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The typical Marine Layer that pushes inland at night was still hanging in the valleys when we arrived at the roadside pullout. The Pacific Ocean is out there somewhere beyond the mountaintops...
The first history-making pullout train is turning onto 3rd Street. Early morning , 9/20/08. © 2009 Peter Ehrlich
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calls an exU policy'. Ratan Tata has just revealed what big corporates mean by this phrase. Paraphrasing Caesar, Tata's exit ~ A ~eypoint in the corporate discourse on the ongoing economic reforms in India has been the clamour for what big capital .
There Must Be N·o Free Exit for the Tatas.
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from Singur could be described as a straightforward case of "I came, I destroyed, I left". .
~ . Till recently we were told that Singur was the ultimate answer to Ratan Tata's search for a suitable site for his dream project .
ofproducing a 'people'scar'. Now he tells us that conditions are no longerconducive, that the Tata group cannot operate in police .
protection. lf"Ratan Tata has an ethical objection' to police intervention, he sho·uld have abandoned his project at the .
violence Including brutal doses of police atrocities, rape and murder by CPI(M) cadres. .
very beginning of the j)rocess of land acquisition. The whole process has af1 along been soaked in coercion and .
Perhaps the Tatas could not stomach the fact that the people of Slngur should show the guts to ch.allenge the tcombined might of the T~ta empire and the state, and go on raising awkward demands regarding return of their .
and agricultural labourers and other self-employed toilers who depended on the Singur land for their living!! They Iland and payment of adequate compensation for the losses borne not only by landowners but also sharecroppers I-.
might have found it even more offensive that the West Bengal government might be forced info contemplating a negotiated .
settlement over the issue ofland and compensation. After all, the touchy Tatas wentto court to stop people from knowing .
Corporation (WB·IDC), and the High Courtdutifully obliged them by suspending the much-trumpeted 'rightto information' .
the terms ofthe agreement they had s1gned with the Government of West Bengal and the West Bengal Industrial development In due respect to the wishes of the corporate emperor. .
So either the Tatas are too touchy to do business in conditions that do not totally conform to the1r 'tastes', or more plausibly, .
the pullout decision must have been prompted by high level political considerations involving the powers thatbe in New Delhi as .
well as Kolkata By all accounts, the pullout is nothing but a cynical corporate political game being played out at the expense ss.
livelihood in the bargain, the future of the site in Singur, and the lessons that we must learn from the entire episode. .
ofordinary people and peasants of Singur. While analysts may continue to investigate the real reasons underlying the Tatas' .
pullout plan, we must also deal with the more burning post-pullout questions like the fate of those who lost their land and .
Nano or no Nano, the people of Singur have already suffered heavily. Many have lost their land; many more have .
lost their livefihood. So the question of compensation will still have to be resolved by making adequate provision .
not only for the land-losers but also for all affected share-croppers, registered as well as unregistered, and labourers, .
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agricultural as welt as other self-employed ones..
More importantly, the Tatas cannot be allowed to leave behind 1,000 acres of'scorched earth' in Singur's fertile green belt. J!.
In two years the Tatas have transformed 1,000 acres of multi-cropped arable land into corporate wasteland and they .
must now be forced to bear the entire cost for reclamation of the same. There can be no free exit for the corporate land. .
land-grabbers -they must be made to pay the full price for both acquisition as well as reclamation of the Singur .
For the CPI(M) establishment In West Bengal, the exit of the Tatas from Singur is a loss thc:t merits 'state mourning' !!! On.
Singur a lesson or two on the lines of Nandigram. Any such move must be squarely resisted. Instead of raising aL.cusing .
And whtle biddmg a tearful adieu to the Tatas, it seems desperate to teach the 'audacious' and 'recalcitranf people of r".
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fingers at the protesttng people and tilting at so-called 'anti-industry' windmills. the CPI(M) will now have to answer for thts .
pathetiC denouement to thetr much hyped-up 'Industrialisation' blit:.krieg They had painted the walls of Bengal red with the .
simplistic slogan "Krishi amader bhitti, shilpa amader bhabisyat'' (agriculture is our foundation, industry our future). The state-.
sponsored corporate wasteland ofSingur provtdes a stunning refutation of this simplistic formula: the 'foundation' lies shattered .
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All the appeasement of the Tatas has fallen through and now the West Bengal government will have to clean up the table as while the 'future' has melted tnto thin air even before people could experience tts shape or size, or sound or smell..
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well as foot all the unpaid bills! The CAG has a·lready found the WBIDC guilty of incurring "excess expenditure of Rs. .
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2.99 crore towards payment of avoidable Interest of Rs. 1.44 crore and delayed 'consent awards' of Rs. 1.55 crore" Toninety years". .
and dishing out subsidy worth "Rs. 76.11 crore to Tata Motors limited on leasing of 645.67 acres of land at Singurfor .
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Nano is ofcourse not the first 'corporate disaster' ofits ktnd. Bhopal~984 continues to haunt us with the sordid story of .
how corporates like Union Carbide-Dow not only walk away from the environmental and humanitarian horrors they cause; but are .
up with Dow to facilitate the latter's comeback bid. Then tn the mid-1990s we had Enron. The US told us that the US .
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even welcomed back with no questions asked by governments eager to appease them. Significantly, it was Tata which palled n~electricity giant Enron was the answer to our energy crisis and the Congress and the BJP and the governments of India and .
hefty 16% counter-guarantee .
Now Enron has s1mply vanished 1nto the blue in both India and the US and we are left with all the .
Maharashtra vted with each other to accommodate all the absurd demands of Enron tncluding an unprecedented provis1on for a .
but for an unpardonable plunder of our natural and human resources. .
damages.Singur ha& once again taught us that corporate appeasement Is the surest recipe not for industrialisation .
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for the momumental ruin that the Tata fiasco has left behind in Singur. AISA appeals to the student community to .
pretext of "development" The JNU student communtty must demand that the Tatas and the West Bengal government ray due compensation.
of Singur. .
and the series of atrocities including cadre terror, rape and murder on the poor people .
reject the forces like SFI on campus who stands in servile defense of this corporte loot and land grab under the.
Vishal, Jt. Secy, AISA, JNU r .
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Sucheta De. Gen. Secy AISA, JNU .
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Educational signs at the viewpoint/pullout at Rainbow Point, the southernmost pullout on the Bryce Canyon drive. I wanted to remember this stuff. I did not get the photo that pointed out that some big predators (coyote, mountain lion, a couple of others) were found at all the heights.
August 12, 2018
A highway pullout rest area with a view of the Don Pedro Reservoir was washed out by heavy forest fire smoke.
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