Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter from  Tim Berners-Lee https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42 Mar 12, 2024

Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and generate creativity

the web was decentralised with a long-tail of content and options, it created small, more localised communities, provided individual empowerment and fostered huge value.

when the web turned 30, I called out some of the dysfunction caused by the web being dominated by the self-interest of several corporations

..in the past decade..From the centralisation of platforms to the AI revolution, the web serves as the foundational layer of our online ecosystem ..

The first is the extent of power concentration, which contradicts the decentralised spirit I originally envisioned. This has segmented the web, with a fight to keep users hooked on one platform to optimise profit through the passive observation of content.

Compounding this issue is the second, the personal data market that has exploited people’s time and data with the creation of deep profiles that allow for targeted advertising and ultimately control over the information people are fed.

Part of the solution is the Solid Protocol, https://solidproject.org/  a specification and a movement to provide each person with their own ‘personal online data store’, known as a POD.

 

 

Why Mankhurd girls have stopped playing football: Blame the neighbourhood boys https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/why-mankhurd-girls-have-stopped-playing-football-101718737103583.html ByJyoti Punwani Jun 19, 2024

Shabnam is a licensed football coach. ...On May 31, when she was coaching her regular batch of around 40 children, most of them girls, Shabnam was hit on the chest and nose by a tennis ball aimed at her by boys playing cricket nearby.  the boys who targeted Shabnam continue to play there, despite Shabnam filing a police complaint against them.

“Boys cannot tolerate the sight of girls playing with abandon,” said Sabah Khan, founder of Parcham, the feminist group that started the unusual initiative of girls playing football in the Muslim-dominated suburb of Mumbra in 2012. That initiative has now spread to Mandala in Mankhurd, Bandra and Jogeshwari....Farhat Jahan Ali, convenor of Parcham, is determined to see the May 31 incident to its logical end. Not only did the police not respond immediately though Shabnam was bleeding after the ball hit her, but they did not even take her to hospital, she said. Also, they did not record Shabnam’s statement in hospital correctly, she alleged.

Whose city? by Amit Singh on Whatsapp (ohotos https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNF_m11Vy-wfvUguuTE9-_3Xzi3R3poGXaDFrgzxEOr2hwjGD2psID0OOD2_k6zcA?pli=1&key=NG1EN3B4algwaGtZbmRlMnRacDFqNlhlNF9TakRR)

Whose city is it anyway? Of real estate sharks like Hiranandani who have displaced so many people off the lands in Powai and deforested the area? Or of many workers who were living till this Wednesday in Jai Bhim Nagar, a slum surrounded by Hiranandani owned huge residential towers, and whose jhuggis and homes were demolished by the BMC under the directives of powers that rule Mumbai and Powai?

After their homes and memories were shattered on Thursday afternoon, many of them are forced to live now on the nearby roads. The footpath near the Powai plaza towards the Galleria shopping mall has been the most kind so far to give shelter to hundreds of people.

Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint Priyanka Samy   https://thewire.in/caste/transformational-solidarity-a-dalit-feminist-viewpoint  We live in times where struggles for social justice and equity converge, revealing inherent similarities between issues.... we must transition from our binary understanding of systems and power. This mandates the social justice movement to rise to a new level of consciousness and action. It is an urgent call – to move from performative politics to progressive politics, from tokenistic solidarities towards transformational solidarities.

Transformational solidarity goes beyond the superficial allyship often displayed by those who remain ensnared in the webs of white and Brahminical supremacy. It demands of us a deep, introspective commitment to understanding the diverse ways in which people are systematically oppressed.

Recalibrating our politics to embody transformational solidarity is not a one-time action but a continuous process of unlearning, learning, strategising and re-strategising. Moreover, as the civil society space is increasingly shrinking across the globe, the time for surface-level solidarities has long passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx-zYD4hZus 

Ladakh Solidarity- PUCL-NAPM-VS 

webinar on Ladakh: https://www.youtube.com/live/xx-zYD4hZus?si=aGj7bkd-m9616g4_

Ashish Kothsri hISTORICAL Context   https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=441  end=861 Land issue.. for tourist, miining, Vision from outside... - commwercial industrial profit making, security zone, religious,  the narrative itself..  Ecological crisis in terms of water, people from outside ladakh are also dependent on this as a source of water.. https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=861

https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=921 Kavita welcome Sonam...

Sonam Wangchuk,

19-2-24  SKM Out-rightly Rejects the Union Ministers Proposal on Crop Diversification and Procurement for 5 Years as Diverting and Diluting the Focal Demands of Farmers. Nothing Below MSP@C2+50% with Guaranteed Procurement Acceptable to Farmers. SKM Rejects Proposal of Ordinance on A2+FL+50%- Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM)  https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/samyukta-kisan-morcha-rejects-centre-msp-proposal-crops-punjab-9169610/

 On this 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it would be pertinent to recall what he said about a nonviolent campaign.

The "Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change" is based on Dr. King’s nonviolent campaigns and teaching which emphasize love in action.

1. INFORMATION GATHERING: To understand and articulate an issue, problem, or injustice facing a person, community, or institution, you must do research. You must investigate and gather all vital information from all sides of the argument or issue to increase your understanding of the problem. You must become an expert on your opponent’s position.

2. EDUCATION: It is essential to inform others, including your opposition, about your issue. This minimizes misunderstandings and gains you support and sympathy. You can write articles for newspapers and magazines. You can hold seminars, and workshops and build coalitions on the issue. You can write statements for pastors, priests, and rabbis to include in their sermons.

3. PERSONAL COMMITMENT: Daily check and affirm your faith in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Eliminate hidden motives and prepare yourself to accept suffering, if necessary, in your work for justice.

4. NEGOTIATIONS: Using grace, humor, and intelligence, confront the other party with a list of injustices and a plan for addressing and resolving these injustices. Look for what is positive in every action and statement the opposition makes. Do not seek to humiliate the opponent, but call forth the good in the opponent. Look for ways in which the opponent can also win.

5. DIRECT ACTION: These are actions taken to get the opponent to work with you in resolving the injustices. Direct action imposes a “creative tension” into the conflict. There are over 250 different direct action tactics, including boycotts, marches, rallies, rent strikes, work slowdowns, letter-writing and petition campaigns, bank-ins, property occupancy, financial withdrawal, and political denial through the ballot. Direct action is most effective when it illustrates the injustice it seeks to correct.

6. RECONCILIATION: Nonviolence seeks friendship and understanding with the opponent. Nonviolence is directed against evil systems, forces, oppressive policies, and evil and unjust acts, not against persons. Reconciliation includes the opponent being able to “save face”. Through reasoned compromise, both sides resolve the injustice with a plan of action. Each act of reconciliation is one step closer to the “Beloved Community.” Not only are individuals empowered, but so is the entire community. With that comes a new struggle for justice and a new beginning. Post by  S. P. Udayakumaran Green Tamilnadu Party Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, January 15, 2024, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Living with the other – a lesson from Vivekananda https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/living-with-the-other-a-lesson-from-vivekananda-101704982912578.html By Rajni Bakshi Jan 11, 2024

Vivekananda, on his birthday (12th Jan) we ... celebrate his call for bandhutva, a much richer word than fraternity. ..A tug of war in society is often about one identity group or interest group trying to be victorious over some "other".  in comparison, churning within a samaj is about recognising and processing competing impulses in ways that enable all to evolve and grow. ... Vivekananda's processing of competing emotions remain precious for us today because it had the firm spiritual, philosophical and moral anchor of Advaita.. Each one of us has to choose: Do we see other's vulnerability in combative terms, as a weak point to strike? Or do we approach the other with the possibility of a shared quest for freedom from fear?

स्वामी विवेकानंद को उनकी जयंती पर नमन. क्या क्या नहीं किया स्वामी विवेकानंद ने! कितनी जिंदगियां जी, कितनी पीढ़ियों को फिर ज़िन्दा किया! स्वामीजी के पर यह विडियो देखिये, अपने साथी-सहयोगियों को भी दिखाईये, और उन्हें जन गण मन अभियान से जोड़िये. मिस्ड कॉल 78777 22353. # JanaGanaMana

https://youtu.be/FzJxdXhlnQQ?si=06KG8p12QE4ba24k   स्वामी विवेकानंद पुण्यतिथि: आज यदि स्वामी विवेकांनद जीवित होते तो क्या करते ? Radio Jan Khabar

 

Ram  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEIrc7ze7g written/performed by: Psycho Shayar Dec 25, 2023 some unseen aspects of lord Rama! Jabardasti Jai Sri Ram ke nara me sab kuch hai par Ram nahin? Soch kar Ram kaho!

आगे बढ़ता लाँग मॉर्च, 11वां दिन, 17 दिसम्बर 2023  Voice of Farmer Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwLWpuWLYAI