---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tathagata Sengupta <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:56:02 -0500
Dear all, Here is the link to an AID petition on POSCO: http://aidindia.org/main/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=464 POSCO is a glaring example of the the unjust, unsustainable and undemocratic model of development that is so aggressively followed in India today. * Please sign the petition URGENTLY, and also spread the word, since we need to collect as many signatures as we can before the PM's proposed Seoul visit on the 10th of this month (Yes, 2 days from now!), to prevent him from making unjust promises! * In the words of our Saathi Nityanand Jayaraman, "the Meena Gupta Cmte. (appointed by the MoEF) about the POSCO project has issued a split verdict, with the majority opinion (consisting of Urmila Pingle, V. Suresh and Devendra Pandey) recommending the scrapping of the preliminary environmental clearances issued thus far, owing to gross violations of procedures related to FRA, CRZ and EIA. Another report by the Mining Zone People's Solidarity Group (MZPSG) offers an analysis of the local economy in Jagatsinghpur (including elements of the non-monetized economy) and challenges the exaggerated claims of the NCAER report about employment generation by POSCO." See http://miningzone.org/campaigns/POSCO/iron-and-steal/ for the MZPSG report). NCAER's data is also being questioned as it turns out that POSCO was one of the sponsors of NCAER. See story in The Hindu about this: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article840193.ece Here is a link to a presentation on the project that we could use in reaching out to people and organisations: http://bit.ly/9yGHRO Here is a brief background on AID's past involvement in the issue: - AID petition in February 2008: http://petitions.aidindia.org/Posco_2008/previous.php - Background page attached to petition: http://petitions.aidindia.org/Posco_2008/posco_petition_background.php (the background page has links to a Youtube film called "No to POSCO", photos from Jagatsinghpur, etc. which are still useful although some of the other info. might be a bit dated as the situation on the ground has changed) - AID petition in October 2008 when Abhay Sahoo, leader of PPSS was arrested: http://petitions.aidindia.org/Posco_2008/ Do write back if you have questions, Thanks, Tatha AID Campaigns team -- "Only when the last tree has died, and the last river poisoned, will we realize that we cannot eat money." www.otherindia.org -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
