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...Last summer, I had planned to work with the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, a non-ideological organization dedicated to the protection of human rights in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This region is known for its large number of rural and forest-dwelling communities as well as for its rich mineral deposits. The day before arriving in Chhattisgarh, I learned that Dr. Binayak Sen, the human rights activist and doctor I had been planning to work with, had been arrested on counts of terrorism. He is still in jail today, nearly one year later...
...spontaneous movement of people to defend themselves against the excesses of Naxalite violence. In either event, one certain point is that Salwa Judum has increased violence in the state to unprecedented levels, forcing communities out of their forest dwellings and into crude, and by most reports sub-human, camps. Moving back is often not a choice for these communities, kept off their traditional land by the government in the name of public safety...
...Sen’s arrest is only one event in a disturbing trend toward imprisoning journalists, human rights advocates, academics and others under India’s nebulous anti-terrorism laws. The most recent arrestee was Ajay T.G., also a leading member of PUCL-Chhattisgarh, a human rights activist and film-maker, on May 4, 2008. Individuals like Dr. Sen have a global network of support, including Noam Chomsky, Amartya Sen and Paul Farmer, and yet his incarceration continues. Global demonstrations on May 13 and 14, including one in Harvard Square, will not only mark one year of Dr. Sen?...
...have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, self-understanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority,” the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) wrote in their 1962 Port Huron Statement, expressing their optimism toward man’s potential to govern his own life and change his world in the face of racial discrimination and the existence of the Bomb. The students in SDS were confident that they could obliterate the loneliness, estrangement, and isolation...
...which his subjects struggle to reconstitute a shattered belief system and grapple to find meaning. When writing about a rehabilitation program, Samuels presents addiction as a metaphysical problem in nature: “addiction is a symptom, more urgent and dramatic, perhaps, of the constraints inherent in the human condition. The source of these constraints—our souls, ourselves, the chemistry in our brains—is hard to put a finger on.” It is times like these, when Samuels thinks through print, that allow readers to form a connection with the text...