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
• 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