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This article analyzes the role of soil in the making of authoritarian regimes and illustrates twentieth-century practices and discourses related to fertility across the globe. It compares two different approaches to and understandings of soil fertility: the first emerged in North Libya under Italian Fascist rule (1922–1943), the second in Central Brazil during the civil-military dictatorship (1964–1985). We compare two soil-forming processes that changed physical and chemical (…)
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The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado | Roberta Biasillo and Claiton Marcio da Silva (Comp. Studies in Society and History, March 2021)
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Support the Citizen’s Civil Disobedience Movement Against the Military in Myanmar | Press Release NAPM (April 8, 2021)
by , 8 April 20218th April, 2021: It’s more than two months since the Burmese military in a coup on 1 February refused to hand over the power to the National League for Democracy (NLD) after their victory in the November 2020 elections. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s commander-in-chief and Myanmar’s de-facto ruler has justified the coup on grounds of large-scale election fraud, though the elections commission has denied these allegations. Following the coup, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and many of her party NLD’s colleagues have been jailed under various charges including that of violating colonial Official Secrets Act. National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) condemns this undermining of the democratic transition and usurping of power by the military Junta.
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India: National Investigation Agency (NIA) Raids at homes of rights activists in Andhra and Telangana states - Press Release by Human Rights Forum, April 6, 2021
6 April 2021Personnel of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with local police conducted a search and seize raid on the residence of VS Krishna, Human Rights Forum (HRF) AP & Telangana Coordination Committee member in Visakhapatnam last week. The raid started at about 5.35 pm on 31 March 2021, and ended at 2.30 am on 1 April 2021. In all, the NIA team seized six hard disks, one mobile, three sim cards, three SD cards and a few documents from his house. All his and his family’s bank details were photographed. The NIA team also interrogated him for a total period of about eight hours at their offices in Vizag on April 1 and 2.
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Watch out! Beware! Stay alert, if you want to hold your head up high. The crocodile has crept into your home - Song on dangers of communalism during Bengal Elections 2021
6 April 2021An original composition by Fiddler’s Green, this music video was shot and produced in Kolkata in March - April 2021. It highlights the dangers posed by communalism to society in India, and Bengal in particular. | Produced & Directed by
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India: PUCL condemns the loss of life of security personnel and Maoists in Chhatisgarh | Press Release April 5, 2021
5 April 2021People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
5th April, 2021
PUCL mourns and condemns the heavy loss of lives in the encounter between Maoists and security forces in Chhattisgarh. We are deeply distressed and completely disapprove the action of the Maoists which caused the loss of life of 22 security personnel in the encounter on April 3rd in forests near Jonaguda village in Sukma along the road connecting Bijapur –Sukma districts. What causes us great concern are reports that injured (…)
