Works of art, painted black

magniloquent, bleeding dark

monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited

food for thought, so prolific

in contrasting shades, forcely fed

abstraction, so choking, so provocative

A canvas to paint, to degenerate

dark reflections - degeneration

a canvas to paint, to denigrate

dark reflections, of dark foul light

Profound, aesthetic beauty

or shaded, sensary corruption

perceptions, shattered, splintered, mirroring

in deft taints, diluted, tinted

spelt out, in impaired colour

denigrating, going to paints to pain - not a pretty picture

Works of heart bleeding dark

black, magniloquent art

monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited

prolific food for thought

contrasting, fed with force

abstraction, so choking, so provocative

Bleeding works of art

seething work so dark

seering words from the heart

Heartwork

Carcass

Elegi esa cancion, bueno ya sabran porque esto esta algo irritante y va bien de acuerdo a la letra, por cierto eso esta basado en un cuento infantil, a ver quien adivina de cual se trata

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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Date: 23/10/2007 (Tonight) Time: 9:30P.M . Venue: Mahi-Mandavi HostelALL ACTIVISTSAND SYMPATHIZERS ARE REQUESTED TO ATTENDFriends, .

23/10/2007.

JNUSU elections 2007-08 is taking place amidst acute national crisis, which is ideological as well assystemic. While n time has come wherein the concept of systemic change broached by ABVP needs to be discussed.

in the public space, the ideological perversions set in motion by the political parties in power needs to be arrested..

In such a critical situation when various groups are hankering for their share in the pie and are ready to sacrificethe national interests, the student community of JNU would strengthen the nationalist spirit by voting for the ABVPthat represents selfless dedication to nationalism and unity and integrity of India.The opportunism of the left stands exposed in the campus by the manner in which the anti-farmerincidents have been taking place in Nandigram and Singur. It is most shameful to note that the Police in collusionof the Communist activists are committing genocides in West Bengal and forcibly grabbing the lands of thefarmers. While the left was vocally opposing the SEZs throughout the country it went on to implement it inStalinist manner in West Bengal. Finding that the obsolete and obscurantist Marxist ideology that led to thecollapse of USSR and other communist countries as redundant, the communists have finally moved towardsextreme capitalism and anti-people measures..

In the recent years, under the UPA we have seen the re-emergence of the politics of minorityappeasement with Sachar Committee report and attempts to give reservations on religious lines. The most recentexamples being the granting of reservations to Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh despitethe courts verdicts to the contrary. While divisive vote bank politics is shamelessly practiced by the UPA and left,.

Vandemataram is opposed, Bhagwan Ram is portrayed as mythical and Ramsethu is sought to be destroyed.

seeking to humiliate and insult the feelings and religious sensibilities of the Hindus. The UPA has been alsoreckless in making India an appendage to the global capitalism thereby creating a situation wherein a largenumber of farmers are compelled to commit suicides, price rise has become the order of the day and poor sectionsof the populations continue to grovel under acute poverty. While anti national forces like terrorism, Maoism andNaxalism are strengthening their position in the country, the UPA government at the centre is busy 111 striking nuclear deal with the US compromising the national security and long-term national interests..

On the campus, AISA-SFI has continued to indulge them-selves in lumpenism denigrating the studentactivism and JNUSU by taking the registrar of the university, Mr. Avais Ahmad hostage. They were able to escape.

punishment by writing apologies to the university and due to some shady dealings with the administration without.

the knowledge of the student community. They have remained inactive despite the fact that so far around 450 P-1.

Category students have not got the hostels accommodation. They have not spoken a single word on the.

implementation of M.Phii/Ph.D fellowship from April 2005 and have accepted the administration's dictates in thisregard. To demand Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for economically and socially deprived section of the society isalso not on the agenda of the SFI-AISA led JNUSU..

There is also an unfortunate trend wherein the caste-politics has entered the realm of JNUSU elections at.

the behest of the communists and Youth For Equa lity (YFE). The divisive caste politics played by these outfits havefurther vitiated the university environment. We appeal to the student community to defeat them and give a clearmandate to the nationalist forces by ensuring the victory of ABVP candidates in the JNUSU el ections. .

C~nhal Pan~l Candidal~.

President Amit Singh.

Vice-President : Saurabh.Dubey.

Gen. Secretary : Ankita llhattachaijee.

Jt. Secretary : Sudhanshu Priyadarshi.

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Amit Kumar Singh Amit Kumar Kanaujia Abhishek Kumar Alok KumarManjesh Kumar K.G. Sidharth Nipun Nutan Chander Kumar Singh.

Rajeev Kumar Koparkar Rashmini Anil Nitish Kumar Devendra Singh Bikundia.

Santosh Kr. Pathak Vimal Nayan Pandey .

Romit Ranjan.

Vivek kumar singh Vineet Chaturvedi Swati Jaiswal.

SANSKRIT (SCSSJ.

Jay Saha .

Bharat Mata Ki Jai! Vande Mataram!! .

Sd/-Debendra Sahu, CCC, ABVP-JNU .

Sd/-Gopal Krishnan, Co-CCC, ABVP-JNU. .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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After dilly-dallying for two weeks, the JNU administration was with this current administration. During JNUSU's Dera Dalo.

finally forced to revoke the draconian rustications on five students, campaign, when the administration's insensitivity and lack of.

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including three JNUSU office bearers. Ever since the order for with-.

drawal of rustications was released, we have seen an avalanche concern for the 600 students who had not been provided hostel.

of false and misleading media statements by a devious adminis-facilities, and the repeated reneging of its own promises was.

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thoroughly exposed, theadministration resorted to brazenly issuing.

tration regarding the context of the revocation orders. laughable lies stating that only around 150 students were awaiting.

Our prolonged struggle against the JNU administration has hostels!.

repeatedly exposed the real anti-student character of the.

administration, and left it with absolutely no moral basis whatso-Unfortunately,some student organizations In this campus.

have made it a habit to ignore this devious game plan of the.

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ever for the crackdown of Feb 25. The firm support of the JNU administration, and always chosen to train their guns on.

teaching community, as well as solidarity beyond the campus had.

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further isolated the administration in this essentially undemocratic JNUSU instead. A recall of leaflets and campaign of these.

and highhanded handling of legitimate student demands. When organizations from the very beginning of this protracted and critical.

forced by the democracy-loving JNU community to backtrack movement makes it evident that they were always interested in I.

on this crackdown, the administration has indulged in a targeting the JNUSU at every juncture, abusing and denigrating.

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its leadership without any substance, thereby defocusing the JoseaJ.

shameful face saving game, by politically demeaning the .

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movement. In their cold political calculations of extracting FJlua~.

JNUSU through concocted statements. organisational mileage,they hardly realise how much pleasure and .

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We are issuing the text of the letter submitted by the JNUSU benefit they make available to the administration, which is waiting.

President to the committee that was formed to review the to use every signal of division and cynicism in the student.

rustication orders. .

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community. It is interesting (but not entirely unpredictable) that even.

The text of the JNUSU President's letter: the student organisation which is part of the JNUSU council (SFI},.

To and which knew full well the content of the letter, has.

The Chairperson, characteristically joined the bandwagon to bolster "doubts" about.

Rustication ReviewCommittee, contents of JNUSU's letter..

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With regard to the 251h Feb episode, which was unfortunate, JNUSU had issued the above mentioned letter to the.

we reiterate our commitment to peaceful and democratic forms committee (in consultation with JNUTA, which was also a.

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ofstruggle. No inconvenience and disruption was intended that .

source of support in this struggle) taking full responsibility.

day. We would like to stress that the essential concern of our of the movement that it has led, in a principled contrast to.

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recent agitation was to broaden the social catchment area of t asaJ.

the students, including poor students in keeping w;th JNU's the shoddy precedence of an earlier rustication episode.

(during the workers' movement of 2007). In that episode, the iaJ.

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Act and tradition. We a/so reiterate our commitment to sustain.

democratic culture and academic atmosphere in the campus. organization leading JNUSU (SFI) chose first to "disassociateD from I .

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Thanking you, the JNUSU-Ied movement when the crackdown happened. Then,.

they demanded aProctorial Enquiry against the students who were.

Yours' sincerely, .

targeted by the administration. They went to the extent of I.

Sandeep Singh.

President, JNUSU 8.3.09 claiming that JNUSU leadership should not give "regret" .

The administration has, however, deliberately and letters, while "common students" should! It was a shocking ! leas Jeepnischievously chosen to issue public statements which read creation of hierarchy and division in the student community . Jeaq-a~!!JO .

~s follows: and a shameful refusal to take responsibility of a JNUSU· .

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led movement. The then general secretary (presently JNUSU.

"All rustications have been revoked. Vice-Chancellor B.B. President), disagreed with such divisive and hierarchical schemes, pJaqwnu 8L\lBhattacharya has pardoned the students on and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with other students. At no point.

the fs e uaaq pel\.

understanding that henceforth their agitation will be democratic does the present JNUSU think that there should be any .

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and peaceful ....the committee had received an apology letter disassociation from the students, during the thick and thin of any ~pJe6aJ sM8!" from the students." movement. In the present context, JNUSU took full 6u~ouo:1 -Statement issued by Chief Proctor H. B. Bohidar, responsibility and issued the letter on behalf of the targeted iaJlua:> awos reported in the Hindu, March 20 students and the student community and did not leave any-w ~ne6at aln~olepuew a4l.

A simple comparison of JNUSU's letter with the Chief body to fend for themselves as individuals who participated.

in a JNUSU-Ied movement. ,e U'/ ·paynqaJroctor's media statement and or his revocation order shows that.

'Ords like "remorse", "apology", "pardon" attributed by the We appeal to all these organizations to desist from p 84l paWJO!U!~U administration to JNUSU are nothing but their desperate denigrating JNUSU, using the administration'sdubious statements Hd pue ~80 !O.

and posturings who are anyway hell-bent to demean JNUSUand.

ce saving tactics and a calculated piece of mischief to '-~uno~ a~.L.

~mean JNUSU. the JNU student movement. We appeal to the studentcommunity to reject the unfortunate politicking by these UO!SS!WPB nNrIt is indeed shocking that some ofthe student organisations organizations to extract organizational mileage at every turn a5e al\l uo.

tve chosen to use these mischievous administrative words to fulfill by continuously indulging in baseless accusations against seaJe 1eulsnp.

1/ythe administration's agenda. We have full confidence that the.

IU community has the clarity and honesty to appreciate JNUSU. When the JNU administration is engaged in an elaborate ~\wouo~a IBJ f?lls reality. gameplan to commercialize this campus, disrupt every democratic s 1eJaua~ eJIforum, and assault the collective strength of JNUSU, such myopicBlatant lies and misreporting of facts has become ahabit acts and petty ambitions of these organizations are bound to ~pea\ ls~unw':Jweaken the striking ability of the student community. 1 nsnNr a'.

Sandeep Shephalika Shekhar.

President, JNUSU Vice-President, JNUSU Pallavi Deka Mobeen Alam.

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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“Raise a pint to freedom!

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Visit the official American Craft Beer Week event calendar on CraftBeer.com for a full – and growing – list of local celebrations in all 50 states.”

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Me:

---> American craft beer exceptionalism. "Raise a pint to freedom"? Really? Whose/what freedom? How does this week promote freedom?

In this age of Trump, must the rest of us denigrate others to promote ourselves? Could not the press release have been written more modestly without losing the gist: "It’s the perfect time to recognize the ingenuity of the small and independent craft breweries that have made America’s beer culture ONE [emphasis mine] of the richest in the world."?

There is American beer and, in some cases, even exceptional American beer. During those seven days in May, I and many will be celebrating that (and do so, in fact, every week).

Be proud but don't wrap commerce in a flag. Skip the faux patriotism.

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Why manuvadis want to sabotage JNUSU Elections?.

It is a well established fact that the Bahujan Students' movement is fast gaining strength in JNU. .

DU ar.d n·,dny other Universities/colleges across the country. This has sent panic waves across the .

whole manuvadi class, especially in JNU. To stop the growth of Bahujan student movement in the country, the manuvadis came out with "Lyngdoh Committee" conspiracy to keep the students politics of .

th~ :::.::~try iii tlieii QiP· Ti11:: oSr rlc.H.i openiy opposed and exposed this Lyngdoh committee drama of .

grip on students politics kept loosening.· This was very much manuvadis in its pamphlet brought out at that time. Yet, despite this Lyngcoh conspiracy, the manuvadivisible in 'the just concluded OUSU elections when the Bahujan Student Front candidate, who contested for the first time, got 3rd position .

(with 1757 votes ) and the NSUI (Congress backed) lost the presidential post because of that. Even the .

Communist organizations (AISA, SFI etc) ended up way behind BSF, The ruling Congress party realized.

(especially in the national capital Delhi) that are due next months. The BSF's role in making the election will adversely affect tt1e Congress party's image and prospects in the 4 states Assembly polls .

frienc that that if the same trend continues (which was certain anyway) in JNUSU elections. the result of JNU.

Congress party bite dust in OUSU polls made national level headlines. The same news coming out from apprc .

J~~:J as well wouid have sent the message across that tne youth of the country, especially the educated placep\aCEa sir .

Rahtrl. Gandhi, this would have spelled doom on his image as a promising youth leader that his party is .

ones, have no confidence in the congress party. Especially from the point of view of congress's yuvrajnoti' .

trying to project him as. Sensing this imminent doom, the Congress govt acted through its addl. solicitor.

neg, general to file a petition in the Supreme Court with the intention to stop the election process with .

immediate effect. Otherwise. there was no provocative situation (like violence. naked display of .

JNU find it fit to approach the courts when the blatant money/muscle power of the Congress (NSUI}, BJP .

money/muscle power etc) in JNU election process. Surprisingly, the same hon'ble solicitor general didn't .

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wit' agenda of the Congress and other manuvadis here? .

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(ABVP) was in display during the DUSU elections just one month back. Can anyone miss the hidden .

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stL Is it just a co incidence that the next hearing on this issue is on 8th Dec. 2008, just the sam,e day of the counting of votes in the 4 states assembly polls? The hidden meaning of all this .

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of dnma is too conspicuous to be overlooked..

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protecting the interests of the Bahujan student community has won it a iot of goodwill and support in .

It is equally true that the way BSF has been consistently working towards fighting for anda 1 .

JNU. The stand taken by SSF on various importam issues pertaining to the interests of SC/ST/Ot3C/RM .

students has exposed the dual game of the manuvadi organizations. Especially on the issue off Reservations. bringing out white paper on discrimination against SC/ST/OBC/RM students. denigration of Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar by manuvadis and scores of other such issues, the Bahujan students have same trend continues. they will lose their octopus like grip in JNU very soon. That's why, all of them started to look up to BSF with great admiration and confidence. The manuvadis have realized that if thisthe process of JNUSU elections. Meanwhile, the one group of Ma.nuvadis (AISA, SF!, NSUI, DSU etc) (yes, all of them together) worked out this game plan (with ever obliging judiciary on their side) to stall .

will st~rt a 'big campaign' to struggle against the 'anti-democratic/fascisVanti-student' (doesn't that sound .

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too cliched now?) policies of the govt. and judiciary. The AISA whose tenure in JNUSU last year was a .

complete-failure would get a chance to 'revive' its image. Gne-set of manuvadis (communist. NSUI etc)--.

will 'attack' another set of manuvadis (YFE, ABVP). In this cacophony, they will try to drown their .

negative image in the eyes of students so that all their dirty deeds are forgotten. This is the usual game _...,_ -·· ...-.............. .

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plan of the manuvadis, not just in JNU but even in the mainstream politics. Just before the elections they .

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performance and create fear psychosis in the minds of people especially SC/ST/OBCIRMs. The .

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Cung1ess party is a 'master' in such devilish acts. .

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start communal riots. bomb blasts and other such acts to divert people's attention from their failures/non-.

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Hence, the 9SF denounces the attempt of the Judiciary/ Govt. to scuttle the election process for .

JNUSU and calls it not jus,t anti-democratic but an outrightly devious step taken with ulterior motives. At .

the same time, the BSF also strongly denounce the attempts by the AISA, SFI. NSUI and other .

manuvadi parties to draw political mileage out of all this. They stand totally exposed in the eyes of .

student community, especially the SC/ST/OBC/RM students. The BSF wants to make it very clear that 1t .

outside since it considers all these manuvadis "two sides of the same coin". The BSF will fight against all won't participate in any protest-dramas of the communist/congress combination, either in JNU or .

these rnanuvadi conspiracies single handedly and continue to expose them..

Issued By : Bahujan Students' Front, JNU, New Dolhi .

Phone: 09968150530/ 9811965936/ 09868474068.

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Terrorism, communalism and Indian politics: exposing the interlinkages (1).

Friends. life had never been this vulnerable. \Ve as a people, live under the perennial threat of being bombed .

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while buying medicines, killed while praying, are butchered by communal hooligans out on prowl..

Unfo11unately, the worst victims of these dastardly acts of violence arc common, poor people, living underprecarious living conditions. Think about the plight of street hawkers, rag pickers, petty shop keepers who.

struggle hard to survive under tremendous adversities and just. manage to make both ends meet by exhausting all.

they have. day after day. After any such incidents they become the worst victims, losing their lives as well as.

livelihoods. That is why these attempts of unleashing ten-or against common, innocent civilian require.

unequivocal condemnations and call upon an all out struggle against perpetrators of such mindless acts..

condemns the recent se1inl blasts in Delhi strongly and holds UPA govenU11ent accountable for repeatedly falling.

to ensure safety and security of Indian citizens, ofall religions. PSU .

This becomes really important as governments usc these gory incidents to further their interests and precisely.

because of this reason, we sec no difference between '.

from its predecessor secular' UPA government's handling of these incidents.

'BJP led NDA's 'communal' government. The same police and· intelligence authorities who.

have spectacularly failed in solving much talked about Aarushi Talwar's murder case even after many months,.

found 'conclusive' cvi9ence against the perpetrators ofthe serial blasts. Their information went to the extent that.

they not only knew the identities of the mastennind of the conspiracy, bomb makers but also their movements.

across the country. vVhat they did not tell us, ofcourse. was the fact that despite having all these pieces together,why they could not stop the blasts from taking place. More disturbing-is the fact that going by the mediabriefings of Delhi's commissioner of police, it becomes really tough to ascertain if he is taking his briefs fromintelligence sources or is sourcing them straight from speeches of likes of L K Adavani and Narendra Modi.

participating in BJP's national conclave being held in Banglore..

It has become evident that both BJP and Congress (and their imperialist bosses in US) have been using the notionof ten·orism as the most effective tool in their \veaponry to demolish, demonize and denigrate any movementopposing their policies. 1l1c tactics has been age-old. Can we forget that Bhagat Singh is still a 'teJTOrist' in the.

histo1y rext books of Britain (incidentally the same state from which our prime minister Manmohan Singh has.

leamt good governance as he himself said in his acceptance speech in Oxford where he was conferred with an.

honorary degree? Or the fact that Communist Pat1y of Nepal (Maoist) is still listed as a terrorist organisation inUS state department's dossiers? The fact is that people have risen up against autocratic states despite all odds andwill keep doing so. And for all their cffot1s of demonising the people's struggles, the movements will standvictorious as rhey have done in Nepal against monarchy nnd in Pakistan against military dictntorship..

Precisely here, we would have to tear apart the state's idea of teJTorism and will have to think afresh, using our.

brains and intellectual capacities. Unlike terrorist outfits (first supported by US.

revolutionary organisations right from 1-lindustan Socialist Republican Anny to CPN (Maoist) have never .

itself in Afghanistan)targeted innocent civilians. Any act of violence aimed at killing and maiming innocent people is not a struggle.

but an act of ten·or. in plain and simple terms. And these acts should not only be conde1nned but also decisivelydealt with. Unfortunately, this remains easier said than done because of the right wing forces at both ends of.

spectrum. Unlike its media portrayal, the truth is that serial blasts in Delhi are just as grave as Hindutva fascist.

forces' recent attack on Christians in Kamntnka and Orissa or the state-supported pogrom or Muslims in Gujrnt in.

1001. The fact that serial blasts in India have sta11ed taking place-following the trail of RathYatra canied out L K.

Adavani in 1992 is not merely a coincidence. BJ P (and all members of Sangh kabila) since then, have left no.

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stone untumcd to communalise the country and ntta~k Y,linotitics. The failure of Indian state in defeating the.

communal designs of these outfits, in punishing the p!f-pctrators of genocide of Muslims in Gujrat and ofChristians in Orissa has created a sense of vulncrubilitv in the Indian minorities. And the fact of the matter is that.

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there can be no conununal ham1ony till these communal goons arc restrained and put to their proper places, i.e.,.

m pnsons. .

Engaging with these compelling questions urgently is the historic responsibility of ours and we carmot shirkourselves from canying out this demanding job. This is high time to come out of slumber, to take all questionshead on and not to shy away from the most di fli<.:ult of questions. PSU calls upon the student community to.

mobilize itself against the communal agenda of th~ ABVP and its patrons and to put up a resolute fight against.

any attack on the glorious secular, progressi\'e and democratic legacy ofour campus..

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ALL ACTIVISTS AND SYMPATHIZERS ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND 23/ 10/2007 .

JNUSU elections 2007-08 is taking place amidst acute national crisis, which is ideological as well as systemic. While a time has come wherein the concept of systemic change broached by ABVP needs to be discussed in the public space, the ideological perversions set in motion by the political parties in power needs to be arrested. .

In such a critical situation when various groups are hankering for their share in the pie and are ready to sacrifice the national interests, the student community of JNU would strengthen the nationalist spirit by voting for the ABVP that represents selfless dedication to nationalism and unity and integrity of India. .

The opportunism of the left stands exposed in the campus by the manner in which the anti-farmer incidents have been taking place in Nandigram and Singur. It is most sham eful to note that the Police in collusion of the Communist activists are committing genocides in West Bengal and forcibly grabbing the lands of the farmers. While the left was vocally opposing the SEZs throughout the country it went on to implement it in Stalinist manner in West Bengal. Finding that the obsolete and obscurantist Marxist ideology that led to the collapse of USSR and other communist countries as redundant, t he communists have finally moved towards extreme capitalism and anti-people measures. .

In the recent years, under the UPA we have seen the re-emergence of the politics of minority appeasement with Sachar Committee report and attempts to give reservations on religious lines. The most recent examples being the granting of reservations to Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh despite the courts verdicts to the contrary. While divisive vote bank politics is shamelessly practiced by the UPA and left, .

Vandemataram is opposed, Bhagwan Ram is portrayed as mythical and Ramsethu is sought to be destroyed seeking to humiliate and insult the feelings and religious sensibilit ies of the Hindus. The UPA has been also reckless in making India an appendage to the global capitalism thereby creating a situation wherein a large number of farmers are compelled to commit suicides, price rise has become the order of the day and poor sections of the populations continue to grovel under acute poverty. While anti national forces like terrorism, Maoism and Naxalism are strengthening their position in the country, tl1e UPA government at the centre is busy in striking nuclear deal with the US compromising the national security and long-term national interests. .

On the campus, AISA-SFI has continued to indulge them-selves in lumpenism denigrating the student activism and JNUSU by taking the registrar of the university, Mr. Avais Ahmad hostage. They were able to escape punishment by writing apologies to the university and due to some shady dealings with the administration without the knowledge of the student community. They have remained inactive despite the fact that so far around 450 P-1 Category students have not got the hostels accommodation. They have not spoken a single word on the implem entation of M.Phii/Ph.D fellowship from April 2005 and have accepted the administration's dictates in this regard. To demand Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for economically and socially deprived section of the society is also not on the agenda of the SFI-AISA led JNUSU. .

here is also an unfortunate trend wherein the caste-politics has entered the realm of JNUSU elections at the behest of the communists and Youth For Equality (YFE). The divisive caste politics played by these outfits have further vitiated the university environment. We appeal to the student community to defeat them and give a clear mandate to the nationalist forces by ensuring the victory of ABVP candidates in the JNUSU elections. .

Central Panel Candidate .

Presidenl Amjt Singh .

Vice-President : Saurabh.Dubey .

Gen. Secretary : Ankita Bhatta.ch aJ.jee .

]t. Secretary : Sudhanshu Priyad arshi .

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Amit Kumar Singh Amit Kumar Kanaujia Abhishek Kumar Alok Kumar .

Manjesh Kumar K.G. Sidhart h Nipun Nutan Chander Kumar Singh .

Rajeev Kumar Koparkar Rashmini Anil Nitish Kumar Devendra Singh Bikundia .

Santosh Kr. Pathak Vim al Nayan Pandey Romit Ranjan .

Vivek kumar singh Vineet Chaturvedi Swati Jaiswal .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Alternate view of the Tomb of Curses, so called because of the inscription over the front warning of bad fates that would befall any who denigrated the tomb.

The sarcophagus on the roof has been broken following an earthquake.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Narayan argues “justifcations for colonialism and slavery in terms of crude self-interest

alone seem to have been rare. These enterprises were made morally palatable

by the rhetoric of responsibility and care for the enslave and colonized Others." (N,

134) Further, the colonization was not simply justifed by one's care for another free,

human being. Instead, we see a model wherein the colonized people's subjectivity and

agency itself was stripped away – where the colonized were constructed as "childish

and inferior subjects in need of the paternalistic guidance and rule of their superiors

(see Said 1993)." (133) It is worth noting that such justifcations work both ways – just

as intersex people are rendered primitive, so victims of colonialism are often denigrated

through appeals to a mythology of their “sexual degeneracy” or hermaphroditism on

the level of an entire race.

----The Gift of Monstrosity: Turning Surveillance Against Itself (A Scholarly Paper I wrote for a Genocide and Human Rights Course)

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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JNUSU elections 2007-08 is taking place arn1dst acute national crisis. which is ideological as well as systemic Wh1le a time has come wherein 1he concept of systemic cl:lange broached by ABVP needs to be discussed in the public space, the ideological perversions set in motion by the f30iiti~a1 parties 1n power needs to be arrested. In sucl1 a cntical sit·uation when various groups are hankering for their share in .the pie and are ready to sacrifice the national interests. the student community of JNU would strengthen lhe nationalist spirit by voting for the ABVP that represents selfless dedication to nationalism and unity and integrity of India. .

The opportunism of the left stands exposed in the campus by the manner in which the anti-farmer anti-poor incidents have been takmg place in West Bengal in the form of widespread food riots and killings of farmers in Nandtgram and Singur It is most shameful to note that the CPM activists in collusion of the Pollee are committing genocides in West Bengal and forc1bly grabbing the lands of the farmers. While the left was vocally opposing the SEZs throughout the country it went on to implement it in Stalinist manner in West Bengal Finding that the obsolete and obscurantjst Marxist ideology that led to the collapse of USSR and other communist countries as redundant, the communists have finally moved towards extreme capitalism and anti-people measures. .

In the recent years, under the UPA we have seen the re-emergence of the politics of minority appeasement with Sachar Committee report and attempts to give reservations on religious lines The most recent examples being the granting of reservations to Muslims and Christians in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh despite the courts verdicts to the contrary. While divisive vote bank polrtics 1s shamelessly practiced by the UPA and left, Vande Mataram is opposed. Bhagwan Ram is portrayed as my1hical and Ramsethu is sought to be destroyed seeking to humiliate and insult the feelings and religious sensibilities of the Hindus. The UPA .

has been also reckless in making India an appendage to the global capitalism thereby creating a situation wherein a large number of farmers are compelled to commit suicides, price rise has become the order of the day and poor sections of the populations continue to grovel under acute poverty. While anti na1ional forces like terrorism, maoism and naxalism are strenghtening their position in lhe country. the UPA government at the centre is busy in striking nuclear deal with the US compromising the national security and long-term .

national interests On the campus, AISA-SFI has continued to indulge .

themselves in lumpenism denigrating the student activism .

and JNUSU by taking the registrar of the university, Mr. Avais .

Ahmad hostage. They were able to escape punishment by .

writing apologies to the university and due to some shady dealings with he administration without the knowledge of the student community They have remained inactive despite the fact that so far around 450 P-! Category students have not got the hostels accommodation. They have not spoken a single word on the implementation of M.Phii!Ph.D fellowship from April 2005 and have accepted the administration's dictates in this regard. To demand Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for economical'ly and socially deprived sect1on of the society is also not on the agenda of the SFI-AISA led JNUSU.There is also an unfortunate trend wherein the caste-politics has entered the realm of JNUSU elections at the behest of the communists and Youth for Equality (YFE). The divisive caste politics played by these outfits have further vitiated the university environment. .

Elections to the JNUSU are known to be contested on both national and campus issues That a rich climate of intellectual debate has prevailed in the campus is primarily due to the presence of the ABVP, for we are the only organization in JNU, which can justly lay a claim of having an alternative vision for the nation and the society. All other organizations are lined up to appropriate the dominant Nehruvian agenda which draws intellectual nourishment from a set of values originating from the modern European .

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intellectual tradition grounded in the century Enlightenment. What the other organizations debate among themselves is not this central agenda but their relative abilities of pushing it forward. We contest this agenda itself and suggest an alternative political, social, economic and cultural model based on a deep study, definition and redefinition of our indigenous intellectual tradition. In other words, we stand for decolonization in all spheres of national activity with acceptance of only those foreign values which can further enrich our indigenous cultural core. .

The ABVP is a nationalist student organization which stands for cultural nationalism. Even if the nation itself is a modern phenomenon -as is claimed by theorists of nationalism and nation-states the world over -it does derive popular legitimacy from the past. This legitimacy is based on notions of past cultural continuity, and shared historical memories and experiences. India being no exception to this, we reject the notion that Indian nationalism was a product merely of the opposition to colonial rule, and that the 'impact-response' model convincingly explains the 'imitation' by a colonized, 'child people' of the political institutions of the colonial masters. Our nationalism is entirely indigenous to us, and is based on a celebration of the cultural linkages -as also the . harmonization of differences through historical processes of collectivization -that can be traced back to the times of the Vedic culture, the epic tradition, the egalitarian Bhakti Movement, etc. In more recent times. these processes of national collectivization have been carried forward by the contributions of men like Gandhi and Vivekanand. and organizations like the Arya Samaj and the RSS. .

The commitment towards the celebration of our national culture would be rendered meaningless if we were to fail to make a Significant contribution to the decolonization of our education system. Our education system is strll based on the colonial model, and can be seen as a direct off-shoot of the colonial state's policy to educate a handful of lnd1ans 1n western thought, literature etc., with English as the medium of instruction. The aim of this venture was clearly hegemonic : having established political control over India, the colonizers were now seeking to perpetuate the Raj through moral, social and cultural control; through a projection of notions of 'British superiority' which were being sought to be established by the deculturization of Indians through the institutionalization of alien modes and forms of knowledge. The knowledge system thus imposed had an epistemological basis in the 'Enlightenment' discourse -the dominant intellectual tradition in Europe at that time. The categories constructed by this European intellectual tradition -such as 'progress', 'rationality', 'scientificity', 'secularism', etc. -made their way into India and have unfortunately become uncontested 'truths' for us. An alternative, indigenous system of knowledge can be structured only through a questioning of these categories and the construction of alternative categories, which have indigenous roots; which are an outcome of a comprehensive and critical study of our own schools of thought and cultural values. The ABVP stands firmly in favour of any such venture aimed at the indigenization of our education system. .

Related to the question of education is the issue of rewriting history. The initiative of the NDA government to rewrite history textbooks came in for severe criticism at the hands of the left. They argued that history was being sought to be 'saffronized' and 'distorted' by the Vajpayee government. So far as the 'saffronization' issue goes, the intellectually colonized cannot appreciate the indigenization of education and are constrained to give negative connotations to it. Where 'distortion' is concerned, any serious scholar of social sciences can understand that history is not a body of factual information but a discipline based on contesting approaches to past questions. Any interpretation based on sources and coherently argued can constitute a legitimate approach to the past But so far as textbooks are concerned, care should be taken not to make them an instrument for the propagation of a particular ideology, least of all an ideology that has no popular support in the country! The earlier NCERT textbooks played precisely this role : they selectively concealed and overemphasized facts calculated to further the political cause of the Communists and the Congress, to the total detriment of the Hindutva ideology. That is why the Modern India Textbook of Bipan Chandra, which is otherwise obsessed with 'communalism', conveniently omits the important historical evidence regarding SUJ3port. fo~ the Pakistan Movement by the CPI -the mother orgamzatton of the CPI, the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML). .

The ABVP expresses serious concern over the threat of fundamentalism of all hues -religious and 'secular' -which seeks to reduce the complex of reality to a narrow, monolithic code of ethics and behaviour. It divides the whole material and spiritual world into two watertight compartments -'truth' (which it alone possesses) and 'falsity'. While the .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

AFFAIRE "MIKE" - VERSO D'UN TRACT COLLECTÉ À LAUSANNE, À L'OCCASION D'UN DÉFILÉ DE L'ULTRA-GAUCHE, LE 10 MARS 2018

RACISME RACISME RACISME!!!

Combien de temps avant que le racisme envers les noir.e.s cesse?

Encore combien de temps avant que nous soyons libérés des mains de la police?

Nous avons besoin de liberté, de droits et de justice.

MEURTRES MEURTRES MEURTRES!!!

Ils ont encore tué, et nous perdons les nôtres.

Combien de temps avant que cela cesse?

Les homicides de la police sont illégaux. Le rôle de la police est de protéger les gens, et non de tuer ces personnes qu'ils sont supposés protéger

Arrêtez de tuer les noirs.

Si personne ne nous respeçte ou nous reconnait, l'histoire définira notre lutte.

Nous luttons, avec nos espoirs et nos idées pour que le dénigrement de la pauvreté cesse.

Nous ne sommes pas là pour tuer ou être tués, nous demandons que la société et la sécurité protègent les vies, créent justice, équité et impartialité.

Nous avons besoin que l'on nous donne l'opportunité d'être intégrés pour que nous puissions partager nos potentiels et notre valeur.

SI TU JUGES LES GENS, TU N'AS PAS LE TEMPS DE LES AIMER

RACISM RACISM RACISM !!!

How long before racism stops towards the Blacks ?

How long be fore we can be free from the hands of the police?

We need freedom, equal rights and justice.

KILLING KILLING KILLING!!!

They have ki/led again, we are loosing our people.

How long before this stops?

Manslaughter by the police is very unlawful, police is made to protect people not to kil/ these very people they are supposed to protect.

Stop killing the Blacks.

If no one respect or recognise us, history will define our struggle.

We are people of hope and ideas who are fighting so that the denigration of poverty will stop.

We are not here to kil/ or to be ki/led, we are asking for society and security that protect lives, that creates justice, equity and fairness.

We need opportunity to integrate so that we can share our potential and value.

IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO LOVE THEM

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JNUSU. It is a campaign which, keeping in sight the upcoming JNUSU elect1ons, attempts to undermme the strugg es an ugeadvances of the AI SA-led JNUSU in the past year. .

Joint Struggle Committee (JSC) Against Lyngdoh and Mushrooming of Seasonal Sectarian Forums.

soon after a stay was imposed on the JNUSU electionsi 2008, a Joint Struggle Committee (JSC) was formed comprising ~fall the.

organizations opposed to imposit'on of LCR r JN U. It was through the democratic forum of UGBM that the JSC ~as g1ven t~e.

mandate of launching a political and legal battle against LCR and initiating a struggle to bring back the JNUSU elect1ons. The a1mwas to maximize unity in 'anti-Lyngdoh' struggles. It is this JSC wh c WiiS""''ftinaate y GBM and remains petitioner in the JNUstudents' case in the Supreme Court against the imposition of LCR. In 2012, it was through another democratically soughtmandate ofthe UGBM that the JNUSU elections were reinstated with some relaxations from LCR. Thereafter, some organizations,have seasonally floated supposedly 'anti-Lyngdoh' forums which have consistently failed to even attempta large scale mobilizationon an 'anti-Lyngdoh' plank, let alone come up with constructive suggestions..

The History of Such Seasonal Formations: In 2012, the so-called 'Struggle Committee Against Lyngdoh, Brahminism,.

and Privatisation' was formed. They claimed to be staunchly opposed to elections under lyngdoh, and yet themselves participatedin the March 2012 elections (which were conducted under modified LCR)! The leadership and cadres of DSU (which was one ofthe constituents of that forum, and claiming to boycott e.

lections under LCR), were seen to be actively strategizing and campaigni ngfor the candidates of this forum. It is a different matter that the forum's campaign against 'Lyngdoh.

' ended with 2012 elections,and nobody knows whether or not the forum still exists!! In 2013 Sep-Oct, another so-called 'Joint Forum Against lyngdoh' wasformed, again without any public call but only through private negotiations of some organizations including DSF. Activities of these forums: Apart from hopping from one forum to another, what have these various platforms actually done, in.

terms ofconcrete initiatives against the LCR? The only set of progr1mmes they held in this whole year was organized just before the.

important Academic Council meeting of October 2013, right i.

n tle middle of JNUSU's struggle for an autonomous JNU Press, formore democratization of student-teacher relationship, for hostels and enhancement of the MCM income cap. Importantly, theyNEVER bothered to come up with any constructive suggestions or a roadmap to handle the situation we are faced with in our.

collective struggle against Lyngdoh. .

Flowing logically from the sectarian manner in which it was formed, the subsequent activities ofthe Forum have only underlinedtheir REAL agenda of mindless anti-AISAism. As the membersof this forum set out to term the current JNUSU as 'defunct', theymust answer-Do the collective achievements of the student community mean nothing to them or is it that their blind 'anti-AISAism' .

is so central to their existence, that they would rather belittle students' collective achievements instead ofacknowledgingthem? Or perhaps, given their 10 month long slu mber preceding t hese 10 days of pre-election activism, it was but natural thatboth the students' struggles and as well as the achievements thereof, remain unknown to them. In light ofsuch serious memorylapses, m:>y we remind them what the 'defunct' JNUSU led struggles yielded In the last one year! .

Struggles, Achievements and Advances in the Past Year .

In the past one year, the JNUSU fought and won arange of struggles for a more inclusive JNU. These include: raising of income capof the MCM scholarship from l lakh to 2.5 lakh, thus bringing far more needy students under its ambit, reversal ofthe delinking.

of the BA-MA programme in Sll&CS (EVEN for the existing batches which took admission under the delinked BA programme);.

setting up an autonomous 'Open Access' model ofJNU Press; opening of the Library and Sports Stadium 24x7; ensuring grade-.

percentage conversion, recognition of the 'other' option in gender by JNU in admission forms; a Central Placement Web Portal.

has been launched; expansion of dorm facilities and starting the construction of new hostel, rebuffing the draconian fine raj.

proposed by the DoS; a crucial case is being fought by the JNUSU .

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in the Supreme Cou rt for reduction of viva-weightage in JNU.

admissions, workers' rights and maternity leave for workers have been fought for; embezzlement of PF funds of workers was.

nailed. The JNUSU whom they call'non functional', is the same JNUSU that dared to take the corporate-fascist threat posed byModi head-on by launching an anti-Modi campaign in Banaras, reached out to Muzaffarnagar riot victims and the evicted-slumdwellers of Mansarover Park with relief and support and got hrashed by police in the anti-FYUP struggle. It has indeed been anyear ofstruggles and advances that holds immense meaning for every student who cares for JNU.

's democratic ethos and inclusivecharacter. .

Yet, all these organisations who are today part of the 'Joint Front' shamelessly refused to support JNUSU on several crucialoccasions. What is the purpose of denigrating these strugg.

les and historic achievements? What is achieved by trivializing theanti Lyngdoh struggle by raising the issue a week before the process for JNUSU polls is to start? .

We appeal to the student community to beware of such irresponsible campaigns, launched clearly with immediate politicalinterests of certain organizations in mind. For some irresponsible political groups should not be allowed to jeopardize theholdi.

ng of JNUSU polls, since an elected JNUSU is crucial to carry forward the battle against lyngdoh Committee Recommendations,against privatization and saffronization, and for a host of students' and people's rights. .

Shweta Raj, President. AISA, JNU Ashutosh Kumar. Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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B) Social equality and justice.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Pari~had is the only i~dependent student's organisation working.

Cultural Nattonalism. The Panshad has always taken the lead in resolutely fighting the divis1ve .

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for complete National Reconstruction by channehsmg students power under the banner of The frght a~a1nst caste InJUStice and expl01tatron at weaker sect1ons should.

and disrupttve forces and in safeguarding national 1nterests Irrespective of the pohttcal party.

in power. .

all the s~ct1ons of our society and the feeling of brotherhood underlying.

We have undertaken the task of cleansing the education system of the colonial Nat1~n~hsmshout? be spread, thus emotionally integrating ourdiverse people.rejuvenated Bharat, free from social inequalities and want of material needs and economic cont1nutng educ_attonal backwardness of weaker sections calls for a concerted eHort .

legacy and assertmg our inclus1ve national identity. The Parishad dreams of a confident and to make educatiOn accesstble to all..

opportunities. The Parishad represents the constructive forces of soc1al transformation, whichnurtures the d1versity of our national life by reiterating our common civihsational experience. the _need l~ ensure empowerment of women and equality of status, both in the .

The systematic denigration of our national identity that began under colonial rule has been The difficulties in implementing reservatron for women rn legislatures demonstrate faithtully and even more sincerely followedby the Nehruvian Secularists and Marxists. Western famrly and tn society, exposing and overriding the vested interests..

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models were imitated and blindly glorified while our indigenous knowledge system was projected Educationallssues .

educational institutions under Congress patronage resulted in a great damage to the emotional as a bundle of superstitions. The emergence of academ1c mafia in the form of Marxist-controlled.

unity of our society. The efforts of Cultural Nationalists to blend the positive aspects of the The nght to education should be made a fundamental right. Skewed educational.

western civilisation with our National ethos are termed communal and reactionary by the policies have resulted in around 50% of our population remaining illiterate. There is.

Nehruvian Secularists and Marxists who are bent upon destroying our civilization roots. a need to involve community participation in providing educational opportunities..

Universal literacy is today a priority for the nation -we appreciate the NDA.

Government's step of taking up this issue as well as free education for the girl child The events of the past few years have clearly demonstrated the growing national assertion .

on a war footing..

againstthe destructive role of imported ideologies, andthis has forced the discredited Secularist-.

mainstream for vote bank politics. .

Marxist combine to adopt the divisive politics of caste and to isolate the minorities from the Our Agenda for the JNU CampusA decisive battle is on and as a student organisation.

working for social transformation through the inclusive ideology of Cultural Nationalism. theParishad has focused on-Even after two years of SFI-Ied JNUSU the hostel problem is still as acute as ever..

The new JNUSU will have to ensure that work on the remaining portions of Tapti andA) .

National Security Yamuna Hostels is completed in time and also the Mandavi Hostel is built and allottedat the ear1iest. Aprt from these, the Admn. would be pressurized to construct at.

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Countering the threats to national unity from external forces and thetr agents least one more hostel immediately. .

2) in the country by rousing the intense & emotional feeling of nationalism. We have to ensure a clean, hygienic and environment-friendly campus, for which~orking for the emotional integration of the North East by protecting its regular white-washing. DDT spraying, cleaner conditions in the messes and toilets.

~rch cultural traditions and by enabling its active participation in ournational have to be ensured. Use of non-degradable plastic packets and cups should be.

prevented. The solar heaters in the hostels should be repaired so that hot water .

hte. The Vrdyarthr Parishad's SEll programme (Students' Experience in.

Interstate Living) to encourage interaction between students from the North-.

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and all existing ones should be regularly repaired and cleaned. Round the clock3) .

East with other regions of Bharat has already completed 25 years. supply 1s ensured throughout the winter. More water coolers should be installed, 4) To ensure adequate development of economically backward regions. water supply should be ensured m all hostels..

To combat the threat of economic slavery from foreign financial instrtutions Ratlway Reservation Counter tor JNU was sanct1oned by the M1nistry due to efforts.

and multinational corporations. The process of globalization not only of the ABVP-Ied JNUSU in '96·'97 but the matter was not followed up by SFI-Ied1nvolves eco_nomy, but encompasses soc1al, cultural and political spheres JNUSU later. Thts incomplete task has to be completed at the earliest..

Thu~, there_1s a need for pragmatic approach bereft of sterile dogmatrsm For 1mproving the transportation facilities further, U-Spec1als for JNU should beand tdeolog1cal hypocrisy (like supporting globalisation 1n China rn the name.

of ·~arket-Soc1alism' and opposing it in lndra). Tl'le new opportunities for introduced and routes 507 and 621 should be extended upto Poorvanchal..

Reviving the JNU Employment Cell and shifting its functioning from the Old Campus.

natrona! growth have to be Utilized keeping in mind the advancement of to Ad Block..

the socially and economrcally dlc;advantaged .

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As Beth (the Phil-Canadian organiser) explained to me, Senator Santiago, is treated carefully by the other Senators. She is so articulate that they hate it when she stands up to speak. They don't know whether she is praising them or denigrating them. So they don't know whether to feel good or feel insulted or how to reply after she has spoken.

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AISA-STQp POSfNG TO BE A NATJONSLIST AND DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION! STOp DENIGRATING OUR NATIONAL HEROES!! .

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wo .. 03.04.2005lndia~ISions of NAnoN BUILDING are contending with each other-one of a fascist, autocratic, totalitarian.

Bo~ India. _:nother of a secular democratic, egalitarian India. AISA stands f~x the tatter, AIS_A stands for democratic.

toe · a statement claimed by AISA to be made by ChandrasekharJI (AISA'S last n1ght pamphlet}..

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ace The cl~~m of the AI SA as stated above. clearly shows that !n contrary .t? the av?wed communist ideology,.

an~rasekhar.JI posed to have had faith in the Ideology of nationalism. The cnt1cs may mfer that such a statement was .

aJm~d at garnering votes in the then JNUSU elections by exploiting nationalist sentiments of the student co,.mfl'!Uni~Y. .

but we are ready to give benefit of doubt and trust him for his words, that the spirit of nationalism was .

a 1ve In h1s heart of hearts. .

. It appear~ ludicr<!~ that AISA claims to be pursuing the agenda of ' democratic and egalitarian India'. Bem~ a student wmg of eT'§fwhile IPF and now CPI (Ml), it was engaged In underground-armed struggle aimingto dtslodge ~he Indian state and only a decade back, it joined the democratic pr:ocess. It started participating in .

our democratic system not because it suddenly found faith in democracy but it was forced to do so in the face of its depleting cadre base and it realized that it was not possible for it to dislodge Indian state through armed struggle.The shift from terrorist-communist position to democracy is the most recent example of their ideologicaldefeat that these exhausted communists chose to be a part of our democratic system. It has joined our .

democratic system, however, only to subvert it from inside, while its .

nexus with other underground .

r communist-terrorist organizations is an .

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open secret. Even in JNU, it has the temerity to glorify Naxalite- terrorist movements and has been defending all kinds of terrorist and separatist activities. It has been trying to masquerade its dangerous ideologies by sugarcoating it with democracy, though in fact and deed it has nothing to do with it. .

AISA is a novice organization and yet far it has failed to learn the democratic norms and traditions. Democratic system believes in respecting opposition and views, which are contrary to one's own. We respect the spirit of activism and struggle. ABVP recognizes all the students who are ready to devote and dedicate their energyand time for the redressal of our national and social questions. The activists may be divided into various ideotogical camps and may be working for the fu!1herance of diffe~ent ~artie~ and vie~~· but we feel the co.n~ending i~eas ~ill.

result in strengthening our democrattc base. .

We don t believe m demontztng the student actJvJsts and m usmg abusive and derogatory remarks for great national leaders irrespective of political affiliations. Chandrasekharji for us was an EX-JNUSU president and a student activist and he will receive the respect which he deserves, even in the face of extreme provocation from AISA to abuse him. \ " .

In a most ridiculous manner AISA has sought to distance itself from the hitherto communist practice of .

blishin totalitarian states. They should explain to the student community why so far the communists.

~sta failed to establish one single democratic state anywhere in the world. It is fact obvious to all that till date.

' ~veever communist have formed governments, they have been totalitarian and extremely autocratic ones. .

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Mao's .

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. Stalin's USSR, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, are few examples, which are sufficient to expose their .

I C~l~l~. democracy and an egalitarian order. The annihilation of numerous cultures in Central Asia, China and .

ti fait tn uro e oints to AISA's version of an egalitarian and plural society. .

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Eastern ihe jN,j commun~Y still remembers the day when all the AISA leaders fled the campus fearing police.

f: th day Chandrasekharji was killed. The movement against Lalu Yadav and his oppressive regime was.

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d led by the then JNUSU led by ABVP. AISA and all its leaders were absent from the movement and .

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to sabotage the same. The same CPI-ML and AISA have been either supporting Lalu's regime in .

PI d1d eve~h~~~tating its continuance. They failed to take any stand against the gangster Md. Shahabuddin, the.

Bihar or a~t 1 Chnadrasel<hars murder for the fear of losing Muslim votes. AISA has no moral position to .

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person behtn~ th anniversary of Chndrasekhar; rather they should engage themselves in prayshchit andobserve the_ eaexercise, if even an iota of conscience is left in them.soul-search&~g nswerable to the student community why it is trying to divert the crucial issues raised by ABVP in .

AISA IS aWh is the AISA led JNUSU silent on the issue of dally concerns like better food facility, medical .

its last pamphl~~t btnk facility etc. It has so far spoken not a single word on the issue of Mazhar Hussain. It.

facility, bus facl ~j~ that the same compulsions of vote-bank politics, which stopped CPI-Ml from launchingis understanda ainst Md. Shahabuddin, is stopping AISA from speaking anything on the issue of Mazhar any movement ag .

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VANDE MATARAM I BHARAT MATA Kl JAil! Sd/-Sd/-Dhananjay Singh Amit Singh President, ABVP, JNU .

secretary. ABVP. JNU .

Vlcc-Pretlcknt, JN\J~U ~nerafSCCNtary,~ JNU~U 1 .IQJm ~,.,.,.., .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Malaysia’s muslim burn a combination of U.S. and Israeli flags, in front of US embassy during protest film “Innocence of Muslims,” in Kuala Lumpur September 21, 2012. Muslims worldwide have been enraged over the American-produced film “Innocence of Muslims,” which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. Photo by Samsul Said

Erasmus (1466/9 - 1536) was one of the most famous writers of his day and one of the most admired humanist scholars. In this portrait the artist has tried to surround the sitter with items which reflect his interests and profession. This idea was developed further in Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'. A Latin couplet on the book on the back shelf, perhaps by Erasmus himself, praises Holbein's skill: 'I am Johannes (i.e. Hans) Holbein, whom it is easier to denigrate than to emulate

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

Malaysia’s women show the poster in front of US embassy during protest film “Innocence of Muslims,” in Kuala Lumpur September 21, 2012. Muslims worldwide have been enraged over the American-produced film “Innocence of Muslims,” which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. Photo by Samsul Said

Those are the molars of the defeated imbedded in the spittoon -- all the more to denigrate one's enemies.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

- Henry Miller

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.

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It is a well established fact that the Bahujan Students' movement is fast gaining strength in JNU, DU and many other Universitiesicolleges across the country. This has sent panic waves across the whole manuvadi class, '"'Specially in JNU. To stop the growth of Bahujan student movement in the country, the manuvadis came out with "Lyngdoh Committee" conspiracy to keep the students politics of the :o~~try iii theil g1lp. Ti"at: BSF iletu openiy opposed and exposeo thts Lyngdoh committee drama of manuvadis in its pamphlet brought out at that time. Yet. despite this Lyngdoh conspiracy, the manuvadi grip on students politics kept loosening. This was very much visible in the just concluded OUSU elections when the Bahujan Student Front candidate. who contested for the first time. got 3rd position (wtth 1757 votes ) and the NSUI (Congress backed) lost the presidential post because of that. Even the Commur.tst organizations (AISA, SFI etc) ended up way behind BSF, The ruling Congress party realized that that if the same trend continues (which was certain anyway) in JNUSU elections. the result of JNU election will adversely affect the Congress party's image and prospects in the 4 states Assembly polls {espectally in the national capital Delhi) that are due next months. The BSF's role in making the Congress party bite dust in DUSU polls made national level headlines. The same news coming out from JNU as well woulu have ::,cnt the message across that the youth of the country, especially the educated ones, have no confidence in the congress party. Especially from the point of view of congress's yuvraj .

Rahlrl-Gandhi, this would have spelled doom on his image as a promising youth leader that his party is trying to project him as. Sensing this imminent doom, the Congress govt acted through rts addl. solicitor general to file a petition in the Supreme Court with the intention to stop the election process with immediate effect. Otherwise, there was no provocative situation (like violence, naked display of money/muscle power etc) in JNU election process. Surprisingly, the same hon'ble solicitor general didn't find it fit to approach the coJrts when the blatant money/muscle power of the Congress (NSUI), BJP (ABVP) was in disolay during the DUSU elections just one month back. Can anyone miss the t'tidden agenda of the Conr. ~ss and other manuvadis here? .

Is it just a c.~ incidence that the next hearing on this issue is on 8th Dec. 2008, just the same day of the counting of votes in the 4 states assembly polls? The hidden meaning of all this drama is too consp.>i~uo rs to be overlooked. .

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It is equally true that the way BSF has been consistently working towards fighting for and protecting the interests of the Bahujan student community has won it a lot of goodwill and support in JNU. The stand taken by BSF on various important issues pertaining to the rnterests of SC/ST/OBC/RM students has exposed the dual game of the manuvadi organizations. Especially on the issue of Reservations. br:nging out white paper on discrimination against SC/ST/OBC/RM students. denigration of Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar by manuvadis and scores of other such issues, the Bahujan students have started to look up to BSF with great admiration and confidence. The manuvadis have realized that if this same trend continues, they will lose their octopus like grip in JNU very soon. That's why, all of them (yes. all of them together) worked out this game plan (with ever obliging judiciary on their side) to stall the process of JNU~U elections. Meanwhile, the one group of Manuvadis (AISA, SFI, NSUI, OSU etc) will start a 'big camp<?ign' to str:.;ggle aga:nst the 'anti-democratic/fascist/anti-student' (doesn't that sound too cliched now?) policies of the govt. and judiciary. The AISA whose tenure in JNUSU last year was a £Om~tlejg fC1ilure would get a chance. to 'revive' its image. One set of manuvadis (communist, NSUI etc) .

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will 'attack' another set of manuvadis (YFE, ABVP). In this cacophony, they will try to drown their negative image in the eyes of students so that all their dirty deeds are forgotten. This is the usuai game plan of the manuva(Jfs. not just in JNU but even in the mainstream politics. Just before the elections they start communal riots, bomb blasts and other such acts to divert people's attention from their failures/non-performance and crt:'ate fear psychosis in the minds of people especially SC/ST/OBCIRMs The Congress party is a 'master' in such devilish acts. .

Hence, the BSF denounces the attampt of the Judtciary/ Govt. to scuttle the electron process for JNUSU and calls it not just anti-democratic but an outrightly devious step taken with ulterior motrves. At the same time, the BSF also strongly denounce the attempts by the AISA. SFI, NSUI and other manuvadi parties to draw political mileage out of all this. They stand totally exposed rn the eyes of student community, especially the SC/ST/OBC/RM students. The BSF wants to make it very clear that it won't partictpate in any protest-dramas of the communist/congress combination. either in JNU or outsrde since it considers all these manuvadis "two sides of the same coin". The BSF will fight aga1nst all these manuvadi conspiracies single handedly and cont1nue to expose them. .

Issued By : Bahujan Students' Front. JNU, New Delhi Phone: 09968150S30/9811965936/098SS.74068 Date: 26-10-2008 E Mall -bahujanstudents2006@gmall.com .

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Strlnlllben tbe Rulli tar Saclal Jalllcen Friends, Delaat the eastelst Aaenda of Y111b For DnJEaualnvn Date: 23-10-07.

In our country which has witnessed hundreds of years of caste based discrimination, establishment of Parliamentary Democracyenshrining the principle of one man one vote Is indeed a remarkable achievement of the people empowering the most marginalsections of our population. While the Indian Constitution provides equality In terms of voting and political rights to the people,there exists large-scale discrimination. whereby people are denied equal access to resources on the basis of coste. It is in this.

context that the founding fathers of Indian Constitution envisaged reservation and affirmative action to provide equal.

opportunities to the people from the deprived sections. The OBC Reservation Bill Is only a continuation of this principle of the.

Constitution..

The str\Jggle for reservations directed against caste based discriminations Is an Inseparable part of the struggle to bring about ademocratfc transformation In our country. The legitimate struggle for reservations is not an end In itself, but is a means, along with.

wider united struggles of the working people both urban and rural, against the main exploiters who perpetuate a social systemwhich is retrogressive. The Youth For (In)Equality's opposition to the policy of reservations puts them on the side of the oppressorswho have perpetuated a social system which is discriminatory and regressive. The YFE while being a die hard defendant of thisunequal status quo accuses the pro-reservation forces of propagating costeism in the society. According to this logic, anybody.

who raises voice against different modes of oppression and Inequality propagates those same oppressive ·structures. Thus,.

according to the YFE, Martin Luther King struggling against racism was propagating racism, Nelson Mandela struggling againstapartheid was actuatly propagating apartheid, Clara Zetkln, Simone De Bouveolr strvggUng against patriarchy were propagating.

gender oppression, Ambedkar, Phule, Periyar struggling against caste oppression In our country were propagating castelsmll The.

vacuity and absurdity of the above proposition only exposes the political bankruptcy of the Youth For (In)Equality..

The anti-reservation politics of the YFE is antithetical to this democratic transformation of the society. This necessanly entails the.

perpetuation of a system where resources are usurped by a few at the cost of the majority. As a result of this anti-democratic.

mindset. the YFE has no qualms in denigrating the political class and the Indian Parliament. when a policy for the up-llftment ofOBCs was proposed. This anti-democratic politics of the Youth For {In) Equality is also witnessed in our own campus. The YFE has.

systematicany boycotted every democratic fora of our University. .Be It the Council Meeting, Annual School GBMs, UGBM, the YFE.

has been conspicuous by their absence. Moreover. the YFE which had representations in the JNUSU Council from the ScienceSchools, over the last one year did not raise any Issue concerning the day to day lives of the students of these Schools, thereby.

any accountability to the students of science schools during the respective Annual School GBMs. .

betraying the mandate of the students. And it is precisely because of their sheer inactivity that they were not interested in showing.

The Youth For {ln)Equality's completely anti-democratic politics is only a mirror image of their regressive casteist political agendaof opposing reservatiom for the deprived sections ot the population. As a part of this agenda, the YFE in our campus brought outa violent procession on 191h May 2006, shouting derogatory slogans against students from the deprived sections and attackingstudents who were supporting the agenda of reservations. Moreover, the YFE in AIIMS has been continuously harassing studentsfrom the deprived sections-a fact which has been established by the SK Thorat Committee appointed by the Government toinvestigate Into cases of coste discrimination. If one goes by the logic of YFE, all this acts of discrimination will propagate Equalityin our society! Shame!.

Suddenly, the YFE is pretending to be a critique of capitalism and champions of the unemployed and poor in our country. {see.

position on the issue of self-financed imtitutions charging exorbitant fees from the students? Why is the YFE silent on the issue of NRIquota in different technical institutions? While these have been policies which have discriminated against the poor for the rich, the YFE pamphlet dated 20-1 0-07). If the YFE is so concerned about the poor in our society, why has it refused to take any categorical .

YFE never protested or raised any question. However. when it comes to the issue of providing reservations to the deprived.

sections, who are predominantly poor, the YFE is completely opposed to it. This only exposes the casteist pofitics of YFE having.

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n9thing to do with the poor of the country..

The adoption of nee-liberal economic policies and the resulting privatization and jobless growth has restricted employmentopportunities. The rufing classes ore making use of this situation of '? small number of opportunities being contended for by a largenumber ot claimants to divide the unity of the people by pitting those not eligible for reservations against those who stand to gain.

by it. Even under such overall lack of job opportunities, the condition of the deprived sections is worse off, as evident from thefollowing: according to the 55th round of the National Sample Survey {NSS) pertaining to the year 1999-2000 and the secondNational Family Health Survey (NFHS) of 1998-99, the proportions of agricultural and manual labourers among STs. SCs, OBCs and.

Others were respectively 75%, 68%, 61% and 47%. The YFE has to explain as to why such high proportions of the ST/SC/OBC.

populatfon are engaged In the most menial works. Secondly, the problem of unemployment existed long before OBC reservatfonwas proposed by the Government. Why Is It the case that the YFE never existed before OBC reservation was Introduced, protesting.

against unemployment? Simply because, the issue of unemployment is also being used by the YFE to divide the student.

community on caste linesand pursue their.costeist agenda of opposing reservations. We appeal to the student community to seethrough these divisive attempts of the YFE and strengthen the common struggle against the neoliberal policies and for access to.

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VICE-PRESIDENT: ROSHAN.

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Laxml Radhakrlshnan Satyendra Kr. Uttam Ameet Parmeswarn RebeccaTaneesha Devl Mohan Tlalnla Kunai·Kishor BhartlSaba Rals.

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In such a scenario, It would J.:.ot l🇱🇨 r.ut tifplace to recnll the functioning of the RSS. Is the Tricolour or Nntlona\1-'\ng liSrd e\'er. Great August Revolution of 1S42. l''h!~hIs also knovr.~ as t , today. They may go to unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in the Quit India Movement. Though Its call C&.:!"C· frbrti the Congress Srlnagnr. Kashmir and get publicity for challenging anti-national led by Gandhljl. socialist elements within the ~oogrNS turned the forces. but the stunning fact Is that the: RSS openly Mrrles nnd movement into a nationwide one. It was S7 ye ~.:sago that slogans denigrates the National Flag. Is it not ironical that the militar.t like -"BriUshers Quit £ndla" and "Do or Die" rent the air. This groups nctlve in diiTerent parts ofthe country who also refuse to movement had Its share of controversies too. Tbc rc.ie of the uphold the ~fltionnl Flag and the Constitution nre punished by .

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death or Imprisonment. whereas the RSS doing the same Is treated under Soviet pressure. llkept aloof. Interestingly. this perception as apostle of patriotism. Golwalkor while addressing a Gumpumima lingers In spite of the fact that Communists. under their banner. gathering in Nagpur. on July 14. 1946. said thnt it ,,·ns thesaiTron .

launched powerful and lnnotratlve cultural as well as political ~ flag, whlch. represented their culture. lt was the embodiment of God. .

movements. r. · "We nrrnly believe that in the end. the \\'hole nntion will b,,,,. before However, It Is surprising thatthe role of the Rasbtrlya Seve Sftfh this saiTron Oag." (Shrl Curu}l-Samayar Darslum. \',,J_I I'·/,\ F.,·~n {RSS), which Is a vocal daimant of natlonalism has not been \i after Independence. It was the RSS. which refu!>cd to ,Jl'Ct!pttt as the .

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properly scrutinised. A perusal of the documents relating to that era National Flag. Golwalkar while discussing the Issue nl ihe National published or authored officially by people connected with the RS~ Flag under the heading. "Drifting artd drifting" in Huuch Of Thought .

clearly present an unfortunate picture. The RSS not only kept afoof says. ~For example. our leaders have set up a new Oag for our .

from the Quit India Movement but also other anti-British movements country. \Vhy did thcr do so? lt is just n cnsc ofdnftin~ nnd of the Twenties. Thirties and Forties. It malntained a distance from Imitating. Ours is an ancient and great nation with a glorluu.c; past. Azad Hind Fauj trials of martyrs Hke Bhagat Singh and the Royal Then. had we no flag of our own? Had we no national emblem at all .

Indian Navy Mutiny. . these thousands of years? Undoubtedly we had. Then why thls >oid In fact. the issue came to the fore last Matchwhen the Prlme this uttcr \'acuum in our minds?" lpp.2 37· 23~\. .

Mlnlster In the presence ofRSS chief. Rajlnder Singh. released a Importantly. one of the reasons. for which the RSS was bennE'r:~l Flag_. ·""freedom Ogbter imd the (ounder of the RSS, Dr. K. B. Hedgewar." The issue was so crucial th~tt when a move was init:atl'rl by G lew During the freedom struggle. Hedgewar went tb jail only twice and sympathlsers of the RSS within the Congress to lift the: !:Jan. the .

l~ both timeS at the call of the Congress. He went to jail the first time for Home Ministry. through a communique dated :-\ovember 1-t. 1 fC'II~l\\ ~~ .

narrated ln the biography. "he l ,tabllshed close relations with all and for reasons already explained above. the Govemml'nt t'l' to,h:\ leadenand activists ln the prison, explained the w.ork ofthe Sangh nnds Itself u na:ble to ad\'ise provincial gO\'Crnments to un t ht' t-~n to them and obtained promise ofcooperation for work ln future. He The Prime Minister. therefore. de'cllned the lntcr>lew whk h cameoutof the prison only after making plahsfor a blgleap for work Golwalknr sought... The Government of Indln dcddtd h' l!n th("-N..'\t\ expansion". (p.21) This clearly shows that Hedgewar chose to go to on RSS on July 11. 1949. only when Golwalknr gn,·e tlw .

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mention ofdeparture of Brltlsh In that.· (Sltl'l I :urttll M~;Wr,\ bad news of the struggle. The boys became mllitant after ~·1920-"f~ Darshan Vol. 4. p.2). When people like Ohn~l\t Mll·~\h, ~1\\\i.\\\\,-._~\\\\.\ .

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The Fundacion Portobelo and the Grupo Realce Historico announce that on Saturday, April 27 they will hold the 11th PORTOBELO CONGOS AND DIABLOS FESTIVAL. This is the main event for Panamanian Afro-colonial culture. Without a doubt it’s a major cultural and tourist attraction for locals and foreigners, who fill the streets of the historic town to enjoy the autochthonous manifestations of this area of the province of Colon.

This important folkloric meeting has been confirmed the support of of the Tourism Authority of Panama and the National Institute of Culture, institutions that are once again joining this cultural effort. The festival arose from the concern of local residents to maintain their traditions, and brings indisputable cultural, economic, tourism and image gains for the community of Portobelo, Colon province and the country in general.

This 11th festival is celebrated within the framework of the recent recognition of the Congo culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The distinction is not only a matter of national pride: it gives a definitive accolade to a culture previously denigrated and marginalized. Thanks to the persistence of its cultists of all the peoples of the coasts of Colon and beyond, it has remained alive and powerful.