Dear Friend,
Stan Swamy has laid down his life for the cause of the tribal communities struggling for their rights. Let this sacrifice of Stan and others paying the price in jail not go in vain. It is time the human rights activists and all people of good will including the media came together to demand an inclusive India in which all people are equal. Together they should demand a legal system that holds people who perpetrate such injustice in the name of the law responsible for their actions. That would be a good way of paying tribute to Stan Swamy.
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A Prophet is a Threat to the Powerful: A Tribute to Stan Swamy
by Dr Walter Fernandes
Stan Swamy has laid down his life for the cause of the tribal communities struggling for their rights. Let this sacrifice of Stan and others paying the price in jail not go in vain. It is time the human rights activists and all people of good will including the media came together to demand an inclusive India in which all people are equal. Together they should demand a legal system that holds people who perpetrate such injustice in the name of the law responsible for their actions. That would be a good way of paying tribute to Stan Swamy.
Two articles we published seeking urgent help as Stan Swamy was sinking
Urgent need for bail and specialised medical treatment for critical Stan Swamy
by Jharkhand Jan Adhikar Mahasabha
84-year old Priest Stan Swamy’s health has deteriorated and he has been put on a ventilator at the Holy Family hospital. His situation is said to be critical. The NIA and central government are solely responsible for the sufferings of this elderly person and the current state of affair. The NIA court also played its role by denying him a bail on both medical grounds and merit. Assurances of the Maharashtra government regarding support for Stan Swamy are yet to be seen.
Stan Swamy’s Health: Open Letter To Chief Justice Of Bombay High Court
Press Release
A petition was filed at the Bombay High Court on 26 April, seeking interim bail on medical grounds where Father Stan Swamy informed in one of the hearings that his health had taken a dangerous turn. Before
his arrest nine months ago, he was physically independent and could eat, walk and take a bath on his own, but since his judicial custody, “all that is disappearing one after the other,” he informed. He has been requesting bail to return to the care at his home at Ranchi.
Global Warming, Climate Refugees, Migrations – And Beyond: Need for national-level planning
by S G Vombatkere
According to a December 2020 report by Climate Action Network South Asia & Action Aid, an estimated 14-million people may have already migrated internally due to slow-onset impacts, such as sea-level rise, water stress, crop-yield reduction, ecosystem degradation and habitat loss, and drought.
India’s Stance on Net Zero: Act with Rationale
by Dr Kuheli Mukhopadhyay
ny response of India
should be in conformity with the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities as set forth in the UNFCCC before making any over ambitious statement in the forthcoming COP26 event. Last but not the least, India should adopt a pragmatic view and spare rational thoughts for striking an appropriate balance between growth vis a vis clean energy evolution. Aspiring for an overnight radical metamorphosis may prove to be pernicious to the economy as a whole.
Scrap the Bunder Diamond Mine Project
by National Alliance of People’s Movements
NAPM strongly opposes the destruction of Buxwaha protected forest region in Madhya Pradesh, for proposed Bunder diamond mining project. Government must immediately withdraw all projects which threaten the ecological and socio-cultural significance of Buxwaha
Only 2% of Urban Poor Residents Fully Vaccinated and only 16%
Received First Dose: Survey Study
by Adrian Dcruz
A survey study conducted by the Indo Global Social Service Society has found that only 2% of slum/basti dwellers have been fully vaccinated (with 2 doses) and that a little over 16% of them have received their first dose since the vaccination was made available for all above 18.
1,100 Children Graves in Canada found, Queen Elizabeth II and Victoria statues toppled, 7 Churches lighted
by Countercurrents Collective
Statues of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria were torn down by protesters in Winnipeg, Canada. The latest acts of protests followed a spree of attacks on Catholic churches built on First Nation lands. At least seven churches have caught fire in
recent weeks, since the grim discovery of more than 1,100 unmarked graves at sites where Catholic-run residential schools used to operate.
People above Profit: Thousands Demonstrate in Brazil in New Wave of Protests in 350 Cities
by Countercurrents Collective
In Brazil, social movements, trade unions, and human rights activists on Saturday demonstrated in at least 350 cities to condemn the recent corruption scandal linking President Jair Bolsonaro with the purchase at inflated prices of Indian-produced Covaxin COVID-19 vaccines.
Thordarson’s Fabrications: Another Hole in the Julian Assange Prosecution
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The tyrannical, brutal cynicism of keeping Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison remains one of the more inglorious marks
of the British legal system and, it should be said, its sponsors and colluders. Having won his case against extradition to the US, if only in deeply qualified terms, the UK keeps the WikiLeaks publisher banged up as the appeals process stutters.
Biden Acknowledges “Over The Horizon” Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban
by Nick Mottern
“Over-the-horizon” air operations, possibly directed at the Taliban, may rely very heavily on drone assassination and drone targeting for manned aircraft.
Data Sharing and Transparency in Covid Times Will Help Better Decentralized Response
by Bharat Dogra
It can be very helpful for improving overall response by taking steps to improve transparency and data-sharing in such ways that whatever important
information in this context is available with the government can be shared very quickly with people, health personnel and organizations, scientists and institutions of decentralization
CCTV could have prevented custodial murder
by Dr Madabhushi Sridhar
For the first time, the Telangana High Court asked Telangana Government why it has not installed CCTV cameras in police station, where an alleged custodial murder of Dalit woman took place recently. In a PUCL’s PIL the High Court asked the police department why it had not installed CCTV cameras in the station despite a Supreme Court order to this effect.
Conspicuous silence of political parties on OBC reservation issues in the North
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
June 25th, 2021 marked 90th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister V
P Singh but went unnoticed for the majority of the leaders who benefitted from his politics and good will generated by him. Except for Tejasvi Yadav who remembered Singh mentioning his bold initiative to implement Mandal Commission Report, there was no other north Indian leader particularly from OBCs to remember Singh. Unlike north India, Tamilnadu’s politicians across party lines respected Singh. The first tweet came in the morning from Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Mr M K Stalin writing a tweet in Tamil language and putting a photograph of V P Singh along with Dr M Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamilnadu.
