Invitation/Announcement
Kisan-Karigar Mahapanchayat
16 October 2016
Come to the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi
On Kwar (Ashwin) Purnima at Bhainsasur Ghat
for a large and open Conference
of Farmers and Artisans
A Kisan-KarigarMahapanchayat is being organized on
Kwar(Ashwin)Purnima (full moon day ) , Sunday, 16 October, 2016 at 12 noon on Bhainsasur
Ghat, Rajghat on the banks of the Ganga at Varanasi. In this Mahapanchayat (conference)
the farmers and artisans of the country will raise the following demand –
Every farmer and
artisan/technician family must have a regular,
fixed income equal to that of a government employee.
Join us in raising our voices for this demand!
Farmers and artisans communities have experienced increased
exploitation in the past few decades. They are very poor and their real incomes
are decreasing continuously. Adivasi (tribal) and small shopkeeper communities are
very closely associated with agriculture and artisanary. They too are being
displaced from forests and markets . Men and women from all these communities
possess vast knowledge of their work. Their knowledge (lokavidya) is not
inferior to university knowledge. As long as lokavidya is denied equal status
with university knowledge the avenues for ending the exploitation of these
communities do not open. For this it is
necessary that those who work on the basis of lokavidya earn the same incomes
that university educated people command in society.
Our demand, mentioned above, is to open the pathways
to eradicate poverty and end
disparity in society.
Preparations for this Mahapanchayat have begun in April 2016. More information can
be found on this blog (lokavidyajanandolan.blogspot.in) in posts dated 8, 16, and 18 April 2016.
Dialogs and gyanpanchayats have been initiated among kisan and karigar organizations
from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka, etc. By September a complete organizing committee will be ready. Three
pamphlets have been prepared in the course of these preparations containing
information on the organizational work for the mahapanchayat. These pamphlets
are available at the links below. A few more will be published soon.
A booklet has also been published clarifying and elaborating
the theoretical basis for the demand stated above. It is available here in Hindi and here in English.
Appeal
We appeal to all farmers , artisans, technicians, their organizations,
and those organizations and individuals keeping sympathy and solidarity with
them to participate in this mahapanchayat in large numbers. Please come forward
and become involved in planning it, and contribute materially and mentally to
make it happen. For this you may contact the persons whose names are given
below.
Please come forward to prepare a consensus for this demand
among the people you work with or are in contact with. We invite you to join us
by contributing your experience and thoughts so that we may work towards ending
the exploitation of the lokavidya-samaj by preparing the social, economic, and
philosophical grounds for this demand.
Dilip Kumar
‘dili’ Premlata Singh Lakshman Prasad
(+91-9452824380) (+91- 93691249998) (+91-9026219913)
Spokes Person Editor, Karigar
Nazariya BKU, President Distr.
Varanasi
Lokavidya Jan Andolan &
BKU Varanasi Mandal President
For English speaking
contact
Amit Basole
+91-9619649958
Office for Coordinating the Mahapanchayat
Vidya Ashram , Varanasi
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