SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
Debates and workshops by the India Office of the Heinrich Boell
Foundation
Date: August 30
Time: 13h30-17h30
Venue: Boell Forum at the People's Global Forum +
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India Forum in Johannesburg -- an endeavour to bring the margins
to the centre; a celebration of the popular aspirations, artistic
expressions and intellectual efforts in India to bring together
people and ecology. The event will underline the dilemmas and contradictions
in the ecology of affluence and the environmentalism of the poor.
It sets the South by and sometimes against the North. It moves from
the global to the national to the local, from the macro to the micro,
to present a kaleidoscope of issues, movements and struggles by
people's movements, NGOs and individuals on questions of ecology.
The debate will be weaving together ecology with political economy,
democracy and social justice, uncomfortable questions and troubled
connections of environment with labour, dalits and gender.
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Programme
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13h30
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Welcome
Stefan Cramer, Heinrich Boell Foundation Southern Africa Office
and Mukul Sharma, Heinrich Boell Foundation India Office
Keynote: Democratic & Sustainable Development - Johannesburg
and Beyond
Vandana Shiva
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14h15
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Contours of Ecological Democracy
Chair S. Satya, Sambhavna Trust, Bhopal
Justice in Environmental Negotiations
Anju Sharma, Centre for Science and Environment
Local and Global Responsabilities
L. Antonysamy, Tamilnadu Environment Council
Dismantle or Democratise Markets
Malini Mehra, Centre for Social Markets
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15h15
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Coffee Break
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15h30
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Entitlements, Rights and Movements
Chair Mukul Sharma HBS Delhi
Resources of Hope - Struggles of Coastal Fishworkers
Thomas Kocherry, Nat. Fishworkers' Forum
Million Mutinies
Sanjay Mangla, National Alliance for Peoples' Movement
Climate Justice and People's Movements
Amit Shrivastava, Corpwatch
Voices of the Bhopal Surviviors and Corporate Governance
S. Satya, Sambhavna Trust, Bhopal
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16h30
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Where are Dalits in Indian Environmentalism
J. Vincent, National Campaign for Dalit Rights
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17h00
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Concluding Remarks
Darryl D' Monte, Forum of Environmental Journalists of India
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17h30
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End
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