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DESCRIPTION:ASSOCIATION FOR INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT (Berkeley chapter)\n\n                  
                presents\n\n                  FILM FESTIVAL: HUMAN RIGHTS IN 
 SOUTH ASIA\n\n\nFILM FESTIVAL WEEKEND\nSaturday, September 6th, 4-6 
 pm\nSunday, September 7th, 11 am - 2 pm\n\nAT: 110 SOUTH HALL, UC 
 BERKELEY\nDirections on campus: 
 http://berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC34.html\n\nPanel discussion and pizza!\nAll 
 films are subtitled in English\n\nAdmission is free to all\n\nEven as India 
 celebrates 61 years of freedom from colonial rule, we must\nremember that 
 the battle for freedom did not end in 1947.  Many\ncommunities in India, 
 and in the other South Asian countries, continue to\nstruggle for political 
 and economic equality.  The films being screened\nthis weekend depict 
 peoples' struggle against forces of economic\nimperialism, corporate 
 globalization and the state's imposition of\nneo-liberal models of economic 
 development.\n\nFEATURED FILMS\n\nSaturday, September 6th, 4-6 pm\n\n*Tales 
 from the Margins by Kavita Joshi (2006, 23 minutes) documents human\nrights 
 abuses in the state of Manipur, India and argues that the use of\nsecurity 
 personnel to quell public dissent is a violation of 
 democratic\nnorms.\n\n*New State, Old Problems\nby The Campaign to Release 
 Binayak Sen and Ajay T. G.[10 min, 2008]\n\nFifteen months ago, Dr. Binayak 
 Sen, pediatrician, public health\nspecialist and national Vice President of 
 the People's Union for Civil\nLiberties(PUCL), was arrested on patently 
 false charges of sedition, and\ncharged under the repressive "Chhattisgarh 
 Special Public Security Act."\nConcerned people from around the globe 
 protested this arrest, including\nAjay TG, a filmmaker and a colleague from 
 PUCL, who made a movie\ndocumenting Dr. Sen's lifelong commitment to issues 
 of community health\nand human rights.  Ironically, almost a year after Dr. 
 Sen's arrest, Ajay\nT.G. was also arrested under the same repressive laws. 
 Dr. Sen and Ajay,\nboth earned the ire of the government for opposing Salwa 
 Judum.\n        This film provides viewers with some background to the 
 arrests of\nDr. Sen and Ajay T.G., including brief introductions to the 
 State of\nChhattisgarh, the Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha, the Naxalites and 
 Salwa Judum.\n\n*Anjam (The Consequence)by Ajay T. G.[20 min, 2008]\n\nA 
 film on the life and work of Dr. Binayak Sen.  Traces the evolution of\nDr. 
 Sen's life as an activist from his college days, to his involvement in\nthe 
 miners' struggles in the Dalli Rajhara mines, and setting up the\nShaheed 
 Hospital, and finally to a human rights activist as he recognized\nthe 
 inalienable bond between human rights and health rights.\n\n*The Other Side 
 of the Boom by Special Broadcasting Services, Australia\nReporter: Jonathon 
 Matthews. [22 min, 2008]\n\nThe rural poor in central India feel left out 
 of the financial windfall\nfrom India's economic success, and are 
 increasingly turning their support\nto the anti-government Maoist rebels 
 known as "Naxalites". Video\njournalist Jonathon Matthews seeks out the 
 rebels – and the\ngovernment-backed vigilante group, Salwa Judum, that 
 opposes them –to ask\nwhether the terrible cycle of violence that's 
 affecting two thirds of the\nIndian continent can possibly end. The ongoing 
 violence has pitted\nneighbor against neighbor, converted the area into a 
 civil war zone, with\nhundreds of villages burnt, scores of people 
 murdered, entire communities\ndisplaced and at least 50,000 people forced 
 into squalid government camps.\n\n** Followed by panel discussion and 
 pizza\n\n\nSunday, September 7th, 11 am - 2 pm\n\n*Development Flows From 
 the Barrel of a Gun by Biju Toppo and Meghnath\n(2003, 55 minutes) 
 questions state-sponsored development that doesn't take\ninto account 
 people's actual needs.\n\n*Resilient Rhythms by Gopal Menon(2002, 65 
 Minutes)is an unflinching look\nat the reality of issue of caste–based 
 discrimination in contemporary\nIndia, and the role of the state in 
 perpetuating such discrimination.\n\n*It’s A Boy!  by Vani Subramanian 
 (2008, 29 minutes) explores the\nimbalance in sex ratios in Indian society 
 caused by female foeticide and\ninfanticide, and the state’s promotion of 
 gender selection technologies as\na tool of population control.  It 
 presents various perspectives including\nthat of feminist activists, 
 religious leaders, elected officials, etc.\nFinally, the film offers a 
 portrait of the pressures of patriarchy by\ninterviewing members of a 
 matrilineal community in North-Eastern India,\nsome members of which have 
 begun to demand adherence to norms of\npatriarchy.\n\nFor detailed synopsis 
 of films, visit http://berkeley.aidindia.org/\n\nOrganized by: ASSOCIATION 
 FOR INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT (Berkeley and Bay area\nchapters) & FRIENDS OF 
 SOUTH ASIA\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/31/18531404.php
SUMMARY:FILM FESTIVAL: Human rights in South Asia: Sep 6-7, UC Berkeley
LOCATION:110 SOUTH HALL, UC BERKELEY\nDirections on campus: 
 http://berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC34.html\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/31/18531404.php
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