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Friday, December 06, 2002
IN REMEMBRANCE OF DECEMBER 6, 1992

Ten years ago, on December 6 1992, the Babri Mosque
in Ayodhya was demolished by the peddlers of hate
in India. In its wake, over 2000 people, mostly
Muslims, were brutally killed in Mumbai and elsewhere
in India. This year, the Muslim community was
targeted once again in Gujarat and over 2000 people
lost their lives.

Speak up for peace and secularism and join the
many groups worldwide who are organizing events on the
6th of December to raise their voices against the rise
of hate and violence in India.

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EKTA, Friends of South Asia (FOSA), and the
Coalition Against Communalism (CAC) presents:

THE MEN IN THE TREE:
a new documentary film by LALIT VACCHANI (IN-PERSON)


DEC 6TH UC BERKELEY
DEC 7TH STANFORD U.
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In early 1993, Lalit Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team
completed a documentary film, The Boy in the Branch, for
Channel 4 Television, U.K. Set at the headquarters of the
RSS in Nagpur, the film was about the indoctrination of
young Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, the foremost
Hindu fundamentalist organization in India. Eight years
later, Vachani returned to Nagpur to meet the characters
from his earlier film.

At one level, this is a film about memory. It is a
documentary in the form of a personal revisit where a
filmmaker returns to the issues, the locations and the
subjects of an earlier film. At another level, The Men
in the Tree is a political documentary on the RSS and
Hindu fundamentalism. It is about some of the individuals,
the stories and the myths, the buildings and the branches
that enable the growth of the RSS and its Hindutva
ideology.

2002 Digital Video; 98 min. Hindi/ English/ Marathi/
Sanskrit with English subtitles.

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Friday, December 6th
7:30 - 9:30 PM
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University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
105 North Gate Hall
directions

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Co-sponsored by the
Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley;
Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology,
California Institute of Integral Studies.

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Saturday, December 7th
6 - 8:00 PM
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Stanford University
Room 002, Bldg 200;
History Corner, 450 Serra Mall
directions

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Co-sponsored by the
Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology and
Dept. of Religious Studies, Stanford University; and
Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology,
California Institute of Integral Studies.

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For more info, please visit
http://ektaonline.org/events/vachani
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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP FUNDING HATE
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Substantial funding for Hindu fundamentalism is raised
in the United States. Evidence suggests strong
connections between some charity organizations in the
US and Hindutva groups in India. One such organization
is the 'India Development Relief Fund' (IDRF), which
is the subject of the report 'A Foreign Exchange of
Hate,' released by Sabrang Communications Pvt. Ltd.
(India) and The South Asia Citizens Web (France).
The FEH report offers important evidence about the
Hindutva movement, and links the IDRF to it. The
complete text of the report is available at
http://www.stopfundinghate.org

Please add your signature to the Petition to Stop
Corporate Sponsorship of IDRF, and urge corporate
sponsors and financial institutions to close their
accounts with IDRF until it can demonstrate that it
has severed all connections with the Hindutva movement.

Please sign the Petition at
http://stopfundinghate.org/cgi-bin/WhyStopIt.pl




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