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Tri Continental Film Festival 2008
July 25 - 30, 2008
Goa, India
http://www.moviesgoa.org/page/tri_continental/
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricon/schedule_2008.pdf
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Mario Goveia wrote:
> For the good of Goa we need more people like Jaitley
> and Kaif in Goa, not less.
Mario,
What does one do with the money in Goa once someone has sold their ancestral
home?
At the Goanetters Convention, Dean D'cruz gave us some idea of what happens in
Goa when people suddenly have money on their hands. He contends that those who
sold (some after being coerced) their property in mining areas are now spending
their time and money drinking. As you might have guessed, the miners themselves
have opened pubs in these areas and villages that had three or four pubs now
boast ten. When the money is spent, these guys will get out of there drunken
stupor and find that they now are in debt with the mines and will have to work
for them.
One more thing, the fields that were not sold are now polluted with the dust
from mining and cannot be cultivated.
We missed you at the conference. However, we are making arrangements to put
Dean's excellent presentation on the net.
Mervyn3.0
BTW, the miners have de-marked areas that were game reserves and are now mining
in those areas. The destruction to the forest and water supply was clearly
presented. Last year, when people here were reporting leopards raiding food
from villages, I made the comment that something must be seriously wrong with
their habitat for the leopards to leave their hunting grounds.
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