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[email protected] Today's topics: * Fwd: Rally on April 3 demanding release of Dr. Vinayak Sen - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/t/a3ac0dc0b199443d?hl=en * Fwd: Lokayat organises Dr. Binayak Sen film festival, May 9, Saturday - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/t/eef04e691b2590c1?hl=en ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Rally on April 3 demanding release of Dr. Vinayak Sen http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/t/a3ac0dc0b199443d?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Apr 1 2009 1:38 am From: अभिजित Abhijit ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: neeraj jain <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM Subject: Rally on April 3 demanding release of Dr. Vinayak Sen To: Dear friend, As you are probably aware, Dr. Binayak Sen, one of India's best known human rights activists, was arrested on 14 May 2007 and has been behind bars since. The major parties, Congress and BJP, both have ganged up together to incarcerate this brilliant doctor and activist, who was in the forefront of the campaign to expose the gross human rights violations and killings of adivasis taking place in the state of Chattisgarh in the name of development. It is well known that the case against him is patently false, and in the trial going on, all the evidence marshalled by the state to prove Dr. Sen's guilt has been proved false, yet the courts, which should have actually dismissed the case against him, have even refused him bail. It is a sad comment on the state of human rights in the country that criminals-murderers-smugglers dominate the Parliament and make black laws to put behind bars ordinary citizens. The state and the criminal parties have actually launched a war on the people of the country. In the name of development, corporations are displacing people by the lakhs, their livelihoods are being destroyed. To silence all protest, browbeat and terrorise people so that they take all humiliations lying down, draconian laws like the CFPSA under which Dr. Sen and a 1000 others have been arrested, and now a new anti-terror law at the Centre, are being passed. Various activist groups all over the country have come together to launch a Satyagrah demanding the release of Dr. Binayak Sen. Activists all over the country are assembling at Raipur every Monday for a Satyagraha and courting arrest. On April 6, activists from various cities of Maharashtra, including three activists from Pune, will be participating in this Satyagraha. A rally is being organised in Pune on Friday, April 3, in the evening by all progressive groups of Pune who have got together to form a BINAYAK SEN MUKTATA SAMITI to extend support to this Satyagraha and demand the release of Dr. Binayak Sen, and also demand the repeal of all such black laws under which the state is seeking to terrorise the people of the country. We call upon you to join us in this rally and also participate in the public meeting that will take place at the end of the rally. *RALLY DEMANDING RELEASE OF DR. BINAYAK SEN AND REPEAL OF BLACK LAWS* Date: Friday, April 3 Time: 5 pm to 6 pm Route: Tilak Putla, Mahatma Phule Mandai to Niwara, near Patrakar Bhavan, Navi Peth (via Laxmi Road) * PUBLIC MEETING* Date: Friday, April 3 Time: 6 pm to 8 pm Venue: Niwara, near Patrakar Bhavan, Navi Peth Do join us to make this very important protest march and public meeting a success, and send a strong message of solidarity to the countrywide movement for human rights. Lokayat is staging a *street play on Dr. Binayak Sen* in various parts of the city today, April 1, Wednesday, and tomorrow, April 2, Thurday, to do propaganda about the rally and public meeting. If you wish to join this propaganda campaign, do contact us. We are attaching two brilliant articles on Dr. Binayak Sen, and another article by the noted Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan on the new anti-terror law passed by the Centre taking advantage of the shock created by the Mumbai terror attack. In solidarity, -- Neeraj Jain "Mrudanga", Bldg No. 3A, Flat No. 7, Naad Brahma Society, Warje, Pune - 411 052 Ph. 94222 20311 ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Lokayat organises Dr. Binayak Sen film festival, May 9, Saturday http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/t/eef04e691b2590c1?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Thurs, May 7 2009 9:59 pm From: अभिजित Abhijit ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: neeraj jain <[email protected]> Date: 2009/5/7 Subject: Lokayat organises Dr. Binayak Sen film festival, May 9, Saturday To: *Dr. Binayak Sen Film Festival* On 14th May, 2009, Dr. Binayak Sen – paediatrician and one of India’s finest human rights activist – will be completing two years in jail. Dr. Sen is in jail because he raised his voice against Salwa Judum – an illegal private army created by the Chattisgarh state government which now even the Supreme Court has criticised, because he was protesting the forcible displacement of lakhs of tribals in the state in the name of development, because he exposed fake encounter killings by the police. To silence his tireless and fearless voice, the government has incarcerated him under the draconian CSPSA and UAPA – undemocratic laws which give almost unlimited powers to the police to arrest and put behind bars for years ordinary people! It is a part of the general attack on democratic rights taking place all over the country. It is related to the kind of development taking place all over the country in the name of globalization: The politicians, bureaucracy, police have launched a ferocious offensive on the lands, water and forests of the poor. They want to seize control of these means of livelihoods of the common people and transfer them to giant corporations – Indian and foreign – so that they can set up mining projects, mega industrial projects, SEZs, tourism projects, residential projects for the rich, and so on, and earn super profits. It has led to massive displacement of people and loss of their livelihoods. The people are obviously fighting back. And so, under all kinds of pretexts like fighting terrorism, the criminals and murderers who dominate the Indian Parliament are passing the most draconian laws which give almost unlimited powers to the police to arrest and put behind bars for years ordinary people! To raise awareness among the people about the kind of development in the country and the attack on human rights, Lokayat is organising a documentary festival on this Saturday. *Dr. Binayak Sen Film Festival* * * *Date: *Saturday, May 9, 2009 *Time: *5 - 8 pm *Venue:* Lokayat Hall, opp. Syndicate Bank, Law College Road, Near Nal Stop, Pune Entry is free. Films being screened: 1. *Tales from the margins:* 23 mins Director: Kavita Joshi On state repression in Manipur, and the struggle of Sharmila Irom, who has been on hunger strike for the past nine years. 2.* TATA landmines Adivasis*: 20 mins Director: A. K. Pankaj On police firing in Kalinganagar on adivasis protesting against acquisition of their lands by the TATAs, which led to the death of 13 tribals. 3. *Pachuwara*: 20 mins Director: A. K. Pankaj On the heroic struggle of the Santhals of Jharkhand against government attempts to evict them for coal mining. 4. *Road to **Shanghai*: 34 mins Made By NCAS, Pune. On illegal demolition of slums of Mumbai in 2004-05, as the government attempts to take over slum lands to transform Mumbai into Shanghai. Do join us. In solidarity, -- Neeraj Jain "Mrudanga", Bldg No. 3A, Flat No. 7, Naad Brahma Society, Warje, Pune - 411 052 Ph. 94222 20311 ============================================================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BM_discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] or visit http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To change the way you get mail from this group, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/subscribe?hl=en To report abuse, send email explaining the problem to [email protected] ============================================================================== Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/?hl=en
