On the 7th and 8th of March, there are two big public events being planned in Bangalore in response to the attacks.
People who are in Bangalore, for the love of every last chaddi, participate and organise events around the 7th and 8th. We need the events to be big and scary. I think that as many people as can manage should go to Bangalore on these two days. This is really no time to reserve our troops and what is happening right now is war. Buy cheap tickets, come to Bangalore.
Watch this space. We will be posting things you can do to get involved to protest the attacks on women in Karnataka.
1. Join the walk to the Police Commissioner’s Office on March 7, 2009. More details soon.
2. Join the massive Take Back The Night campaign on March 8, 2009.
3. Join the campaign addressed to bystanders.
4. If you can’t go to Bangalore organise a Pink Chaddi event in your town.
5. If you live abroad, you could join the email campaign here.
6. If you are from the media look for the press release and details about the attacks.
The Pink Chaddi movement expands its wings. Follow it on the Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women blog.
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This is an effort that has to be commended. Attacks on women cannot be accepted,period. There cannot and need not be any justification.
In order to help women at the time of occurance of the attack itself, it would be a good idea to enlist members and come up with a way to identify such members in public who could then come to the rescue. Maybe women carry a particular type of whistle which they can blow at the time of the attack. The tone would immediately be recognised by other members or supporters of this cause who could rush to the rescue.
every one MUST VOTE, without which, all these efforts are futile, the goverment will crush the campaigns.
Do not vote for the BJP, since they have been the ones behind communial violence and attacks on women.
the procedure to vote is easy-
1. find out which constituency you belong to(near your locality-can find it in newspapers),
2. provide address proof and age proof (bank statements passport), get a voting application form,
3. submit the application form, the age and address proof to the constituency, they will call you in 15 days and you place your vote.
do it fast- it CLOSES ON 31ST MARCH
another way to find out which constituency you belong to-
go to jaagore.com, register, when you type in your residential address, it will tell you which constituency you belong to.
We are seeing the result of apathy and indifference among the common people. We are getting what is deserving of a people who are selfish and non-participative. We only wake up when matters turn bad very close to us. Rest of the time, we are happy to criticise things in the four corners of our living rooms.
Awake and arise, people of India, we simply cannot let these things happen. We need to organise to counter street terrorism. People power must be unleashed. It is high time. We must fight a second freedom struggle to free ourselves of hooliganism, mafia and corruption. We must participate in politics in large numbers and not merely contend with voting. That is the only way to change. That is the only way to progress and build a vibrant India.
Congrats, though late, I’am happy, that a moment has started, I as an ordinary citizen has been feeling bad about everything happening around but never knew how to react, Now iam with you all to the end, do inform me in what other ways we can react and i shall support the cause completely.
Thanks
Nitin