[GreenYouth] Pls. Sign the Petition: Withdraw all charges against academics and activists falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/596/484/960/ Withdraw all charges against academics and activists falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police by: Aparna Sundar We, the undersigned, are outraged by recent charges of murder that have been laid against Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, JNU professor Archana Prasad, Vineet Tiwari (of Joshi Adhikar Sansthan, Delhi), Chhattisgarh CPI(M) state secretary, Sanjay Parate, Mangalram Karma, and Manju Kawasi, CPI activist and Sarpanch of Guphidi in Sukma district, by the Chhattisgarh police in the killing of Shamnath Baghel. The charges are patently fabricated, and follow a pattern of intimidation by the Chhattisgarh police every time evidence is released of their lawless prosecution of the war against the Maoists. Earlier this year, Sundar, Prasad, Tiwari and Parate were part of a fact-finding team that looked at the impact of Maoist violence and state excesses on ordinary villagers in Bastar, finding that they were victims of fake encounters, rapes, arrests, beatings, IED blasts, and killing of informers, implicating Maoists, police, and security forces. The residents of Bastar were also found to be facing the renewal of attacks by civilian militias armed by the state. At that time too, the district administration of Bastar had tried to implicate the fact-finding team on fake charges on the basis of a contrived complaint. More recently, when the police were charge-sheeted on the basis of evidence gathered by Sundar and others for carrying out arson in an operation in 2011, they retaliated by burning effigies of her and other activists and journalists in order to intimidate and incite violence against them. Sundar and others have put on record their unequivocal condemnation of the killing of Shamnath Baghel. Their writing and interventions on the ongoing war in Bastar have consistently condemned all forms of violence, whether by the state or by the Maoists. We are saddened by the climate of silencing of dissent that is becoming widespread in India and concerned that the work of researchers, journalists, lawyers and activists is being monitored and controlled to quell critical scrutiny of governmental actions. We believe such silencing of opposing views poses a grave danger to the democratic values of India. We condemn the police tactics of intimidating and harassing of journalists, lawyers, researchers, political leaders and human rights activists who have been documenting and speaking out against the violence and brutality unleashed by the police, paramilitary, and civilian militias against the local population of Bastar in the war against the Maoists. We demand that the Government of India unconditionally withdraw all charges against all the six persons who have been falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police. We further demand that an inquiry be set up to interrogate the manner in which the police is interfering with law and taking the liberty to frame researchers and activists to create an atmosphere of terror. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[GreenYouth] 100. 500. 1000 & 2000 debate.
First, you must give Rs. 15 lakhs from the seized black money that you promised to each citizen of this country during the time of your election and then talk about controlling black money by changing currency notes overnight, creating so much of trouble to so many people. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[GreenYouth] More curbs on juvenile fishing in the offing
More curbs on juvenile fishing in the offing http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/ more-curbs-on-juvenile-fishing-in-the-offing/article9317600.ece SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTi The government is preparing to notify the Minimum Legal Size (MLS) for 58 marine fish species, under plans to regulate juvenile fishing and check the decline of marine fish stocks. Minister for Fisheries J. Mercykutty Amma told the Assembly on Monday that the government would consider an ordinance, if needed, to notify the species. Replying to a notice for an adjournment motion moved by Hibi Eden, she said the notification would be an extension of the regulations on juvenile fishing already in place for 14 species. The MLS sets the smallest size at which a particular species can be legally retained, if caught. It is a fisheries management tool to protect juvenile fish, maintain spawning stocks, and control the numbers and size of fish caught. The Minister said the Marine Fisheries Regulation Act would be suitably amended to control pelagic pair trawling. The amendment would also cover the registration of fishing vessels and restrictions on vessel size, engine power and the dimension and size of fishing nets. Moving the motion, Mr. Eden said juvenile fishing had gone up to cater to the increasing demand for fishmeal from prawn farms. Foreign trawlers and vessels from other States were plundering the juveniles of species such as sardine, leading to escalating conflict with traditional fishers. *Decline in catch* The threat of a fish famine was imminent as stocks of many marine species had declined. Thousands of traditional fishers were set to lose their livelihood, he said. Meanwhile, the Kerala Fishing Boat Operators Association is preparing to move court against the proposed MLS notification. The association feels that standardisation of fishing vessels and gear is imperative if juvenile fishing is to be regulated. Pointing out that accidental catch of juvenile fish was unavoidable in the absence of standardisation, general secretary of the association Joseph Xavier Kalappurackal said the strict enforcement of the ban on catching different species of juvenile fishes in Kerala had led to uncontrolled exploitation by vessels from other States. The National Fishworkers Forum is also demanding countrywide regulations on juvenile fishing. While welcoming the move to prescribe MLS for more marine species, secretary, NFF, T. Peter said it would be rendered meaningless if trawlers from elsewhere were allowed to raid Indian waters. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[GreenYouth] DU professor Nandini Sundar booked for tribal man’s murder
["“An FIR was lodged against DU Professor Nandini Sundar, Archana Prasad (JNU Professor), Vineet Tiwari (from Delhi’s Joshi Adhikar Sansthan), Sanjay Parate (Chhattisgarh CPI (Marxist) State Secretary) and others along with Maoists for the murder of Baghel based on the complaint of his wife on Saturday,” said Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) SRP Kalluri." That's so very disturbing!] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/du-professor-nandini-sundar-booked-for-tribal-mans-murder/article9319012.ece Updated: November 8, 2016 13:30 IST DU professor Nandini Sundar booked for tribal man’s murder PTI Nandini Sundar. File Photo *JNU professor Archana Prasad and a few Maoists have also been booked under section 120 B and 3012 of IPC.* A Delhi University Professor has been booked along with Maoists and others on the charge of murder of a tribal person in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday. ***“An FIR was lodged against DU Professor Nandini Sundar, Archana Prasad (JNU Professor), Vineet Tiwari (from Delhi’s Joshi Adhikar Sansthan), Sanjay Parate (Chhattisgarh CPI (Marxist) State Secretary) and others along with Maoists for the murder of Baghel based on the complaint of his wife on Saturday,” said Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) SRP Kalluri.*** [Emphasis added.] They were booked under section 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 and 149 of IPC at Tongpal police station, the IG said adding, “strongest possible action will be taken against those guilty after the investigation.” Though the case was registered on Saturday, the matter came to light only on late Monday evening. Naxals allegedly killed Shamnath Baghel with sharp weapons on late night on Friday (November 4) at his residence in Nama village under the Kumakoleng gram panchayat in Tongpal area, around 450 km away from here. Baghel and some of his associates were spearheading the protest against Naxal activities in their village since April this year. “As per the complaint lodged by the victim’s wife, her husband had been getting threats from Maoists since he and other villagers had complained against Sundar in May this year. Even armed ultras were referring to that complaint and anti-Maoist demonstrations while attacking Baghel on Friday,” the IG said. His wife has sought action against Sundar and others accusing them of murdering her husband, Mr. Kalluri added. Notably, Baghel and other villagers of the region had given a complaint with the Tongpal police in May against Sundar, Prasad, Tiwari, Parate and an unidentified woman activist from Sukma for allegedly inciting innocent tribals against the government and seeking their support for Maoists. Villagers of Nama and the neighbouring Kumakoleng village (both under Kumakoleng village panchayat) had started a self-motivated protest against Maoist activities in their villages after forming its own security group named “Tangiya (axe) group” in April. “Following the development, according to villagers, Sundar and others went in the village to allegedly threaten them not to oppose the Maoists,” the IG said. Ms Sundar had gone to the village with fake name Richa Keshav, he added. The complaint also mentioned that during the attack on him, Maoists kept telling Baghel that he was being punished because he did not listen to Ms. Sundar and others, and continued opposing them. A letter was then written to the Vice Chancellors of both DU and JNU informing that the Bastar police was conducting an inquiry against both the professors following complaint received against them, he added. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[GreenYouth] Smog Chokes Delhi, Leaving Residents ‘Cowering by Our Air Purifiers’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/world/asia/india-delhi-smog.html?_r=0 Smog Chokes Delhi, Leaving Residents ‘Cowering by Our Air Purifiers’ Levels of the most dangerous particles soared over the weekend in some places to more than 16 times the limit India’s government considers safe. By ELLEN BARRYNOV. 7, 2016 A thick layer of smog covered Connaught Place, in the heart of New Delhi, on Saturday. Credit Altaf Qadri/Associated Press NEW DELHI — For days, many in Delhi have been living as if under siege, trying to keep the dirty air away from their children and older parents. But it is not easy: Open a window or a door, and the haze enters the room within seconds. Outside, the sky is white, the sun a white circle so pale that you can barely make it out. The smog is acrid, eye-stinging and throat-burning, and so thick that it is being blamed for a 70-vehicle pileup north of the city. If in past years Delhi’s roughly 20 million residents shrugged off wintertime pollution as fog, over the past week they viewed it as a crisis. Schools have been ordered closed for three days — an unprecedented measure, but not a reassuring one because experts say the concentration of pollutants inside Indian homes is typically not much lower than outside. Levels of the most dangerous particles, called PM 2.5, reached 700 micrograms per cubic meter on Monday, and over the weekend they soared in some places to 1,000, or more than 16 times the limit India’s government considers safe. The damage from sustained exposure to such high concentrations of PM 2.5 is equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day, experts say. Photo A family rode a scooter during heavy smog and dust in Delhi on Sunday. Credit Harish Tyagi/European Pressphoto Agency “There is so much smog outside that today, inside my house, I felt as though someone had just burned a few sheets of paper,” said Amaan Ahuja, one of dozens who shared their families’ experiences in response to a request from The New York Times. “You can literally see smoke in the air, and when you breathe, you can smell it, too,” he said. “We are trying to keep the kids indoors with all the windows closed.” Another reader, Tulika Seth, described her family’s life over the past week as “unnatural and disturbing.” Asked where she lived, she responded, “a gas chamber.” Photo Construction continued on a building on Monday. Credit Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images To understand the health consequences of the dense smog that settled over India’s capital over the past week, scientists are looking back decades in search of a historical precedent: to the 1952 Great Smog of London, which is believed to have caused as many as 12,000 premature deaths. In that case, a layer of dense pollution — caused largely by emissions from burning coal — dissipated after four days, when the weather changed. But an uptick in deaths continued for weeks afterward, so shocking the public that it spurred a wave of environmental regulations. Delhi’s chief minister on Sunday announced a series of emergency measures, including a five-day moratorium on construction, a 10-day closure of a power plant and a three-day closure of about 1,800 public schools. On Monday, the city government released a list of health guidelines, advising citizens to wash their eyes with running water and to go to a hospital if they were experiencing symptoms like “breathlessness, giddiness, chest pain and chest constriction.” But experts said mitigating the conditions would have required policies to be put in place months ago. “These are all decent emergency measures, but they’re not solving the long-term problem,” said Bhargav Krishna, who manages the Public Health Foundation of India’s environmental health center. “The best we can hope for, in a way, is to plan for next year,” he added. “This year is almost a washout.” Photo Runners struggled through a 10-kilometer race on Sunday. Credit Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Changing weather conditions are likely to disperse the dense cloud of pollutants over the next few days. But they will also bring the beginning of the widespread burning of trash, including plastic and rubber, for warmth by Delhi’s poor. Among the persistent problems for policy makers is that the sources of the pollution — vehicles, construction, crop burning and holiday fireworks — fall under the authority of half a dozen city, state and federal government bodies, which are in some cases at odds with one another politically, Mr. Krishna said. “Where exactly is the responsibility for implementing these plans?” he said. “At whose desk does this all lie?” He added, “The diffuse nature of power means that it is easy to pass on responsibility to others.” Public anger over Delhi’s air is more palpable than in previous years, and people are more likely to identify pollution as the cause of their health problems. Anumita Roychowdhury, who runs the air pollution
