[GreenYouth] Action Alert: Protest to the Prime Minister of India against the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill
Dear Friends, Those of you who have not yet visited the site http://www.petitiononline.com/no2cap/petition.html may please do so on priority and sign up the protest petition to the Prime Minister on the issue of the nuclear liability cap bill demanding wide public consultations in a fair and transparent manner given the salience of the issues involved. The petition would be sent to the addressees before the Parliament resumes on April 12. Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
[GreenYouth] UK Law: India’s Hindu Caste-slavery i s racism
UK Law: India’s Hindu Caste-slavery is racismhttp://rupeenews.com/2010/03/30/uk-law-indias-caste-slavery-is-racism/ Posted on March 30, 2010 by The Editor Rate This [image: Quantcast] The worlds worst violation of human rights are going on in India. World conscience has been asleep. Indians hide the status of the Dalit and delve into tokenism to justify Caste discrimination. Half the population of India is shackled in slavery and hidden from plain view. This has to be exposed. Every human being on this planet must write about and speak up against institutionalized slavery in India. *Indians themselves do not have a single term for describing the Caste system as a whole, but have a variety of words referring to different aspects of it, the two main ones being varna and jati.* *The varna consists of four categories, each ranked differently in terms of social honour. Below these groupings are the so-called ‘untouchables’- those in the lowest position of all. The Jati are locally defined groups within which the caste ranks are organised. Jati is coupled with one’s occupation and the meaning of varna in Sanskrit is ‘colour’ that signify a social category or a social classification. It is used to enforce a social stratification but does not mean colour of skin.* *According to those who practice and promote it, Caste is determined by birth and cannot be changed. In a class based system there is ‘vertical mobility’ but this is denied in a Caste based system. In India, Social Stratification, historically, gave rise to ‘Untouchables’. Although, practice of Untouchability is legally prohibited in India but ‘Untouchables’ continue to be shunned socially and economically. Each Caste continues in a state of social paralysis antagonistic and hostile towards each other’s interests. *http://www.castewatchuk.org/ However there is a ray of hope–ignited by a new law in the United Kingdom. Once this law finds a way into the world media, it may spread like wildfire through the European Union–and eventually to America. Once that happens, India will have to buckle under international pressure and be forced to end the slavery of 450 million souls who are fighting for the right to be considered a human being. - Following intensive lobbying by the National Secular Society (NSS, an IHEU http://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/204member organization), the UK’s House of Lords on 2 March 2010 adopted an amendment to the new UK Equality Bill, paving the way for castehttp://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/281discrimination to be made illegal. Lobbying by the NSS was given a new focus by the first international conference on untouchabilityhttp://www.iheu.org/world-conference-shows-misery-untouchability-and-hope-progresshosted by the IHEU and held in London last summer. - Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society commented: “This victory is historic; the UK is the first Western country to pass such legislation. I hope it will encourage other states where caste discrimination is practised to do likewise, or – in the case of India – enforce the legislation it already has.” - http://www.iheu.org/uk-house-lords-adopts-measure-against-caste-discrimination - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8546661.stm - With particular focus on the Hindu caste system, this book (*Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law*) represents a comprehensive analysis of the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination in international law. It evaluates the strategies that have informed the work of the United Nations in this area, mapping a new path that moves from standard-setting to implementation. Combining legal analysis with the meaning and origin of caste, it explores the remedies human rights law can propose towards the prohibition of caste-based discrimination, and the abolition of the caste system itself. Bharat (aka India) has tried to keep Caste discrimination under the radar. Now a new law in the United Kingdom equates the horrendous practice of caste slavery as racism. Mr. Mohandas Gandhi had the opportunity to end Caste discrimination and liberate the Dalits. He however defended the Hindu Caste system and said that he would defend it with the last breath of life in him. Gandhi forced Dr. Ambadekar into abandoning the separate electorate for the Dalits. Separate electorates would have liberated the Dalits from Brahamin enslavement. Dr. Ambadekar considered the abandonment of separate electorate as the biggest blunder of his life. Dr. Kancha of the Dalit Freedom Network predicts the “Post Hindu India” where 450 million Dalits, Untouchables and Scheduled classes will leave the shackles of Hinduism and convert to Christianity Islam and Buddhism. *NEW DELHI: In the first such legislative move anywhere in the world, and much to the embarrassment of India’s official position, the British House of Lords has passed a law that treats caste as “an aspect of race”.
[GreenYouth] On Kanu Sanyal
http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/129/39/ http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/129/39/Kanu Sanyal: A Long March Ends Wednesday, 31 March 2010 * Gautam Sen* It was a heroic emergence. It is a tragic departure. In the middle there lay a long tortuous path to traverse. Kanu Sanyal was both an architect and a product of the Spring Thunder of Naxalbari upsurge in 1967. An eruption that spread the call of armed uprising and seizure of state power. Its culmination notwithstanding, it played a historic role as a rebellion against the parliamentary path of revolution purveyed by the traditional communist current in Indian politics. Kanu Sanyal and his close comrade-in-arm, Jangal Santhal, turned into revolutionary icons both for the youth and the peasantry of this country. Kanu Sanyal, along with some of his comrades, visited China secretly and met Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and exchanged views over the prospects of Indian revolution. It was Sanyal who acquainted the world with the contribution of Charu Mazumdar in the Naxal uprising and the communist fight against revisionism. He also became one of the enthusiastic leaders who championed what nowadays is famous as the CM line, and tried to establish the revolutionary authority of Charu Mazumdar. (Ref: 'Be cautious of those who want to dismantle the revolutionary authority of Charu Mazumdar'.) The privilege to announce the formation of a new party – the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) – conferred on Kanu Sanyal on May 1, 1969, served to underscore his electrifying charisma and the revolutionary esteem he was held in those days. On the fundamental question, 'What road is to be followed by the Indian revolution?', his analysis then was: The Indian revolution must take the road of relying on the peasants, establishing base areas in the countryside, persisting in protracted armed struggle and using the countryside to encircle and finally capture the cities. This is Mao Tse-tung's road, the road that has led the Chinese revolution to victory, and the only road to victory for the revolutions of all oppressed nations and peoples. He pointed out, The specific nature of the Indian revolution, like that of the Chinese revolution, is armed revolution fighting against armed counter-revolution; armed struggle is the only correct road for the Indian revolution; there is no other road whatsoever. He further believed the spark in Darjeeling will start a prairie fire and will certainly set the vast expanses of India ablaze. (Ref: 'Report of the Terai Movement', published at the end of 1968.) Towards the end of 1972, Kanu Sanyal started questioning the CM line. Subsequently, one of the main founders of the CPI(ML) publicly declared that not only was the formation of a new party a great blunder, it was the product of a handful of conspirators who moved away from the lessons of Naxalbari movement, which he still believed to be a milestone. In April 1973, he wrote 'More on Naxalbari' where he categorically challenged the claim that the Naxalbari uprising was the product of the application of CM's theory, especially his 'The Eight Documents', which was circulated among the members of Darjeeling district committee of the CPI(M) long before the uprising. In none of these declarations, statements or writings, was there a serious critical self-evaluation, though Sanyal admitted a Himalayan blunder had been committed. Being consistent with his evaluation about the formation of the CPI(ML), he refused, unlike other ML fractions, to tag the post-split network he led as CPI(ML) with this or that nomenclature within parenthesis. However, after subsequent splits and mergers he finally agreed in 2005 to be the general secretary of the party that was named CPI (ML) without any further appelation. He criticised the CM line, especially the line of annihilation of class enemy; he revised and redrafted a number of tactical lines; but he could not go beyond the general orientation projected in the Terai Report and adopted by the undivided CPI(ML). As a consequence, he imprisoned himself within the narrow and blind confines of endless permutation-combination of grouping and regrouping of the 'communist revolutionaries'. He admitted the Himalayan blunder, but could not stretch his capabilities enough to take the rectification drive to the desired level. When thousand inner-party struggles within the 'communist revolutionaries' continued to produce only further disillusionment, demoralisation and fragmentation, a personality of the stature of Kanu Sanyal could have been in the forefront of a mission to impart communist inquisitiveness and genuine search for an alternative path of class struggle. A path that would inspire the masses to fight and change. Dream shattered, mission unaccomplished, he, however, never stopped his journey to organise and reorganise the toiling masses. It is, indeed, a matter of great regret that though he took earnest initiative to organise different
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse
The demand for sub-quota, by no stretch, is a demand. It's just an alibi. A pure and simple alibi to block women's reservation. First of all, the SC and ST will automatically have their quota (of reservation) within (women's) quota. to ask for it is a mere act of deception. There is no such reservation for OBCs or Muslims in state or central legislatures, so there will be none here either. Till some other amendments are made. These selfsame worthies, it is pertinent to note, had no problem with women's reservation in Panchayats. Because these are too insignificant from their point of view. Nor they are known to ever have raised any women's issues other than this. Sukla On 31 March 2010 18:38, womce...@bom7.vsnl.net.in wrote: Dear Ram, Am rather surprised to see this posting by you, that too asking for endorsement. I thought there had been a meeting by WRAG etc at the Press club and sub reservation had been rejected. Which Muslim women's groups (or other women's groups have you consulted before asking for endorsement? Please do let me know. (Though I have refused to be a vociferous advocate of the Women's legislative bodies reservation bill, the goings on in parliament and the SP leader's absurd behaviour and statements have really offended many of us.) This statement makes a point about Dalit reservation being implemented in Muslim majority areas. Why raise it in relation to the bill for women's reservation? And why does a what sounds like a mainly Muslim male group of upper or middle class professionals (never mind if some women are there too) speak on behalf of other minorities? Which other minority women or women's groups have they consulted? I ask because I have not heard of any such demand from any Christian women's groups for example. If you have, please do let me know. �with warm regards, Ammu Abraham - Original Message - From: ram puniyani jhan...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:08 pm Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse To: Ram R Puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.com Striving for Muslim Empowerment Association of Muslim Professionals 68/69 Umar Manzil, 5th Road, Khar (West), Mumbai 400052 www.ampindia.org � i...@ampindia.org Women's Reservation Bill: Seeking Muslim Representation Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), a not for profit, non- political and non-sectarian organization, endeavours to promote social welfare, community spirit, and economic prosperity through education and knowledge augmentation, in the society. AMP had taken the initiative to provide an unbiased platform, where people were invited to come and share their opinion on the Women's Reservation Bill, which was recently passed in the Rajya Sabha, and will be introduced to the Lok Sabha, very soon. AMP had conducted discussions and debates on this Bill at various places in Mumbai, and other cities across the country, and based on conclusions reached, and feedback from various luminaries, intellectuals, and the general masses AMP presents its stand as follows: 1. The proposed legislation to reserve 33% percent seats in Parliament, and State Legislatures for women which was first introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 12, 1996 would only help women of the elitist groups to gain seats, therefore causing further discrimination and under-representation of the poor, and backward classes. 2. Reservations for Dalit seats have been made specifically in areas where Muslims are in substantial numbers, often 50% or more. So no Muslim can get elected from those constituencies, as Dalit Muslims have not been granted the 'Dalit' status, in spite of Ranganath Mishra Commission having recommended it, firmly. AMP's apprehension is that with women's reservation, the total number of such 'reserved' seats will further mitigate the chances for Muslims to get elected. 3. Despite having a population of around 16 per cent, Muslims have only 5.52% representation in the Parliament. Currently there are 29 Muslim MPs in the country in the 15th Lok Sabha which includes only three Muslim women MPs (approx 5% ). If 33 % reservation for women is added to the existing 22.5 % for scheduled castes and tribes, more than 50 per cent of seats in Parliament would be reserved. This will result in drastic reduction of the already ridiculously low representation of the Minorities, especially Muslims in the Parliament. 4. The Sachhar Committee Report, and recently the Ranganath Mishra Commission have elaborated upon the poor socio-economic condition of Muslims in the country. As per the Sachhar Committee recommendations Muslims of the country need pro-active support from the government for upliftment. The government needs to re- analyse the Women's Reservation Bill, and make necessary amendments, keeping in mind the dismal status of Minorities,
Re: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse
First of all, the SC and ST will automatically have their quota (of reservation) within (women's) quota. How come? unless u make provisions within it? why are u scared of giving space to Dalit/obc/minority/adivasi women? What make one ignore the issue representation of Dalit/adivasi/minority women? shear casteism. nothing else one should have atleast the openness shown by mulayam? it s shame that these upper caste feminists and politicians do not possess it tragedy ! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com wrote: The demand for sub-quota, by no stretch, is a demand. It's just an alibi. A pure and simple alibi to block women's reservation. First of all, the SC and ST will automatically have their quota (of reservation) within (women's) quota. to ask for it is a mere act of deception. There is no such reservation for OBCs or Muslims in state or central legislatures, so there will be none here either. Till some other amendments are made. These selfsame worthies, it is pertinent to note, had no problem with women's reservation in Panchayats. Because these are too insignificant from their point of view. Nor they are known to ever have raised any women's issues other than this. Sukla On 31 March 2010 18:38, womce...@bom7.vsnl.net.in wrote: Dear Ram, Am rather surprised to see this posting by you, that too asking for endorsement. I thought there had been a meeting by WRAG etc at the Press club and sub reservation had been rejected. Which Muslim women's groups (or other women's groups have you consulted before asking for endorsement? Please do let me know. (Though I have refused to be a vociferous advocate of the Women's legislative bodies reservation bill, the goings on in parliament and the SP leader's absurd behaviour and statements have really offended many of us.) This statement makes a point about Dalit reservation being implemented in Muslim majority areas. Why raise it in relation to the bill for women's reservation? And why does a what sounds like a mainly Muslim male group of upper or middle class professionals (never mind if some women are there too) speak on behalf of other minorities? Which other minority women or women's groups have they consulted? I ask because I have not heard of any such demand from any Christian women's groups for example. If you have, please do let me know. �with warm regards, Ammu Abraham - Original Message - From: ram puniyani jhan...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:08 pm Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse To: Ram R Puniyani ram.puniy...@gmail.com Striving for Muslim Empowerment Association of Muslim Professionals 68/69 Umar Manzil, 5th Road, Khar (West), Mumbai 400052 www.ampindia.org � i...@ampindia.org Women's Reservation Bill: Seeking Muslim Representation Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), a not for profit, non- political and non-sectarian organization, endeavours to promote social welfare, community spirit, and economic prosperity through education and knowledge augmentation, in the society. AMP had taken the initiative to provide an unbiased platform, where people were invited to come and share their opinion on the Women's Reservation Bill, which was recently passed in the Rajya Sabha, and will be introduced to the Lok Sabha, very soon. AMP had conducted discussions and debates on this Bill at various places in Mumbai, and other cities across the country, and based on conclusions reached, and feedback from various luminaries, intellectuals, and the general masses AMP presents its stand as follows: 1. The proposed legislation to reserve 33% percent seats in Parliament, and State Legislatures for women which was first introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 12, 1996 would only help women of the elitist groups to gain seats, therefore causing further discrimination and under-representation of the poor, and backward classes. 2. Reservations for Dalit seats have been made specifically in areas where Muslims are in substantial numbers, often 50% or more. So no Muslim can get elected from those constituencies, as Dalit Muslims have not been granted the 'Dalit' status, in spite of Ranganath Mishra Commission having recommended it, firmly. AMP's apprehension is that with women's reservation, the total number of such 'reserved' seats will further mitigate the chances for Muslims to get elected. 3. Despite having a population of around 16 per cent, Muslims have only 5.52% representation in the Parliament. Currently there are 29 Muslim MPs in the country in the 15th Lok Sabha which includes only three Muslim women MPs (approx 5% ). If 33 % reservation for women is added to the existing 22.5 % for scheduled castes and tribes, more than 50 per cent of seats in Parliament would be reserved. This will result in drastic
[GreenYouth] RIP..........C.Saratchandran
Sorry to inform you a sad news Documentary director and civil rights activist C.Saratchandran died in an accident -- - If we fight, we may not always win, but if we don't fight, we will surely lose. - ©Savad Rahman|| Subeditor || Madhyamam weekly|| Kozhikode 12 || Mob:9995431420 || -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
[GreenYouth] Re: RIP..........C.Saratchandran സി . ശരത്ചന്ദ്രന് ട്രെയി നില് നിന്ന് വീണുമരിച ്ചു
സി. ശരത്ചന്ദ്രന് ട്രെയിനില് നിന്ന് വീണുമരിച്ചു Posted on: 01 Apr 2010 കൊച്ചി: പ്രശസ്ത ഡോക്യുമെന്ററി സംവിധായകന് സി. ശരത് ചന്ദ്രന് (53) ട്രെയിനില് നിന്ന് വീണുമരിച്ചു. ഇന്നലെ അര്ധരാത്രിയോടെയാണ് അപകടമുണ്ടായത്. തൃശൂരില് ഒരു വിവാഹചടങ്ങില് പങ്കെടുത്തശേഷം എറണാകുളത്തിന് പോകുമ്പോള് കൊടകര വെച്ചായിരുന്നു അപകടം. രാവിലെയാണ് മരിച്ചത് ശരത്ചന്ദ്രനാണെന്ന് തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞത്. പാരിസ്ഥിതിക വിഷയങ്ങളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് നിരവധി ഡോക്യുമെന്ററികള് ശരത്ചന്ദ്രന് സംവിധാനം ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. പ്ലാച്ചിമടയിലെ കൊക്കക്കോള വിരുദ്ധസമരത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് പി ബാബുരാജുമായി ചേര്ന്ന് സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത 'തൗസന്റ് ഡെയ്സ് ആന്റ് എ ഡ്രീം', കയ്പുനീര് എന്നീ ഡോക്യുമെന്ററികള് നിരവധി മേളകളില് പ്രദര്ശിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുകയും ദേശീയ പുരസ്കാരങ്ങള് നേടുകയും ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. തിരുവനന്തപുരം സ്വദേശിയായ ശരത്ചന്ദ്രന് തൃപ്പൂണിത്തുറയിലാണ് താമസം. സംസ്കാരം തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത് നടക്കും. - If we fight, we may not always win, but if we don't fight, we will surely lose. - ©Savad Rahman|| Subeditor || Madhyamam weekly|| Kozhikode 12 || Mob:9995431420 || -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
