There are thousands of people displaced due to various development projects of the government and also private sector. This is very much seen among farming communities, fishing communities as well as among slum dwellers in the country today. We can see this is some what growing tendency and people are displaced in many places around country.
Land grabbing in agricultural lands as well as in the coastal areas are very common and people are helpless. No body is ready to take this up due to fear and threats. But, there should be start to end this situation. We know Negombo fisher people struggled and achieved certain degree of victory. The biggest victory against the undemocratic, anti people project was defeating the Private Sector Pension Scheme by FTZ workers. So, what we experience is, if people unite we can defeat the powerful government with 2/3 majority. So, we want to unite and bring them to one coalition on Land grabbing issues in Kalpitiya islands on tourism, Panama Lagoon people, Sampur displaced people due to Special Economic Zone, Polonnaruwa people due to tourism project at Parakrama Samudra, Pigeon islands people due to marine protected area for tourism, in Colombo the slum dwellers, Negomb people who fought against Sea Plane issue at Negombo lagoon, Uma Oya community who are displaced and many more.
We want to bring together as much as we can and give moral strength to the on going campaign. Most important thing is to give moral support to the leaders in the struggle demonstrating our solidarity with them.
So, we would like to invite to you and your organization to take part the 6th September meeting.
The details of the meeting are as follows;
Theme: Unite all Development Displaced Communities for Justice and restore the rights.
Date : 06th September 2011.
Venue: Nagarodaya Center, Borella,
Time: 2.00 pm to 5.30pm.
Organizers: Praja Abhilasha Net work, NAFSO, Food Sovereignty Network of Sri Lanka
We would like to seek your fullest cooperation on this seminar as well as for the future activities.
