“We have been shouting so loudly, but still they don’t hear us. It is painful that our sacred place – the heart of our culture and identity – has been mined and destroyed.”

Balsai Korram
Dear Jack,  
Balsai, a Gond Adivasi man, has already seen part of his people’s ancestral land in India’s Hasdeo Forest destroyed by coal mining. Now he and his community are desperately resisting more planned mines that – if they go ahead – will raze their sacred forest and destroy their livelihoods. 

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Like thousands of other Adivasi (Indigenous) people in India, Balsai’s community is facing a coal rush carried out by big corporations and championed by India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who plans to increase coal mine production to one billion tonnes a year. To access this coal, vast areas of tribal forests are being sold off without tribal consent. Adivasis are resisting this violent land theft, but they need your support.  

Across central India, Adivasis have launched peaceful protests, legal challenges and blockades. For their resistance, they have been arrested, beaten and even murdered. But community members feel that they have no choice but to fight — their lives and livelihoods depend on it. 

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