[Reader-list] Film Screening: RESISTING COASTAL INVASION (Fwd)

[Anivar Aravind]

INSAF Delhi  invites you
to
a screening of the documentary film

RESISTING COASTAL INVASION
(English, 52 minutes)

Directed by K P SASI

the screening will be followed by discussion initiated by

T. Peter, President KSMTF & Secretary NFF
and

Gilbert, Tamilnadu, Pondicherry  Fisherpeople's Forum/National Campaign 
against CMZ

Venue: Muktadhara,
18-19 Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market
New Delhi-110001, Phone: 2332 7431



Time : 6 pm, Date: September 25, 2007
All are Cordially Invited.



Ramendra Kumar
Convener, INSAF Delhi
Phone: 28031935, E-mail: delhidss at gmail.com


For further information:

Shree Prakash, INSAF Secretariat, Tel: 26517814, Mobile: 9871880686

or
www.keralafishworkers.org, www.alakal.org, www.visualsearch.org
http://www.petitiononline.com/cmz/petition.html

SYNOPSIS OF THE FILM:


More than 250 million people inhabit India's coastline. Among them are 
the fishing communities, directly dependent for a living on marine and 
coastal natural resources.  Today, both coastal ecosystems as well as 
the customary rights of fishing communities over coastal areas are 
severely eroded by developmental activities and market interests - 
tourism, industrialization, sand mining, infrastructure-building, 
aquaculture and rapid urbanization. The only piece of legislation ever 
enacted to regulate developmental activities along the Indian coast was 
the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification of 1991. Not 
surprisingly, in today's age of globalization, the CRZ Notification is 
increasingly being regarded as an impediment to free market. Moves are 
afoot to dispense with it altogether. What are the implications of such 
a deregulation agenda? Who benefits? Who loses? Who's accountable? Who 
is to blame?



"Resisting the Coastal Invasion" is a 52-minute documentary directed by 
KP Sasi that explores these questions. It captures the struggles of 
fishing communities who are fighting tooth and nail against the takeover 
of their lands by the forces of globalization.

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