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[1] http://us.rediff.com/news/2006/sep/28nobel.htm *Indian wins alternative Nobel* Ruth Manorama is one of the three recipients of the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ?alternative Nobel Price?. They share the price of SEK 2 million (USD 275,000/EUR 220,000). The other two recipients are Daniel Ellsberg, USA, and the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medelin, Columbia. The Honorary Award goes to Chico Whitaker Ferreira, Brazil. A press conference will be held in Stockholm on Wednesday, December 6th at 09.30. The award presentation ceremony will be held in the Swedish Parliament on December 8th. 2006 Chico Whitaker Ferreira (Brazil) Honorary Award " ... for a lifetime's dedicated work for social justice that hasstrengthened democracy in Brazil and helped give birth to the World Social Forum, showing that 'another world is possible' " Daniel Ellsberg (USA) " ... for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example. " Ruth Manorama (India) " ... for her commitment over decades to achieving equality for Dalit women, building effective and committed women's organisations and working for their rights at national and international levels. " The Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin (Colombia) " ... for showing how creativity, beauty, free _expression and community can flourish amongst and overcome even deeply entrenched fear and violence. " THE PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING VISION AND WORK ON BEHALF OF OUR PLANET AND ITS PEOPLE The idea of 'right livelihood' is an ancient one. It embodies the principle that each person should follow an honest occupation which fully respects other people and the natural world. It means being responsible for the consequences of our actions and taking only a fair share of the earth's resources. In every generation, there are groups of people and individuals around the globe who valiantly uphold these principles of right livelihood. They should be the stars in our human cosmos, but their work often entails personal sacrifice, being opposed by powerful forces around them. The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support such people. It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' and there are now over 100 laureates from 48 countries. This Award exists to strengthen the positive social forces that its recipients represent and to provide the support and inspiration needed to make them a model for the future. It has been said that if the Nobel Prizes reflected world concerns of the 20th century, the Right Livelihood Award should reflect those of the 21st. With kind regards, Hans Magnusson Dalit Solidarity Network - Sweden -------------- [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Sep 28, 2006 Subject: Articles on SEZ by Ashok Sharma FARM FRONT Column SEZ mad run to destroy farmers http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=141385 ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday, September 25, 2006 at 0000 hours IST The government?s oft-repeated mantra for ensuring food security and well being of the farmers has turned out to be a lip service, particularly for gaining political mileage. It real intention is clear? to benefit big corporate houses at the expense of farmers. FARM FRONT Column Farmlands need to be conserved http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=138588 ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday, August 28, 2006 at 0000 hours IST FARM FRONT Column Aim at improving farm income, not magic growth figures http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=140672 ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday, September 18, 2006 at 0000 hours IST FARM FRONT Column Stale mantras to tame suicide ghost http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=137854 ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday, August 21, 2006 at 0000 hours IST ------------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Sep 28, 2006 Subject: Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Dangerous Dimensions South Asians Against Nukes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/message/938 Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-13 (September 2006) MIT Center for International Studies [*] ------------ [4] From: EMPOWER INDIA <ttn_empower@sancharnet.in> Date: Thu Sep 28, 2006 Subject: forward this please to all your friends A woman at a Gas nightclub (Mumbai) on Saturday night was taken by 5 men, Who according to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before Dumping her at Bandstand Mumbai. Unable to remember the events of the evening, tests later confirmed the repeat rapes along with traces of rohypnol in her blood. Rohypnol, date rape drug is an essentially a small sterilization pill. The drug is now being used by rapists at parties to rape AND sterilize their victims. All they have to do is drop it into the girl's drink. The girl can't remember a thing the next morning, of all that had Taken place the night before. Rohypnol, which dissolves in drinks just as easily, is such that the victim doesn't conceive from the rape and the rapist needn't worry about having a paternity test identifying him months later. The Drug's affects ARE NOT TEMPORARY - they are PERMANENT. Any female that takes it WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE. The weasels can get this drug from anyone who is in the vet school or any university. it's that easy, and Rohypnol is about to break out big on campuses everywhere. Believe it or not, there are even sites on the Internet telling people how to use it. Please forward this to everyone you know, especially girls. Girls, becareful when you're out and don't leave your drink unattended. (added - Buy your own drinks, ensure bottles or cans received are Unopened or sealed; don't even taste someone else's drink) There was already been a report in Singapore of girls drink been Spiked by Rohypnol. Please make the effort to forward this to everyone you know. For guys - Pls inform all your female friends and relatives. "Your life is God's gift to you. What you do for others is your gift to God" I had been forwarded this mail you SHOULD do the same. Forwarded by : Yours in Global Concern A.SANKAR www.empowerindia.org -------------------- [5] US Threatened To Bomb Pakistan Back To ?The Stone Age? By Kranti Kumara & Keith Jones http://countercurrents.org/pak-jones280906.htm Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf?s revelation that a top US official said Pakistan would be bombed ?back to the stone age? if Islamabad didn?t break its ties with the Taliban and provide logistical support to the US conquest of Afghanistan is yet another example of the mobster methods that have come to characterize US diplomacy, especially under the Bush administration ------------ [6] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Sep 29, 2006 Subject: Indo-US Nuke Deal: Yet to Clear Senate Logjam, Shyam Saran and Pranab Mukherjee Notwithstanding http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/28/america/NA_GEN_US_India_Nuclear.php Bush administration pushes Congress to approve Indian nuclear deal now; success uncertain The Associated Press Published: September 28, 2006 --------------- [7] From: "Ram Narayanan" <ramn_one@adelphia.net> Date: Fri Sep 29, 2006 Subject: Why is Musharraf America's favorite dictator? j http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115949118500677436.html THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE, SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 COMMENTARY The Musharraf Exception By ROBERT L. POLLOCK September 29, 2006; Page A16 Pervez Musharraf is America's favorite dictator. The Bush administration seems to consider the Pakistani general -- who took power in a 1999 military coup -- an indispensable ally, and has yet to publicly pressure him on the democracy front. Democrats and foreign policy thinkers of the "realist" school seem equally comfortable with the idea of Gen. Musharraf running Pakistan for the indefinite future. Indeed, if the purpose of the general's new autobiography -- "In the Line of Fire" -- was to win American sympathy ahead of an attempt to fiddle with next year's presidential election, he probably needn't have bothered. A recent meeting of the Musharraf fan club took place at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where Gen. Musharraf gave brief remarks and took questions as he launched his book tour on Monday night. He was treated to standing ovations that exceeded mere politeness as he entered and left the hall. Not one questioner raised the democracy issue. And if the moderator -- former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin -- was curious, he didn't let on. He was too busy extolling Gen. Musharraf's wisdom and the fact that he has been kind enough to employ as prime minister Mr. Rubin's ex-Citibank colleague, Shaukat Aziz. Even among the "neocon" architects of President Bush's democracy-promotion agenda it's hard to find an unkind word about Gen. Musharraf, as I discovered while spending several days last year in Islamabad with former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith. Behind this bipartisan support -- or at least acceptance -- is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and the perception that Gen. Musharraf is the only thing standing in the way of its takeover by a radical Islamic government. But there are good reasons to doubt this perception, and to suspect that allowing a permanent "Musharraf Exception" to the democracy agenda will do more harm than good. On the plus side of the Musharraf ledger is, indeed, the obvious fact that the man with the keys to Pakistan's bombs is not a raving Islamic fanatic. He has been an ally -- of convenience, at least -- in the fight against al Qaeda. And his rule, while autocratic, is not oppressive. With a smart and vibrant free press, Pakistan undoubtedly passes what Condoleezza Rice has called the "public square test" -- a fancy way of saying you can speak your mind without fear of being carted away by the cops. At the same time, however, Gen. Musharraf suffers from his lack of legitimacy among the secular classes who have run Pakistan's democratic governments in the past, and who would almost surely win if another free poll is held. The Islamists got only 11% in the last parliamentary election, but the general is increasingly courting them as he attempts to hold power -- which may be one reason his antiterror efforts haven't included any attempts to crack down on the madrassas. For the same reason, Pakistan's efforts to control Taliban elements operating within its borders seem half-hearted. And when confronted with a question about this at the Council Monday night, Gen. Musharraf launched into an ethnocentric diatribe about supporting Afghanistan's Pashtun majority. Never mind that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a Pashtun. Gen. Musharraf went on at length about the apparently unseemly fact that the late anti-Taliban leader Ahmed Shah Massoud -- a "minority" Tajik, he kept pointing out -- is revered in Kabul. More broadly, Gen. Musharraf used his Council on Foreign Relations remarks to criticize the Bush administration's broader war on terror. "I feel that we are only using the instrument of the military to combat terrorism," he said, ignoring the democracy agenda. And what does he think the root cause of terrorism is? "Palestine is the core issue," he said, repeatedly. The audience could have been forgiven for thinking it was listening to the tired rhetoric of someone like Hosni Mubarak. But then, Gen. Musharraf seems increasingly like Mr. Mubarak, and less like the modernizer preparing Pakistan for a return to democracy that he claims to be. Don't get me wrong. Your humble correspondent is under no illusions about the feasibility of immediate democratic revolutions in every country of the Islamic world. But equally, let's have no illusions about Pervez Musharraf. He took power illegitimately in a country with some history of democracy, however imperfect. And now he seems to be in no hurry to give it up. The Bush Doctrine can survive the Musharraf Exception over the short run. But over the longer term, the credibility of our efforts to address the root causes of terror will require nudging Pakistan, too, back toward the democratic path. Mr. Pollock is a member of the Journal's editorial board. ------------- [8] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Fri Sep 29, 2006 Subject: Let's hope this doesn't happen in our country.. How did we sink so low in just 6 years? By Mike Whitney In a 253 to 168 ?party-line? vote, the congress repealed habeas corpus and approved the torturing of prisoners in American custody. It is breathtaking assault on human rights and personal liberty and puts the United States well-outside the community of civilized nations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15143.htm ---------- [9] Fumigating Bhopal By Harsh Mander http://www.countercurrents.org/en-mander2900906.htm Late one evening, a young man of 34 was found hanging from the ceiling of his home in Bhopal. His name was Sunil Verma, the date, July 26, 2006. More than 21 years earlier, he had lost his parents and five siblings in the gas massacre on December 2, 1984. He died wearing a T-shirt declaring 'No More Bhopals'. At the time he took his life, no one had been punished for the crimes of the Bhopal massacre. With him died, perhaps, even the hope for justice ------------- |
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