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Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case

16/10/2018 Rani

CJP / By Akhil Vasudevan

On January 12, 2018, two weeks after Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad program in Pune, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police picked up four workers of Reliance Infrastructure, one contractor from the same company and a casual worker. Their houses in the slum were raided in the middle of the night for hours before the arrest. A union activist was picked up a day before. The ATS squad questioned several other workers from the same company in the following days and finally arrested one more person from Reliance Infrastructure on 25th January. Interestingly, all the eight arrested men are migrants from Andhra/Telangana region. All of them have been charged under draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
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Bhima Koregaon Has Become a Pretext to Arrest Innocent Workers

04/10/2018 Rani

The Wire / By Akhil Vasudevan

The Bhima Koregaon link is helping the police in three ways – it is delegitimising a people’s movement by accusing it of having Maoist links, covering up for the real perpetrators while targeting those who are fighting for the marginalised in the country.
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Letter of Mumbai Electric Employees Union to the Chief Minister regarding arrest of four of their members and on behalf of the other workers.
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Video: No More Fake Charges!

15/09/2018 Rani

hindi | en subs. | 11 min

As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following video documents voices and protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
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Video: “Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets.”

12/09/2018 Rani

en | 1:33 min | 2016

Azim Premji University Colloquium

Sudha Bharadwaj talks about “Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets: The Situation of Precarious Workers” as part of the Azim Premji University Colloquium Series.
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Chhattisgarh: No more fake charges!

09/09/2018 Rani

As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following pictures document protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.

Foto credits: CMM archive

How Chhatisgarh’s Contract Workers Overcame the Odds

08/09/2018 Rani

Sabrang / By Sudha Bharadwaj

Published February 8, 2016
A deep commitment to collective rights from the local union, international solidarity and grit ensured that the contract workers of Chhattisgarh inked a remarkable settlement, this January.
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Some Experiences of Organising Workers in Chhattisgarh

31/05/2018 Rani

Aspects of India´s Economy / By Sudha Bharadwaj

The following is a note on the work and experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakarta Committee), Labour Camp Jamul, district Durg, Chhattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh has a population of about 20 million, with significant proportions of tribal and dalit communities (32 and 12 per cent, respectively). Of the area of 135,000 sq. km., 45 per cent is forest land.
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