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Report of Public Meeting in Mumbai on Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Why? What? For whom?

Tuesday, 09 October 2007
On 18th December 2006 the US President George Bush inked the Henry Hyde Act towards actualizing the much talked of Indo-US Nuke ‘Deal’. This had been earlier outlined in the Bush- Manmohan Singh Joint Statement of 18th July 2005 at Washington DC. This was further reiterated on 2nd March 2007 in a Joint Statement issued from Delhi, during George Bush’s visit to the country. In order to understand the pros and cons of the Deal and its implications on us and affects on nuclear disarmament efforts, Peace Mumbai, a network of organizations and individuals committed to the goal of a just and peaceful world along with Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament (CNDP) a national coalition working for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, jointly organized a public meeting on Indo-Us Nuclear Deal, What? Why? For Whom? on 11th September 2007 at Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai. 150 plus people, representing diverse sections of society, participated.
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Press Report and pamphlet on Candle Light Vigil on Farmers Suicides in Mumbai, October 2 2007

Tuesday, 09 October 2007
In Silent Protest by Sweta Ramanujan-Dixit, The Hindustan Times, October 3, 2007, Mumbai KAMALBAI PAWAR (50) and Chhaya Rathod (35) sat looking solemn against the dark Marine Drive sky. The two women, widows of cotton farmers from Kolezari village in Yavatmal district, were in Mumbai on Tuesday to participate in a candlelight vigil organised by Peace Mumbai and Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti. Held on Gandhi Jayanti, it was one of the 200 silent protests organised across the world against farmers' suicides in Vidarbha. There have been 1,729 suicides since the Prime Minister visited the area in 2006. "The government should do something to stop this," said Pawar, whose husband Gosavi Pawar committed suicide a day before their two daughters were to get married in 2006. He had taken a loan of Rs 50,000. The family lives off jowar produced on its three acre farm.
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Left Triumphs in Ecuadorian Elections, Country's Institutions to be Transformed

Tuesday, 09 October 2007
By Roger Burbach 01 October, 2007 Source: Countercurrents.org "We have won an historic victory," proclaimed President Rafael Correa of Ecuador. On Sunday the political coalition he heads won an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Constituent Assembly that is tasked with "refounding" the nation's institutions. Taking office early this year in a land slide victory, Correa has repeatedly called for an opening to a "new socialism of the twenty- first century," declaring that Ecuador has to end "the perverse system that has destroyed our democracy, our economy and our society." His government marks the emergence of a radical anti-neoliberal axis in South America, comprising Venezuela, Bolivia and now Ecuador.
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Call for International Support of Antiwar Demonstrations Planned for U.S.

Tuesday, 09 October 2007
Since before the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq began, people here in the United States have joined with our friends, families, colleagues and counterparts around the world to say NO to war. Since before the war began, we have looked to our friends abroad to support our anti-war efforts, even as we know that people around the world are looking to our mobilizations here to force our own government to stop violating international law, to end the occupation of Iraq, to rapidly bring home all its troops, all the so-called "coalition" troops, all the mercenaries, and to close the U.S. bases built and under construction across Iraq.
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Call for Solidarity: Burma’s non-violent Demonstrations for change

Tuesday, 09 October 2007
-- The people of Burma, including ethnic communities, support the demonstrations and are calling for real change. Ethnic communities in Burma have lived with the Burmese military’s regime’s brutal tactics for the past 45 years and understand the frustration, pain and suffering that the demonstrators and their families feel. They offer solidarity and call for peace, freedom and justice for everyone in Burma. Link to Ethnic Oppression: --Burma is the world's third largest source of refugees after Iraq and Afghanistan. If the killing and violence continues, there will be a mass exodus of people to neighbouring countries.
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