Abhay Sahu, leader of anti-POSCO movement arrested

The Central Government and the Odisha Government are complicit in this anti-national act of American and European banksters led integrated steel firm.

Abhay Sahoo

(NEW DELHI, India) - Abhay Sahoo, the leader of the anti-POSCO movement, was arrested over the weekend.

POSCO is a typical case of whether people's rights prevail over the predatory acts of a company largely owned by American and European financial interests. It is not a Korean company; the faces may be Korean, the controlling ownership lies with American and Belgian banks and private interests.

The Central Government and the Odisha Government are complicit in this anti-national act of American and European banksters led integrated steel firm. India has enough steel making skill; we don't need POSCO; we don't need foreign direct investment in mining; and we don't need anyone to own and operate a private port.

WE DON'T NEED FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT PAID FOR IN TOILET PAPER DOLLARS, PRINTED IN PRIVATE CURRENCY PRINTING PRESS OF AMERICAN BANKSTERS. THE PEOPLE OF INDIA DO NOT WANT TO SELL THEIR SCARCE RESOURCE, THEIR PRECIOUS LANDS AGAINST TOILET PAPER DOLLAR. THIS ISSUE IS PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BY SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN OF THE THREE VILLAGES.

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We met Abhay Sahoo and his team on 7th afternoon somewhere near Dhenkia and interviewed local farmers, had lunch at a farmer's house, and returned later that day to Bhuvaneshwar. [WE=my friends]

The company is insisting on having a private port [under SEZ rules]. This is extremely dangerous in the present times. There is already a large Paradeep port barely five kilometers from the site preferred by POSCO.

The steel mill [their 12 MTPA] can be located away from inhabited area.

The three Gram Panchayats have stable livelihood; not affluent but very sustainable and enough to maintain decent life for all.

That livelihood system for 22,000 people will be destroyed by POSCO.

I asked Abhay what message he has for the people of America he replied that the American people should look at their own lives how their own corporations behave and have destroyed their lives. And these corporations are doing the same thing to relatively poor people of India. I asked him this question because I write for Salem-News, an Oregon-based on-line newspaper run by Tim King, a military veteran and war correspondent.

PLEASE SUPPORT ANTI-POSCO MOVEMENT. AFTER ABHAY'S ARREST, THE SECOND LINE OF COMMAND IS IN PLACE. THE POLICE ARE USING ALL SORTS OF REPRESSIVE MEASURES INCLUDING FALSE CHARGES- IMPLICATING MEN AND WOMEN.

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Arun Shrivastava is Salem-News.com's South Asia Correspondent. An accredited management consultant, Arun is also a highly experienced researcher and writer. He studied in India and England and returned to India in 1989, after a brief stint as senior officer with Economic Development Unit of Birmingham (UK). From 1989 to 1994, he taught Strategic Management and Long Range Planning to MBA students at International Management Institute in Delhi.

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