PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2013 ID-34011
.
aisa Shahadat Saptah : 23-31 March join.
.
From Bhagat Singh to Com. Chandrashekhar : the Legacy Lives on...... Film Screening.
.
Micha X. Peled's Classic (Dur. 59 mins.) on Assaults of Corporate.
Globalisation on.
STORE WARS- When Wal Mart Comes to Town People's Lives, Livelihood.
and Sovereignty.
"STORE WARS- When Wal Mart Comes to Town" is the first film in Micha X..
Peled's `Globalization Trilogy' which provides a powerful lesson for us battling 29 March Tonight.
against entry of FDI in retail and the likes of Wal Mart on Indian soil. Mahi Mandavi Mess.
9.30pm.
Micha X. Peled's latest.
.
Bitter Seeds (Dur. 88 mins.).
.
A powerful documentary exposé on BT farming in India, `Bitter Seeds' is the third of Micha Peled's Globalasiation.
Trilogy. The film reveals the Monsanto's killer stranglehold over our agrarian society, the deadly impact of genetically.
modified cotton on India's farmers, their huge financial stress, massive crop failure and spate of unabated suicides..
.
Every year, AISA observes 23-31 March as Shadat Saptah. During this week, we commemorate the heroic lives and martyrdoms.
of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have become a symbol of revolution. We remember the incandescent lives of.
those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-.
martyred in Siwan on 31 March, 1997- who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last..
In this era of massive, institutionalized and legalized corruption and corporate loot of resources, at a time when the powers-that-.
be are washing their hands off from their responsibility to defend livelihoods and provide for education and healthcare, mortgaging.
country's sovereignty under imperialist dictates and assaulting all democratic rights, it becomes all the more necessary to.
reassert the life and legacy of our martyrs, the causes they lived and died for..
.
Bhagat Singh had warned that the Indian ruling class would be the `bhure angrez' (brown British) replacing the `gore angrez'.
(white British). His words ring true - now more than ever before - when India's ruling class has been devastating India's people.
by policies that facilitate corporate and imperialist plunder..
.
The systematic spread of corporate control over our agrarian economy over last two decades and latest offensive of FDI in.
retail sector are two most glaring instances of neo-liberal policy package that have hit the poorest strata of our society in a.
most direct manner..
.
Agribusiness corporations, which control seeds and pesticides, introduce genetically modified crops such as Bt Cotton, have.
driven farmers into a trap of debt and despair. The result is what amounts to a genocide of primary producers: 2.5 lakh farmer.
suicides in the past 16 years, according to Government records..
.
If corporate control in agriculture was bad enough as it is, now the government seeks to deepen it by introducing FDI in multi-.
brand retail. According to the Government propaganda, corporate retail fuelled by FDI will result in lower prices by "eliminating.
middlemen." W e are being promised that FDI in retail will not threaten small retailers, who will "coexist" with Walmart. W e are.
being told that in fact FDI in retail will actually generate more employment! The government also claims that corporate retail will.
benefit farmers and producers by ensuring a "remunerative price". And finally, corporate retailers will remain restricted only to.
some areas and some sectors..
.
Not ONE of these claims is justified by the available data and international experience anywhere in the world. Data from.
developing countries often shows that prices in supermarkets are most of the times higher than the existing retailers..
.
The claim of no effect on small retailers is also completely unsubstantiated. In Brazil, the share of street markets in for fruits.
and vegetables declined by 27.8% between 1987 and 1996 with the introduction of FDI in retail. In Argentina, the number of small.
stores dropped by 64,198 between 1984 and 1993 - 30% of the shops in the country. In India, the retail sector is also the refuge.
of around 4 crore people, those unable to find employment elsewhere, allowing them a chance to eke out a living by running small.
shops, pushing handcarts or selling vegetables on the street. So we should also ask the Government: how many jobs and.
means of survival will it jeopardize in India through FDI in retail?.
.
Most purchase for corporate retailers occurs through contract farming which small and marginal farmers are unable to access..
Additionally, conditions for agricultural workers in supermarket suppliers is very bad, because of the intense pressure placed.
on farmers to reduce prices, guarantee arbitrary `quality standards', handle last minute changes in contracts and absorb discounts,.
promotions, etc. passed on to them..
.
It is well known that an enquiry is underway in the US into allegations of bribery by Walmart, the corporate retail giant, in.
several countries including Mexico, India, China and Brazil. There are indications that Walmart and its subsidiaries paid bribes.
in order to expand its network of stores in those countries. Further, the Enforcement Directorate in India is probing an allegation.
that W almart secretly and illegally invested 100 million dollars in its wholesale partner Bharti Enterprises, way back in 2010 when.
foreign players were barred from entry into India's retail business. At the same time, Walmart had disclosed that it spent Rs 125.
crore since 2008 on lobbying US senators on various issues, including "enhanced market access for investment in India." How.
exactly was the money spent on `lobbying' for entry into India? W ho are the alleged recipients of bribes by Walmart in India,.
according to the ongoing enquiry? These unanswered questions indicate that the murky process by which the FDI in retail policy.
has been adopted..
.
Today, as we remember the legacy of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru, Paash and Com. Chandrashekhar, let us reiterate our.
.
commitment to oppose this entire gamut of anti-people policies being shoved down our throats. Tonight (29 March 2013), AISA.
.
is Screening Two Films on assaults of corporate globalisation on people's lives, livelihood and sovereignty: `Store Wars - When.
.
Wal Mart Comes to Town' and `Bitter Seeds'. Store Wars is a film about how Walmart is being opposed by people in Ashland in.
.
the US and Bitter Seeds is an expose of BT farming in India and the impact of globalization on Indian agriculture. AISA appeals to.
.
the student community to participate in large numbers in the film screening tonight at Mahi Mandavi Mess from 9.30 pm onwards.
.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Anant, Vice-President, AISA, JNU.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2013 ID-34011
.
aisa Shahadat Saptah : 23-31 March join.
.
From Bhagat Singh to Com. Chandrashekhar : the Legacy Lives on...... Film Screening.
.
Micha X. Peled's Classic (Dur. 59 mins.) on Assaults of Corporate.
Globalisation on.
STORE WARS- When Wal Mart Comes to Town People's Lives, Livelihood.
and Sovereignty.
"STORE WARS- When Wal Mart Comes to Town" is the first film in Micha X..
Peled's `Globalization Trilogy' which provides a powerful lesson for us battling 29 March Tonight.
against entry of FDI in retail and the likes of Wal Mart on Indian soil. Mahi Mandavi Mess.
9.30pm.
Micha X. Peled's latest.
.
Bitter Seeds (Dur. 88 mins.).
.
A powerful documentary exposé on BT farming in India, `Bitter Seeds' is the third of Micha Peled's Globalasiation.
Trilogy. The film reveals the Monsanto's killer stranglehold over our agrarian society, the deadly impact of genetically.
modified cotton on India's farmers, their huge financial stress, massive crop failure and spate of unabated suicides..
.
Every year, AISA observes 23-31 March as Shadat Saptah. During this week, we commemorate the heroic lives and martyrdoms.
of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have become a symbol of revolution. We remember the incandescent lives of.
those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-.
martyred in Siwan on 31 March, 1997- who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last..
In this era of massive, institutionalized and legalized corruption and corporate loot of resources, at a time when the powers-that-.
be are washing their hands off from their responsibility to defend livelihoods and provide for education and healthcare, mortgaging.
country's sovereignty under imperialist dictates and assaulting all democratic rights, it becomes all the more necessary to.
reassert the life and legacy of our martyrs, the causes they lived and died for..
.
Bhagat Singh had warned that the Indian ruling class would be the `bhure angrez' (brown British) replacing the `gore angrez'.
(white British). His words ring true - now more than ever before - when India's ruling class has been devastating India's people.
by policies that facilitate corporate and imperialist plunder..
.
The systematic spread of corporate control over our agrarian economy over last two decades and latest offensive of FDI in.
retail sector are two most glaring instances of neo-liberal policy package that have hit the poorest strata of our society in a.
most direct manner..
.
Agribusiness corporations, which control seeds and pesticides, introduce genetically modified crops such as Bt Cotton, have.
driven farmers into a trap of debt and despair. The result is what amounts to a genocide of primary producers: 2.5 lakh farmer.
suicides in the past 16 years, according to Government records..
.
If corporate control in agriculture was bad enough as it is, now the government seeks to deepen it by introducing FDI in multi-.
brand retail. According to the Government propaganda, corporate retail fuelled by FDI will result in lower prices by "eliminating.
middlemen." W e are being promised that FDI in retail will not threaten small retailers, who will "coexist" with Walmart. W e are.
being told that in fact FDI in retail will actually generate more employment! The government also claims that corporate retail will.
benefit farmers and producers by ensuring a "remunerative price". And finally, corporate retailers will remain restricted only to.
some areas and some sectors..
.
Not ONE of these claims is justified by the available data and international experience anywhere in the world. Data from.
developing countries often shows that prices in supermarkets are most of the times higher than the existing retailers..
.
The claim of no effect on small retailers is also completely unsubstantiated. In Brazil, the share of street markets in for fruits.
and vegetables declined by 27.8% between 1987 and 1996 with the introduction of FDI in retail. In Argentina, the number of small.
stores dropped by 64,198 between 1984 and 1993 - 30% of the shops in the country. In India, the retail sector is also the refuge.
of around 4 crore people, those unable to find employment elsewhere, allowing them a chance to eke out a living by running small.
shops, pushing handcarts or selling vegetables on the street. So we should also ask the Government: how many jobs and.
means of survival will it jeopardize in India through FDI in retail?.
.
Most purchase for corporate retailers occurs through contract farming which small and marginal farmers are unable to access..
Additionally, conditions for agricultural workers in supermarket suppliers is very bad, because of the intense pressure placed.
on farmers to reduce prices, guarantee arbitrary `quality standards', handle last minute changes in contracts and absorb discounts,.
promotions, etc. passed on to them..
.
It is well known that an enquiry is underway in the US into allegations of bribery by Walmart, the corporate retail giant, in.
several countries including Mexico, India, China and Brazil. There are indications that Walmart and its subsidiaries paid bribes.
in order to expand its network of stores in those countries. Further, the Enforcement Directorate in India is probing an allegation.
that W almart secretly and illegally invested 100 million dollars in its wholesale partner Bharti Enterprises, way back in 2010 when.
foreign players were barred from entry into India's retail business. At the same time, Walmart had disclosed that it spent Rs 125.
crore since 2008 on lobbying US senators on various issues, including "enhanced market access for investment in India." How.
exactly was the money spent on `lobbying' for entry into India? W ho are the alleged recipients of bribes by Walmart in India,.
according to the ongoing enquiry? These unanswered questions indicate that the murky process by which the FDI in retail policy.
has been adopted..
.
Today, as we remember the legacy of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru, Paash and Com. Chandrashekhar, let us reiterate our.
.
commitment to oppose this entire gamut of anti-people policies being shoved down our throats. Tonight (29 March 2013), AISA.
.
is Screening Two Films on assaults of corporate globalisation on people's lives, livelihood and sovereignty: `Store Wars - When.
.
Wal Mart Comes to Town' and `Bitter Seeds'. Store Wars is a film about how Walmart is being opposed by people in Ashland in.
.
the US and Bitter Seeds is an expose of BT farming in India and the impact of globalization on Indian agriculture. AISA appeals to.
.
the student community to participate in large numbers in the film screening tonight at Mahi Mandavi Mess from 9.30 pm onwards.
.
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Anant, Vice-President, AISA, JNU.
..