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<big><b>EYEWITNESS INDIA -- PEOPLE OF NANDIGRAM, INDIA RESIST DOW
CHEMICAL "SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE", STATE REPRESSION<br>
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alt="Manik Mukherjee addressing All India Anti-Imperialist Forum"
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height="192" width="256"> <img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://www.iacenter.org/nandigram/images/nandigram2.jpg"
alt="nandigram" height="206" width="275"> <big><b><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
alt="All-India Anti-Imperialist Forum Protest, Nov 2007"
src="http://www.iacenter.org/nandigram/images/nandigram3.jpg"
height="227" width="302"></b></big></div>
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<big><b>HEAR MANIK MUKHERJEE, General Secretary, International
Anti-imperialist and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC)<br>
and Vice-President, All India Anti-imperialist Forum (AIAIF)<br>
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<div align="center"><big><b>WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008<br>
6:30 PM<br>
Action Center<br>
284 Amory St. Jamaica Plain 02130 (near Stonybrook on Orange Line)<br>
617-522-6626 <a href="http://www.iacboston.org">www.iacboston.org</a><br>
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In Nandigram in India, peasant women have been on the front
lines
of resisting the forced acquisition of their lands which their families
have farmed for centuries for the creation of a "special economic zone
(SEZ)" for Dow Chemical and other multinational corporations. These
SEZs are free from all labor law and regulation, as well as taxes, and
the state provides the infrastructure for free or heavily subsidzed. In
Nandigram, the people stopped Dow and the SEZ by digging up the roads
and making the bridges unpassable. But they have faced multiple
massacres and mass rapes by agents of the West Bengali state. For
information on Nandigram and the IAC solidarity trip there in November
2007 and what you can do to help, go to the new website, <b><a
href="http://www.nandigramsolidaritu.us">www.iacenter.org/nandigram</a><br>
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</b><b>Manik Mukherjee</b> has been at the forefront of organizing
support
and solidarity for the people of Nandigram and resistance to the
Special Enterprise Zones throughout India. He has also been a leader in
building international mobilization against imperialist wars of
occupation around the globe, and has traveled to countries under U.S.
attack and countries organizing
resistance and for change including Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal.<br>
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Also hear from <b><br>
</b>
<ul>
<li><b>Bishop Teixeira, OFSJC</b> who will report on the historic May
1 2008 demonstrations for immigrant rights, <b> </b> </li>
<li><b>Steve Kirschbaum</b> who participated in the November 2007
IAC solidarity visit to Nandigram, and from </li>
<li><b>Miya Campbell</b> of F.I.S.T.
and Women's Fightback Network on the resistance to the racist acquittal
of the cops who murdered Sean Bell in NYC.</li>
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<div align="center"><b>International Action Center Boston<br>
284 Amory St<br>
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130<br>
617-522-6626<br>
<a href="http://www.iacboston.org">www.iacboston.org</a><br>
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