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

[Julia Yoo]

 *CORRECTION:NEXT MONDAY (not tomorrow!) sorry!*


> 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 Science 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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