PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-52898
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strong .Jan Lokpal Bill to ptuush the corrupt caught the imagination of the country, AISA's campaign asserted the crying need to link corruption with the issue of neo-liberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan was .
''Uberali.ration-P,ivatisation Breeds. Comtption! l'igbt J>rivatimtion! F..nd C.ormptio11!'' .
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. Thf'~e policies ho.ve rl"~nlte.d in an unpr"-"'"'A..,nted increase in the scale of corruption, leading to scams amountin~ to la.kh!: of aorcs in these sectors like rnineul~, natural resources and spectrwn. .
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 .
cottuption today has inc.-xtnc:ably got li.n.kcd to the vi1:al .
questions of civil rights, space of common people's voices and dissent in a living democracy. .
A high point of 1\ISA's anti-corruption campaign was the 100-hourbarricade against corruption and corporate loot at Jantar Mantar from 9'h-1Jh August 2011, where thousands of students from across the country participated. Tills barricade was organised at a time when the beleaguered .
UP.A ha~ banned protcst8 and continuous gatherings atJantar Mantar tn an attempt to quell the growing anti-corruption movement. AISA activists faced arrests and detentions, and on the strength of the panicipanta' 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. AISNs 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. .
Thi$ is a link that we have strcngrhened over several year5. .
2004 i\.ISA participated in the struggle of the Honda .
~I.A'I;~·t:::w~o.,.rkers at Gurgaon. with the JNUSU Pr.esident .
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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 agajnst 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 partidpated. AISA also sent a relief team to the .
affected areas of Nagapattinam. .
2005 To familiariseJNU with the struggles of tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the .
Kasbipur-KotaJ)ut-Kalahandi zone of Oriso<a, .
AlS.I\ councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the sununer vacation of June 2005. .
2005 When Manmohan Singh visitcdJNU campus on 14 November 2005, AISA gave a call for Black Flag protest against UPA's repressive role in North-East and Kashmir through hated laws like AFSPA, .
1\fanmohan Singh's O xford speech hailing Drit:ish rule, his surrender before US imperialist diktats, India's vote against Iran at IAEA and his slew of .
nco-liberal assaults on life and liYclihood of Indian .
people. Black flag protestors were brutallv beaten up by NSUI and i\BVP goons at rhc ve~uc. 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 inJNU's history tried to censure and impeach the then JNUSU President Mona D as in an UGBM on 27 November for the 'crime' of showing Black Flag to the prime Minister. Progressive and democratic students ofthe campus rallied with A.ISA and defeated shameful unity the right-wing forces and SFI and defeated the in the UGBM. .
2006 When tr.ibals protesting against TATA steel plant and displacemt'nt were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2. 2006, the AIS1\ -ledJNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tti.bals. .
200<i In Apri12006, when the Narmada Bachao Andolan came to Delhi to protest against the L'Pi\ Govt's .
Referendum Against VC, 2010 .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-52898
.
strong .Jan Lokpal Bill to ptuush the corrupt caught the imagination of the country, AISA's campaign asserted the crying need to link corruption with the issue of neo-liberal economic policies of privatisation. Our slogan was .
''Uberali.ration-P,ivatisation Breeds. Comtption! l'igbt J>rivatimtion! F..nd C.ormptio11!'' .
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. Thf'~e policies ho.ve rl"~nlte.d in an unpr"-"'"'A..,nted increase in the scale of corruption, leading to scams amountin~ to la.kh!: of aorcs in these sectors like rnineul~, natural resources and spectrwn. .
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 .
cottuption today has inc.-xtnc:ably got li.n.kcd to the vi1:al .
questions of civil rights, space of common people's voices and dissent in a living democracy. .
A high point of 1\ISA's anti-corruption campaign was the 100-hourbarricade against corruption and corporate loot at Jantar Mantar from 9'h-1Jh August 2011, where thousands of students from across the country participated. Tills barricade was organised at a time when the beleaguered .
UP.A ha~ banned protcst8 and continuous gatherings atJantar Mantar tn an attempt to quell the growing anti-corruption movement. AISA activists faced arrests and detentions, and on the strength of the panicipanta' 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. AISNs 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. .
Thi$ is a link that we have strcngrhened over several year5. .
2004 i\.ISA participated in the struggle of the Honda .
~I.A'I;~·t:::w~o.,.rkers at Gurgaon. with the JNUSU Pr.esident .
··" ~ .
' I'".
~' .
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 agajnst 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 partidpated. AISA also sent a relief team to the .
affected areas of Nagapattinam. .
2005 To familiariseJNU with the struggles of tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the .
Kasbipur-KotaJ)ut-Kalahandi zone of Oriso<a, .
AlS.I\ councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the sununer vacation of June 2005. .
2005 When Manmohan Singh visitcdJNU campus on 14 November 2005, AISA gave a call for Black Flag protest against UPA's repressive role in North-East and Kashmir through hated laws like AFSPA, .
1\fanmohan Singh's O xford speech hailing Drit:ish rule, his surrender before US imperialist diktats, India's vote against Iran at IAEA and his slew of .
nco-liberal assaults on life and liYclihood of Indian .
people. Black flag protestors were brutallv beaten up by NSUI and i\BVP goons at rhc ve~uc. 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 inJNU's history tried to censure and impeach the then JNUSU President Mona D as in an UGBM on 27 November for the 'crime' of showing Black Flag to the prime Minister. Progressive and democratic students ofthe campus rallied with A.ISA and defeated shameful unity the right-wing forces and SFI and defeated the in the UGBM. .
2006 When tr.ibals protesting against TATA steel plant and displacemt'nt were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2. 2006, the AIS1\ -ledJNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tti.bals. .
200<i In Apri12006, when the Narmada Bachao Andolan came to Delhi to protest against the L'Pi\ Govt's .
Referendum Against VC, 2010 .
.
.