What started as a sympathy & solidarity expression by 8 students of Loyala College, Chennai, has catapulted into a mass youth mobilisation across Tamil Nadu. In a span of few days the student youth of Tamil Nadu have created history and have certainly rattled the political establishment of the day and also the opposition political forces.
A protest was held at the Town Hall in Bangalore against the forced land acquisition by Posco in Orissa and the burtal violence by corporate goons and the state upon children and women.
Kaveri Rajaraman, an activist from Bangalore, spoke about Posco’s demand for a captive port in Orissa and how the forced land acquisition would affect the livelihood of the people earning through beetle vineyard and cashew plantation within that region. She spoke about the protesters from the villages of Jagatsinghpur district who are carrying out their struggle, about their methods of involving their children and creating a protective circle around the women and men at the core. She also talked about how well organised the protesters are and how well educated everyone is about the issues that concern them.
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