---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Naveen Chander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:54 PM Subject: [YAM] Fwd: screening of documentary on chengara
Dear all, please join us for a *Documentary Film on Chengara Land Struggle, Kerala * *Chengara Solidarity*, Delhi, invites you to the screening of an untitled Malayalam documentary film (with sub-titles) on the Chengara Land Struggle, Kerala* * *Date: Friday, August 22* *Time: 2.30 pm* *Venue: Room No: 54, Arts Faculty, Delhi University* The Land struggle in *Chengara*, Pathanamtitta district, Kerala, by landless Dalits and Adivasis from all parts of Kerala, started on 4 August 2007. The movement is a fight to re-claim ownership of land that has been part of a long standing promise of the Government. At present nearly 5000 families, more than 20,000 people have entered the *Harrison Malayalam Private Ltd Estate*, living in makeshift arrangements. In the ongoing struggle for land in Chengara there is growing tension and escalating violence against the peaceful and democratic protest by the people. There have been instances of various brutal attacks on the people of the area by the workers of trade unions affiliated to leading political parties and other hired henchmen of Harrison Malayalam Ltd. This untitled film powerfully documents the voices of the Dalits and Adivasis who have entered the Harrison estate asserting that the right to land is a basic human right for marginalized communities. In solidarity, Naveen New Socialist Initiative -------------------------------------------------------------- *New Socialist Initiative* is a collective committed to the belief that humanity can create a society free of economic deprivation, gender, caste, national and racial oppressions, and ecological degradation. It will be a society of associated humans which, will ensure that 'the free development of each (will be) the condition for the free development of all'. This requires a social system run collectively for the welfare of all, as against capitalism that is run by the rich and the powerful for their private profit. While we uphold the legacy of socialist revolutions of the last century, we also believe that it is necessary to learn from their limitations and mistakes to successfully challenge new forms of political and ideological domination evolved by capitalism. -- "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think" - Foucault ANIL Anil Tharayath Varghese National Centre for Advocacy Studies Serenity Complex, Ramnagar Colony Pashan, Pune 21 Phone - 02022952003/4 Mobile - 09890387877 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Documentary Film on Chengara Land Struggle.doc
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