NEWS FROM CED
NEWS FROM CED: MARCH 2006
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10 BEST ASSIGNMENTS
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Students are invited
to submit projects on social issues that they have prepared in the past
year. Assignments will be judged for their understanding of development
and rights issues as well as analysis of trends.
The Awards carry
- Cash prize
Rs.5000/-
- Free long term
membership of CED worth Rs.1200/-
- CED books,
computer usage and CED services of Rs. 5000/-
- Publications of
the students’ assignments in DOCPRINTS
Submit your assignments by *30 April 2006.* For
more information please contact jacintha@doccentre.net
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CED LECTURE SERIES
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We
were very honoured to have Thomas Greco, founder director of
Community Information Resource Centre(CIRC), Arizona, USA on March 14
for a presentation on 'Community Economics as a Local- Markets
led antidote to Globalisation: The case of Money' - A very
stimulating discussion but poorly attended. If you had missed do
not despair you can get a copy his presentation on CD. For more
information, please contact jacintha@doccentre.net
Please note that his books Money
Understanding and
Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender and Money and
Debt: A
Solution to the Global Crisis are both available in our library
(please
see the list of new books in the library).
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NREGA BACKGROUNDER
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CED is bringing out a backgrounder on the
National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act and its importance in Tsunami rehabilitation.
The Act is implemented in three tsunami affected
districts
of Tamil Nadu and the works done in these areas are mainly related to
post-tsunami reconstruction. So it has a wider impact on the
rehabilitation and
reconstruction process happening after the tsunami.
We are also looking out for materials on the
same, if you
have any information regarding the Act and implementation please pass
it on to us.
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FILM on BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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VERNACULAR VALUES
Duration 58'18" - Produced by CED
Vernacular
Values is all about threading the cross section journeys into
the
other
paradigm in architecture and examines the values and underlying
commonsense of
the vernacular in shaping our built environment. In this film the
philosopher in R L Kumar, a trained accountant reflects on his attempts
to build
houses differently with a passion for the earth and the people he
is
working with. This exploration has made Kumar an architect, builder,
comrade to
his workers and philosopher to some of his NGO friends and chief
haranguer to
others.
Do write to us
for a copy of the film.
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DPs
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We have completed one year in bringing out
Docpost of
Legal Rights. The main objective of these DPs is that you can
have your
own documentation. For the convenience of specialized
organizations we
have made specialized classification system for that sector and are
coding each
clipping. All you have to do is file the individual clippings under the
classification number provided. This saves you a lot of time and effort
to go
through and classify each clipping.
We will soon be putting together the best
articles on
certain issues from Critical Concerns.
And don't forget our other DP collections on
Habitat &
Disasters, very useful and relevant collections for the individual user
and
institution alike, please contact jacintha@doccentre.net
for information and subscriptions on these.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The "CONVENTION ON CHILDREN'S RIGHT TO FOOD" will
be
held in Hyderabad from 7th to 9th April, 2006. This is a
follow-up to the
second National Convention on the Right to Food and Work, held in
Kolkata on
18-20 November 2005. The main focus of this convention will be on ICDS,
mid-day
meals and other means of protecting children's right to food, including
maternity entitlements. Special attention will be given to
"universalisation with quality" as the core demand of a united
campaign on ICDS.
For further details please contact: Secretariat,
Right to
Food Campaign (Correspondence Address): 257, D.D.A. flats (RPS),
Mansarovar Park , Shahdara, Delhi -110032 (E-mail righttofood@gmail.com
Tel: 09350530150 or Dipa Sinha (dipasinha@gmail.com)
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BOOKS FOR MEMBERS
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The books special this month are
1. International Human Rights Standards on Post-Disaster
Resettlement and
Rehabilitation compiled by HIC-HLRN & PDHRE, Books for Change,
Rs.100/-
2. Capabilities, Freedom and Equality: Amartya Sen's Work from a
Gender
Perspective ed. by Bina Agarwal and others, OUP, Rs.795/-
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, REPORTS AND CDs IN THE LIBRARY
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We have lots of new and interesting books and
reports in
the library this month as well as a good selection of CDs. So please
come and
see what we have and dont forget the new selection of books that have
come from
the Bangalore library.. all waiting to be read!!
Check for the full list of additions to the
libraries in Mumbai
and Bangalore.
Critical Concerns
