Groundxero | 28th December, 2023 The all-India general body meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for intensifying struggle of farmers and farm-workers in 2024 to achieve the main demands of Minimum Support Price (MSP) calculated on the basis of C2+50% formula for all crops procurement by the government, freedom of farmers from […]
#SijimaliMatters Update # 6 December 21, 2023 We bring to you an update of the Gram (Palli) Sabha meetings held in the Sijimali region on 8 December by the local administration in the presence of company officials and armed police and people’s protest and the Shaheed Rendo Majhi Diwas event in Nakrundi Gram Panchayat […]
By Groundxero 17 December, 2023 In yet another deadly industrial accident, nine workers, including six women, were killed and and three others seriously injured in a massive blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Nagpur district of Maharashtra on Sunday morning. The company was into manufacturing drones and explosives for the armed forces. The blast […]
By Harsh Thakor 15 December, 2023 A conglomeration of revolutionary and democratic forces, united under the slogan of ‘fighting fascism and neo-liberalism,’ has commenced a ‘Jan Chetna Yatra’ (People’s Awakening March) from December 6, 2023. The Yatra, a rally from Kolkata to Varanasi, aims to raise awareness among the masses regarding the communal agenda […]
Murderous State’s drone attack killed at least 88 persons in Tudun Biri village, Kaduna, Nigeria, on 3 December. By Harsh Thakor At least 88 people have been reportedly killed in a mistaken army drone attack” on a religious gathering, during the Mawlid al-Nabi (the birthday of Prophet Muhammad), in the northwest of Nigeria. […]
By Groundxero | 10 Dec, 2023 Peasant unions, Adivasi organizations, Trade Unions and social activists in Odisha have issued a joint statement condemning the farce of Gram Sabhas carried out by the Odisha Government in the Sijimali region to hasten the process of bauxite mining for Vedanta Limited. They have expressed outrage and concern over […]
“We stand here ashamed that the weapons used in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine are partly made on our own doorstep,” one participating doctor said. By OLIVIA ROSANE Dec 07, 2023 More than 1,000 union members with Workers for a Free Palestine blockaded four weapons factories in the United Kingdom Thursday that make components […]
By Groundxero Dec 02, 2023 The University Grants Commission (UGC) has written to colleges and universities across the country to set up selfie points with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image in the background to ‘Foster Pride’. In a letter sent to colleges and universities, the UGC has suggested that campus authorities should encourage students […]
Israel resumed its assault on the Gaza Strip Friday morning just minutes after the pause with Hamas officially expired, ending a fragile seven-day truce that created conditions for the release of hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian captives and allowed additional—but still inadequate—humanitarian aid to enter the besieged territory. By Groundxero Dec 01, 2023 […]
“Only a negotiated cease-fire can pave the way to addressing the current humanitarian crisis, the release of all hostages, and a long-term solution to this conflict,” said one campaigner. JESSICA CORBETT Nov 29, 2023 Almost a million Americans signed petitions from half a dozen civil society organizations demanding that U.S. President Joe Biden […]
“This day of action grows every year because the movement to hold Amazon accountable keeps getting bigger and stronger,” said the head of UNI Global Union. By JAKE JOHNSON Nov 24, 2023 Amazon workers and allies in dozens of countries around the world took to the streets Friday to protest the e-commerce behemoth’s […]
Groundxero : November 23, 2023 #SijimaliMatters Update #5 The past three and a half months have been both tumultuous and decisive in shaping the antimining resistance of Adivasis and Dalits in South Odisha. As we bring to you our fifth update, twenty three activists arrested since mid-August have stepped out of the confines […]
Anne Boyer, a poet and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, quit as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine and released a resignation letter. She denounced “the Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza” — accurately calling it “an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted through […]
Her story in photos of two public hearings for environment clearance to Vedanta’s bauxite mining proposal in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, Odisha By Rajaraman, Debabrata and Evanjelina. Women of Banteji village, in the foothills of Tijmali, collectively resolve to oppose bauxite mining on the night before the public hearing of 16th October […]
Groundxero | 13th November, 2023 In the context of the Assembly Elections to five states, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions which spearheaded the historic struggle against the three Farm Laws in 2020-21 – reiterated its stand on elections: It will not contest elections or extend support to any candidate […]