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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 (…)

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 (…)

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, (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)