This is the presentation presented by Dr. Anthony Dias in Yokohama, Japan

1. Anthony Dias
Xavier Institute of Social Research
(XISR)

2.  Interrogation: Questing the State and State
agencies; filing RTI applications; Exercising
people’s Right to Know
 Confront: Peaceful, non-violent protest
(inspired by Gandhi)
Violent protest: Naxalism
Creative, perhaps even bizarre, protests

3. Jal satygraha
Omkareshwar Dam

4. Omkareshwar Dam

5. Kudankulam Protest

6. Kudankulam project

11. Blocking the road by sitting on the road. Kudankulam nuclear protest

12. Protest @ Mithi Virdi Gujrat

14. Ngobe-Bugle tribe block a road during a protest
against dispute over mineral exploitation on their
lands.

16. Throwing shoe at Politician

23.  Silent Valley: Hydro Electric Project in the
pristine, scenic & bio-diverse valley
 Netarhat Firing Range: (Army/Defense Project
in Tribal heartland)
 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): River Valley
Project
 Koel-Karo: Dams on two rivers in Tribal areas
of Jharkhand

24.  Provided Alternative Development ideas and
models
 Placed agenda of Displacement (forced
eviction) on Agenda of the State
 Forced State to come up with Policy and Laws
relating to R&R
 Forced State to enact people-friendly
legislation such as:

25.  Right to Information
 Right to Education
 The Panchayats (Ext to Scheduled Areas) Act
 Forests Rights Act
 Anti Corruption Act
 Domestic Violence Act
 Communal Violence Bill

28. Panchayat

29.  What the State/Govt fears:
1) People’s sustained resistance against it.
2) Naxal/Maoist terror: “Single biggest
internal security threat.”
What the People Fear:
1) State Terrorism: Unfriendly policies;
Forced eviction; intimidation; impoverishment
2) Other forms of Repression: Filing of false
cases; Surveillance, Misuse of Intelligence
services

34. The family who lost their near ones in kudankulam nuclear protest.

37. Naxalism

39.  The Report of the Intelligence Bureau (IB)
Attack on NGOs: Focus of attack on
GREENPEACE
NGOs accused of slowing down economic
growth by protesting and/or stalling
‘development’.
They are accused of hurting the GDP (Gross
Domestic Product) of the country
Therefore Threat to Economic Security

40. -World social forum
Best wishes from XISR Mumbai