--- On Wed, 22/5/13, Sunil Kumar <marutiworkersolidar...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Sunil Kumar <marutiworkersolidar...@gmail.com> Subject: Join Demonstration and Gherao, 24th May, at 2 PM! To: Date: Wednesday, 22 May, 2013, 19:26 Dear friends and comrades, On 19th May, around 1500 people had come from different parts of Haryana and adjoining places to Kaithal to extend solidarity to the workers of Maruti who have been sitting on an indefinite dharna since 24th March, 2013. A curfew was enforced in Kaithal from the previous evening in order to stop this mass dharna from taking place. The town was heavily deployed with police and CID forces, in order to obstruct the entry of outsiders into Kaithal. braving all odds, between 1000-1500 people, including workers, workers families and activists marched into Kaithal and sat on a dharna. At 6.30pm, without any warning, the stationed police force started a brutal lathi-charge and tear gas and water cannons were unleashed mercilessly on the protestors, which included in large majority, women, children and old men. Hundreds were seriously injured and admitted to the hospital. The police came with a second round of lathi-charge when people were still in a state of shock. Join Joint Demonstration and Gherao of the Shram Shakthi Bhavan on May 24 at 2 PM. We shall meet at the Patel Chowk Metro station and March to the Shram Shakti Bhavan to collectively express our anger and outrage at the arbitrary arrests of 97 workers and 3 activists on 18 night and the brutal lathicharge leashed out on workers and families on May 19 at Kaithal. The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union needs the support of all democratic and progressive forces to demand the following: 1. Quashing of the heavy charges on 11 workers and others arrested in Kaithal on May 19. 2. Release of all workers and supporters arrested in Kaithal. 3. Release of all 147 workers in jail since July last year and withdrawal of non-bailable arrest warrants on 66 workers. 4. Reinstatement of all 2300 terminated workers. 5. Implementation of all labour laws and abolition of the contract labour system in Maruti Suzuki Ltd, the entire NCR region and across Haryana. Long live workers struggle! Please join and forward widely! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
