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Fighting the Police State, be it in Kashmir, Singur, Nandigram, Chattisghar, Kashipur or in the back lanes of Delhi.

Supporting the people’s movement’s across the world…

Since early 1990′s Jan Madhyam has been the key organizer of many events. The most well crafted among them has been “The Rally for the Valley”along the river Narmada in central India: a civilization threatened of extinction. An initiative to support the 20 year old non-violent struggle that made about 500 city folks from across the world to travel and see for themselves large scale destruction caused by development projects destroying the indigenous and farmers along with their entire eco-systems.

We were the forerunners in organizing the Road Shows under the banner ‘Free the Narmada Campaign’, where we visited more than 40 universities and collages in India screening our film “How Do I survive, My Friend” along with Arundhati Roy, Amulya Ganguli, Anand Patwardhan as co-speakers. .. with a view to sensitize students and city folks, media and arm chair scholars, mothers and Gandhian to take a stand and act against World Bank, JP group, BJP rule and Gujarat Government. Yet we were naive to assume that the Indian courts would support the people of this country… wish we were right… for once… in our might.

• In the battle against nuclearization, with artists performing plays from epic mythology, experimentation with film and story-telling and distribution of written material. This has been one of the most fascinating experiments, as an effort to combat the lack of nuclear literacy in India.
• Taking films to basti’s & villages, on issues as diverse as communalism, casteism, trade union and labour movements, globalization, patent and intellectual property rights, environmental and human rights issues; to various activist groups and non-governmental organizations.
• Training of communities and individuals in using the audio-visual medium – to make documentaries accessible and to muster the courage to ask the right questions.
• To facilitate local groups and communities that can use films/DVD/CD as an instrument of social transformation.
• Our skills have got us invited to the UN, ILO, Indian and International Parliaments, the administrative and police academy for sensitization workshops. (often seen as such a waste of time…!!)
• Many international universities; schools & colleges use our films and invite us for talks.
• We try to co-pt those on the other side… especially those who sell their souls…knowingly or unknowingly.
  

FIGHTING MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES LIKE UNION CARBIDE SINCE 1984 & TO PROTECT THE RIVERS; THE WATERFALLS N THE ECO-SYSTEMS. ( we documented for Green Peace, a film that was screened at the Basal Convention)

Color Black: Water of India: Supporting the campaign against Coke/Pepsi among the many MNC’s that are plundering this planet at a breakneck speed.

Bant Singh: an unsung Dalit Hero from a village in Punjab from the CPI ML (liberation party) his daughter was rapes and his limbs broken for speaking out against the upper caste. View him on You Tube.