ICYO-Youth Information December 2005
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The Assembly of Deprived
For launching a Non-violent Civil Disobedience Campaign in India
Ekta Parishad is the mass movement, which originated in seventies of last century, with the fundamental philosophy of “water, forest and land should be put within the control of the masses”, is now asking after three decades for the answers of the same basic questions from the society and the Government, which were internal manifestation of the people’s opinion. The interests of the deprived were always marginalized in this biggest democracy of the world. The mass movements operating for last three decades have always raised the voice of the deprived but fundamental question still exists as to how much sensitive is the democracy on the issue of the rights of those sections of the society which depends solely on forest, water and land. Mahatma Gandhi used to say that economic autonomy would be achieved by making the tillers of the land the owners of the land. He treated the economic autonomy as the basic element of non-violent freedom. The issue is still alive in the context of 350,000,000 deprives in Indian society.
Dr.Ransingh Parmar, Convenor of Ekta Parishad spoke to Youth Information about the forthcoming Assembly of Deprived which being organized on the occasion of Human Rights Day 10-11 December and People’s verdict meeting on 12th December 05 at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, India. This Assembly is seen as a call of deprives for their rights on the resources of livelihood. The objective of this assembly is to put the rights of livelihood as a new verdict of the deprived masses in front of the State and the society through people’s representatives. This verdict is to be used as a tool to find out the answers to the questions of the deprived masses. Now, the new chapter on the rights on water, land and forest has to be written through the deprives starting from Paharias of Santhal Paraganas in the east of India to Rabbaries of Kutch to the west ofIndia and Saber of Kalinga to Baigas of Mahakosal of the central India, this Assembly of Deprived is an open platform for their calls and declarations. In this assembly about 1000 marginalized and deprived people will be participating. This campaigned is being supported by many youth organizations in
The organizer will provide simple lodging and boarding facility if informed in advance. The solidarity messages are also welcomed.
For more information contact: Mahatma Gandhi Sewa Ashram, Near Purani Chavni Police Station,
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