Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Bloodshed feared as police move in to evict villages resisting the POSCO steel project in Odisha, India

Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, India – June 10, 2011 – After six years of peaceful resistance to a proposed mega-project by Korean steel giant POSCO, villagers in the Indian state of Odisha are facing a dire standoff. The Odisha state government has deployed hundreds of police to surround the villages in Jagatsinghpur district where residents refuse to allow acquisition of their homes, betel-vines and rice fields to make way for the steel project. On Friday, June 10, 2011, police began preparations to move in and forcibly evict the villagers.

http://climate-connections.org/2011/06/10/bloodshed-feared-as-police-move-in-to-evict-villages-resisting-the-posco-steel-project-in-odisha-india/