Stop the War on Adivasis | Film screenings & Talks | 16 April, 6 pm, Muktangan
Friends,
In order to oppose the current situation of war and terror on the adivasis in Chhattisgarh, with concerted escalation of violence by the state apparatus and right-wing, ensuring that dissenting voices are silenced and the loot and plunder of jal-jangal-jameen in tribal areas to go unabated, we are holding a cultural protest meet.
Please join us at Muktangan Rangalaya (Rashbehari More, Kalighat Metro) on 16th April (Saturday) from 6 pm to 9 pm. Details follow.
Speakers:
Bela Bhatia, social activist working in Bastar, will speak on the overall war-zone that is Bastar Division and other areas of Chhattisgarh, updating us on current escalation of state atrocities, yet again.
Suvojit Bagchi, journalist who covered Chhattisgarh for several years in the past, will speak on the state of media, hounding of journalists, and glaring absences of news bureaus in an area with the highest death rates in the country.
Film Screenings:
Meanwhile the Killings Continue: The Encounter at Rewali
In a combing operation in the Dantewara region of Chattisgarh an adivasi man Bhima Nuppo was encountered and killed by security forces in January 2015, when he and his wife Budhri had gone to a stream to bathe and collect material to make a baadi and were catching crabs when the security forces opened fire. Budhri was witness to the killing. The people from Rewali village of which Budhri and Bhima were residents called the local leaders and media to investigate this incident and bring out the unprecedented violence that adivasis living in the area have to face regularly. A rally of about 7000 people set out to seek justice for Budhri and her 5 children. They were stopped and not allowed to go to the Collector office. Negotiations ensued between the people and the administration. The film documents this entire process of resistance and seeking justice for the murder. The film also points to reasons behind the escalation of terror attacks on activists like Soni Sori, Lingaram Kodopi and others who are undauntedly leading the process of seeking accountability and justice for the state atrocities. It points to reasons why all independent journalists and witnesses to the state terror are being hounded and silenced in Bastar. This film is part of a series of films called "Loktantra Hazir Ho" produced by the Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)
Encountering Injustice: The Case of Meena Khalko
The film looks into an alleged encounter of a 15 year old adivasi girl Meena Khalko, who lived in Village Karcha of Balrampur district of North Chhattisharh. She was killed by the police who alleged that she was a naxalite. Moving between the electronic news coverage of the incident and testimonies of her parents and other people from her village, the film investigates the claims of the police. Sexual violence, the attempt to suppress the truth of Meena’s murder and the impunity of the culprits gradually comes to light. We also get a glimpse into how difficult and long the struggle for justice is in the conflict zones of the country. This film is also part of a series of films called "Loktantra Hazir Ho" produced by the Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)
A Short Term Memory of Atrocity
A film based on seven years of reportage (2008-2015) by photographer-journalist Javed Iqbal, this video tells the stories of atrocities - an attempt at experiencing history; a nostalgia, an archive of moments of a war, structural violence and the persistence of an invisible conflict.The images and soundscapes are from Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the streets of Mumbai, where those who live in the slums of civilization are in a constant state of transiency, and live in islands of resistance to state bulldozers and police violence. Javed says - "Atrocities un-reported do not mean that they did not happen. Yet for every atrocity found and preserved for memory, another takes place, and is found and preserved for memory. There is a precarity of choosing to remember. To forget is to perpetuate myths. To believe myths, is to perpetuate the cycle of violence, that too, on the myth's own term."
Please join and spread the word. The programme is free entry and open to all.
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PEOPLE'S FILM COLLECTIVE is an independent, people-funded group. It organises an annual film festival, called the Kolkata People's Film Festival. Throughout the year, the collective organises monthly documentary screenings in Kolkata and travels in Kolkata and neighbouring districts to screen documentaries and organise discussions, working with similar groups, unions and organisations. We are particularly interested in screening among workers, women, children and young adults, and people's movements.
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