From Nandigram to Narmada to Gorai : Linking People & Struggles
 
The Nandigram struggle has created history. The adverse impact of imperialist globalization and the primacy of capital and market on India's polity is clearly visible not only in Nandigram struggle but also from the struggle by farmers, workers, Dalits, Adivasis across the country. The illusory development slogans churned out by this process facilitates assault not only on our natural resources and cultural heritage but also destroys the ethos of equity, simplicity, democracy and sovereignty.

Peoples Forum Against ADB (PFAADB)

Press Release                                    

15 January 2008

'ADB FACES BOYCOTT AS IT SUBVERTS ENVIRONMENT, RESETTLEMENT AND INDIGENOUS SAFEGUARD POLICIES'

New Delhi: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) begins its South Asia consultation, in the city tomorrow, on the revision of its safeguard policies on social and environmental impacts of its projects.  The revision is claimed towards mitigating adverse impacts of its investment on people and the environment. The draft will be reviewed in consultation to be held with South Asian groups from 16-18 January 2008 at the Hyatt Regency and Taj Palace hotels.

BALI (INDONESIA), 14 December 2007 - Peoples from social organizations and
movements from across the globe brought the fight for social, ecological and gender justice into the negotiating rooms and onto the streets during the UN climate summit in Bali. [1]

 

Inside and outside the convention centre, activists demanded alternative policies and practices that protect livelihoods and the environment.

Press Release. 20 December 2007, Thiruvanathapuram  

Thiruvanathapuram: A consultation on 'India's FTA negotiations and implications for Kerala' organised in the city yesterday called for caution from New Delhi in the current rush to sign Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Fishworkers Unions, farmers groups, researchers and civil society organisations participated in the meeting, organised by the Thiruvanathapuram based Kerala Swatantra Matsya Thozhilala Federation (KSMTF) in collaboration with the Mumbai based research group Focus on the Global South. Speakers at the meeting included Farmers Relief Forum leader AC Varkey and KSMTF President T Peter.