Dear all Yesterday the VHP has attacked a film screening in ahmedabad. We should issue a public protest statement asap. best,
G P Ramachandran here is the info on the attack: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the self appointed moral police, has sunk to new levels of intolerance. On September 13, about 15-20 hooligans charged in the college room of L abd C Mehta Arts College during the screening of 'Bol', a series of short films on women's rights. The screening was part of Nazariya, an activity promoted by Drishti in about 20 colleges of Ahmedabad. As part of this activity students are shown documentaries on various social issues followed by a discussion. Today's screening, that was disrupted, was followed by a discussion with Stalin K, a leading human rights activist and documentary film maker. About 25 students and three lecturers had just finished seeing the film and Stalin was discussing various aspects of patriarchy and gender when suddenly 15-20 hooligans, who clearly did not look like students or faculty of the college, charged into the room and started threatening Stalin and demanded to know what was being shown and discussed. The lecturers present there tried to reason with the hooligans that they were not doing anything against any particular person or group. The hooligans then wanted to see the film to which Stalin said that that would not be possible. He told them that they had no right to come in and distrupt a lecture or demand to see the film. One lecturer pacified the hooligans and took them out of the classroom. Meanwhile, Stalin continued with the discussion with the students.Incidentally, the subjecy of discussion just before the hooligans barged in was 'fear' and fear inhibits us to struggle or attempt any change in oppressive customs or traditions. About 5 minutes later the hooligans barged in again and came menacingly towards Stalin and demanded the DVD. Stalin refused to give it to them and told them that they could buy a copy from the office if need be. They threatened him with 'dire consequencies' if he did not give them the DVD and started pulling at the DVD and pushing him around. Meanwhile, Gaurang, coordinator of Nazariya, had called the Police Control room. The hooligans then snatched the DVD from Stalin's hands and, as they have won a war, shouted 'jai shree ram' and charged out of the room and campus. Police reached the college immediately but by that time the hooligans had already left. The police asked Stalin and Gaurang to go to Navrangpura Police Station if they wanted to file an FIR. However, Stalin and Gaurang had to wait for nearly 3 hours before the police finally registered a complain against two of 20 hooligans - Rahul Soni and Bharat. -- In Peace, Gaurang Bharti Raval Drishti Media,Arts & Human Rights 103, Anandhari Towers, Sandeshpress Road, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad. India.380054 www.drishtimedia.org Tel : 91-79-26851235 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vikalp/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmaWJ2cWJlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMzQyODczBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAyMTY3MwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzExODk3NzExNTM-> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit Your Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vikalp;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbGdtZnZrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMzQyODczBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAyMTY3MwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzExODk3NzExNTM-> New web site? Drive traffic now.<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j5g4om6/M=493064.10729656.11333347.8674578/D=groups/S=1705021673:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1189778353/A=3848642/R=0/SIG=131eshi2t/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/srchv2.php?o=US2004&cmp=Yahoo&ctv=Groups3&s=Y&s2=&s3=&b=50> Get your business on Yahoo! search. Popular Y! Groups Is your group one?<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j9787gq/M=493064.11127061.11695037.8674578/D=groups/S=1705021673:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1189778353/A=4763761/R=0/SIG=11ou7otip/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/bestofyahoogroups/> Check it out and see. Yahoo! Groups Find Green Groups<http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j3q361q/M=493064.11135488.11710474.8674578/D=groups/S=1705021673:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1189778353/A=4776368/R=0/SIG=11mj2s6kj/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/green/index.html> Share with others Help the Planet. . __,_._,___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
