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DESCRIPTION:SF Presentation \n\n"Building collective strength - Organizing agricultural 
 workers in India, a perspective from the state of Bihar" Report By Srikanth 
 Jandhyala"\n\nSunday June 8, 2014 2:00 PM\n518 Valencia St/ 16th St.\nSan 
 Francisco\n\nDonation Requested\n\nSponsored By Labor Video 
 Project\n(415)282-1908\nwww.laborvideo.org\n\nLabor Rights Activist and AID 
 Jeevansaathi,  Srikanth Jandhyala talk about the work of the trade union 
 she is part of in Bihar called Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan. They work to 
 organize agriculture workers and other unorganized-sector labor force. 
 Bihar is one of the states in India with poor social indicators. JJSS 
 mobilizes rural poor to demand better services from the government and to 
 get the existing entitlements as laid down by the government. They aim to 
 bring about a larger change in the lives of rural poor by means of 
 “sangharsh” (struggle) and “nirman” (constructive activities). 
 \nhttp://www.jjabihar.org/\n\nKamayani Swami started delving seriously in 
 the field of social change and development as a Masters student at the Tata 
 Institute of Social Sciences (Bombay). After 17 years of formal schooling 
 she had previously gone through kamayani, like many others, had a lot to 
 learn and unlearn. She started her learnings and unlearnings in the real 
 world as a full time worker of the Shramik Adivasi Sangathan (SAS, Beitul 
 district, Madhya Pradesh), National campaign for the People’s Right to 
 Information (NCPRI) and was associated with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti 
 Sangathan (MKSS) and with the Her learnings with MKSS have been guiding her 
 work since.\n\nFor the past decade she has been working in the field of 
 social change and justice. In 2008 she became part of the effort to 
 mobilize workers of Bihar and form a rural workers trade union called Jan 
 Jagaran Shakti Sangathan (JJSS). JJSS has empowered the rural community of 
 Araria and Katihar districts of Bihar to struggle for their basic rights 
 which is so easily denied by the corrupt govt machinery and vested 
 interests. The work of the JJSS at the district and state level has helped 
 workers get work and avoid distress migration. The JJSS has also been 
 instrumental in initiating wide scale social audits (MKSS has pioneered 
 social audits which means audit by the people) along with the government in 
 Araria district to help curb corruption and to involve ordinary mass in the 
 implementation and monitoring of the govt. schemes. In 2012, the JJSS was 
 part of conducting ICDS Social audits, in East Champaran (Motihari) 
 district, along with the ICDS directorate. The work of the JJSS has lead to 
 greater awareness about the rights in the rural poor.\n\nKamayani feels the 
 JJSS with it’s gender, caste and class lens has tried it’s best to 
 build a democratic and progressive organisation, within, while fighting the 
 system outside. She and the JJSS hope now to expand in the field of 
 inculcating progressive values in the younger generation.\n\nA recent media 
 coverage in national media of the issues Kamayani and JJSS have been 
 fightinghttp://www.ndtv.com/article/india/in-nitish-kumar-s-bihar-reality-counters-claims-of-development-354369\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/29/18756557.php
SUMMARY:SF Presentation "Building collective strength - Organizing agricultural workers in India,
LOCATION:518 Valencia St/16th St.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/29/18756557.php
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