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  Five years behind bars for five activists Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice! | PUDR, June 6, 2023

  9 June 2023

  June 6, 2023 will mark five years that five activists are behind bars. They include Mahesh Raut, an anti-displacement campaigner, Rona Wilson, a political prisoners’ campaigner, Shoma Sen, a feminist activist and professor, Sudhir Dhawale, a Dalit rights activist and Surendra Gadling, a lawyer who takes people’s rights cases pro-bono.

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  Press Statement regarding petition challenging amendments to IT Rules | Editors Guild of India (June 7, 2023)

  9 June 2023

  Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  June 7, 2023
  In a petition filed by the Editors Guild of India challenging the amendments to IT Rules, 2021, the Bombay High Court issues notice and extends stay on the Rules till July 10
  The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023 (IT Amendment Rules, 2023) were notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on April 6, 2023. Along with various regulations (…)

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  A Story of Police Injustice – And Reprieve | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  9 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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  The Stolen Necklace: A Small Crime in a Small Town by Shevlin Sebastian and V.K. Thajudheen
  HarperCollins India Pages: xi + 249 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9356296855 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9356296855 Price: Rs 399
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  It happened in a small town in Kerala but it could have happened anywhere in India – and to anyone, more so if one couldn’t pull the right strings. V.T. Thajudheen was adamant he had committed no crime. Yet the (…)

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  Review of Ellermann, Greg, Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature | Paige Figanbaum

  9 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Paige Figanbaum (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
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  Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature by Greg Ellermann
  Stanford University Press 2022. xiii + 180 pp (cloth) ISBN 978-1-5036-2848-9
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  Greg Ellermann’s book Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature, provides a thorough examination of the significance of nature as a concept. The author argues that without the romanticism movement, society would view and (…)

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  International Call to Defend Democracy & Against the Soft Coup in Colombia

  9 June 2023

  "A soft coup is underway in Colombia"
  An urgent call from over 400 political and industrial leaders from around the world
  June 7, 2023
  Ever since the election of the country’s first progressive government — led by President Gustavo Petro, Vice President Francia Márquez, and the Historic Pact in Congress — Colombia’s traditional powers have been organizing to restore an order marked by extreme inequality, environmental destruction, and state-sponsored violence.
  Now, less than one year (…)

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  Cartoon: Manjul on the Balasore Train Accident and ’Nationalist’ Slogan Shouting While People Need Empathy | Mumbai Meri Jaan Series

  9 June 2023

  source: Facebook

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  Photo: Tomasz Tomaszewski Sugar Town, Indonesia, 2011 Workers at Pangka sugar factory

  9 June 2023
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  Senegalese Music: Kora Summit Band / Ame Kora performance of Miniyamba

  9 June 2023

  Kora Summit Band performing with Amadou Fall is Andy Skellenger on percussion, and Mark Dudrow playing the cello

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  Video: Money, Power, Impunity - Bankers who stole the world | 2008 Banking Crisis ...

  9 June 2023

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  Money, Power, Impunity: The Bankers Who Stole The World | 2008 Bank Crisis & Recession Documentary by Java Discover | Free Global Documentaries & Clips https://youtu.be/PsFpFP8o1o8

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 3, 2023

  2 June 2023

  * Thoughts for World Environment Day | S.G.Vombatkere
  * The Smart City: Some Critical Perspectives | Alruba Sheikh
  * India’s development strategies | Bala Ramulu Chinnala
  * Woman, Nature & International Division of Labour: interview Maria Mies | Ariel Salleh (1987)