Thank you Floriano Bab and Dr Dumo for attending last night's meeting
and sharing your observations and thoughts for all. I can imagine it
must have been quite late by the time you got home and yet you shared
this with all.
Likewise to everyone else who attended - you stood up to be counted and
speak out for Cansaulim, Goa and Goans.
An invitation was extended to Digambar and the Leader of the Oppostion.
While an auto-reply from CMs e-mail id acknowledges that the message
will be passed on to his office there was no peep nor squeak from either
of these worthy gentlemen nor would they show up for a small meeting in
a village where Goans want their Government to listen to them! It helps
to impose Section 144 and keep the villagers from coming to the Assembly
to voice their opinion. Where does anyone have time for Goans nowadays
when you can set about busying yourself promoting the interests of
Builders, Casinos, Miners, drug dealers, SEZ, Airport, sea-links and
other such humungous con-schemes?
For that unholy alliance of that scam-bag/scum bag the unworthy MLA of
Cortalim Constituency and a disgraceful grand-son of Cansaulim village,
his cousin Aggie Alcacoas of the Queeny Realty and other scandals fame
(ask the GFA and the Kuwaitcars) that has now set about finishing
Cansaulim through the Queeny Meadows projects in Arrossim village and
the Gonsalves-Dias Gates Project and his dirty mongrels Aboobakr Shaikh
they' better think twice before intimidating old men like Inac-Xavier,
old widows, and even Fr. Randall Barretto.
As you said conspicious by his absence was Matanhy Saldanha although the
invitation was extended to him and many others. In fact his silence on
all these projects in his village namely the Gonsalves-Dias Gates
Project, Queeny Meadows in Arrossim fields, hoards of Hotels that are
coming up along the coastal belt of Arrossim and Cansaulim that will
further damage and cause coastal erosions while our "Good Government"
then goes with their begging bowl for funds that they can siphon off,
our Khazan lands that will forever be destroyed and forever change the
landscape of our villages and Goa. Matanhy Saldanha has the time to
attend meetings in the Mapusa Market but not for his own villagers that
are being harassed.
Attached below are some photographs from joegoauk who captured
snap-shots of the meeting as well as the Gonsalves-Dias Gates Project
that is destroying Cansaulim thanks to Aboobakr Shaikh who has Mauvin
Godinho at a public forum warn the villagers not to stand in the
"development" that Aboobakr Shaikh and Guilford D'Costa has for
Cansaulim! Shame on Fr. Valmiki and his brother Stuart for destroying
the village , betraying their own flesh and blood and courting this
unholy alliance!
You'll see the Khazan lands and fields in Cansaulim now converted to a
monstrosity of a sports building after filling up the fields!
They are working to destroy our land, our villages - let's stand
together and fight them as one!
It's time we Goans stand up for ourselves and not expect the 40 thieves
to work any miracles for us! Do they care for us - no!
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In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this
metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to
their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread
of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into
the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph
+91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295.
http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
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