Dear Saligaokaram, [image: Inline images 1]
...or worse, a drug pusher! Many of our young people pushing and using drugs at the Salmona spring, at the empty house besides Amy Sequeira's in Donvaddo and around the Club West End area in Aquem Alto today, will be too young to remember that their village had the dubious distinction of actually having a *Charas Building*. In the mid-80s, Padmanath Building in Arrarim was renamed Charas Building, because of the large haul of 'charas/ hash/ hashish' that the police intercepted while it was being unloaded from a truck into one of the godowns there. Only in recent times, has the new generation of bus conductors forgotten this colourful, spaced out name. Around the same time a well known family had to flee the village for several years, because some members were involved in the drug trade. We saw police and court notices stuck on their door proclaiming them absconding offenders. In the late 80s, a European-Indian couple who were drug peddlers, stoned octogenarian Joe Saldanha's house in Salmona (the one bought by Aparna Shah), because they thought that Joe was informing the police about their 'pushing' activities. Saligao Nagrik Kriti Samiti recorded on film, the damage to the house, including the old couple holding the huge laterite stones that were used to smash their windows and roof. Around 15 residents of Salmona, in a show of community solidarity, marched to the police station with Joe, his equally aged wife Helen and the stones! Police Inspector Alan D'Sa was duly impressed by this protest and wanted to arrest the couple immediately. But compassion prevailed as the Indian wife was expecting her 4th baby and P I Alan was told to let them off with a stern warning. While there are other and perhaps better examples of Saligao's courtship with drugs and illicit trafficking, suffice it to say that the village even today insists on clinging on to the shadier chapters of its history. Pragmatically so. Since Goa is a drug haven anyway, why should we miss out on the 'trip'?! Our CM, MLA, Sarpanch and Panchas, not forgetting our local Police Station can help us answer that one... Warm regards and solidarity. M&M. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Goa Desc <[email protected]> Date: 24 June 2013 01:05 Subject: [socialissuescalendar] 26th June is International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. To: socialissuescalendar <[email protected]> ------------------------------****------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. ------------------------------****------------------------- -----------**---------**---**------**-**---------------------- 26th June is International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking **------------------------------**--------------------** http://www.un.org/en/events/drugabuseday/2013/sgmessage.shtml http://narcoticsindia.nic.in/ http://www.goapolice.gov.in/ http://www.kripafoundation.**org/ <http://www.kripafoundation.org/> http://www.muktangan.org/ http://www.positivepeople.in/ ------------------**---------**---**------**-----------------------**** Source: GOA DESC Social Issues Calendar 2013 ------------**---------**---------****---------**-------------- GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Email: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------- [image: United Nations] <http://www.un.org/en/> International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 26 June - [image: shelves stacked with cans of movie film] * * * * *Our blog anOTHERgoa is now** active...* ................................................................ there *is* *anOTHERgoa* at <http://www.an*OTHER*goa.blogspot.in <http://www.anothergoa.blogspot.in>> & <http://www.youtube.com/anothergoa> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' muriel & mario, c/o FULKAR, 6/22, sonarbhatt, saligao. bardez. goa. 403511. tel: 0832-2278276 / 2409999 <anothergoa AT gmail.com> '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
