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From owner-irn-narmada@netvista.net Wed Nov 17 19:02:25 1999
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:43:22 -0800 (PST)
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subject: LS: Medha to Speak at U Maryland
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>>From: Kirankumar Vissa <vissa@Glue.umd.edu>
>>Subject: AID PRESENTS - A Talk by Medha Patkar
>>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:45:38 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>
>>************* Meet Medha Patkar ************************
>>
>> in University of Maryland
>>
>>
>> Leader of the defining people's movement of India,
>> * Narmada Bachao Andolan*
>>
>> Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award
>> and
>> Goldman Environmental Prize
>>
>> Coordinator, India's National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
>>
>> VENUE
>>
>> Plant Sciences Auditorium, Univ. of MD, College Park
>> 22nd November, Monday, 7:00 pm
>> Contact: (301) 513-0565, kiran@aidindia.org
>> (301) 864-1355, tnarayan@wam.umd.edu
>>
>>Medha Patkar is among the most dynamic activists and inspiring people's
>>leaders in India today. A grassroots leader who knows the Narmada valley
>>village by village, person by person and who has braved beatings and death
>>in the movement, she is also an effective campaigner for change in the
>>national and international policies of development. In the late 1980s and
>>early 1990s she brought international attention to the problem of large
>>scale development and the displacement of people, when fighting against
>>the World Bank funding of dam construction in the Narmada valley.
>>
>>On Nov. 22nd Medha Patkar will discuss about the struggle for life and
>>basic rights in the Narmada valley, about how such movements are part of
>>the search for India's true development and how like-minded groups and
>>movements can work together towards a people-oriented development and
>>politics.
>>
>>More information about Medha Patkar and the Narmada movement:
>>http://www.rightlivelihood.se/recip1991_2.html
>>http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipients/recipientProfile.cfm?recipientID=41
>>http://www.narmada.org
>>
>>******* Presented by the Association for India's Development (AID) ***
>>
>>Association for India's Development (AID) is a non-profit organization
>>dedicated to grassroots development in India by promoting efforts that
>>organize local people to empower themselves through education, vocational
>>training and asserting their rights.
>>
>>*** www.aidindia.org info@aidindia.org ***
>>
>>DIRECTIONS
>>
>> >From the Beltway (I-495/I95), take exit 25 - Rt. 1 South towards College
>>Park. After 2 miles, find the University of Maryland entrance on your
>>right. Make a right on Campus Drive and make a right turn at "Big M"
>>circle. Plant Sciences building is on your left, followed by Parking
>>Garage 2 where you can park at the second level.
>>
>> >Metro: Get down at the College Park station on Green Line. The main exit
>>when you get off will take you to a bus-stop where you can get a Shuttle
>>bus to the U of MD every 10 minutes.