India - Cultural resistance

Mukti Chai

Join us for a people’s cultural meeting on 11th July (Saturday) at Muktangan auditorium from 3 pm to 7:30 pm. For an evening of resistance with songs, speeches and accounts, book readings, film screenings.

We demand release of all prisoners of conscience!

11th July (Saturday)
3 pm – 7 pm
Muktangan auditorium, Rashbehari Crossing (Near Kalighat Metro)

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Film Screening:
Prisoners of Conscience. Documentary by Anand Patwardhan

Words:
Soni Sori
Dr. Binayak Sen
Shubhendu Dasgupta
Rajeev Yadav (Rihai Manch and AIPF)
Ajay TG (documentary filmmaker, Chhattisgarh PUCL, previously held under UAPA),
family members of affected political prisoners, lawyers and activists fighting for the release of political prisoners

Songs of resistance and awakening:
Bipul and Anushree Chakrabarti
Nitish Roy
Sushmit Bose
Swabhav Natok Dol
Ranjanprasad
Pratirodher Gaan

The meeting is being held with a goal to bring people together to demand-
– Unconditional release of Chhatradhar Mahato and five others who have been convicted on 11th May and meted out life sentences. The convention will mark two months of that draconian sentence.
– Release of political prisoners elsewhere in India, including people still held under TADA, detained under PSA (in Kashmir), Maruti workers, Muslim youth including the large number of undertrials in Purvanchal (UP) and political activists like Maudany, Communists including Saibaba, Hem Mishra, artists including Kabir Kala Manch and all others
– Scrapping of the draconian UAPA, AFSPA, PSA and the Sedition act

Organized by: Cinema of Resistance, Kolkata

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