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Drowned Out: screening by the Oxford Narmada Campaign

Oxford Narmada campaign | 28.10.2003 12:15 | Ecology | Globalisation | Migration | Oxford

This Thursday, the Oxford Narmada campaign will screen 'Drowned Out', an
award-winning documentary that follows one of India's largest grassroots struggles
since Independence.

Told from the perspective of a single family uprooted by the
Sardar Sarovar dam (about to be displaced in the film, already displaced at the time
I write this email), the documentary is remarkable for the relative unobtrusiveness
of the film-maker's voice. So come hear tribal people speak for themselves, and
maybe you will be inspired enough to join the Oxford solidarity and advocacy chapter
of this remarkable campaign.

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FILM SCREENING OF THE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY "DROWNED OUT: WE CAN'T WISH
THEM AWAY"; FOLLOWED BY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OXFORD NARMADA CAMPAIGN'S WORK.

PLACE: BALLIOL COLLEGE - LECTURE ROOM 23.
TIME: 7PM.
DAY: THURSDAY (3RD WEEK) 30TH NOVEMBER.

Drowned Out is an award-winning documentary about the struggle of the
inhabitants of Jalsindhi village, in central India, against the construction
of large dams and the catastrophic consequences these have on their lives.

"Angry, compassionate, disturbing and yet empowering, it makes for urgent and
necessary viewing." Time Out (London)

"A film of enormous heart, grit and insight that is both taut political essay
and enormously moving plea." San Francisco International Film Festival Jury.

For more information, please see:  http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dout.html

ALL ARE VERY WELCOME TO THIS EVENT. Any questions, please email
rahul.rao@balliol or keith.hyams@linacre. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

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Oxford Narmada campaign

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