Tag: democratic protest

Tom Phillips: Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment

Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives. The demonstrators turned out in more than 200 cities and towns for what is the biggest anti-Bolsonaro… Read More Tom Phillips: Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment

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Hridayesh Joshi: चिपको आंदोलन से बहुत बड़ा है सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा का संघर्ष / Jagdish Krishnaswamy: Sunderlal Bahuguna had wide political acceptance

शुक्रवारकोसुंदरलालबहुगुणाकेनिधनकेसाथहिमालयमेंपर्यावरणीयसंघर्षऔरचेतनाकेएकअध्यायकासमापनहोगया.   93 साल के सुंदरलाल कोरोना से पीड़ित थे और पिछली 8 मई को उन्हें ऋषिकेश के एम्स में भरती किया गया था.  बहुगुणा को सत्तर के दशक में उत्तराखंड में चले चिपको आंदोलन से जुड़े होने के कारण “चिपको” नेता के नाम से जाना जाता है लेकिन आमजन और पर्यावरण के लिए उनके संघर्ष… Read More Hridayesh Joshi: चिपको आंदोलन से बहुत बड़ा है सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा का संघर्ष / Jagdish Krishnaswamy: Sunderlal Bahuguna had wide political acceptance

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Statement of Solidarity with Hindus for Human Rights, USA, by Academics and Scholars

We stand in solidarity with Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) and deplore efforts to silence an important alternative and inclusive Hindu voice in the diaspora.    We are alarmed by the news that Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), specifically co-founders Sunita Viswanath and Raju Rajagopal, have been sued by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF). They, along… Read More Statement of Solidarity with Hindus for Human Rights, USA, by Academics and Scholars

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Val Munduruku: How I took the fight to save the Amazon to the world stage

We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how the sources of our rivers are silting up and how their courses are diverting. We see how the tree shadows begin to disappear, how the harvested fruits are diminishing, and how the crystalline water of the Tapajós River, of the igarapés – the… Read More Val Munduruku: How I took the fight to save the Amazon to the world stage

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নিজেদের মতে , নিজেদের গান l Citizens United!

Watch – hear this brilliant protest song by Citizens United, in Bangla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_aCNzis8E তাসের দেশ’ হেঁকে বলছে ‘চলো নিয়ম মতে’ দূরে তাকিয়ো নাকো ঘাড় বাঁকিয়ো নাকো চলো সমান পথে চলো নিয়ম মতে কাদের তৈরী নিয়ম? কারা বলছে না তাকাতে… ঘাড় বাঁকাতে নিষেধ করছে কারা? যারা আমাদের দেশটাকে সুচতুরভাবে নিয়ে চলেছে ধ্বংসের দিকে..তাদের তৈরী করা অমানবিক,… Read More নিজেদের মতে , নিজেদের গান l Citizens United!

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Surinder S. Jodhka: Changing Modes of Agriculture in Punjab

The Punjabi farmer has found it hard to escape the whirlpool of an ecologically unviable cropping pattern and its commercial entrapments created by the history of its past six decades.   Despite Punjab’s meagre size, the region has remained an important constituent in the self-imagination of the Indian nation. The imprints of Punjab’s agrarian economy and… Read More Surinder S. Jodhka: Changing Modes of Agriculture in Punjab

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Nagraj Adve: Coming of Age of India’s Youth Climate Movement

The arrest in February of Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old member of the climate change organisation Fridays for Future (FFF) India, on charges including sedition and criminal conspiracy, and warrants issued against two members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) India, Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk, have severely jolted innumerable climate activists, students, and other young people in… Read More Nagraj Adve: Coming of Age of India’s Youth Climate Movement

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AKHILESH PANDEY – The farmers’ protest may grow into a second “total revolution”: JP movement activists

Social activists who were part of the JP movement, led by the political activist Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s, see echoes of that movement in the ongoing farmers’ protest. In March 1974, the JP movement began as a student-led protest in Bihar against unemployment, which soon gained Narayan’s support. The movement subsequently fought against corruption… Read More AKHILESH PANDEY – The farmers’ protest may grow into a second “total revolution”: JP movement activists

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