[Reader-list] Fwd: Please Join Citizens' Protest Against John Kerry's Visit to New Delhi: 25th June, Jantar Mantar 3pm

[Asit Das]

No to further dilution of India's Nuclear Liability Act for US corporations!
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No to Kerry's pro-GM misadventures!

No to drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan! Hands off Syria! Hands off Iran!!*
*FREE PALESTINE!!!

PLEASE JOIN protest against John Kerry's visit to New Delhi on MONDAY 24
June 3 pm at Jantar Mantar*

Dear Friends,

Please join us at Jantar Mantar on 24th June 2013 (Monday)for a joint
citizens' protest against the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry for
the 4th Annual Strategic Dialogue between India and the United States. The
United States has been trying to subvert the Nuclear Liability Act,
mandated by the Indian parliament, to ensure a liability-free playing field
for the US nuclear corporates like Westinghouse and General Electric.
Indian people have not forgotten the Bhopal experience where Union Carbide,
now Dow Chemicals, got away with only meager compensation for the thousands
of victims.

John Kerry has been supporting Genetically Modified (GM) foods and
monstrous corporations like Monsanto. Very recently, he promoted GM at the
World Food Prize Foundation which awarded three pro-GM scientists, even as
the entire world has rose in opposition to GM-food.

Pushing India further into the mess created by the US in Afghanistan will
be another important agenda during John Kerry's visit, which must be
opposed strongly.

The joint protest will also raise voice against the recently unearthed
global surveillance by the US where even the allies are under close and
constant watch of the NSA.

We also demand that the US should back off from Syria where a brutal civil
war between two armed parties is on and a partisan intervention will only
further erode stability and peace. We firmly believe that a people's
democratic mass movement in Syria can be the only genuine way to oppose the
present regime.

The protest will also oppose the larger designs of US imperialism which is
responsible for unbearable violence on people from Palestine to Afghanistan
and Iraq, and the American war-mongering against Iran. We strongly oppose
the illegal and indiscriminate killings of innocent people by the US
drones.

We urge you to join this important protest and also invite your friends.

Date and time: June 24th, 3:00 pm
Venue: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi

With warm regards,

Contact:
Kumar Sundaram (9810556134)
Mahtab Alam (9811209345)