CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND DOCUMENTATION:News from CED: August 2006
NEWS FROM CED:
AUGUST 2006
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WWW.DOCCENTRE.NET
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CED has a new web address now -
WWW.DOCCENTRE.NET . Please
add our new address to your favourites. Infact all CED email addresses
have
changed and when you want to write to any of us please write to
<name of the person>@doccentre.net.
For those
of you having a Login and password to access our Online Databases you
can continue to use the SAME Login name and Password in
www.doccentre.net.
The reason for this change is
that
our current service providers
have arbitrarily
blocked our domain, much before the expiry of our contract with them.
Our website has been housed with
space2let.com for quite some
time.
Due to problems with the service they have been providing (you yourself
may have experienced many breakdowns in using our website and email
IDs), we located an alternative provider. To coerce us into staying
with them, space2let not only blocked access to this domain, but also
created a link on that url to another organisation for almost
four days. So we
had to
create a new domain name for DOCCENTRE.
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NEW FILM FROM CED
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Enayandu
Seyal Peduthal('Net-working'
together)
[TAMIL,
38 mins 7 secs, PAL-VCD-Colour]
This film addresses few
concerns related to post-tsunami
reconstruction of livelihood
of the coastal
communities . It covers a gamut of issues varying from
co-operatives, alternative employment, educating the coastal
communities against the
global market hegemony and modernisation of traditional fishing.
How to make the local economy self-sustainable and how to ensure its
continual growth? How NGOs and local people can take up this
mammoth task of keeping the traditional economy alive and growing?
'Net-working'
together talks about these and
many more
issues. Write to shruti@doccentre.net
for a copy.
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NEW BACKGROUNDER
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FISHING IN TROUBLED WATERS
We are bringing out a
backgrounder on
the livelihood issues of fisherfolk after the tsunami - 'Fishing in
Troubled Waters: Increased Fragility of an already precarious
livelihood'. It has
been
developed around the adaptation of an interview of Dr.John Kurien,
Professor, CDS, Trivandrum. It portrays the post-tsunami issues
and concerns of the fishing communities like insecure livelihood,
safety on land, alternative employment, significance of co-operatives
etc.,.
The backgrounder will be available both in English and Tamil by
mid-September. Write to priya@doccentre.net
for a copy.
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For Students in Mumbai
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BEST ASSIGNMENTS
Just to remind you that the last date
for submission is 15 September
2006 so you still have time to send in your assignments.
For more information please write to us at jacintha@doccentre.net
HAPPY TOPICS
And don't forget our Happy
Topics are
still 'happy', just to remind you
of the issues:
Growing Inequality
among Elites:
Issues relating to social tensions like reservations, cultural issues
like big spending, hard partying and fat pay packets: how is it being
paid for.
Environment &
Economics:
Issues relating to decentralisation, de-industrialisation of the
economy and environment, environmentally sound small scale alternatives
in the city.
Please contact Jacintha at CED Bombay
(2202 0019) for more information.
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BOOKS FOR MEMBERS
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This month we have "Whose News? The
Media and Women's Issues" ed. by
Ammu Joseph & Kalpana Sharma, second edition, SAGE, Rs.420/-.
We are passing on our full discount of 25% to our members.
If you would like to get this book
please write to nalini@doccentre.net
but HURRY this is for a limited period only!!!
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NEW BOOKS AND REPORTS IN THE LIBRARY
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This month we have some new books and
reports as well as new CDs in the
library.
Books
1. Temptations of the West - How to
be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond by Mishra, Pankaj
2. The Missing Daughter by Sen, Shoma
3. AIDS and Alternative Medicine by
Rebello, Leo
4. We Are Poor but So Many - The
Story of Self-Employed Women in India by Bhatt, Ela R
5. The Futures of Old Age by Vincent,
John A, Phillipson, Chris and Downs.
6. The WTO - A Discordant Orchestra
by Bhaumik, T K
Reports
1. India - Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices
2. The State of the Worlds Cities
Report 2006/2007 - The Millennium
3. Development Goals and Urban
Sustainability: 30 Years of Shaping the
Habitat.
4. Asia-Pacific Human Development
Report 2006 - Trade on Human Terms - Transforming Trade for Human
Development in Asia and the Pacific
5. Budget Track - July 2005.
CDs
1. Lachhi : This film is about
Lachhi, a poor girl working as a domestic
help with the Saokars. The story unfolds how Ria and Rakshat, the
children in the family warm up to her and help her to discover a free,
wholesome childhood. They take her under camouflage to their school and
show her a world she longs to be a part of.
2. Campaign against Child Domestic
Work.
3. Tsunami Livelihood and the role of
NGOs(English)
4. America America: Anti-War Music
Video
5. Reaching the Unreached and Voicing
the Voiceless
