Tag: Narmada

From Kathmandu, Tuesday, April 18, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON After yesterday’s victories, the Bhopal dharna/demo camp in Delhi is now already wrapped up, and many have left town; and the Narmada site is already partly packed up, and is readying to leave. More on this below, in Delhi Demo Diary Notes. There seems to have…

From Kathmandu, Monday, April 17, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON Was today a major day of victory for movements in the country? It is difficult to know which movement, and which news, to give priority to, in this issue of CDDB : The news on the Narmada front, which has been seen by the NBA as…

From Kathmandu, Sunday, April 16, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON One more day took place in the lives of two struggles; and as they know so well, this is only a pin drop in the ocean of struggle that movements all over the country are today engaged in. Yesterday, the Review Committee of the Narmada Control…

From Kathmandu, Saturday, April 15, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON TODAY is / was the day when the Review Committee of the Narmada Control Authority is due to meet in New Delhi on the Narmada dam issue, to examine the government’s fact-finding report and to come out with a final position for the government of India…

From Kathmandu, Friday, April 14, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON My regrets also that the formatting that I have used so far may not be possible over the next while; I am now writing from Kathmandu, and perhaps because of my technical limitations I am only able to send this out on Yahoo – thereby losing…

From New Delhi, Thursday, April 13, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON No fresh news today. But many important support actions you can take; see below. This is a crucial moment; please act. The last document in the digest below is a list of the people present at the co-ordination meeting between various groups on April 11…

From New Delhi, Wednesday, April 12, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON NARMADA ACTION ALERT / Global Solidarity Relay Hunger Strike for Justice in Bhopal A lot of news from Delhi today. A lot is happening. But whether this can be decisive, is still unclear. The maybe big news, as of 6 pm this evening Delhi time,…

From New Delhi, Tuesday, April 11, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON The day has come. The Bhopal movement got no response from the government even after so many days of meeting people, so many discussions, so much entreaty, and so it has gone on strike from this morning, as it has been announcing. See item [1]…

New Delhi Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan along with Atul Kulkarni, Kunal Kapoor and film director Rakeysh Mehra joined Narmada Bachao Andolan activists at the Jantar Mantar. Aamir promised his support for Bhopal Gas tragedy survivors and NBA. Aamir even appealed to the Prime Minister to give the two issues his attention. Their presence created a…

From New Delhi, Monday, April 10, 2006 PLEASE SEND ON BHOPAL ACTION : The Bhopal Demo in Delhi today staged a dramatic, theatrical ‘die-in’ on Parliament Street in central New Delhi for about an hour today at 5 pm, blocking and disrupting traffic and attracting a fair crowd of people. About 50-60 Bhopalis lay down…

From New Delhi, Monday, April 10, 2006 Today, Monday, April 10 2006, is something of a day of reckoning for both the Narmada and Bhopal dharnas going on in New Delhi. On the hand (and on one side of the road where the two demos are camped), people are waiting for news from the government,…

The Navhind Times New Delhi/Bhopal, April 7: Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Ms Medha Patkar continued her hunger strike at the AIIMS demanding proper rehabilitation of the families affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project even as people all across the country staged relay-fast and hunger strikes to express solidarity with her cause. Ms Patkar, who was…

The country’s two best known struggles are waging a battle for justice under the trees of Jantar Mantar in the capital — the Narmada dam oustees and Bhopal gas victims. Both have a 20-year history, albeit emerging from different contexts. Having borne the brunt of state brutality and yet remaining non-violent, they have been documented…

From New Delhi, Sunday, April 9, 2006 “If the state files a case against me, I will file a case of murder against the state: murder of the Narmada Valley, murder of humanity, murder of justice!”. Medha Patkar Given below is the latest press release and report from the NBA (Narmada Bachao Andolan), dated yesterday…

FROM CHOIKE.ORG http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/4221.html Society – Thu Apr 06 2006 Victims of Union Carbide from Bhopal, who are currently camped on the pavement across anti-dam protestors from the Narmada valley at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, condemned the heavy-handed police action against the Narmada activists. 6 April, 2006. New Delhi – Victims of Union Carbide from Bhopal,…