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Dear friends,
The Garment Workers Union Bangalore has planned one day Karnataka state wide strike on 5th of November 2008. Above one million workers will stop work on 5th of November in Bangalore city, Bangalore rural, Ramanagara District, Kolar, Tumkur and Hassan districts.
Major demands are as follows:
1) The minimum wage of Garment workers should be fixed for Rs. 6,000/- Per month and there should be a yearly increase of 10%. Employers should consider service as main (…)

Joint Resolution passed at the joint convention at Gandhi Peace Foundation
on 24 October 2008
Demanding Immediate withdrawal of all cases against and immediate release of Abhay Sahu and other activists of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, and Condemning the increasing state repression in Orissa against peaceful resistance of people against anti-people steel project In exercise of their Constitutional right to dissent, and the right to a life with dignity, which includes the right to a (…)

www.sacw.net, 29 October 2008
MOST URGENT / by SPEEDPOST 28 October 2008
FROM DR JOHN DAYAL Plaintiff in Person Justice Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry in the Kandhamal, Orissa violence of December 2007
To The Honourable Commission
1. I, John Dayal, Plaintiff in Person, state as follows;
2. I have been summoned by the Honourable Justice Basudeo Panigrahi Commission to appear before it in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar on 1st November 2008.
3. I have just heard that my close friend Father (…)

When there is such a disconnect between what the people want and what their governments are willing to deliver, then it ceases to matter after a while whether they are making any progress in the clutch of eight or ten issues that go by the sobriquet of Composite Dialogue

Bangalore Police assault on sexual rights activists