Medha Patkar

Nov 4th, 7:30 PM

LBJ Auditorium

UT Campus

Dean Keeton and Red River

Press Release

Medha Patkar founded and leads Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), the largest nonviolent people’s movement in India. Over the course of two decades -- through relentless organizing, demonstrations, and hunger strikes -- the movement has been the voice of hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples and peasants who are losing their land and way of life to large dams on the Narmada River. Like so many large centralized development projects, the benefits of these dams go to a small elite and the costs are borne by ordinary people.

Other Events as part of Narmada Struggle Awareness week are as follows:

i. Photo Exhibition at West Mall, UT Campus - Nov 3 and 4th :
Photos depicting the Submergence in the Narmada valley and the Narmada Struggle for justice.

ii. A STRUGGLE TO THE LAST DROP? Panel discussion and film screening.
Time: Panel, 2-3:30 p.m./ Film, 4-5:30 p.m. Nov 8, Parlin 1, UT Campus
More details and directions to the venue

For More Information

Harish Sharma 512-695-7983 Email: aidut@uts.cc.utexas.edu

About AID
Association for India's Development is a voluntary, non-profit 501.3c organization, which undertakes developmental projects in India. With more than 400
volunteers in 30 chapters across the globe AID raised half a million dollars for it's projects last year. Visit http://www.aidindia.org