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• Problems of Working Class Colonies in Delhi | Bharat Dogra

  21 October 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Problems of working-class colonies in Delhi get very little attention in the city’s media, but as recent visits to three such colonies revealed, these can be very serious.
  What is common to all these three colonies is that the earnings of most households do not allow them to have any savings as with great difficulty they can only manage the essential expenses. Hence any period of extended unemployment caused by illness, injury (including occupational injury which can be frequent), lockdown (…)

• Pakistan: Women’s Action Forum (WAF) calls for immediate ceasefire to stop the genocide in Gaza

  21 October 2023

  PRESS STATEMENT
  19 October 2023, Islamabad, The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) strongly condemns the brutal, indiscriminate, and incessant assault by the Israeli occupation power on the Gaza Strip. Intensified attacks by Israel that began on 7 October 2023 have reportedly killed nearly 3,000 people including about 700 children and injured more than 10,000 people. The horrifying bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital is a devastating part of the continuum of violence that adds to compelling evidence (…)

• Palestinian Knesset Member: World Must Act to Stop Netanyahu’s Rampage in Gaza | Jake Johnson

  21 October 2023

  "Those of us who are Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel are uniquely positioned to see through his bluster and warmongering to the failure he really is—truths that the past several days have laid bare."
  Oct 19, 2023
  A Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset took to the pages of The New York Times on Thursday to call for global action to end the deadly siege of Gaza and prevent far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from using the ongoing conflict as an opportunity to permanently (…)

• Israeli-Hamas war: Need for a wider understanding | P.S Jayaramu

  21 October 2023

  19th October, 2023
  Quite understandably, global attention continues to be single-mindedly focussed on the inhuman killing of spectators in a music concert in Gaza by the Hamas group recently. Nearly 1400 Israeli nationals were killed and thousands injured in the Hamas attack, leading to a strong military response by Israel.
  Condemnable as Hamas’s violent actions were, the issue needs to be understood from a wider international and regional perspective that characterises the larger (…)

• Israel may win its battle against Hamas but has already lost the war | James M. Dorsey

  21 October 2023

  October 20, 2023
  Israel will likely win the Gaza war on the battlefield. Even so, it has already been defeated in the court of public opinion.
  It no longer really matters who attacked Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab Hospital in which hundreds of innocent civilians were killed or the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in the Strip.
  Public opinion has issued its verdict on the streets of cities across the Middle East and beyond.
  It took the attack on the hospital, which Israel asserts involved (…)

• Happiness | A poem by Louise Gluck, 1980

  21 October 2023

  A man and a woman lie on a white bed.
  It is morning. I think
  Soon they will waken.
  On the bedside table is a vase
  of lilies; sunlight
  pools in their throats.
  I watch him turn to her
  as though to speak her name
  but silently, deep in her mouth–
  At the window ledge,
  once, twice,
  a bird calls.
  And then she stirs; her body
  fills with his breath.
  I open my eyes; you are watching me.
  Almost over this room
  the sun is gliding.
  Look at your face, you say,
  holding your own close to (…)

• Mimesis | Fady Joudah

  21 October 2023

  My daughter
  wouldn’t hurt a spider
  That had nested
  Between her bicycle handles
  For two weeks
  She waited
  Until it left of its own accord
  If you tear down the web I said
  It will simply know
  This isn’t a place to call home
  And you’d get to go biking
  She said that’s how others
  Become refugees isn’t it?
  Source: The above poem is available online at Poetry Foundation it appeared in Alight (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). This poem is reproduced here for educational and non-commercial (…)

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  CASR (Campaign Against State Repression) strongly condemns the Indian state’s brutal repression on Palestinian solidarity demonstrations all over India to show loyalty towards israel

  21 October 2023

  October 17, 2023
  Unlawful attacks by the Indian government have intensified since the 7th October 2023 Palestinian resistance against the Zionist entity of Israel, against all who are coming in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Uttar Pradesh, four students at Aligarh Muslim University were booked under IPC’s Sections 153A (promoting enmity among different groups), 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant) and 505 (statements conducting to public mischief) for (…)

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  PUCL Statement on Supreme Court Verdict that denies right tomarry to the LGBTQ community

  21 October 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
  332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
  Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
  President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mails:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
  20th October, 2023
  PUCL Statement:
  Marriage Equality Judgment not on constitutional (…)

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  Supreme Court Ruling Denies Marriage Rights for LGBTQ+ | Binoy Viswam

  21 October 2023, by Binoy Viswam

  Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
  PRESS STATEMENT Date: 17th October 2023
  Denial of Rights to LGBTQ+ Community Unfortunate: CPI MP Binoy Viswam
  The Supreme Court of India today passed a judgement on the issue of marriage equality for persons from the LGBTQ+ community. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in a split verdict of 3:2 have refused to instate the right to civil union for LGBTQ+ (…)