Campaigns
Campaigns that Video Volunteers have started and are fighting.
Going Strong: 7 months – 7 Impacts and much more!
Video Volunteers launched its campaign ‘Pass Ya Fail?’ in November 2013. This is the first-ever video audit campaign of the Right to Education Act in India. This is an update on what our determined Community Correspondents have documented in the last seven months. “Today, there is a new tube well...
Release: Rights Groups Call on India, South Korea to Suspend POSCO- India Steel Project and...
South Korean President in India to advance on investment projects For immediate release. India, January 16 2014 Human rights violations connected to the POSCO-India project must be addressed as a matter of priority by India and South Korea during South Korean President Park Geun-Hye’s state visit to India, saidrights groups, Video...
‘The People Vs. POSCO’ Screened to a Packed Hall!
The videos made by VV’s Community Correspondents have maximum effect when they are screened back to the community. They are usually a starting point for discussions and debates that fuel change. So when our latest documentary, ‘The People Vs. POSCO’ was released we were all really keen on making sure...
The Great Indian Education Crisis: RTE
80 videos on the lack of education facilities in India and counting. Here’s why VV thinks a campaign to invigorate the Right to Education Act is necessary As he studied at a night school in Mumbai, Amol Lalzare also juggled several odd jobs during the day tosupport his family. His lifelong dream...
UPDATE, 2nd April: PPSS Plans a Hunger Strike
From 22nd March 2013 onwards, more than 200 women of Govindpur village have been continuing their daily peaceful protest opposing the undemocratic moves of the government and POSCO in the village of Gobindpur in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. The leader at PPSS have decided to call a hunger strike on 3rd April 2013...
UPDATE, 3rd March: Bomb attack on PPSS Meeting Kills Three
On 2nd March 2013 the anti-POSCO movement was met with a fresh instance of violence and oppression when bombs were hurled at around 6:30 pm into a meeting room of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, at Patna Village, Dhinkia, Jagatsinghpur. The bomb killed Manas Jena – Age 32 on the spot...
UPDATE, 12th February: PPSS Leader Abhaya Sahoo Ends Hunger Strike
On 10th February 2013, Mr. Abhaya Sahoo, the chairperson of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti was persuaded by the villagers and visiting activists from across the state and outside to call off his six-day hunger strike as the state government temporarily suspended the forcible land acquisition process owing to the resistance on one...
UPDATE, 7th February: Government Halts Land Acquisition in Jagatsinghpur
The government of Odisha has temporarily halted the land acquisition drive in Dhinkia Panchayat however there are still 2 platoons of police present. We urge the supporters to keep the pressure on the government to ensure that there is no further attempt to forcefully evict people from their lands. In...