Plachimada Declaration

PLACHIMADA DECLARATION

Water is the basis of life; it is a gift of nature; it belongs to all living beings on earth.

Water is not private property. It is a common resource for the sustenance of all.
Water is the fundamental right of all people. It has to be conserved,protected and managed. It is our fundamental obligation to prevent water scarcity and pollution and to preserve it for generations.

Water is not a commodity. We should resist all criminal attempts to marketise,privatise and corporatise water. Only through these means can we ensure that the fundamental and inalienable right to water for people all over the world.

The Water Policy should be formulated on the basis of this outlook.The right to conserve, use and manage water is fully vested with the local community. This is the very basis of water democracy. Any attempt to reduce or deny this right is a crime.

The production and marketing of the poisonous products of the Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola corporates lead to total destruction and pollution, which also endangers the very existence of local communities.

The resistance that has came up in Plachimada, Pudussery and in various parts of the world is the symbol of our valiant struggle against the devilish corporate gangs who engage in piracy of our water.

We, who are in the battlefield in full solidarity with the Adivasis who have put up resistance against the tortures of the horrid commercial forces in Plachimada,exhort the people all over the world to boycott the products of Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola.

Coca Cola - Pepsi Cola "quit India".