[Reader-list] FOURTH ESTATE CRITIQUE Urgent Appeal: Call/Fax/email to Kerala ministers to stop assault on the peaceful protesters

[Anivar Aravind]

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From: anant maringanti <anant_umn at yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [foil] Urgent Appeal: Call/Fax/email to Kerala ministers
to stop assault on the peaceful protesters



There was a press conference to appeal against the union action in
Delhi at 4.30 this evening. Reports should be appearing sometime
tonite. It is not just the CITU but INTUC, AITUC, BMS, UTUC, KTUC
have also joined in this. It is pointless addressing the party at this
point - Prakash Karat is camping in Trivendrum and has been
unavailable to the public. For what it is worth, here are two more
contacts worth chasing down.
anant

General Secretary
Indian National Trade Union Congress
"Shramik Kendra",
4, Bhai Veer Singh Marg,
New Delhi - 110 001.
Phone - 91 + 11 + 23747767/68
       91 + 11 + 23367401
Fax - 91 + 11 + 23364244

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
Ram Naresh Bhavan,
Tilak Gali, Chuna Mandi,
Paharganj,
New Delhi - 110 055.
India.
Phone : 011-3620654, 3624212
Fax : 91-11-3517307
Email : ho at bms.org.in


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends
>
> Call/fax ministers, District Collector and The Supdt of Police of
> Pathanamthitta and raise the concerns
>
> Pathanamthitta Collector
> Phone : 0468- 2222515, 2222507
> Fax: 0468-2222505
> mobile no: 09447029008
>
> Pathanamthitta SP
> phone: 0468- 2222636
> Fax: 0468-2222927
>
> Chief Minister
> Fax: 0471-2333489
> home Minister
> Fax: 0471--2327016
>
> Please flood the ministers inbox with this appeal drafted below. Its
> high time we do it.
>
> chiefminister at kerala.gov.in
> minister-education at kerala.gov.in
> minister-home at kerala.gov.in
> minister-scst at kerala.gov.in
> minister-forest at kerala.gov.in
> minister-food at kerala.gov.in
> minister-transport at kerala.gov.in
> minister-revenue at kerala.gov.in
> minister-health at kerala.gov.in
> minister-finance at kerala.gov.in
> minister-law at kerala.gov.in
>
>
> Dear Sir/ Madam
>
> The lives and livelihoods of over 20,000 Dalits, Adivasis and others,
> peacefully protesting for land at the Harrison Malayam Private Ltd
> plantation in Chengara, Pathanthimthatta are in danger. A group of
> trade unions claiming to represent the plantation's retrenched rubber
> workers have announced plans to march and reclaim the land from the
> peaceful protesters on Wednesday, September 3rd.
>
> The trade unions, including CITU, INTUC, AITUC, UTUC, HMS and others,
> in collusion with company goons, have already succeeded in
> manufacturing a human rights crisis in the area.  Together, they have
> been blocking food, medicines and other essential materials from
> entering the plantation for the past one month, terrorizing the
> peaceful protesters and their children.  Women have been the targets
> of brutal attacks by the workers of the trade unions and other hired
> henchmen of Harrison Malayalam Ltd.
>
> Many women have testified that the attacks happened in the presence of
> the police, who remained mute spectators and whose inaction encouraged
> the perpetuators further. The police have also colluded in preventing
> civil society groups from entering the site.
>
> The proposed March could potentially deteriorate the law and order
> situation in the already fragile areas of Chengara further. In the
> light of past actions, which were used as a cover up to inflict
> physical harm and to denigrate the dignity of the protesting Dalits
> and Adivasis, we urge you to take immediate actions to thwart attempts
> of a March on September 3rd.
>
> We strongly feel that government can no longer sit idly and allow the
> rights and lives of marginalized peoples' to be violated in this
> manner. Under no circumstances should union activists and company
> goons be allowed to march on the plantation this Wednesday.
>
>
> We demand:
>
> 1.  Immediately intervene to stop the September 3rd planned assault on
> the peaceful protesters by trade unions and company goons.
>
> 2.  Take immediate action against those responsible for the blockade,
> ensuring the immediate lifting of the blockade, and restore normalcy
> to people's lives.
>
> 3.  Immediately initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators
> of the sexual assault of the four women at the struggle site on August
> 7th 2008.
>
> 4. Enter into a dialogue with the protestors and take measures to
> distribute land to the landless.
>
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