Newsreel Archives 2016-2018
Newsreel: December 2018
December 6 Peoples March Against Communalism
December 5 The Question of Justice: Convictions in 1984 Riots
December 5 Andhra: Severe Droughts, Demand for Drought Relief Act by HRF
Newsreel: November 2018
November 18 Bhaliaguda Fake Encounter: Mass Protest in Berhampur, Odisha
November 18 Punjab: Conventions held in support of democratic intellectuals and activists
November 18 PUDR statement on violence by members of CPI(Maoist) in Bastar Sambhag
November 9 Tamil Nadu: Activists of Manithan Publishers Arrested – CPDR-TN Statement
November 7 Assam: CDRO Statement on killings in Tinsukia
November 7 Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group Condemns Arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj
November 7 CDRO condemns arrests of Sudha Bharadwaj, Ferreira, Gonsalves
Newsreel: October 2018
October 10 Some years with Shankar Guha Niyogi – Book in Hindi by Punyabrata Gun
October 10 Ludhiana: Workers stage a huge demonstration at DC Office
October 1 ‘Shock, Conspiracy and Politics’: Report on Ten Years of Batla House – Rihai Manch
October 1 WSS condemns the majority judgment of the Supreme Court regarding arrests of activists
October 1 Condemning the Abduction and Killings of Police Personnel in Shopian, Kashmir – PUDR
October 1 PUDR: Condemning the Killing of Telugu Desam MLA & Ex-MLA By CPI (Maoist) – PUDR
October 1 PUDR: On the Supreme Court’s Verdict on the Arrest of 5 Activists under the UAPA
Newsreel: September 2018
September 10 Protests held across Punjab against the arrests of public intellectuals
September 10 Joint Statement by Punjab Intellectuals against Attack on Human Rights Defenders
September 5 Statement demanding immediate release of writers, activists and human rights defenders – IIT Kanpur Alumni and Members
September 3 “Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication” – Stan Swamy
Newsreel: August 2018
August 30 Statement by Anand Teltumbde on police action against him
August 30 Press Conference of Rights Groups and Statement on Arrest of Activists
August 30 Joint Statement Against Continuing Arrests of Rights Activists
August 29 Sanhati strongly condemns the coordinated nation-wide raids and arrests of civil rights activists
August 28 Sudha Bharadwaj – Enemy of the State who Chose the Margins – Ashok Mitra
August 28 Statement on arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao, and other activists and intellectuals – HRF
August 21 Fact-finding Report from Jharkhand covering Khunti gangrape, Betla Tiger Project, repression in Ghagra and Pathalgarhi movement – CDRO, WSS
August 12 Retracing the History of the PUCL – A Rejoinder to Arun Jaitley – Prabhakar Sinha
August 10 Fact-finding Report on Role of UCIL and Effect of Uranium Mining in AP Villages – NAPM, HRF, RSV
August 8 Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances – A Book Excerpt from India After Naxalbari by Bernard D’Mello
Newsreel: July 2018
July 31 আসামে আর একটা রোহিঙ্গা-সঙ্কট চাই না – APDR Press Statement on Assam
July 26 IAPL Condemns Recent Incidents of “Lynching” by Lawyers
July 19 On the Rising Threat of Hindutva Fascism – Ujwal Punyark
July 11 Attack on Adv. Sudha Bharadwaj – Statement by Students and Alumni of National Law University
July 4 Statement by Sudha Bharadwaj on false allegations aired on media
July 4 Gang Rape of 5 Adivasi Women in Khunti, Jharkhand – WSS Fact-finding Report
July 3 AP: Statement by HRF against Vandalization of Sompeta Wetland
July 3 Statement on Undeclared Mega-Emergency
July 3 Public Lynching in Different Parts of the Country – PADS Statement
Newsreel: June 2018
June 24 Statement and Signatures Protesting Arrest of Five Human Rights Activists – Citizens’ Solidarity with Voices of Democracy
June 24 IAPL Statement Condemning Arrest of People’s Advocate Vanchinathan
June 11 Gadchiroli Killings: Press Release from Human Rights Forum, Andhra and Telangana
June 8 Call for Release of Mahesh Raut and Others Arrested in Pune and Nagpur – Campaign for Survival and Dignity
June 8 Press note about arrest of Advocate Gadling & other people’s activists – IAPL
June 6 Maharashtra: Arrest of Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut – WSS Statement
June 5 Fact Finding report on Thoothukudi police firing – AIPF
June 5 Major Gogoi and the Continuing Culture of Impunity – PUDR
Newsreel: May 2018
May 25 Marx @ 200: Beyond Abstract Humanism – Dinesh K. Verma and Mohammad Bilal
May 25 Aurangabad Communal Attacks – Fact Finding Report from Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan
May 25 Tuticorin Massacre, Sterlite Smelter Plant Protests – CDRO Statement
May 13 End Political Impunity to Rapists – WSS
May 12 Massacres Masked as Encounters: The New State Policy for Development in Gadchiroli – CDRO, IAPL, WSS
Newsreel: April 2018
April 19 Subversion of atrocities on dalits prevention Act – Satya Ray
April 19 Long March to Agrarian Dystopia: Film screening & discussion – People’s Film Collective
April 19 Condemn harassment of Advocate Surendra Gadling and Dalit activists in the name of ‘Search operations’ – IAPL
April 19 Statement on the harassment of Rona Wilson and others in the name of ‘search operations’ – CRPP
April 11 Tribute to Rajni Tilak – WSS
April 11 Nation-wide support for Nurses’ Strike at KVM Hospital, Kerala – Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
April 11 Fact finding report about the rape and murder of eight year old Asifa in Jammu – Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan
April 11 The Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) condemns the actions of the Kathua Bar Association
April 3 Why are Damodar Turi and Other Undertrials being kept under Solitary Confinement? – Persecuted Prisoners’ Solidarity Committee (PPSC)
Newsreel: March 2018
March 25 Adivasi History is an Unbroken Chain of Broken Promises – A Note from Jharkhand by Stan Swamy
March 25 Cow Vigilantism: Crime, Community and Livelihood – PUDR Report
March 23 Post-poll violence by BJP/RSS cadre and supporters in Tripura – Statement from People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism
March 23 Cow Vigilantism: Crime, Community and Livelihood – PUDR Press Conference
March 23 WSS statement on sexual harassment and Internal Complaints Committees
March 9 A Pre-Decided Case: A Critique of the Maruti judgment of 2017 – PUDR Report
March 9 Jharkhand government bans Popular Front of India – PUDR Statement
March 9 AIFRTE – Statement in support of TISS students’ struggle
March 6 Updates on Political Prisoners – How many political prisoners are there in West Bengal jails at the moment?
March 5 People’s Film Collective: Film screening and talks to mark International Working Women’s Day
March 5 Report on the state of Jharkhand on Birsa Munda Ulgulan Divas
March 5 Madhya Pradesh: Kissan Suraksha Padyatra for affected people in Gulab Sagar Basin
Newsreel: February 2018
February 26 Is Education Put on Sale? – The Attack on TISS
February 25 IAPL statement condemning the arrest of Advocate Upendra Nayak by Odisha Police
February 25 Greater Noida: PUDR Condemns Unjustified Cancellation of LG Worker’s Union
February 21 Communal politics and protests in Kathua – PUDR
February 21 Damodar Turi VVJVA Leader Arrested – Statements by Organizations
February 21 Condition of Human Rights Defenders in India – Report by UN Special Rapporteur
February 2 20th Anniversary of Multai firing – Program by Akhil Bhartiya Kishan Sangharsh Samanway Samiti
February 1 Report of the fact-finding group on casteist and sexist harassment of Prof Sujatha Surepally – WSS
Newsreel: January 2018
January 29 Bastar – Fake encounter of a young tribal boy Arjun Kashyap – Writ petition by JagLAG
January 26 Odisha: PUDR Statement on Institutional Murder of Dalit Girl by Security Forces
January 26 Women’s voices from Bastar: “Activism comes at a cost”
January 26 Faridabad Majdoor Samachar: January 2018 Issue
January 23 WSS Statement On The Tragic Cost Of Delay In Rape Investigations
January 18 Call to instensify the protest against displacement due to mining
January 15 PUDR : Release Abu Bilal Kawa Immediately
January 11 Protests against Land Revenue Code Amendment Bill 2017 – Demands from Sarv Adivasi Samaaj
January 7 Press Statement Issued by Bhangor Andolan Sanhati Committee at Press Conference
January 3 A Few words about National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 – Dr. Rezaul Karim
January 2 The Kalinganagar Firing: A Citizens’ Response to the P K Mohanty Commission Report
January 2 Mazdoor Sangathan Samiti (MSS) Ban: PUDR, NTUI Statements
January 1 Update from Bastar
Newsreel: September 2017
Sep 19 Akhil Gogoi of KMSS arrested – PUDR statement
Sep 19 Bangalore – Protest gathering for Gauri Lankesh
Sep 14 Updates on Political Prisoners – Prisoners in West Bengal Commemorate Jatin Das’s Martyrdom
Sep 14 A Portrait of Sudhir Dhawale – Ramu Ramanathan
Newsreel: April 2017
Apr 17 Assam: Threats by Bajrang Dal on WSS Activist – WSS Statement
Apr 17 Panjab University Lathicharge – PUDR Statement
Apr 17 Atrocities against Ethnic Minorities in Bangladesh – NEFIS Statement
Apr 17 An Interview with Jagmati Sangwan
Apr 17 Faridabad Mazdoor Samachar – April 2017
Newsreel: February 2017
Feb 4: Bhangor, West Bengal – Developing movement against land acquisition – UAPA charges against leaders
Feb 4 Gadchiroli, Maharashtra – Mining displacement, police repression on tribals – WSS Statement
Feb 4 Kanpur: Ghatampur thermal power project – PUCL report on police atrocities
Feb 4 Intellectuals, Writers, and Journalists of Telangana in Solidarity with Bastar
Feb 4 Commutation of Death Sentence in the Bara Massacre Case: Justice Half Done – PUDR Statement
Feb 4 Bastar: IG Kalluri asked to proceed on long leave – WSS Statement
Newsreel: January 2017
Jan 24 Harassment of Bela Bhatia in Bastar – PUDR Statement
Jan 21 Koraput, Odisha: Mali Parbat Suraksha Samiti meeting report – Fifteen year long struggle against Hindalco
Jan 20 Chhattisgarh: NHRC team visits Bijapur, records testimonies of women victims of police violence
Jan 20 Chhattisgarh: 3 women killed in IED Blast in Narayanpur – PUCL statement
Jan 16 सुरजागड़ पहाड़ क्षेत्र में आयोजित ठाकुर देव यात्रा और अधिकार सम्मेलन – विस्थापन विरोधी जान विकास आन्दोलन
Jan 15 Enforced Disappearances in Kashmir – A Note from the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
Jan 15 Condition of Telengana Democratic Forum Activists in Jail and Situation in Bastar – WSS and CPJC Press Conference
Jan 13 Activism is my need – An Interview with Vira Sathidar – Pallavi Singh
Jan 13 Karur – Protest Against Illegal Sand Mining in Tamil Nadu Rivers – Report and Press Note
Jan 12 Arrest of Advocate Murugan, Secretary CPCL – CDRO, CPDR-TN Condemnation Statements
Jan 12 Ludhiana – Protest at Police station against attack on Janchetna – Press Note
Jan 12 Chhattisgarh: Arrest of activists of TDF and Summary of Attacks on Rights Defenders – PUDR Open Letter
Jan 10 Updates on Political Prisoners – Prisoners in West Bengal Transferred
Jan 9 Chhattisgarh: NHRC finds 16 women victims of assault by police personnel
Jan 9 Arrest of TDF Fact Finding Team Members by Telangana Police – Bail denied, Statement from Frontline Defenders, CDRO, PUCL
Jan 2 Chhattisgarh: Documents, Statements on Recent Persecution of JagLAG Lawyers
Newsreel: December 2016
Dec 28 PUCL Condemns arrest of Fact Finding Team Members by Telangana Police
Dec 28 Activists arrested under Chattisgarh Special Public Safety Act – CPDR-TN Press Statement
Dec 27 Forced nationalism and the follow ups of the Supreme Court order on National Anthem – PUDR
Dec 27 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’s 50th anniversary and its Current Relevance – Ajay Roy
Dec 22 Andhra Police Conduct Propaganda against Women’s Movement
Dec 22 Hyderabad: Memorial Meeting for V Hanumanta Rao, founder editor of Veekshanam
Dec 21 Delhi: IFTU Dharna against Demonetization
Dec 21 Delhi: Intimidation and Harassment of Kathputli colony residents – PUDR Statement
Dec 21 Delhi: North East Organizations March for Communal Harmony in Manipur
Dec 21 Pinjra Tod: Witches you couldn’t burn yesterday! – Chepal Sherpa
Dec 11 A Report on the Killing Fields of Bastar: AGNI, Mission 2016, and the Killing of Innocents – Sadhana
Dec 11 Muslim Women’s Movement Now: People’s Film Collective Program, Kolkata, Dec 13
Dec 11 Political Prisoners across states protest killing of Maoist leaders in Kerala
Dec 11 Anti Communalism Day: Report on Dec 6 Program by Progressive Organizations
Dec 11 Workers Magazines from Different Organizations – New issues of Samkaleen Teesri Duniya, Hastakshep
Dec 3 Condition of Construction Workers in South India – A Workshop Report in Chennai
Dec 3 MASA (Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan) State Level Convention in Telengana – A Report
Dec 3 National Food Security Act 2013 – How well is it being implemented? – Stan Swamy
Newsreel: November 2016
Nov 28 Gender and Politics in Conflict Situations – WSS, West Bengal
Nov 24: Kerala – Nilambur Encounter – Janakeeya Manushyavakasha Prashthanam (People’s Human Rights Movement) demands Judicial Investigation
Nov 23: Malkangiri and Andhra-Odisha Border Encounter – Fact Finding Report from All Indian University Students
Nov 19: Bhaliaguda fake encounter: Mass Protest on 4th Anniversary at Bhubaneshwar – CAFC
Nov 19: Gujarat: Massive farmers rally held against demonetisation
Nov 17: “जान देंगे पर पहाड़ नहीं देंगे”, “एटापल्ली तहसील की सभी जनविरोधी खदाने तुरंत रद्द करो” – सुरजागड़ पारंपरिक इलाखा गोटुल समिती
Nov 15: Kashmir Fact-Finding Report – OPDR
Nov 14: Fact Finding Report: Police Firing at Badkagaon, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand – Delhi Solidarity Group
Nov 14: Justice for Tara: Trans woman and outreach worker burnt alive before police station in Chennai
Nov 14: Demonetization: A Statement from the National Hawker Federation
Nov 13: Struggle against Patriarchy in Punjabi University Patiala led by Democratic Students Organization
Nov 11: Statement of Indian Workers’ Association, Great Britain, for Peace between India and Pakistan
Nov 10: Anatomy of the Unthinkable: Murder Cases against Academics in Chhattisgarh – WSS, CPJC Press Release
Nov 10: PUDR, PUCL Statements on Witch-hunt of Academics/Activists in Chhattisgarh
Nov 10: Morcha against Malkangiri and SIMI Massacres in Mumbai – People Against Fake Encounter Killings
Nov 9: Malkangiri and Andhra Odisha Border Encounter – Fact Finding Report from CDRO
Nov 7: ‘Many a Slip between the Cup and the Lip’ – Implementation of National Food Security Act in Jharkhand – Stan Swamy
Nov 5: Damned to death: the SIMI undertrials – who were they and what are the implications of their custodial deaths? – PUDR
Nov 5: A Report on the Delhi Protest against Malkangiri Massacre
Nov 5: End Repression in Kashmir – A Call from the Civil Society
Nov 1: Malkangiri: Demand to produce A. Haragopal/Ramakrishna and other arrested activists before the Law – CRPP
Nov 1: Bhubaneshwar: Left parties protest unitedly against Malkangiri massacre
Nov 1: Solidarity Program with Kashmir, Jantar Mantar, Delhi – PUDR Report and Press Release
Nov 1: Malkangiri massacre: APDR Press Release
Newsreel: October 2016
Oct 29: Demonstration Meeting in Ranchi – Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan
Oct 29: Remembering Prabhakar, martyr of Malkangiri massacre
Oct 29: Bastar: From Burning Villages to Burning Effigies – PUDR
Oct 29: Analysis of Kashmir Situation – CDRO
Oct 25: Summary of heinous crimes in Morpalli, Timapuram, and Tadmetla villages in Bastar between 2007-2011
Oct 25: Kashmir Valley Visit and Fact-finding Report – PUCL
Oct 22: Workers go on Strike at Daikin AC in Neemrana (Alwar, Rajasthan)
Oct 14: Why We Fight: Jamia Millia Islamia University Students Struggle – Dhrupadi Ghosh, Talha Rehman
Oct 14: नाशिकच्या घटनेचा सत्य वृतांत – रिपब्लिकन पँथर्स जातीअंताची चळवळ, महाराष्ट्र
Oct 14: 10th Anniversary of Forest Rights Act: National Convention, Dec, Delhi – Community Forest Rights-Learning and Advocacy Process
Oct 14: पूर्व विधायक एवं आदिवासी महासभा के अध्यक्ष मनीष कुंजाम पर राजनीती से प्रेरित अपराधिक मामले रद्द करो! – Chhattisgarh Lok Swatantrya Sangathan (PUCL-CG)
Oct 14: Statement on the Cauvery water dispute – CPDR (TN)
Oct 7: Challenging State Impunity: A PIL on Extra-Judicial Killings – Bijapur, Chhattisgarh
Oct 7: Killings in Barkagaon, Jharkhand – CDRO and Swaraj Abhiyan Statements
Oct 7: “My struggle will continue until AFSPA is struck down” – Irom Sharmila
Oct 5: NHRC Report: 514 innocent tribal youths made to surrender as Naxalites in Jharkhand – Stan Swamy
Oct 3: Updates on Political Prisoners – Paru Patel, adivasi woman prisoner, facing death from non-treatment
Oct 3: Karnataka: Updates on “Chalo Udupi – Food, My Choice; Land, My Right” Struggle
Oct 3: In Support of Honda Workers’ Fundamental Right to Organize – PUDR Press Release
Oct 3: Irom Sharmila Speaks on ‘AFSPA and People’s Movement’ – NEFIS Press Release
Oct 1: बडकागांव का ‘गोली कांड’, संसाधनों की लुट के लिए राज्यसत्ता द्वारा सुनियोजित हिंसा – Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan
Oct 1: Updates: Nyay Sangharsh Rally – Vishal Jansabha (Mass Gathering), Jantar Mantar, Delhi
Newsreel: September 2016
Sep 28: Ahmedabad: Update on Strike by Safai Kamdars of AMC – Govt. accepts all demands
Sep 28: Bhagat Singh: Beyond His Popular Image – Jaspal Jassi
Sep 28: North Bengal: Irregularities continue in Darjeeling hill tea gardens even after handover of ownership – Chaaybagan Sangram Samity
Sep 28: PinjraTod: When women fought ABVP off the streets
Sep 27: The Barsoor Boys: Story of an Encounter
Sep 27: Hundreds of Villages Across India Demand End to ‘Afforestation’ As Excuse for Forest Dept Land Grab
Sep 27: ‘मीडिया और जातिवाद’: Invitation Letter (Nagrik Seminar)
Sep 21: Delhi: City’s workers in the grip of fever and the deplorable condition of our healthcare system – A report by Mehnatkash Mahila Sangathan
Sep 20: Where is Prabhat Singh?
# Sep 19: Residential Marxism School organized by Society for Marxist Studies – A Report by Avishek Konar
Sep 19: Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization denounces the arrest of Khurram Parvez
Sep 19: Between Innocence and Death: The case of Muslim under-trials accused of anti-state activities – PUDR
Sep 19: Honda workers from Tapukara, Rajasthan: Indefinite hunger strike from 19 Sep at Jantar Mantar
Sep 19: Press Note – Seminar on Caste problem – Ludhiana
Sep 17: Indian Association of Peoples’ Lawyers Mourns the Demise of Bojja Tarakam
Sep 16: Aims and objectives of the Una model of struggle in Karnataka – Karnataka self respect struggle committee of dalits and oppressed
Sep 13: Protest and Indefinite Hunger Strike by Honda Workers from Tapukhera, Jantar Mantar, Delhi (Sep 19)
Sep 13: Demonstration against forcible seizure of land by TRS Govt. at Telangana Bhawan
Sep 13: Workers Magazines from Different Organizations – Samkaleen Teesri Duniya, September 2016
# Sep 8: Report of the People’s Tribunal on Caste Discrimination & Police Action in University of Hyderabad
Sep 8: A Report on the Study Circle on Kashmir Organized in Kolkata – People’s Film Collective
Sep 5: Concern for health of under-trial prisoner and scholar K. Muraleedharan – Jankeeya Manushayavakasa Prasthanam
Sep 5: May Shikha live as an Eternal Flame – A Report from Com. Himadri Sen’s Memorial Meeting – Debabrata Chakrabarty
Sep 3: End the Witch-hunting of Lawyers, Activists, and Repression on the People of Kashmir – Indian Association of People’s Lawyers
Sep 3: Condemn massive crack down in Punjab on peasant struggle – Buta Singh, Association for Democratic Rights, Punjab
Sep 3: CDRO: Rally, Dharna, National Convention – Sept. 9-10, 2016, Delhi
Sep 2: मेक इन इंडिया – किसके लिए? किसके द्वारा? – B.S. Raju
Newsreel: August 2016
Aug 31: उग्रवाद/नक्सलवाद के लिए ज़िम्मेदार कौन? – स्टैन स्वामी, Translation by Prashant Rahi
Aug 30: Material from Seminar and Public meeting on “Fallacy of Make in India”, Nagpur – Visthapan Virodhi Jan-Vikas Andolan (VVJVA)
Aug 30: The new wave of Dalit Uprising: Field Notes from Una – Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Student Organization
Aug 30: Who is responsible for Extremism/Naxalism? – Stan Swamy
Aug 30: Chaaybagan Sangram Samity: Leaflets in Solidarity with Sept. 2 Program
Aug 30: Updated Report on All-India Workers Convention – Ambedkar Bhawan, Delhi, Aug 28 – Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan (MASA)
Aug 28: Leaflet from Indian Federation of Trade Unions (Sarwahara) on All India General Strike
Aug 28: Maha Dharna – Justice for Rohith Vemula – Hyderabad, Aug 29
Aug 23: गुजरात में दलित उत्पीड़न और प्रतिरोध
Aug 21: Strike campaign and programs in Gurgaon-Manesar-Dharuhera-Bawal-Bhiwadi-Neemrana industrial belt
Aug 21: Old Wine In New Bottle: Imposing Sanskrit, Vedas and Yoga – Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle
Aug 21: PUCL Statement on Sedition Case against Amnesty International India – Drop the FIR – PUCL
Aug 21: Fallacy of Make in India: One Day Central Seminar and Public meeting – Visthapan Virodhi Jan-Vikas Andolan (VVJVA)
Aug 21: पोटका के आदिवासियों का भूषण स्टील कंपनी के खिलाफ एक दशक से बहादुराना प्रतिरोध
Aug 16: Neo-colonialism in Latin America and the Legacy of the USA – Athithan Jayapalan
Aug 16: Faridabad Majdoor Samachar – August 2016
Aug 16: Event – Sept 3, Delhi: Facing the Horrors, Breaking the gags: B A S T A R F I G H T S
Aug 16: On registration of a case against Amnesty International India – APDR
Aug 16: The Pelletised Face of Kashmir – PUDR
Aug 3: Kolkata: A Report from the Meeting of “Criminals” of the Mass Movements – Debabrata Chakrabarty
Aug 3: CPDR program in memory of P A Sebastian – Talks by Anand Teltumbde and Sudha Bharadwaj
Aug 3: हिंदुत्व और दलित मुक्ति: दोनों साथ नहीं चल सकते – आनंद तेलतुंबड़े
Aug 3: Bastar Solidarity Network: – Recent Talks by Payal (WSS), Saba Naqvi, A.K. Ramakrishnan
Aug 3: Inauguration of “Open Space Academics – When Academia meets the Streets” – SC/ST Teachers’ Forum, Univ of Hyderabad
Aug 1: Jharkhand Human Rights Violations Report – Co-ordinator: Stan Swamy
Newsreel: July 2016
July 29: A Black Day – Rajya Sabha Passes Afforestation Bill – Campaign for Survival and Dignity
July 29: Irom Sharmila’s Epic Fast to be Remembered! – NEFIS
July 29: Powerloom Workers’ Protest at DC office Ludhiana
July 24: Noida: Report on Strike at LG Electronics
July 24: Chhattisgarh: 3 tribal men picked up from Durma village by Sukma police – CLC Telangana
July 24: Orissa: Gumudumaha killings of 5 civilians – Press Statement from GASS, HRF
July 21: Event: In Memory of P A Sebastian – Mumbai, July 22 – CPDR
July 21: Letter to KCR and KTR on Silence of HCU – Arrest Appa Rao – America India Civil Watch
July 21: Hyderabad – Demand to Remove Alok Pandey from Post of chief Proctor – JAC UoH
July 19: Event: Narendra Dabholkar’s 3rd Death Anniversary, Delhi, 19-20 July 2016
July 19: Statements on Kashmir – PUDR, PUCL, COHR Manipur
July 19: Press Release from Delhi Union of Journalists on arrests of journalists in Chhattisgarh – DUJ
July 18: Mumbai: Report on Event – Bastar Speaks Up: Stop War on Adivasis
July 17: Event at Velivaada, UoH: 31 Years of Karamchedu Struggle and 6 Months after Rohith Vemula’s Institutional Murder – JAC (UoH)
July 17: Repression in Kashmir: Break the Silence – Press Conference/Public Meeting – CAFAU
July 15: The Situation in Bastar and Kandhamal – Bastar Solidarity Network
July 14: Caught in an Irresponsible War – Fact-finding Report from Bastar – Sanjay Parate, Vineet Tiwari, Archana Prasad and Nandini Sundar
July 14: Corporates invited to make green Jharkhand into a desert, devoid of nature and people – Stan Swamy
July 13: Sheela Marandi: Another Victim Of Injudicious System
July 12: Press Release on Continuing Harrassment at Delhi University for Dr. G N Saibaba
July 12: Another bloody harvest: Stop the horrific bloodletting in Kashmir – PUDR Press Release – PUDR Press Release
July 12: Stop the senseless killing in Kashmir – CDRO Press Release
July 12: PUCL Bhubaneswar: Press Statement on Killings of Five People by Security Forces in Kandhamal
July 9: Adivasis leaving their homeland in waves – searching for a way out of economic poverty and social insecurity – Stan Swamy
July 8: Magazine: Nagrik, July 1-15, 2016 issue
July 8: PUDR Statement on the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016
July 8: Ludhiana: Protest in front of DC Office – Karkhana Mazdoor Union
Newsreel: June 2016
June 26: PUCL Press Statement on Atrocities on Dalits in Kamagarh Village in Odisha
June 25: Women’s Body and the State – Voices from Kashmir – Kolkata event, July 11
June 25: Petition on the Occasion of Telangana Formation Day – India Civil Watch
June 23: Stop victim shaming: No tolerance to misogyny at SRFTI – Nisha Biswas
June 23: The Alchemist Tea Gardens and a Strange Conundrum: Gardens Open, but Workers Do Not Get Their Dues! – Samik Chakraborty
June 20: Chattisgarh: Encounter of Madkam Hidme – Press Release from CLC and OPDR
June 16: 1 जुलाई शहीद दिवस शपथ दिवस, भिलाई चलो – Invitation for 1st July 2016 from CMM (Mazdoor Karyakarta Committee)
June 16: Updates on the Current Hunger Strike of Soni Sori
June 14: Hyderabad: Press Release/Statements on the Suspension of K. Y. Ratnam and Tathagata Sengupta
June 11: Delhi: Lathi-charge on Manipuri Students – NEFIS Press Release
June 8: Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee: Statement on Com. Sheela – Shyam Kumar Sinha and Prashant Rahi
June 3: An Interview with Anand Teltumbde on Current Student Struggles
Newsreel: May 2016
May 26: A Report on Left Forum Presentation, New York
May 23: Kerala: Statements against the arrest of five activists under UAPA
May 20: No More Rohith shall be Murdered Again! – Pamphlet from Joint Action Committee for Social Justice, Mumbai
May 19: অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন ছত্তিশগড় – A Report on Chhattisgarh – APDR
May 19: Faridabad Majdoor Samachar, May 2016
May 19: Gladson Dungdung deplaned from flight to London – PUDR Statement
May 19: Magazine: Sangharshrat Mehnatkash, May-June 2016 issue
May 19: Discharge of Sadhvi Pragya and others in the Malegaon Blast Case – CDRO Press Release
May 12: Chhattisgarh: WSS press statement on recent incidents of rape, loot and violence
May 12: Kerala: PUDR Statement condemning police apathy in the case of rape of murder of Dalit law student
May 12: Patiala: Remembering Satnam Junglenama
May 11: Update from JNU: Resolution passed by Members of the Academic Council
May 08: NEFIS Statement condemning the brutal killings and repression in Tawang
May 05: West Bengal: APDR Statement on security personnel’s conduct during assembly elections
May 03: CPDR Condemns the Action against the Students by the JNU Authorities
Newsreel: April 2016
Apr 30: A tribute to our departed comrade Satnam – Buta Singh
Apr 29: State of Siege: Report on Encounters and Cases of Sexual Violence in Bijapur and Sukma Districts of Chhattisgarh – CDRO & WSS
Apr 29: Letter to PM from academics and activists on the drought situation
Apr 28: Continuing harassment of Dr. G.N. Saibaba – DUTA Statement and updates
Apr 28: Chhattisgarh: Statements condeming the termination of Sukma CJM – CPDR, IAPL
Apr 21: CDRO Statement: Kashmir – ‘More things change, more they remain the same’
Apr 19: Bela Bhatia on Bastar situation [Source: People’s Film Collective]
Apr 19: Orissa: Update from POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Apr 19: APSC statement on IIT Madras administration’s attempt to restrict audience for seminar
Apr 17: JKCCS press release on Handwara sexual assault and killings
Apr 14: WSS Report on Singur visit
Apr 14: Speak up, Women! Question the “progressives” – Nisha Biswas
Apr 14: PUDR Statement demanding an end to manual scavenging
Apr 14: Press Statement by G N Saibaba
Apr 14: APSC Statement on fee hike at IITs
Apr 10: Odisha: Statement in solidarity with struggle of prisoners demanding conclusion of trials – Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee
Apr 9: Nation is the new religion – Shatakshi Asthana
Apr 7: Andhra: HRF Press release on the killing of 2 adivasi farmers in Puttakota forest
Apr 6: Arrest of Naujwan Bharat Sabha Activists by Delhi Police
Apr 6: NEFIS Press Statement strongly condemning the beating of Muslim boys in Manipur
Apr 4: Statement on the release of Dr. G. N. Saibaba on bail – Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr GN Saibaba
Apr 4: Voices of emancipation to fight the continual surveillance in campus of Jamia Millia Islamia – Dhrupadi Ghosh
Apr 4: Odisha: A report on political prisoners’ struggle – Prashant Rahi
Apr 3: Petition to the Supreme Court of India: Bail for Professor GN Saibaba
Apr 3: Statement demanding immediate release of Deba Ranjan Sarangi
Apr 3: UoH: A Narration of Police brutality – Md Hasanujjaman
Apr 3: Challenges to Journalism in Bastar: A report by the Fact Finding Team of the Editors Guild of India
Newsreel: March 2016
Mar 27: Hyderabad: Students and faculty members detained after police assault on protesting HCU students – Press Release from Joint Action Committee, HCU
Mar 27: Bela Bhatia Threatened: Undeclared Emergency in Bastar – (Source: Sabrang)
Mar 26: On the arrest of Dr. Saibal Jana – Statement from Medico Friend Circle
Mar 25: PUDR Statement demanding to stop surveillance and harassment of Kashmiri students
Mar 24: A letter to Rohith – Dhrupadi Ghosh
Mar 24: Chhattisgarh PUCL statement on recent incidents
Mar 22: The lynch mob of Latehar – PUDR Statement
Mar 22: Delhi: On the programme in DU on Bhagat Singh – Vidhya Aiyar
Mar 20: Orissa: PUCL Statement condemning arrest of Debaranjan Sarangi
Mar 19: DUTA Resolution on SAR Geelani and the sedition law
Mar 19: JNU Row: Beyond the “seditious anti-nationalists” – Shatakshi Asthana
Mar 18: IWA-GB Statement in support of JNU and against the assaults of Hindutva fascist forces
Mar 18: HRF Press Release on the Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant public hearing
Mar 13: International Women’s Day – Nowruz
Mar 13: The story I never got to tell – Dilnaz Boga
Mar 12: Honda workers’ struggle – a short video report
Mar 12: मुजफ्फरनगर: प्रेस विज्ञप्ति – CPI (ML) New Democracy
Mar 12: इंकलाबी मजदूर केन्द्र का चौथा सम्मेलन संपन्न
Mar 11: Outsiders don’t exist, we create them – Aprameya Manthena
Mar 11: Make in India: carrots to the corporate—lathis to the Workers [Source: TNLabour]
Mar 9: CDRO fact-finding report on Chattisgarh repression
Mar 9: Chattisgarh: HRF Press Release on Bettamthogu “encounter” killings
Mar 7: Tamil Nadu: Report on “Makkal Adhikaram”, a special meeting against TASMAC – T.Venkat
Mar 6: CPDR Condemns the Open Threats to Kanhaiya Kumar and Demands Immediate Arrest of the Culprits
Mar 5: Report on the Ongoing Struggle and Repression at Honda Motorcycles & Scooters Factory Tapukara – Workers Solidarity Centre (Gurgaon-Bawal)
Mar 5: Union budget 2016-17: a brief note – Debarshi Das
Mar 4: NEFIS Statement protesting against the assault on Manipuri women in Mumbai
Mar 4: Bahujan Discourse Puts JNU In The Crosshairs – Pramod Ranjan [Source: Forwardpress]
Mar 4: Statements and updates on turmoil in JNU after ABVP attacks students’ gathering
Newsreel: February 2016
Feb 27: Rajasthan: Police crackdown on workers of Honda – Automobile Industry Contract Workers union
Feb 27: U.S. Palestinian, Muslim, Legal & Student Organizations in Solidarity with India
Feb 26: PUDR’s Open letter to the Chief Justice of India for immediate intervention into physical attacks and eviction drives against women activists by police and vigilante groups in Chhattisgarh – Additional facts
Feb 25: APDR press release on the condition of Soni Sori
Feb 25: Delhi: Open Letter to DUTA President regarding SOL teachers
Feb 24: Are we all nationalists ? – Saroj Giri
Feb 24: Press Release on Kunan-Poshpora Mass Rape and Unrest in JNU – Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons
Feb 23: Condemn the attack on brick field workers in Hasnabad – AKSSM
Feb 22: How not to #StandWithJNU – Mohammed Junaid
Feb 21: HRF Statement on the attack on Soni Sori in Chattisgarh
Feb 20: Alwar: Repression and struggle in Honda factory – Updates
Feb 19: They were here last night – Srirupa Bhattacharya
Feb 19: IAPL Statement condemning the harrassment of people’s lawyers in Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh
Feb 18: Chhattisgarh: JagLAG and Malini Subramaniam are both being evicted – Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group
Feb 16: Delhi: Death of a security guard
Feb 14: Faridabad Majdoor Samachar: February 2016
Feb 14: West Bengal: Report of Mass Mobilization against Displacement and Illegal Activity of Eastern Coalfields Limited – Sudipta and Sipra
Feb 14: Hum ladenge saathi – Paash (Avtar Singh Sandhu)
Feb 13: On Adivasis and Moolvasis facing trials in Jharkhand – Bagaicha
Feb 13: On Saibaba: A letter on denial of basic medical facilities in jail – Vasantha Kumari A S
Feb 11: रोहित वेमूला की आत्महत्या के लिए जिम्मेवार लोगो को कठोर सजा दो – दलित उत्पीड़न विरोधी समन्वय समिति
Feb 11: “We Demand Uniform and Universal Rations” – Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity
Feb 07: Often “talking” is more difficult than “fighting” – Pragatisheel Cement Shramik Sangh
Feb 07: Country-wide candlelight vigil against the fake encounter killing of Sanjit and Rabina in Manipur – NEFIS
Feb 07: Tamil Nadu: Report on the mysterious death of three girls of SVS medical college – Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle
Feb 07: PUDR salutes Professor Randhir Singh
Feb 07: Targetting of Dalit Student at TISS by RSS supporters Hosting Talk by Rajiv Malhotra – Sonali Waghmare
Feb 07: Public Hearing held at Sundarban for the implementation of Forest Rights Act
Feb 06: The right to take a piss – Nayan Jyoti
Feb 04: The police must be held answerable for the Sangam Park riot – PUDR
Feb 04: Bi-Monthly Bulletin (November & December 2015) – CDRO
Feb 02: Preliminary report on riot in Sangam Park (North-West Delhi) – Krantikari Yuva Sangathan
Feb 02: Statement on the closed tea gardens of North Bengal – Cha Bagan Sangram Samiti
Feb 02: “Encounter” admission by Manipur police opens a can of worms – PUDR
Newsreel: January 2016
Jan 31: Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood – Vivek Chibber
Jan 29: Statements in response to the death of Rohith Vemula
Jan 28: Richard Levins: The People’s Scientist – Pankaj Mehta (Source: Jacobin)
Jan 28: Delhi: NEFIS protest against fake encounter of Chongkham Sanjit by Manipur Police in 2009
Jan 27: 27 जनवरी को यूनाइटेड फ्रंट ऑफ एम सी डी इम्पलॉयीज़ के बैनर तले हड़ताल के स्वागत व समर्थन में – लोक शिक्षक मंच
Jan 26: Press releases condemning the new wave of State terror being unleashed on the people of Chhattisgarh – Updates
Jan 25: Delhi: KYSS Statement on harassment and detention of activist
Jan 19: Chhattisgarh: Press Release of CG PUCL on complaints of sexual violence during search operations
Jan 18: West Bengal: Report on violence in Malda – Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan
Jan 17: Hyderabad: On the Social Boycott of Five Dalit Research Scholars in Central University – Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UoH)
Jan 11: Annihilation of caste and legacy of B.R. Ambedkar – a talk by Abhinav Sinha
Jan 11: ‘No one can kill the dream for democracy’ – a conversation with Sudhir Dhawale
Jan 10: Hug Campaign: A misfit in Kashmir – Mudasir Wani
Jan 9: झुग्गियों पर दिल्ली सरकार की दोहरी नीति – सुनील कुमार
Jan 9: Thousands join to honour Ghasiyaris – the struggling women of Uttarakhand
Jan 3: Statements on the order to send Dr. G.N. Saibaba back to prison