Dinesh Wagle, 7 Leaders, 27 Questions

Movement Taken To Online Video

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Below is an email I just sent to Dinesh Wagle of the United We Blog fame.

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November 22, 2005

The exact same questions to the seven party leaders: Girija Koirala, Madhav Nepal, Gopalman Shrestha, Amik Sherchan, Hridayesh Tripathy, Narayan Man Bijukchhe, CP Mainali. Sabai lai ekla eklai sodhne. Ekai tham bhela parera na sodhne. Girija Koirala lai last ma sodhne. ;-) Yati nai 5-10 ghanta hunchha hola. Baroo, can this be done before the end of November? What do you think? I know UWB has a large team of people. If you need volunteers, holler. The best way would be for seven different cameras to go meet each leader on the same day. Is that an option?

1. Saat party ko chaar sutriya mang lai teen sutriya kina na banaune?
2. Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana ko kura janata lai nai man pari raheko chhaina bhanne kura mannu hunchha? Tyahi mang ka karan le janata sadak ma na utreko kura mannu hunchha?
3. Nagarik samaj le lokatantric ganatantra ko nara dinda dashaun hajar manchhe sadak ma utrane, Emale le lokatantric ganatantra ko nara dinda dashaun hajar manchhe sadak ma utrane, tara saat party ko Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana ko mang ka lagi janata sadak ma na utrane dekhnu bhako chha?
4. Pratinidhi Sabha bhang Pradhan Mantri Deuba le gareka hun, raja le hoina. Tyo kura mannu hunchha? Sansadiya byabastha ma tyo adhikar Pradhan Mantri lai hunchha, tyo kura mannu hunchha? Tyo bhang bhai sakeko Pratinidhi Sabha lai punarsthapana garne adhikar euta sambaidhanik raja lai hundaina bhanne kura mannu hunchha? Raja le punarsthapana garne adhikar hunu bhaneko Pradhan Mantri ko bhanga garne adhikar khose sarah bhayena ra?
5. Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana ko idea kata bata ayeko ho? Nepali Congress ko kendriya samiti bata ayeko ho ki? Kahan bata ayeko ho? Tyo meeting ko minutes chha?
6. Ekai choti sarbadaliya sarkar ma jana ke ko etraj? Akhir gantabya ta sambidhan sabha nai ho? Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ko jasto antarim sarkar ko kalpana kina garna sakindaina?
7. Raja le Article 127 ko prayog garera all party government banaune bhane ma tapain lai etraj hunchha? Kina? Akhir tyo all party government pani sambidhan sabha main gayera tungine ho, hoina ra?
8. Hoina bhane aroo ke upay chha all party government banaune? Tapain ko roadmap ke chha?
9. February 1, 2005 samma Nepali Congress ra UML sambidhan sabha ma na aisakeko tathya mannu hunchha?
10. Teen shakti Maobadi, Loktantrabadi ra Rajabadi ko milan bindu sambidhan sabha matra ho. Mannu hunchha?
11. Tyo all party government ma saat party bahek RPP, RJP, Mandal Sadbhavana ra raja ko pratinidhi le thaun paune ki na paune? Maobadi le thaun paune ki na paune?
12. Pratinidhi Sabha yadi jaduyee kisim le punarsthapana hunchha bhane tyo garne kasle? Raja le ki Supreme Court le? Dubai le garna mildaina bhanera bhani sakyo. Yo aandolan Supreme Court lai pressure diyera Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana garaune aandolan ho ta? Rule of law kaam na lagera hamee rule of pressure ma jana khojeka ta hoinaun?
13. Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana ko mang saat party le na tyage samma yo aandolan charkine bala chhaina. Tyo kura mannu hunchha?
14. Pratinidhi Sabha punarsthapana ko idea janata lai man na pareko, raja lai man na pareko, Supreme Court lai man na pareko, saat wata party madhye chha party lai man na pareko, Nepali Congress bhitra pani Girija Koirala lai matra man pareko idea ho bhanne kura mannu hunchha?
15. Aandolan nai hijack garne yo kasto ghaatak idea?
16. Aandolan ma manchhe shahid hune kati ko sambhavana dekhnu bha ko chha? 2004 ko Ukraine ko andolan ma ek jana pani shahid bhayenan? Nepal ma pani tyas kisim ko andolan organize garna milchha ki mildaina?
17. Emale ko chhuttai karyakram kina ai raheko chha? Saat party ko joint karyakram kina ayeko chhaina? Saat party coalition phuti sakeko ho ta?
18. Saat party ko sarkar banema pradhan mantri ko hunchha? Upa Pradhan Mantri ko hunchha?
19. Tapain to party bata sarkar ma ko janchha?
20. February 8 samma ma jasari pani yo sarkar dhali sakna parne pressure feel garnu bhako chha ki chhaina?
21. Euta aam sabha yahan, arko hapta arko aam sabha tyahan garera raja halline wala chhainan. Tyasari ramita matra hunchha, aandolan hundaina. Ekai choti Kathmandu ma euta nirnayak street demonstration garna parchha, din dinai, ek mahina samma sadak ma kahin ek thaun ma ek lakh wa so bhanda badhi manchhe bhela garna parchha. Ukraine ma jasto. Natra aandolan safal hundaina. Yo kura mannu hunchha?
22. Maobadi ra rajabadi ko afnai afnai ideology chha. Unee haroo tyas ka adhar ma agadi ayeka hun. Tai pani 12 barsha ka dauran ke kati galtee bhaye bhannu hunchha?
23. Girija Koirala le bahumat hunda sansad bhanga garne. Manmohan Adhikari ko sansad bhanga garne adhikar Supreme Court le khosi dine. Tyas pachhi ko sansad ma endless horse trading hune. Bhrastachar dherai bhayeko. Desh ma batoghato bane pani, desh ko reen dherai nai badheko. Dalit, Madhesi, Janajati, Mahila le samajik nyaya na payeko. Nepali bahek aroo bhasha phastina na payeko. Hindu dharma ko barchaswa kayam raheko. Gareeb janata le rahat na payeko. Eee sab lai kamee kamjori manna milchha?
24. Maobadi sanga shanti barta aupacharik roop ma garna UN ko madhyasthata lina parema ke Nepal le India ko anumati lina parchha? Lina parchha bhane kun antarashtriya kanoon ko adhar ma? Yadi lina mildaina bhane Kofi Annan le offer kina gareka hoon? Annan lai antarashtriya kanoon ko gyan na bhako ho ta?
25. Aba loktantra ko sthapana bhaye pachhi, yadi sansad ma 200 seat hundo ho ta tyas madhye kati seat UML, kati seat NC, kati NC (D), kati Maobadi, kati RPP, RJP, Jana Morcha, Sadbhavana, Sadbhavana (A), ra NMKP le jitchha hola jasto lagchha tapain lai?
26. Desh le naya sambidhan kahile samma pai saken dekhnu bhako chha? Arko Dashain samma paune sambhavana katti ko chha?
27. Tapain lai man pareko antarashtriya star ko neta ko ra kina?

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Movement Taken To Online Video

Talks are underway among groups in Kathmandu and here in the US.

Pyramid Of 10 In Kathmandu
Fundraising Among Nepalis In The US: Pyramid Of 10

The idea is to upload hundreds of hours of video online to Google Video.

Here are some highlights from some of the emails.

Minimum cost plan: Use existing camcorders, even if from non reporters.
Are there a half dozen camcorder owning citizens in Ktm willing to
participate? Have to pay only for disks, batteries and broadband. 

But also write down and send other plans. Suggest what options are the most feasible.

http://video.google.com

(1) Dinesh Wagle, Gagan Thapa, COCAP, Samudaya: for Kathmandu
(2) Sanjaya, Anil, Sarahana: fundraising in the US

Ktm people, please prepare a budget.

Three home based broadband locations. Undisclosed. 3-6 camcorders. Have backup plans for if your cameras get seized or destroyed by the police. Plenty of memory disks and batteries. Once a memory disk is full or near full, cameraman takes it out and passes it on to a "porter" who takes it to the undisclosed locations to be uploaded in as real times as possible. Each location to have its own separate Google Video account. All videos to be made available for free. Goal: both quality and quantity, but primarily quantity.

Offer the quantity version where you upload everything. Then prepare daily highlights. The first might be hours. The second might be 15 minutes to 30 minutes per day.

All participating bloggers will link to the videos from their blogs.

So, yes, prepare the budget and pass it on to us at this end asap.

A joint bank account of three key people at that end for money transfer from this end. Transparent book keeping. The key people at both ends will always know how the money is moving.

People in Kathmandu who are participating have the option to keep their names public or not. They decide.

Reason to do this:

(1) We can not wait until the global media finally wakes up to Nepal. We need to do the work so Nepal hits the world headlines sooner rather than later.

(2) 100,000 people on 10 hours of online video will be like a million people and no video. You magnify your influence.

(3) This has to be a movement of zero martyrs. Maximum global exposure ties the hands of the security forces to a large extent. Evil lurks only in the dark.

(4) This is history being made. Those videos will stay online forever. 20 years from now, they will still be there. History has to be recorded for posterity.

But do not forget digital cameras and traditional reporting either.

--- Sarahana wrote:

> I have a friend there in web development business who can help. > Broadband is available, but not wireless. It would have to be > uploaded > the night of the protest or so. > We would just need to fund it.

> > sarahana > www.samudaya.org

> > On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Paramendra Kumar Bhagat wrote:

> > > Video upload plan is brilliant. But yes the problem is with > internet > >> access, > >> especially the high speed.

> > > > > > > > Does it exist though? Or is it too expensive? What if money will > not be > > a problem? If we fund it from this end? We want literally 100 hours > of > > video online, maybe more.

> > > > You guys organize at that end. Make it inclusive. COCAP, and > Samudaya > > have done some work in the past. Write down a plan, put down the > > budget, and present it this way. We will see what can be done.

> > > > Movement garne bhaneko global audience ka lagi ho. The more it is > > exposed less the chance of state repression. And quicker it will > > conclude.

Hello Paramendra ji,

Sorry for this late reply. Bhusukkai birsechhu, reply garu bhanda bhandai.

Video upload plan is brilliant. But yes the problem is with internet access, especially the high speed.

Hope you are doing great. Your arguments at DFN are though provoking.

Njoy!

-- Dinesh Wagle
Reporter/Blogger
Kantipur Daily Newspaper
Kathmandu
UWB