[news] Global protests against Alcan mine in India

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"On December 1, 2004 in the Kashipur district in the state of Orissa, India, police violently attacked community members peacefully demonstrating against the construction of a mining road and a police barracks on their land. The more than 300 adivasis (indigenous peoples) and dalits (low caste) are part of a mass movement protesting the development of a bauxite mine and alumina plant that would lead to their forced displacement and the destruction of their sacred land. The Canadian aluminium company, Alcan Inc., is one of two partners in the project. At the demonstration, sixteen people, mostly women, were critically injured as police charged them with batons. They did not receive medical treatment, but rather were thrown in jail. Several other community leaders have been reported missing." Brook Thorndycraft and Tamara Herman

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/124022/70