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[6] From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 8, 2005 Subject: Yahoo is insecure t Dear Friends, you proabably all already knew this, but take extra care when using messenger and email.. for both msn and yahoo. Yahoo 'helped jail China writer' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm And another issue is the use of Web beacons to Track Yahoo Users 'web beacons'. known in most circles as web bugs, these invisible images are embedded in websites and email and used to track your surfing - and even tell whether you've opened a particular email. According to Yahoo's current privacy policy, "Yahoo!'s practice is to include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages that Yahoo!, or its agents, sends in order to determine which email messages were opened and to note whether a message was acted upon." For Details Visit http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html please pass the message on. -- Anivar Aravind <anivar at gnu. org. in GAIA -------------------------- [7] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com Date: Wed Sep 7, 2005 Subject: Left or Right? george_regi Would be interesting to have the group's comments on this. Aditi Roy Ghatak New left strikes chord in disillusioned east by Luke Harding in Cottbus 3 Sept05 http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1561831,00.html Sixteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Ellen Muller looks back with nostalgia at her life in the then communist East Germany. "I didn't have to worry whether we had enough to eat," she says. "Brutchen [bread rolls] cost five pfennigs. People cared more about children. And if you were ill you didn't have to wait to see a doctor. It was all free." -------------------------------- [8] From: "River Basin Friends\(NE\)" <riverbasinfriends@yahoo.co.in> Date: Thu Sep 8, 2005 Subject: The Elephants were forced to bulldoze-Urjent attn needed-needs wider support riverbasinfr... The Elephants were forced to bulldoze A struggle of farmers and forest dwellers over right to their land forest and river from Dhemaji District in Assam (India) ----------------------------- [8] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Sep 8, 2005 Subject: Human Development Report 2005 and India http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?r=1&catid=77&ch=0&newsid=71759 UNDP Presents Its Human Development Report 2005 7 September 2005 | 14:11 | FOCUS News Agency New York/Sofia. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP The elephants came along with the Revenue Officers one and a half decade after taxes were paid on an unfateful day in 1986 and claimed that all the land belonging to 13000 families actually was reserved for the cows and buffaloes to graze! The elephants were forced to crumple 150 homes that day. It did not stop there ten years later they came back and took away more homes??¦.. This is the story of the farmers and forest dwellers of nineteen villages in Assam in India. Characterised by the presence of river Brahmaputra, the State of Assam shares its borders with 5 states and three countries assuming geographic, cultural, economic and political significance. The river runs a regal 800 kilometres in Assam forsaking its channels each flood season. The Dhemaji district of Assam is located in the north bank of river Brahmaputra across the tea town of Dibrugarh on the south bank. Bordering Arunachal Pradesh, Dhemaji is one of the lowest ranking in Human Development Index (HDI) district being 20th amongst 23 districts. Chronic flood is the salient feature of Dhemaji district and the roads, railways and telecommunication are most often disrupted during the 4 monsoon months here. Dhemaji occupies the North Eastern part of the state, a strategic location where steep slope of eastern Himalaya abruptly drops forming a narrow valley and thus making the District immensely vulnerable to floods and land erosion affecting 50% - 70% population every year for the last 3 decades. The constantly changing channels of the Simen river and the Bramhaputra render this cluster of villages extremely vulnerable to heavy floods and erosion. Over thirteen thousand families of various marginalised communities have settled here over the years 1966 to 1971 and have fled different places of Assam affected by floods there. Further majority of these families are Hazongs and Bengalis whose forefathers had fled from erstwhile East Pakistan (Bangladesh). Doubly marginalized, high illiteracy, little exposure to the main stream dynamics, lack of political identity has always kept the community vulnerable to massive exploitation and identity crisis. Amidst uncertainty the eligible became part of the electoral list and took part in elections.; they got their land registered with the Revenue Department and regularly paid their tax dues thereby assuming complete ownership of the land. The time that Government reserved the land of these people as Professional Grazing Reserve (Sengajan Majarbari Burishuti PGR) is still fresh in memory of most of the people. The people were not given any opportunity to participate in the decision regarding their own resources. Neither did the government whose treasury had a share of these people??™s hard earned money as land tax, had alternative planning to resettle and rehabilitate them. Interestingly the government who claimed the land to be PGR constructed school buildings and market sheds on the same PGR! The Guwahati High Courts stay orders brought relief to people each time in 1986, 1996 and 1998. The young people of these villages finally decided to organise themselves, thus ???Nalbari Anchalik Nagarik Suraksha Samiti??? was formed. This body tried to negotiate with the Government officials many a times but these officials even refused to hear their story. This body reached out to other similar groups and became a part of ???Bhumiputra Bhumi Adhikaar Suraksha Mancha??? a people??™s organization working for indigenous people??™s right over land in Dhemaji and North Lakhimpur District of Assam. This collaboration strengthened the will to acquire right over their land and other natural resources. To give wider focus to the issue they began networking with other groups like Sadou Asom Krishak Suraksha Sangram Samiti a farmers movement of Assam fighting for their land rights. This collective strength and support resulted in the mass convention held in this so called reserved grazing land on 25th August 2005. Widely attended by over 1000 people from Dhemaji district and part of the neighbouring Lakhimpur district, the convention focussed on gross violation of rights of farmers over their lands. Interestingly the other related topic of discussion was faulty design of the 4th bridge over the river Bramhaputra- Bogibeel Bridge whose construction has started. The completion of this bridge would have catastrophic impact on the land and livelihood of the people both on the upstream and the downstream due to severe and erosion and flooding. There was strong consensus amongst the people to address the atrocities, the people vowed to commence a strong movement immediately. A long march from the PGR Sengajan- Majorbari-Burishuti to the office of the Circle Revenue Officer, Sissiborgaon Revenue Circle would launch people??™s action it was decided. The Officer would be held responsible to take the matter to the Governor of Assam, Chief Minister of Assam, and the state revenue ministry. The long rally happened on 6th September 2005, for the first time in Assam more than two thousand farmers and forest dwellers walked over 50 kilometres and exhibited people??™s strength to accuire their right over their land. Slogans demanding right over land, dereservation of Sengajan-Majorbari- Burishuti and appropriation of the design of Bogibeel Bridge shook the area. The memorandum as decided was given to the Revenue Officer who arrived an hour late inspite of prior information being given to him. Within 21 days the people need an answer to their demand, delaying which a more intensive democratic movement will be taken up and elephants and magistrates will not be tolerated was peoples??™ firm position! |
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