The Betrayal of the Western Church

http://apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/pope-denies-st-thomas-evangelized-south-india-ishwar-sharan/

Making the claims of us 'Indian Christians' seem like myths we created out of active imaginations says a lot about how the west needs to prove it's legitimacy and perpetrate the myth that it converted us barbarians. This denial strengthens the right wing which likes to see us as the illegitimate children left behind by colonial rule, which thinks of our existence is wrong. Then the western church wonders why we dont want to be a part of it. When our own family betrays us it is hard to expect any charity from strangers.

Jhilmil Breckenridge - unjust incarceration at IBHAS

Link to Jhilmil's testimony





OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER OF HEALTH, DELHI GOVERNMENT

From concerned friends, well wishers of Ms. Jhilmil Breckenridge

ADDRESSED TO: The Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi government

Dear Honourable Shri Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia,

Our dear friend, Ms. Jhilmil Breckenridge, is in double lock up at IHBAS- the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Shahdara, Delhi (also known as Shahdara Mental Asylum) since the last 2 days. She was towed away there much against her will and consent: This situation has alerted and shocked many of us who have undergone similar incarceration and emotional trauma within the mental asylum system. She was picked up by policemen in her own home and is in lock up at the asylum presently.

We are attaching hereby the testimony of Ms. Jhilmil for your kind interest.

Ms. Jhilmil, a wonderful, warm, vibrant woman and mother of 4 children, has been forcibly institutionalised in the Shahadara mental asylum. Jhilmil is eminently able to take care of herself, is a yoga teacher, and has a self discipline about her own well being and recovery. She is an inspiration to many regarding psychosocial disabilities, recovery and well being. She has contributed to the development of the communities through her work, as several of us will testify.

Ms. Jhilmil has been in the middle of a difficult divorce where there is day to day conflict and threat of violence in the household. She fears losing her children. Her reactions from holding on to her child, to being moody and difficult are being classified as ‘mad’, whereas they are the naturally angry responses of any mother. She was kept in ‘high security ward’ by the asylum authorities. After challenging this action by us, now she is moved to the private ward, where she is kept ‘for observation’. The superintendent, Dr. Desai, has informed us that it will take two weeks to evaluate Ms. Jhilmil or take decision to release her!!!

Why should it take two weeks to evaluate a person by an expert doctor: Anyway, there is no instrument or x-ray, or pathological analysis, which will give us clear evidence of ‘mental illness’ which she is said to suffer from. Psychiatry has no such physical test or parameter to tell us if she is suffering or not from any mental disorder. She has a supportive doctor who has confirmed over many instances throughout communications between her family and friends that she is NOT going through any symptoms of mania. Why is she being kept there in confinement for 2 weeks? Why can she not access treatment from her own doctor?

While patients in the public and private hospitals are given love and affection, what kind of system of care it is, when they tow away people in this undignified manner?

You will know, dear sir, that India has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Jhilmil has to be provided with all rights of any person with a disability. Under the mandate of this convention, institutionalizing her in the said manner violates:

Article 5: Equality and Non-Discrimination
Article 6: Women with Disabilities
Article 10: Right to Life
Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law
Article 13: Access to Justice
Article 14: Liberty and security of the person
Article 15: Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Article 16: Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
Article 17: Protecting the integrity of the person
Article 19: Living in the community
Article 25: Health

Her case is that of thousands of other women in this country who have had to face atrocities and eventually lock up, due to regressive laws on ‘unsoundness of mind’ that continue to function despite the ratification of UNCRPD in 2008. How many, many women have been towed away into asylums on an insanity petition in the context of marriage and divorce, so that the man can gain custody of children, be irresponsible about alimony, hide domestic violence, and obscure an extra marital affair before the public eye and the eye of justice? How many women have had to swallow their anger, because expressing anger would mean further shame and punishment through inhuman treatments?

Do you know sir, about the vested interests involved in damning someone as ‘mentally ill’, putting them away in asylums, and depriving them of all rights to a decent life and livelihood, and giving them torturous treatments?

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We, the undersigned, are calling on the intervention of yourselves to immediately release Jhilmil Breckenridge and put an end to such forms of ‘treatments’. Jhilmil is a victim of marital discord and sheer prejudices against women and a relentlessly harsh asylum system, has resulted in this situation where she is seen as crazy and not the husband, and she is forcibly committed.

We demand the Delhi Ministry should immediately look into how ‘legal incapacity’ and finding of ‘mental illness’ is misused by vested interests and causes harm by institutionalising women, especially in the context of Marriage and Divorce, custody, adoption and family laws, within the Delhi courts of law.

We, the undersigned, are calling on your Ministry to take responsibility and step in to stop such unlawful, inhuman and torturous practices, and misused / abused forms of ‘determination’ of ‘mental illness’ and treatments, for the sake of vested interests. She must be treated with all dignity as a person with a psychosocial disability, in accordance with the UNCRPD.

We request your full co-operation in an investigation into this matter, and release of Ms. Jhilmil, with immediate effect.

Yours truly,

Bhargavi Davar, Pune
Abdul Mabood, Director Snehi, Delhi
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)
Rahul Cherian, Advocate, Inclusive Planet, Chennai
Aparna Sanyal, Mixed Media productions, Delhi
Rajive Raturi, Disability Rights Initiative, HRLN
Reshma Valliappan, The Red Door, Pune
BAPU Trust for Research on Mind & Discourse, Pune
Pavan Muntha, Swaadhikar, Hyderabad
Indu Prakash Singh, activist, Delhi
CREA, DELHI
Chris M Kurian, New Delhi
Shaweta Anand, Delhi
Janaki Visvanath, representing all women
Saher, NDTV, New Delhi
Dr.Vedhakumar Valliappan, Scientist and Father of a User Survivor of Psychiatry
Aarti Lukka, care giver
Jahnavi Mirashi, care giver
Minakshi Dewan, New Delhi
Divya Padmanabhan, New Delhi
Anita Iyer, EKANSH, Pune.
Gagandeep Singh, supporter for Human Rights
Gayatri Buragohain, Feminist Approach to Technology, Delhi
Nandini Rao, New Delhi
Minakshi, Delhi
Gail Warner, Hartman de Souza, Ratnakar, Anubhuti, Lovely, Kala Ramesh
Vilasini
Shruti, Dheeraj Jain, Sonja Chandrachud, Amit Bhattacharya, Shankar,
Anjana, Savita Narayan, Pallavi Mehta

The angels of Derby

I was in Derby sometime ago, and I think a bit of me is still lingering on .........

Derby Cathedral 

मैनचेस्टर में हिन्दी / उर्दू प्रार्थना

मैं अपने  दोस्त  से  हमारी मातृभाषा में एक प्रार्थना सेवा के लिए  जरूरत पर चर्चा कर रहे थे. वह पाकिस्तानी है और मैं भारतीय हूँ, लेकिन हम एक ही भाषा बोलते हैं. इस मंगलवार 21 फ़रवरी 2012 हम उर्दू, हिंदुस्तानी, और पंजाबी में एक प्रार्थना सेवा (आप में से जो लोग नहीं जानते येः एक ही  भाषा है ) है का फैसला किया है.
हम ईसाइयों के लिए उप महाद्वीप से बाहर तक पहुँचने के लिए उम्मीद कर रहे हैं. भारतीयों,पाकिस्तानियों और बांग्लादेशियों को आमंत्रित कर रहे हैं. यह हमारी पहली बैठक है, इस शब्द का प्रसार करने के लिए स्वतंत्र महसूस हो रहा है.

स्थान: सेंट Chrysostom चर्च, 4A Anson रोड विक्टोरिया पार्क, मैनचेस्टर. M14 5BG

चर्च के कोने एंसन रोड (ऊपरी नाले स्ट्रीट) और ऑक्सफोर्ड प्लेस, डाल्टन एलिस हॉल के बगल में है.नक्शे के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें

समय: 6:00 बजे

में ड्रॉप भी अगर आप हम कोशिश करते हैं और आप कोई बात नहीं क्या आप भाषा बोलते हैंसमायोजित करेगा भाषा समझ में नहीं आता लिए स्वतंत्र महसूस.

यह चर्च वेबसाइट http://stchrysostoms.co.uk/ 

Urdu/Hindi prayer group in Manchester

I friend and I were discussing the need for a prayer service in our mother tongue. She is Pakistani and I am Indian but we do speak the same language. This Tuesday 21^st February 2012 we have decided to have a prayer service in Urdu, Hindustani and Punjabi (for those of you who don’t know the tree languages aren’t that different from each other).

We are hoping to reach out to Christians from the sub-continent. Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are invited. This is our first meeting, feel free to spread the word.

Venue: St Chrysostom's Church, 4A Anson Road Victoria Park, Manchester. M14 5BG  

The church is on the corner of Anson Road (Upper Brook Street) and Oxford Place,next to Dalton Ellis Hall.  click here for a map

Time: 6:00 pm

Feel free to drop in even if you don’t understand the language we will try and accommodate you no matter what language you speak.

This is the church website http://stchrysostoms.co.uk/

Euphemism for murder

First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me 
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Neimoller.

Yesterday I was at the Zion Arts Centre Manchester to attend an all day event. I must admit I was a bit apprehensive about sitting all day at a symposium, but then Manchester never fails to surprise. The day was brilliant to say the least.

Before I tell you about the event I have to share this video. It’s disturbing and will make you think, and it should. 

The idea that life can be taken away if it isn’t deemed right is a normalized idea. Mercy killing is thought of as a humane way of ‘ending suffering’ but it’s an idea that is imposed onto a disabled person by non disabled person who believes a normal body is required to live a ‘fulfilling life’. 

We looked at various ideas yesterday but this idea struck me the most. We decide for other people all too easily and believe it is the right thing to do.

The movie/ documentary by Liz Crow (Resistance Which way the future?) looks at an a little known aspect of the Nazi killing apparatus- killing the disabled individual. The Nazi regime was influenced by the ‘Science of Eugenics’, which isn’t very different from genetics of our time or social policy. It wasn’t just the far right that supported this idea but the left and non-fascist countries as well.

Some of the arguments made by the Nazis for the extermination of the disabled people was the resources taken up by the disabled individual and how the money for keeping a disabled individual alive was borne by tax payers. The other argument was benign but just as dangerous- putting an end to suffering. These are arguments that are still used by governments all over the world to discriminate against the disabled.

The documentary is worth watching and I recommend it strongly. 

Link to a BBC interview with Liz Crow. interview 

Link to Roaring Girl Production. Liz Crow's production company.

About the Resistance film/documentary. link to the website

Unlock your phone for free

I was looking for places where I could get my phone unlocked. Most places charged me different rates. So I decided to look online this is the best site I have found so far - it works.

http://unlockme.co.uk/phpBB2/

They are very helpful and answer all your questions.

Cristina Rodrigues on sustainability.

I met this architect the other day, and she was talking about sustainability. What was interesting about her work was that she wasn't just making pretty things but was looking at the how we relate to architecture. This is a link to one of her documentaries   


In her words by forgetting the countryside we abadon what feeds us ..... we abandon people.Documentary on Desertification in Portugal


Her work is interdisciplinary and touches on some very interesting aspects of how we relate to the environment and about social care. 


This is one of those things that can only happen in Manchester. Everybody here is a part of a cause and is an activist of some sort. The best part of all this is that conversation isnt dull. 


I wish Cristina all the best with her work :)

Manchester- one cold morning

Obscure 80's song for the day - "More Than The Sun", Black (Colin Vearncombe)

 "More Than The Sun" , Black (Colin Vearncombe)

Free online documentaries- Documentary storm

I found this website the other day it has quite a few documentaries I would love to watch. Now would be a good time to turn of the telly and watch something informative.

Link to Documentary Storm

Morrissey has spoken

A picture speaks a thousand words this one says it all! I had to start the New Year with a message let this be it. 

Appeal from Mindanao- By Dr Ian Parker

The floods here in Mindanao, the main southern island of the Philippines, have been disastrous, the suffering immense, and there is no prospect that relief will be given soon by the authorities. A small group of us travelled last Saturday 17 December in the minivan of one of the universities (where we had been teaching) here through Bukidnon province and then through Cagayan de Oro on the north coast. This is one of the worst hit areas, together with Iligan. Typhoon Washi had struck the area in the early hours of the morning, and in Malaybalay inland the water supplies and electricity had already been affected before we left. During the hours of darkness, when mobile and other communication networks were down, people were unable to see the devastation, but could feel the effects. Over 10,000 houses were damaged by the typhoon and flash floods and hundreds of thousands of people in thirteen of the Mindanao provinces are struggling, with more than 40,000 in evacuation centres. We could begin to see as we journeyed along the coast into Surigao del Norte province burst riverbanks and waterlogged fields, but the full scale of the problem only started to become clear through Sunday and Monday. To date over 950 people are reckoned dead and nearly 50 missing according to the national disaster agency, with most of the casualties in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.

The difficulties facing relief agencies and community organisations – this is the context in which the reconstruction work is taking place – have to be taken into account as those outside Mindanao think about what support they can give. First reports in the newspapers in the Philippines under-played the disaster, with small front-page stories eclipsed by the long-running corruption scandals in and around Manila (on the north island of Luzon), and events in Mindanao are treated with suspicion and some fear in other parts of the Philippines, fueled by stories in the national press. This is despite the valiant efforts of journalists here (who have experienced among their colleagues among the greatest number of targeted assassinations in the world). Now, here in Mindanao itself, the images on television of death and destruction are horrific.

There is a very complex political situation here. The Lumad indigenous peoples are sometimes patronised by the authorities (encouraged to sing and dance for their own versions of Christmas celebrations, which start in the Philippines in September) but are mostly badly treated, robbed of their land and then told to respect the rights of the new landowners (this is the current refrain of current President Aquino). These people in Mindanao are caught in land disputes with the Muslim population of the south of the island, which is site of active armed groups, including fundamentalists who, in turn, hate those they call ‘the reds’.

There is widespread Islamophobia outside Mindanao, which the government provokes even while calling for a ‘Christmas ceasefire’ and negotiating with the Islamic groups in recently begun talks in Kuala Lumpur in neighboring Malaysia. But at the same time the fundamentalists here do actually pose a deadly threat to progressive forces. There is also an insurgent maoist group, the New People’s Army’ (NPA) operating as the armed wing of the communist party, active in Mindanao. In the few days before the typhoon arrived there were reports of a new wave of attacks by them in Surigao del Sur province on police stations to seize guns, and of the burning of vehicles belonging to foreign companies (of which Del Monte and Dole are prominent players, running the fruit plantations). The NPA refuse the cynical Christmas ceasefire calls, pointing to continuing harassment of local communities (as well as disappearances of activists, which is something that happens here in the Philippines not only in Mindanao), and they attack members of other left groups, including murdering those deemed enemies in ambushes and during incursions into areas held by their rivals.

Here in Mindanao, in the midst of this, there has emerged (from within the crisis of the old communist movement) a new democratic movement that has taken huge steps to engage with different forms of politics, and to work with the Lumad and with Muslim communities who are beginning to break from fundamentalism in the course of struggles for independence and land rights. The Revolutionary Workers Party – Mindanao (RWP-M) has been organising in the interior and in cities like Cagayan de Oro, and is very active now in Iligan. This group has been working around questions of food security – the right of local communities to determine what is grown and how it is distributed for their own good rather than for multinational companies – and declares itself now to be ‘ecosocialist’. It is active around lesbian and gay rights (and LGBT activists are there with these comrades in political debates and also in the practical physical protection of areas of Mindanao (from the NPA and Islamic fundamentalist groups). This pits the RWP-M also against the Catholic Church authorities trying to block the Reproductive Health bill currently proceeding at snail’s pace through parliament. This ecosocialist group informed by and working alongside feminist organisations now faces a very difficult task in balancing the defence of its own communities while engaging with the slow ‘peace process’ (something which brings the wrath of rivals down upon it day by day).

There is a risk now, as with every disaster relief operation, that well-meant expressions of support for the victims of the typhoon from outside the Philippines will be channeled into government controlled operations, and that this will sideline those who are really suffering and who are now mobilising themselves with, for example, the help of the RWP-M. The organisation ‘Europe solidaire sans frontières’ (Europe in Solidarity Without Borders) is acting in solidarity with the progressive forces in Mindanao now, and you can help by sending payment to the ESSF. Please specify that the payment is for the Philippines floods, and send the money through to: ESSF, 2 rue Richard-Lenoir, 93100 Montreuil, France. The bank account details are: Crédit Lyonnais, Agence de la Croix-de-Chavaux (00525), 10 boulevard Chanzy, 93100 Montreuil, France. The ESSF account number is 445757C, and the international bank account details are: IBAN: FR85 3000 2005 2500 0044 5757 C12; BIC/SWIFT: CRLYFRPP; Account holder: ESSF.

Ian Parker, Surigao del Norte, Mindanao, 21 December 2011

Mindanao - डॉ. इयान पार्कर से अपील

Mindanao - डॉ. इयान पार्कर से अपीलयहाँ Mindanao, फिलीपींस के मुख्य दक्षिणी द्वीप में बाढ़ विनाशकारी रहा है, पीड़ित अमित, और वहाँ कोई संभावना है कि राहत अधिकारियों द्वारा जल्द ही दिया जाएगा. हम में से एक छोटे समूह के एक minivan में विश्वविद्यालयों के पिछले शनिवार 17 दिसंबर कूच (हम शिक्षण कहाँ किया गया था) Bukidnon प्रांत के माध्यम से और फिर उत्तर तट पर Cagayan डे ऑरो के माध्यम से यहाँ. यह सबसे ज्यादा प्रभावित क्षेत्रों के Iligan के साथ एक साथ है. सुबह के शुरुआती घंटों में आंधी washi क्षेत्र मारा था, और Malaybalay अंतर्देशीय में पानी की आपूर्ति और बिजली को पहले से ही इससे पहले कि हम छोड़ दिया प्रभावित किया गया था. अंधेरे के घंटे के दौरान, जब मोबाइल और अन्य संचार नेटवर्क नीचे थे, लोगों को तबाही देखने में असमर्थ थे, लेकिन प्रभाव को महसूस कर सकता था. 10,000 से अधिक घरों में आंधी और फ्लैश बाढ़ से क्षतिग्रस्त हो गया और Mindanao प्रांतों के तेरह में लोगों की हजारों की सैकड़ों, निकासी केन्द्रों में 40,000 से अधिक के साथ संघर्ष कर रहे हैं. हम देख के रूप में हम Surigao del Norte प्रांत फट riverbanks और जल भराव क्षेत्रों में तट के साथ कूच शुरू हो सकता है, लेकिन समस्या का पूर्ण पैमाने पर केवल रविवार और सोमवार के माध्यम से स्पष्ट हो शुरू कर दिया.950 लोगों पर तारीख करने के लिए मर चुका है और लगभग 50 लापता राष्ट्रीय आपदा एजेंसी के अनुसार गणना कर रहे हैं Cagayan डे ऑरो और Iligan के शहरों में हताहतों की संख्या के अधिकांश के साथ.कठिनाइयों का सामना करना पड़ राहत एजेंसियों और सामुदायिक संगठनों - इस संदर्भ में पुनर्निर्माण कार्यों में जगह ले जा रहा है - ध्यान में रखा जाना है के रूप में उन बाहर Mindanao क्या वे समर्थन दे सकते हैं के बारे में सोचते हैं. फिलीपींस में समाचार पत्रों में पहले रिपोर्ट आपदा के तहत खेला जाता है, छोटे सामने पृष्ठ कहानियों के साथ लंबे समय से चल मनीला (उत्तर Luzon के द्वीप पर) में और उसके चारों ओर भ्रष्टाचार घोटालों से ग्रहण, और Mindanao में घटनाओं को संदेह के साथ व्यवहार कर रहे हैं और फिलीपींस के अन्य भागों में कुछ भय, राष्ट्रीय प्रेस में कहानियों के द्वारा fueled है. यह यहाँ पत्रकारों (जो दुनिया में लक्षित हत्या की सबसे बड़ी संख्या के बीच उनके सहयोगियों के बीच अनुभव किया है) के बहादुर प्रयासों के बावजूद है. अब, यहाँ Mindanao में ही, मौत और विनाश के टेलीविजन पर छवियों भयावह हैं.वहाँ एक बहुत ही जटिल राजनीतिक स्थिति यहाँ है. Lumad स्वदेशी लोगों को कभी कभी अधिकारियों द्वारा संरक्षण (क्रिसमस समारोह है, जो सितंबर में फिलीपींस में शुरू के अपने स्वयं के संस्करणों के लिए गाना और नृत्य के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया), लेकिन ज्यादातर बुरी तरह से इलाज किया, उनके देश की लूट और उसके बाद के अधिकारों का सम्मान बताया नए जमींदारों (यह वर्तमान राष्ट्रपति Aquino के वर्तमान बचना है). Mindanao में इन लोगों को भूमि विवाद में द्वीप है, जो कट्टरपंथियों, जो बारी में, जो वे 'लाल' कहते हैं नफरत सहित सक्रिय सशस्त्र समूहों के साइट है के दक्षिण की मुस्लिम आबादी के साथ पकड़े जाते हैं.Mindanao के बाहर व्यापक इस्लामोफोबिया, जो सरकार भी भड़काती है, जबकि एक 'क्रिसमस युद्धविराम' के लिए बुला और पड़ोसी मलेशिया में हाल ही में कुआलालंपुर में शुरू हो वार्ता में इस्लामी गुटों के साथ बातचीत है. लेकिन एक ही समय में कट्टरपंथियों यहाँ वास्तव में प्रगतिशील बलों के लिए एक घातक खतरा है. वहाँ भी है एक माओवादी विद्रोही समूह, न्यू पीपुल्स आर्मी (एनपीए) कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी की सशस्त्र शाखा के रूप में परिचालन, Mindanao में सक्रिय है. कुछ दिन पहले आंधी आ में उनके द्वारा Surigao डेल सुर प्रांत में पुलिस थानों पर हमले की एक नई लहर बंदूकें जब्त की रिपोर्ट थे, और विदेशी कंपनियों (जिनमें से डेल मोंटे और ख़ैरात करना प्रमुख हैं से संबंधित वाहनों के जलने कीखिलाड़ियों, फल बागानों चल रहा है). एनपीए मना निंदक क्रिसमस युद्धविराम कॉल, स्थानीय समुदायों के उत्पीड़न जारी रखने की ओर इशारा करते हुए (के रूप में अच्छी तरह के रूप में कार्यकर्ताओं के गायब है, जो कुछ है कि फिलीपींस में यहाँ न केवल Mindanao में होता है), और वे अन्य बाईं समूहों के सदस्यों पर हमला हत्या सहित, उन ambushes और उनके प्रतिद्वंद्वियों द्वारा आयोजित क्षेत्रों में घुसपैठ के दौरान दुश्मन समझा.यहाँ Mindanao में, इस के बीच में, वहाँ (पुराने कम्युनिस्ट आंदोलन के संकट के भीतर से) कि भारी कदम उठाए हैं राजनीति के विभिन्न रूपों के साथ संलग्न एक नए लोकतांत्रिक आंदोलन उभरा है, और Lumad और मुस्लिम के साथ काम करने के लिए जो समुदायों के लिए स्वतंत्रता और भूमि अधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष के पाठ्यक्रम में कट्टरवाद से तोड़ने की शुरुआत कर रहे हैं. इंटीरियर में और Cagayan de Oro जैसे शहरों में क्रांतिकारी वर्कर्स पार्टी - Mindanao (RWP एम) का आयोजन किया गया है, और बहुत सक्रिय Iligan में अब. इस समूह में खाद्य सुरक्षा के सवाल के आसपास काम कर रहा है - स्थानीय समुदायों के अधिकार का निर्धारण करने के लिए क्या उगाया जाता है और यह उनकी भलाई के लिए कैसे बजाय बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनियों के लिए वितरित किया जाता है - और वाणी ही अब 'ecosocialist'. यह समलैंगिक और समलैंगिक अधिकार (और LGBT कार्यकर्ताओं राजनीतिक बहस में और Mindanao के क्षेत्रों है (एनपीए और इस्लामी कट्टरपंथी गुटों से) के व्यावहारिक भौतिक सुरक्षा में भी इन साथियों के साथ कर रहे हैं. यह RWP एम के खिलाफ भी गड्ढे के आसपास सक्रिय है कैथोलिक चर्च के लिए प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य बिल ब्लॉक वर्तमान में संसद के माध्यम से कछुआ चाल से आगे बढ़ने की कोशिश कर रहा यह ecosocialist समूह अधिकारियों द्वारा सूचित किया और नारीवादी संगठनों के साथ काम है. अब अपने ही समुदाय की रक्षा के संतुलन में एक बहुत मुश्किल काम चेहरे जबकि 'धीमी शांति प्रक्रिया के साथ संलग्न '(कुछ है जो इस पर नीचे प्रतिद्वंद्वियों के क्रोध दिन लाता दिन से).अब एक जोखिम है, हर आपदा राहत आपरेशन, कि आंधी फिलीपींस के बाहर से सरकार नियंत्रित आपरेशन में channeled किया जाएगा के पीड़ितों के लिए समर्थन की अभिव्यक्ति अच्छी तरह से मतलब के साथ के रूप में, और है कि यह जो वास्तव में पीड़ित हैं और जो किनारे जाएगा अब खुद के साथ, उदाहरण के लिए, जुटाने, RWP एम के मदद करते हैं. संगठन 'यूरोप solidaire संस Frontières (विदाउट बॉर्डर्स एकात्मकता में यूरोप) एकजुटता में अब Mindanao में प्रगतिशील ताकतों के साथ काम कर रहा है, और आप ESSF के लिए भुगतान भेजने के द्वारा मदद कर सकते हैं. कृपया निर्दिष्ट करें कि भुगतान फिलीपींस बाढ़ के लिए है, और के माध्यम से पैसा भेजने ESSF, 2 rue रिचर्ड - Lenoir, 93100 Montreuil, फ्रांस. बैंक खाते के विवरण हैं: क्रेडिट Lyonnais, Agence डे ला Croix-de Chavaux (००,५२५), 10 boulevard Chanzy, 93100 Montreuil, फ्रांस. ESSF खाता संख्या 445757C है, और अंतरराष्ट्रीय बैंक खाते के विवरण हैं: IBAN: FR85 3000 २००५ २५०० 0044 ५७५७ C12, बीआईसी / स्विफ्ट:; CRLYFRPP खाता धारक: ESSF.
इयान पार्कर, Surigao del Norte, Mindanao, 21 दिसम्बर 2011

Lal Bagh in summer

The tree behind the gazebo was planted by Queen Victoria

Those trees have been growing that way as far as I can remember 

A very old banyan tree

The artificial lake in the park, beautiful during the evening

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