Dear All
Greetings from "Youth for Justice"
WAIT FOR BIGGEST YOUTH UPRISING AGAINST THE DESTRUCTIVE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH AND LOOT AND KILLING OF YAMUNA IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES...
UPCOMING EVENTS:-
1.
DISCUSSION ON YAMUNA, HER IMPORTANCE, THREATS TO HER AND ROLE OF YOUTH
HANSRAJ COLLEGE
9:30am , 1st NOVEMBER 2007
organised by- History society
2.
WEEKLY MEETING OF "YOUTH FOR YAMUNA"- a Youth for Justice Initiative
CENTRAL PARK, C.P. , DELHI
5:30pm, SUNDAY, 4th November 2007
3.
JOINT PROTEST FOR YAMUNA
INDIA GATE
7th November 2007
organised by- CITIZEN,S FRONT FOR WATER DEMOCRACY
4.
LAUNCH OF SHINING NETWORK AND DISCUSSION ON YAMUNA
KAMLA NEHRU COLLGE
AT 9:30 AM, 13TH NOVEMBER 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
REAL ISSUE- REAL ACTION
YOUTH
FOR
JUSTICE
REAL ACTION
CANDLE LIGHT MARCH
IN THE HEART OF CITY
TO PAY HOMAGE TO 96 PEOPLE KILLED BY BLUE LINE BUSES IN LAST 8 MONTHS
AND
PROTEST AGAINST ACUTE CRISIS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF INDIA
COVERED BY
- HINDUATAN TIMES, HINDU, DAINIK HINDUSTAN, DAINIK JAGRAN, INDIAN EXPRESS, DELHI AAJ TAK, SAHARA NCR, AND MANY OTHER NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTRONIC AND PRINT MEDIA
NO MORE citizens shall die on the city's roads at the expense of the government. These words were echoed by scores of Delhiites as they staged a candlelight protest at Central Park in Connaught Place on Sunday What started as a protest by a handfill soon turned into a big commemoration, absorbing random visitors in the park in the campaign. Protestors denounced Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and shouted anti government slogans. "When we started this protest, we were a total of 20 people. About 50 more have joined us here and we are finding more supporters with each passing minute," said Bhavani Shankar, a protestor, adding, "If you think we are protesting against the government, you are missing the point. This is an uprising against the bad running of the government, not the government. The purpose of this protest is to highlight the acute crisis of governance in the city. There are citizens dying on the road day after day and nothing is being done. It is shocking how 96 people have been mowed down by Blueline buses in the last eight months," said Manoj Mishra, convenor of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan, another issue touched upon during the protest. Citizens observed two minutes' silence in remembrance of this year's 96 Blueline victims and pledged they would do something to bring about a change in the system. "We must let the government know that if it will not take steps to improve things, we, as citizens, know how to make our voices heard," said Kapil Mishra, a protestor.
शीला
तेरे
राज
मे
मुझे
डर
लगता
डर
लगता
है
हो गयी है पीर पर्वत सी पिघलनी चाहिये
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
ZINDAGI KA SAWAAL:- its NOW or NEVER!!!
PLEASE READ IT COMPLETELY AS IT IS ACTUALLY A QUESTION OF
LIFE OR DEATH FOR ALL OF US
TO PAY HOMAGE TO
96 PEOPLE KILLED BY BLUE LINE BUSES
LET US JOIN YOU
THIS SUNDAY
14th OCT. 2007
AT 5:30pm ,
CENTRAL PARK ,C.P.,
NEW DELHI
DELHI IS DIEING!!!
RIVER IS BEING KILLED IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES
YAMUNA IS BEING SOLD FOR A FEW HUNDRED CRORES...
TREES ARE BEING CUT TO MAKE WAY FOR RUGBY STADIUM
EVERY DAY 5-6 PEOPLE DIE BY ROAD ACCIDENTS
DENGUE IS TAKING ITS TOLL EVERY YEAR
MORE THAN 40 LAKH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY ARE DEPENDENT ON WATER TANKERS TO GET THEIR SHARE OF DRINKING WATER
THE ONLY RISING HAPPENING IS PRICE RISE OF COMMODITY OF DAILY USE
NO ACCESS TO PURE DRINKING WATER TO MORE THAN 90% POPULATION OF THE CITY
GIRLS ARE BEING RAPED, KIDNAPPED EVERY DAY...
EVE TEASING HAS BECOME ORDER OF THE DAY...
MORE THAN 100 DEATHS BY BLUE LINE BUSES IN LAST 9 MONTHS...
TARNSPORT SYSTEM--FAIL
SEWAGE SYSTEM--FAIL
HEALTH SYSTEM---FAIL
EDUCATION SYSTEM--FAIL
POLICE--FAIL
POWER SUPPLY--FAIL
WATER SUPPLY--FAIL
PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM--FAIL
PLANNING--FAIL
FINANCE--FAIL
Delhi as a city is bent on throwing out its poor, destroying them and building a city just for the rich and the affluent.
Walk down the streets of Delhi in the middle of the night and you will see thousands of workers, dead with exhaustion, sleeping on the roads, on pavements, on carts. There are hardly any shelters in Delhi.
At signals, women with drugged, near-dead babies slung across their pregnant bellies, beg with glazed eyes. There is not a single night shelter for women in the whole of Delhi.
People live in slums in the most deplorable conditions of sanitation, electricity, water, quality of shelter।
The homeless have only Delhi's harsh weather, the boots of drunk policemen and sexual abuse, especially for the women and children।
What kind of city is Delhi?
From the moment you step out on the roads to the moment when you think that you are in the privacy of your own room, Delhi invades you.
The air you breathe is so polluted, it is surely and slowly killing you.
the bus conductor may just crack your head open with a crowbar,
you will watch women being molested on the bus,
you will see stupid men behind wheels kill each other on the roads due to rash driving,
you will see the worst forms of exploitation of the poor and the powerless,
you will hear college students endorsing sexual harassment on TV, politicians endorsing hatred and violence,
you will come home to brown water gushing from your tap and you will sleep drenched in sweat because there is no electricity।
This is your usual day in Delhi and none of this is unusual। This will happen to you almost every day.
But what is most shocking about the city is its average empowered citizen. This citizen is a selfish, unthinking, self-destructive creature, who cannot think beyond himself/ herself and does not see how that mode of being is slowly killing him/ her. Delhi's problems - pollution through vehicles and industry, lack of drinking water and electricity, road accidents - affect all its citizens across class, caste and gender barriers, though it doubtless affects the poor more. (source http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0108/01080370.htm)
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
WE DON'T WANT TO BLAME ANYONE, WE TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO CORRECT IT ALL...THE BEGINNING SHOULD BE FROM IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF GREEDY OLD LADY AS C.M. OF OUR DELHI...WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN DELIVER... WHOSE ONLY MOTIVE IS NOT MONEY... WHO CARES FOR COMMON MASSES...
YOUTH FOR JUSTICE DECLARES THAT STATE GOVT. IN DELHI HAS LOST PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE AND IT HAS NO RIGHT TO CONTINUE IN POWER
WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF SHEILA GOVT. :-
AS TOTAL ADMINISTRATION OF OUR CITY HAS FAILED.
AS GOVT. IS CONCENTRATING ONLY ON GAMES AND IS PLAYING GAMES WITH LIVES OF 1.5 CRORES COMMON PEOPLE OF DELHI
AS NO ONE FEELS SECURE IN THIS CITY ANYMORE
AS WE HAVE RIGHT TO SURVIVE
AS WE CANT TOLERATE IT ANYMORE
AS IT IS A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH
AS IT IS A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH
ZINDAGI KA SAWAAL - DILLI KA SAWAAL
LET US JOIN YOU
THIS SUNDAY
14th OCT.2007
AT 5:30PM
CENTRAL PARK , C.P., NEW DELHI
"LEAST WE CAN DO IS TO SPREAD IT TO ALL"--
Friday, September 28, 2007
DELHI UNIVERSITY YOUTH MARCHED FOR YAMUNA
Delhi University Youth marched for Yamuna
Hundreds of youth marched together to oppose construction on riverbed
New Delhi, Sept. 28
Today youth of Delhi University joined Yamuna Satyagraha and marched together against loot and killing of Yamuna in the name of commonwealth games. On a call from "Youth for Justice" a Delhi based youth action group,
Students of Delhi School of Social work initiated the march from their department towards Arts faculty in north campus where March was joined by students from other colleges and departments of Delhi University. Students wee shouting slogans like " Yamuna main to ped lagenge, khelgaon kahin aur banenge"(only trees are allowed on river bed, let the games village be constructed somewhere else).
This march took a larger shape as many students joined the march on its way, when this march reached to law faculty after passing through Miranda House, arts faculty, S.R.C.C., Daulat ram, Ramjas college, Hindu, Stephen's etc. there were hundreds of students mobilizing others and sensitizing fellow students about the issue of Yamuna.
Vinay tiwari and Manish jha from Delhi school of Social work have said that they are out on road because Govt. is paying no heed to peaceful Yamuna Satyagraha.
This is first time when students of Delhi University came out on road in such a big numbers for the cause of Yamuna and against the construction on Yamuna river bed.
Students have asserted that they will keep the movement on until they get satisfactory replies to their questions, they also warned the Govt. to immediately stop any construction on riverbed or they will intensify the movement.
The student felt that our river is more important than any International Event And they were raising slogans like " commonwealth Down Down ".
Anubha , another Student participating in the march, said that its encouraging that Non –political events, involving city's real issues are taken up by the students. From now on , All of us will take active interest in Yamuna movement as we are Matured enough to understand what is happening in the city.
The student announced that they will take the movement to other campus and colleges of delhi university.
Hundreds of youth marched together to oppose construction on riverbed
New Delhi, Sept. 28
Today youth of Delhi University joined Yamuna Satyagraha and marched together against loot and killing of Yamuna in the name of commonwealth games. On a call from "Youth for Justice" a Delhi based youth action group,
Students of Delhi School of Social work initiated the march from their department towards Arts faculty in north campus where March was joined by students from other colleges and departments of Delhi University. Students wee shouting slogans like " Yamuna main to ped lagenge, khelgaon kahin aur banenge"(only trees are allowed on river bed, let the games village be constructed somewhere else).
This march took a larger shape as many students joined the march on its way, when this march reached to law faculty after passing through Miranda House, arts faculty, S.R.C.C., Daulat ram, Ramjas college, Hindu, Stephen's etc. there were hundreds of students mobilizing others and sensitizing fellow students about the issue of Yamuna.
Vinay tiwari and Manish jha from Delhi school of Social work have said that they are out on road because Govt. is paying no heed to peaceful Yamuna Satyagraha.
This is first time when students of Delhi University came out on road in such a big numbers for the cause of Yamuna and against the construction on Yamuna river bed.
Students have asserted that they will keep the movement on until they get satisfactory replies to their questions, they also warned the Govt. to immediately stop any construction on riverbed or they will intensify the movement.
The student felt that our river is more important than any International Event And they were raising slogans like " commonwealth Down Down ".
Anubha , another Student participating in the march, said that its encouraging that Non –political events, involving city's real issues are taken up by the students. From now on , All of us will take active interest in Yamuna movement as we are Matured enough to understand what is happening in the city.
The student announced that they will take the movement to other campus and colleges of delhi university.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
GLORY OF BHAGAT SINGH REVIVED
THEY HELD countless demonstrations, several rallies and even an indefinite satyagraha against the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna's riverbanks. To no avail, however, as the state government kept turning a blind eye. On Tuesday, they decided to take their message to the state assembly, where they felt top leaders would no longer be able to ignore them. They were wrong. For all their efforts, they simply landed behind bars for disrupting the House proceedings. Six environmental activists, part of the group that is protesting the "concretisation of the Yamuna floodplains", had carried their message to the assembly on the last day of the session. Sunil Prabhakar, an activist from Punjab who has parked himself at the Games Village site for the last 48 days, shouted in protest, interrupting a discussion on rainwater harvesting. "I could not stand it. On one hand they want to choke the river's flood- plains and threaten Delhi's groundwater potential, on the other hand they encourage rainwater harvesting. The whole thing sounded farcical," said Prabhakar As Prabhakar continued his protest and began chanting slogans, a security officer of the assembly promptly came up to him to stop him, following which there was a scuffle between the two, according to those present nearby As Prabhakar was being dragged out, another activist, Kapil Mishra, loudly began to argue the group's point of view. Thankfully, this time, some of the members listened. Opposition MLAs blamed the government for not "heedingthe river's cause". "We managed to convey our arguments by then," said Diwan Singh, member of the NGO Natural Heritage First. Both Prabhakar and Mishra were detained by the assembly security for misconduct. Delhi Assembly Secretary Sidhartha Rao was not available for comment, but as per the law these detentions take place for contempt of the House. avishek.dastidar@hindustantimes.com
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Yamuna Satyagraha activists detained
THE HINDU Staff Reporter
Bid to submit memorandum to Prime Minister
NEW DELHI: Yamuna Satyagraha activists who tried to submit a memorandum demanding preservation of the Yamuna’s floodplains to the Prime Minister were detained by the police outside Vigyan Bhavan here on Tuesday.
The delegation of satyagrahis was on its way to submit the memorandum to Dr. Singh who had came to inaugurate the National Groundwater Congress.
“On a day when the Prime Minister was talking about the importance of groundwater, we wanted to apprise him of the problems being faced by Delhi where the Yamuna floodplains, which are an important groundwater recharge zone, are under threat,” said Diwan Singh who was detained along with nine other and later released.
On reaching Vigyan Bhavan, the Satyagrahis were stopped by the police and taken into custody. “Ours was a peaceful delegation, we requested the police to let us meet some administration officers so that we could submit our memorandum, but we were taken away. So we sang songs penned by the students for the protection of the Yamuna,” he said.
In a statement later in the day, the activists said: “It is nothing but paradoxical that on one hand the Government is talking of the importance of groundwater resources, while on the other it is destroying the largest source of groundwater – the Yamuna floodplains. We urge the Prime Minister to stop concretisation of the riverbed to protect the groundwater resource of this city.”
The satyagrahis said it was ironic that while the Delhi Government was investing crores of rupees for promotion of rainwater harvesting, a significant quantity of water was allowed to flow down the river and go as waste to the Bay of Bengal during the monsoon season, because it not allowed spread over the floodplains.
The campaigners alleged: “There seems to be a well designed subterfuge to keep the floodplains devoid of floodwaters. The rainwater harvesting potential of the city is not more than 100 MCM, whereas the floodwater harvesting potential is more than 1500 MCM annually.”
“The Groundwater Conference is aimed at promoting water literacy, evaluating the role of groundwater in national food and water security and promoting more crop and income per drop of water,” the satyagrahis said in their statement.
Bid to submit memorandum to Prime Minister
NEW DELHI: Yamuna Satyagraha activists who tried to submit a memorandum demanding preservation of the Yamuna’s floodplains to the Prime Minister were detained by the police outside Vigyan Bhavan here on Tuesday.
The delegation of satyagrahis was on its way to submit the memorandum to Dr. Singh who had came to inaugurate the National Groundwater Congress.
“On a day when the Prime Minister was talking about the importance of groundwater, we wanted to apprise him of the problems being faced by Delhi where the Yamuna floodplains, which are an important groundwater recharge zone, are under threat,” said Diwan Singh who was detained along with nine other and later released.
On reaching Vigyan Bhavan, the Satyagrahis were stopped by the police and taken into custody. “Ours was a peaceful delegation, we requested the police to let us meet some administration officers so that we could submit our memorandum, but we were taken away. So we sang songs penned by the students for the protection of the Yamuna,” he said.
In a statement later in the day, the activists said: “It is nothing but paradoxical that on one hand the Government is talking of the importance of groundwater resources, while on the other it is destroying the largest source of groundwater – the Yamuna floodplains. We urge the Prime Minister to stop concretisation of the riverbed to protect the groundwater resource of this city.”
The satyagrahis said it was ironic that while the Delhi Government was investing crores of rupees for promotion of rainwater harvesting, a significant quantity of water was allowed to flow down the river and go as waste to the Bay of Bengal during the monsoon season, because it not allowed spread over the floodplains.
The campaigners alleged: “There seems to be a well designed subterfuge to keep the floodplains devoid of floodwaters. The rainwater harvesting potential of the city is not more than 100 MCM, whereas the floodwater harvesting potential is more than 1500 MCM annually.”
“The Groundwater Conference is aimed at promoting water literacy, evaluating the role of groundwater in national food and water security and promoting more crop and income per drop of water,” the satyagrahis said in their statement.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
"YOUTH FOR JUSTICE"
PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
LAUNCH OF YOUTH FOR JUSTICE - UNIVERSITY CHAPTER
YOUTH FOR JUSTICE- "AAG"
PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
LAUNCH OF YOUTH FOR JUSTICE - UNIVERSITY CHAPTER
YOUTH FOR JUSTICE- "AAG"
( AGGRESIVE ACTION GROUP)
AND
"YOUTH FOR YAMUNA"
-A YOUTH FOR JUSTICE INITIATIVE TO SAVE YAMUNA
FROM
LOOT IN NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES
WE INVITE YOU TO
FIRST YOUTH MARCH FOR YAMUNA
SUNDAY 16th Sept. 2007
JANTAR MANTAR AT 4:00pm
JOIN US
SPREAD THE MESSAGE TO ALL
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