More girls in Kandhamal need help

CRI Published Date: May 26, 2010 Nuns of Jesus, May and Joseph society say thousands of girls need education and shelter in Orissa, the riot-hit state in eastern India. Some nuns who run two hostels for riot-affected girls of Kandhamal say they want to provide education and shelter for more people, but fund scarcity hinders them. “There is so much to be done to help children in Kandhamal,” says Sister Cletus, who coordinates two hostels in Sambalpur and Kantabanji, places... Read More

Mining and forced displacement in Orissa – Prafulla Samantara speaks

Thanks to Pramod Biligiri for Videos Prafulla Samnatara, is President of Lok Shakti Abhijan, Odisha Chapter and one of the National Convenors of National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM). He has been actively participating in various democratic people’s movements to protect human rights, environment and right to livelihood of millions of people in Odisha state as well as in the country. His mission is to have alternative development that is sustainable development... Read More

Orissa Situation Worsening

Surya Shankar Dash The situation in Orissa is gradually worsening in every area where people have put up brave resistances against forcible land acquisition and mindless mining and industrialization at the cost of life and livelihoods of millions of people. It is very difficult to say if these movements can withstand the disaster which looks so imminent now for the following reasons. 1. Death of the political opposition to the ruling regimes as there exists an undeclared... Read More

Scrap Posco steel project: fact-finding team

Special Correspondent The Hindu “Land acquisition violative of locals’ constitutional rights” ‘May 15 police attack on peaceful protesters totally uncalled for’ ‘Orissa violated international norms on treatment of the injured, by not providing medical help’ BHUBANESWAR: A fact-finding team, which visited several villages at the site selected for the controversial megasteel plant of Posco India Private Limited in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district,... Read More

Press Release of Fact Finding Team: POLICE TORTURE ON ANTI-POSCO PEOPLE

Please find the Press Release of a Fact Finding Team led by Justice H.Suresh that visited  to Dhinkia Charidesh to know the situation after May 15 Police action against anti-POSCO agitators at Balitutha. The Team visited Balitutha, Dhinkia, Patana and other villages on 25th and on 24th they had discussed with leaders of various political parties, senior journalists, activists and others. On 26th(11 AM) they addressed a Press Conference at Lohia Academy, Bhubaneswar. The... Read More

Report of Anti-POSCO/TATA/Vedanta Demo in Mumbai

Yesterday, as scheduled, Mumbai saw a lively protest demo , under the banner of the Anti-POSCO Struggle Solidarity Front, outside the Churchgate Rly. Station, the virtual heart of the city, for more than an hour since 5 in the evening. At least eighty activists from a broad spectrum of organizations gathered. Fullthroated slogans were raised against the POSCO, Tata and Vedanta projects in Odisha and consequent attempts by the state to displace people, on a hurge scale,... Read More

AHRC Urgent Appeal

INDIA/SOUTH KOREA: More than a hundred villagers including 50 women protesting peacefully injured in police firing and assault ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-069-2010 For sending the letter Click Here 24 May 2010 —————————————————— INDIA/SOUTH KOREA: More than a hundred villagers including 50 women protesting... Read More

CPI Seeks PM’s Intervention in POSCO Case

Outlook India CPI today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in withdrawing the Centre’s permission to the Rs 54,000-crore project being set up by South Korean steel major POSCO in Orissa. In a letter, CPI National Secretary D Raja urged Singh to instruct the Environment Ministry to withdraw the “illegal forest clearance” granted for the project and also initiate an inquiry regarding the actions of the officials from the Ministry. Raja... Read More

Why Posco is in trouble in India

Rediff Business Desk published a Slide show about villagers’ fight against a POSCO, the Korean steel Giant, which is in the list of companies that will last for the next 100 years. Read it Here Share/Bookmark  Read More

Anti-Posco Resistance Week:Mumbai Demonstration Tomorrow

Demonstration at Churchgate Station (East) under the banner of ‘Anti-POSCO Struggle Solidarity Front’ on Tuesday 25th May 2010 at 5.00pm. PLEASE join and support the heroic struggle of the villagers and condemn the ongoing police brutality. NO POSCO NO Displacement NO Repression Stop Loot of Natural Wealth ANTI-POSCO STRUGGLE SOLIDARITY FRONT STOP ILLEGAL EVICTION AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN ORISSA Download Handbill Share/Bookmark  Read More