Some people in their misplaced zeal for fighting communalism, start supporting people like Laloo and Mulayam. They dont know in the course of this particular lapse of their critical mental judgement faculties, they are doing biggest disservice to the struggle for secularism.

So much gets written about religious communalism, but there is another form of communalism which is more deadlier and more entrenched in our Indian polity. Most of political parties have meekly submitted to it.. Why doesnt any one talk about it??? Read on...

Some people in their misplaced zeal for fighting communalism, start supporting people like Laloo and Mulayam. They dont know in the course of this particular lapse of their critical mental judgement faculties, they are doing biggest disservice to the struggle for secularism.

INDIAN democracy is under deep attack by PARLIAMENT SEAT FREEZE decision. So much gets written about RELIGIOUS COMMUNALISM but nasty head of REGIONALIST COMMUNALISM is rearing itself and may lead to territorial breakup of India ultimately.

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On 9-12- 2002 , around 400 police entered Bhawaria village in MP after blockading all entrances to the area and grabbed the lands of the farmers and destroyed their standing crops.This resulted in a lathi chrage during which people have been hurt and around 60 persons have been arrested during the day.

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Alex Main reports from Caracas that masses of Venezuelans have peacefully
surrounded all the commercial TV stations in the country to protest the
dishonest simulating efforts by these media giants to provoke a coup d'etat:

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the weekend thousands of Iranian students continued their protests to demand political reform. Their voices were raised in support of Hashem Aghajari, the college professor who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy. But the student movement is broader than dissent over one injustice

The hugely successful Florence European Social Forum showed a new face of politics in Europe, argues Mike Gonzalez

Whenever mining is done, it generally implies digging to reach the source of the mineral. The entire operation brings out all sorts of unwanted materials which is nothing but waste. Rubble, which remains after minerals have largely been extracted, is also a waste. Also at end of the processing of the minerals there is toxic waste generation. Mining operations of all kind produce waste. Since India produces 89 minerals, these result in diverse kinds of potentially hazardous waste.

This is the letter sent by the Habitat Internatioal Coalition to the
Prime Minister of India regarding the situation in the SSP and Maan dam
projects based on a fact-finding team sent by HIC in September to the
valley after the monsoon.

By Medha Patkar and L.S. Aravinda
(The Hindu, Dec 3, 2002 with some edits)

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Seeking participants, contributors, etc. for a video project around the World Social Forum 2003 happening this January. Also seeking footage and info. about the upcoming Asian Social Forum.

Interview with Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi doctor, author and feminist, conducted by Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus

Two thousand families from the Carlos Lamarca Squat in Osasco, were evicted. The Riot Police is at the place that looks more like a war field.

Approximately fifteen million children work as bonded laborers in India. Most were put into bondage in exchange for comparatively small sums of money: two thousand rupees-equal to about thirty-five U.S. dollars is the average amount “loaned” in exchange for a child’s labour.Statistics suggest that more boys than girls work. It should be borne in mind, however, that the number of working girls is often underestimated by statistical surveys, as they usually do not take into account full-time housework performed by many children, the vast majority of whom are girls, in order to enable their parents to go to work.

Fukuoka, Japan -- Robert W. Norris, a Vietnam War conscientious objector (CO) now living in Japan, knows what it means for a writer to persevere. Over thirty years after being court-martialed as a CO and twenty-five years of writing, Norris has drawn upon his many experiences to write a novel and an ESL (English as a Second Language) novella/textbook. Both books are published by Jacobyte Books, an independent Australian publisher. Jacobyte's homepage:  http://www.jacobytebooks.com