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[email protected] Today's topics: * Fwd: {Youth for Social Change} Indians Conclude 200-Mile Protest - 'Zameen do ya jail do' abhiyan - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9758cec8ada030e4?hl=en * Free Monthly Digital Web Magazine - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/ec1f981ecdd478cd?hl=en * Planned killing of civilians by America - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9fdac30cbb133e18?hl=en * Primary Rough Report on Mass Meeting on Flood - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/05391ec48cc773ab?hl=en ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: {Youth for Social Change} Indians Conclude 200-Mile Protest - ' Zameen do ya jail do' abhiyan http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9758cec8ada030e4?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Oct 29 2007 9:00 pm From: "Abhijit K" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Somu Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 30, 2007 4:17 AM Subject: {Youth for Social Change} Indians Conclude 200-Mile Protest - 'Zameen do ya jail do' abhiyan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/world/asia/28cnd-india.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Also: *'Zameen do ya jail do'' - http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/29spec.htm * Indians Conclude 200-Mile Protest By SAHER MAHMOOD and SOMINI SENGUPTA<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Published: October 29, 2007 NEW DELHI, Oct. 28 -- From a village in Madhya Pradesh State, in the heart of India, Gudiya Bai came here walking because, she said, she lost her land to a limestone mine. From eastern Orissa, Johny Bilyung came because most of his tiny plot was taken over for the construction of a dam. And from neighboring Jharkhand, Budhua Tanabhagat came because he has yet to get water from a dam that cost him half of his fields. For 26 days, thousands of peasants like these have marched more than 200 miles to the capital with the hope of telling their government how they had been cast aside by this country's roaring economic growth. They reached here this morning in an orderly, peaceful three mile-long procession. Most of them wore plastic flip-flops, and some said they were already on their third pair. A spokesman for Ekta Parishad, or Unity Council, which organized the march, estimated a turnout of 25,000, which could not be independently verified. Their principal grievance was over land, and their presence in the capital was a stark reminder of one of the biggest challenges facing India, as it seeks to balance the needs of a vulnerable countryside and the demands of economic expansion. More than half of the population makes its living off agriculture, and most Indian peasants subsist on tiny plots fed by fickle rains. While industrial and public works projects in past decades had displaced people from their land, the pace of industrialization has accelerated significantly in recent years, sharpening competition over land, one of the country's most coveted resources. Peasants' protests, some of them violent, have held up several proposed projects -- from steel mills to power plants to Chinese-style Special Economic Zones -- postponing several billion dollars in investments over the last two years. The government has been compelled to revisit its Special Economic Zone policy, which gives generous tax incentives to developers. It is also crafting a new policy to compensate those whose lands and livelihoods are lost. The peasant procession, which began in Gwalior, a once-royal city in the middle of the country, brought some of the most destitute Indians here to the richest city in the land. They carried sacks over their shoulders, containing a few clothes, a steel plate and cup, and thin quilts to keep themselves warm at night. Some carried umbrellas to shield themselves from the still-hot midday sun. Last week, three marchers were killed by a speeding truck along the road, in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state. Many among the marchers were indigenous people known here as tribals and among the most vulnerable to displacement by industrial projects slated for the heavily forested, resource-rich swath across central India. They were joined by a fair number of foreigners. The cost of the procession, about $1.25 per person per day, according to the organizers, was defrayed by some foreign-aid agencies. The marchers' demands included enforceable property deeds and fast-track courts to settle land disputes, which can stretch on for several years. "Land. Water. Forest" read a banner strung on a jeep that led the procession. Gudiya Bai, from a village called Jhiraha, said her extended family first lost half of its 10 acres to a limestone mine. What was left became infertile. She blames the mine for making water scarce, a claim impossible to verify. As their household income dwindled, one by one, family members went to work in the mine. Today, it employs six of her eight children, all but one of whom is under the age of 14, the legal working age in India. -- -- Mass Candlelight Vigil on October 2nd, 2007 to support Indian farmers and Agriculture * Please Participate * - http://agri.aidindia.org/october2 -------------------------------- http://www.aidboston.org/images/AIDFarmerSuicideBanner.gif -- Abhijit Minakshi About my name: www.geocities.com/abhijit1303/aboutname.txt ============================================================================== TOPIC: Free Monthly Digital Web Magazine http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/ec1f981ecdd478cd?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Oct 29 2007 1:44 pm From: Raju Happy to announce the Free Monthly Digital Web Magazine in Andhra Pradesh starting on Oct 21st, 2007 (Dussera Festival). While the Web Magazine is freely distributed all over the world can download the Web Magazine right here on the internet from your favourite computer! Remember: http://webmagazine.indialabs.net and download your copy! Digital Web Magazine is available on November 9, 2007 (Deepavali/ Diwali ) onwards... http://www.indialabs.net/ ============================================================================== TOPIC: Planned killing of civilians by America http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9fdac30cbb133e18?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Oct 29 2007 10:02 pm From: Rishikesh Here is an article about the approach of America in war. All this is stated, so imagine the unstated killings. Last line clearly shows what happens in this so called "War on terror". One can easily imagine who is bigger terrorist, a suicide bomber or planned killer. Source : Times of India URL http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_justifies_wars_collateral_damage/articleshow/2500668.cms US justifies war's collateral damage 30 Oct 2007, 0059 hrs IST,PTI NEW YORK: US commanders prosecuting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq make "macabre" calculations as to how many civilian casualties could be justified in taking out an enemy target. If the number is higher, then they might be required to contact and get approval of the political leadership, CBS TV said in its '60 Minutes' investigative report on Sunday. The air strikes in both countries are planned in a highly classified facility in a Gulf country which the report did not identify for security reasons. "There's this macabre kind of calculus that the military goes through on every air strike, where they try to figure out how many dead civilians is dead bad guy worth," Marc Garlasco, who knows the calculus of civilian casualties well, told CBS. At the Pentagon, Garlasco was chief of high value targeting at the start of the Iraq war. He told '60 Minutes' that his team was authorised to kill a set number of civilians around high-value targets - targets like Saddam and his leadership. "Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that's not a problem," Garlasco explained. "But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either president Bush, or secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld." Before the invasion of Iraq, he said he recommended 50 air strikes aimed at high-value targets. But none of the targets were killed, instead "a couple of hundred civilians" were killed. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Primary Rough Report on Mass Meeting on Flood http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/05391ec48cc773ab?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Oct 29 2007 10:40 pm From: "Social Ownership" Respected Friends, Mass Meeting on Flood Solution was successful. Even people are too tired and too reactive because of three months long Flood. About 50,000 to 60,000 persons attended mass meeting. People came by their own, we did not arrange any vehicle or any money to them. I will publish photos, videos and audio files in website in coming week. CM-Bihar has started to make statements in Public on Permanent Solution for Flood after our move on Flood. He made a statement for 15000 Million Rs fund for it. We will try our best that community should be main part of decision making for this proposed fund. 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