[Reader-list] Fwd: Joint Protest Against Continued State Repression on Anti-POSCO People's Movement @ Odisha Bhawan, Delhi on 24th May

[Asit Das]

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*Protest Against Continued State Repression on Anti-POSCO People's Movement*

*Odisha Bhawan, 1 Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi*

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*11 am, 24th May (Friday), 2013*


In the continuum of brutal attacks on the struggle against forcible land
acquisition for a POSCO steel plant in Odisha, the most recent case of
repression has been the unlawful arrest of POSCO Pratirodh Samgram Samiti
(PPSS) leader Abhay Sahoo from Bhubaneshwar airport by Odisha Police. This
arbitrary arrest is clearly a part of the ploy to destabilize the People's
Movement that has been fighting against the forcible land grab by
Odisha/Central Government for the POSCO project.

After the unlawful arrest of Abhay Sahoo on 11th May, from 16th May 2013
onwards, a Odisha wide platform POSCO Pratirodh Jan Sangharsh Manch (PPJSM)
have started a demonstration for indefinite period at Lower PMG,
Bhubaneswar demanding immediate scrapping of the project and release of
PPSS leaders Abhay Sahoo, Laxman Paramanik ( victim of the bomb attack in
early March), Promod Das and two others from jail.

On behest of CAPITAL, the Odisha Government and the Indian (Union)
Government lends its unabated support for the project leading to utmost
repressive measures on peaceful protesters.

We strongly condemn the complete disregard for any kind of democratic
processes, and the blatant use of brute force through police as well as
goons to brutally crush the movement that is going on in the region. We
call on all democratic and progressive organizations and individuals to
condemn the arrest of anti-POSCO activists and protest against the Odisha
Government’s naked support towards POSCO, where it is ready to murder its
own citizens so that POSCO may set up its steel plant.


*People’s Struggle Against 'Corporate – State Nexus' Long Live!*


*Sd/-*

*New Socialist Initiative (NSI), Sanhati - Delhi, JNU Students' Union
(JNUSU), POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Delhi, All India Students' Association
(AISA), Democratic Students Federation (DSF), Left Collective, KNS
(Krantikari Naujawan Sabha), CPI-ML (Red Flag), People's Union for
Democratic Rights (PUDR), New Materialist - JNU, Students for Resistance
(SRF), Women Against Sexual Violence & State Repression (WSS)*


*Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/462067460546772/*


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