ACTION ALERT: PRO-IDRF REPORT: WRITE YOUR LETTER

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ACTION ALERT: PRO-IDRF REPORT: WRITE YOUR LETTER

hinduasmitaNamaste Friends,

Many of you may be aware of attack by anti-india forces on IDRF. Please read

this response by pro-india group.

IDRF is managed by dedicated selfless workers to support the grassroots,

voluntary, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) : involved in serving the most

disadvantaged, impoverished, illiterate, disabled, orphan, poor and needy

people.

My sincere request would be to do one or all of the following things mentioned.

Most of pro-indians like us are very lazy about such actions which is taken as

lack of support by our opponents. Let's show our full support to IDRF (please

visit www.idrf.org and www.letindiadevelop.org).

Thanks,

Sandeep Khadkekar

A group of independent scholars and other professionals under the name of

Friends of India (FOI) today released a report entitled, “A Factual Response to

the Hate Attack on the India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF).” This report

clearly establishes the quality work of IDRF and simultaneously exposes the

forces behind the attack on IDRF. Attached is the press release about it.

 

This report is available for viewing at http://www.letindiadevelop.org/thereport

and http://www.idrf.org/foireport

 

Please read the report, and then do the following:

1. Contact CORPORATIONS – a) ask them to restore funding, b) talk about the good

non-religious work of IDRF, c) attack the credibility of those against IDRF, and

d) state that based on this report and other material in support of IDRF, you

expect CISCO to reinstate funding

A. CISCO: Peter Tavernise, Human Resources Manager, ptaverni (AT) cisco (DOT) com,

Executive Director, Cisco Systems Foundation, 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose,

CA 95134-1706, USA. Phone: 408-853-4483, FAX: 408-527-6310

B. ORACLE: Rosalie Gann, Director Corporate Giving, ROSALIE.GANN (AT) ORACLE (DOT) COM,

5OP11, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065

 

2. Write LETTERS to the Editor of all of the following newspapers – a) talk

about the good work of IDRF, and b) attack the credibility of those against

IDRF

Emails of some letters to the editor: editorial (AT) indiaabroad (DOT) com,

news (AT) indiawest (DOT) com, editor (AT) indiapost (DOT) com, editor (AT) newsindia-times (DOT) com,

editor (AT) timesofindia (DOT) com, toieditor_delhi (AT) indiatimes (DOT) com,

letterstotheeditor (AT) timesofindia (DOT) com, news (AT) rediff (DOT) co.in, letters (AT) thehindu (DOT) co.in,

editor (AT) expressindia (DOT) com, editorial (AT) asianage (DOT) com. info (AT) indiatribune (DOT) com,

editor (AT) economictimes (DOT) com, newseditors (AT) wsj (DOT) com, wsj.ltrs (AT) wsj (DOT) com,

letters.editor (AT) ft (DOT) com, feedback (AT) hindustantimes (DOT) com, editor (AT) deccanherald (DOT) co.in

 

Some talking points to choose from:

IDRF has an outstanding track record of humanitarian service; IDRF is not

associated with hate; IDRF has less than 1% overhead expenses; the Friends of

India report confirms what I had suspected all along – that anti-India,

anti-democratic, anti-secular, communist, and anti-Hindu groups with a

political agenda to damage the current democratically elected secular,

multi-religious, multi-ethnic government of India are behind the campaign

against this great charity; IDRF is vindicated!; Sabrang and the Forum of

Indian Leftists have no heart for those in India who may suffer if IDRF funding

is choked off; it is about time someone does a study on the funding and fund

disbursement of anti-India/Hindu groups such as Sabrang, EKTA, Coalition

Against Communalism, Friends of South Asia, and Indians for Collective Action.

 

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