[Reader-list] Short film on discrimination and exclusion in tsunami relief an rehabilitation

[Clifton]

Hi,

A group of us have been actively involved in the relief and 
rehabilitation processes in the tsunami affected villages of TN and 
Pondicherry. While the mainstream media has been covering the sucess of 
the relief efforts, there are several issues that are being suppressed 
and need to be brought to the notice of the general public. These 
include issues of exclusion in the relief process and discrimnation of 
dalits.

While we tried to write articles/notes/observations and get them 
published this more or less failed. As a result we have made a short 
documentary film that documents the losses and struggle of those 
thousands of people who have been severly affected by the tsunami yet 
have received little or no relief. Further, there is no plan to 
rehabilitate them as is being done for the fisherpeople.

This short film is called ¨Outside Mercy¨ and is about 30 minutes long. 
If you would like copies please do ask us. The film is a non-funded one 
and as such we have incurred lot of out-of-pocket expenses and would 
appreciate contributions for the film.  The VCD and DVD are nominally 
priced at Rs. 100 and Rs. 300 respectively but would appreciate it if 
anyone wants to contribute further.

There are Tamil and English versions of the film.

Warm regards
Revathi, Deepu and Clifton.

Contact:
Revathi - r_revs at yahoo.com / 09444030032
Deepu - pedepics at yahoo.com / 09448367627
Clifton - clifton at altlawforum.org / 09880063583