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Glover: Help Ohio plant, shun Hugo Boss at Oscars
Danny Glover asks Oscars nominees to help Ohio factory workers by shunning Hugo Boss suits
Actor and activist Danny Glover is calling on Academy Awards nominees and others in the film industry to not wear Hugo Boss suits at Sunday's awards ceremony.
The "Lethal Weapon" star makes the request in a letter on behalf of 375 Cleveland factory workers who'll lose their jobs if the German company closes the plant next month as planned.
The Feb. 26 letter asks Hollywood to "take a small stand for American workers." It asks Oscars attendees to wear on their lapels a pin reading, "Keep the Hugo Boss Plant Open."
Glover is collaborating with the labor union Workers United. The union says the plant is profitable and the company is shutting it because it can make clothing more cheaply in Europe.
Hugo Boss AG says the plant isn't globally competitive.
Source: AP News
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:16 am
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:29 pm
Anna Hazare fever spreads to Hong Kong, Singapore; expat Indians join protests
BEIJING: The Anna Hazare fever has spread to Hong Kong and Singapore with expatriate Indians holding relay fasts, meetings and demonstrations. More demonstrations and a drive to raise funds for the movement back home have been planned for the next weekend.
Volunteers posted at the entry gates of subway stations in Hong Kong are distributing a two-paper leaflets explaining why it was necessary for Indians living abroad to express their support for the anti-corruption movement and comparing the official and the Anna Hazare versions of the Lokpal Bill.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... -hong-kong
BEIJING: The Anna Hazare fever has spread to Hong Kong and Singapore with expatriate Indians holding relay fasts, meetings and demonstrations. More demonstrations and a drive to raise funds for the movement back home have been planned for the next weekend.
Volunteers posted at the entry gates of subway stations in Hong Kong are distributing a two-paper leaflets explaining why it was necessary for Indians living abroad to express their support for the anti-corruption movement and comparing the official and the Anna Hazare versions of the Lokpal Bill.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... -hong-kong
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Re: Social Cause
by kennynah » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:19 pm
a few days ago....my indian friend told me the revolution involved milions in india....big time...
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Re: Social Cause
by millionairemind » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:27 pm
kennynah wrote:a few days ago....my indian friend told me the revolution involved milions in india....big time...
Two million out of 1.2billion?? Sup sup water..
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Re: Social Cause
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India's hunger striker says ready to die for anti-graft cause
by Paul de Bendern and Annie Banerji
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Wednesday ruled out any compromise in his stand-off with the government over graft legislation, vowing to press on with a hunger strike now in its ninth day, even if it costs him his life.
With Hazare's health failing and thousands of supporters packed into the muddy open ground in New Delhi where he is staging his public fast, time was running out for the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to end the crisis.
Singh pleaded with the 74-year-old to at least agree to go on an intravenous drip, which Hazare has so far refused, and he called a meeting of political parties in parliament to find an end to the impasse.
Hazare's demand for more robust anti-graft laws has tapped into popular fury, particularly among the middle class, over the corruption that dogs Asia's third-largest economy, bringing tens of thousands onto streets across the country in the biggest social protests since the 1970s.
"I've only lost six kilos and a bit of my kidney is affected, but it is nothing to worry about," said the self-styled Gandhian activist, addressing his admirers in the Ramlila field just outside the walled city of old Delhi.
"Until the government agrees to all conditions, I will not back down. Even if I have to die."
The government has begun to offer concessions over tougher anti-corruption laws, but a deal has remained elusive.
"Over the last few days, I have watched with increasing concern the state of your health," Singh wrote in a letter to Hazare that was published by his office.
"At worst, our paths and methodologies may differ, though I do believe that even those differences have been exaggerated."
Despite the throng of supporters at Ramlila, criticism of Hazare's unyielding stand has mounted steadily, with prominent social activists, intellectuals and politicians calling on him and his movement to come to a compromise.
Hazare's protests earlier this year prompted the government to introduce an anti-graft bill in parliament in August, but he and his supporters have slammed the draft law as toothless.
Hazare's movement wants the draft bill withdrawn and their own version -- which would create an autonomous anti-corruption agency -- to be passed by the end of this month, a demand senior government figures say is unrealistic.
HEALTH CONCERNS MOUNT
Hazare's deteriorating health could force the government to decide on force-feeding him, a move that would risk sparking further protests against a fumbling government of elderly ministers widely seen as out of touch.
"Today is a very crucial day for the movement as his health is critical. Some concrete decision has to take place in the next few days or this movement may turn violent if something happens to him. We hope he breaks his fast in the next two days," said 26-year-old IT graduate Raj Aryan.
Hazare has rejected doctors' advice to go to hospital or take an intravenous drip.
"If anyone from the government comes to take me away forcibly, then block the gates. I will not go," Hazare told his supporters late on Tuesday. He has remained lying or sitting on a public stage in the open for most of the day. He sleeps for a few hours in a small cordoned-off area during the night.
With key state elections due next year in the run-up to a general election in 2014, Singh is under pressure to end a crisis that has paralyzed policy making and parliament and added to his unpopularity amid high inflation and a run of corruption scandals.
Many of India's fast-growing urban middle class have joined forces with Hazare to protest against a system that requires bribes for everything from driver's licenses to birth certificates and has allowed politicians and businessmen to cream off millions of dollars through shady deals.
Several scandals linked to the government, including a telecoms bribery scam that may have cost the government up to $39 billion, led to Hazare's latest protest.
The activist, who has carried out scores of hunger strikes over the last few decades to pressure governments, has since been visited by Hindu gurus, former judges and Bollywood actors. But he has refused to have any politicians on his stage.
As his fast entered its ninth day, the sentiment inside Ramlila ground remained jubilant. Thousands of people were again gathered in the grounds, large parts of which were waterlogged and muddy after overnight rain.
The main opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is organizing a nationwide protest against the government on Thursday as it seeks to gain influence over what has essentially been a protest driven by the urban middle class.
Hazare was briefly jailed last week, a move the government tried to reverse quietly. But he remained voluntarily in prison until the government allowed him to continue his vigil, in public, for 15 days, and finally emerged last Friday to huge cheers from a triumphant crowd.
Source: Reuters US Online Report World News
by Paul de Bendern and Annie Banerji
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Wednesday ruled out any compromise in his stand-off with the government over graft legislation, vowing to press on with a hunger strike now in its ninth day, even if it costs him his life.
With Hazare's health failing and thousands of supporters packed into the muddy open ground in New Delhi where he is staging his public fast, time was running out for the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to end the crisis.
Singh pleaded with the 74-year-old to at least agree to go on an intravenous drip, which Hazare has so far refused, and he called a meeting of political parties in parliament to find an end to the impasse.
Hazare's demand for more robust anti-graft laws has tapped into popular fury, particularly among the middle class, over the corruption that dogs Asia's third-largest economy, bringing tens of thousands onto streets across the country in the biggest social protests since the 1970s.
"I've only lost six kilos and a bit of my kidney is affected, but it is nothing to worry about," said the self-styled Gandhian activist, addressing his admirers in the Ramlila field just outside the walled city of old Delhi.
"Until the government agrees to all conditions, I will not back down. Even if I have to die."
The government has begun to offer concessions over tougher anti-corruption laws, but a deal has remained elusive.
"Over the last few days, I have watched with increasing concern the state of your health," Singh wrote in a letter to Hazare that was published by his office.
"At worst, our paths and methodologies may differ, though I do believe that even those differences have been exaggerated."
Despite the throng of supporters at Ramlila, criticism of Hazare's unyielding stand has mounted steadily, with prominent social activists, intellectuals and politicians calling on him and his movement to come to a compromise.
Hazare's protests earlier this year prompted the government to introduce an anti-graft bill in parliament in August, but he and his supporters have slammed the draft law as toothless.
Hazare's movement wants the draft bill withdrawn and their own version -- which would create an autonomous anti-corruption agency -- to be passed by the end of this month, a demand senior government figures say is unrealistic.
HEALTH CONCERNS MOUNT
Hazare's deteriorating health could force the government to decide on force-feeding him, a move that would risk sparking further protests against a fumbling government of elderly ministers widely seen as out of touch.
"Today is a very crucial day for the movement as his health is critical. Some concrete decision has to take place in the next few days or this movement may turn violent if something happens to him. We hope he breaks his fast in the next two days," said 26-year-old IT graduate Raj Aryan.
Hazare has rejected doctors' advice to go to hospital or take an intravenous drip.
"If anyone from the government comes to take me away forcibly, then block the gates. I will not go," Hazare told his supporters late on Tuesday. He has remained lying or sitting on a public stage in the open for most of the day. He sleeps for a few hours in a small cordoned-off area during the night.
With key state elections due next year in the run-up to a general election in 2014, Singh is under pressure to end a crisis that has paralyzed policy making and parliament and added to his unpopularity amid high inflation and a run of corruption scandals.
Many of India's fast-growing urban middle class have joined forces with Hazare to protest against a system that requires bribes for everything from driver's licenses to birth certificates and has allowed politicians and businessmen to cream off millions of dollars through shady deals.
Several scandals linked to the government, including a telecoms bribery scam that may have cost the government up to $39 billion, led to Hazare's latest protest.
The activist, who has carried out scores of hunger strikes over the last few decades to pressure governments, has since been visited by Hindu gurus, former judges and Bollywood actors. But he has refused to have any politicians on his stage.
As his fast entered its ninth day, the sentiment inside Ramlila ground remained jubilant. Thousands of people were again gathered in the grounds, large parts of which were waterlogged and muddy after overnight rain.
The main opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is organizing a nationwide protest against the government on Thursday as it seeks to gain influence over what has essentially been a protest driven by the urban middle class.
Hazare was briefly jailed last week, a move the government tried to reverse quietly. But he remained voluntarily in prison until the government allowed him to continue his vigil, in public, for 15 days, and finally emerged last Friday to huge cheers from a triumphant crowd.
Source: Reuters US Online Report World News
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:22 pm
Analysis: India's social media "spring" masks forgotten protests by Alistair Scrutton
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike for 10 years to protest against military abuses, force-fed by tubes through her nose. But the tragedy for the world's longest hunger strike is that she is on the wrong side of India's digital divide.
Twitter, Facebook and aggressive private TV have helped rally India's biggest protests in decades to support civil activist Anna Hazare, a digital groundswell of a wired middle class that echoes the Arab Spring and has taken a Congress party-led government of elderly politicians by surprise.
But Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike in the northeastern Manipur state to demand an end to the army's sweeping emergency powers there, has only managed a small following, a footnote in media coverage.
"We also once tried to take our fight to New Delhi ... but we did not get support from the rest of the nation," Sharmila told Tehelka magazine.
Cases like Sharmila expose the digital divide of Asia's third largest economy and underscore how a growing urban middle class may be getting its political voice heard, while millions of poor remain off the digital protest map.
"This is the first time digital social media has resonated with such a large number of people," said Nishant Shah, head of research at the Center for Internet and Society think-tank.
"But this is far more of a middle class, urban movement, than a national movement. Many people in India are excluded from it."
Twitter and Facebook are barely used in many of India's social causes, including battles over land rights that are one of India's most pressing problems involving millions of farmers.
Huge social issues in India, from caste discrimination to high food prices, from the building of dams to protests by farmers against nuclear power plants, have failed to create the kind of digital mobilization that Hazare enjoys.
A DIGITAL DIVIDE
India's internet users have grown 1,400 percent between 2000 and 2010, behind only China and Vietnam among Asian countries, according to a report by Burson-Marsteller, a consulting firm.
But that masks India's low base. Internet penetration is around 8 percent in India, the lowest among major Asian countries. That compares with nearly 40 percent in China.
Out of a population of 1.2 billion, there are only 29 million people active in digital social networks. A report by Maplecroft consultancy warned that India was lagging other BRICs, Brazil, China and Russia in "digital inclusion."
Source: Reuters US Online Report Internet News
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Irom Sharmila has been on hunger strike for 10 years to protest against military abuses, force-fed by tubes through her nose. But the tragedy for the world's longest hunger strike is that she is on the wrong side of India's digital divide.
Twitter, Facebook and aggressive private TV have helped rally India's biggest protests in decades to support civil activist Anna Hazare, a digital groundswell of a wired middle class that echoes the Arab Spring and has taken a Congress party-led government of elderly politicians by surprise.
But Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike in the northeastern Manipur state to demand an end to the army's sweeping emergency powers there, has only managed a small following, a footnote in media coverage.
"We also once tried to take our fight to New Delhi ... but we did not get support from the rest of the nation," Sharmila told Tehelka magazine.
Cases like Sharmila expose the digital divide of Asia's third largest economy and underscore how a growing urban middle class may be getting its political voice heard, while millions of poor remain off the digital protest map.
"This is the first time digital social media has resonated with such a large number of people," said Nishant Shah, head of research at the Center for Internet and Society think-tank.
"But this is far more of a middle class, urban movement, than a national movement. Many people in India are excluded from it."
Twitter and Facebook are barely used in many of India's social causes, including battles over land rights that are one of India's most pressing problems involving millions of farmers.
Huge social issues in India, from caste discrimination to high food prices, from the building of dams to protests by farmers against nuclear power plants, have failed to create the kind of digital mobilization that Hazare enjoys.
A DIGITAL DIVIDE
India's internet users have grown 1,400 percent between 2000 and 2010, behind only China and Vietnam among Asian countries, according to a report by Burson-Marsteller, a consulting firm.
But that masks India's low base. Internet penetration is around 8 percent in India, the lowest among major Asian countries. That compares with nearly 40 percent in China.
Out of a population of 1.2 billion, there are only 29 million people active in digital social networks. A report by Maplecroft consultancy warned that India was lagging other BRICs, Brazil, China and Russia in "digital inclusion."
Source: Reuters US Online Report Internet News
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:14 pm
India Anti-Graft Crusader Hazare Sets Three Conditions to End 11-Day Fast
By Bibhudatta Pradhan and Andrew MacAskill
Anna Hazare, the Indian campaigner fasting for tougher laws to combat corruption, set three conditions to break a hunger strike now in its 11th day after an appeal from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Hazare, 74, told his supporters that parliament should start discussions from today:-
1) to appoint ombudsmen in all 28 Indian states,
2) consider bringing lower rungs of the bureaucracy in the ambit of an anti-graft law and 3) prepare a “citizens’ charter†to oversee ministries.
The conditions have been conveyed to Singh, the activist said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-2 ... -deal.html
By Bibhudatta Pradhan and Andrew MacAskill
Anna Hazare, the Indian campaigner fasting for tougher laws to combat corruption, set three conditions to break a hunger strike now in its 11th day after an appeal from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Hazare, 74, told his supporters that parliament should start discussions from today:-
1) to appoint ombudsmen in all 28 Indian states,
2) consider bringing lower rungs of the bureaucracy in the ambit of an anti-graft law and 3) prepare a “citizens’ charter†to oversee ministries.
The conditions have been conveyed to Singh, the activist said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-2 ... -deal.html
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:16 pm
Day 12 of Hazare's Cause.
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:59 pm
India Celebrates People’s Victory as Activist Ends Fast
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sipping coconut water and honey, a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption reformer ended a 13-day hunger strike on Sunday that had sparked India’s biggest protests in decades, besieged the government and ushered in a new middle class political force.
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sipping coconut water and honey, a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption reformer ended a 13-day hunger strike on Sunday that had sparked India’s biggest protests in decades, besieged the government and ushered in a new middle class political force.
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?a ... &buid=3281
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Re: Social Cause
by winston » Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:59 am
India graft campaigner urges more 'shocks' for govt
Indian anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare has urged people to give the scandal-hit government in Delhi "repeated shocks" to rid the country of the scourge of corruption.
Back in his village in Maharashtra state after a nearly two-week fast in New Delhi last month, Hazare -- dressed in his customary plain white cotton clothes and cap -- vowed late on Friday to fight corruption to "the bitter end."
"We have to give repeated shocks to the government to ensure there is a corruption-free India," the 74-year-old activist said in a strongly worded speech, according to the Press Trust of India.
Around 10,000 village supporters gathered to greet Hazare in his home village of Ralegan Siddhi, some 165 kilometres (100 miles) from India's financial hub Mumbai, the news agency said.
The former army driver drew together tens of thousands of Indians, especially from the urban middle class, during his hunger strike against corruption that chimed with deep popular discontent over the issue.
"After 64 years of independence from the British rule, nothing has changed in this country. The whites have been replaced by Indians. Loot, corruption and terrorism is rampant," said Hazare.
"What have we achieved? But now, the torch of the second battle of independence has been lit and the way the youth have participated in it is important."
Hazare urged young people to be prepared to fill India's jails whenever he campaigned "on pro-people" issues.
"You will get breakfast and two meals in jail. Going to jail for a cause is not something to be ashamed of but one should feel proud of it," he said.
Hazare also said the Congress-led government was not serious about bringing in a strong anti-corruption legislation.
He ended his fast last weekend after heated debate in parliament in which lawmakers agreed to his conditions for a tough new anti-corruption law in principle.
Hazare, who modelled his image and tactics on independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, transfixed the country but polarised opinion during his fast.
Many see him as a moral leader who exposed the government's apathy. But critics view him as an autocrat who sought to strong-arm parliament through his fast to impose his views on lawmakers.
Source: AFP Asian Edition
Indian anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare has urged people to give the scandal-hit government in Delhi "repeated shocks" to rid the country of the scourge of corruption.
Back in his village in Maharashtra state after a nearly two-week fast in New Delhi last month, Hazare -- dressed in his customary plain white cotton clothes and cap -- vowed late on Friday to fight corruption to "the bitter end."
"We have to give repeated shocks to the government to ensure there is a corruption-free India," the 74-year-old activist said in a strongly worded speech, according to the Press Trust of India.
Around 10,000 village supporters gathered to greet Hazare in his home village of Ralegan Siddhi, some 165 kilometres (100 miles) from India's financial hub Mumbai, the news agency said.
The former army driver drew together tens of thousands of Indians, especially from the urban middle class, during his hunger strike against corruption that chimed with deep popular discontent over the issue.
"After 64 years of independence from the British rule, nothing has changed in this country. The whites have been replaced by Indians. Loot, corruption and terrorism is rampant," said Hazare.
"What have we achieved? But now, the torch of the second battle of independence has been lit and the way the youth have participated in it is important."
Hazare urged young people to be prepared to fill India's jails whenever he campaigned "on pro-people" issues.
"You will get breakfast and two meals in jail. Going to jail for a cause is not something to be ashamed of but one should feel proud of it," he said.
Hazare also said the Congress-led government was not serious about bringing in a strong anti-corruption legislation.
He ended his fast last weekend after heated debate in parliament in which lawmakers agreed to his conditions for a tough new anti-corruption law in principle.
Hazare, who modelled his image and tactics on independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, transfixed the country but polarised opinion during his fast.
Many see him as a moral leader who exposed the government's apathy. But critics view him as an autocrat who sought to strong-arm parliament through his fast to impose his views on lawmakers.
Source: AFP Asian Edition
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