urgent intervention needed against police atrocities on adivasis and attack on the women’s fact finding team at Narayanpatna

Dear friends As you must be knowing the Chasi Mulia Adi vasi Sangh (CMAS) is a democratic mass organisation of Adivasis in Narayanpatna Block of Koraput dist Orissa. for the past many years the CMAS has been fighting a relentless battle to reclaim their lands from money lenders, landlords, and the liquor mafia. Legally tribal lands cannot be occupied by non tribals in Narayanpatna area. but the money lenders and landlords has been doing this with the active connivance with... Read More

Posco seeks more time for Orissa land

R. SURYAMURTHY Telegraph New Delhi, Dec. 6: Korea’s Posco has sought more time from the Board of Approval for Special Economic Zones to acquire land for a steel plant in Orissa. Read More Share/Bookmark  Read More

How humble paan has taken on mighty steel in Orissa

Sun, Dec 6 10:02 AM Dhinkia (Orissa), Dec 6 (IANS) It is a simple, spade-shaped, green leaf that stands between the South Korean steel giant POSCO and its ambitions of carrying out a $12 billion mega-project in this sleepy cluster of villages in coastal Orissa. For the past five years now it is the cultivators of paan, or betel leaf, traditionally chewed by millions of Indians, who have resisted the steel major’s plans to acquire over 4,004 acres of land for an integrated... Read More

Shots from padayatra

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Medha patkar’s speech at the end of padayatra

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STUDENTS SUPPORT PADAYATRA IN ORISSA

Students from different parts of the country have joined the padayatra against the corporate invasion of land, water and forests in Orissa. Involvement of students have given a new energy to the padayatris. `This is also a great opportunity for learning,’ said Vinolin Caleb who co-ordinated students from Bangalore, Tamil Nadu and Andhra. `Our team of students reached Bhubaneswar on December 1st and slept at the station itself. We joined the padayatra on 2nd and will... Read More

Former Goan Minister Joins Padayatra

KP Sasi Reports Former Goan minister Matanhy Saldanha joined the padayatra today in coastal Orissa, protesting against the invasion of land water and forests by the multinational companies. The padayatra co-ordinated by Abhay Sahu, the leader of anti-POSCO struggle, is under taken by fourteen people’s movements started from Paradeep on November 29 and will end in Puri on December 5. Around fourteen people’s movements comprising of Posco Pratirodh Sangharsh Samiti... Read More

Orissa padayatra against corporate invasion picks up momentum

For Immediate Release The seven-day long padayatra against corporate invasion of coastal Orissa has gained momentum on it way with more and more local villagers joining the protest march to mark their solidarity with the movement. Public Meeting at Ersamma : Photo - Venkitesh L On 2 December, the fourth day of the padayatra, which started from Dhinkia on 29 November, the original procession of 600 protestors had swelled to over 750 with people joining all along the way.... Read More

South Korean President Go Back!!

Satya Sivaraman Reports ‘South Korean President down, down! Go back! Go back!” were the slogans renting the air on 2 December as hundreds of farmers, fisherfolk and agricultural workers participated in the padyatra from Paradip to Puri – on its fourth day- to protest against the corporate invasion of the Orissa coast. Though local folk of the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur have never seen South Korean President Lee Myun-Bak and have nothing against him personally,... Read More