I have just arrived in Hiroshima with a group of Japanese “Okinawa to Hiroshima peace walkers” who had spent nearly two months walking Japanese roads protesting U.S. militarism. While we were walking, an Afghan peace march that had set off in May was enduring 700km of Afghan roadsides, poorly shod, from Helmand province to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. Our march[Read More…]
as told to Maya Evans February 21, 2017 This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans When I was six life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived it was possible to see the mud houses from far away. The Baba Mountains[Read More…]
VCNV organised a 150 mile peace walk between 28th May to 10th June, from downtown Chicago to Thomson Prison, a new supermax federal facility due to open next summer with 1,900 solitary confinement cells. The U.S. currently incarcerates 2.3 million people, that’s 10% of the population, or 25% of world prisoners. Nationally, Blacks and Latinos are 5 times more likely to be incarcerated than Whites, and[Read More…]
George Floyd is strangled in India too 
Elephant Killing in Kerala has nothing to do with Malappuram Muslims 
Army Attack on Golden Temple Turned India into Unitary Rule 
America’s Pandemic Racism Is As Heart-Wrenching As It Is Sickening 
Statement From Feminists in India Against The Police Violence That Killed George Floyd 
In US, While Leadership Falters, COVID-19 Wins: Trumps Pathetic Treatment Of The Pandemic 
Lack of Identity of Migrant Workers 
World Environment Day – A Message 
My Wretched Country 
Onset of Mental Health Crisis: Changing the Conversation in Pandemic times 
Understanding Education in the age of Digital Divide 
On mobs, monkeys and migrants 
People across the country demand accountability for the loss of life and livelihood due to the lockdown 
Manifesto for mass movements for the future and survival of India 
We don’t need Tyranny of anyone in democracy: Elected or ‘Un-elected’ 
As US protests show, the challenge is how to rise above the violence inherent in state power 
Taking The Knee 
Remembering Tiananmen Square And The Pro-Democracy Protests 
India’s Unsustainable Villages 
Lockdown, Culture And Identity 
The pandemic may knock out small newspapers in the Indian regional language news market 
“You Can’t Fix Stupid”: A Review of Robert Reich’s The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It 
The game of Corona 
A New Economy after Corona Virus 
Demanding food, water and health care, several political groups conduct Padayatra 
Benefits of Equality 
Uninterrupted And Continuous Human Rights Violations Against The Tamils In Sri Lanka 
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks 
The Killing Of George Floyd And The Long History Of Police Brutality In The US 
What waits for Rohingyas? 
Public Display of Faith Can Wait, Humanity Cannot 
Persistent and Unabated Efforts by US to Grip and Destabilize Nepal as Part of Indo-Pacific Strategy 
Preparing For Natural Disasters Within A Pandemic 
Corona And Environment: A Lesson To Learn 
Challenges in Seeking Health Care amidst COVID 19 Pandemic: Experiences of Cancer Patients 
Jaganmohan Reddy’s Fight To Impart English Education In Government Schools Met With Resistance 
Understanding Pandemics Through a Climate-Perspective 
A Superpower In Chaos 
Welcoming Reader’s Participation In Preparing A “People’s Manifesto for India’s Future” The Government’s Mishandling Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Must Have Consequences For Those In Its Highest Offices 
Today, the Republic of India faces its gravest moment since it was born seventy years ago. What has hit the second most populous nation in the world – just in the last few months itself – is nothing short of a crisis of Biblical proportions. An untreatable viral epidemic, a debilitating lockdown, a collapsed economy, hunger stalking every corner of[Read More…]
