On this day, 11 January 1998 24,000 villagers in India occupied the proposed site for the construction of a Narmada River dam that would have displaced 320,000 people. They successfully blocked the project.
Pictured: a subsequent demonstration in 2000 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1320393968145750/?type=3