[Reader-list] `Mining and SEZs in Goa'- talk by Sebastian Rodrigues at CSDS

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Friday, 5th September 2008

Mining and SEZs in Goa

Talk by Sebastian Rodrigues

at 11 AM at the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies (CSDS), 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054.


Sebastian Rodrigues is the coordinator of Mand, an adivasi rights
resource centre of the Gawda, Kunbi, Velip and Dhangar Federation
(GAKUVED). Gawdas, Kunbis, Velips and Dhangars are indigenous
communities of Goa. The Federation argues that the model of
`development' promoted by the State and Central Governments threatens
the lives and livelihoods of the indigenous people of Goa. It has been
actively resisting illegal mining and SEZs.