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dam-l LS: Live Webcast of NYC Radio Program on Maheshwar, Apr 26
>
>Tune in Wednesday evening!
>Asia Pacific Forum
>9:00-10:00 PM, Wednesday, April 26, 2000
>IN the NYC listening area: WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
>OUTSIDE the NYC listening area: webcast live at
>www.wbaifree.org
>(or, WRITE to us for tape copies)
>
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>NEW CURRENTS IN THE NARMADA RIVER DAM SITUATION
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>IN 1979, the government of India cleared plans for the building
>of 30 large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams on the Narmada
>river. The Narmada project will rob hundreds of thousands of
>people living along the river's banks of their homes and
>cultivable lands and forests. For the last fifteen years, the
>Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), or the Save the Narmada Movement,
>an organization of the dam-affected people, has struggled
>against the powerful entities that have backed the construction
>of these dams.
>
>The Maheshwar dam will dam the Namada river in the state of
>Madhya Pradesh and submerge the homes, villages and means of
>livelihood of over 35,000 people. On the 23rd of March, 2000,
>the Ogden Energy Group, a power utility from the U.S., signed a
>Memorandum of Intent to invest 49% of the equity of Maheshwar
>dam. Primarily because the government of Madhya Pradesh appears
>completely unable to provide the dam-displaced people with
>equivalent land, the NBA is opposing Ogden's decision to start
>generating electricity at Maheshwar dam.
>
>We will be discussing these issues with U.S. based
>environmentalists and South Asian community activists who
>support the NBA's stand, as well as a spokesperson from Ogden
>Corporation.
>
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>Our guests will include:
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>Sheila Ghose Narmada: Solidarity Coalition of New York
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>Venu Govindu: Friends of the Narmada
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>Patrick McCully: International Rivers Network
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>Kent Burton: Senior Vice President, Policy and Communications,
>the Ogden Corporation
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>The program is co-hosted by Chandana Mathur and Aniruddha Das of
>APF (Asia Pacific Forum) and the SAMAR collective
>
>Asia Pacific Forum is New York's pan-Asian radio program,
>broadcast each Wednesday night at 9-10 pm on WBAI-FM, 99.5, New
>York City, and live on the Web at wbaifree.org.
>
>For more information on APF and to get more information about
>this evening's program, or other programs, please contact us via
>email:
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>or mail: Asian Pacific Forum, WBAI 99.5 FM, 120 Wall St., 10th
>Floor, NY, NY 10005.