Remove Poverty Not Poors

The slum-dwellers said that 2 men had come a day earlier to give a verbal warning about the demolition, but there was no official notice. The next day the bulldozers were used to savagely demolish the houses ignoring all pleas of mercy and without even giving them enough time to gather their belongings out and take their children to safety. After the residents protested, the police lathi-charged them and beat up everybody who was resisting the illegal demolition and ignored their cries for mercy. Soon fire broke out, and everything in the houses from personal belongings for essential daily tasks to books and even money were burned to ashes.

As if that wasn't enough, they even arrested 2 boys on charges of theft when they tried to collect their own belongings from their houses had been razed. Monsoon rain and sewer lines which run nearby added to their woes as their lives were thrown into misery. In addition to the complete devastation of houses and belongings, many people were hurt in the lathi charge to the point of being hospitalized. Even now, the fate of babies as young as 3 days old and those unborn in their mother’s wombs lies on the edge of a knife.

There has been no relief for the victims since the incident occurred and all the men women and their children have been hungry and thirsty without proper clothes to wear or a roof to protect them from the rains. If help does not reach them fast, they might find it extremely difficult to survive the harsh conditions.

We hope that you will realize the seriousness of the issue and contribute whatever little you can towards saving the poor people, and especially the small children from the misery they have been subjected to. The first priority at the moment is to ensure that food, water and old used clothes are provided to the victims. Meanwhile, we shall be trying our best bring the concerned authorities to justice and appeal to the Government to implement immediate rehabilitation procedures for the victims.

We are a small group of youngsters with few resources of our own and your support is urgently needed. If you want to get more information about the incident, and wish to help in any manner please contact us-

Himanshu-09305963744/himan.swarn@gmail.com

Abhishek- 09532656677

Gaurav- 09415005333/gshukla@sas.upenn.edu

Watch the real story as told by the people living in the slum itself-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60iRtdgxZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YceAD-pQM

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Thank you for your patience in reading this email and your willingness to help make a difference. Please invite all your contacts to this cause urgently so that we can gather as much help as possible for those concerned.

POWER OF YOUTH: POWER TO THE AAM AADMI

The power of the common man was proven today by the activists of the Youth Movement Against Corruption . All over the world today there are are conferences and awareness campaigns taking place to save the environment in which politicians, journalists and social workers are involved. NGO’S are spending crores of rupees to conserve the environment. But the ground realities are very different.
In the name of industrialization, industrial units are playing havoc with the lives of the ‘aam aadmi’.Instead of installing ETP( Effluent Treatment Plants) these units are manipulating the Pollution Control Board. One example of this can be found in the industrial units of Sandila under Hardoi district .Akhilesh Saxena, a social activist has sent reports regarding this blatant exploitation of environment to the Governor & Chief Minister of U.P. State Pollution Control Board(UPPCB) as well as the Central Pollution Control Board.(CPCB)On getting no response to his report the journalists of The Times of India inspected the area. After this the authorities of the Central Pollution Control Board visited the region and the Nodal Officer of the UPPCB was summoned who declined to come citing engagement with the Ganga Action plan.When the CPCB sent a sample to Delhi the report of the results of this test was published on page 2 of The Times of India under the heading “ Zero percent discharge units painted gomti black”.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Zero-discharge-units-paint-Gomti-black/articleshow/5294320.cms
On that very day the UPCCB served Closure Notices to these industrial units. Yet during interaction with villagers it transpired that their land- which was their sole source of livelihood -had become barren and they were suffering from diseases because of these industrial units.All these villagers subsequently complained to the Special Magistrate( Prosecution Officer Environment) , CBI. When no action was taken on their complaint the Gram Panchayat decided to file a PIL through Himanshu Gandhi (Social Activist), Abhishek, Amit, Savita, Ranjit and the social Actvist Akhilesh Saxena of the Youth Movement against Corruption.(YMAC). The hearing on this PIL took place on 5 June 2010 in before the bench of Justice S.S.Chauhan. Akhilesh Saxena, Himanshu Gandhi,Abhishek,Ranjeet Kumar and the villagers appealed to the Honourable Bench at which the Member Secretary UPPCB and Regional Officer CPCB were summoned to appear before the aforesaid bench to give their reply to the PIL.The next date of hearing has been scheduled on 19th July 2010.

Jai Hind

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Say No To Tobacco

Online Voting Campaign

23 May-31 May

In view of the World No Tobacco Day,

TOBACCO FREE INDIA is launching a voting campaign.

Say No To Tobacco

Today, Tobacco is the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the world! Worldwide 5 million people dies of tobacco related diseases each year. Everyday, approximately 80,000 to 100,000 young people around the world become addicted to tobacco.

I join WE NEED CHANGE in sending a message to the world that we stand against tobacco consumption-the lethal addictive carcinogen that directly kills half of its users, as well as non smoking bystanders-

I sign this declaration to show my support.

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The online voting campaign is being organized by

TOBACCO FREE INDIA

a youth organization.It is a 7 day voting campaign which will end by presenting a copy of declaration to the President of India,Governor Uttar Pradesh.

Objective of the campaign

It has been planned to sensitize youth about the gravity of the problems related to tobacco consumption,Consequently,to make them realize that the chain of addiction can be broken and quitting tobacco is not impossible.

OUR PARTNER

PROJECT VIJAY (youth initiative)

CWO

BHAVYA BHARAT NIRMATA

NAVYA

MVSS

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National Committee

Himanshu Gandhi

Abhishek (Social Activist)

Sarika Tripathi

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WE NEED CHANGE

We Indians are great at commenting on the present state of affairs in our country, but at the same time extremely weak in analyzing the true causes and much less the measures that WE can and are supposed to take to solve the various social, economic and political problems. And even when some of the more intellectual citizens venture to find solutions, they are too lazy to implement it. Moreover, the present environment is highly unfavourable to any kind of radical change for a noble cause due to our inefficient and irresponsible administration and the lack of commitment in ourselves to bring a change.