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Subject: world water day, 22nd march 2012, town hall, bangalore to drown anti-water nwp 2012
Regional and National Press Release dated Tuesday, March 20, 2012
World Water Day
22nd March 2012
To celebrate the natural character of water as commons by drowning the anti-water National Water Policy 2012
10.30 AM, in front of the Town Hall, Bangalore
| · Protect the Rights of Mother Earth · Drown the National Water Policy 2012 that is anti people, undemocratic and pro-corporate. · Ban all forms of water privatization / privatisation · Uphold Right to Water of all life forms · Protect all commons for the benefit of present and future generations · Uphold water citizenship, water justice and water democracy |
The entire world is marching towards an uncertain future with the "profit driven development" culture devastating every vital resource necessary for dignified human existence. The mad rush for huge profits is converting all commons - natural resources into commodities. The countries in the Northern Hemisphere, while protecting their natural resources, want to capture, profit and deplete resources of countries in the South. The Neo-liberal colonialism with its grand design of market fundamentalism is tightening its grip on every natural resource including our precious Water - the progenitor of mother Earth.
As directed by the bilateral financial institutions with their pre-set agenda, Indian and foreign MNCs are pouncing on "developing countries" to identify every drop of water and change its natural character as commons and commoditize it, allowing for corporate capture of our waters and sell it for the highest of profits. This hegemony over water not only violates the rights of the human beings but even of Mother Earth.
Both the governments of India and Karnataka, though ruled by opposing political parties are working in tandem to unleash the plans of water privatization. Both these parties have a singular vision of reducing the government to a regulating agency and handover our waters to private companies. Though private companies have dismally failed to meet even the basic standards of quality and equity in water supply in Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad, Gulbarga and Belgaum where water has already been privatized, corporate interests and our own bureaucrats and senior politicians are trading a Gobbles' lie that Water privatization is a success and that our governments have no capacity to provide clean and safe drinking water to our citizens and water.
As it has been historically usual in such processes, there is a systematic attempt to mislead the country into believing that the corporate capture of water is actually good for us. New vocabulary is being invented to camouflage the serious implications of privatization by wrongly using terms like 24/7 water, O and M outsourcing etc. The Karnataka Urban drinking water and sanitation policy of 2003 and the National Water Policy of 2012 are clearly intended to throw all prudent, traditional notions, practices and cultures to the wind and promote privatization-corporatization of our waters. Experience in several states and several cities in Karnataka amply prove water privatization is economically unviable, ecologically unsustainable and socially unjust. The current policies have totally disregarded this reality.
In many countries in South America, Africa, South-East Asia and even in Europe where corporate water supply has been tried and failed, a re-municipalisation / re-municipalization process has taken over. People of every continent are demanding a ban on all forms of privatization / privatisation in the water sector.
It is the responsibility of both the trustee state and communities to preserve water, utilize it equitably and judiciously and transfer it our future generations to be able to sustain life on this unique planet. The present national water policy is forcibly promoting commoditization, commercialization and privatization of water against peoples' sovereignty. We, the People's Campaign for Right to Water - Karnataka call upon every responsible citizens to totally oppose this anti people, unjust Water policy and request your presence in observing the World Water Day with our demands as mentioned above.
DATE: 22nd March 2012
VENUE: In front of Town Hall, Bangalore.
TIME: 10.30am – 12.30pm
Guest Speakers:
01) Dr.Chandrasekhar Kambar, the Gnanapeeta Award Winner
02) Mr.Doraiswamy, Gandhian Activist Leader
03) Ms. B.T. Lalitha Naik, Prominent Writer
04) Mr. B. Su. Suresh, National Award winning director
05) Dr. Banjegere Jaya Prakash, Prominent Writer
06) Ms. Shakun, Social Activist, Vimochana
We invite you to participate and make the programme a success
Warmth
Rajendran Prabhakar, Selva, Kshithij Urs
People's Campaign for Right to Water - Karnataka
The above invitation ends here itself.
Online Petitions
Article with a link to the online petition one
01) http://specials.forbes.com/article/0aky6WI1VJfnQ at Forbes.com
02) at dallasnews.com
Joseph Goebbels said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈɡœbəls][2]; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers.
Siddharthanagar,
Mysore-570011, Karnataka
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