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Aruna Chandrasekhar Profile picture
@aruna_sekhar
Aug 25, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Jaitley, neolib pusher of farmer disenfranchisement.
Jaitley, who called the coal allocation scam “the biggest scam in independent India” but provided private coal firms legal advice that “they were not legally bound to share the proposed profits with the government”. caravanmagazine.in/reportage/talk…
Jaitley, the FM who drove consensus on the Goods and Services Tax whose hole-ridden legacy we’re left with
...a legacy that bankrupted massive collections from India’s unique carbon tax meant for climate R&D
scroll.in/article/841910… and disaster mitigation funds. m.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/12/as-…
So we’re not going to talk about demonetisation or the weakening of the RBI under Jaitley’s watch? Right.
S’long and thanks for legalising foreign funding for political parties retrospectively+till the end of time thewire.in/government/rev… and the anonymous electoral bonds that wrote off any semblance of fair elections.
@churumuri on Delhi access journalism that yielded so many stories of consequence this last term. indianjournalismreview.com/2019/08/26/45-…

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Jul 7, 2020
Nearly half a million Indian coal workers went on strike from July 2 on to oppose the Indian government's commercial coal auctions and further privatisation of the sector. Not a peep on English TV news, afaik. Looking at some of the headlines:
Reading stories in business papers that ran wire copy without a single line on workers' demands.
.@ZeeNews @aajtak @ndtv @ABPNews, your viewers have been tweeting to ask why no coverage of the strike.
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Jun 7, 2020
Reminder: if you're tweeting from India, chances are your device is powered by environmental racism. Most coal comes from indigenous lands. The Coal Bearing Areas Act allows land to be acquired w/o consent. We let caste-based colonialism go uninterrogated because 'development'.
Allies in the int'l climate movement look the other way, because they see only one kind of historical injustice. We know differently. We know just how deeply extractivism runs, how elites like you and I profit off others being denied rights to life, to land, to breathe.
Many of our eyes were opened to the extent of police brutality vs. workers, students and minorities in our cities, via lockdown, pogrom or protests. Throw in paramilitary, industrial security, pvt militias, the everyday fear of being "encountered" or arrested in sacrifice zones.
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May 25, 2020
Flash floods in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya.
Brahmaputra flood warning for Assam.
Meanwhile, record temps.
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May 11, 2020
The chemical plant that leaked toxic styrene gas and killed 12 in my home city was operating illegally. State and central authorities whose job it was to know never asked. With @HannahEP and @safimichael in @guardian. #VizagGasTragedy
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
We read this tbh 2019 affidavit from LG Polymers in some shock on the morning of the leak, in which the co. admits to running without an environment clearance, receiving approvals from the state govt to expand over 6 times without environmental assessment. environmentclearance.nic.in/writereaddata/…
According to the state pollution control board's document checklist to grant consent, an EIA and an environment clearance are at the top of the list. The plant had neither. pcb.ap.gov.in/content-manage…
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Feb 21, 2019
Since 2011, I’ve traveled through tribal districts in Andhra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha. In these years, I’ve seen rooms full of forest rights claims gathering dust, some even in the constituency of Tribal Affairs Min @jualoram.
Hundreds of adivasis across states who I’ve interviewed had not even heard of the Forest Rights Act a decade after it was introduced. They didn’t believe they had a right to consent or to file individual or community claims, a belief that authorities would rather let persist.
It was an Act meant to empower gram sabhas, or village assemblies to verify rights. Where do most rejections come from? District level committees comprised of bureaucracy that still uses the words 'encroachers' to describe adivasis.
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Nov 3, 2018
“All the policies are only for the walls. You have factories full of 2000 women and none of them know who they can approach. There’s no support for migrants who come to work here or sympathy from the police.” #MeToo #GarmentWorkersSpeak #bangalore
“When our colleague who was sexually violated by a supervisor for 3 years went to file a complaint, the response was ‘if it happened for so long, you must like him’”. #bangalore #metoo
“As women conductors on BMTC buses, we’re constantly being touched, groped and pushed up against. Men board these buses drunk and misbehave with us. We work so hard and can’t even have clean toilets to ourselves- there’s no safety in this job.” #bangalore #metoo
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