PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2005 ID-2340
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9.9.05.
_ AMERICA, AMERICA.
A Satirical Music Video exposing US Imperialism by K P Shashi.
WAITING.
.
A film on Families of Disappeared People in Kashmir by Shabnam Ara and Atul Gupta.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11.
.
Michael Moore.
's award-winning documentary exposing the truth behind Bush's 'War on Terror'K C OAT .
9.9.05 .
9.15om.
Do Not Forget How 9/11 Was US' Excuse to Spread Terror Across the World!.
,The mostimportant common concern we share with the US is the threat ofterrorism. Democracies.
can only thrive in open societies. But the very openness of oursocieties makes us more vulnerable toterrorism...President Bush and I agreed on a global initiative to help build democratic capacities in all.
societies that seek such assistance.'-Manmohan Singh in his address to the US Congress.
Manmohan'.
.
s UPA Government, like the Vajpayee Government, is desperate to be seen as a junior.
partner in Bush-Blair's 'Global War on Terror'. But what is the reality behind this War on Terror-whether in.
Afghanistan, Iraq or Kashmir?The terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York on '9/11' 2001' proved to be a launching pad for afresh offensive by the Bush regime, which tried to build a world-wide consen~us for war and occupation in the.
name of 'fighting terrorism' and 'defending civilisation and democracy'. Bush and his allies proclaimed that theUS had been targeted by 'evil forces' because it was a bastion of democratic values and social justice..
The US and India'.
capacitiess rulers-are they really champions of 'open societies' and exporters of.
' to the rest ofthe world? Are events like 9/11 a result oftheir 'democratic.
'openness' and commitmentto democracy?In the horrific and condemnable 9/11 bombings, approximately 3000 innocent US citizens lost their lives..
Many have pointed out that however terrible these killings, they are far, far less in number that the hundreds of.
thousands of people In Vietnam, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Latin America and all over the world w~o havebeen and continue to be killed as a result of US aggression and occupation. But, for a minute, let us not make.
comparisons with non-US lives lost. Let us, instead, compare the 3000 killed in New York on 9/11 with the.
estimated 10,000 killed and still dying in another US city-New Orleans due to 'Hurricane Katrina'..
Commentator Paul Krugman recalls that 'before 9-11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(of the US) listed the 3 most likely catastrophic disasters facing the US-a terrorist strike in New York,a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike in New Orleans', of which the hurricane was.
predicted to be the worst. Why, then, was the US administration so unprepared? Krugman claims that after9/11,.
urgent questions were 'deferred in the name of national unity'..
The US is the world's biggest superpower-it has more wealth, more military might and capability than.
any nation in the world. Why, despite having ample warning about the impending Hurricane, has the US miserablyfailed to protect the citizens of New Orleans from widespread death, looting and rape? Why are the victims.
starving and living in stinking filth among rotting corpses? Many US citizens have angrily alleged that thousandswere allowed to die because they were mostly poor and black. Also, that the privatisation of public services like.
power, health and sanitation have pla_yed a big part in the breakdown on these services during a crisis..
The Katrina tragedy has exposed the underbelly of US democracy -which stands on a shaky.
foundation of racist discrimination, corporate loot, obscene wealth and brutal military might. Racism.
.
and greed fo~corporate profit have killed more people in the heartofthe world's 'oldest democracy' and.
'most powerful nation' .
than Osama Bin Laden could manage!In fact, itwas the same global US policy of military aggression in the service ofcorporate lootand.
racist hatred that was responsible for 9/11 too. Instead of learning from 9/11 and truly .
'opening' its society.
and its foreign policy, the Bush ~egime only used 9/11 as an excuse to further close it domestic and foreign.
policy. Are draconian and racist laws like the PATRIOT Act, which are being used to persecute people of Asian,.
.
Muslim and Arab origin, the US version of 'open society'? Is the torture and racist humiliation inflicted on peoplein Guantanamo and Abu Gharib the US way of exporting 'democratic capacities'?!.
In India, too, terrorism has thrived in an atmosphere of State terror and repression, rather than due toopenness and democracy. The killing of innocent schoolboys in Kupwara, the existence of laws like AFSPA.
which give the Army a license to kill innocents in the North East and Kashmir, all these are provide fodder for the.
terrorist mill. .
As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, let us take the opportunity to strengthen ourvoice against.
imperialist war and terror, and to demand that civil liberties and human rights cannot be curtailed in the name of.
fighting terrorism. Tonight AISA invites you to ·a screening of films against imperialism and sta~e terror. .
~.
sd/-Awadhesh Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Sandeep Singh, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2005 ID-2340
.
9.9.05.
_ AMERICA, AMERICA.
A Satirical Music Video exposing US Imperialism by K P Shashi.
WAITING.
.
A film on Families of Disappeared People in Kashmir by Shabnam Ara and Atul Gupta.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11.
.
Michael Moore.
's award-winning documentary exposing the truth behind Bush's 'War on Terror'K C OAT .
9.9.05 .
9.15om.
Do Not Forget How 9/11 Was US' Excuse to Spread Terror Across the World!.
,The mostimportant common concern we share with the US is the threat ofterrorism. Democracies.
can only thrive in open societies. But the very openness of oursocieties makes us more vulnerable toterrorism...President Bush and I agreed on a global initiative to help build democratic capacities in all.
societies that seek such assistance.'-Manmohan Singh in his address to the US Congress.
Manmohan'.
.
s UPA Government, like the Vajpayee Government, is desperate to be seen as a junior.
partner in Bush-Blair's 'Global War on Terror'. But what is the reality behind this War on Terror-whether in.
Afghanistan, Iraq or Kashmir?The terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York on '9/11' 2001' proved to be a launching pad for afresh offensive by the Bush regime, which tried to build a world-wide consen~us for war and occupation in the.
name of 'fighting terrorism' and 'defending civilisation and democracy'. Bush and his allies proclaimed that theUS had been targeted by 'evil forces' because it was a bastion of democratic values and social justice..
The US and India'.
capacitiess rulers-are they really champions of 'open societies' and exporters of.
' to the rest ofthe world? Are events like 9/11 a result oftheir 'democratic.
'openness' and commitmentto democracy?In the horrific and condemnable 9/11 bombings, approximately 3000 innocent US citizens lost their lives..
Many have pointed out that however terrible these killings, they are far, far less in number that the hundreds of.
thousands of people In Vietnam, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Latin America and all over the world w~o havebeen and continue to be killed as a result of US aggression and occupation. But, for a minute, let us not make.
comparisons with non-US lives lost. Let us, instead, compare the 3000 killed in New York on 9/11 with the.
estimated 10,000 killed and still dying in another US city-New Orleans due to 'Hurricane Katrina'..
Commentator Paul Krugman recalls that 'before 9-11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(of the US) listed the 3 most likely catastrophic disasters facing the US-a terrorist strike in New York,a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike in New Orleans', of which the hurricane was.
predicted to be the worst. Why, then, was the US administration so unprepared? Krugman claims that after9/11,.
urgent questions were 'deferred in the name of national unity'..
The US is the world's biggest superpower-it has more wealth, more military might and capability than.
any nation in the world. Why, despite having ample warning about the impending Hurricane, has the US miserablyfailed to protect the citizens of New Orleans from widespread death, looting and rape? Why are the victims.
starving and living in stinking filth among rotting corpses? Many US citizens have angrily alleged that thousandswere allowed to die because they were mostly poor and black. Also, that the privatisation of public services like.
power, health and sanitation have pla_yed a big part in the breakdown on these services during a crisis..
The Katrina tragedy has exposed the underbelly of US democracy -which stands on a shaky.
foundation of racist discrimination, corporate loot, obscene wealth and brutal military might. Racism.
.
and greed fo~corporate profit have killed more people in the heartofthe world's 'oldest democracy' and.
'most powerful nation' .
than Osama Bin Laden could manage!In fact, itwas the same global US policy of military aggression in the service ofcorporate lootand.
racist hatred that was responsible for 9/11 too. Instead of learning from 9/11 and truly .
'opening' its society.
and its foreign policy, the Bush ~egime only used 9/11 as an excuse to further close it domestic and foreign.
policy. Are draconian and racist laws like the PATRIOT Act, which are being used to persecute people of Asian,.
.
Muslim and Arab origin, the US version of 'open society'? Is the torture and racist humiliation inflicted on peoplein Guantanamo and Abu Gharib the US way of exporting 'democratic capacities'?!.
In India, too, terrorism has thrived in an atmosphere of State terror and repression, rather than due toopenness and democracy. The killing of innocent schoolboys in Kupwara, the existence of laws like AFSPA.
which give the Army a license to kill innocents in the North East and Kashmir, all these are provide fodder for the.
terrorist mill. .
As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, let us take the opportunity to strengthen ourvoice against.
imperialist war and terror, and to demand that civil liberties and human rights cannot be curtailed in the name of.
fighting terrorism. Tonight AISA invites you to ·a screening of films against imperialism and sta~e terror. .
~.
sd/-Awadhesh Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Sandeep Singh, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNU .
__... .
.-..:::_ --. .... --=· --------= -~ ---~ -___,_ --~ --........ .r:: -----___.... ;-...-----.· -. ~ .
.
.