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One of many protests across the US to hold the Bush regime accountable for their implementation of torture at Guantanamo and other US facilities.
"Why Accountability Matters" -- a discussion with Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott, moderated by Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 25, 2011.
A new proposed law will hold vaping product manufacturers and wholesalers accountable for deceptive practices that prioritize profit over people.
If passed, the vaping product damages and health care costs recovery act, introduced on Oct. 8, 2025, will enable British Columbia to take legal action against companies that cause public harm through misleading promotion of vaping products.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/32880
Hold Shell accountable for the devastating impact that their pollution is having on the human rights of people living in the Niger Delta.
A new proposed law will hold vaping product manufacturers and wholesalers accountable for deceptive practices that prioritize profit over people.
If passed, the vaping product damages and health care costs recovery act, introduced on Oct. 8, 2025, will enable British Columbia to take legal action against companies that cause public harm through misleading promotion of vaping products.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/32880
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Expose AISA's Attempt to Escape Accountability on Student Issues! Reject AISA's anti-Left obsession and paranoiaI .
~~~~~~g responsibility an~ accountability f~r their ~ctions !s the h~llmark o! ultra-left p~litics. This is precisely what the AISA is2~~i~go~.
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the run up to the forthcommg JNUSU electt~ns. It IS seekmQ to divert pertinent questions from the student community regarding their .
performance in last years J~USU. by attack1ng the Left, particularly th~ CPI (M). However, the fact of the matter is that all four JNUSU .
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Office Bearers of the outgomg umon were from the AISA, and the abject failures of the JNUSU cannot be answered by blaming the .
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Who stopped the AIS.Af~om fulfilling the mandate given to th~m by the stude~t community last ~ear for ensuring that the cut-off date for .
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MPhii/PhD scholarshipS IS ext.ended t~ J~ly 2005, o~ t~at 27 Yo OB.C reservation and 54% seat tncrease is implemented In JNU without .
staggering, or that gender v1olence IS tncluded Wlthm the purv1ew ~f th~ G~CASH? Certainly, not the CPI(M) or the Left Front .
government of West Bengal! What h.as ensured th~ AISA-led JNUSU s fa1lure 1s the bankruptcy of its own pohtics which is critically.
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dependent on an anti-CPI(M} obsess1on ~nd parano1a. In s~ort, ~he AISA has .nothing to say to the students about their own politics or .
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its performance and is desperately ~eekmg. t~ take refuge 1n trymg to hoodwtnk the student community through empty rhetoric about .
non-existent 'achievements', spre.ad1ng cyn1c1sm amon~ the student community an~ indulging in anti-Left slander based on right-wing.
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propaganda. However, the consctous student commun1ty of JNU cannot be hoodwtnked by such obvious tactics aimed at misleading .
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The CPI (M) led Left Front represents the most principled and radical strand in Indian politics, which also have a significant mass base .
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and political streng.th. All. the naxal.outfits taken toge~er {the~e are scores of CPI ML factions) do not have more than 5 MLAs and not .
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even a single MP rn lndra. E_very time any m~ss polttJcal action or movement takes place, the CPI{M-L) is found no where. All major.
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strikes and other protest actions by the workrng. class and the peasantry are always led by lefuving trade unions like the CITU and .
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AITUC and peasant organi.sations like the All lndta Kisan Sabha, wh~ch are aiUed .to the CPI {M} and .~PI and not the ultra-Left outfits. .
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The CPI(M) led Left Front 1~ also at th~ forefront ?f the struggle agatnst the neo-hberal economrc poltcres in India. It is because of the .
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intervention of the Left part1es that India has relatively escaped the adverse effects of the current financial crisis. The CPI(M) has also .
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been the staunchest opponent of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The CPI(M-L) and the AI SA have no role in these regards apart from .
abusing the Left forces. .
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Contrary to the canards spread by ultra-Left outfits, the Left ruled States in India have the most thoroughgoing land reformscompared .
to any other State in. the country. Not only has the feudal ag~arian relations been radically transformed t~rough land reforms, caste and .
gender oppression rn the rural countrysrde have been decrdedly challenged by democratJc decentralization through panchayati raj. .
According to latest estimate~ (20~7),. We~t Bengal alone ~ccounts for 22.6% of al.l land. re~istributed in India and 54.5% of all .
beneficiaries of land reforms rn lndra srnce rndep~n~ence. } hrs process of land reform rs contrnutng tn West BengaJ, whereby between 2005-06 and 2007-08, the amount of land re-redrstnbuted 1n West Bengal was almost three trmes than that acquired for industrial and .
infrastructure projects. (See Vk Ramachandran's ~rticle in The Hindu, 22-08-08). Even today, L~ft activists led by the CPI {M) lay down .
their lives in land struggles as was seen last year mKhammam, Andhra Pradesh. AISA, and therr parent CPI ML have no such record. .
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It must be noted that the CPI (M) or the Left led State Governments have neither completed the journey to the socialist stage nor are they free from problems and contradictions. But compared to the State Governments run by bourgeois parties, they do represent the most pro.-people and democratic governments in the country, providing fillip to the entire Left and democratic movement. It is for this reason that the people re-elect these governments in most instances, beating the celebrated llanti-incumbenct factor. Since the CPI ML Liberation, far fromrunning State Governments, is yet to run a single gram panchayat in India, neither can they claim of having won people's support anywhere in India nor can their performance and record be assessed. However, going by the standards set by the JNUSU office-bearers from AISA this year -winning JNUSU election on the promise of ensuring 27% OBC Reservations and strikingclandestine deals with the JNU administration to allow only 9% OBC reservations -the Left led State Governments have regis1ered infinitely better achievements. It is an insult to the consciousness of JNU students that the AISA is attacking the Left to hide their own bankruptcy. SFI calls upon the students of JNU to see through the hollow rhetoric of the ultra-Left and reject their complete failures in JNUSU and give decisive mandate to the SFI to revitalize the JNUSU and rescue it from the destructive influence of the AISA. .
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President: Roshan Kishore .
Vice President: Abdul Rahman Ansari .
General Secretary: P K Anand .
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Bani Gill Anagha Y lngole ManuM R Anna Nath Rani Rohlni Ramon Sreelekha Shatom Ray Sumft Sengupta Zlco Dasgupta V Lenin Kumar .
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It's not so much that I'm reluctant to join Accountability Wednesday, it's just that I'm still not quite brave enough to show the world (or even just friends and family) the number underneath my toes. Maybe because I still can't believe it myself.
A couple of years ago, the combination of a couple of pound-packing medications (one I'm still on, one I'm about to go back on) along with hitting my mid-30s added up. Added up in an extra 35 pounds within a year, which are all still here a couple of years later. (And it's not like I was a petite fleur to begin with.)
I'd love to take some of this off before our family reunion the first week in August. I've already lost 5, but I'd love to lose at another 15 at least.
I might be brave enough to show the number in coming weeks, but for now, only Zelda knows the number, and she's promised to keep mum as long as I keep her supplied with catnip.
(I took this on Wednesday, but forgot to load it! I didn't want to delay another week, so I'm posting it a little late.)
ETA: I'm switching this from friends & family only to general public, because it's the only way I'll really feel accountable about this. We'll see how it goes!
"Why Accountability Matters" -- a discussion with Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 25, 2011.
"The Accountability Corps has made me understand that (local government) projects carried out by contractors can be monitored. This creates 'fear' in these contractors and makes them put things right. Through membership of the Corps, I now have contact with different contractors, community leaders and even the LGA Chairman and some of his representatives, of which I never dreamt."
-Veronica Elo, a citizen of Isoko North Local Government Authority in the Delta State.
The Accountability Corps is a voluntary group of people, particularly youths, who come together in each community across the project sites with the self-assigned mission of monitoring the performance of government projects within their communities and holding authorities accountable for the funds expended.
This forms part of the Developing Good Governance in the Niger Delta project activities.
JUBA – 23 JAN: Political leaders, civil society, international partners and other key stakeholders gathered at a National Accountability Conference hosted by UNMISS to tackle the complex and deeply sensitive issue of persistent cattle raiding, abduction and sexual violence in Jonglei and neighbouring Greater Pibor Administrative Area. Participants unanimously agreed on an action plan to enhance community safety and reduce crime by establishing joint security forces and special court, strengthening judicial systems, creating a protection cluster and advocating for improved infrastructure and services for communities.
Photo: Isaac Billy/UNMISS
I made this chart for my fridge, to encourage me to work out at the rec center more often (ideally, every day I am in Eugene).
Panelists discuss accountability journalism across the world on the second day of the ISOJ conference. L to R: Martín Pallares, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Luz Mely Reyes, Ivan Kolpakov, Stevan Dojčinovic, and Krissah Thompson. (Mary Kang/Knight Center)
I just walked into the Bank of America on 17th and 5th. As usual, they
were showing CNN on their lobby TV. Normally I would have walked right
by without a thought. Today though, I stopped to see the "breaking
news".
President Obama - after 24 hours in office - was announcing how this
new administration will be transparent. No secrecy. Accountability.
Following the rule of law (!). Plus, no one on the White House staff
will have a salary more than $100k. My stomach sank as I *truly*
realized - HOLY SHIT have these past eight years been bad!
I started clapping and looked around - everyone in the bank had
gathered around the TV, all with an expression of "Wow" on their
faces. It's really happening. This change shit is *really* happening!
I felt for the first time the true depth of change this president will
bring to our country. I didn't get teary-eyed in election night or
even during the inauguration yesterday. Yet today - watching this man
in action - has moved me to the point of sending a gushy email to my
friends and family.
HOLY SHIT!!!!!! CHANGE!!!!
Love always, Lilli
FACE Accountability
FACE Leader Shirley Kuma from Keolumana United Methodist address the audience on Immigration Reform as the Kahuku United Methodist Tongan youth display the Family Unification lei
Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center, gave opening remarks. Here he discusses the Brennan Center's book, Money, Politics and the Constitution, which was the product of last year's symposium and was released on April 28th.
The Brennan Center for Justice held a day-long symposium on Accountability After Citizens United at the Greene Space at WNYC in New York City.
Photographs from IACL Conference: Accountability for Transnational Counter-terrorism Operations that took place under the auspices of the National Security Law Research & Policy Initiative (@nsl_rpi) at The Dickson Poon School of Law on 10-11 March 2016.