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India: State and Corporates Hand in Glove -PUBLIC MEETING

Stop Vedanta Mining | 21.01.2010 10:11 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Birmingham | South Coast


Please join for an evening of presentations and discussions on some of the prominent struggles against the State-Corporate nexus in India

Tuesday 26 January 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Room G2, SOAS, London

India: State and Corporates Hand in Glove

• Opening Remarks
• POSCO Not Welcome: South Korean President, chief guest
of this year’s Republic Day, inaugurates the Posco project in
Orissa even as strong local opposition continues
• Dantewada Despatch: Readings from Javed Iqbal’s reports
on site from Dantewada that highlight the violence of
Operation Green Hunt, Indian Government’s battle against its
own people
• Vedanta Onsalught: Film clippings from Samarendra Das’s
film Wira Pdika (Earthworm and Company Man) which brings
to light the human and environmental disaster of Vedanta mining in the Niyamgiri
region
• Bhopal 1984-?: Updates from the continuing struggle in Bhopal by the victims of
DOW-Carbide’s many poisons
• DFID and India: A discussion on the contemporary role of the British state and
NGOs in the implementation of neoliberal policies in India.
• Closing Remarks

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