Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qqqVwM6bMM Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement Oct 17, 2011
http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.
It started in a jail cell. Now, it fights to free those wrongfully jailed https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/law/it-started-in-a-jail-cell-now-it-fights-to-free-those-wrongfully-jailed/articleshow/122924710.cms Innocence Network India, a coalition of lawyers, prison‑rights activists and civil society groups who work for “the rights of those wrongfully prosecuted or convicted, especially under terrorism charges.”
Wahid Shaikh, who helped found the network, a school teacher in Nagpada, central Mumbai, spends most of his after-school hours running Acquit Undertrial, his one-man YouTube channel that amplifies cases of alleged wrongful prosecution and demands compensation for acquitted convicts.
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Pro-Palestine activists protest at Mahindra outlet in Hyderabad https://www.siasat.com/pro-palestine-activists-protest-at-mahindra-outlet-in-hyderabad-3251426/ part of a nationwide campaign to highlight what they describe as Mahindra’s involvement with the Israeli economy and its “complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.” The IPSP has previously targeted other international and domestic companies, such as McDonald’s, Starbucks, Reliance Retail, Tata’s Zudio, and Domino’s, accusing them of “complicity in the genocide.”