Kisan Swaraj Yatra: A call to join forces to save Indian farming and farmers
“Farming today has been taken away from the hands of Indian farmers. There is no easy solution in sight for us. While newer ideas are put forth such as Green Revolution in Eastern India or Second Green Revolution (like we heard from the Prime Minister recently), these are in reality attempts to create markets for [...]
An Innovative Way of Sharing Diminishing Groundwater
Cross posted from MyNews, written by Ch. Narendra
India: An Innovative Way of Sharing Diminishing Groundwater
“We no longer worry about the rains. We now have the confidence to grow alternative crops even if the monsoon fails,” said Balaraju, a farmer in one of the most drought-prone and economically vulnerable regions of Andhra Pradesh in southern [...]
Natural Farming Workshops on Vegetable Crops in Punjab
Kheti Virasat Mission proudly announces series of natural farming focused on vegetable crops to be addressed by Eminent Natural Farming Master farmer Mr. Subhash Sharma (Yavatmal , Maharashtra) .
Mr. Subhash Sharma one of India’s best known organic farmers, commenced the first session with a review of his own farming practices over three decades. Speaking only [...]
Oppose Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill!
Dear Dr. Singh,
We, the undersigned, hereby express our grave concern over the recent
press reports that ‘The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2009’
is planned to be tabled in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament
and the UPA government is apparently bent upon rushing it through
without holding fair and transparent public consultations, regardless
of its profound consequences.
A quantum [...]
Oppose BRAI !
Even while some of the most important legislation such as the Women’s Reservation Bill and the Food Security Bill are crying for an early passage in the Parliament, the Government has shown a surprising hurry, almost bordering on obscenity, to introduce a new Bill called the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India in the current [...]
NAAM Opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill
National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements
42/27 Esankai Mani Veethy
Parakkai Road Junction
Nagercoil 629 002
Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: 09865683735
Press Release: NAAM Opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill
Kuppan sins but Suppan gets punished! That is exactly how the infamous Civil Nuclear Liability Bill of the UPA government works. According to this legislation, if there was an accident in a [...]
A trip to resurgent Mountains of India
(July 18,2008)
Last day, we had a trip to amazing place in Delhi namely, Okhla Landfill near Tuglakabad fort, the emerging mountain range of Delhi. It is the smallest landfill site in Delhi with an area of 50 acres. The beauty of the region cannot be explained in words. A young fold hill rising from the [...]
Letter from Yamuna
(Last to last year in frustration, this letter came out. Now when Commonwealth Games are at the door Mother Yamuna is asking for justice on her death bed)
Revered Citizens of India,
I am mother of one sixth of humanity, But now a stigma on my own sons. My own sons are raping me for their own [...]
Obama speech in COP15
Copenhagen, Denmark
December 18, 2009
Good morning. It’s an honor to for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come together here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. You would not be here unless you – like me – were convinced that [...]
World’s First Climate Change Hearing Staged in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark – Climate “witnesses” from Bangladesh, Peru, the South Pacific, and Uganda testified at the world’s first climate change hearing on Wednesday.
The hearing, organized by Oxfam International and Action for a Global Climate Community , was designed to put climate change victims-those whom climate change affects the most yet who have contributed least to [...]
Memorandum to the Ambassadors of developed countries
Dear Mr./Ms. Ambassador,
In light of the recent developments at Copenhagen, the Indian Youth Climate Network, on behalf of the youth of India would like to call to your attention their point of view. We represent a country that houses a large proportion of the poor in the world. The COP in Copenhagen rests on a [...]
Go Push Go
Yesterday was a lucky day for me at the Bella Center. I met Push or ‘Pushpanath Krishnamurthy’ who has walked all the way from his home at Oxford in the UK to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, to show his solidarity and support to the cause of climate change. I was fortunate enough to [...]
LOK CHETNA PAD YATRA IN THE WALLED CITY OF DELHI
In the light of the fact that India is standing on the verge of the Union Government’s permission being granted to the first Genetically Modified (GM) food crop in the country – Bt Brinjal – there is a more urgent need than ever to create an informed and democratic debate on this issue pertaining to [...]
ADAPTATION-URGENT AND IMMEDIATE GLOBAL PRIORITY
Adaptation is an urgent and immediate global priority and recognizes that the amount of adaptation required depends on the level of mitigation achieved. We support the following policy principles:
1. Adaptation funding should be separate from and in addition to existing Official
Development Assistance (ODA) commitments and commensurate with the immense scale
of developed countries’ historical contributions [...]
Desmond Tutu presents 512894 signatures on the “It’s Time to Change” petition to Yvo de Boer.
Today, Nobel Laureat Reverend Desmond Tutu presented more than half a million signatures on the “Countdown to Copenhagen” petition to Mr Yvo de Boer, in a function held at the City Square, in Copenhagen.
Despite temperatures hovering around zero, a huge croud of people clapped and cheered as Reverend Desmond Tutu entered the stage. Reverend [...]
