RESISTANCE
against iron factories - Raigarh District in Chhattisgarh
overview photo series and articles
Stiff Resistance for Many Years. Villagers from Saraipalli stopped the pump house
of the Jindal iron factory. Read more
More photos
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Activists inform villagers about new projects.
The Power of an Independent Organisation. One thing is clear: to be independent is the most
important thing, when you want to support the Adivasis in their struggles against land grab.
Read more
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Some tribals were
severely wounded.
Black Day. Adivasis commemorate police violence at a public hearing at Tamnar.
Read more
More photos about the hearing and the violence
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Photo series about the yearly commemoration of the police violence at Tamnar. More photos
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For example: a Citizens's Report about dams and tunnels in Uttarakhand.
How to Make a Citizens' Report. A citizens' report can be very useful in the struggle against land grab.
Read More
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Big Rally in State Capital.
October 2009, thousands of farmers, women and man, were demonstrating in Raipur, the capital of the Central India state of Chhattisgarh. With
slogans and banners they opposed displacements for mining, factories and dams.
Read the newspaper article
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Some of the Bengali are well decided to stay here. "When we have to leave for another village, we have to start from scratch again. For the second
time. No way!"
Bengali community in
Dharamjaigarh, which settled here as refugees fifty years ago, have to leave for a mining
project. More photos
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Back ground article. The last twenty years hundreds of iron factories came up in the centre
of India, in the states Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal. Life became a hell for the hundred
thousands of villagers in its neigbourhoods, most tribal people. The book Sponge Iron Industries
tells us the sad story of this new ‘development’. It also mentions the resistance of Adivasis fighting for
their survival. Read more
