On Jan 26th, Dow Chemical Company was awarded an award for Irresponsible
Corporate Behavior in the category of Human Rights. Dow was present at World
Economic Forum in Davos, but was not able to attend the prize ceremony. To get
more information on the event  http://www.evb.ch
Below is also the press release on the action against DOW on Jan 27, 2005

Write letters of protest demanding cancellation of public hearing because villagers were not allowed to participate.

Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India are fighting back! Help them fight an aggressive attempt by the administration to drive out local entrepreneurs and welcome in big corporations like Nestle!! Here’s how to help:

Congress-led, CPI(M)/CPI-supported UPA Government’s Imperialist-Capitalist Attack on the People

MEMORANDUM
To:
The Resident Commissioner, Government of Orissa,
New Delhi
1 February 2005
Sir,
Re: Police Repression of Movement Against UAIL, Kashipur

Conflicts around Indian Intellectual Property policies abound as the country adjusts to WTO / TRIPS requirements. With its Indian partners, World-Information.Org is preparing a program at Bangalore.

This brief concept paper seeks to identify and interrogate some of the assumptions that underlie most media stories about copyright.

The Patent Amendment Ordinance passed by the Indian government on December 26, 2004, seriously compromises people’s ability to access affordable medicines, states the Affordable Medicines and Treatment Campaign

Two processes have hit Wayanad. One is the policy-driven commercialisation of education. And the second is the collapse of Wayanad's economy. For the first time in decades in this education-proud state, thousands of students are dropping out of college and school. P Sainath continues his series on the agrarian crisis in Wayanad

We Demands Judicial Enquiry in Killing of Saket Raj(Prem Kumar)
Appeal to all of you to join Dharana and Protest March on 8th Feb05 at 11am

Place—Jantar Mantar
Time-Date—8th Feb 05, 11am

Sze Pang Cheung - "If we are to promote the sustainable future of rice farming, G.E. rice is simply not the answer."

New Delhi, Feb 1 Several agitating farmers' organisations and trade unions today announced February 26 as a day of countrywide agitation with a march to parliament followed by a "Beej Satyagraha" to oppose the new 'anti-people' patent law.

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Date: Friday, February 4, 2005

In all of this, one thing is reaffirmed: a government cannot be subservient to foreign corporate interests without, at the same time, strangling and starving the Filipino people. And if there is no solution to this crisis that isn’t within the unwritten rule of this regime’s obedience to foreign capital, then it is hard to know what is— without actually having to dismantle it.

An invitation letter to attend a massive rally and mass meeting to the solidarity to peoples'war in Nepal

Statement of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) issued on 1 February 2005 in response to the King's dismissal of
government

Make the Rally of 13th Feb 2005 a Grand Success !!

Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Central Committee (Provisional)
Press Release:

Jaya is an Indian, living in Delhi and attending a workshop in Banglaore, along with five nepali participants, and trying to access information about the developments there, and am happy to share these very raw notes and extracts from news agencies and conversations for the nepali people living outside Nepal and also for others who believe in the freedom of information.

Environmentalists are seeking urgent intervention of the Rajasthan Chief Minister to save Keoladeo National Park from extinction