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• Why do some Filipinos support police shoot-to-kill policy? | Danielle P. Ochoa

  17 June 2023

  by Danielle P. Ochoa *
  11 June 2023
  People’s moral reasoning involved making sense of who the agents and victims are and their perceived intentions.
  The Philippine Government’s war on drugs has been described as “large-scale extrajudicial violence”, with more than 12,000 people reportedly being killed since its introduction in 2016
  The true numbers are estimated to be up to three times that and continue to grow today.
  Despite this, many Filipinos have expressed support for the (…)

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  Recent incidents of intimidation & harassment of journalists by political leaders | Statement by EGI

  17 June 2023

  The Editor’s Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  June 13, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India notes with concern recent incidents of intimidation and harassment of journalists by political leaders while doing their job. This trigger happy approach to browbeat and harass reporters and news camera persons undermine the freedom of the press.
  On June 9, Union Minister Smriti Irani, while on a visit to her constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, threatened and intimidated a journalist. The video of (…)

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  Uttarakhand Situation: Statement by Citizens for Peace | June 12, 2023

  17 June 2023

  We would like to express our concern over the deteriorating social situation in the state, especially in the context of the developments in the last few weeks. It is not conducive to the present welfare or to the future progress of Uttarakhand, that person be displaced or livelihoods be disrupted in the state.

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  Text of Statement from the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, 2023

  17 June 2023

  We, the organizers of the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, call on leaders in all countries to act in support of an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

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  How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  17 June 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Marginlands:
  Indian Landscapes on the Brink
  by Arati Kumar Rao
  Picador India
  Pages: 240
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9395624434
  ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9395624435 __0__
  Man’s unending penchant for ’development’ is triggering a disaster of epic proportions all across India – and probably in much of the so-called developing world. This is why gigantic projects have deepened the very problems they were supposed to resolve, why urban landscapes have turned a veritable foe for (…)

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  A Study of Women Farmers Under Kudumbashree Collective Farming in Kerala | Sudeshna Sengupta

  17 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW:
  by Sudeshna Sengupta
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  From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom by Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari
  Aakar Books January 1, 2022
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9350027674 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9350027677
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  The foreword rightly warns the reader that a wordy introduction will fall short of describing the rich content of the book. The book is indeed a rare one. It comes at a time when the country is grappling with intense agrarian crisis on the one hand and countrywide (…)

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  Painting: ’An Indian Jay’ by J Whatman (1820)

  17 June 2023

• The Trendsetter, Daniel Ellsberg whose Conscience Hurt | Papri Sri Raman

  17 June 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  The United States of America has been the loudest in calling itself a Democracy ever since it was born. With the death of Daniel Ellsberg on 16 June, an epoch that championed transparency globally has truly come to an end. Perhaps, progressive ideology worldwide no longer has an icon to look up to. Ellsberg died at the ripe old age of 92, in his home in California; he had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and had in March said, he would be working for world peace.
  Ellsberg is best (…)

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  Music: Reggae Fi Radni [Walter Rodney] by Linton Kwesi Johnson (1983)

  17 June 2023

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  Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae fi Radni by sidewaysx7 https://youtu.be/aDQOFyvG6Tg
  You nuh see how de clou’ them jus’ came sit upon me dream Came sit upon me dream like a dark silk screen A dark silk screen over de vision I had seen Vision I had seen, the vision I had seen
  So me say that Walter Radni was a victim of hate Someone say that him gone thru heaven’s gate Someone that Walter Radni shouldn’t tek up his true weight An’ go carry ’pon ’I’m back like ’I’m (…)

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  Video Recording: The Wrestlers’ Struggle Against Sexual Harassment - Accountability of Institutions

  17 June 2023

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  The Wrestlers’ Struggle: Accountability of Institutions by Anhad India https://youtu.be/5z-xQHWoK0c
  Justice Madan Lokur, former judge of the Supreme Court of India
  Vrinda Grover, Supreme Court advocate (tbc)
  Shahrukh Alam, Supreme Court advocate
  Bhasha Singh, senior journalist
  Moderated by Anjali Bhardwaj, social activist
  Organised by Anhad & NAPM