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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
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Claude Alvares <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002237397962>
So, another year is passed. I am still snowed down with work, but no
youngsters want to join. The middle-aged have their own fires going. Now I
am thinking of getting people who have retired to join. If we don't block
many of the things that are moving Goa in the wrong direction at the
moment, this place will be unliveable in the next 2-3 years. The Russians
have taken over north Goa beaches from Morgim onwards. Developers are
selling plots and buildings and new schemes in almost all the coast
villages. Shacks and beach beds now crowd even the turtle nesting beaches.
The CRZ notification will soon be a piece of paper fit only to wipe your
ass. We have had some success in limiting mining: 32 of 90 mining leases
are now closed. We have 58 more to shut down. Goans are fighting like never
before. But the fight is still largely inchoate, anarchic, unable to focus,
since most groups are fighting each other rather than the real shaitan. How
many times I have pleaded that we should not war with each other in public
even if we violently disagree. But the melee is unended. Government watches
with glee. It has staying power. We can undo its actions bit by bit, but
only with systematic and dedicated action. Anyone willing to come join the
Goa Foundation and use your skills to protect one of the most beautiful
places (and people) on this planet?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002237397962
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