[Reader-list] 27th April 5pm:Blr: Public Meeting on "Peoples' Movements today - Tasks and Challenges ahead"

[Anivar Aravind]

Peoples' Solidarity Concerns

Bangalore

We are happy to inform you that many representatives of peoples'
movements from various struggles such as anti- SEZ, anti-mining, anti-
water privatization, anti-Posco, Fish workers struggles, adivasi
struggles are arriving in Bangalore for a political convention. We
felt that this would be a good occasion for the like-minded people of
Bangalore to meet and discuss with at least some of them on the some
of the grave issues around all of us. It is also important to think
about how we react to many of these struggles around us.

We at People’s Solidarity Concerns therefore invite you to attend a
Public Meeting to hear these leaders on the topic "Peoples' Movements
today - Tasks and Challenges ahead".  Please do come and let us
discuss the possibilities and alternatives for the future.

Date: 27th of April 2010

Time: 5pm

Venue: Bangalore University Senate Hall, (City Campus) Near K R
Circle, Bangalore.


Speakers:

Prashant Paikrey – Spokes person  of Posco Prathirodh Sangram Samithi
(PPSS), he is a trade unionist and with the CPI in Orissa..

Dayamani Barla - Adivasi Mulvasi Astitva Raksha Manch in Jharkhand  is
spearheading the anti-mining struggles and has sucessfully stopped
ArcelorMital from mining. Adivasi journalist and voice of the peoples
struggles,

Magalene Peter - is a firebrand activist leading the fishworkers
struggles in Kerala and heads the KSMTF

Chittaranjan Singh- Human Rights activist,  a renowned human rights
activist of PUCL. based in Uttar Pradesh, he has been active in the
peoples movement against Coca Cola company.

Guman Singh-convenor of Himalaya Niti Abhiyan in Himachal Pradesh a
coordination of over 40 peoples struggles against dams, hydropower
projects, displacement and ecological plunder by the State and
corporations.

Vidya Dinkar -Karavali Karnataka Janaabhivriddhi Vedike (KKJV), a
forum of farmers, social activists, individuals and groups; is a
firebrand activist in Mangalore mobilising against the MSEZ as well as
the fascist Hindutva attacks.

You are cordially invited by: Peoples' Solidarity Concerns- Bangalore
Contact Jagadish:  9448394365