*i did.* On 9/2/08, anil tharayath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear friends > > Please flood the ministers inbox with this appeal drafted below. Its high > time we do it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.kerala.gov.in/> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Sir/ Madam > > The lives and livelihoods of over 20,000 Dalits, Adivasis and others, > peacefully protesting for land at the Harrison Malayam Private Ltd > plantation in Chengara, Pathanthimthatta are in danger. A group of trade > unions claiming to represent the plantation's retrenched rubber workers have > announced plans to march and reclaim the land from the peaceful protesters > on Wednesday, September 3rd. > > The trade unions, including CITU, INTUC, AITUC, UTUC, HMS and others, in > collusion with company goons, have already succeeded in manufacturing a > human rights crisis in the area. Together, they have been blocking food, > medicines and other essential materials from entering the plantation for the > past one month, terrorizing the peaceful protesters and their children. > Women have been the targets of brutal attacks by the workers of the trade > unions and other hired henchmen of Harrison Malayalam Ltd. > > Many women have testified that the attacks happened in the presence of the > police, who remained mute spectators and whose inaction encouraged the > perpetuators further. The police have also colluded in preventing civil > society groups from entering the site. > > The proposed March could potentially deteriorate the law and order > situation in the already fragile areas of Chengara further. In the light of > past actions, which were used as a cover up to inflict physical harm and to > denigrate the dignity of the protesting Dalits and Adivasis, we urge you to > take immediate actions to thwart attempts of a March on September 3rd. > > We strongly feel that government can no longer sit idly and allow the > rights and lives of marginalized peoples' to be violated in this manner. > Under no circumstances should union activists and company goons be allowed > to march on the plantation this Wednesday. > > > We demand: > > 1. Immediately intervene to stop the September 3rd planned assault on the > peaceful protesters by trade unions and company goons. > > 2. Take immediate action against those responsible for the blockade, > ensuring the immediate lifting of the blockade, and restore normalcy to > people's lives. > > 3. Immediately initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of > the sexual assault of the four women at the struggle site on August 7th > 2008. > > 4. Enter into a dialogue with the protestors and take measures to > distribute land to the landless. > > > -- > "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas > are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than > ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the > bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events > manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against > them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... > that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who > would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault > > ANIL > > Anil Tharayath Varghese > National Centre for Advocacy Studies > Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony > Pashan, Pune 21 > Phone - 02022952003/4 > Mobile - 09890387877 > email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
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