[Reader-list] Documentary on the Struggle of the Fishing Community

T Peter peter.ksmtf at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 22:38:53 IST 2009


 Dear friends,
We are glad to inform you that a documentary on the present issues and
struggles of the fishing community is being selected  by the Karnataka
International Film Festival. The documentary about attempts being made
to commercialize India's already-degraded coasts and policy reforms
that threaten the lives of fisherfolk and also our fragile marine and
coastal ecosystems.
The film `Resisting Coastal Invasion' is being screened at Vision
Theatre, Double Road, Bangalore on January 21, 2009 at 2pm. Kindly
inform your friends in Bangalore and support the present struggle of
the fishing community against the proposed dangerous notification
called Coastal Management Zone Notification.
Details of the film is given below:
In solidarity,
T. Peter
President, KSMTF : http://www.keralafishworkers.org
Secretary, NFF

Resisting Coastal Invasion
52 Minutes
Directed by K.P. Sasi

More than 250 million people inhabit India's coastline. Among them are
the fishing communities, directly dependent for a living on marine and
coastal natural resources.

Today, both coastal ecosystems as well as the customary rights of
fishing communities over coastal areas are severely eroded by
developmental activities and market interests - tourism,
industrialization, sand mining, infrastructure-building, aquaculture
and rapid urbanization.

The only piece of legislation ever enacted to regulate developmental
activities along the Indian coast was the Coastal Regulation Zone
(CRZ) Notification of 1991.

Not surprisingly, in today's age of globalization, the CRZ
Notification is increasingly being regarded as an impediment to free
market. Moves are afoot to dispense with it altogether. What are the
implications of such a deregulation agenda? Who benefits? Who loses?
Who's accountable? Who is to blame?

Resisting the Coastal Invasion is a 52 minute documentary explores
these questions. It captures the struggles of fishing communities who
are fighting tooth and nail against the takeover of their lands by the
forces of globalization


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