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SA4U & AID
Present
Swami Agnivesh
Topic: Religion, Politics and Social Action
Date & Time:
Sunday, October 9, 2005; 3-5 pm
Venue: Global Mall
5675 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Norcross, GA 30071
[I-85 Exit #99 (Jimmy Cater Blvd) go West. Global Mall is on your
right within 100 yards.]
Contacts:
Ani Agnihotri – 404-394-6678; Lala Ahmed – 404-373-7382;
Mustafa Ajmeri – 678-463-6613; Paddy Sharma – 404-642-9064
E-mail:
Atlanta@aidindia.org
Swami Agnivesh, President of the Sarvadeshik Sabha (World Council)
of Arya Samaj, is a well-known spiritual leader and social activist
from India, best known for his work amongst bonded labor in India
for the last quarter century where he has obtained the release and
rehabilitation of over 175,000 bonded laborers. He is the chairman
of "Bandhua Mukti Morcha" and also the Chairperson of the UN Trust
fund against contemporary slavery. A former Education Minister of
Haryana, he resigned his office only four months after his
appointment to take up work with the bonded labor. He has organized
mass movements against several social ills including the practice of
Sati (widow-burning) and the oppression of women and Dalits in
India. He has actively campaigned for communal harmony and human
rights. Swamiji has been honoured with Anti-Slavery International
Award in London in 1990, the Freedom and Human Rights Award in Berne
in 1994, the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Communal Harmony and the Right
Livelihood Award (the "alternative Nobel Prize") from Sweden in
2004.
In November Swamiji will be leading a mass campaign against female
feticide in India. Donations to this campaign and other causes
welcome.
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