[Mitai-announce] Special Event: Medha Patkar @ MIT TOMORROW!

[Julia Yoo]

SPECIAL SPEAKER
Medha Patkar : LIVE at MIT
Goldman Environmental Prize
Amnesty International' s Human Rights Defender's Award
BBC Green Ribbon Award
*TALK TITLE: People's Movements : The State and Civil Society*
DATE: *Monday, March 23, 2009 (10:30am)
*LOCATION: MIT, Earth Sciences Building, *Building 54, Room 100

*Dear Amnesty International members,
We would like to invite you to a very special talk by Medha Patkar, India's
leading *social activist and an authentic hero of India's downtrodden*.
Leading
the the struggle against the Sardar Sarovar Project, she founded the Narmada
Bachao Andolan and the National Alliance For People's Movements dedicated to
alternative developmental paradigms. She has worked for the marginalized
communities in slums and tribal areas and served on the World Commission on
Dams, and on water and energy issues across the world.

More about Medha Patkar, visit
http://www.aidboston.org/MedhaPatkar2009/bio.html
On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=53720393692
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