PUDR - Violation of labour laws at the Commonwealth Games Construction sites continues unabated in spite of the High Court case
Lalgarh - Letter from Nari Ijjat Bnachao Committee to Kabir Suman
Aneek Special Issue on “Social Revolution and Armed Struggle”
Kolkata - Screening of exclusive footage of Salwa Judum, August 26
West Bengal - A Debate on the support to Mamata Banerjee
Faking An Ecounter: Killing the Peace Process
More than Just an Arrest
People’s Movements oppose the possible re-introduction of the land acquisition and resettlement-rehabilitation bill
Delhi Declaration of All India Left Coordination
PUDR statement on the arrest of Naba Dutta
Kolkata - Renowned Human Rights Defender Naba Dutta is in police custody under false charges
Response of various left formations to the Lalgarh rally by Mamata Banerjee and CPI(M) mini congress in Vijaywada
The cold-blooded murder in Jharkhand
A Report of Anti-OGH protest in New York on August 13, 2010
This is your Army Mr Chidambaram!
Orissa - Anti-Vedanta Dongria Kondh leader Lado Sikaka abducted
People’s Movements Warn Corporations and Issue Ultimatum to Quit Their Land, Rivers and Forests
Operation Green Hunt Protest in San Francisco: Aug 13
For Whom Are The Forests Turning Red ?
Barwani, Madhya Pradesh - Adivasis jam police stations protesting wrongful arrests
Open Letter to Swami Agnivesh from Srikant, Central Committee member of CPI(Maoist)
Resolution of the All India Convention against the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
The sad story of dispossession and criminalisation of the Adivasis of Central India
Delhi University - Interactive Discussion on The Search for Peace and State Violence
Punjab - Democratic mobilization resists police onslaught on activists
Endless Cry in the Red Corridor
Delhi - Public Meeting to protest against the killing of Azad and Hem Pandey, August 3
Andhra - Independent Fact-finding Team on the 14th July Sompeta Firing
Sonamukhi - MASUM fact-finding Report and Letter to NCW
Azad’s assassination: An insight into the Indian state’s response to peoples’ resistance
Seminar on Working Class Movement in India in the Twenty-first Century: Continuity and Change, Orientation and Possibilities, Problems and Challenges
Delhi Convention Against Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Jul 24
Lalgarh - Massive protest by women against rapes committed by security personnel
Delhi - “Role of Journalists in Undeclared Emergency” - a discussion organized by Journalists For People, July 20
Getting to know the Second Green ‘Revolutionary’ Ruler-Corporates!
APDR statement on the threat to democratic rights in West Bengal
NAPM condemns the brutal killings and lathicharge on Srikakulam villagers
Police atrocities on the women of Sonamukhi near Jhargram
Pamphlet of Matangini Mahila Samiti in protest against the charging of Debalina Chakrabarty with UAPA
Proposed second green revolution - deputation to Agriculture Minister by FAMA
Censored chapter from the IRMA Panchayati Raj report
Statements on the killing of Azad, spokesperson of CPI(Maoist), in an alleged fake encounter
Sanhati statement on the killing of Azad, spokesperson of CPI(Maoist)
Statement on arrest of Dr. Nisha Biswas and other civil rights activists in Lalgarh
Terrorizing the Democratic Space - A Report on Ranchi Rally Against OGH
APDR memorandum submitted to District Magistrate, West Midnapore, on 24 June
Letters from P. Chidambaram and CPI(Maoist) to Swami Agnivesh regarding the possibility of dialogue
Fourteen trade union leaders and activists arrested in Gujarat in the name of Maoist activity
Ranchi - Rally against Operation Green Hunt, June 25
Stop the Undeclared Emergency and Witch-hunt of Social activists & Human Rights Defenders
In defence of democracy; Affirm peoples’ resistance
Delhi Rally for Justice in Bhopal, 24 Jun
Lalgarh Mancha - Appeal for unconditional release of activists arrested in Junglemahal
PUDR Press Statement condemning recent spate of repression in Lalgarh
I Have Seen Her Crying
Sanhati Statement against arrest of activists in Lalgarh
Delhi Convention against slum evictions in name of C’Wealth Games
Why India’s AFSPA should be scrapped ?
CRPF violating PESA Act in Jharkhandi villages
Responses to Judgement on Bhopal Gas Leak of 1984 - PUDR, TASAM, ICJB, NAPM, Radical Socialists
On June 15, a protest rally is being organised in Kolkata. It begins at 4pm from the Metro Channel (Esplanade East) and will head towards the American consulate.
Click here to read the Bengali pamphlet for the rally.
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PUDR Press Statement
The Definiton of Injustice: The Bhopal Gas Murders
PUDR believes that the latest judgment on the Bhopal gas […]
Maharashtra - Fact Finding Report on Police Firing and Reaction at Dhulia
Letter to PTI - Distorted reporting of Arundhati Roy’s speech
The Indian Government Should Surrender To The Maoists: An Immodest Proposal
Kolkata : Bidroher Gaan - A Cultural Programme against Green Hunt - June 11
Delhi - Protest Against arrests of activists in Gujarat.
Demonstration at Gujarat Bhawan, Kautilya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi on Friday, June 4 at 12 noon.
About a month back all of you may have been informed about the arrest of Avinash Kulkarni, a widely respected activist who has been working on the human rights of Adivasis in Gujarat. His contribution to the formulation of […]
Orissa Situation Worsening
Mumbai - Report of Stop Posco demonstration
[On May 25, Mumbai saw a lively protest demonstration, under the banner of the Anti-POSCO Struggle Solidarity Front, outside the Churchgate Railway Station, the virtual heart of the city, for more than an hour during the evening. At least eighty activists from a broad spectrum of organizations gathered. Full throated slogans were raised against the […]
Gyaneshwari Express Sabotage Indefensible - Institute Inquiry and Discourage Rumour-mongering and Witch-hunting
People’s Union for Democratic Rights Press Statement
30.5.2010
Friday morning’s derailment of the Gyaneshwari Express either due to sabotage or explosion as per media reports in which so far 136 people have already lost their lives is highly reprehensible and completely indefensible. PUDR strongly condemns whichever organization is responsible for the carnage as we believe that […]
Open Letter to the President of India - Peace Now in Tribal Areas
News Management on the North-east
Amitav Ghosh and the Dan David Prize
PUDR-AFDR Press Release on State Repression on farmers and rural worker activists in Punjab
Lalgarh - Letter addressed by PCAPA to APDR, Lalgarh Mancha and the Intellectuals – 3
Attack on bus in Dantewada - Response from Arundhati Roy, PUDR, PUCL, HRF, MKP, CPIML(Liberation)
Lalgarh - Letter from PCAPA to Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), Lalgarh Mancha and Intellectuals - 2
A member of the civil society responds to Chidambaram
Mumbai - Struggle of the urban poor against slum demolitions
Open Letter to the Home Minister protesting against MHA’s attempt to silence dissent
Kolkata - National Meeting on “Displacement and Democratic Space”
The Fight for Social and Community Rights’
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10am - 6pm
Venue- Seva Kendra, 52B, Radhanath Chowdhury Road, Tangra, Kolkata 700015
BACKDROP
The people of this country – especially the marginalised and the deprived – are under attack. The State is aggressively promoting mines, large dams and polluting industries at the cost of community […]
Why climate change activists must support the people no matter what
Orissa - Brief Report from Anti-POSCO villages - story of the injured people
Jharkhand - Illegal detention of Human Rights Activists, Writer and Photographer
Stop Police Attacks On Peaceful Protesters In Orissa - Appeal By Concerned Citizens
Source : Countercurrents
New Delhi: We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the unprovoked firing and arson carried out by the Orissa state police against a dharna of farmers and fisher folk opposed to the proposed POSCO steel project in Jagatsingpur district.
As per latest reports, today over 100 people have been injured and many shops and houses in […]
Potka, Jharkhand: Another Bloodbath is on the Way
Mumbai - slum hutments demolished
PUDR - Stop State Violence on People’s Movements in Orissa
Anti-POSCO movement - Appeal to join the resistance as police platoons surround villages
Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests
Forest Rights Act subverted in Sonebhadra district
Statement against Home Ministry’s Press Note to silence intellectuals
Lalgarh - PCAPA report to SHRC, December 2009
CDRO Opposes Draconian UAPA
A Statement by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations
7th May 2010
The most recent alert (regarding use of section 39, UAPA) issued by the government in so called public interest has brought out in the open what had so far been implicit in its anti-Maoist policy. The purpose of the circular is to intimidate voices of protests […]
Statements against continued attempts by the Government to suppress voices of resistance - Sanhati, Gladson Dungdung
Kolkata Convention on Indo-US Agricultural Knowledge Initiative
Organized by SANSKRITI PARISHAD
Date/Time : 8th May 2010, 3:00PM
Venue : University Institute Hall
Speakers : Abhee Dutta Mazumdar / Kalyan Rudra / Partho Sarothi Ray / Tushar Chakrabarty / Partha Sarathi Dasgupta / Leaders of various peasants’ organizations
Click here to read the announcement in Bengali
Friends,
You are probably aware that the Indo-US Agricultural Knowledge Initiative […]
The death of jawans in Dantewada - Statement of intellectuals/activists urging the government to engage in dialogue
A Background Note to the beginning of new Civil Society initiative for resumption of talks between the Centre and the ULFA
Searching for Jake Sully in India’s heartland
Can There Be Any Hope?
Am I A Maoist?
By Gladson Dungdung (Guest Contributor, Sanhati)
I appeared in the public life through my human rights works, writings and speeches. However, I reached to the larger audience when I had got a chance to appear in CNN-IBN and NDTV-24×7 debates on the issue of Naxalism last year. After these debates, I got immense positive and negative responses from across the country. I was upset for sometime precisely because of the most negative responses I got from those youth, who are running behind the market forces unknowingly. They ruthlessly questioned me about whether I get money from Pakistan, Nepal or China for speaking against the Indian State. I responded to a few of them with detailed explanations, but many believe P Chidambaram’s theory of this side or that side; therefore they are not ready to accept my rational arguments.
