Medha Patkar
Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize
Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender's Award
BBC Green Ribbon Award
Talk Title : People's Movements: The State and Civil Society
Medha Patkar is an environmental and human rights activist who has led the struggle against the Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada River in India. She co-founded the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, Save the Narmada) and the National Alliance of People's Movements dedicated to alternative development paradigms. She has worked for the marginalized communities in slums and tribal areas and served on the World Commission on Dams, and on water and energy issues across the world.
Her talk in Boston will focus on learnings and wisdoms from the grassroots realities of the lives of the tribal, rural poor and dispossed whose resilience inspire and give rise to social movements, the costs of "development" and facing the economic crisis.
We hope that you will join us at this inspiring lecture by one of the leading developmental grassroots leaders in India.
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