Mumbai- Protest the Arrest of Abhay Sahoo, May 16th- 5pm

[Kamayani]

Dear all

The men, women and children of Odisha have been waging a heroic battle for decades to save their land, water, seashore, rivers, field, livelihood habitat and culture. In return they have been punished with firing, state violence and dispossession. This is the sordid saga of Odisha. The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has continued to unleash the most brutal form of repression against the struggling people led by Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samitee. Arrest of Abhay Sahoo at this juncture forebodes unprecedented repression. It follows suffocating blockade around the anti-POSCO struggle villages turning them into virtual concentration camps. It is in line with lawless destruction of people’s livelihood. Hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested, false criminal cases are imposed on almost 90% of the people in the area. Such is the repressive stranglehold that people of the area cannot go out for marketing, marriages or medical emergencies. And all this is when there is no valid MoU or environmental clearance for the project. However, the people have refused to cow down in front of the Indian state. There is a fierce resistance to land and resource grab from people everywhere. We salute the heroic men women and children of the anti-Posco struggle villages, who have become an advanced outpost of the anti-imperialist resistance in this country. We condemn the arrest of Comrade Abhay Sahoo. We demand 1) immediate release of Comrade Abhay Sahoo and all arrested agitators 2) withdrawal of all false cases of the people of Antiposco struggle villages 3) withdrawal of police barricade in POSCO area and compensation for the losses suffered by the people due to forcible destruction of their property 4) scrapping of the POSCO and all the MOUs in Orissa 5) resignation of Naveen Patnaik who has unleashed brutal repression on the struggling people of Orissa and is acting as an agent of foreign capital rather than a Chief Minister looking after the well being of the people of the state. The Posco-Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, Mumbai invited you to join the  demonstration :Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013  Venue: Outside Dadar station (east) at 5 pm. RSVP EVENT ON FACEBOOK--- https://www.facebook.com/events/461127167303546/

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