Thursday, January 29, 2009 10a.m.-12.45p.m.
(with a break for tea between 11.15-11.30 a.m.)
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE:
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS:
Seema Mustafa
Seema Mustafa
Reclaiming the Commons
Seminar: The Politics of the Indian State: Peoples response
NINTH RAUSHNI DESHPANDE MEMORIAL LECTURE AND SYMPOSIUM
By MEDHA PATKAR Eminent Social Activist On PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS: THE STATE & CIVIL SOCIETY Prof Shekhar Singh will Preside Wednesday, January 28th 2009 4.00-5.30 pm At Seth Ram Lal Hall Lady Irwin College, Sikandra Road, New Delhi - 110001
SYMPOSIUM
Dialogue on People Movements: The State & Civil Society On Thursday 29th January 2009 10.00 am to 1.00pm MPR Department of Development Communication & Extension, Lady Irwin College
Speakers: Medha Patkar - National Alliannce of People's Movments Prof. Shekhar Singh - IIPA Prof. Amit Bhaduri - Prof. Emeritus JNU Mr. Sumit Chakravarty - Editor, Mainstream Mr. Suhas Borker - Convenor Working Group on Alternative Strategies
DEATH OF A STATESMEN: INDIAN LINCOLN IGNORED
By Kanchan Ialaiah
If someone, who stood by the oppressed, is ignored, even in death, the oppressed will treat that as their own humiliation.
On November 27, I was back home at around 3 pm. Prof Bhagya Naik, who once was a student leader in the Mandal movement, called me and said, "There is bad news amidst worse news of terrorism. VP Singh has died and an occasional scroll (news ticker) on NDTV is informing us of that."
If someone, who stood by the oppressed, is ignored, even in death, the oppressed will treat that as their own humiliation.
On November 27, I was back home at around 3 pm. Prof Bhagya Naik, who once was a student leader in the Mandal movement, called me and said, "There is bad news amidst worse news of terrorism. VP Singh has died and an occasional scroll (news ticker) on NDTV is informing us of that."
INDIA'S UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES PREVENTION ACT (UAPA): THE RETURN OF POTA & TADA
by Rajeev Dhavan,
19 December 2008: http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2008/12/indias_unlawful.html
India's attempt to put its own legal house in order is reflected in two Bills -- 'The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act' and the amendments to the 'Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)'. Home minister P. Chidambaram's Bills bring TADA and POTA back with a bang and innovate a National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Hitherto 'policing' was exclusively a 'state subject'. India's CBI could take over investigation and prosecution on (a) court orders or (b) with the consent of the state. The NIA Bill changes that to let the NIA hijack any prosecution or investigation from the state at will. The proposed NIA Bill is constitutionally competent. The Constitution's Union List (I, Entry 8) permits a "Central Bureau of Investigation".
19 December 2008: http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2008/12/indias_unlawful.html
India's attempt to put its own legal house in order is reflected in two Bills -- 'The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act' and the amendments to the 'Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)'. Home minister P. Chidambaram's Bills bring TADA and POTA back with a bang and innovate a National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Hitherto 'policing' was exclusively a 'state subject'. India's CBI could take over investigation and prosecution on (a) court orders or (b) with the consent of the state. The NIA Bill changes that to let the NIA hijack any prosecution or investigation from the state at will. The proposed NIA Bill is constitutionally competent. The Constitution's Union List (I, Entry 8) permits a "Central Bureau of Investigation".
AN OPEN CALL TO THE GLOBAL WATER JUSTICE MOVEMENT TO MOBILIZE AGAINST THE FALSE WORLD WATER FORUM
Let us join together in Istanbul, Turkey, March 16-22, 2009 to protect water as a human right, global commons and public good to expose the illegitimate power of the World Water Council!
Following the successes of past resistance against World Water Forums, most notably the mass mobilizations and Jornadas en Defensa del Agua in Mexico City in 2006,
Using the principles in the Mexico Declaration and previous joint declarations of the water justice movement as the basis for this call to action,
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