FREE/DEM
FREE/DEM stands for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. What began as an initiative to bring issues around active citizenship and an understanding of democratic values and practices to grassroots communities through community radio has now expanded to become a larger effort to teach media and information literacy to marginalized communities.
The initiative is now active with communities across *Delhi, Rajasthan, UP and Bihar* - and includes capacity building on *media skills *(making audio and video content); *digital literacy* (using mobile phones; accessing information over the internet), and *fact-checking and verification* (including skills to stop the spread of fake news and misinformation). Community members participate in a series of training workshops organized within the community (and supported by local screenings and events) over a period of several months, where they are trained in these skills, and encouraged to become media creators rather than be passive consumers of information created elsewhere.
The Delhi communities, based in migrant populations around Badarpur border, now runs its own *WhatsApp 'channel' *by creating audio and video content on information the community wants to share and ideas the community would like to discuss. They have successfully used this mechanism for advocacy with their local ward councillor, as well as their MLA, to address several issues around drainage, sanitation and access to entitlements.
You can see some of the content they create at www.freedem.in
Modi’s Monetisation Worse than Demonetisation.
Modi’s Monetisation Mantra Is a Blow Worse... - Dipankar Bhattacharya https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=390254576028372&id=111747030545796&sfnsn=wiwspwa
With assets, the government will naturally also shed jobs. Less government jobs will mean loss of reservations for the socially deprived and loss of job and income security for all who will now have to look for jobs in private companies. There will be bigger blows to wider sections of people. Prices will go up with little regulation by the government and growing monopoly power of the big companies. Tariffs of all services are already going up, and the government has already amended the Essential Commodities Act to pave the way for an across the board rise in prices of all essential items.
While consumers will have to bear with increased prices, small traders, roadside vendors and livelihood earners will suffer a major jolt. Privatisation of roads will mean appearance of toll plazas and expensive eateries and disappearance of roadside dhabas, tea stalls and repair shops. Adani-Ambani railway stations will be more like airport lounges and shopping malls where food courts and expensive coffee shops will replace the fruit and tea vendors and providers of cheap meals who will lose their access to stations and trains.
NMP by its very nature will have much more enduring effect, with the public sector virtually being replaced by powerful private players and consumers and small producers being completely subjugated to the extortionist ways of big business.
Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat 5th September 2021
महापंचायत में उमड़ा जनसैलाब, मिशन UP की शुरुआत | Muzaffarnagar | Mahapanchayat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Lq2p-Qu-M
Muzaffarnagar की KisanMahapanchayat में इस ऐलान के बाद सुनेगी सरकार ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmzAAuNb6eY Sep 5, 2021 Ajit Anjum Soeaks to Rakesh Tikait, Yoginder Yadav, Medha Patkar. and other leader on the dais itself.
Muzaffarnagar mega farmers rally vows to oust Yogi Adityanath regime https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/thousands-of-farmers-attend-kisan-mahapanchayat-in-muzaffarnagar/article36301798.ece Anuj KumarPriscilla Jebaraj MUZAFFARNAGAR, SEPTEMBER 05, 2021 Lakhs of farmers streamed into Muzaffarnagar on Sunday for the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s largest mahapanchayat so far to hear Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait declare his determination to oust the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh next year by tapping into rural anger and uniting farmers and workers across religion and caste.
The SKM is a platform for farm unions which, for the last ten months, has been protesting against three agricultural reform laws which could affect State-run markets, and also called for a legal guarantee for minimum support prices for all farm produce.
सबसे बड़ा सवाल: मुजफ्फरनगर से किसानों की हुंकार…कितनी तैयार सरकार ? Sandeep Chaudhary के साथ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7aA1xjFQo
Sep 5, 2021
Farmers Hold Meet In Muzaffarnagar, Will Campaign Against BJP In UP Polls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OvrEEvN1w
Sep 6, 2021
Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: क्या किसान आंदोलन पश्चिमी Uttar Pradesh में दंगों के दाग मिटा पाएगा? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40KIwaGZV8
Sep 6, 2021 : राकेश टिकैत (Rakesh Tikait) ने कहा कि पहले के किसान आंदोलन (Farmers' Protest) में एकता के लिए अल्लाहू अकबर और हर-हर महादेव का नारा लगता था. इस दौर में इसे दोहराना साहसिक है. धार्मिक नारों को राजनीतिक मुद्दों की लड़ाई से जितनी जल्दी विदा कर दिया जाए उतना ही अच्छा. हर दूसरा किसान नेता दंगों के खिलाफ भाषण दे रहा था.
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