PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-27170
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strong Jan Lokpal Bill to punish the corrupt caught the imagination of the country, AISAs campaign asserted the crying need to link corruption with the issue of neo-liberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan was .
Liberalisation-Privatisation Breeds Corruption! Fight Privatisation! End Corruption! .
AISA asserted that corruption today is not only a matter of morally corrupt individuals. Rather it has been institutionalised by the present phase of rampant privatization policies that have opened the doors for corporate loot of extremely valuable resources like land, minerals, spectrum, etc in the country. These policies have resulted in an unprecedented increase in the scale of corruption, leading to scams amounting to lakhs of crores in these sectors like minerals, natural resources and spectrum. .
And as thousands and thousands of people become aware of corruption and take to the streets, they are being faced with brutal crackdowns. Therefore, the movement against corruption today has inextricably got linked to the vital questions of civil rights, space of common peoples voices and dissent in a living democracy. .
A high point of AISAs anti-corruption campaign was the .
100-hour barricade against corruption and corporate loot at Jantar Mantar from 9th-13th August 2011, where thousands of students from across the country participated. This barricade was organised at a time when the beleaguered UPA had banned protests and continuous gatherings at Jantar Mantar in an attempt to quell the growing anti-corruption movement. AISA activists faced arrests and detentions, and on the strength of the participants militancy and determination, succeeded in reclaiming Jantar Mantar as a space of protest. This was a significant blow to the attempts of the UPA to shrink the spaces of protest in the national capital. AISAs campaign also robustly asserted that the anti-corruption movement cannot be silent on the burning issues of democracy and secularism that the country faces. .
Confronting the Burning Questions of Our Times .
AISA has always believed that our involvement cannot remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the students movement must have an integral link with social movements. This is a link that we have strengthened over several years. .
2004 AISA participated in the struggle of the Honda workers at Gurgaon, with the JNUSU President being among the first to express solidarity with the workers after their brutalisation by the Haryana Police. .
2004 When the women of Manipur shook the conscience of the nation with their nude protest against the rape and killing of Manorama Devi by Armed forces, AISA mobilised the students of JNU in several protests and campaigns against AFSPA. The AISA President and JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the height of the movement. .
2004 The AISA-led JNUSU responded promptly to the tsunami tragedy, organising massive collection drives in which the entire JNU student community participated. AISA also sent a relief team to the affected areas of Nagapattinam. .
2005 To familiarise JNU with the struggles of tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the Kashipur-Koraput-Kalahandi zone of Orissa, AISA councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the summer vacation of June 2005..
2005 When Manmohan Singh visited JNU campus on 14 November 2005, AISA gave a call for Black Flag protest against UPAs repressive role in North-East and Kashmir through hated laws like AFSPA, Manmohan Singhs Oxford speech hailing British rule, his surrender before US imperialist diktats, Indias vote against Iran at IAEA and his slew of neo-liberal assaults on life and livelihood of Indian people. Black flag protestors were brutally beaten up by NSUI and ABVP goons at the venue. SFI, then allied to UPA, opposed the black flag protest and sided with the right-wing elements. Subsequently, SFI joined the NSUI and ABVP in a first ever move in JNUs history tried to censure and impeach the then JNUSU President Mona Das in an UGBM on 27 November for the crime of showing Black Flag to the prime Minister. Progressive and democratic students of the campus rallied with AISA and defeated shameful unity the right-wing forces and SFI and defeated the in the UGBM. .
2006 When tribals protesting against TATA steel plant and displacement were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2, 2006, the AISA-led JNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. .
2006 In April 2006, when the Narmada Bachao Andolan .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-27170
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strong Jan Lokpal Bill to punish the corrupt caught the imagination of the country, AISAs campaign asserted the crying need to link corruption with the issue of neo-liberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan was .
Liberalisation-Privatisation Breeds Corruption! Fight Privatisation! End Corruption! .
AISA asserted that corruption today is not only a matter of morally corrupt individuals. Rather it has been institutionalised by the present phase of rampant privatization policies that have opened the doors for corporate loot of extremely valuable resources like land, minerals, spectrum, etc in the country. These policies have resulted in an unprecedented increase in the scale of corruption, leading to scams amounting to lakhs of crores in these sectors like minerals, natural resources and spectrum. .
And as thousands and thousands of people become aware of corruption and take to the streets, they are being faced with brutal crackdowns. Therefore, the movement against corruption today has inextricably got linked to the vital questions of civil rights, space of common peoples voices and dissent in a living democracy. .
A high point of AISAs anti-corruption campaign was the .
100-hour barricade against corruption and corporate loot at Jantar Mantar from 9th-13th August 2011, where thousands of students from across the country participated. This barricade was organised at a time when the beleaguered UPA had banned protests and continuous gatherings at Jantar Mantar in an attempt to quell the growing anti-corruption movement. AISA activists faced arrests and detentions, and on the strength of the participants militancy and determination, succeeded in reclaiming Jantar Mantar as a space of protest. This was a significant blow to the attempts of the UPA to shrink the spaces of protest in the national capital. AISAs campaign also robustly asserted that the anti-corruption movement cannot be silent on the burning issues of democracy and secularism that the country faces. .
Confronting the Burning Questions of Our Times .
AISA has always believed that our involvement cannot remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the students movement must have an integral link with social movements. This is a link that we have strengthened over several years. .
2004 AISA participated in the struggle of the Honda workers at Gurgaon, with the JNUSU President being among the first to express solidarity with the workers after their brutalisation by the Haryana Police. .
2004 When the women of Manipur shook the conscience of the nation with their nude protest against the rape and killing of Manorama Devi by Armed forces, AISA mobilised the students of JNU in several protests and campaigns against AFSPA. The AISA President and JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the height of the movement. .
2004 The AISA-led JNUSU responded promptly to the tsunami tragedy, organising massive collection drives in which the entire JNU student community participated. AISA also sent a relief team to the affected areas of Nagapattinam. .
2005 To familiarise JNU with the struggles of tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the Kashipur-Koraput-Kalahandi zone of Orissa, AISA councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the summer vacation of June 2005..
2005 When Manmohan Singh visited JNU campus on 14 November 2005, AISA gave a call for Black Flag protest against UPAs repressive role in North-East and Kashmir through hated laws like AFSPA, Manmohan Singhs Oxford speech hailing British rule, his surrender before US imperialist diktats, Indias vote against Iran at IAEA and his slew of neo-liberal assaults on life and livelihood of Indian people. Black flag protestors were brutally beaten up by NSUI and ABVP goons at the venue. SFI, then allied to UPA, opposed the black flag protest and sided with the right-wing elements. Subsequently, SFI joined the NSUI and ABVP in a first ever move in JNUs history tried to censure and impeach the then JNUSU President Mona Das in an UGBM on 27 November for the crime of showing Black Flag to the prime Minister. Progressive and democratic students of the campus rallied with AISA and defeated shameful unity the right-wing forces and SFI and defeated the in the UGBM. .
2006 When tribals protesting against TATA steel plant and displacement were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2, 2006, the AISA-led JNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. .
2006 In April 2006, when the Narmada Bachao Andolan .
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