The KWRU and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign are saddened by the loss of our brother in struggle, Professor Nanjundaswamy, the founder and leader of the Karnataka State Farmers' Association of India (KRRS). We send our deepest condolences to his family, to the KRRS and to the courageous movement of small farmers and landless families of India at this difficult time.

In the fall of 2001, we were honored to be invited by Professor Nanjundaswamy and the movement he founded, the KRRS, to travel to India to speak before more than a million small and landless farmers at a demonstration protesting the WTO and commemorating Gandhi's birthday. Our founder, director and national organizer Cheri Honkala and two other leaders of our movement had the privelege of meeting Professor Nanjundaswamy and of seeing the inspiring results of his lifetime of work, risk and sacrifice dedicated to the organizing of India's impoverished farmers.

We are honored to have been able to meet Professor Nanjundaswamy and to witness his life's work, which remains a symbol of inspiration for the poor in the United States and around the world. Our hearts are with the KRRS as we, like you, struggle to keep alive his dream by organizing the poor of the US for a different society here and worldwide.

The poor of the United States are with you, brothers and sisters of the KRRS.

- Kensington Welfare Rights Union/ Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, USA