the issue of tadipar notices (anti-dumping ground agitation, Uttan) BY THE BOMBAY CATHOLIC SABHA.

Friends,
As you all know that we have been fighting against the dumping ground at Uttan - Dhavagi, the authorities instead of shifting have now issued externment notice on the leaders / activists of the agitation. Bombay Catholic Sabha has organised a press conference on this issue. Kindly be present.
Shashi Sonawane
National Convenor - Yuva Bharat

The Bombay Catholic Sabha BCS ] along with other like minded organizations, is mobilizing support for withdrawal of Show Cause Notices served on former Justice B.G Kolse- Patil of Bombay High Court and other civic activists seeking their externment immediately and also demands the scrapping of the Uttan- Hill Top Dumping Ground. This is also one more attack on Minorities.
The BCS has convened this press conference.
Among those who will address the press conference are:
Justice B.G. Kolse-Patil - President- Lokshashan Andolan. Shashi Sonawane - National Convernor- Yuva Bharat [One of the activists on whom the notice has been served. Adv. Godfrey Pimenta - President - Sahar Citizens Forum

James Colaso - Secy, Civic & Political Cell Bhayander Deanery.[ Activist on whom notice has been served]

The villages of the Dharavi Bet i.e. island (within Mira-Bhayander Municipal limits) along the west coast is adjacent to Mumbai. The Koli (fisherfolks), Agri, Kunbi, Bhandari communities are the original inhabitants of Mumbai. This Dharavi Bet is the last bastion of these original Mumbaikars and is pristine and unpolluted . Despite being adjacent to Metropolis, the villagers have preserved their original language and their East Indian Christian Culture for the past 700 years.
The administration with the sole motive of harassing the people have brought up the solid waste management project on the hill top that too in a NO Development Zone at Uttan-Dhavagi. This private project with a capacity of 450 tons of Garbage has come up on the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis for 30 years. Considering the location of this dumping ground, locals have been protesting against it right from the beginning. No where in the world Dumping ground has come up on the top of the hill thereby adversely affecting the environment of the entire area. Since the commencement of the project the villagers have been suffering various ailments like Bronchitis, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Dengue, flu, viral fever and other diseases. People are forced to live with the foul smell that is coming out of this project. Moreover, in the two years period, the wells of the surrounding area have contaminated and the agricultural land too is contaminated due to pollution, which has affected livelihood of the farmers.
Hence the villagers had no other alternative but to agitate against the dumping ground which has become the symbol of the anti-people approach of the authorities and ruling elite.

The agitation has been peaceful and non-violent. Despite this fact, on 24th September 2009, the Police especially male personnel brutally lathicharged on the villagers mostly women agitators and fired expired teargas shells on the agitators. A complaint has been filed against police authorites with NHRC and enquiry is going on.

Despite their being no provocation and the talks going on, the District Magistrate of Thane district, on 20th January, 2010, arbitrarily issued Show Cause ( Tadipar ) Notice, communicated through the media on the leaders of the agitations - namely Justice B.G. Kolse-Patil (retd.) President Lokshasan Andolan, Com. Vilas Sonawane, Coordinator - All India anti-SEZ, anti-land grabbing & anti-displacement coordination committee, Shashi Sonawane - National Convenor, Yuva Bharat, Nicholas Almeida [ Ex-Corporator]. This notices bars these leaders from entering not only Mira-Bhayander but the entire Thane Rural District. Number of criminal cases have been filed against them under various sections like143, 145, 147, 148, 149, 341, 333, 353, 336 - 338 of IPC etc.

Now three more activists namely Sunny Gadekar, James Colasco and Ronnie Correa have also been served show cause notices of externment for two years from 5 districts namely: Thane, Mumbai, Raigad, Pune and Nasik

This notice violates the very fundamental rights of the citizen to express themselves, to move freely, to agitate democratically and peacefully. Every citizen has a right to safe and clean environment.

More details of the planned agitation and other information will be shared at the Press Conference.

Best Regards,

Dolphy D'souza
President

THE BOMBAY CATHOLIC SABHA

St Michaels Church, Mahim,

Mumbai 400 016.

Tel: 24463853/ 9820226227

Email: president@bcsabha.org--
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'आई सी टी यु' के महासचिव अरुण कुमार और एच आर लौव नेटवर्क के कोलिन गोंजल्विश।

१ अगस्त' २००९ रांची, झारखण्ड में 'ह्युमन राइट्स लौव नेटवर्क' के 'ओं लेबर इस्सू' पर अपनी बात रखते हुए 'आई सी टी यूं ' के महासचिव अरुण कुमार।

A Film show

रांची, झारखण्ड में 'ओपन स्पेस' द्वारा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में फ़िल्म शो (३० जुलाई'२००९) में 'नोट्स ऑन मैन कैप्चर : ट्राइबल कस्टम इन गारो आदिवासी ऑफ़ नोर्थ ईस्ट' फ़िल्म पर अपने विचार रखते हुए। अरुण कुमार, आई सी टी यू के महासचिव।

अब कहने को कुछ
नही करता है मन....
क्योंकि .....
गुजर रहा है ...
परेशानियों से मेरा साजन.....
कुछ ऐसा दस्तूर है ....
इस जमाने के बनाये दस्तूर का....
की हम नही जा सकते
उनके पास ....
ये कैसे के दस्तूर..है...
और किसका....
बनाया हुआ है ये रीत और रिवाज....
जो है मेरे दिल के सबसे करीब ....
वो ही है सबसे दूर आज...
जिनके लिए जीने का करता है मन...
उनसे ही नही मिल सकता हूँ ......
मैं आज......
-नीरवता

जिंदगी की शाख से
जो गिर चुकी
उन टहनियों का
बूढ़ी पुरानी पत्तियों का
हम सोग आखिर क्यों
करें जिंदगी की राह से
जो मुड़ गए
उन दूर जाते रास्तों का
बिछुडे हुए कुछ दोस्तों का
आख़िर ख़याल क्यों करें
हम तो मुसाफिर हैं
के चलना है हमारी ज़िन्दगी
पैरों के छालों का
बहते किनारों का
उड़ते गुबारों का
कुछ भी मलाल
क्योँ करें
-नीरवता

सुंदर कम्यून (कविता)

इसमे कोई बात नही

है दोस्तों, साथियो,

मेरे परिवार वालो कि

हमारी मुद्रा रानी के पीछे

सोना नहीं है लेकिन है

पूँजी की तीन जिल्दें

जिनका बेश मूल्य

कोई माप नही सकता

हमारा विस्वास कीजिये

हम अपने लोकोमोटिव

आपके खेतों पर से

नहीं लेकर जायेंगे

और न ही

समाजवाद द्वारा बनाये

घरों पर से लेकिन

हम किसी के रोके रुकेंगे नहीं

ये अब एक ही जगह पहुँच

कर ख़ुद व ख़ुद रुकेंगे

और वह है

हमारी अपनी प्यारी,

सुंदर कम्यून। --बलदेव शर्मा

ओबामा इज नो डिफरेंट फ्रॉम ओठेर्स

Barack Hussein Obama And Obama is no different from others as he proffers to all inclusiveness. Barack Hussein Obama's victory has been so exciting for some columnists that they have started using Obamerica instead of America. Americans, free from Bushdom, expecting democracy from Obama, looking cool, let us see what next. Civil war is finally over, let restoration begin, Thomas L. Friedman points out that the civil war which began in 1861, ended on 4th November, 2008 at midnight and he wishes for 'restoration to begin'. What restoration did he wish? Did the restoration of the Macbethian scoundrels and predators he intend. Did he wish to restore the prestige of those presidents of America who arranged prostitution of slave women in the President's premises and even they used their daughters for this infamy? What does he mean by restoration? Despite Martin Luther King's crusade and judicial intervention and Civil Right Act of1961 that symbolized a little big leap against the orthodoxy to preserve the continuance of the same order in some sort of veil that lived in the White House. Let Barack Hussein Obama change the very name of the Presidential House and let it be called People's House or the President's House if it is likened by his protons of all inclusiveness as he suggests in his victory speech. As that, the white excludes non-white Americans. It is a racist symbol. Obama also touched his area of support from the class of workers to non-class differentials in the society. In the very beginning of his victory speech Barack Hussein Obama passes on to emphasis that "America is a place where all things are possible" requires litmus test as less distant as possible. The victory of Barack Hussein Obama is not the victory of Obama a person or as a party of Democrats as against Republican but a victory of the people, by the people, for the people it appears to be restoration of Lincoln's Democracy in 21st century and that of a legacy from Martin Luther King in Obamaised form is to be witnessed in practice which plans all inclusiveness in the new administration. It is good to remember the civil war that began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 1861 entered into a new beginning on the 4th of November 2008 at midnight, and not the end of civil war, I do hold. And I also visualize class struggle to be intensified. It is because extreme of Imperialism by its dénouement requires not only a new engine but differential too. I mean a new system. Can Obama proffer to adopt a new system? He cannot. It is because of his all inclusiveness, a type of envisioning. In his victory speech, Obama proclaimed his victory as of the people, by the people and for the people. Has it not been all abusive for centuries? Even if he declares of the proletariat, by the proletariat and for the proletariat, will be hypocritical one, because proletarian democracy is not of the proletariat, by the proletariat and for the proletariat but it is duty bound to gloat over the demise of capitalism by the proletarian democracy which is also duty bound not only to emancipate the proletariat but the capitalists and imperialists too, which have not only chained the proletariat but themselves too. And definitely it is Marx as a great proletarian is liberating the imperialism from its October 2008 crisis. And this is being done independent of the will of the imperialist system. And it is not the return of Marx; rather utilisation of Marx by the bourgeois mind at the time of its crisis; where as Marxist philosophy of struggle always reaches action through production and reproduction which is the essence of Marxism. If socialist system can produce capitalist development; why not the capitalism system adopt socialist measures to regal out itself from its own created crisis. And if communist parties do not move to match with the higher productive forces, its logical truth will certainly be adopted by its opposite. It is historically, yet to be proved. The question of the present Imperialist state of America is a key question which cannot be changed by Obama administration and his government. He has to negate the misdeeds of Bushism first. Thereafter he has to 'go long', but the question is how 'long'? This question is being debated from all quarters with differentials. Even the bourgeois writers have opined with facts and figures that the transfer of so much wealth by the Bush administration has been no less than transfer of wealth during the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Rather we have noticed that is increasing day by day and till date, as much as the number is concern, 19 banks have been nationalized. The difference is to be noted that during the Bolshevik period the wealth was transferred from the rich to the have-nots, in other words to the proletarian state to establish and promote proletarian democracy which failed in 1992 finally. In this case of the great depression of Oct.2008 in America the wealth is transferred from the state to the bankrupt banks of the sharks managed by them or on their command by the technical-managerial men who are worst sufferers. And in such a situation, had there been a party of proletarian to organise these technical-managerial men in particular and 69% of the working populace of America could have gone to new proletarian revolution in tune with the need of the hour. Every body knows that Marx was of the opinion that the revolution will breakout first in the advanced countries. This also is not unknown that Lenin visualized monopoly capitalism or Imperialism as a bridge to pass on to Socialism. And in this new era of Imperialism and the new proletarian revolution, we have formulated that extreme of Imperialism will give birth to new proletarian revolution. But what is happening in America is neither socialist nor new proletarian revolution. And either can't be. As we know despite 8 year of negative teaching of Bush, no third force of the same coin or the modern revolutionary natural communist party of America would have emerged without which no new proletarian revolution would take place. We are happy to note that a Revolutionary Organization of labor, USA is born, we witness that the objective situations are ripe but the subjective forces are yet to be reorganized. -SheoMangal Siddhantkar(10/11/2008)