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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 23 2006 Without paying a heed to pouring rains 4000 strong group of people march to the block headquarters of Manoharpur Block in Jharkand's Gumla district yesterday to express their opposition to take over of their land by Goa's Dempo mining corporation. The leaders of the agitation then handed over the memorandum of protest to the Block development officer and addressed the public meting. Dempos have been trying to establish their foothold to start mining after 50 years of painful bleeding of Goa people's economy, ecology and agriculture. The company attempted a survey of the land but were chased away by hostile Adivasis. Tatas and Mittals too were chased away by angy villagers. It is learnt that Dempos got the access to Jharkhand mines after Goa Political party United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) won two assembly seats in Ranchi. The place where Dempos are trying their luck is in the assembly constituency of Manoharpur represented by UGDP's Jhoba Maji. Dempo mining is threatening to displace two tribal villages of Dinburlim and Kamarbeda consisting population of over 4000 villagers. And the neighbouring villages at the radious of 10 kms too are to face eviction threats once the mining begins. Among those who came out with open support to the anti mining campaign includes Village 'Mundas' Amar Singh Cherwa, Prasad Cherwa, Manohar Amagia, ex-MLA Bahadur Oraon, CPI-ML leader Rajaram, BIRSA-Mines Monitoring Centre's Umesh Nazir, Lother Cherwa, Ashish Khededa, Somnath Singh Sinku, ex-MLA Devenranath Champia and Sushil Barla. Adivasis were shouting slogans asserting their ownership rights over the minerals, land, water and forest. They carried the traditional weapons of Bows and Arrows, Axes, Choppers, Sickles and Bamboo sticks. These weapons are symbols of Adivasi resistance to the Dempo plans in Jharkhand. According to the Dinburlim villagers, Dempos have started pouring cash into the village in order to bread the villagers unity. In a world imperialist stage this a fight between assertive united Jharknad Adivasis and the corporate Dempos. The clash is clear call to each one of us to take sides. The choice of course is yours, the choice is mine, the choice is of each one of us and individuals, as communities. It is time of reckoning. It is time of decisive thinking, decisive acting. Sebastian Rodrigues, Manoharpur, Jharkhand. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org