Where is UK aid going? - Film and Speakers
On Saturday 17th April at 6pm at the West London Trade Union club on 33-35 Acton High street, there will be a unique film showing how communities and especially women are taking on minining companies in India. This is made worse by with are policies of privatisation and cuts in the public sector which are destroying peoples lives across the world(Britain, India, Africa, Middle East). What role UK Aid is playing in all this? This is a great chance to bring your thoughts and reflections on international events and make links with what is happening locally and raise questions on what kind of development we really want. Similar policies of privatisation and cuts in public welfare spending are affecting us here locally. Speakers:Samarendra DasSouth Asia Solidarity GroupKofi Mawuli KluLondon Coalition Against Poverty, with film: Dodgy Development: DfID Education. Film Excerpts from:‘Wira Pdika (Earthworm and Company Man)’Samarendra Das’ film in which people speak about their struggles against Vedanta, which came to displace them from their lands after the DFID’s reforms had ‘developed’ their state.
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