This conference asserts that the
struggles of adivasis against the
devastation and for realization of
their rights over the land, water
and forest are justified struggles.
It extends its full support to the
struggles of adivasis.
The Conference demands the
strict
and
immediate
implementation of scores of laws
enacted to benefit the adivasi
people.
The Conference calls upon the
people to extend their full support
and co-operation to the struggles
of adivasi people.
On Women
The Conference took note of
the situation in which the women
are condemned to languish. Young
women and men are persecuted
and even killed for marrying
someone outside the caste.
Women suffer various forms of
discrimination and oppression.
They are super-exploited at work
places and in the fields by denying
equal pay for equal work. In the
name of empowerment of
women, they are being subjected
to slave like labour in the sweat
shops of SEZs and their blood
being sucked by the micro finance
companies.
The
modern
technology made available as a
part of expansion of market for
making profits, instead of
lightening the burden of women is
perpetuating the patriarchal
culture as is evident in the killing
of girl child in the womb. The
atrocities on women grew many
times in their magnitude and
cruelty.
The conference strongly
condemns the oppression and
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suppression and physical attacks
on women. It calls upon the people
to fight for the equality of women
in political, social and economic
fields.
Attacks on Democratic
Rights
The Conference took note of the
growing attacks on the democratic
rights of the people. Unable to
solve not even a single problem
of the people, the NDA government
is resorting to sharpening the
teeth of repressive laws. It is
encouraging the state governments
to enact more repressive laws
taking Gujarat Control of Terrorism
and Organised Crime Act as a
model. It is taking devious route to
do away with the labour laws. It is
leaving no stone unturned to
trample the rights of adivasis on
forests, land and water. It is
unleasing repression in the North
East and Kashnir with enforcing
the Armed Forces Special Powers
Act trampling every right of the
people. The aim of the repression
is to subdue the people and their
struggles to make easy for the
imperialist sharks to gobble up our
natural and economic resources.
The Conference strongly
condemns the measures of subtle
and brutal repression unleashed
by the successive governments
on the people and their struggles.
The Conference calls upon
the people to get organized and
fight to protect their democratic
rights.
On Sipasarubali Land
Movement
The present imperialist
dictated development policies
have not only played havoc with
the life and livelihood of the people,
but also with the ecology and
natural environment. As a part of
this design, the entire sea coast
has been handed over to the
MNCs and big business for loot
and grabbing in the name of port,
industry, coastal corridor and
tourism.
In general the entire east
coast, particularly Odisha coast is
cyclone prone and it needs
protection of the natural barriers
such as coastal forest and sand
dunes that reduce the intensity of
the cyclones and its impacts.
Defying this logic, the Odisha
government hand in glove with the
big corporate houses has planned
for a mega tourism project in Puri
district. For this project more than
3500 acres of land is going to be
acquired. Against this anti-people’
anti-environment project, people
of Sipasarubali area under the
banner of Upakuliya Jami O Jungle
SurakshaSamiti and ChasiMuliyaSangh are in a serious struggle for
the last six years. Ex-land mafias
who were in illegal occupation of
the land for years together are also
against the people. They are trying
in every way to reoccupy the land
and deprive the people from their
democratic and natural rights on
the land. In the course of the
struggle the people are facing
serious repression from the state
as well as land mafias. The
Conference stands by the struggling
peopl