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Louise and Rash had a beautiful wedding at Allerton Castle near Leeds. Louise is one of my old school friends, so it was extra special for me to photograph it!
JJay Guertchakoff (vocals).
Rash Panzer @ Festiverbant, festival rock LanDEcy, 22.08.2014.
(c) Christophe Losberger
From my scooter accident. I calculate my leg survived more then 600lbs of pressure, and didn't break :-)
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AISA-Ied JNUSU's Achievements and the .
Struggles Ahead .
AISA led a historic movement which pushed.back~pro-posal to hike fees. The unprecedentedly muasAsdrve .P~,_cl~a-.
Struggle to Increase Financial Assistance for .
tion in this movement ensured th.at the JN mmlsuatron.
Needy Students .
never again dared to attempt to hJke fees. .
The JNUSU headed by A/SA led militant protests of M ent for GSCASH: In 1996, following a rash .
ovem 'th . .
strikes, relay hunger strikes. demonstrations, and fi-of sexual harassment cases which were dea1t WI ~ost In-.
nally an 8-day indefinite hunger fast which forced the sensitively by the Proctor's office, AISA moot~d the Ide~ of Administration to increase the MCM scholarship amount .
an autonomous gender-sensitive body to deal wrth complarnts for needy students from Rs. 600 to Rs. 1000 for BAIMA of sexual harassment. A massive student mov~ment ?n gen-students and Rs. 1500 for MPhi/ as well as PhD stu-der issues and against sexual harassment butlt up_rn JNU, .
dents. Further, the Administration had to concede in .
joined by teachers and karamcharis, which got a maJor bo?st principle that the amount for all needy students must with the Supreme Court passed a directive in 1997 makrng be raised to Rs. 1500 at least, and that the income cap .
such a Complaints Cell Against Sexual Ha:assm~nt manda-for MCM be raised to Rs. 1 lakh -and a Committee .
tory in all workplaces. As a result of the mtensrfied move-including JNUSU and JNUTA was set up to work to-.
ment of the campus community, the GSCASH was formedwards this. .
in 1999 .
Other S ignificant Policy Interventions .
Struggle Against Corporatisation and the Nestle Outlet, for a So ci ally Sensitive Policy of Shop.
This struggle for mcreased MCM was the latest in a Allocation: In 2002-03, when SFf-AISF controlled all four.
long line of significant struggles led by the last two ten-ures ofAISA-Ied JNUSU, to effect signifificant POLICY posts m the JNUSU, they overturned JNU's socially sensi-tive policy of allotting shops and public spaces to deprived .
DECISIONS including against corporatlsation and the Nestle Outlet, for elected Student Representa-people, and replaced it wrth one which allotted to the h1ghest bidder. As a result, a Nestle Outlet came up on the campus.
tion in AC and BoS, to revise the Rules and Proce-instead of the usual dhaba. When AISA won the JNUSU.
dures which were robbing GSCASH of Its gender-sensitivity, and to roll back the anti-student Grade President's post in 2004, our campaign succeeded in mobi-Point Conversion formula. lizing students against this corporatisation of our campus. .
At a historic UGBM In Jan 05, hundreds of students de-.
Hurdles l-aced by the AISA leadership in .
t he JNUSU feated the SFI's pro-Nestle position and voted to throw Nestle out of campus, and in favour of shop allotments Soon after the JNUSU elections last year. Prime Minis-being made to common and needy individuals, never .
to corporations.
ter Manmohan Singh visited JNU, and students in JNU showed .
him black flags in protest against the farmers' su1c'des, dra-.
Defeating Communalism and Casteism, Uniting.
conian laws like AFSPA in the North East, and the UPA .
Students oo an Agenda of Rational Secularism and So-.
Govemmenrs shameful capitulation to US by voting against .
cial Justice When the communal forces of the ABVP-JPF .
Iran in the IAEA. Since their parent parties CPI and CPI(M) .
tried to whip up tens1or over"the demand of compulsory sing-are allies of the UPA Government in spite of these anti-.
ing of Vande Mataram, 1t was AI SA Which entered into a wide-.
people policies, the SFI and AISF on campus refused .
spread exposure campaign amongst the students -not only to protest against Manmohan Singh's visit and took re-.
over the history of the song, but exposing the history of the venge by unconstitutionally 'boycotting' the JNUSU .
ABVP's parent Sangh Panvar's betrayal of the freedomPresident belonging to AISA, for standing In support of .
the students' protest. struggle! Whereas the SFI-AISF have historically entered into a secret Compromise Deed with the ABVP, AISA has always Despite this, the JNUSU President provided effective lead-faced and challenged the communal forces head-on. ership to the student movement. On the crucial occasion .
A few months back, casteist forces of the JPF-ABVP.
when the Youth For Equality tried to Whip up a castelst variety, styling themselves 'Youth for Equality', held a month-frenzy in JNU With a blatantly castelst antl-dalit leaflet long relay hunger strike against reservations for OBCthe JNUSU President called for a Protest Demo the very students They exposed their real agenda of inequality and next day Which was boycotted by the SFI-AISF leader-rampant caste1sm When they issued a highly casteist leaOetShip in JNUSU. And the MCM struggle is the latest instance branding the rec1p1ents of rese!W!tiens_(!.e. dalits in JNU), as.
of successful leadership in the JNUSU. 'substandard human beings', 'inferior mortals',-'unfit for JNU' AISAs History of Struggles for a Socially and 'fit only tor stealing·. AISA protested against such outra-.
Sensitive JNU .
geous caste1sm. and not only complained in the Equal Opportunity Office but also in the SC/ST Commission. TheAISA spearheaded the movement for more MCM as part SFI-AISF and rts office bearers in JNUSU, on the other hand,of a lo~g history of stru~gles and victories on issues relating .
to JNU s socral sensrtivrty. These include: boycotted the Protest Procession called by the JNUSU .
President. While the AI SA challenged and exposed the YFE's .
. Restoration ofDeprivation Points 111 JNU Admis-.
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reactionary agenda head on. with a month-long relay hungerSions by the AISA-Ied JNUSU In Its first tenure In 1993-strike for SOCial Justice -the SFI-AI SF deemed it "irrelevant·. .
94,awarding extra points in JNU admissions to students from AND NOW SFI-AISF HAS GONE TO THE EXTENT OF backward castes and regions, as well as to women. Our FIELDING A YFE ACTIVIST (OFTEN SEEN AT THE YFE argument was that students coming from social sections or HUNGER STRIKE TENT SPORTING THE YFE T .SHIRT, AS reg1ons that are deprived ot good educational institutions A COUNCILLOR CANDIDATE IN SLL&CSJ .
sho4/d get a fair chance to study in JNU ' .
41S4-Ied JNUsus Achievements .
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Movement Against Privatlsation and Fee Hikes·~ .
In 1995. the JNUSU led by Comrade Chandrashekhar fo~ AISA's tenure In two successive tenns of JNUSU has made several significant advancements In students' rights and .
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