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  Statement on the Rejection of Police Permission for We20 Peoples’ Summit in New Delhi

  25 August 2023

  https://wgonifis.net/2023/08/20/statement-on-the-rejection-of-police-permission-for-we20-peoples-summit-on-day-3/
  Statement on the Rejection of Police Permission for We20 Peoples’ Summit on Day 3
  ON AUGUST 20, 2023
  New Delhi, 20.08.23: The Delhi Police has declined permission to continue the We20 Peoples’ Summit at the HKS Surjit Bhawan this morning through a letter on the Day 3 of the Summit. We are shocked that we need to have “permission” to practice democracy.
  This comes after (…)

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  Stop Repression of Peoples Protest Over Mining Leases Near Niyamgiri to Adani, Vedanta Press Release by All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha

  25 August 2023

  All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha, AIKMS
  Press Note - 20.08.2023 AIKMS condemns bauxite mining leases near Niyamgiri to Adani, Vedanta Condemns detention of AIKMS National Secretary Bhalchandra Shadangi and repression on Adivasis Demands withdrawal of UAPA cases on protesting tribals by BJD govt
  CEC AIKMS condemns the brutal repression and indiscriminate arrest of activists and common people opposing Vedanta and Adani’s proposed mining projects in Kashipur area of Rayagada District.
  CEC (…)

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  Blocking of the website of KashmirWalla & de-activation of social media accounts | EGI Statement

  25 August 2023

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  August 24, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India is disturbed by the blocking of the website as well as de-activation of social media accounts of the Srinagar-based news website, the KashmirWalla.
  As per the statement released by the KashmirWalla on August 20, 2023, the service providers [of their website], informed them that the website has been, “blocked in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000”. (…)

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  An Irish legend Indians will always adore and respect | M R Narayan Swamy

  25 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
  HarperCollins India Pages: xii + 259; Price: Rs 399
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  It was an Ashoka moment that transformed the legendary Edward James Corbett from a widely-admired hunter of man-eaters in the hills of Kumaon to an ardent conservationist, an avid photographer of wild animals and, finally, as a successful author that fetched him unprecedented international fame.
  Jim, as he was popularly known, had once taken (…)

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  Review: Switala on A Social Ecology of Capital by Eric Pineault

  25 August 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Leon Switala
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  A Social Ecology of Capital by Éric Pineault
  Pluto Press 2023. 176 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780745343778 eBook ISBN: 9780745343792 __0__
  In a recently held presentation, the Canadian sociologist Éric Pineault stated that he was writing his book to show that on a theoretical and empirical basis ‘there is nothing between degrowth and green growth’. He gives systematic arguments that neither position for a growth perspective seems to be (…)

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  Photo of Indian Origin Workers in The Construction of the Panama Canal Waiting For Their Paychecks, june 11, 1913

  25 August 2023

  Original Source with bigger photo: Panama Canal Museum Collection

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  Music: Des Ordures Partout | Michel Duprez

  25 August 2023

  Michel Duprez · Des Ordures Partout

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  Animation Film: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse | Evelyn Lambart (1980)

  25 August 2023

  Play
  The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by NFB https://youtu.be/ahUyhTdiZAA

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 19, 2023

  18 August 2023

  * Remembering Bindeshwar Pathak | Devaki Jain
  * With Naveen, Odisha Plays Snakes and Ladders | Radhakanta Barik
  * Freedom: Corroded And Stained | Kobad Ghandy
  * Afghanistan: UN human rights experts denounce idea of “reformed” Taliban

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 19, 2023

  18 August 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 19, 2023
  Man-made mass violence, economic crisis, pandemics and disasters caused due to climatic /environmental reasons all lead to social dislocation and economic disruption, and displacement of populations. Over the past years India has seen demonetization that hugely impacted the informal sector causing the closure of thousands of businesses triggering economic distress, a few years later we saw the giant Covid-19 lockdown creating a wave of mass (…)