PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-1883
.
All India Students' Association{AISA) 30 9.~ .
I .
The SSS GBM Must Voice .
The Democratic Concerns of the People Resisting Black Laws I .
.
'An Uncompromising Opposition to the killer economic policies of globalization I .
.
.
Protest against the Cultural policing of RSS and its Communal hate campaign f .
.
.
Tomorrow, the students of Manipur are launching a 15-day hunger strike at Parliament Street to protest against the repression in Manipur, and to demand scrapping ofthe Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act The Congress-led UPA Government has accused the thousands ofpeople conducting civil disobedience in Manipur, of being 'terrorists'. The Army Chief ofStaff has defended the custodial rape and killing of Manorama Devi by the Army, saying that she was a 'terrorist'. And the 'Meira Paibi' women activists who .
protested in the nude against Manorama's killing are in jail, booked under the 'National Security Act'! The Congress has point blank refused to discuss any repeal of the AFSPA, while even the CPI(M) leaders like Sitaram Yechury have said that AFSPA should not be scrapped, since the 'Govt.'s right to declare an area disturbed' needs to be preserved, even at the cost of human rights! Meanwhile, POTA is being scrapped, only to be recycled in the form of .
< .
another name-the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. If the UPA's promises of a 'human face' have proved to be hollow on the issue of black laws, the 'human' mask has totally disintegrated on the question of economic policies.The PM ofthe nation has shamelessly declared that he is out to 'sell India abroad', and is therefore pledging his undying loyalty to the killer economic policies prescribed by the World Bank.As a result, the rural poor who starved and the farmers who committed suicide In the BJP's regime, continue to do so unabated even now. Even on the minimum question offighting communalism, t he UPA Government has strengthened the hand ofthe BJP with its lack of will. By withdrawing the case against Uma Bharti of rioting in Hubli, and by backtracking on the Savarkar issue, Congress has once again shown its soft-saffron colours which provide fodder for the BJP. In campus, we have seen how the ABVP remained totally silent on all students Issues, while attacking the screening of .
films and holding of seminars. The students of JNU gave them a sound rebuff by turning. up in huge numbers in all the films it .
\ tried to disrupt, and nearly a thousand students turned up to defend Professor Geelani, falsely accused under POTA. ABVP Unit .
Presidentgave Press Statements, threatening to disruptthe 'Films for Freedom' festival ifitwas held in JNU. But AJSA, in solidarity .
with 300 filmmakers, held the festival in JNU, and thousands ofstudents defied this cultural policing by supporting the screenings. .
.
The NSUI, which is a representative of Congress, of course has no option but to echo its parent party's anti-people .
economic agenda and soft-saffron politics. On campus, mess and library facilities are deteriorating as a result of the UGC's freeze on employmentofnon-teaching staff; the abysmally low expenditure on higher education is affecting the quality ofeducation in our University. We face the consequences ofthese anti-student policies daily. But the NSUI is silent on these issues, and during .
the JNUSU's agitation, did their best to confuse and derail the central thrust ofthe protest Unfortunately, the SFI-AISF too have display ed double standards on the crucial issues of black laws and economic policies. The SFI first claimed that itsupported scrapping of AFSPA; but once CPI(M)'s position defending AFSPA became public, ithas maintained deafening silence on this issue. Coming to the question of economic policies, its pretensions of opposing UPA Budget or economic policies stand totally exposed by its shameless defence ofthe West Bengal government's welcome to FDI, as well as to imperialistfunding agencies like DFID,ADS and World Bank, and imperialist'consultative' agencies like McKinsey and Price Waterhouse. Their parent party CPI(M) has pledged to play the role of a loyal watchdog to the Congress-led UPA. In such a situation, SFl-AISF is underdesperatepressure to demarcate itselffrom NSUI. So, itengages in periodic shadow-boxing with NSUI ·student community..
on economic issues. But this is nothing but a ploy to play a trick on the intelligence ofth-eSFI's double standards are clearty exposed in the concrete situation of our campus too. The previous SFI-Ied JNUSU of 2002-03, gave a green signal to the Administration's contract with the MNC Nestle-a concrete instance of leasing out JNU land to MNCs and corporate houses. Despite AJSA's consistent demand, the SFI-AISF members ofJNUSU have refused to take up the demand for scrapping ofthe contractwith Nestle. Now, the Administration is avoiding making the terms and conditions ofthe contract public. The struggle to scrap the contract with Nestle must be intensified. Also recall that in Mahi-Mandavi, when students protested against the privatized mess in 2003, the SFI-Ied JNUSU sided with the Administration, forcing the students to pay fines and sign apology letters! Even today, the mess workers in the hostel are all .
.
employed on a daily wage basis by a private contractor, who takes money from the University, butpays the workers far less than the .
amount specified in the agreement. .
This year, the JNUSU movement, managed to enhance the library facilities, open up 6 new admission centres in backward areas, and .
forcethe Administration to agree in principle to restoring students' elected representation the Academic Council and Board of Studies. .
In the times to come, these gains must be defended and pursued In the face ofthe Administration's attemptto backtrack on them. .
The School ofSocial Sciences has made its mark as a centre of socially sensitlve research, and voicing of dis~ent AISA calls upon .
the students ofSSS to participate actively in the final School GBM, to evaluate the role ofthe JNU student movementin the past year, .
make the elected student leadership accountble, and also to voice the democratic concerns against black laws, anti-people .
.
economic policies and their concrete manifestation In the campus. .
.
Join the H unger Stri k e Called by the .
( .
Manipuri Students' Association, Delhi (MSAD) 11 am to 4 pm, Jantar Mantar2 from 1-15 October! .
\ .
Participate in the SSS G B M in large numbers tomorrow (1 October)! .
Sd!-Dhiraj Kr. Nite, V. P., AISA, JNU Sci/-Awad.hesb, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU .
.
.
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-1883
.
All India Students' Association{AISA) 30 9.~ .
I .
The SSS GBM Must Voice .
The Democratic Concerns of the People Resisting Black Laws I .
.
'An Uncompromising Opposition to the killer economic policies of globalization I .
.
.
Protest against the Cultural policing of RSS and its Communal hate campaign f .
.
.
Tomorrow, the students of Manipur are launching a 15-day hunger strike at Parliament Street to protest against the repression in Manipur, and to demand scrapping ofthe Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act The Congress-led UPA Government has accused the thousands ofpeople conducting civil disobedience in Manipur, of being 'terrorists'. The Army Chief ofStaff has defended the custodial rape and killing of Manorama Devi by the Army, saying that she was a 'terrorist'. And the 'Meira Paibi' women activists who .
protested in the nude against Manorama's killing are in jail, booked under the 'National Security Act'! The Congress has point blank refused to discuss any repeal of the AFSPA, while even the CPI(M) leaders like Sitaram Yechury have said that AFSPA should not be scrapped, since the 'Govt.'s right to declare an area disturbed' needs to be preserved, even at the cost of human rights! Meanwhile, POTA is being scrapped, only to be recycled in the form of .
< .
another name-the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. If the UPA's promises of a 'human face' have proved to be hollow on the issue of black laws, the 'human' mask has totally disintegrated on the question of economic policies.The PM ofthe nation has shamelessly declared that he is out to 'sell India abroad', and is therefore pledging his undying loyalty to the killer economic policies prescribed by the World Bank.As a result, the rural poor who starved and the farmers who committed suicide In the BJP's regime, continue to do so unabated even now. Even on the minimum question offighting communalism, t he UPA Government has strengthened the hand ofthe BJP with its lack of will. By withdrawing the case against Uma Bharti of rioting in Hubli, and by backtracking on the Savarkar issue, Congress has once again shown its soft-saffron colours which provide fodder for the BJP. In campus, we have seen how the ABVP remained totally silent on all students Issues, while attacking the screening of .
films and holding of seminars. The students of JNU gave them a sound rebuff by turning. up in huge numbers in all the films it .
\ tried to disrupt, and nearly a thousand students turned up to defend Professor Geelani, falsely accused under POTA. ABVP Unit .
Presidentgave Press Statements, threatening to disruptthe 'Films for Freedom' festival ifitwas held in JNU. But AJSA, in solidarity .
with 300 filmmakers, held the festival in JNU, and thousands ofstudents defied this cultural policing by supporting the screenings. .
.
The NSUI, which is a representative of Congress, of course has no option but to echo its parent party's anti-people .
economic agenda and soft-saffron politics. On campus, mess and library facilities are deteriorating as a result of the UGC's freeze on employmentofnon-teaching staff; the abysmally low expenditure on higher education is affecting the quality ofeducation in our University. We face the consequences ofthese anti-student policies daily. But the NSUI is silent on these issues, and during .
the JNUSU's agitation, did their best to confuse and derail the central thrust ofthe protest Unfortunately, the SFI-AISF too have display ed double standards on the crucial issues of black laws and economic policies. The SFI first claimed that itsupported scrapping of AFSPA; but once CPI(M)'s position defending AFSPA became public, ithas maintained deafening silence on this issue. Coming to the question of economic policies, its pretensions of opposing UPA Budget or economic policies stand totally exposed by its shameless defence ofthe West Bengal government's welcome to FDI, as well as to imperialistfunding agencies like DFID,ADS and World Bank, and imperialist'consultative' agencies like McKinsey and Price Waterhouse. Their parent party CPI(M) has pledged to play the role of a loyal watchdog to the Congress-led UPA. In such a situation, SFl-AISF is underdesperatepressure to demarcate itselffrom NSUI. So, itengages in periodic shadow-boxing with NSUI ·student community..
on economic issues. But this is nothing but a ploy to play a trick on the intelligence ofth-eSFI's double standards are clearty exposed in the concrete situation of our campus too. The previous SFI-Ied JNUSU of 2002-03, gave a green signal to the Administration's contract with the MNC Nestle-a concrete instance of leasing out JNU land to MNCs and corporate houses. Despite AJSA's consistent demand, the SFI-AISF members ofJNUSU have refused to take up the demand for scrapping ofthe contractwith Nestle. Now, the Administration is avoiding making the terms and conditions ofthe contract public. The struggle to scrap the contract with Nestle must be intensified. Also recall that in Mahi-Mandavi, when students protested against the privatized mess in 2003, the SFI-Ied JNUSU sided with the Administration, forcing the students to pay fines and sign apology letters! Even today, the mess workers in the hostel are all .
.
employed on a daily wage basis by a private contractor, who takes money from the University, butpays the workers far less than the .
amount specified in the agreement. .
This year, the JNUSU movement, managed to enhance the library facilities, open up 6 new admission centres in backward areas, and .
forcethe Administration to agree in principle to restoring students' elected representation the Academic Council and Board of Studies. .
In the times to come, these gains must be defended and pursued In the face ofthe Administration's attemptto backtrack on them. .
The School ofSocial Sciences has made its mark as a centre of socially sensitlve research, and voicing of dis~ent AISA calls upon .
the students ofSSS to participate actively in the final School GBM, to evaluate the role ofthe JNU student movementin the past year, .
make the elected student leadership accountble, and also to voice the democratic concerns against black laws, anti-people .
.
economic policies and their concrete manifestation In the campus. .
.
Join the H unger Stri k e Called by the .
( .
Manipuri Students' Association, Delhi (MSAD) 11 am to 4 pm, Jantar Mantar2 from 1-15 October! .
\ .
Participate in the SSS G B M in large numbers tomorrow (1 October)! .
Sd!-Dhiraj Kr. Nite, V. P., AISA, JNU Sci/-Awad.hesb, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU .
.
.
.
.