From: Kirankumar Vissa <kiranvissa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Subject: [ReachIndia] "Save Brinjal" - National day of Fast - Jan 30, 2010: Join the growing movement!
To: ReachIndia@lists.aidindia.org
Last updated on Jan 25, 2010, 5:30 PM IST
[We have received interest in solidarity fast/vigil actions from International locations; we highly encourage the same and request all International locations to send details about their vigils].
Gujarat:
Fast in public places in following cities -- VADODARA, AHMEDABAD, RAJKOT, BHAVANAGAR AND BHUJ
CONTACT Kapil Shah at Jatan Trust Phone: 0091-265-2371429 E-MAIL: jatantrust@gmail.com
Andhra Pradesh:
- Farmers and pastoralists who are members of the Mahila Brathukuderuvu Sangham and Mekala-Gorrela Pempakadharlu Sangham of Medak District - will be fasting on 30th Jan 2010- at Narsapur and Narayankhed Taluka. (They will join the ongoing relay-hunger strike in Telangana region with the additional issue of saying "We do not want Bt Brinjal" in Telangana, and the rest of the country).
- Farmers and Pastoralists will be fasting on 30th Jan 2010 at Kalahasthi, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh.
- Adivasi Aikya VEdika- a platform for Adivasi Peoples organisations in Telangana and Andhra regions- will be fasting on 30th Jan 2010 at the following regions: Adilabad, Khammam, East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam
Contact for above: Sagari R Ramdas E-mail: anthra.hyd@gmail.com
- Run against BT Brinjal on Jan 30 at NTR Gardens and Necklace Rd in Hyderabad.
Contact: <menon.niveditha@gmail.com>
Orissa:
12 districts will observe the National day of Fast: Baripada, Sundargarh, Malkangiri, Phulbani, Koraput, Nayagarh, Nuapada, Bargad, Jagatsinghpur, Ganjam, Sambalpur, and Kendrapada. Dr Damodar Rout, State Agriculture Minister, has agreed to join in the fast in Bhubaneswar. The organizers of the two day National Convention on Peace , Non Violence and Communal Harmony on the 30th and 31st January at BBSR are seriously thinking to give a call their delegates to participate in this fast .
Contact: Jagannath at livingfarms@gmail.com Phone: 0674-2430176
Delhi:
Jantar Mantar/Raj Ghat
Contact: Selva 9891358457 Arun Raj: 099-109-08774.E-mail: aid.selva@gmail.com
Maharashtra, the fast will include a very significant place:
Bapu Kuti, Sewagram, Wardha - the contact person is Nitin Mate - 093-721-56005
Madhya Pradesh:
Polytechnic Chowk, Near Gandhi Bhavan (Syamala Hills), Bhopal.
The contact persons would be Garima Verma: 099-813-04669 and Nilesh Desai: 094-253-29222
Bihar, the fast venues are:
Contact person: Pankaj Bhushan - 094-702-30999
Kerala:
At Sulthan Battery, Wayanad and in Thrissur
Also at Trivandrum, where environmentalist and farmers organisations, and people from all sector will join for the fast. In solidarity there will be fasts in other districts as well.
To know more, please contact Sridhar R - 09995358205, Usha S - 09447022775 /
mail: mail.thanal@gmail.com
Uttar Pradesh:
Fast is going to be organized in 5 districts , Lucknow, Sidhharth nagar, Gorakhpur, Fateh Pur and Jalaun with Hamara Beej Abhiyan.To know more, please contact
Utkarsh Kumar Sinha - CSR/ INSAF, I nd floor, /205,Vivek Khand Gomti Nagar, Lucknow 226010
+91 99357 36877 - utkarshks@gmail.com
Bangalore:
Venue to be decided yet. Please contact
Krishna Prasad - prasadgk12@gmail.com (Sahaja Samrudha)
Jason (09980056315) - jason.jacob@greenpeace.org
West Bengal:
At the Kolkata Book Fair, Hall Number 1, Stall No. 20 (The Earthcare Books Stall). The Kolkata Book Fair (Boi Mela) will be at the Milan Mela ground opposite Science City in Kolkata. Contact: bharatmansata@yahoo.com
Tamilnadu:
In Thiruvaroor, Farmers, expectedly about 2000 mainly from the districts of Tanjavur, Thiruvaroor and Nagapattinam, would join on a Fast led by Dr Nammalvar. There would also be a call given to all families in the district to undertake a solidarity fast, wherever they are.
Contact : R Jayaraman, CREATE :09443320954
Sheelu Francis of TN Women's Collective and FEDCOT (federation of consumers organisations) are together organising the hunger fast in the following districts: Chennai, Kancheepuram, Vellore, Thiruvannamalai, Salem, Madurai, Theni / Dindhugal, Tutucorin, Thirunelveli, Kanyakumari. Apart from joining these events, SFA is organising a relay rally across Chennai city. (The current plan is to carry brinjals on push carts / bamboo baskets / cycles (with signs) in the rally from several points across the city all ending at the beach where we plan to have some kind of a culminating event. The plan is still evolving and we wil post more information when plans firm up.)
Contact: Sangeetha sriram.sangeetha@gmail.com
If you or your group is organizing a fast please inform aidsite@gmail.com to be listed here.
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