwa diva kalyan aaya ||1|| sion aayaaagin gaadi aagin gaadi dhag dhagatemumbaichi hawa

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On this link, of the HCL Computers web-site ...Best Suited for: Top Executive, Ladies, Business Power User, Mangers, Lawyers, Doctors, Senior Citizens, Home , Students, Teachers, Field Executive. Is this being sensitive or insensitive or ?

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The Chingari Trust has a call for nominations for the 2008 Chingari Award.The site mentions the following criteria for nominations:•a woman campaigning against corporate crimes•struggling with her community in a remote part of rural India•waging a sustained democratic struggle of at least 5 years' duration•non-sectarian and secular, unaffiliated with a political party•helping to change a

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a friend forwarded this to me ...This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2006, Written by anAfrican kid.When I born, I blackWhen I grow up, I blackWhen I go in Sun, I blackWhen I scared, I blackWhen I sick, I blackAnd when I die, I still blackAnd you white fellowWhen you born, you pinkWhen you grow up, you whiteWhen you go in sun, you redWhen you cold, you blueWhen you scared, you

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read this: The idiocy of urban thinkingwrote this---Read Sagarika Ghose's article in HT dated 15-02-08 titled "The idiocyof urban thinking".Her point that several schemes (like the NREGA) are just saving the farmerfrom the brink and not an inch more was spot on. Further, her question aboutwhy should the farmer not migrate to urban centers was also very valid.But her analysis based on these points

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17,060 is the number of farm suicides in 2006, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its report Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India.P. Sainath writes about this here.NCRB data record 1,66,304 farmers’ suicides in a decade since 1997.Of these, 78,737 occurred between 1997 and 2001. The next five years — from 2002 to 2006 — proved worse, seeing 87,567 farmers take their own

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Ham Bhopal ke naari hain, ham phool nahin, chingaari hain. is the rallying call of the Chingari Trust.from their website ...The all-woman Chingari Trust represents the spirit of resilience and persistence of the Bhopal survivors and notably the women who for years have refused to be daunted or defeated. Ham Bhopal ke naari hain, ham phool nahin, chingaari hain. ‘We are women of Bhopal, we are

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MumbaiUnplug called for a Batti Bandh on 15th December, from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.Here is what "Batti Bandh" is (from the MumbaiUnplug website) ... Batti Bandh is an entirely voluntary event taking place on the 15th of December between 7:30 & 8:30 p.m. This event is aimed at requesting all of Mumbai to stand up for a cause that is greater than all of us. All you need to do is switch off lights

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Gujarat 2002: The Truth.Read. And Be Afraid, by Tarun Tejpal.Lest We Forget Our Shame, Harinder Baweja.CNN-IBN reports TV channel blackouts.

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Tata Motors has announced that it will roll out it's Rs. 1 lakh car (around USD 2500) in 2008. Other car makers may step in that price segment as well. Do we need a car in this price segment?... taking in to account, congestion, pollution, dependence on oil, travel needs, alternate public transport mechanisms, safety standards etc.A related article from Down to Earth is here.

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two takes on this ...It’s Insanity, Stupid! - Al Gore And That Nobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore opened a heated debate: was it right to award a mass murderer and war criminal? ...On CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn wrote, “When Gore goes to get the prize [… he] should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other

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Global Hypocrisy On Burmaby Satya Sagar Of all the countries around the world the most shameful position is held by India, once the land of the likes of Mahatma Gandhi but now run by politicians with morals that would make a snake-oil salesman squirm. India likes to claim at every opportunity that it is ‘the world’s largest democracy’ but what it tells no one, but everyone can see, is that its

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When the one who dies is a woman, Aparna Pallavi writes on the issue of women suicides in Vidarbha. Are the pressures which make male farmers commit suicide the same for women farmers as well? Socially, legally, with respect to property rights, and given their family positions, in the farming communities of Vidarbha women are placed in situations strikingly different from those of men. How does

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Opinion Research Business, a polling firm in the UK, is reporting 1.2 million violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation.HOW MANY MORE WILL IT TAKE TO GET U.S. OUT OF IRAQ?Two reports about this are: here and here.So we are speaking of some 1.2 million people who have been killed in this way, and that does not count the numbers that were killed during the invasion itself for

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P.Sainath's Ramon Magsaysay Award acceptance speech--- (from here).This is the 60th year of Indian independence. A freedom fought for and won on a vision that placed our humblest citizens at the centre of action and of the future. A struggle that brought the world’s then mightiest empire to its knees. A struggle which saw the birth of a new nation, with a populace overwhelmingly illiterate, yet

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Medical students have to undergo a one-year internship (presumably rotating within several wards/specializations) before they are given a degree. Am not sure about this, but students may also be placed in rural areas as part of the rotation.The question then is, why don't engineering/science/... students have such/similar requirement?Surely, the logistics of having a full-time one year internship

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From the series of interviews conducted by David Barsamian, which appear as a collection in the book Louder than Bombs ... [November 2002]DB: What's wrong with journalism today?John Pilger: Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many fellow journalists can be so

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P. Sainath writes on the topic ... "The decade of our discontent".some of the numbers he mentions are staggering ...The average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) of the Indian farm household is a long way from Rs.15 lakh. And further from $115,000. It is, in fact, Rs.503.About 60 per cent of that Rs.503 is spent on food. Another 18 per cent on fuel, clothing, and footwear. Of the pathetic sum

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What would be the sorted ordering of the following professions based on monthly earnings---a) Software Engineerb) Janitorc) Teacherd) Cobblere) Office Clerkf) Hand cart pullerg) Construction workerand what are the reasons for such an ordering?

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Sixty two years ago today, was the first of two instances of use of nuclear weapons in warfare.On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki.Wikipedia link here.Estimated worldwide nuclear stockpiles (also from Wikipedia).* * * * * *Ambu sends this link: White Light,

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P. Sainath has been awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.Invisible India is the elephant in your bedroom, an interview with him on India Together.A report in The Hindu is here.The complete list of awardees (from www.rmaf.org.ph):Mr. Jovito R. Salonga, from the Philippines, for Government Service. He is being recognized for "the

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Yesterday evening went to Vikalp's preview screening of the film Jashn-e-Azadi. According to the filmmaker Sanjay Kak the film "... raises questions about freedom in Kashmir, and about the degrees of freedom in India."Reached the venue in pouring rain and found a group of policemen at the entrance, found it unusual but did not take much notice. The screening was to start at 6.30 p.m. sharp and

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While waiting in line to get a railway ticket at Kanjurmarg's new ticketing counter, heard a man in front of me say, "Kitna time le raha hai!". He had an exasperated look on his face and was referring to the unusually slow pace at which the queue was moving. I have also noticed this slow-queue-movement a few times and have attributed it to normal service time variation. Turns out that this new

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Was watching the TV coverage of two doctors arrested in connection with the Glasgow blasts and who are suspected of ties with Al-Qaeda. Saeed Naqvi, a journalist, had an interesting comment ...Two characters of Indian origin are arrested (one in Britain and one in Australia) and suspected of ties with Al-Qaeda. Note suspected and not charged. Making a huge issue about it and pointing a finger at

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As the monsoon arrives and the sowing season gets underway Jaideep Hardikar reports from Vidarbha.Inputs dealers in Vidarbha say that there is hardly any non-Bt hybrid variety available in the market this year.While cotton prices are crashing every year, a total shift to the genetic modified cotton will hike up production costs, leading a steep risk of heavier losses.When hybrid seeds were

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Read this interesting article on education and careers. I’ve always had this funny suspicion that we are a nation of engineers who wanted to be singers, doctors who wanted to be actors, and so on. This is partly because we are a poor country and everybody makes life decisions based on how much he will be able to earn. And partly because nobody ever advised us any better. And that has made us a

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Hiked Naneghat last Saturday night. The picture is just before sunrise, taken from the base of the mountain (after we had hiked down). The 'V'-shaped wedge on the right is Naneghat, translated to English means 'tollway'. The pass was used as early as 200 BC and the cave on top has several inscriptions---some of which also suggest the oldest documented used of numbers.Wikipedia link is here.A link

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Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan.

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According to this report, the TN govt. has relaxed the requirement of wearing helmets for women and children pillion riders. For all others, they are required to wear helmets.Agreed, that most helmets are not designed for women, but what about safety? Isn't that supposed to be the primary concern.Apparently there is more to helmet-for-safety than what meets the head! A few years back (in 2005),

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watched two reports on television ...1. SS Ravishankar of Art of Living is in Iraq to spread the message of peace and non-violence and overlook relief efforts.2. A UNICEF official reports that due to the violence in Iraq the huminatarian situation is worsening. In both cases had the same thought---"Why such a narrow outlook on the topic?". There was absolutely no analysis on the source of the

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Read this article regarding the release of the movie "Amu", which according to writer-director Shonali Bose is the 'suppressed history of genocide' after the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The Indian Censor Board which gave it a 'A' rating had to say this when asked for a reason,Why should young people know a history that is better buried and forgotten?Other than the aspect

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In an interview, Chomsky speaks about the fascist trend of the US Congress, the narrow debate regarding the Iraq invasion and the World Bank and IMF policies.

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Australia's Epic DroughtAustralia has warned that it will have to switch off the water supply to the continent's food bowl unless heavy rains break an epic drought - heralding what could be the first climate change-driven disaster to strike a developed nation.The Murray-Darling basin in south-eastern Australia yields 40 per cent of the country's agricultural produce. But the two rivers that feed

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ADDICTED TO WARWhy the U.S Can't Kick MilitarismA History of U.S Foreign Wars in Comic Book Formatby Joel AndreasOnline book is here.The book webpage is here andif you want to buy a copy, it costs $10.

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"In every house there is a live bomb that can erupt at any time. Do you know who that is? Daughters are the honour of the family and the community, and to protect that is our Hindu duty and Hindu culture... . Come, and let's unite to save bombs... I don't believe in love marriage. We have to marry within our own community. These girls go to college, make friends with some lafanga [loafer], roam

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While Coke has drawn all the flak for ground water depletion and contamination in Pallakad district, Kerala and its bottling plant in Plachimada remains closed, Pepsico remains operational and is reported to be doing the same or even worse activity in the district.The CPM-led Left Front government in Kerala shut the Coca-Cola plant in Palakkad as it was damaging the environment. Why is it not

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George Monbiot writes about the effects of biofuels, "Five-year freeze needed on biofuels". Oil produced from plants sets up competition for food between cars and people. People and the environment will lose.

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Arundhati Roy in conversation with Shoma Chaudhury.A recent Supreme Court judgment allowing the Vasant Kunj Mall to resume construction though it didn’t have the requisite clearances said in so many words, that the question of Corporations indulging in malpractice does not arise! I’d say the biggest indictment of all is that we are still a country, a culture a society which continues to nurture

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Devinder Sharma reports on the two-day seminar "Saving Doha and delivering on development" held in New Delhi from 13th March.India's Commerce Minister Kamal Nath provided ample evidence of India's willingness to go along with the rich and industrialised countries. In what appears to be a u-turn in India's position so far, Mr Kamal Nath said: "This round is not about removal, but about reduction

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Watched Mira Nair's 'The Namesake' at MAMI's International Film Festival of Mumbai. The movie was the closing movie of the festival and was preceded by an awards ceremony. Several personalities associated with movies spoke---Girish Karnad, Govind Nihlani, Sonali Kulkarni, K Shantaram(?) and each of them spoke of their lives, their experiences in the film industry, whom they are grateful to, how

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The West Bengal government is directing the police against the people of the state. NAPM reports that at least 20 villagers have been killed and hundreds injured due to police firing in Nandigram. This is after the West Bengal Chief Minister made a public statement that the SEZ related acquisition will be put on hold and land will be acquired only after the villagers consent.* * * * *Puru: "We

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Smita sends a pointer to this article regarding the question of Indian pride. Who cares about farmer suicides now? Who cares about the children of immigrant workers? India is busy following the West, even when accusing it of racism, following it faithfully into the fast lane of neo-liberalist progress.... the matter finally came to light, it was because the servant — behind his master's back —

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A couple of very interesting articles appeared in Loksatta over the past few days, one of which is on today's (20/12/06) main page. The articles are regarding the Reliance SEZ in Raigad district.On 14th December, the day of the nationwide strike, the Zilla Parishad offices were closed. A Loksatta reporter saw some activity and went in the ZP office to report on the open govt. offices on the bandh

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... on the Khairlanji killings is here.

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A dalit woman stands up for her land, which is grabbed by upper-caste landlords.In return, she and her daughter are gang-raped, paraded naked and hacked to death.Her two sons are also hacked to death, while her husband watches! ... the Kherlanji Massacre.State compensates kin of slain Dalits and assures the victim Bhaiyyalal and the other dalit family of the village, that they would be relocated

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Give me more asbestos, says India!Inspite of 95 per cent of the countries demanding that chrysotile asbestos be included in the Prior Informed Consent list, after a due scientific review process, the COP-3 failed to do this and deferred the decision to the next COP-4 in 2008. A proposal for a majority vote for decision making was sternly opposed by India and a few other countries, thereby forcing

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Special Exploitation Zones appeared on CounterCurrents.comments welcome.

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What do you do when,Close to three-and-a-half lakh farm families are in "acute distress" in six crisis-ridden districts of Vidarbha, about 12 lakh farmers are staring at crop loss this year, and nearly a lakh families are suffering from serious health problems but are unable to see a doctor and they are only a step away from suicide.Some amongst the farmers might say, "Give us good remunerative

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I'm Dalit, how are you?160 million people in India are born outside the four castes of the Varna system - the oldest surviving social hierarchy of the world. They are called the "untouchables". They themselves have chosen the name DALITS (broken people).A short-film by the International Dalit Solidarity Network.... saw it on National Highway.

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Former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh's interview in Frontline.Even accepting that for the sake of argument, why is it that this subsidising is confined only to land? Building infrastructure requires cement too, but why is the government not acquiring cement from the Birlas at subsidised rates and handing it over to the SEZ developers? And why not impose similar subsidy parameters on developers of

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Sainath's talk 'Globalizing InEquality', at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA. * * * * * P.Sainath and Alex Cockburn talk: "Neoliberal Destructions" at UC Berkeley.Links to video of speeches---Clip 1Clip 2Clip 3

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The story of Sunil, a victim of the Union Carbide gas tragedy in Bhopal.

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Farmers in the Raigad district of Maharashtra are planning a satyagraha to oppose the Reliance SEZ. The SEZ is planned for 10,000 hectares and will affect 45 villages in Pen, Uran and Panvel talukas.Savita Subhash Thakur, a gram panchayat member from Chirner, said: "If we give up our land, what will we eat? They will not give us any jobs, and finally we will have to give up our homes. People are

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The September issue of Frontline has series of articles on the issue of manual scavenging, a pathetic practice still prevalant in India. - India's Shame - Caste strangehold - Out in the open - Part of the system - Bengal's record - Interview with Martin Macwan, founder of Navsarjan. - In denial mode - Captured live

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How the Other Half Lives has a couple of posts on the pathetic practice of manual scavenging still prevalent in India.The shit economyA day job at a dry latrinerelated links:Stinking filth: The political economy of scavenging, by Vijay PrashadA national shame, by S.ViswanathanSoiled TracksSulabh International is a social service organization which works to promote human rights, environmental

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Ashwin helped draft the following memorandum, which was handed to the President by a delegation led by former Pime Minister V.P Singh.To,Shri Abdul Kalam,President of IndiaRashtrapati BhavanNew Delhi Subject: The large scale grab of agricultural land going on under the guise of the Land Acqusition Act. Dear Rashtrapatiji, We wish to draw your attention to a most deplorable instance

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And somewhere there are engineersHelping others fly faster than sound.But, where are the engineersHelping those who must live on the ground?--- Young Oxfam Poster[read it at ArvindGupta Books and Toys and was reminded of it reading Ashwin's email signature.]

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One of the books I am currently reading is Working, by Studs Terkel. A must-read book which was published in 1974 and is still relevant today. A program on NPR talking about "Working" is here.Recordings from The Studs Terkel Radio Program are here.Working, is an oral history of working men and woman. As the title says, "People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do".

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the earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth

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Ashwin sent a few links regarding the Bharat Forge SEZ that is planned about 50 km from Pune in Rajgurunagar. There are plenty or reports about how SEZ's are uprooting and displacing villages, farms, villagers, farmers, tribals and affecting the environment in several ways. The same arguments comes into play again "economimc development", national infrastructure, for the greater common good and

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Got the following via email, a report form Chattisgarh. * * * * * * THE ATROCITIES ON WOMEN BY THE SALVA JUDUM, THE S.P.Os, CRPF,NAGA POLICE AND OTHER PARA MILITARY FORCESThe ruling classes of the country have initiated Salva Judum (SJ) tocompletely destroy the Maoist movement in Danda Karnya (DK). They startedthe campaign from the village Karkali in Kotru area of from June 4, 2005. Onthe 4 th of

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Hundred years ago on this day Gandhiji launched the non-voilent movement against British policies towards Asians in South Africa. Gandhiji called the movement Satyagraha, the pursuit of truth, which he went on to practice and preach in India's freedom struggle and also inspired many to use it in their struggles.An important question for us today would be, what is the status of Satyagraha today?--

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The Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti is reporting the suicide rate in Vidarbha now is one every five hours (72 deaths in last 15 days).828 farmers committed suicide between June 1, 2005 and September 5, 2006.110 since the PM's relief packahe announced on July 1st.

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A Greenpeace study "Guide to Greener Electronics", ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers.According to the report, Nokia and Dell are the closest to green (but still quite a distance away) and Motorola, Lenova, Acer and Apple the farthest.

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P. Sainath writes on the continued agrarian crisis in Vidarbha.The contrast would have been amusing but for its being rooted in so great a tragedy. On August 15, the Prime Minister signals a crisis in farming from the ramparts of the Red Fort. He singles out the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra - quite unusual for an Independence Day speech. Manmohan Singh says that during his visit there "the

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Union Carbide and Bhopal mess.War is not a solution for Terrorism, Howard Zinn."The day they show me and say to me 'this is your house, your tree, your land, your forest', I will go. Only if they show me all these. Not until then. Ask them to also show me the road to my forest, the hills, and ask them to give me my livelihood. I will go ..." says Suramma. The Polavaram dam project in Andhra

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The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting a must-read book by David Barsamian.In this concise book Barsamian gives an account of the current state of public radio/TV broadcasting in the USA, what it was intended for, how it has been corporatized, the uni-dimensional programming and the resulting lack of political debate and discussion of "controverial" topics. He also gives a historical

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Books and Toys, a great site (link via Ashwin) for free books and toys. A huge collection of downloadable English, Hindi and Marathi books and ideas for toys from day-today objects. An awesome initiative by Arvind Gupta and his colleagues. * * * * * TAKEOVER!, Students U.S.A mobilize for the 90's, documents from the the movement. The e-book (courtesy Mike) is about the student movement at

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Noam Chomsy and Thomas Ricks talk about the war in Iraq and the Middle East situation on Open Source Radio. MP3 link of the show is here.

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Who killed the Vidarbha farmers?An interview with P. Sainath on Outlook India.

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An essay on patriotism, Patriotism: A menace to liberty, by Emma Goldman.Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. [...] Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living

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A must-watch video of a short interview of British MP George Galloway on SkyNews. He is commmenting on the situation in the Middle East. (link sent by Swati)Robert Fisk on the Middle East ceasefire---As The 6am Ceasefire Takes Effect...The Real War BeginsDesert Of Trapped CorpsesTestifies To Israel's FailureJaideep Hardikar reports on the continued crisis in Vidarbha---Rise of the moneylenderRich

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Arrogance and Impunity - Coca-Cola in India, by Amit Srivastava."Give us a price, not a package" and A 'final' note on credit, P. Sainath reports farmers reactions to the "relief packages" and its effects (the latest package was announced about a month back).Ye Dil Maange No More!, Tejal's post on the pesticide and the large issues with Coke and Pepsi in India.Destruction, Death, And Drastic

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UN Resolution On Lebanon: Blueprint For Intensified War And Colonial Occupation.It is deliberately written in such a provocative manner as to ensure its rejection not only by Hezbollah, but by the Lebanese government itself. Not a single Lebanese grievance is addressed. What it demands, essentially, is that Hezbollah enter a suicide pact with its enemies and that Lebanon accepts its

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Arvind Kejriwal, winner of the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, talks about the RTI movement, it's formidable power and the proposed ammendments.Firstly, I would like to clarify that the award does not belong to me – it belongs to the entire RTI movement and every RTI activist in the country. I am happy that the world has responded so positively to the RTI movement in India.

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U.S. to supply food with one hand, arms with other.Fuel running out at Beirut Medical Center, Israel continues fuel blockade and rest of world watches! Did you hear this on TV?Hundreds of thousands rally in Iraq against the war in Lebanon.300,000 Lebanese children displaced. In fresh strikes, Israel kills 28, Hezbollah 4.

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Three stories from today's Democracy Now! ---Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of War Crimes for indiscriminately targeting Lebanese civilians.Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: Documentary examines US media coverage of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict.Is America Watching a Different War? American, Lebanese and Israeli panel on how the US media is covering the invasion of Lebanon.

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The arguing India, Amartya Sen on why democracy doesn't belong to the West, the fallacy of the "moderate" Muslim, India's atheist tradition, and other contentions, in the California Magazine.Perils of Israel model, Praful Bidwai on why following the Israel model is a recipe for disaster and for courting more insecurity and making citizens more vulnerable to terrorist violence.

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CSEIndia releases results of its second study in three years on the high pesticide levels in soft drinks.More articles on the same here and here. The latest CSE study is based on tests conducted on 57 samples of 11 soft drink brands from 25 different manufacturing plants of Coca-Cola and Pepsico, spread over 12 States.The report indicated the presence of an average of three to five different

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A link to articles by Robert Fisk.He is the Middle East correspondent of The Independent and is currently reporting form Lebanon.

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Met a few folks at the Amherst Peace Vigil in the afternoon and the topic of discussion was the various conflicts raging across the world. Today's handout had this article on the Israeli aggression in Lebanon.The Amherst Vigil for Peace and Social Justice in a Nuclear Free World is in its 28th year. The vigil conitnues to advocate for an end to the arms trade, for an end to nuclear wepaons at

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Is primary education a right or a privilege?The Central government has decided to dump the Right to Education Bill and it will not be tabled in the Parliament. The Bill aimed to make education compulsary for children aged 6-14.On one hand the government is going ahead with the proposed 27% reservations and is committed to investment in higher education to increase seats, faculty, infrastructure

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Got above picture from Steph's blog.US blocks call for ceasfire.UN Ambassador Bolton blocks measure condemning lethal Israeli attack on a UN post.

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A new breed of bloggers: Freeway Bloggers, reaching thousands of people for under a buck!A basic HOWTO is here.

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The Union Cabinet has approved amendments to the RTI Act which will keep out file notings from disclosures.Anna Hazare is planning a fast unto death and on returning the Padma Bhusan to protest against the amendment.CIC (Central Information Commissioner) head says amendment will take "life out of RTI Act"!The National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) press release is here.What

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Answer or die! Tragic.Maharashtra unable to help Vidarbha farmers, even after PM's relief package.A Class Profile of India, conversations with Pankaj Mishra, Suketu Mehta and Atanu Dey---a radio show on Open Source.MP3 link.

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Government of the people, by the people and for the people! Then why add obstacles for accountancy to the people? * * * * * NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO INFORMATIONNCPRIPRESS NOTEThere is news that the Cabinet has decided to amend the Right To Information Act to exclude file notings from the Act. NCPRI categorically states that this is a completely retrograde step which seeks to

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P.S: Don't know author of the poem. If you do, let me know.

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The politics of relief packages in Vidarbha: P.Sainath reports on the relief package that was announced by the PM to address the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha.The 'package' declared at the end of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to Vidarbha will have little or no impact on the crisis there. Neither in the short run nor in the long term. ...Yet the suicides are the effect, not the cause, of a

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Larry Siegel, is a farmer who sells his produce at the farmers' market in Amherst every Saturday. The attached picture is of a board which display's his farming philosopgy. It states,'Organic' has evolved into a loosely applied term these days; rather than add to the cofusion, I prefer to share with you my growing practices, permitting you to apply any term you wish to these practices.One of our

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An article by Sanjay Sangvai (sent via email by Swati) on land grabs by the government for Reliance to setup SEZs (Special Economic Zones) in Raigad district, Maharashtra. * * * * * *This Time, Land-Grab by Rich: The Politics of SEZs in India *-- Sanjay SangvaiThe farmers in the obscure Pen tehsil in Raigad district Maharashtra are preparing for the long battle against the gigantic and powerful

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