We need your help to stop Vedanta, a British mining company, threatening the home of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2997262350966752303&hl=en
The Kondh tribe have lived a self sufficient life in the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, India for generations. The hills provide their food, water and medicines and they worship the Niyamgiri mountain as their living God, the supreme Deity NiyamRaja. But now Vedanta wants to build a mine in the area.
Official reports suggest it will lead to massive deforestation, threaten water sources and destroy local ecosystems (home to endangered animals such as the tiger, leopard and elephant).
It will also end the Kondh’s ancient way of life.
We were really inspired by the amazing women in the above video. Vedanta is a huge corporation with a lot of power but they refuse to be bullied.
We especially love the woman at the end who says she’ll beat Vedanta with her broom – what a legend!
The below video tells the full story.
Your voice is powerful. Use it to get them heard. Email the Indian High Commissioner in London.
In the words of 16 year old Rapna Majhi:
“We don’t know how to take forward our struggle in London. We can not take this struggle on our own – but we will fight here til we die”.
