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A book about rural women organizing for social and economic
Action for Total Empowerment (SWATE)
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ANYTHING UNDER THE SKY AND ABOVE THE EARTH:
THE SWATE STORY
It is an inspiring narrative of the emergence of SWATE,
a dynamic women's organisation in Tamil Nadu with over
11,000 members from the countryside, its ideological
who shaped and are shaped by SWATE.
Elegantly written and edited by
Liz Fabel, Christina Samy and Josephine Sagayam.
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Issue - Two Dalits, Mr. Murugesan and Mr Ramasamy, were branded with hot
irons and forced to eat human faeces by the upper caste Subramani
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State-level action against Dalit atrocity happened in Thinniam
village
near Lalgudi in Trichy District in Tamil Nadu.
Thinniam, a village near Lalgudi, 20 Kms away from Trichy district
consists of upper caste families and in addition 275 Dalit families.
The incident, which occurred on 21st of May 2002, came to light.
The two Dalits of Thinniam village Mr. Murugesan and Mr. Ramasamy
were forced to eat human faeces
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Violence Against Women
Anti liquor Actions
Changing caste relations
Against Casteism
Against illegal Sand mining
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Social Intervention.
The women taking to streets and public spaces began with the Pada Yatra in 1990,
with the objective of educating villagers on the rights of the girl child.
It was their first experience organizing such an event.
Pada Yatra went on for three days and at the end,
the women felt the need to stay together and this
feeling materialized into the formation of SWATE.
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