Courageous woman in India fights giant corporation that wants to destroy 40 villages...

The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.

It is run by Dayamani Barla, a journalist and activist, and is the office of the Adivasi Moolvaasi Ashthitva Raksha Manch (AMARM), which loosely translates as a platform for the protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples.

As AMARM'S convenor, Barla, in her forties, is at the forefront of a campaign to stop an 8.2 billion dollar steel plant project by transnational ArcelorMittal that will uproot 40 villages and 70,000 indigenous people in mineral-rich Jharkhand state. More...

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