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DESCRIPTION:\nIndigenous Journalist and Activist Dayamani Barla Visits Bay 
 Area\n\n\n\nFriday Nov 30, SAN FRANCISCO\nSaturday Dec 1, SAN 
 JOSE\nWednesday Dec 5, BERKELEY\n\n\nSee "Save The Date" Announcement 
 \n\nABOUT DAYAMANI BARLA\nAward-winning indigenous journalist Dayamani 
 Barla will visit the San Francisco Bay Area in December 2007. Dayamani 
 Barla, a tribal woman from the Jharkhand region of India, has written about 
 the displacement of tribal peoples from their native lands by developers. 
 Among other things, her groundbreaking work has been instrumental in 
 exposing the hazards of uranium mining to children in rural areas. Her work 
 is constantly guided by her concern for the plight of  the weakest and the 
 most exploited sections of  the Indian society.\n\nBarla won the Counter 
 Media Award for Rural Journalism in 2000 and the National Foundation for 
 India Fellowship in 2004. Counter Media Award is funded by royalties from P 
 Sainath's book "Everyone Loves a Good Drought", and is meant for rural  
 journalists whose (often outstanding) work gets ignored or even 
 appropriated by the larger press at the State or national level. Barla is 
 one of the very few journalists from the Munda tribe and her work in a 
 popular Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar brings attention to myriad problems 
 facing the Munda people and other tribal communities in the Jharkhand 
 region. She is also the past National President of Indian Social Action 
 Forum.  Her remarkable work is sponsored by Association for India's 
 Development(AID) - she is an "AID Saathi", and her current trip to the US 
 is also sponsored by AID.\n\nDAYAMANI'S WRITINGS\nA large selection of 
 Dayamani's writings in Prabhat Khabar (with several of them translated into 
 English) can be found 
 here:\nhttp://aidindia.org/main/content/category/16/93/139/\n\nCOSPONSORS\nDayamani's 
 Bay Area visit is co-sponsored by Friends of South Asia,  the SF Bay Area 
 Chapter of AID and the National Writers Union.\nThe Dec 5 event at Berkeley 
 will be co-hosted by the Berkeley Chapter of AID.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/24/18463234.php
SUMMARY:Dayamani Barla: Indigenous Journalist and Activist from India
LOCATION:El TECOLOTE's Office, 2958 24th St, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/24/18463234.php
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