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Local is true universalLocal thinking, local-global action
Lenin Raghuvanshi, Convenor, PVCHR 
I am highly obliged to
ZEBRA
for providing me this valuable opportunity. Here I wouldlike to discuss how local thinking can be transformed into global. Local is true universal.This means local people are inevitable part of globe, which requires local-global actionbase on local thinking for the survival of people with dignity.
In this regard I would like to draw your kind attention on participation and empowerment of marginalized communities of Damahi village of India, in their hunger situation. Thisvillage is very near to the village Dabahi of Aharoura, related with small dalit girl PINKI,whose film “Smile Pinki” has won Oscar Award for best documentary film for this year.Initially this marginalized community was reluctant and afraid to explain their situationbefore anybody, but when they were encouraged and mobilized to explain their situation, they came forward and talked about their hunger situation before humanrights activists. Thus they uncensored themselves against the fear created by  patriarchal-feudal system and feudal forces. The human rights activists highlighted theissues regarding hunger situation, bonded labor practices, absolute crisis of rule of law,corruption in PDS, torture of marginalized community and class by the local police inthe name of Naxalism. On the basis of these facts Hong Kong based regional HumanRights group Asian Human Right Commission (AHRC)
 
issued urgent and hunger appeals and Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) filed petitions tothe Chief Secretary UP, District Magistrate Mirzapur, National Human RighCommission, Supreme Court Commissioner on Right to Food. Further the AHRC raised the issue before UN, international and national human rights institutions. NHRC send notice to the Chief Secretary UP, District Magistrate Mirzapur. Thus voice of thesemarginalized people had been amplified. Apart from this print and electronic media have played important role in highlighting the situation. The impacts of this amplification areas follows:
Many official teams visited the locality and under emergency action food grainshad been distributed among starving families.
With immediate effect four hand-pumps have been bored for potable water.
53 families got Antyodaya Ann Yojana AAY (red ration card) as urgent.
Irregularities in distribution of ration at PDS have been rooted out.
54 job cards under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) havebeen issued to the community people.
One bigha (2/3 acre) land has been allotted to each mushar family foagriculture.
 
Thus administration has been awakening due to local-global action and every musher family of Damahi has got basic amenities and other facilities from the government.
Itmeans if we want social transformation, local thinking must be included which supportthe opinion
“Local thinking, local-global action.”
 It is very important to understand the phenomena of local-global action on the localthinking
.
There is a gap in the policies and its implementation at grass root level. Thisgap can only be identified while working at grassroots and realizing through
 participatory evaluation process” 
. This requires organizing campaign andawareness programme with the aim of inculcating such values and imparting suchknowledge which go into making a human being more humane and awake to the task of creation a world, where all beings co-exist peacefully. For this local to global campaignis followed at three levels. Firstly,
at gross-root level 
, it can be campaigns to changepeople’s perception and local norms. It does not only mean work to get policies intoplaced, but also monitoring policies and pressuring them to be enact as well as work toensure that the intended beneficiaries are aware of policies and have a sense of ownership for them.
 
Secondly
, at national level,
it might be government’s regulationslegislation or industrial/development policies which are anti-people that are challengedand, thirdly,
at international level,
to influence international institution, this in turn willput pressure on the national government for appropriate action on issues.Since justice requires un-censorship and breaking silence and the demoralizedcommunities confine themselves within some unwritten law and they have no courageto break this law to un-censor themselves, so the foremost thing is to encourage thepeople to break their silence and un-censor themselves to speak about their sufferingsand pain. This requires:
The
location
from where the rules of censorship can be broken.
The
will
to break such rules of censorship.
Creation
of audience for hearing.
Continue
the process until the problem is fully dissolved.The PVCHR is striving to comply with above requirements through testimonial process,honor ceremony, folk school, peoplestribunal, demonstration, protest and localmeetings. The community people share their problem at this platform and enrich withconfidence to continue their struggle. Their problems are being discussed at peoples’resistance platform and it can be published at local level through print and electronicmedia, leaflets and peoplescentric advocacy is done before appropriate authority.Modern technology of internet is used to give the voice for the pain and suffering of themost vulnerable section of the society. A network is created through web to create amass campaign on these problematic issues. Thus the voice of the community isamplified and it reaches to the government and administration. Now the governmentand administration cannot ignore the problems of the community. However fosustaining it individual alone are not sufficient. PVCHR itself may be an extension of itsleader, providing him/her the necessary organization supports in order to mobilize
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