[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: Tension Mounts Again

2009-10-26 Thread Sukla Sen
[Things are again inching towards a make or break situation. The threat of Janaandolan III is nothing new. It had been tried only in the recent past. But did not click despite considerable show of organised strength. It is, however, difficult to predict the future. If the Maoists again launch

[GreenYouth] Re: [GreenLeft_discussion] Nepal- New Peoples Movement?

2009-10-28 Thread Sukla Sen
Since the Maoists joined the democratic mainstream - reversing their initial refusal to accept the declaration of abdication by King Gyanendra on April 24 2006 and subsequently forswearing armed insurgency - the principal axis around which Nepal's politics is revolving is not the drafting of the

[GreenYouth] Lalgarh: Solve the Problems through Dialogue, NOT through Terror

2009-10-29 Thread Sukla Sen
Solve the Problems through Dialogue, NOT through Terror Jharkhand Andolan Samanway Manch Press Release October 7 2009 On October 1, 2009, Sri Panchanan Tudu, President of the Jharkhand Janamukti Morcha was killed. The next day followed the killing of Sri Amalendu Patra, an activist of the

[GreenYouth] The Biggest Grab of Tribal Lands after Columbus

2009-10-29 Thread Sukla Sen
The caption is too hyped up. The text hardly justifies (640 villages vis-a-vis Columbus!?): Quote 640 villages are empty. Villages sitting on tons of iron ore are effectively de-peopled and available for the highest bidder. The latest information that is being circulated is that both *Essar Steel

[GreenYouth] Towards a Global Labor History with van der Linden

2009-10-30 Thread Sukla Sen
[Thanks to Pradip! The book is downloadable from the site below. Sukla] http://www.thisisforever.org/upcoming/global-labor-history Towards a Global Labor History with van der Linden 16 Beaver Group Saturday, October 31st @ 12PM – 2PM Marcel van der Linden: Working Class History from Below 16

[GreenYouth] Breaking News! Honduras' Zelaya set to return to power

2009-10-30 Thread Sukla Sen
[What a huge shift from the day of September 11 1973, when democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende was deposed in a military coup led by General Pinochet. Allende would commit suicide before being captured. And hundreds of thousands of Chileans would be at the receiving end of

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Include the voice of the women

2009-10-30 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Adi Bhaduri aditi...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:44 PM Subject: Include the voice of the women http://www.risingkashmir.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=17938Itemid=44 Include the voice of the women Following is the text

[GreenYouth] TariQ Ali on the life and death of Trotsky

2009-11-01 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/31/trotsky-stalin-service-patenaude The life and death of Trotsky Tariq Ali on Trotsky by Robert Service and Stalin's Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude *Trotsky: A Biography http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/biography* by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan,

[GreenYouth] Nationwide support to NBA's Indefinite protest fast against GoMP's atrocities

2009-11-01 Thread Sukla Sen
NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN • 62 M.G Marg, Badwani, Madhya Pradesh - 451551 Telefax: 07290-222464; E-mail: nba.medha at gmail.com •Maitri Niwas, Tembewadi, Behind Kakawadi, Dhadgav, Dist. Nandurbar, Maharashtra - 425414 – Telefax: 02595-220620

[GreenYouth] Struggle against Displacement Caused by State: Invitation to National Convention / Demonstration: November 18-21, New Delhi

2009-11-01 Thread Sukla Sen
Invitation to National Convention / Demonstration on Displacement and Development November 18-21, New Delhi Invitation to National Convention / Demonstration on Displacement and Development in the context of proposed Land Acquisition (Amendment) and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bills November

[GreenYouth] Maoism and Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: A Significant Article

2009-11-02 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote Marxism has to be judged by the fruits of its project of taking humanity along the road towards equality, cooperation, community, and solidarity. Unquote In case it is applied to Maoism in particular, what can in no way be brushed aside is the huge monstrosities of Pol Pot ruling Kampuchea

[GreenYouth] Invitation to Workshop on Af-Pak Policy and its Implications (Nov. 14-15) at St. Pius College, Goregaon (East)

2009-11-03 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Jatin Desai desaija...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM Subject: Do circulate to your friends/colleagues *Invitation* * * *Workshop on Af-Pak Policy and its Implications * *Dates: 14th-15th November 2009* *Venue: St. Pius College, Goregaon (East),* *Mumbai* *Time:

[GreenYouth] Re: Online Petition to Indonesia to rescind Modi invitation

2009-11-06 Thread Sukla Sen
Mr. Modi has committed crime against humanity. A number of credible human rights organisations have made this point. He has been derided by the National Human Rights Commission of India. Compared with the infamous Roman Emperor Nero by the Indian Supreme Court. Now is facing criminal

[GreenYouth] Chris Harman Psses Away!

2009-11-06 Thread Sukla Sen
I pay my tribute to the memory of a great activist-scholar. A great scholar no doubt, but an extremely engaged activist as well. I'd ever cherish the memories of my brief interactions with him, in person. Sukla http://arabist.net/arabawy/2009/11/07/chris-harman-rip/ Chris Harman RIP

[GreenYouth] In Memory of Chris Harman and His Exceptional Insight into the Dynamics of Globalisation

2009-11-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[Despite the overwhelming cacophony as regards Globalisation and global capital, the moment the crisis struck, the immediate reflexive response was to erect protectionist barriers by the national states in the interests of their own capitals. Even the countervailing measures considered necessary

[GreenYouth] Re: [GreenLeft_discussion] Nepal Update-Lal salamBlog

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote Within the assembly they have blocked the new budget, until such a time that civilian supremacy has been assured. The ministries have already now run out of funding and the state is crawling to a stop for lack of resources. Unquote That the same parliament which had elected the UCPN(M)

[GreenYouth] In Memory of Chris Harman: Some More

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2009/11/chris-harman-1942-2009.html Saturday, November 07, 2009 Chris Harman (1942-2009) http://server40136.uk2net.com/~wpower/images/product_images/9781905192250.jpg It is still kind of hard to take in the sad news of the passing of Chris Harman

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Healthcare Reform Bill Plods Along

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-House-passes-bill-to-overhaul-healthcare/articleshow/5208619.cms US House passes bill to overhaul healthcareREUTERS 8 November 2009, 12:13pm IST WASHINGTON: The House of Representatives approved a sweeping healthcare reform bill on Saturday, backing

[GreenYouth] The Politics of Vande Mataram

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/The-politics-of-Vande-Mataram/articleshow/5207948.cms The politics of Vande MataramJyoti Punwani8 November 2009, 06:13am IST Among the 15 resolutions passed by the Jamiat-e-Ulema-I-Hind (Mehmud Madani branch) at its anti-terrorism conference at Dar

[GreenYouth] Re: India's Defining Moment

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote This comes with their fundamental and sustained assault on the very efficacy and desirability of revolution which for them has been proven to be no less than a nightmare. Unquote Revolution through Dantewada? Is someone joking here? Even we forget he desirability part - Pol Pot, annihilation

[GreenYouth] Re: The Two Indias: One declares war against the other

2009-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote Keeping in mind the above facts and figures, let us examine the threat perspective posed by “Maoists” as alleged by the Government. It is said that the “Maoist” consists of around 5000 or so rag-tag militia carrying assortment of guns and explosives. Can it be believed that the mighty Indian

[GreenYouth] Operation Green Hunt and Another Call for Sanity and Dialogue: From Amit Bhaduri Romila Thapar

2009-11-09 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/09/stories/2009110955350800.htm *Will the mindset from the past change?* Amit Bhaduri Romila Thapar *Those that have governed in tribal areas must share the responsibility for the negligence of the adivasis. The proposals for a multi-lateral dialogue should be

[GreenYouth] Chris Harman: Obituary

2009-11-10 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/09/chris-harman-obituary Chris Harman obituary Writer, editor and leading light of the Socialist Workers party - Michael Rosen http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/michaelrosen - guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/, Monday 9 November 2009

[GreenYouth] Re: Nandan Nilekani's Confidential UID Document Leaked

2009-11-13 Thread Sukla Sen
Thanks and Congrats! Sukla On 11/13/09, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates

2009-11-15 Thread Sukla Sen
[The second phase of the agitation by the UCPN(M) is over without achieving the desired result: the downfall of the incumbent government and its replacement by a new one headed by Prachanda. There is hardly any scope for any confusion over what the goal of the agitation is/was: 'civilian

[GreenYouth] Operation Green Hunt: When the State Declares War on the People

2009-11-15 Thread Sukla Sen
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rygJzzutBOg part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Kvl3e1MlM *When the State Declares War on the People* A 15 minute Trailer on the Human Rights Violations in Chhattisgarh resulting from Operation Green Hunt *Director:* Gopal Menon *Venue:* Delhi Press

[GreenYouth] Himanshu Kumar's Letter to the Home Minister on behalf of the Citizens' Initiative for Peace

2009-11-16 Thread Sukla Sen
Post Box 3811 Andrews Ganj Post Office, New Delhi-110049 peacecitiz...@yahoo.co.in To Shri P Chidambaram Union Home Minister New Delhi 28 Oct 2009 Subject: Suggestions for Urgent Action in Tribal Areas Dear Sri P Chidambaram, We are deeply concerned over the recent developments in the tribal

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Obama's China Trip and Evolving Bilateral Realations

2009-11-17 Thread Sukla Sen
[What the news analysis below doesn't mention is that China did help in a big way in the wake of the financial meltdown of the East Asian Tigers to stabilise the order. The long Clinton trip came almost as a reward and recognition. And, carrying the momentum, after a long wait, China was allowed

[GreenYouth] The Unique ID Project and the Shroud of Menacing Mystery

2009-11-18 Thread Sukla Sen
As is abundantly clear from the post reproduced below, the whole Unique IID project is steeped deep in utter murkiness. There is something horribly rotten in the state of Denmark. Never mind the Prince Charming and the Superman rolled together - the great Nandan Nilekani, at the helm. The

[GreenYouth] Maoist Revolution, Liberal Naivete: Comments by Apoorvanand

2009-11-20 Thread Sukla Sen
Maoist Revolution, Liberal Naivete Apoorvanand Responding to the call by the Home Minister and prime Minister of India to halt violence to facilitate talks, Maoist leaders ridiculed them and asked them to get their history right. According to them it was wrong to say that the ‘war’ that is now

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates

2009-11-21 Thread Sukla Sen
I/III. http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/1-top-story/2518-ucpn-m-to-discontinue-house-obstruction-for-three-days-for-passage-of-budget-declares-3rd-phase-stir.html UCPN (M) to discontinue House obstruction for three days for passage of budget; declares 3rd phase stir Saturday,

[GreenYouth] Maoist Insurgency in India: Interesting Sidelights

2009-11-22 Thread Sukla Sen
[It is rather interesting to note that while projecting he Maoist threat the number of districts affected/controlled by the insurgents is quoted as around 160 or 200 (out total 604). But whenever economic packages are talked of, the number drastically comes down to 30+. As far as the so-called

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: Towards Resolution?

2009-11-24 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2009/11/23/top-stories/High-Level-Political-Mechanism-in-a-week/2314/ High Level Political Mechanism in a week KATHMANDU, NOV 23 - Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Puspha Kamal Dahal have agreed to set

[GreenYouth] Ideas for the Struggle by Marta Harnecker

2009-11-26 Thread Sukla Sen
How to organise for socialism in the 21st century?This 12-part series of articles by Marta Harnecker (translated by Federico Fuentes) on ideas for how to organise for socialism in the 21st century first appeared in Links: International Journal of SocialistRenewal. It is now available download free

[GreenYouth] Re: My Article in Truthout

2009-11-26 Thread Sukla Sen
Dear Sri, Thanks a lot for the nicely written well-timed piece. Digressing a bit, only a bit, the Indian Prime Minister has of late adopted a highly belligerent tone vis-a-vis China and Pakistan. Not that the others sides are blameless. Far from that. A Chinese commentator has, as per report,

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Some thoughts regarding the nuclear incident at Kaiga

2009-11-30 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Surendra Gadekar anumu...@gmx.net Date: 30 Nov 2009 15:06 Subject: Some thoughts regarding the nuclear incident at Kaiga To: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com Cc: nonucl...@lists.movingrepublic.org Some Questions Raised by the Contamination Incident

[GreenYouth] Fwd: India: The Kaiga Incident - Sabotage / Insider Collusion ? (From Mail Today)

2009-12-01 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Harsh Kapoor aiin...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:18:52 +0100 Subject: India: The Kaiga Incident - Sabotage / Insider Collusion ? (From Mail Today) To: sa...@yahoogroups.com South Asians Against Nukes - Year 11 November 30, 2009

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: Politics of Revolutionary Intrigues and Deal Cutting?

2009-12-01 Thread Sukla Sen
I/III. http://telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=6736PHPSESSID=a06384da0638834a76491ca27f4fa42d http://telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=6736PHPSESSID=a06384da0638834a76491ca27f4fa42d Koirala Assured Prachanda of Nepal Government Fall: Gajurel TGW Chandra Prakash Gajurel, the

[GreenYouth] Re: [india-unity] America's Doormat?

2009-12-01 Thread Sukla Sen
My take is that Obama has underscored the critical importance of Indo-Pak reconciliation, or at least avoidance of belligerent noises, in order to obtain higher level of cooperation from Pakistan to manage Afghanistan. In any case, Iraq and Afghanistan are two very different cups of tea. One has

[GreenYouth] Murder of Leon Trotsky: Looking Back at History

2009-12-02 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1604.html MAINSTREAM, VOL XLVII, NO 38, SEPTEMBER 5, 2009 Murder of Leon Trotsky: Criminality of International Gulagism Wednesday 9 September 2009, by Subrata Senhttp://www.mainstreamweekly.net/auteur467.html *What crime did we not commit! Our cruelty was

[GreenYouth] Voice from Dantewada

2009-12-02 Thread Sukla Sen
Announcement Letter *DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI* * * *For the People's Right to say No to displacement and Tribal Genocide* *And to demand the right to live with justice and peace* Raipur / Dantewada 1 December 2009 Dear Friends, You are aware that the tribals of

[GreenYouth] Jallianwala in Beijing: Looking Back in History

2009-12-02 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1564.html MAINSTREAM, VOL XLVII, NO 34, AUGUST 8, 2009 Remembering the Massacre Sunday 16 August 2009, by Subrata Sen The editor deserves compliments for the sincere remembrance of the Tiananmen massacre in the June 6, 2009 issue of Mainstream. Indignation

[GreenYouth] Economic Transition of India: A Detailed Study

2009-12-02 Thread Sukla Sen
India: Transiting To A Global Donor C.R Bijoy at http://www.mediafire.com/?nxwzzhiy33f. Sukla --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Promise of Go in hard, Get out fast in Afghanistan

2009-12-03 Thread Sukla Sen
[This one is undoubtedly the most unpopular decision taken by the new President as yet. To be fair, the Afghan problem is an inherited one - not Obama's own making, by the farthest stretch. But the newest move - go in hard and get out fast - is his own brainchild, by all means. And it is also in

[GreenYouth] Fwd: DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI

2009-12-06 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Kavita Srivastava kavis...@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/7 Subject: DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI *Announcement Letter* * DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI* *For the People's Right* * to say NO to displacement and Tribal Genocide* *And to demand the right to live

[GreenYouth] Evo Morales Wins a Second Term in Bolivia! A Thumping Victory!

2009-12-07 Thread Sukla Sen
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/12/2009126225949104332.html Morales claims Bolivia election win * * * Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia's presidential election after exit polls indicated he had easily won re-election with more than 60 per cent of the vote. This process

[GreenYouth] Nuclear Power Plant in Haripur: An Update

2009-12-08 Thread Sukla Sen
[This is not the announcement to move the proposed plant away, as the caption suggests. But an acknowledgement of the difficulties involved. And of course a sort of (yet partial) retreat, perhaps meant to cause counter pressure in favour of the plant.]

[GreenYouth] Fwd: THE SEDUCTIONS OF KARL MARX

2009-12-08 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: MurzBan Jal murzban...@hotmail.com Date: 2009/12/8 Subject: [Samuhik-Khoj] : THE SEDUCTIONS OF KARL MARX Dear Abhay, This is to inform you that Aakar Books, New Delhi (ph 011-22795505), has just published my book: THE SEDUCTIONS OF KARL MARX. This

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Bhadrakumar on Implications of US Surge and Exit in Af-Pak

2009-12-09 Thread Sukla Sen
{The following analysis by Bhadrakumar, given that he is a consistent opponent of growing Indian proximity with the US and a proponent of India developing closer relationship with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries - i.e. essentially Russia and China, is quite interesting. Here,

[GreenYouth] Kucinich’s Response to Obama’s “J ust War” Doctrine

2009-12-12 Thread Sukla Sen
[The concept of just (and unjust) war is quite old and has also biblical roots. (The Gita talks of Dharma Yuddh.) Amongst others, Lenin also adopted and built upon it. Here, the call to to rethink the terms of our existence, to explore the possibility of peace without war, may well determine

[GreenYouth] More on Obama's Oslo Speech

2009-12-12 Thread Sukla Sen
[The contradictions between actively escalating a war, just or unjust, and accepting the Nobel Peace Prize are too glaring. And Obama is too intelligent to overlook that.] http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/blog/andy.html http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/blog/andy.html By envisioning a world

[GreenYouth] More on Climate Change and Corporate-funded Deniers

2009-12-12 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.htmlEditorial *Nature* *462*, 545 (3 December 2009) | doi:10.1038/462545a; Published online 2 December 2009 Climatologists under pressure Topof

[GreenYouth] World's biggest uranium firm coming to India

2009-12-12 Thread Sukla Sen
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Indl-Goods-/-Svs/Metals-Mining/Worlds-biggest-uranium-firm-coming-to-India/articleshow/5291073.cms

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: A sharp turn toward another Vietnam?

2009-12-13 Thread Sukla Sen
[The problem is that escalation of war, even when bundled with an advance commitment to quick and somewhat time-bound closure, has its own insidious dynamic. Obama's Oslo speech and his compulsions to elucidate the thesis of eternity of war and just war is a significant step down the slippery

[GreenYouth] Padyatra for Peace in Dantewada Is Disrupted by CG Government

2009-12-14 Thread Sukla Sen
[Dr. Sandeep Pandey is the Magsaysay Award winner for the year 2002. He is a leading figure of the NAPM and CNDP. Led trans-border peace marches towards peace between India and Pakistan and also a visa-free South Asia.] From: Sandeep Pandey

[GreenYouth] Climate Change and Corporate Funded (and Other Sundry) Deniers

2009-12-14 Thread Sukla Sen
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/earthshastra/entry/is-climate-change-for-real Is Climate Change for Real? Amit Bhattacharya Monday December 14, 2009, 12:30 PM The hard talk is on at Copenhagen. In the huddle are negotiators from more than 192 nations, trying to forge a common plan to

[GreenYouth] More on Climate Change

2009-12-15 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote The planet Earth itself evolved over the last four and a half billion years – both the large solid and roughly spherical mass and the gaseous envelope surrounding it [9]. The trajectory of this evolution was far from linear. In certain respects, it followed a sinusoidal pattern. Since its

[GreenYouth] Campaign against Sexual Violence and State Repression: Message from Raipur: Police Tyranny in C'garh

2009-12-16 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Lena Ganesh lgane...@yahoo.in Date: 2009/12/16 Subject: Press Release, Women's team in Chhattisgarh ** ** *Press Release 14/12/09* Dear Madam/Sir, Please publish the following news in your newspaper. With regards and thanks, Leena Ganesh, Mumbai, 098212-11661* * for* Campaign

[GreenYouth] Updated Invite: India-Pakistan Conference: A Road Map towards Peace

2009-12-16 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Centre for Policy Analysis cpa.cpa...@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/16 *Dear Friends,* * * *Greetings! * *A number of organizations in India have got together with eminent persons to organize an India-Pakistan Conference: A Road Map towards Peace at the India International Center (IIC) from

[GreenYouth] Copenhagen and Beyond: A Possible Indian Agenda

2009-12-16 Thread Sukla Sen
*Copenhagen** and beyond **Environmental imperative for India **by Arun Kumar* The Tribune December 16, 2009 *T*he Copenhagen summit has brought the issue of rapid environmental degradation and climate change onto the centre-stage. Sceptics abound but evidence is growing of mounting

[GreenYouth] Confessions Of A Pakistani Native Orientalist

2009-12-16 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Pervez Hoodbhoy hoodb...@mit.edu Date: 2009/12/17 Subject: Confessions Of A Pakistani Native Orientalist [Published in Counterpunch in response to an article vilifying me and others. If you would like to be removed from this list of occasional mailings please send me an email. PH] IS

[GreenYouth] Copenhagen Updates: Humanity Plunging for Its Doom?

2009-12-17 Thread Sukla Sen
[Nothing less than deep mandatory cuts in GHG emissions, here and now, by the Developed world; binding commitments by the developing countries not to follow the destructive path traversed by the Developed countries - particularly by the major ones amongst them; free flow of relevant technologies

[GreenYouth] Breaking News: In a Radical Turnaround Kasab Claims He Had Been Picked Up from Juhu on 25/11!

2009-12-18 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote On the night of November 25, I was roaming in Juhu. I had gone to see a movie when the local police arrested me, Kasab told the court. I have not given any confession before the magistrate and my statement has been falsely implicated, Kasab added. I was not present at VT, said

[GreenYouth] Police Tyranny in Chhattisgarh: A Revealing Account

2009-12-18 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Siddhartha Mitra mitra.siddhar...@gmail.comhttp://mail.google.com/mail/h/1g406piql2wil/?v=bcs=whto=mitra.siddhar...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:43 AM Subject: [aid-cg] My conversation with Mr. Vishwaranjan, DGP Chhattisgarh, yesterday

[GreenYouth] Efforts at Dialogue between Indian State and Maoist Insurgents

2009-12-18 Thread Sukla Sen
[Dialogue is the salt of democracy. Blood lust is its antithesis. So any effort at dialogue deserves to be welcomed. But dialogue between two warring parties - an armed state, even if democratic, and insurgents out to capture state power through armed violence - is not an easy one. As the state

[GreenYouth] Finally, NO Copehagen Deal: US + BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) Upstaged by Other Third Worls Countries amidst Bitter Bickerings

2009-12-19 Thread Sukla Sen
[It looks like a collective suicide pact and changing power equations on the global plane. Both the Old Powers and the Emerging Powers who cut an unholy deal between them stand humiliated. The meek have not inherited the earth, but have made their collective voice count, even if in a rather

[GreenYouth] Copehagen Climate Deal Finally Rammed Through amid Protests in a Ding Dong Battle

2009-12-19 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091219/ts_afp/unclimatewarming http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091219/ts_afp/unclimatewarming Climate deal passed amid condemnation, disappointment by Richard Ingham – 12 mins ago COPENHAGEN (AFP) – A UN conference on Saturday rammed through a battle plan

[GreenYouth] In Modi's Gujarat: Voting A Must?

2009-12-19 Thread Sukla Sen
[This is both detestable and dangerous. If democracy confers on every adult citizen the right to vote, the right not to vote is also as fundamental. Modi, in particular, was never suspected of having any respect for democratic values. So that must not detain us here. The point is how to counter.

[GreenYouth] Civil Nuclear Liability [Cap] Bill: An Update

2009-12-20 Thread Sukla Sen
[The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) has already written to the Prime Minister and the UPA Chairperson urging them not to hurry the proposed Bill through the Parliament and after tabling go in for widest public consultations given the profound implications. Now that the Bill has

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: The Health Care Reform Bill Trudges Along

2009-12-21 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21senatecnd.html?hp http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21senatecnd.html?hp December 21, 2009 Senate Debate on Health Care Exacerbates Partisanship By CARL

[GreenYouth] Prospects for Global Economy: A Crisis Predicted

2009-12-23 Thread Sukla Sen
The collapse of the celebrated Lehman Brothers on September 15 2008 signalled the maturation of the sub-prime crisis in the US to global economic meltdown via financial meltdown. If we discount the routine predictions of inevitable doom from the Left with predictable regularity, no one had seen it

[GreenYouth] Trial in China

2009-12-24 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/asia/24china.html?emc=eta1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/asia/24china.html?emc=eta1 December 24, 2009 Trial in China Signals New Limits on Dissent By ANDREW

[GreenYouth] Ready Justice in China

2009-12-25 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/asia/25china.html?emc=eta1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/asia/25china.html?emc=eta1 December 25, 2009 Leading China Dissident Gets 11-Year Term for Subversion By ANDREW

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: Verbal Duel between Incumbent Prime Minister from CPN(UML) and former Prime Minister Prachanda from UCPN(Maoist)Intensifies

2009-12-25 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/1-top-story/3080-maoists-inviting-foreign-intervention-pm-nepal.html http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/1-top-story/3080-maoists-inviting-foreign-intervention-pm-nepal.htmlMaoists inviting foreign intervention: PM Nepal[image:

[GreenYouth] Himanshu Kumar of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, Dantewada, C'garh Commences His Indefinite Fast for the Cause of Just Peace

2009-12-25 Thread Sukla Sen
Here is a letter from Sri Himanshu Kumar, the Director of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh issued on the eve of undertaking his indefinite fast. The letter is self-explanatory. It may, however, be recalled that Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian running the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in

[GreenYouth] The Perversity of Ruchika Case: A Perfect Reason to Trgger Policing/Administrative Reform

2009-12-26 Thread Sukla Sen
[The case has an obvious gender dimension. That goes without saying. But what is even more important is the utterly brazen malafide use of power cutting across gender lines. A common citizen, even a fairly well-off city-dweller, is so pathetically helpless. Then how vulnerable is a true commoner?

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Health Care Reform and Some Favourable Comments

2009-12-28 Thread Sukla Sen
I/III. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/numerical-notes-on-health-care-reform/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/numerical-notes-on-health-care-reform/DECEMBER 26, 2009, 7:44 AM Numerical notes on health care reform A couple of notes to address complaints about the Senate

[GreenYouth] NAPM Expresses Solidarity with Fasting Himanshu Kumar for Peace and Justice in Chhattisgarh

2009-12-28 Thread Sukla Sen
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[GreenYouth] Iran Updates: Turmoil Resurfaces

2009-12-29 Thread Sukla Sen
[The renewed wave of protests and intensified repression only point to the continuing crisis of legitimacy of the ruling Mullacracy in Iran. It is apparently not threatened with no immediate prospect of dislodgement though. And it is a standard trick of all authoritarian repressive regimes to

[GreenYouth] Haripur Struggle against Nuclear Power Plant and Official Canard

2009-12-29 Thread Sukla Sen
[It is a standard trick of the administration to brand all militant democratic opposition as Maoist so as to justify brutal repression. This canard is also of a piece. Quite significantly, on this both the administration and the Maoists collaborate having strange (limited) convergence of

[GreenYouth] In Memory of Harekrishna Debnath

2009-12-31 Thread Sukla Sen
The new year brings in the sad news of a death, death of a friend, death of a truly indomitable, and yet unassuming, fighter. He was a major figure behind the struggle against the proposed nuclear power plant in Haripur (West Bengal), and of course a moving spirit behind the fishworkers' movements

[GreenYouth] Hello 2010! Three Quaint Anecdotes

2010-01-01 Thread Sukla Sen
(Received from a friend.) All villagers decide to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all people gathered and (only) a child came with an umbrella. That's FAITH. When you throw a baby up in the air, the baby laughs because s/he knows you will not let him/her fall. That's TRUST. Every night we

[GreenYouth] Vidya Bhushan Rawat on The Tribal Question: Sandwiched between the rhetoric of ideologies (of alien saviours)

2010-01-01 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=227030553882id=630152884ref=nf Sandwiched between the rhetoric of ideologies By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The last week of December passed at Periyar Thidal in Chennai. It some how stuck to me why the loud mouthed philosophers writing eulogy on Marxism and

[GreenYouth] Fwd: [foil] Vidya Bhushan Rawat on The Tribal Question: Sandwiched between the rhetoric of ideologies (of alien saviours)

2010-01-01 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com Date: 2010/1/2 Subject: Re: [foil] Vidya Bhushan Rawat on The Tribal Question: Sandwiched between the rhetoric of ideologies (of alien saviours) To: foil-l foi...@insaf.net Cc: Vidya Bhushan Rawat vbra...@gmail.com Dear

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: Confabulations amid (Intensified) Confrontations

2010-01-01 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.ekantipur.com/2010/01/02/top-stories/Parties-vow-to-end-trust-deficit/305559/ Parties vow to end ‘trust deficit’KANTIPUR REPORT KATHMANDU, JAN 02 - It appears like a heart-warming new year resolution. After protracted political impasse, senior leaders and members of the task force

[GreenYouth] The Horror State of Chhattisgarh: A Firsthand Account from the Belly of the Beast

2010-01-02 Thread Sukla Sen
*http://www.facebook.com/note.php?createdsuggestnote_id=406852315436* * * Police state, visitors, and anthropology 3rd January 2010 Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, Delhi University and I have just returned (January 1st) from a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh.

[GreenYouth] Illegal Detention of Sodi Sambo at the Kanker Police Station, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh

2010-01-03 Thread Sukla Sen
released to the press and wider public. Hope you will kindly appreciate the gravity of the situation and act with appropriate promptness. Thanking you in anticipation. Yours Sukla Sen for EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai 03 01 2010 -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message

[GreenYouth] Re: Illegal Detention of Sodi Sambo at the Kanker Police Station, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh

2010-01-03 Thread Sukla Sen
. Immediately both my children threw themselves on me and began to cry, after which, on being stopped by the other security forces, they left me. And the Supreme Court hearing for the case is reportedly scheduled for today. That perhaps provides the clue. Yours Sukla Sen for EKTA (Committee

[GreenYouth] Street Battle in Iran: A Visual Documant

2010-01-04 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqITr4dt74o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqITr4dt74oIran 27 Dec 09 Tehran Protest Clashes with anti riot forces -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group,

[GreenYouth] A Lalgarh Update

2010-01-04 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/4-CPM-workers-killed-in-Lalgarh/563072 4 CPM workers killed in Lalgarh *Express News Service* Posted online: Monday , Jan 04, 2010 at 0516 hrs *Kolkata : *Four persons, all CPM supporters, were killed on Sunday in Lalgarh. Two of the victims were beheaded;

[GreenYouth] For Press: Environment Ministry Commits Criminal Offences to Help Corporate

2010-01-04 Thread Sukla Sen
From: Campaign for Survival and Dignity forestcampaignn...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:08 PM Friends, Please find below a letter from the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, sent today to the Minister for Environment and Forests. *The letter explains how the Environment MInistry has

[GreenYouth] Crime and Punishment: Cops Staging Fake Encounter Get Lifers

2010-01-05 Thread Sukla Sen
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOILshowST=truelogin=defaultpub=TOIEnter=trueSkin=TOINEWGZ=T Lifer to 14 cops accused of fake encounter TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: The Sonbhadra district sessions' fast track court (FTC) on Monday slapped lifers on 14 policemen, including

[GreenYouth] Iran: 'It's TIME to stand up' - A Call from the Revolutinary Road

2010-01-05 Thread Sukla Sen
Here is a video clip: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=106861622658221ref=mf Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- 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

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Internal Conflicts and Contradictions (Nuclear Disarmament vs. Full-Spectrum Dominance) Delay NPR Report

2010-01-06 Thread Sukla Sen
U.S. Nuclear Posture Review Delayed Until MarchWednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20100106_9016.php By Elaine M. Grossman *Global Security Newswire* WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will not unveil the results of a major review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy until March

[GreenYouth] Amitabh Bachchan volunteers to be Gujar at’s brand ambassador: Just Appalling!

2010-01-06 Thread Sukla Sen
This just appalling! Here is his blogging site: http://www.24-timepass.com/blogs/amitabh-bachchan-blog.htm. But my attempt to record my comment didn't succeed. Sukla http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/07/stories/2010010760511400.htm Amitabh Bachchan volunteers to be Gujarat’s brand ambassador

[GreenYouth] Lalgarh Update: Alleged Maoists Apprehended

2010-01-07 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.ptinews.com/news/458013_Maoist-leaders-close-to-Kishenji-arrested http://www.ptinews.com/news/458013_Maoist-leaders-close-to-Kishenji-arrestedMaoist leaders close to Kishenji arrested * * *STAFF WRITER 21:21 HRS IST Kolkata, Jan 7 (PTI) Three persons, allegedly close aides of Maoist

[GreenYouth] Press Release by Democrtic Rights Activists Visiting Dantewada on the Current Situation

2010-01-08 Thread Sukla Sen
*Press Release* Date: 8th January 2010 *Suppression of Civil and Political Rights in Chhattisgarh* *Peace can be possible only through nonviolent means and democratic development* The fascist rule of BJP in Chhattisgarh has witnessed the systematic suppression of civil and democratic rights in

[GreenYouth] Police Tyranny in India: Dantewada-Pune-Chandigarh

2010-01-08 Thread Sukla Sen
In both the cases, I suspect, the respective state police/administration transgressed the boundaries of law. Forget about the specific agency handling the case, it was the Maharashtra Police though; can anyone be deported out of the country without a court order? Would the knowledgeable ones

[GreenYouth] Lalgarh Updates

2010-01-09 Thread Sukla Sen
I/lll. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/commandos-stationed-in-maoist-zones/565261/0 Commandos stationed in Maoist zones Express News Service Posted: Saturday , Jan 09, 2010 at 0322 hrs Kolkata: The state government has sent one of the three companies of its armed police — who received

[GreenYouth] Fwd: On Universalism and Working Class

2010-01-09 Thread Sukla Sen
Hi, Thanks for the very interesting and informed note. I did a bit of dig up as a consequence of the exchange. And found Marx and Engels repeatedly using working classes. Of course they, in those days, acknowledged national divisions. Primarily. On The Jewish Question must have had to an extent

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