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	<title>Intercontinental Cry &#187; India</title>
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	<description>For the Land, the People, and the Truth.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tribal Forest Rights Act is just the first step</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/tribal-forest-rights-act-is-just-the-first-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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On January 1st of this year, the government of India took a major step toward respecting Indigenous Rights. They enacted the Tribal Forest Rights Act,  a law which has been often said to correct the &#8220;historical injustice&#8221; where India&#8217;s forest dwelling indigenous  population has been systematically excluded from having rights, and forced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urge India to abandon steel megaproject</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/urge-india-to-abandon-steel-megaproject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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On January 31, the government of India gave South Korean multinational Pohong Steel Corporation (POSCO) permission to go ahead with a huge iron mining, manufacturing and export project in Orissa state. As a result, villagers in the region along with anyone opposed to the project are now at high risk of being violently suppressed.
Friends of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highway means death to the Jarawa</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/highway-means-death-to-the-jarawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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The Andaman Trunk Road, a 200 mile-stretch of concrete that breaks through one of India&#8217;s most pristine landscapes, is being used now more than ever. According to recent figures, there has been a threefold increase in traffic since 2001 - &#8220;from 17,315 to 37,505 in 2006. A total of 27,674 vehicles travelled the road in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A week of violence in Nandigram births &#8216;a new dawn?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/a-week-of-violence-in-nandigram-births-a-new-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahni</dc:creator>
		
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The situation has quited now, but for the past week violence has gripped the Nandigram region of West Bengal, India. Under the guise of &#8220;cleansing&#8221; the area of political rivalry, cadres said to be hired by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) began entering village after village; burning houses, forcibly occupying land, and destroying crops. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titanium or Water? Trouble brews in Southern India</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/titanium-or-water-trouble-brews-in-southern-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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 Cartoon by Khalil Bendib



More than 5,000 people converged last month in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to protest a deal made by the state government to appropriate nearly 10,000 acres of land and hand it over to the India-based Tata Steel Corporation.
Upon doing so, the giant transnational company would then gain the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drowned Out</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/drowned-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Created with no budget or film crew, Drowned Out tells the story of the Jalsindhi villagers in central India,  and their struggle to prevent the destruction of their land as well as their own displacement. The Jalsindhi are Adivasis - the original inhabitants of India - who have farmed their land by the Narmada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting against the Sardar Sarovar dam</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/protesting-against-the-sardar-sarovar-dam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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For the past two weeks, more than 30 tribal people effected by the Sardar Sarovar dam,  the largest of  3000 dams planned for the Narmada River in India,  have been staging an ongoing protest because the government has yet to compensate them for the lands they&#8217;ve lost to flooding.
In response to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Dying Fields</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/indias-dying-fields/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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The following video is part one of &#8216;the Dying fields,&#8217; a documentary that focuses on the ongoing agrarian crisis in Vidarbha, India.
Located in the middle of India, Vidarbha is historically referred to as &#8216;India&#8217;s Cotton Belt;&#8217; but in recent years it&#8217;s taken on a very different name. Home to 3.2 million farmers, Vidarbha&#8217;s now commonly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kadar - removed but not effected</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-kadar-removed-but-not-effected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The Kadar, a people living in the Southern of region of India, found out a month ago that the government of Kerala has decided to go ahead with a controversial dam that will force the removal of Two Kadar communities&#8211;permanently disjointing them from their cultural life. 
The dam, which has been found to be ecologically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Appeal For The Katkari</title>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/an-appeal-for-the-katkari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Katkari are a people based in the Raigad and Thane Districts of Maharashtra, India. Never formally recognized by the state, the Katkari have for years found themselves in abject poverty, living as bonded laborers on their own land.
With no rights or freedoms, they are exploited and forced to work under sub-human conditions on the [...]]]></description>
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