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Indian Environmentalist Father Tom Kocherry Speaks at NSW Parliament House

16 June 2006

When: 12.30pm Monday 19th June Where: Parkes Room, NSW Parliament Macquarie Street, Sydney What: Talk by Father Tom Kocherry - Catholic priest, trade union leader, lawyer, environmentalist and battler against the WTO at Seattle.

A labour leader, Tom Kocherry is the Coordinator of the National Fishworkers Forum and India's National Alliance of Peoples' Movements (NAPM). He is also the Rector of the Periyavillai Redemptorist Community in Tamil Nadu. One of the organisers of the famous Kanyakumari march of 1989 that sought to protect India's coastal ecology, he is a crusader against coastal pollution who has spearheaded protests against the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant in Tamil Nadu and is also currently a member of the Coastal Zone Management Authority of India.

Hosted by Greens MLC Ian Cohen.

Further information: Saeed Khan (Greens Councillor) 0414 698 634

Ian Cohen 9230 2603 / 0409 989 466

For more details on Thomas Kocherry please visit http://www.saeedkhan.org/topics/2109.html


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