In indian case,in 6th schedule area ,if an advasi woman marries outside her
community,she doesn't get any property right.state-patriachy -nexus is total.
more patriacrchal type of control is imposing on adivasi women.
--- On Sat, 6/21/08, Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: convention agianst antiwomen order
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 11:23 AM
> "if..you cannot respect the response of your own honest
> body in the world
> how much of what kind of freedom does any one of us
> possess?
> ..if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by
> the state , or
> controlled by community taboo, are you n
> "This is a New Politics of Sexulaity. And even as I
> despair of identity
> politics-- because identity is given and principles of
> justice/equality/freedom cut across given gender and given
> racial
> defenitions of being , and because I will call you my
> brother , I will call
> you my sister , on the basis of what you *do* for justice ,
> what you
> *do*for equality , what you
> *do* for freedom, and *not* on the basis of who you are ,
> even so I look
> with admiration and respect upon the new, bisexual politics
> of sexuality."
>
> June Jordan
> ( "The Body Politics", in *Words of Fire : An
> Anthology of African -
> American Feminist Thought* )
>
> This is an issue of Dalit- adivasi women's right over
> their hearts and body.
> A governement ostracising people due to their life choices
> is cruel .
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:32 AM, ranju radha
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > go to a govt office for a certificate. say for eg; a
> caste/community or
> > income. the officer will ask u to put ur father's
> name. they wont accept if
> > use ur mother's name ..
> > if u question them, the answr is ; "we live in a
> ptriachal soceity"
> >
> > as far as i know some subcaste organisations have
> raised voice against the
> > govr order initially. but r also not very active,
> perhaps bz of dalit
> > patriarchy
> >
> > the issue is of serious concern as it denies the
> woman, her parental role
> > denying a generation to her,
> > that too to a woman who has shown the courage to
> defie/break caste
> > codes/barriers
> >
> > in solidarity
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/20/08, Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Today, about hundred individuals participated in
> a convention held in
> >> Bank employees Union hall
> >> against the anti democratic order of the
> government issued on May 22, 2005
> >> denying parent status to women
> >> in case of inter caste marriages. Convention was
> orgenised y MANUSHA.
> >>
> >> K.Ajitha inaugurated the convention. Rekha Raj
> presented the issue . She
> >> wondered why the civil society is
> >> keeping a safe distance from this issue as if it
> affected only a minority.
> >> She also wondered why Dalit organisations are
> >> insensitive to this isssue. caste for dalit and
> adivasi women is not
> >> something could be erased automatically through
> marriage, she opined. Women
> >> should also be given the status of 'natural
> parent".
> >>
> >> K.M.SalimKumar , Jyothi Narayanan, Rajagopal
> Vakathanam, M.B.manoj,
> >> Sajini, Purushothaman, K.Sadanandan, Adv.Anila
> George, Dileep Raj and Adv.
> >> Rashmai participated in the discussion.P.D.Jose
> presided.
> >>
> >> A state level committee was formed with K.Ajitha (
> chair person) and Rekha
> >> Raj, Anila George, Sasikumar Kizhakkedom
> (convenors)
> >> to lead future struggles.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dileep R I thuravoor
> >> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Dileep R I thuravoor
>
>
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