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Janadesh 2007 - Pour une poignée de terre

Inde, 2 Octobre 2007 : 25 000 paysans sans-terres vont marcher 375km sur l'autoroute qui relie Gwalior à New Delhi afin d’inciter le gouvernement à mettre en place des réformes agraires. Cette marche est appelée "Janadesh" ("le verdict du peuple"). Elle est organisée par Ekta Parishad, mouvement non-violent fondé par P.V.Rajagopal dans lequel plusieurs centaines de travailleurs sociaux oeuvrent depuis plus de dix ans avec les plus pauvres (intouchables, tribaux) pour obtenir la reconnaissance ...

Janadesh 2007 - For a Fistful Of Land

India, October 2nd, 2007: 25000 landless people will walk 375 km on the highway which links Gwalior to New Delhi to press the government to undertake significant land reforms. This march is called Janadesh - "the people's verdict". Behind this decision, there's a non-violent movement called Ekta Parishad. Under the leadership of P.V. Rajagopal, Ekta Parishad's activists have been working for over a decade with the poorest among the poor to get the recognition of their rights to control land, w...

Bangladesh, quelques jours après le passage du c...

Bangladesh: A few days after the cyclone Sidr

On the 15th of November 2007, at 5.00 pm, Bangladesh was hit by the cyclone called Sidr. It was the 30th cyclone in this country since 1960. The winds blew up to 250 km per hour, creating waves of about 18 feet high that flooded the numerous coastal ponds of fresh water with salty water. In the Ganges delta the Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove swamp in the world, were devastated. The cyclone ended the following day.In this film we follow five social and health workers, who, after having attend...