CED BANGALORE NEWSLETTER November 2004

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DCM 10
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DCM 10 ( The tenth Meet of Documentation Centres ) is being held at Vistaar Campus from 10^th to 14^th Dec. We will be exchanging notes on the different systems being used by documentation centres and working out methods of interfacing information between these centres. We also hope to be able to intergrate information generated by smaller non-documentation organsiations, such that their information is also made avaliable to the wider DC network.

Click here for the details of agenda, schedule, costs, venue etc.

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VIDEO EDITING EQUIPMENT AT CED
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CED in Bangalore is now equiped with a professional video editing unit. We wish to offer these facilities to NGOs and Activists, for making small 'barefoot' films on important development and social justice themes.

Either you can use the facility on a low-hire-fee basis, or if the theme is interesting to us at CED, we could work out a joint project! Interested ?

Contact wasim@doccentre.net

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SCREENINGS AT CED-BANGALORE FOR DECEMBER 2004
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) an oscar winning movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, directed by Alan J. Pakula.

The most devastating detective story of the century!

A superb adaptation of Washington Post's scathing historical expose by intrepid reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the infamous Watergate break-in and the ultimate downfall of the Nixon Presidency with cover ups, cloak-and-dagger informant `Deep Throat', conspiracies and Washington as a fixed metaphor as a quagmire sucking down America's freedoms with only the dynamic duo as our only hope!

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR (1994) by Anand Patwardhan
The film explores the possibility that the key to the psychology of violence against 'the other' lies in male insecurity, an inevitable product of the very construction of the notion of 'manhood'.

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N E W C E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
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DEVELOPMENT DIGEST 07 is out !!!

This time we have a set of excerpts on a debate on Rural Moneylenders.

Pallavi Chavan considers extending the understanding, acceptance and respect to moneylenders to be a regression while Shishir Sharma and S Chamala detect a positive side to moneylenders, and the need for a greater acceptance of informalisation of credit in rural areas.
and more

THE STATE IS BACK
Sociology of the Verdict : Is it a New Beginning? By Avijit Pathak
The State is Popular Imagination by Neera Chandhoke
The Role of the State and NGO's in Southern India by V.Vivekanandan

Who's in Charge? Worldwide Displacement of Democractic Judgement By Expert Assessments

GIVING CREDITS TO MONEYLENDERS!
Moneylenders Positive Image: Paradigms and Rural Development by Shishir Sharma, S Chamala
Moneylender's Positive Image: Regression in Development, Thought and Policy by Pallavi Chavan
Its called Virual Water by Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar

DOCPRINTS in print

Political Culture of Fascism by Jairus Banaji
Redesigning Democracy as a Positive Alternative to Communalism by Rohini Hensman

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S P R E A D T H E W O R D
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1. Coming up are two major NATIONAL CONVENTIONS organised by the NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS (NAPM)
a. On Development, Displacement & Rehabilitation : November 30th - December 1st, 2004
b. On Inter-linking of Rivers : December 2nd - December 3rd, 2004

2. "Save Our Rice" campaign in the rice growing states of India In the International Year of Rice-2004.

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I N O U R B O O K-S T O R E
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Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia Edited by Govind Kelkar/Dev Nathan/Pierre Walter Price.Rs.550/- SAGE Publications.
Livelihood and Gender Edited by Sumi Krishna, Price.Rs.680/- SAGE Publications
Terrorism Communalism and other Challenges to Indian Security by Rakesh Gupta Price.Rs.850/- GYAN Publications

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