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Join- United Protest against Evictions and Repression in West Bengal

25 April, 11.30 am in front of Banga Bhavan   (3, Hailey Road, New Delhi) (nearest metro station is Mandi House) Nonadanga, Kolkata, witnessed the complete demolition of the over 200 slumdwellers houses on 30th March 2012. The consequent many peaceful marches… Continue Reading →

60-yr-old law shrouds Paoli poster ‘skin show’ in Bengal #censorship

  Saibal Sen & Priyanka DasguptaSaibal Sen & Priyanka Dasgupta, TNN | Apr 20, 2012, KOLKATA: The Bengal governmentcontinues to play moral guardian with an obsolete tool of the Seventies, guiding people on what posters to see and what they… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release-Statement of concern on prolonged police custody of Debolina

WSS STATEMENT OF CONCERN ON PROLONGED POLICE CUSTODY OF DEBOLINA, MATANGINI MAHILA SAMITI, KOLKATA WSS is extremely concerned by the continued police custody of activist Debolina Chakrabarty, secretary of the Kolkata based women’s organization, Matangini Mahila Samiti, and the recent reports… Continue Reading →

STATEMENT ON NONADANGA -from STUDENTS’ FORUM AGAINST MAL-DEVELOPMENT, Siliguri

How many ears must one man have,before he can hear people cry How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died ..   Yes, we are speaking from Nonadanga slum area,Kolkata. Our government has… Continue Reading →

Release Deblina Chakraborty entrapped in UAPA and 6 other social activists

A Petition via change.org to The Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission: Why This Is Important We are deeply concerned about the dreadful incidents of barbarous atrocities by the West Bengal government upon the peaceful democratic protest movements of various… Continue Reading →

Microbiologist slams Mamata government, says democracy in peril

Kolkata, April 18, 2012, PTI Democracy is in peril in West Bengal, Partha Sarothi Ray alleged within hours of walking free from jail on Wednesday, after a number of intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his… Continue Reading →

Debolina starts hunger strike in jail

KOLKATA, april 14, TNN : Arrested activist Debolina Chakraborty has started hunger strike in the CID custody on Friday to support the Nonadanga movement. Six other jailed activists will also start fasting from Saturday. Other political prisoners in different jails, too, have… Continue Reading →

Jadavpur University professor arrested for spreading ‘anti-Mamata’ cartoons #FOE, granted bail

CARTOON SAYS  In Satyajit Ray’s movie “Sonar kella”, Mukul is a kid that seem to have memories of a “golden fort” from his past life. His doctor (psychiatrist) takes him to a trip to Rajasthan to see if the fort… Continue Reading →

Joint Statement on Forcible Eviction and Police Brutalities in Kolkata

Immediate Release Condemn the Eviction Drive in Nonadanga, Kolkata!   Demand Immediate Release of Arrested Activists!   The Trinamool Congress-led Government of West Bengal is daily showing its anti-people character. Its Police and the bulldozers of the KMDA (Kolkata Metropolitan… Continue Reading →

West Bengal evicts ecological refugees occupying prime real estate in Kolkata

Author(s): Sayantan Bera, Down To Earth, April 11, 2012 Seven hundred rendered homeless; activists demanding homes for them branded Maoists Mahadev Mandal came with his family to Kolkata after the Aila super-cyclone hit Sundarbans in 2009. He works as a rickshaw-puller… Continue Reading →

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