Tag Archives: Chhattisgarh
Protest Against the Bijapur Massacre (July 31, 2012)
DHARNA – DEMONSTRATION At Parliament Street, New Delhi 11 am – 5 pm, 31 (Tuesday) July 2012 The chilling incident of the premeditated massacre of 20 adivasis peasants of Sirkegudem, Kothagudem and Rajupenta in the Bijapur district of south Chhattisgarh on the night of 28 June 2012 have shocked the conscience of every democratic and […]
Protest Demonstration Against the Massacre of Adivasis of Bijapur
Join Joint Protest Demonstration Against the Massacre of Adivasis of Bijapur Date: 17th July (Tuesday) 2012, Time: 11 AM Place: Chhattisgarh Bhavan, Chanakyapuri, Delhi Recently the Indian state has intensified its eviction and extermination campaign against the adivasis of central and eastern India under the rubric of Operation Green Hunt. On the night of 28 […]
Manufacturing Sedition from Political Dissent: The Judgment against Binayak Sen
P A Sebastian, Analytical Monthly Review Introduction There have been moments when an event catches the public eye, and suddenly illuminates a process of decay and disintegration that has been proceeding in the background, slowly, step-by-step. The outrage and national attention focused on the conviction of, and imposition of life sentence on, Dr. Binayak Sen […]
We need to protest and protest peacefully. But over what?
Gautam Navlakha, Sharmila Purkayastha & Asish Gupta Any democratic response to end the war which has been initiated by the Indian State is welcome. However, there are a few questions in the light of write up for the planned peace march in Raipur on 5th May 2010. 1) Why is peace delinked from ‘causes like […]
Peace March in Chhattisgarh from May 5
Azadi Bachao Andolan The country is in the midst of a civil war. In the estern part, West Bangal, Odisha, Jharkhand and especially in Chhattisgarh, violence, both by Mioists and by the state, has erupted resulting in heavy loss of life of poor people, especially of adivasis. People, who believe in peace and non-violence, are […]
CPI leader Manish Kunjam contextualises the Bastar violence
Manish Kunjam, a two-time MLA of the Communist Party of India (CPI), contexualises [the Bastar] violence: “The area is mostly dominated by people of the Gondi Koya tribes, who rely on forest produce to sustain their livelihood. They sell mahua [a local fruit mostly processed to make liquor], tendu patta [a leaf from which bidis […]
Independent People’s Tribunal (Day 1)
Press Release: 9th April, 2010 INDEPENDENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON LAND ACQUISITION, RESOURCE GRAB AND OPERATION GREEN HUNT 9th – 11th April, 2010, Constitution Club, New Delhi Stop structural violence against adivasis Stop destructive development and restore the faith of the adivasis in the Indian Constitution The Independent People’s Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and […]
PUDR Press Statement on the death of jawans in Chhattisgarh
6 April 2010 Peoples Union for Democratic Rights believes that the death of 70 jawans in Dantewada on early hours of April 6th, 2010, is an unfortunate fallout of the government’s willful policy of pursuing ‘Operation Greenhunt’. We consider the war against the so called “Left Wing Extremists”, as a wrong policy at a time […]
Stop war against an alternative model of development
Stop War Against the People What the State Wants to Destroy is the Alternate Development Model An Appeal to Thinkers, Intellectuals, Artistes, and Writers Satnam & Buta Singh Forum Against War on People (Punjab) Dear Friends, The Indian state has amassed troops in central India on an unprecedented scale, to swoop down on the people. […]
Press Release: Women activists not allowed to enter Dantewada
Campaign against Sexual Violence and State Repression On 12-13 December, 2009, about 120 people from numerous women’s and democratic organisations representing 10 states participated in the Campaign against Sexual Violence and State Repression meeting held at Raipur, Chhattisgarh. On 13th evening a representative group of 39 members set out from Raipur to Dantewada to extend […]
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