---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:36 PM Subject: Fwd: Inviting support for the Goan People's Film Festival 22-29 Nov 2008
Friends, I write this message to you to intimate you about the proposed parallel film festival that the Ghor Ganv Rakhon Manch (GGRM) plans to hold in Goa in the course of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) from the *22nd to **the 29th of November 2008*. We request both your participation and your help in contributing to the event, and raising awareness about the event and the issues we seek to highlight. Ghor Ganv Rakhon Manch (Home and Village Protection Platform) is a federation of various village-level, and other civil society groups and individuals concerned with preserving the environment, livelihoods, identity and traditions of those living in the State of Goa. GGRM has come together to protest the manner in which the lives and livelihoods of Goans have been assaulted in the past few years by speculative real estate development, mining and other forms of capitalist expansion. Rather than support the demands of the people, the State of Goa has been complicit in abetting this hijack of lives and livelihoods to the extent of suffocating the demands of Gram Sabhas, frustrating their operation, and more recently permitting the assault of persons in these Gram Sabhas. Petitions from these various groups have gone unanswered by a silent State that takes refuge in technical interpretations of the law, and procedures that make a pretence of participatory planning, even as if pushes an anti-livelihoods agenda. To draw attention to these issues of the destruction of livelihoods for profits and the suffocation of democracy within the State of Goa, the GGRM has taken the initiative of organizing a parallel film festival in the course of IFFI 2008. The film festival has been tentatively titled "*The Goan People's Film Festival: Standing Up for Lives and Livelihoods*". The decision to host the festival was taken today (5th November 2008) and as such details are still being worked out. Nevertheless we are committed to holding the festival and drawing attention to the issues. Your support is therefore crucial to the success of the event. Over the period of seven days, we hope to focus on the themes, Mining, Tribal livelihoods, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), Real estate projects, Police and State Violence (this list is as yet illustrative and not exhaustive). The basic programme is to screen films every evening at a venue in Panjim city (the venue for IFFI). Film screenings will be followed by a discussion, and in between films we will invite villagers to speak about their issues and problems. If you have films that cover these issues, either with specific reference to Goa, or from people's movements in India, please do get in touch with us, or direct us to those who might, so that we can screen these films in the course of the festival. It does not matter is the film you have does not directly correspond to the issues outlined below, if it corresponds to issues in Goa or the movement at large, we will try and fit it in. If you have access to neither, but are supportive of the cause, do get in touch with the email address provided below, so that we can keep you informed as the Film Festival develops and use you as a conduit for awareness about the event and the issues. Any other suggestions or offers of help are also welcome. You could also help out by volunteering to help organise the festival, design pamphlets, help with blogging about the event. We are open to all forms of support. I will end with the request to take this invitation seriously primarily because the standard focus on the glamour and leisure reserved for Goa erases entirely the very real livelihood issues and human rights abuses that ordinary Goans have been facing for some years now. Remember though, that time is of essence. If interested in supporting, contact Jason Keith Fernandes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or +919764324074. In solidarity, Jason (For GGRM and the Festival organizing group) ------------------------------------------------------- Aryan, Book Port, Ground floor, Kurian towers, Banerji road, , kochi , Kerala, India- 682 018 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 0091 484-6530759, 0091 9746339846 www.bookport.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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