Sikhs In The Square

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

So much to do for Sunday 6 November . . . . .

Postcards and posters

Understand postcards and posters with more details are being designed - will probably be ready towards the end of next week.

Sikh Societies at Universities

Sikh students at UK Universities are urged to pass the word to Sikh Societies and their members. 

In particular Sikh students in LONDON should be urged to attend in large numbers AND why not ask your non-Sikh friends to join you. 

Sikh Societies in Universities outside London should be encouraged to book/arrange minibuses to attend.

Could members of individual Sikh Socs send messages to confirm the word has been passed at their Uni and how many are likely to attend.

Gurdwaras and transport

The Sikh youth should also pass the word locally and to approach their local Gurdwara to arrange transport - coaches, minibuses etc.

We all need to pass the word and get our local Gurdwaras to arrange transport. Could members send messages to confirm the word has been passed at their local Gurdwara and what transport arrangements are in place.

Local radio

Also understand Sikh youngsters are making arrangements to get on local radio in the next couple of weeks to increase the parchar - ideally when details for transport arrangements and the programme are fully known.

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LOCAL RADIO

Time to start publicising the event with your local radio station. Try and get them to do a discussion programme if possible.

AKASH RADIO

Sukhwinder Singh has agreed to provide FREE adverts starting in a couple of days time leading up to the Sikhs in the Square event. He has also agreed to provide FREE live coverage on Sunday 6 November between 2-4pm. This should allow Sikhs throughout Europe to listen on satellite and throughout the world on the Internet.

CANDLES

Please bring candles (big and small) for the Candlelight vigil. Birmingham youngsters have agreed to bring at least 1,000 candles - mainly for the use of non-Sikhs. Estimates of the number of innocent Sikhs killed in November 1984 range from 3,000 to 20,000. Our aim should be to at least light ONE candle for each innocent Sikh life lost in November 1984.

Other towns/cities sending coaches may also want to make a similar commitment as the Birmingham youngsters.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

PLEASE BRING SOME CANDLES FOR THE VIGIL

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[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Project84 Toronto & ENSAAF Present 1984 Human Rights Memorial Week

From October 31, 2005 to November 6, 2005, Project84 Toronto & ENSAAF have organized seminars and memorial events to commemorate the victims of the November 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India, as well as the tenth anniversary of the abduction and murder of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra by Indian security forces.

[ClickPress, Fri Oct 28 2005] MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release:

October 25, 2005

Project84 Toronto & ENSAAF Present 1984 Human Rights Memorial Week

(Toronto, Canada) From October 31, 2005 to November 6, 2005, Project84 Toronto & ENSAAF have organized seminars and memorial events to commemorate the victims of the November 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India, as well as the tenth anniversary of the abduction and murder of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra by Indian security forces.

ENSAAF’s Executive Director Jaskaran Kaur and Legal Director Sukhman Dhami will discuss key projects recently completed by ENSAAF, as well as interview Canadians who survived torture and other human rights abuses in Punjab. In particular, ENSAAF will discuss the findings and implications of the recent expert medical report by Physicians for Human Rights and Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture (www.ensaaf.org/PHR-Bellevue.html). This report was submitted in the Punjab mass cremations case proceeding before the Indian National Human Rights Commission and is based on a study organized in Amritsar, Punjab by ENSAAF. ENSAAF will also highlight its latest report on torture and illegal detention in Punjab in the context of an alleged revival of the militancy, Punjab Police: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture (www.ensaaf.org/ft-report.html).

The focus of the Memorial Week is the November 1984 pogroms and the sacrifice of human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra. The latest inquiry on the November 1984 Sikh massacres, the Nanavati Commission, continues the tradition of exonerating the Congress party for its role in orchestrating the Sikh pogroms. The Nanavati Commission’s findings ignore the evidence provided by thousands of survivors and eyewitness to the massacres, who personally experienced the organized and deadly role of the Congress party and Delhi administration. Contrary to the conclusions of the numerous government commissions set-up to investigate the murders of thousands of Sikhs, ENSAAF’s report, 20 Years of Impunity, establishes that the Congress party was the primary architect and executor of the November 1984 Sikh massacres (http://www.ensaaf.org/20years.html'>http://www.ensaaf.org/20years.html).

Jaswant Singh Khalra traveled to Canada in 1995 to publicize his findings that Indian security forces had secretly cremated over three thousand persons from Punjab’s Amritsar district alone. Soon after his return, on September 6, 1995 security forces abducted Khalra from outside his home. Security forces then secretly detained and interrogated Khalra for over two months, and tortured him for days before shooting him dead around October 28, 1995. Despite eyewitnesses to Khalra’s abduction, detention, torture and murder, none of the officials responsible for his murder have been brought to justice.

As a part of the 1984 Human Rights Memorial Week, a seminar on human rights in India has been organized for Saturday November 5th at 12:30 PM at York University (Stedman Lecture Hall). In addition, a candle-light vigil will take place in Gage Park (Main Street and Wellington St, Brampton) on Saturday November 5th from 6:30 – 9:00 PM. Information on all events can be found at www.ensaaf.org/toronto.

ENSAAF (http://www.ensaaf.org), a U.S.-based 501©(3) nonprofit organization fighting impunity in India, works to bring perpetrators to justice, investigates and exposes human rights violations, and organizes survivors to engage in advocacy. It is at the forefront of the struggle for the rights to knowledge, justice and reparation for victims of state abuses in Punjab. In addition to Jaskaran and Sukhman, ENSAAF’s board of directors includes: Alison A. Hillman, Mie Lewis, Peter Rosenblum, and Richard J. Wilson. ENSAAF means “justice” in many South Asian languages.

Please add this information to your listings. We are presently confirming interviews.

For further information, please contact:

Project84 Toronto, Inderpreet Singh

T: 416.831.3705,

E: toronto@ensaaf.org

Company: Project84 Toronto

Contact Name: Inderpreet Singh

Contact Email: toronto@ensaaf.org

Contact Phone: 416.831.3705

IT IS GOOD TO SEE ACTION IN TORONTO, CANADA

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Please confirm where posters and postcards for the Sikhs in the Square event reached your tow/city, your local Gurdwara, your university etc.

Please also indicate what if any transport arrangements have been made.

[sikhlionz]

Smethwick got the posters n postcards, put 'em up, Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick has 1 coach that will be departing at 9.30 AM sharp and Tividale Gurdwara opted for a minibus and will go via GNG Smethwick as well. West Bromwich details Jatinder paji is confirming.

[rKr]

All Gurughars in Leics have rec posters and postcards...

Coaches confirmed to leave for 9.30am SHARP

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Posters and postcards widely distributed in Slough.

Coach will leave Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Slough at 12.30pm sharp.

Many younsters have said they will travel independently.

If many from the Sangat put forward their names another coach will be organised and mini-buses will be on stand by.

Sangat are requested to gather at 12 noon.

Please partake in Guru Ka Langar before you leave.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Last chance today (Sunday 30 October) in many Gurdwaras to encourage Sikhs to take part in the Sikhs in the Square event.

[RAJ]

posters and postcards have been distributed to the following

all gurdwara in leeds, bradford, huddersfield and doncaster. also leeds met, leeds uni and hudderfield uni

postcards and posters have been sent to newcastle.

transport

coach will be leaving chapletown rd gurdwara, leeds and gurdwara singh sabha bradford at 7.30am

mini bus from guru nanak gurdwara, prospect street, huddersfield will be leaving at 7am

if there is any sangat from doncaster or sheffield that are wanting to go contact 0776368328 and we can arrange to pickup sangat from sheffield

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

posters and postcards have been distributed to the following

all gurdwara in leeds, bradford, huddersfield and doncaster. also leeds met, leeds uni and hudderfield uni

postcards and posters have been sent to newcastle.

transport

coach will be leaving chapletown rd gurdwara, leeds and gurdwara singh sabha bradford at 7.30am

mini bus from guru nanak gurdwara, prospect street, huddersfield will be leaving at 7am 

if there is any sangat from doncaster or sheffield that are wanting to go contact 0776368328 and we can arrange to pickup sangat from sheffield

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Maybe Sangat from Scunthorpe that have also expressed an interest could ring 0776368328.