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Joe Xavier: https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=219&end=280   (~ 1 min)You have had to pay the price, and be crucified by the powers that be. But fear not, your work has not been in vain. Many will follow your way

Fr. Jerry Coutinha  Provincial of Jamshedpur Jesuit  https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=387&end=728  (~4 mins) 

Fr Stan Dsouza:   https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=1548&end=2043  ( ~6 mins )  The good shepherd

Fr. Frazer:    https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=3104&end=3837 (~11 mins)   Comrades all in Communion, All those working for humanity, marginalised, Adivasis..  Ad for the three week course at ISI, Bangalore. Stan fought for Good Provisions in the Constitution and Law  for Adivasis, which are not being implemented. He had filed a petition for the  3000 undertrial Adivasis who were incarcerated  

Lindsey, granddaughter of Stan..https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=3840&end=4019  (~3 mins)   thanks to all .  A Caged bird can still sing! 

Joe Xavier: https://youtube.com/embed/WE5Q8Ixym28?start=4030&end=4746  (~11 mins) Mystery.  Bring Eucharist to the Life of the people.. Lawyers support, . sippers issue.  cell mates support - Tributes to Arun, Anand and Vernon! Lawyers Mihir (2) , Nitya, Susan, Kritika, Medical Staff including Ian of Holy Family.  Media Fraternity.  Celebrating what we Believe in. we believe this world must be build up on Constitutional values, and the gospel values.- simple love your neighbour.  Show mercy, compassion, solidarity and work for justice and rights and reconciliation.. 

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https://theshillongtimes.com/2021/07/06/a-prophet-is-a-threat-to-the-powerful/  Walter Fernandes Shillong Times

During the four decades I have worked with him I have seen him sticking his neck out on behalf of people in the periphery. He was in the middle of the struggle of bonded agricultural labourers in Bangalore in the mid-1970s. In 1978 and many times after it we saw him joining the Dalits at Villupuram and Tanjore and elsewhere demanding their right to be human. In many of these cases the fight was within the church and many of its leaders thought that he was a divisive influence in the Church. But Stan’s struggle was for justice to the poor and for an inclusive India in which all people are equal. So he was often disliked even in the Church. But many others supported the causes he took up even when they disagreed with him on details. In all these instances Stan insisted on non-violence when many victims of injustice were demanding a violent reaction. Such a person is accused of being a Naxalite.
During most of these four decades his priority was the rights of the tribal communities of Jharkhand and its neighbouring States. The corporate sector wanted their land and the tribals as cheap bonded labour. 

He went to the high court seeking the freedom of more than 3,000 tribal young persons of Jharkhand who are jailed because they demanded the rights that are theirs under various laws such as the Prevention of Tribal Land Alienation Act, and the Panchayat Extension to the Scheduled Areas Act. These laws are made and not implemented and Stan demanded that the young persons who demand their implementation be freed and that their voice be heard.

He was arrested a few days before this case came up for hearing in the high court.

Stan Swamy has laid down his life for the cause of the tribal communities struggling for their rights. Let this sacrifice of Stan and others paying the price in jail not go in vain.

The Whole Story: Father Stan Swamy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yva7GxYLVx0 - 06 July, 2021  

esuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy passed away on Monday afternoon, two days after he was placed on ventilator support in Mumbai’s Holy Family Hospital.

Incidentally, the Bombay High Court was urgently hearing his bail petition due to his deteriorating health when it was announced that he passed away at 1:30pm.

In Oct 2020, Stan Swamy was accused and arrested in the Elgar Parishad case by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from his residence in Ranchi. Other accused include Varavara Rao and Sudha Bharadwaj

Stan Swamy dead: NIA didn’t seek custody but kept him behind bars, opposed his plea https://indianexpress.com/article/india/father-stan-swamy-dead-elgar-parishad-case-nia-probe-7390722/ Founder of Bagaicha, a Ranchi-based organisation that works for advisasis and moolvasis, Swamy said he was targetted for protesting against the illegal detention of youngsters accused of being Maoists. October 22: Within a week of his arrest, when Swamy sought interim bail on the ground that he is susceptible to the Covid-19 infection given his age and comorbidities, including a heart condition and Parkinson’s disease, the NIA said the 83-year-old was taking “undue benefit” of the pandemic and that the pleading about his medical condition was “merely a ruse” to obtain interim relief. As ‘evidence’ of his alleged association with the CPI (Maoist), the NIA told the court there were emails exchanged between Swamy and the other co-accused Stan said he has never visited Bhima Koregaon and the documents claimed to have been found on his laptop were in a format which can be “easily manipulated and planted on an insecure digital device”. Even before his arrest, Swamy had questioned the authenticity of the documents when confronted with them, saying that they did not show details of the sender and receiver, and had no date or signature, and thus could be easily planted. The NIA claimed that in 2019, he had attended a meeting in Kolkata organised to protest against the arrest of human rights activists in the Elgar Parishad case.