Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Quake Survivors Await Relief in Pakistan

    by Beena Sarwar, 30 October 2008

    Inter Press Service, 29 October 2008
    KARACHI, Oct 29 (IPS) - Poor infrastructure and communications are making it difficult for rescue and relief teams to reach scattered hamlets in the mountainous plateau area affected by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Pakistan’s Balochistan province at dawn on Wednesday.
    Relief efforts were repulsed by a second temblor, estimated at 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck the area barely 12 hours later at about 5 pm, followed by at least four (…)

  • Adivasi Sangama 2008 - Announcement

    by sacw.net, 30 October 2008

    Adivasi Sangama 2008 Kushalnagar, Kodagu –Karnataka October 30—31,2008, Kushalnagar, Kodagu, Karnataka
    Greetings
    The struggles of Adivasis of this country have seen both successes and set backs. The right to village self-rule has been now recognized in the Panchayat Raj (Extension to Scheduled Areas) 1996. However, this has not been honored by the central and state governments who continue to violate them in the states with Scheduled Areas. Many Adivasi habitations in these states are (…)

  • Peaceful citizen protest against chauvinist politics, brutalised by Bombay police

    by Mukta Srivastava, 29 October 2008

    Press Release: -25-10-2008 For Immediate Release
    Non-violent protesters against violent regionalism face unjustifiable arrest in Mumbai
    Hundred arrested and released: Vow to combat ’goonda raj’ with State violence
    The silent peaceful protest by a few hundred peace loving, non communal and progressive citizens including activists from dalit, women’s rights, literary and other human rights groups in Mumbai (…)

  • Lalon and Terror

    by Rahnuma Ahmed, 29 October 2008

    New Age, October 29, 2008
    Re-configuring the nation’s political map during emergency
    In the name of bringing ‘beauty’ to politics in Bangladesh, the lineaments of political reconfiguration undertaken by this military-backed caretaker government are becoming ominously clear: mainstream political parties in shambles, Jamaat-e-Islami intact, Muslim clerics and Islamic forces re-emerging as a political force under state patronage, and the exercise of rampant power by western diplomats, (…)

  • Garment workers one day Karnataka state wide strike

    by Garment Workers Union Bangalore, 29 October 2008

    www.sacw.net
    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 (…)

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