[Reader-list] Fwd: JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF COMRADE ABHAY SAHOO, PRESIDENT OF POSCO PRATIRODH SANGRAM SAMITY

Asit Das asit1917 at gmail.com
Fri May 17 02:55:04 CDT 2013


*JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF COMRADE ABHAY SAHOO, PRESIDENT OF POSCO
PRATIRODH SANGRAM SAMITY*

We the undersigned are extremely appalled and outraged by the arbitrary
arrest of Comrade Abhay Sahoo at Bhubaneshwar airport by Odisha Police.
This outright despicable patently illegal act was made to appease the Posco
company’s blood sucking appetite to drain the life blood from Odisha, it's
land, water, minerals, forests and culture. Millions of people are killed
in false encounters, jailed, tortured and externed to suppress the peoples
struggle to save their land, forests, mines and undemocratic aspirations to
freedom and right to self-determination.

The men, women and children have been waging a heroic battle against Naveen
Patnaik since 2005 to save their land, water, seashore, rivers, field,
livelihood habitat and culture. The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik
the sick imperialist bootlicker has unleashed the most brutal form of
repression against the struggling people led by Posco Pratirodh Sangram
Samitee.

This comprador cobra Naveen Patnaik on behalf of his imperial masters bared
his fangs again by arresting Comrade Abhay Sahoo. This favurite butler of
Uncle Sam Naveen Patnaik from the day one of the heroic anti-POSCO struggle
has created suffocating blockade around the anti-POSCO struggle villages
turning them into virtual concentration camps.  Hundreds of people were
arbitrarily arressted, false criminal cases are imposed on almost 90% of
the people in the area.  Such is the repressive stranglehold that people of
the area cannot go out for marketing, marriages or medical emergencies.
This lackey of imperialism Naveen Patnaik is so eager to please his
imperial masters that he has been overactive in brutally repressing the
people’s resistance to save their lands, livelihoods, mines, forests,
waters, culture and democratic aspirations. The trail of blood runs from
Kashipur to Kalinganagar, Narayanpatna to POSCO, Nyamgiri to South Odisha.

In the neoliberal era the Indian ruling classes have bared their fangs to
facilitate the imperial loot of the natural resources in this country. The
caste, class, and patriarchal nature of the Indian state is bared every
second in this country.  On the orders of its bosses in Washington, it has
unleashed the most cruellest form of white terror in POSCO, Nandigram,
Lalgarh, Chattisgarh, Dandkarnya, Telangana, North East and Kashmir.  Only
for the super profits of national and International big business. In fact
what we are witnessing today is obscene display of sadistic and ruthless
twenty first century primitive accumulation. In this process of violent
accumulation through dispossession millions of people are dispossessed from
their land, livelihood, culture and commons to join the rank of the
reserved army of labor who fill in the ranks of the urban underclass to be
equally exploited by the urban elite. This sick clown of the imperial
circus Manmohan Singh whose intellectual training was done in the Bretton
Wood institutions, as soon as he became the prime minister to declare a war
on the Indian people, to hand their lands, waters and mines for imperialist
exploitation. He declared the poorest of the poor in this country the
heroic adivasis who are resisting to defend their livelihoods as the
biggest internal threat. Another henchman of the Wall Street Chidambaram
unleashed a cruel war on the adivasis named as Operation Greenhunt. In the
process they have killed, tortured, maimed and imprisoned thousands of
adivasis and working people. During the combing operations women are
molested and raped and their jewelry looted. All this to play into the
super profits of the hungry finance capital and predatory
industrialization!

However, the people of India have refused to cow down in front of the
Indian state. There is a fierce resistance going on from Dandakarnya to
Jangalamahal, from POSCO to Nagari, from Jehanabad to Ranchi. In fact we
salute the heroic men women and children of the anti-Posco struggle
villages, which have become an advanced outpost of the anti-imperialist
resistance in this country.  We condemn

1)    We condemn the arrest of Comrade Abhay Sahoo and demand his immediate
release

2)    Withdrawal of all false cases of the people of Antiposco struggle
villages

3)    Scrapping of the POSCO and all the MOUs in Orissa

4)    Resignation of Naveen Patnaik who has unleashed brutal repression on
the struggling people of Orissa

1.      PUDR

2.      JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION

3.      AISA

4.      STUDENTS FOR RESISTANCE

5.      KAVITA KRISHNAN - CPIML LIBERATION

6.      DHRU NARAYAN - GENERAL SECRETARY CPIML(PCC)

7.      SHUBHAS GATADE - CONVENOR NEW SOCIALIST INITIATIVE

8.      JAGDISH C CHANDRA - NEW SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE

9.      AMITADUYTI KUMAR - WORKING PRESIDENT

10.  VIMOCHANA BANGALORE

11.  APDR, CALCUTTA

12.  DR. ANAND TELTUMBDE - CPDR MUMBAI

13.  ANIRBAN KAR - SANHATI DELHI

14.  SUMATI PANIKAR - VIPLAV SANSKRITIK MANCH DELHI

15.  RAKESH RANJAN - NAVROJ DELHI

16.  NAYAN JYOTI - KRANTIKARI NAVJAN SABHA

17.  WILFORD D COSTA - INSAF

18.  ASHOK CHAUDHARY - NFFPW

19.  SWATI BIRLA - SANHAT MUMBAI

20.  KIRAN SHAHEEN - WOMEN FOR WATER DEMOCRACY DELHI

21.  RANJANA PADHI - WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE & STATE REPRESSION (WSS)

22.  KAVEN RAJARAMAN – WSS, BANGALORE

23.  ASIT DAS - POSCO PRATIRODH SOLIDARITY DELHI

24.  SANDEEP SINGH - AISA

25.  MUKTA SRIVASTAVA - NAPM

26.  SANDEEP PATTNAIK - NCAS

27.  PRADEEP ESTERVES - CONTEXT INDIA, BANGALORE

28.  P. K. SUNDARAM - RESEARCH SCHOLAR JNU

29.  USMAN - RESEARCH SCHOLAR JNU

30.  SHESHANK YADAV - RESEARCH SCHOLAR JNU

31.  SHARANYA NAYAK - KARUPUT, ODISHA

32.  SANKAR RAY - JOURNALIST

33.  MAHTAB ALAM - HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS DELHI

34.  PIYOLI SWATIJA - SAMAJWADI JAN PARISHAD

35.  KIRITY ROY - MASUM, KOLKATA

36.  ABHISHEK SRIVASTAVA - JOURNALIST DELHI

37.  AFSAR JAFRI - FOCUS ON GLOBAL SOUTH

38.  TOM KUCHEERZ - ECOLOGIST EN ACCION, SPAIN

39.  VIKEK SUNDRA - SOCIAL ACTIVIST MUMBAI

40.  JITENDRA CHAHAR - SANGRASH SAMVAD

41.  BHUPEN SINGH - RESEARCH SCHOLAR JNU

42.  PREETI SAMPAT - SOCIAL ACTIVIST DELHI

43.  VIDYA DINKAR - CITIZENS FORUM MANGALORE

44.  DR RURMINI RAO - SECUNDARABAD

45.  DR MALEM MINGTHOUJA - CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY, MANIPUR

46.  PRAVEEN - RESEARCH SCHOLAR, DELHI UNIVERSITY

47.  KAMAL MITRA CHENOY - TEACHER JNU

48.  ANURADHA CHENOY - TEACHER JNU

49.  SUMA JOSSON

50.  DR S.P. UDAYKUMAR - PEOPLES MOVEMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY, KOODAN
KULAM

51.  SOURAV BANERJEE - POET AND ACTIVIST

52.  RAHUL FOUNDATION

53.  ARYAMA- TEACHER DELHI UNIVERSITY

54.  ANAND KRISHRAJ - NEW MATIRIALIST JNU

55.  DHAWAJENDRA DHAWAL

56.  ARUN KHOTE - DALIT MEDIA WATCH

57.  SHASUL ISLAM - NISHANT NATY MANCH, DELHI

58.  NEELIMA SHARMA - NISHANT NATY MANCH, DELHI

59.  JAWED NAQVI - JOURNALIST DELHI

60.  TAPAN KUMAR BOSE - DELHI

61.  SUDHA BHARADWAJ - GENERAL SECRETARY, CHATTISGARH PUCL

62.  RAMAKANT BANJARE - CHATTISGARH MUKTI MORCHA, EDITOR FOR A PEOPLES
DEMOCRACY

63.  TRIPTA WAHI - ACADEMICIAN DELHI UNIVERSITY

64.  NEERAJ JAIN - LOKAYAT, PUNE

65.  PEEYUSH PANT - EDITOR LOK SAMVAD

66.  SHEELU FRANCIS - WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE, TAMILNADU

67.  SUNDARI PERUMAL - TAMILNADU RESOURCE

68.  LAKSHMI - KALAMIJIVAN WOMEN'S TEAM FARMING ASSOCIATION

69.  GUMAN SINGH - HIMALAYA NITI ABHIYAN, HIMACHAL PRADESH

70.  DEBAL DEB - KOLKATA

71.  DR MIRA DUTTA - KOLKATA EDITOR COUNTER CURRENTS

72.  MANISHA SETHI - JAMIA TEACHERS SOLIDARITY DELHI

73.  CHITTARANJNA SINGH - NATIONAL SECRETARY PUCL

74.  DHIRAJ SENGUPTA - GENERAL SECRETARY ASSOCIATION FOR PROTECTION OF
DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS (APDE)

75.  RAJENDRA KUMAR SAIL - EX. PRESIDENT CHATTISGARH PUCL, WEST BENGAL


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