PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2012 ID-6410
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Tried toopen a Cafe Coffee Day outlet in the SLS building. Solidarity With Students' and People;s .... .
without any prior permission from the Campus Movements Development Committee. AISA has always believed that our involvement cannot At each juncture. AISA spearheaded timely remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the protests. resisted andsuccessfully stalled each ofthese students' movement must have an inte,grallink with sociaJ moves which symbolized commercialization on one hand movements. This is a link that we have strengthened over and massive financial corruption by the JNU administration several years. on the other. Whether it is struggles waged by Honda workers at .
In September 2009, when the Ministry of Human Gurgaon in 2004 or the historic struggle of Maruti workers .
at Manesar 2011, or the movement againstAFSPAand state -~-.
Resources and Development (MHRD) came up with a .
circular calling for an {austerity drive', directing all centraJ repression in the north-east and Kashmir, or various .
universities to hike fees, extract user charges and movements in the mineral-rich areas against corporate land .
.
grab,AISAand AISA-led JNUSU had actively worked to forge .
commercialize campus spaces and facilities, the AISA-.
led JNUSUonce again led a massive movement to ensure links with resistance movements. In 2004, the AISA President .
.
that this proposal was never implemented in JNU. and JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the .
height of the movement. When bibals protesting against TATA .
,;.;; ,l ~!t. Ul~!:.
A Students' Referendum on the VC: steel plant and displacement were gunned down in :J: : A First-Of-Its Kjnd Effort Kalinganagar on January 2, 2006, the AI SA-led JNUSU -,, . ~-....... .
' . took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. In -..
In April 2010, when the former VC Prof. B.B. .
Bhattacharya, notorious for his undemocratic. corrupt and 2008 May. when the students of Kashmir University were :::>.>··-., .. .
casteist practices, was desperately seekjng a second term. forcibly removed from their hostels and subjected to army .
.
's President, .
AISA initiated and spearheaded the move of holding a excesses on campus before the visit of India.
.
AISA joined the struggle,with the JNUSU president visiting.
students' referendum on the 2nd tenn of the VC. All the KU to participate in and express solidarity with the struggle. .
.
organizations agreed for the move and a huge referendum " .
on the 2nd term ofthe VC was held on 20th April. Students' In 2008, theAISA-led JNUSU visited the suicide-stricken .
.
Referendum pronounced a resounding NO to a second term belt of Vidarbha to organize support to the debt-ridden .
for B.B. Bhattacharya. Indeed itwas a historic event and farmers. In the same year, after the bomb blasts in Delhi .
.
first of its kind in the history of students movement and the Batla House encounter in September 2008,AISA .
's fact finding team, also.
.
anywhere -when students, through secret ballot. in a immediately joined the citizen.
formally conducted election process, exercised their right organizing massive Public meetingswith lawyers,journalists .
to give opinion about those who run their institution! and human rights activists against terror and witch hunting .
.
Wipe Out The Rule Of Corruption, Corporate ofminorities. .
When the farcical Right to Education Bill was tabled in.
.
Loot State Repression .
for the Right to Education organized a Public Hearing on -:{.
'IJ 'I l.
In the wake of massive scams from CWG to 2<3, Antrix Parliament in July 2009,AI SAalong with the All India Forum .
to Krishna Godavari Basin, from minesof Bellary to grab of Rightto Education, against Kapil Sibal's 100-day Agenda .
land and forests in Orissa-Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh, AISA .
.
ofall-out commercialisation ofeducation and demanding that .
started a sustained campaign against the regime of the government uphold its responsibilities to provide a .
corruption and corporate lootfrom the beginning of2011.A genuine, democratic right to education for all. In 2011,AlSA .
.
Nationwide Student-Youth Campajgn Against Corruption and .
Corporate Loot was launched, and throughout the summer launched a national campaign and organized a People's .
months ofMay, June and July, AI SA activists campaigned Parliament on Education at Jantar Mantar against the .
.
UPA's frenzied drive to commercialise higher education with .
ev~day in bazaars and coaching centres, in railway .
.
a slew of bills -li.ke Foreign Universities Bill, Education .
stations and buses, in hostels as well as rented .
.
Tribunal Bill and so on. 'I.
accommodations across the country. As the demand for a In 2011 , AISA led a team of JNU students to join the.
strong Jan Lokpal Bill to punish the corrupt caught the .
massive Tarapur to Jaitapur Anti-Nuclear March, in.
.
imagination ofthe country,AISA's campaign asserted the l'e of Jaitapur who are resisting thecrying need to link corruption with the issue of neo~ solidarity with the peopliberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan Areva nuclear plant in the face of severe repression. '"'' .
was ·uberalisation-Privatisation Breeds Corruption! Fight In continuation with our campaign agai.nst min9rity ...
f, ; . .
witch-hunt, and to promotejustice for the innocent victims.
Privatisatlon! End Corruption]" .
's anti-corruption campaign was the of minority profiling and framed charges, AISA organised t\\0.
'A high pointofAISAII ' .
Ill ".
100-hour barricade against corruption and corporate teams of students from different Central Universities to visit .
, where.
.
joot at"Jantar Man~rfrom 9lh-1Jth August ~011Azamgarh and Malegaon from 25 May to 5 June 2011, .
during the summer vacation. A fact-.finding. report titledthou~ofstud~ntsfrom acr~ssthe country participated. .
«Conspiracy Theories Put to Shame".on·the witc;h-hunt of.
J1is barricadewas organised at a time when the beleaguered .
~Ahad banned pr:otests .and continuous gatherings at minorities in Malegaon and 'Azamgarh nas also been .
.
Mantar.. in an attempt to quell the.growing ant1· released. , II.
" II.
movement AISA activists faced arrests and AI SA parti~ipated in the campaign forth~release ofDr. .
and on the strength of the participants' n~w~y from his arre!)t if12007.
Binayak Se'! in·...a sustai..
onwards. AISA activis~s ~ntto R~ipur·to s~owllsolidarity~.
and detennlnation, succee\ed in reclaiming as.a space-of protest. IIAfter the trial court in Raipur held Dy. Sen guilty, AISAtook.
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2012 ID-6410
.
.. .
;:_ .
,_ ~.~-.-..... ·-· I -·.,.
. ~·~ '. -·· .
--.,:;'''· ' .. '.
·~' .
Tried toopen a Cafe Coffee Day outlet in the SLS building. Solidarity With Students' and People;s .... .
without any prior permission from the Campus Movements Development Committee. AISA has always believed that our involvement cannot At each juncture. AISA spearheaded timely remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the protests. resisted andsuccessfully stalled each ofthese students' movement must have an inte,grallink with sociaJ moves which symbolized commercialization on one hand movements. This is a link that we have strengthened over and massive financial corruption by the JNU administration several years. on the other. Whether it is struggles waged by Honda workers at .
In September 2009, when the Ministry of Human Gurgaon in 2004 or the historic struggle of Maruti workers .
at Manesar 2011, or the movement againstAFSPAand state -~-.
Resources and Development (MHRD) came up with a .
circular calling for an {austerity drive', directing all centraJ repression in the north-east and Kashmir, or various .
universities to hike fees, extract user charges and movements in the mineral-rich areas against corporate land .
.
grab,AISAand AISA-led JNUSU had actively worked to forge .
commercialize campus spaces and facilities, the AISA-.
led JNUSUonce again led a massive movement to ensure links with resistance movements. In 2004, the AISA President .
.
that this proposal was never implemented in JNU. and JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the .
height of the movement. When bibals protesting against TATA .
,;.;; ,l ~!t. Ul~!:.
A Students' Referendum on the VC: steel plant and displacement were gunned down in :J: : A First-Of-Its Kjnd Effort Kalinganagar on January 2, 2006, the AI SA-led JNUSU -,, . ~-....... .
' . took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. In -..
In April 2010, when the former VC Prof. B.B. .
Bhattacharya, notorious for his undemocratic. corrupt and 2008 May. when the students of Kashmir University were :::>.>··-., .. .
casteist practices, was desperately seekjng a second term. forcibly removed from their hostels and subjected to army .
.
's President, .
AISA initiated and spearheaded the move of holding a excesses on campus before the visit of India.
.
AISA joined the struggle,with the JNUSU president visiting.
students' referendum on the 2nd tenn of the VC. All the KU to participate in and express solidarity with the struggle. .
.
organizations agreed for the move and a huge referendum " .
on the 2nd term ofthe VC was held on 20th April. Students' In 2008, theAISA-led JNUSU visited the suicide-stricken .
.
Referendum pronounced a resounding NO to a second term belt of Vidarbha to organize support to the debt-ridden .
for B.B. Bhattacharya. Indeed itwas a historic event and farmers. In the same year, after the bomb blasts in Delhi .
.
first of its kind in the history of students movement and the Batla House encounter in September 2008,AISA .
's fact finding team, also.
.
anywhere -when students, through secret ballot. in a immediately joined the citizen.
formally conducted election process, exercised their right organizing massive Public meetingswith lawyers,journalists .
to give opinion about those who run their institution! and human rights activists against terror and witch hunting .
.
Wipe Out The Rule Of Corruption, Corporate ofminorities. .
When the farcical Right to Education Bill was tabled in.
.
Loot State Repression .
for the Right to Education organized a Public Hearing on -:{.
'IJ 'I l.
In the wake of massive scams from CWG to 2<3, Antrix Parliament in July 2009,AI SAalong with the All India Forum .
to Krishna Godavari Basin, from minesof Bellary to grab of Rightto Education, against Kapil Sibal's 100-day Agenda .
land and forests in Orissa-Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh, AISA .
.
ofall-out commercialisation ofeducation and demanding that .
started a sustained campaign against the regime of the government uphold its responsibilities to provide a .
corruption and corporate lootfrom the beginning of2011.A genuine, democratic right to education for all. In 2011,AlSA .
.
Nationwide Student-Youth Campajgn Against Corruption and .
Corporate Loot was launched, and throughout the summer launched a national campaign and organized a People's .
months ofMay, June and July, AI SA activists campaigned Parliament on Education at Jantar Mantar against the .
.
UPA's frenzied drive to commercialise higher education with .
ev~day in bazaars and coaching centres, in railway .
.
a slew of bills -li.ke Foreign Universities Bill, Education .
stations and buses, in hostels as well as rented .
.
Tribunal Bill and so on. 'I.
accommodations across the country. As the demand for a In 2011 , AISA led a team of JNU students to join the.
strong Jan Lokpal Bill to punish the corrupt caught the .
massive Tarapur to Jaitapur Anti-Nuclear March, in.
.
imagination ofthe country,AISA's campaign asserted the l'e of Jaitapur who are resisting thecrying need to link corruption with the issue of neo~ solidarity with the peopliberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan Areva nuclear plant in the face of severe repression. '"'' .
was ·uberalisation-Privatisation Breeds Corruption! Fight In continuation with our campaign agai.nst min9rity ...
f, ; . .
witch-hunt, and to promotejustice for the innocent victims.
Privatisatlon! End Corruption]" .
's anti-corruption campaign was the of minority profiling and framed charges, AISA organised t\\0.
'A high pointofAISAII ' .
Ill ".
100-hour barricade against corruption and corporate teams of students from different Central Universities to visit .
, where.
.
joot at"Jantar Man~rfrom 9lh-1Jth August ~011Azamgarh and Malegaon from 25 May to 5 June 2011, .
during the summer vacation. A fact-.finding. report titledthou~ofstud~ntsfrom acr~ssthe country participated. .
«Conspiracy Theories Put to Shame".on·the witc;h-hunt of.
J1is barricadewas organised at a time when the beleaguered .
~Ahad banned pr:otests .and continuous gatherings at minorities in Malegaon and 'Azamgarh nas also been .
.
Mantar.. in an attempt to quell the.growing ant1· released. , II.
" II.
movement AISA activists faced arrests and AI SA parti~ipated in the campaign forth~release ofDr. .
and on the strength of the participants' n~w~y from his arre!)t if12007.
Binayak Se'! in·...a sustai..
onwards. AISA activis~s ~ntto R~ipur·to s~owllsolidarity~.
and detennlnation, succee\ed in reclaiming as.a space-of protest. IIAfter the trial court in Raipur held Dy. Sen guilty, AISAtook.
.
.