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• Understanding Patriarchy | Bell Hooks

  29 July 2022

  by Bell Hooks
  Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchy—what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in our nation would not be able to spell the word or pronounce it correctly. The word “patriarchy” just is not a part of their normal everyday thought or speech. Men who have heard and know the word usually (…)

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  Photo: 2nd Congress of the Communist International Meet in Petrograd in 1920

  29 July 2022

  On 19 July 1920, MPT Acharya and Mohammed Shafique traveled to Petrograd and attended the 2nd Congress of the Communist International as delegates of the Indian Revolutionary Association. It was here at the Third International that they met for the first time M.N. Roy, Evelyn Roy, and Abani Mukherji.

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  Photo: Recritment poster Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Civil Rights Group, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963 | Danny Leon

  29 July 2022
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  Documentary film: In Company of Birds - Salim Ali | K. Premsingh Varma (1974)

  29 July 2022

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  In Company Of Birds ( Salim Ali) by Films Division https://youtu.be/rcI2zMzO3tw

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  Music: Gavaskar Calypso | Andy Narell & Relator

  29 July 2022

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  Gavaskar Calypso by Ritik Rana https://youtu.be/sege02Y4O0Y
  Song composed by Andy Narell & Relator in the West Indies for sir Sunil Gavaskar after the Indian Cricket team’s tour of the West-Indies in 1971

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 23, 2022[/bleu]

  22 July 2022

  * Rubber stamp or no, Murmu scores big for Adivasis | John Dayal
  * 50 years of Stockholm | Swapan Kumar Sil
  * Subverting Forest Rights Act 2006 To help Big corporations | Soma Marla
  * Press Release by Margaret Alva
  * Audio: A letter to Ukraine from Sarajevo | Aida Cerkez

• Rubber stamp or no, Murmu scores big for Adivasis | John Dayal

  22 July 2022, by John Dayal

  President-elect Draupadi Murmu, the first person from an indigenous peoples group to be in Rashtrapati Bhawan, has raised hopes among her 1.30 billion fellow citizens. Independent India’s 15th President may not be able to curb the corporate sector’s march into her beloved forests of central India, or ensure more constitutional posts for Scheduled Tribes, or to keep large numbers of their youth out of jail on trumped-up charges, but her ethnicity is surely a marker in the march of the (…)

• 50 years of Stockholm: From Environment to Sustainability | Swapan Kumar Sil

  22 July 2022

  by Swapan Kumar Sil *
  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is a concept.
  How far it is applicable in the real world is still uncertain. But the world leaders are persistently hopeful that we will get over the crisis arising from environmental degradation and pollution by anchoring this concept.
  After the industrial revolution in Europe, development and environment were never friendly to each other; yet, in 1972, the highly intrusive and consumerist nations took their first step to get together (…)

• New Amendments to Forest Rights Act 2006 To help Big corporations | Soma Marla

  22 July 2022, by Soma S. Marla

  Dr. Soma Marla *
  While nominating Smt. Draupadi Murmu [as a candidate in India’s Presidential Election 2022], the ruling BJP boasted a savior of tribal people. However, by proposing changes to Forest Rights Act, 2996, the government is doing quite the opposite by subverting the interests of tribal people to benefit big companies.
  During the current monsoon session of Parliament, new rules are proposed to the present Forest Rights Act 2006. These changes run against the interests of (…)

• Why Does the World Food Situation Appear To Be More and More Precarious? | Bharat Dogra

  22 July 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  In a statement on June 24, the UN-Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned,“ There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022.”
  He went on to add, “2023 could be even worse.”
  In a message to a meeting of representatives of several countries being held at Berlin, Mr. Guterres said that the world faces catastrophe because of the growing shortage of food caused by climate change, the pandemic, growing inequalities and on top of that the Ukraine war.
  As farming takes a (…)