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		<title>KKNPP Update 2 April: Police picks up fight with Kootapulli villagers; lob teargas, beat up fishermen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 April, 2013 &#8212; between 4-5 p.m: A 200 strong posse of police had been deployed to the Koodankulam township area in anticipation of PMANE&#8217;s declared protest at the Township tomorrow. Instead of stationing themselves near the township, the 200-strong police force entered Koottapulli fishing village. This led to an altercation between the villagers and the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5901&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Livemint.com (click to read full article) Urvashi Butalia runs a publishing house called Zubaan: an imprint of Kali for women.  Childless, Naturally is part of a just published collection, Of Mothers and Others: Stories, Essays, Poems, edited by Jaishree Misra. Urvashi writes, I’ve set up my own publishing house, publishing books by and about women. I am fiercely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5797&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“We are sitting on the brink of disaster with Tarapur,” says Former Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Gopalakrishnan in conversation with Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick (Part 1) Published on Newsclick YouTube Channel on 18 February 2013. 17 mins 40s English transcript available below. 2456 words. Download the transcript in .doc format. PP: Hello and welcome to Newsclick. Today we have with us Dr. A Gopalakrishnan, Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. We&#8217;ll [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5821&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 March, 2013 &#8211; The Tamil Nadu Government has relented to public pressure and shut down Sterlite Industries&#8217; copper complex today. According to a worker, officials from 10 government departments arrived by the vanload in the plant last night at 8 p.m. The management then called a meeting of all staff and workers, and announced that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5849&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Oceana.org Please scroll down all the way. Shocking. A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second. Outraged by these shocking numbers, Joe Chernov and Robin Richards created an infographic to put the figures in perspective. While shark attacks on humans do happen (there [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5812&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kalpakkam Update: 129 People Jailed for Protesting Against Kalpakkam Reactor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[29 March, 2013 &#8211; In a bid to intimidate fenceline communities living around the Kalpakkam nuclear reactors, the Tamil Nadu Police has jailed 129 people of the 650 that were detained in wedding halls yesterday. Those detained were protesting to highlight that the nuclear complex in Kalpakkam was all threat and risk to the local community [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5807&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vedanta-Sterlite: Dangerous by Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from Kafila.org) by Nityanand Jayaraman On 23 March, 2013, a toxic gas leak from Vedanta-subsidary Sterlite’s copper smelter in Thoothukudi spread panic and discomfort for several kilometres around the plant. The leak once again highlighted the increased potential for major catastrophes due to an atmosphere of collusion between regulators and polluters. The company, which was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5771&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kalpakkam Update: Peaceful Anti-Nuke Protests Turned Nasty by Tamil Nadu Cops</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Nityanand Jayaraman Update: 28 March, 2013. 6.30 p.m. Based on telephone conversation with Abdul Samad, Manithaneya Makkal Katchi, Kalpakkam. It is not the manner in which a protest is conducted, but the target of the protests that determine whether the police will turn nasty or remain cool. This morning, more than 1000 people gathered [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5764&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reported by Nityanand Jayaraman Speaking on phone from Chandra Mahal (a wedding hall) where more than 200 people are detained by the police, Fatima Babu &#8212; one of several organisers of the protest &#8212; said that the rally demanding Sterlite Copper&#8217;s closure was massively attended. At the time of her arrest at around 1145 a.m., [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5758&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Lie: The Secret Chernobyl Documents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Dianuke.org (click to read full article) In the night of 25-26 April 1986, there was a catastrophic explosion in the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. In 1990, Ukranian journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya came across secret documents about the Chernobyl catastrophe that revealed a massive cover-up operation and a calculated policy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5743&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief excerpts from the executive summary of the fact-finding report by a team of three from Alternative Law Forum and Delhi Forum, after a visit to the Dhinkia panchayat, consisting of the three villages of Dhinkia, Govindpur and Paatna, in Odisha, between 22nd December 2012 to 24th December 2012.    [Read, download, and share the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5669&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M V Ramana in conversation with Nityanand Jayaraman Date: February 18, 2013. Location: Asian College of Journalism Published on Youtube on Mar 3, 2013. 30 mins 21s. English transcript available below. Download the transcript in .doc format. NJ: Dr. M V Ramana is a physicist at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory, Princeton University. Besides authoring numerous technical papers [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5604&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The International Uranium Film Festival 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curated by two Brazilian film makers, this widely travelled international film festival, explores the entire nuclear life cycle &#8212; from the mining of uranium to disposal of radioactive wastes. Choosing from more than 50 documentaries and animation films, the Chennai chapter brings to viewers 20 films over a two-day period. The festival is geared towards [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5582&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[INK Talks. 15 mins 54s. d&#8217;bi.young anitafrika, a Jamaican dubpoet and monodramatist tells a story of the woman&#8217;s body. Please watch. &#160; Filed under: SCREEN<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5537&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[English. 52 mins 09s. What happens to nature after a nuclear accident? And how does wildlife deal with the world it inherits after human inhabitants have fled? The historic nuclear accident at Chernobyl is now 25 years old. Filmmakers and scientists set out to document the lives of the packs of wolves and other wildlife [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chaikadai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5047633&#038;post=5533&#038;subd=chaikadai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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