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At Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, India I saw this daily feeder feeding his winged friends. With the sun behind them the wings created a transparent effect. And the 4 pigeons (not 3) created the flutter of sorts...
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Press Release.
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AISA Shows Black Flags Against Killer Policies of Manmohan Singh.
on His Visit to JNU.
Violent Attack on Protestors Launched by NSUI-ABVP-JPF.
Under the Patronage of Administration and Police.
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On PM Manmohan Singh's visit to JNU, students led by AISA today protested against the UPA Government's anti-people.
policies by showing black flags during the PM's visit. AISA raised slogans against Armed Forces Special Powers Act,.
the Patents Amendment Act, the police atrocity on workers in Gurgaon and students in Garo Hills, as well as the UPA.
Government's pro-US foreign policy and economic policy, and its compromise with communal forces. While AISA and.
other democratic groups protested, the ABVP and NSUI joined hands to attack the peaceful protestors physically, and.
the SFI-AISF held back from the protest. The police and JNU Administration tacitly patronised the violence by ABVP-JPF.
and NSUI lumpens. Several AISA activists including women students were roughed up and suffered injuries..
AISA's JNU Unit Secretary Awadhesh Tripathi said that "JNU students have had a glorious tradition of fearlessly express-.
ing dissent against those in power: this campus showed black flags to Indira Gandhi during Emergency and protested.
against Advani's visit in 1996. AISA has kept alive that tradition. When we raised our voice against the PM, it was no.
personal attack on Manmohan Singh, we raised our voice against.
- The killers in the uniform of the Assam Rifles, who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur;.
- The police who re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh in Gurgaon and watched as Dalit homes were torched in Gohana;.
- The police bullets which killed students in Garo Hills;.
- The mobs which burned Sikh youth alive in 1984;.
- The IMF-World Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that rob us of our right to.
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employment, that reserve education for the rich and that hand over our land, water and key sectors of our economy.
to MNCs;.
- The killer Patent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach of the poor;.
- The sellout of India's sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US dictates!".
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Another AISA leader Sandeep said, "The UPA Government has not only continued with the NDA's economic and foreign.
policies, it is also protecting the perpetrators of the Gujarat carnage. Manmohan Singh recently refused to make available.
the late K R Narayanan's letter to Vajpayee regarding Gujarat, to the Nanavati Commission.".
Other AISA activists demanded: "When Manmohan Singh uttered pious platitudes to us on `Children's Day', it was our.
duty to remind him, what about the children your men in uniform killed in Kupwara and Garo Hills? Neo-liberal ideologue.
and World Bank pensioner, our PM visited our former colonisers and praised the British Raj as `an act of enterprise,.
adventure, creativity'! No wonder his policies and his police are once again bringing back the starvation and repression.
of the Raj days!".
AISA held that NSUI's hunger strike is nothing but a sham to cover up its criminal attack on peaceful protestors. AISA.
leaders said that they had tried to persuade the JNU Students Union to lead the protest against the PM, but the SFI-AISF.
had joined forces with NSUI and ABVP to veto this proposal within the Union. AISA Secretary Awadhesh said SFI-AISF's.
position was not surprising - for all their pretence of protest against the UPA, their parent parties were actually allies and.
defenders of the Congress-led UPA. It was only AISA and other radical groups who kept alive the students' movement's.
legacy of bold dissent..
The AISA along with other groups held a protest meeting last night against the violence by ABVP-NSUI lumpens patronised.
by the JNU Admin. and the police, and will continue the protest to demand that the Administration take action to punish.
those who blatantly attacked and injured peaceful protestors..
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Imperialists and Their Agents Can Never Be Welcome in JNU !.
Those who order brutal attacks on workers and fiddle while Dalit homes burn know that they are bound to face resis-.
tance from JNU students - and this is something we in JNU should be proud of. In order to avoid facing JNU students'.
protest, Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda skulked into the campus at night on November 11, without any prior public an-.
nouncement! But as soon as Hooda entered the KC OAT, AISA activists got to know it, notified the student community.
and began a spirited protest, joined by other students. As a result of the protest, which was later joined by other student.
groups too, Hooda was not allowed to give his speech while students told the `Killer Hooda' to go back. The man whose.
police brutalised workers in Gurgaon to protect the interests of the MNC Honda, and watched Dalit homes be burnt in.
Gohana were told by JNU students in no uncertain terms that he was not welcome!.
It is highly disturbing that the democratic protest by JNU students was violently assaulted by NSUI leaders, who threw.
chairs at the protestors and tried to beat them up. Hooda had apparently been invited by a group called `ARK Foundation'.
to a `Youth Camp' - in which busloads of around a 1000 people from outside the campus had attended. But it was dis-.
turbing to find that the JNU authorities and security officials seemed to have no idea that such a large crowd of outsiders.
was expected and had no preparations to ensure that violence did not take place!.
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Amritsar – Our car drop us off a couple min. walking distance to the Jallianwala Bagh. Since today is a Sunday, most of the shops are closed but the street is full of pedestrians. The guide keep warn me how crowded inside the Golden Temple.
"Khaksar and Jallianwala Bagh Massacres: The Bloodbaths that Ignited the Freedom Movement"
By Scholar & Historian Nasim Yousaf.
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ALL INDIA STUDENTS ASSOCIATION(AISA) 26.7.05.
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British `Good Governance' of Jallianwala Bagh -.
Reenacted by Congress Govt. in Haryana !.
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Come and See...The Blood on the Streets!.
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Bodies of workers piled high inside Secretariat Compound and beaten bloody...workers forced to crawl.
on their knees holding their ears...Scenes from colonial India? No, this was Jallianwala Bagh reenacted.
by the Haryana police, in favour of the MNC Honda!.
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Yesterday's savagery opens a window into the enslaved world of the workers evicted from the National.
Capital. Gurgaon is only technically Haryana - it is essentially a model enclave of neo-liberalism, where.
workers are literally kicked by foreign MNC officials; where they are banned from forming a Union; where.
3000 workers can be thrown out of jobs for daring to form a Union; where the Govt and police act to kill the.
workers and protect the MNCs. This is the blood-stained reality of Manmohan Singh's `Human Face' promise!.
`Congress ka khooni haath, aam mazdooron ke saath' is the slogan that comes to mind!.
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British Raj - India's Tormentor, Manmohan's Mentor!.
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This month, Manmohan Singh had sung praises of the British Raj and proudly claimed that our police and.
bureaucracy are the products of colonial rule, and that they `served India well'. Well, when the Congress.
Governments at Haryana and the Centre massacre workers who protest against MNCs and retrenchment,.
when the BJP Government in Rajasthan shoots farmers dead for demanding water, we see that British.
colonial training has indeed served India's ruling class well: they are happy to kill workers and peasants.
in order to defend neo-liberal policies and MNCs!.
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In Britain itself, all dark-skinned, South Asian-looking people are treated as `terrorists' - an innocent.
Brazilian man was shot dead in the subway by the British police. In a mirror image of that incident, the.
Indian Army killed three young schoolboys returning from a marriage celebration in J&K. Clearly, the.
colonial legacy is not a matter of long-ago history alone. Even today, Indian rulers are playing `follow.
the leader' with Bush and Blair, enacting Iraq in Manipur, London in Kashmir and Guantanamo in Gur-.
gaon. On his US visit, Manmohan Singh thanked Uncle Sam for the Green Revolution, and revealed that.
Bush and he had agreed on a second generation of US-sponsored agrarian reforms. Well, during the first.
Green Revolution, US leader Henry Kissinger had said in 1971 that `What India needs is a mass famine'..
Today, we are seeing the bloody red harvest of that Green Revolution, in the starvation and suicides of.
farmers and agricultural workers. But our PM, all admiration for the `good governance' of the British, is.
still committed to these bloodstained policies dictated by US imperialism!.
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Manmohan Singh - shedding crocodile tears won't do; it's better that you shed your `human face' pre-.
tensions. It is really shameful that UPA govt. at the centre has not condemnend this heinous act. We demand.
that the Hooda Govt., which has blood on its hands, be dismissed. We demand that the DM and District Com-.
missioner of Gurgaon be dismissed and arrested on charges of murder. We want to know - where is EACH.
missing worker; if they are dead, the police must admit to murder; if they are arrested, they must be released.
immediately. And we demand that the retrenched and lathicharged workers get their jobs back, as well as med-.
ical care, financial aid and compensation..
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Friends, if the rulers of India are insistent on reliving the legacy of colonial repression and ex-.
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ploitation - let us show them we can relive the legacy of the heroic struggle for freedom. We are.
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approaching August - let us tell the UPA Government: killer policies of liberalisation, Quit India!.
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Join JNUSU's.
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PROTEST MARCH.
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Against Haryana Govt.'s Savagery On Workers To Favour MNCs.
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26.7.05 (Tonight) 9.30pm From Ganga Dhaba.
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sd/- Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Rajesh Ranjan, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNU.
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ALL INDIA STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (AISA) 14.8.05.
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Resist the PM's Efforts To Give Colonialism a `Human Face' !.
On the 58th Anniversary of Independence,.
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Will the PM Apologise For His Insult to Indian Freedom Struggle ?!.
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`British Rule was an act of enterprise, adventure, creativity' - PM Manmohan Singh at the District Collector's Conference in.
Delhi in May 2005.
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`We did not entirely deny the British claim to `good governance'; we only asserted our natural claim to self-governance'. -.
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Manmohan Singh at Oxford Univ..
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The PM has tried to cover up the shame of the Congress-sponsored carnage against Sikhs in 1984 by apologising to the nation;.
but in his speech from the Red Fort, will he apologise for the way in which Indian police and Army are recreating colonial horrors.
by beating up workers in Gurgaon, shooting and arresting farmers in Rajasthan and Punjab, and the Raj legacy of unemploy-.
ment and starvation are once again stalking India? Bhagat Singh had warned that colonial structures of exploitation would.
continue if Indian nationalism and freedom failed to have a revolutionary basis. Today, even the Supreme Court has shown.
its `Black Saheb' nature by defending WTO-dictated policies of privatisation of education, under which deprived sections of.
Indians will have no place, but NRIs will enjoy reservation!.
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To turn infamies into feats, accumulation is detached from despoliation, opulence has nothing to do with plunder..
Broken memory leads us to believe that wealth is innocent of poverty. - Eduardo Galeano.
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How is the Indian Prime Minister able to turn the infamy of two centuries of colonial exploitation and brutal domination into.
a feat of `adventure and enterprise'? How is he able to argue that British wealth and status as a developed nation today is.
innocent of India's poverty? The editorials in the mainstream corporate media defended the PM's praise of the Raj; according.
to them, the PM's views are `balanced', while the `extreme' "ultra-Left" (CPIML) and the "ultra-Right" (BJP) are the only ones.
to have criticised that speech. Is this true?.
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Does the Sangh Have Any Right to Criticise the PM's Pro-Raj Views?.
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No one has pointed out that the founding fathers of the Sangh had expressed approval of British Rule even at the height of the.
freedom struggle; Golwalkar had chastised the freedom fighters of being `reactionary' (reacting blindly against the British)! Back then,.
the RSS had recommended that nationalism should not be anti-colonial or anti-British in content, but in fact should come from the.
inherent impulse of Hindus for a Hindu Rashtra, a nation of their own..
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Did the British Provide `Good Governance'?.
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Manmohan Singh gave British colonialism a certificate of `good governance', saying the British were responsible for introducing.
`Fair Play', `Rule of Law', Indian bureaucracy, police, Universities and laboratories and even the `Free Press'. Let's examine.
whether this is based on fact..
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n· `Fair play' and the `Rule of Law'? Were the British and Indians equal in the eyes of this law? How can the institutionalised.
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racism embedded in the colonial structures of `governance' be called `fair play'?!.
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n· The ICS: Recall that even in the ICS about which Mr. Singh waxes lyrical, the demand for exams to be held in India was denied.
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for half a century and Indians were barred from holding the topmost posts..
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n· Free Press: As for the fairytale of a `Free Press' and freedom of expression - has Mr. Singh forgotten the draconian Rowlatt.
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Act, introduced to muzzle dissent? Has he forgotten the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre unleashed in cold blood on people.
who resisted the Rowlatt Act? Recall that the immediate context in which Bhagat Singh flung his bomb in the Assembly was the.
Industrial Disputes Bill, brought in to ban workers' strikes. And the Universities and laboratories?.
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n· Universities and Labs: It is incredible that Manmohan Singh should thank the British for these - when the fact is that most.
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Universities of the time were set up through nationalist initiative and funding!.
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True, Mr. Singh has quoted Angus Maddison to justify Indian `grievance' against colonialism, pointing out that India's poor.
economic status in colonial times. What Mr. Singh doesn't mention is that the British consolidated their wealth and strength by.
inflicting this poverty through ruthless loot and repression..
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What the PM Forgot to Thank the British For.
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But there are many gifts for which Mr. Singh forgot to thank the British. Foremost among them are the deep communal wounds on.
our polity, inflicted by the policy of Divide and Rule, thanks to which our nation continues to bleed. Mr. Singh may thank the British.
for English: will he also thank them for their role in the calculated and painful amputation of Urdu from Hindi, which distorted our.
precious linguistic legacy?.
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The British introduced the barest minimum elements of modernity as were required to rule and to plunder effectively. Existing industry.
was brutally destroyed. Concerned only with extracting back-breaking revenue, they gave institutions like the zamindari a new lease.
of life and brutally crushed anti-feudal uprisings of the peasantry - the result is the mass of dalit agrarian poor remained shackled.
by structures of feudal oppression..
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Challenge WTO-Dictated Policies of UPA Of Privatisation of Education and Unemployment!.
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Join March to Parliament on 17 August Demanding Right to Education, Employment and Democracy In Campuses!.
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sd/- Awadhesh Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Sandeep Singh,, Jt. Secy., AISA,JNU.
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