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Jadugoda The Black Magic
This 10-minute documentary, based on the 2007 study, Black Magic of Uranium at Jadugoda, conducted by the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD Patna chapter), explores the harsh realities of indigenous peoples living near the Jadugoda mine, mill and tailings dam in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand, India. Jadugoda is the primary source [...]
Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009
In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 – Continental [...]
Adivasis fighting against Nuclear Terror in Jharkhand
Thousands of indigenous people from Talsa village in northern Jharkhand, India, must now face the prospect of displacement—in addition to lung cancer, skin diseases and physical deformities as a result of a nearby open cast uranium mine, which has operated for decades. The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), who runs the mine, is attempting [...]
The Holy business of Mittal Company
Gladson Dungdung, a Human Rights Activist and writer from the Indigenous community of Jharkhand, examines Arcelor Mittal company’s recent attempt to forge an alliance with the Christian Church–as a way of undermining indigenous peoples in Jharkhand, who refuse to sacrifice their land and their way of life for the company’s development interests. The global steel giant [...]
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