24-26/10 Pescara: VERSO FSE PARIGI in movimento... incontri, dibattiti, assemblee

["Abruzzo Social Forum" <info at abruzzosocialforum.org>]

   DUE GIORNI DI RIFLESSIONE VERSO IL FORUM SOCIALE EUROPEO DI PARIGI
con uno  sguardo ai...
MOVIMETI INTERNAZIONALI
  Due iniziative ed un'assemblea per raccontarci e farci raccontare cosa
accade nel movimento in Italia e non solo... dall'inghilterra dove in grande
movimento per la pace ha fatto tremare il governo Blair all'India sede del
prossimo forum mondiale... tutto questo con uno sguardo anche critico verso
il Forum Sociale Europeo..

  Raccontiamo per costruire reti locali e globali contro la globalizzazione
neoliberista che giornalmente dichiara la sua guerra all'umanità. I
movimenti contro la guerra e  per la pace, i movimenti contro la
mercificazione dell'acqua (dalla lotta contro le dighe alla privatizzazione
dei fiumi) hanno attraversato più vlte il pianeta... non soltanto fuochi di
rivolta... ma  un nuovo agire che metta in  rete  esperienze altre e diverse
per costruire dal basso e aldilà dei confini (TUTTI!!!!) l'altro mondo
possibile.

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     VENERDI' 24 OTTOBRE 2003 ORE 20.30
  SALA CONSIGLIO QUARTIERE 3, VIA TAVO - PESCARA

   INCONTRO DIBATTITO con
          TOM BEHAN
                               GLOBALIZE RESISTANCE

  -->MOVIMENTI E SINISTRA ALTERNATIVA IN INGHILTERRA <--

  Tom Behan è docente all'Universita` di Kent at Canterbury ed ha insegnato
all'Università di Napoli, è esponente di Global Resistence, è uno degli
organizzatori della straordinaria manifestazione del 15 febbraio in
Inghilterra contro la guerra in Iraq e da anni segue le questioni interne
alla sinistra in Inghilterra dentro e fuori il Labour Party


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    DOMENICA 26 OTTOBRE 2003 ORE 15.00
  SALA CONSIGLIO QUARTIERE 3, VIA TAVO - PESCARA

  ->>ASSEMBLEA ABRUZZO SOCIAL FORUM <<-
    a.. In movimento nel movimento dei movimenti... che succede? cosa accade
e soprattutto cosa si dice nelle reti nazionali e locali?
    b.. forum sociale europeo di Parigi
      parteciperà ed interverrà dalle 17.30-->

  MEDHA PATKAR (World Social Forum e

  NAMP National Alliance of People's Movement)

  Medha Patkar,   premio Goldman per l'ambiente nel 1992 (praticamente il
Nobel per l'ambiente) e portavoce del movimento  delle donne contro la
tristemente  famosissima diga di Narmada in India. Arrestata e picchiata più
volte, è una delle più importanti ambientaliste indiane insieme a Vandana
Shiva.

  Medha Patkar



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        The people in the Narmada Valley are fighting a virtual battle - the
battle for the right to life.
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  India
  Rivers & Dams

  Medha Patkar has been a central organizer and strategist of Narmada Bachao
Andolan (NBA), a people's movement organized to stop the construction of a
series of dams planned for India's largest westward flowing river, the
Narmada. The World Bank-financed Sardar Sarovar Dam is the keystone of the
Narmada Valley Development Project, one of the world's largest river
development projects. Upon completion, Sardar Sarovar would submerge more
than 37,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land. The dam and its
associated canal system would also displace some 320,000 villagers, mostly
from tribal communities, whose livelihoods depend on these natural
resources.


  In 1985 Patkar began mobilizing massive marches and rallies against the
project, and, although the protests were peaceful, she was repeatedly beaten
and arrested by the police. She almost died during a 22-day hunger strike in
1991. Undaunted, she undertook two more long protest fasts in 1993 and 1994.
With each subsequent summer monsoon season, when flooding threatens the
villages near the dam site, Patkar has joined the tribals in resisting
evacuation and resigning themselves to drown in the rising waters. To date
as many as 35,000 people have been relocated by the project; however, they
have not been adequately resettled and hundreds of families have returned to
their home villages despite the constant threat of submergence. The
activists are continually subjected to intimidation. In 1994 the NBA office
was ransacked, and later Patkar was arrested for refusing to leave the
village of Manibeli which was to be flooded.


  These actions led to an unprecedented independent review of the dam by the
World Bank, which concluded in 1991 that the project was ill-conceived.
Unable to meet the Bank's environmental and resettlement guidelines, the
Indian government canceled the final installment of the World Bank's $450
million loan. In 1993 Patkar and the other activists forced the central
government to conduct a review of all aspects of the project. Meanwhile, the
sluice gates to the dam were closed in 1993, in defiance of court orders,
and water was impounded behind the dam.


  In May 1994, NBA took the case to stop the construction of the Sardar
Sarovar Dam to India's Supreme Court. In January 1995 the Supreme Court put
a stay on further construction of the half-built dam and has tried to forge
consensus between the central and state governments. While state governments
continue to push for an increase in the height of the dam, displaced tribals
carry on with mass protests. Patkar continued to defy the project and in
1996 she was again arrested.


  The NBA has also been working to obtain just compensation for people
affected by dams which have already been built on the Narmada as well as
opposing other dams in the Narmada Valley. In 1997 the NBA helped tribal
communities stop construction of the Upper Veda and Lower Goin dams. Another
focus of the NBA's work has been the Maheshwar Dam. A number of huge rallies
and dam site occupations forced a halt to major work on this project and led
the state government to establish an independent task force to review the
dam.


  As an outgrowth of her work to stop dam construction, Patkar has helped
establish a network of activists across the country - the National Alliance
of People's Movements.



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