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The towers are mostly done but the underside of the flat-top is still a dog's breakfast. Also the engines don't fit with the rear tower installed, so they'll needto be reworked too. Running out of time; I'll see what I can get done in the next week.
So bitterly cold today. Wasn't the best of ideas to go out whilst still feeling ill, but I felt a desperate needto photograph.
I waged war against my tripod on a small mound (I hate tripods), and I fell into the same ditch backwards 3 times (fortunately, I landed safely!)
I hate when you get so cold you can barely move your fingers. It's how Edward Scissorhands must feel.
So the new summer 2019 lego batman sets came out, and i'm both amazed and really letted down. We did get some awesome new versions of the classic rouges like Mr Freeze, Riddler, harley and two face, and we also got our second clayface, but lego has once again missed the opertunity for some additional printing, which would've made it alot better!
1) Mr Freeze: Lego has already done an amazing job with it, they also gave him the mysterio helmet we're gonna get in the FFH spiderman sets, but i wish it was in a trans light blue instead of clear, like in the re-birth comics that they're trying to do
2) Riddler: Another one i really liked, but honestly i would've went with the riddler hat and hair combo from TLBM set. Print wise i gave him some arm printing for sleeves, hip and toe details too.
3) Batman: Is it just me or does anyone really miss the time they did duel molding legs for batman, lego should really bring that back instead of just plain gray legs. Also they needto give him some duel molded arms too, completes the fig like that
4) Batwoman: When she first appeared, i was a bit letted down they didn't give her atleast duel molded boots, instead they did what they did with batman and gave her the plain arms and legs, so like batman, I gave her duel molded black and red arms and legs. it was either that or printing, and tbh i like this better
5) Joker: This one i'm a bit mixed up, i'm glad we got another joker, but then again they just re-used the 2012 joker head and hair they used forEVER! i wanna see some new prints for the clown prince of crime. And for once, for ONCE can we get a joker who's laughing? and not smiling? we only got that in one fig and that was TLBM arkham set, why cant we get one for the old joker face
6) Arkham harley and joker + hat: I'm really surprised that lego didnt just re-used TLBM arkham legs, they were perfect, i cant see the back but i can assume what AshnFlash ( www.flickr.com/photos/126310952@N08/ ) said about being the arkham games logo at the back is true. I also gave the top hat a green ribbon. Lego needs to ad some style and colours into it tbh
7) Two face: Two face is the lest two face-y in the two face collection, they just slapped him a red suit (instead of the game giving him a pink one) and some black legs and just called it a day. I believe their should be a rule that every lego 1 face has to have 1 sided normal and 1 sided destroyed. SO i gave him some arm printing with rips and tears, hip printing on both side and one leg printing.
Commissioner Gordon has some good leg printing, not as good as TLBM gordon but still rlly good. so he can stay the same
Tho there are some figures (and one brick built one) who i would like to replace for something else, i would release them pics and explain why i would wanna replace em some time later. Tell me what you think about these alterations
This is the view of the land at the bottom of our garden taken from the house. It's a haven for foxes and assorted fauna and flora with beautiful views across the Vale of the White Horse. This was a big selling point to us when we bought our house and the builder's (Builder's Ede - one company I would dearly love to see crumble in this recession of ours!) played on it greatly. We've now heard they plan to develop a huge rehabilitation unit that will back right up to our house. Over my dead body is all I can say...let the battle commence!
To think that their company website brags about "a reputation for quality and care both during and after construction." Hmmm, I could think of many more apt phrases but I'll spare you from those! ;-)
Spent most of the day going through my papers, all the notes, journal articles, scribbles, miscellaneous garbage, bills, all my office stuff. Cleaning it all out, getting rid of the crap, purging, jettisoning the stuff I no longer need. It's tedious, a bit nostalgic, and purifying.
Lightening the load. Moving day is fast approaching!
TRP: From the Ground - Low Angle Photography
This is the first shot of my latest custom beach Head. I needto finish all the accessories first and I'll make more pic of it then :)
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Commuanl 'Tandav' is the Saffron Tradition ! .
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assertation that, in Gujarat at least, the 'Hindu Rashtra' is here. No doubt, this 'Independence Day Tandav' is meant to remind us ofthe .
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For the RSS-BJP-ABVP, 'nationalism' only means communalism and fascism. We would like to ask the ABVP .
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A BriefOverview ofRSS 'Nationalism' .
To the average Indian, British rule symbolised colonial plunder and repression. From 1857 to 1947, the moving spirit ofpatriotism was .
the determined urge to overthrow the imperialist British rule. But wha,t did the RSS think of anti-Imperialist nationalism? .
Golwalkar, in 'Bunch ofThoughts', commented that equatingpatriotism, nationalism, and freedom movement with anti-British .
movements was a "reactionary view (that) bas bad disastrous effects upon the entire course ofthe freedom movement". .
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Ofcourse, anti-imperialist, secular nationalism does have a ..disastrous" effect on communal Hindu Rashtra ! .
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certificate to the RSS: " ....The Sangh has, as a general rule, taken care to keep on the right side ofthe law and .
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Can't quite get the correct blue co on my new betta - Macfin. I needto take him outside for natural light. May 2011.
These are the pools where Franklin Delano Roosevelt looked for a cure for his polio. It did not cure him, but he felt relief. He could be seen here just amidst the other users. But he owned it of course. These pools were used until 1942, when a new enclosed bathing facility was opened a couple of hundred feet away. The new facility was used by polio patients until the fifties, when new medicine virtually eliminated new polio cases. The bathing facility focussed then on all kinds of patients seeking relief in the warm spring water, and is now also open to anyone who wants to take a dip.
The old pools are filled with warm spring water once or twice a year now, like on Labor Day, and you can enjoy them on these days. You needto sign a waiver though that you will not sue the Georgia Forest Service - who operates the facility - for any helath problems that might occurs after using the pools. Obviously, these pools can not comply with all the health and sanitation standards we have com eto expect these days. The water is checked every two hours though to see if the quality is still acceptable.
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₯: KoRn Photography Projekt
The idea didn't take very long for this shot, I had it in mind since the beginning of the project, however, getting my boyfriend to comply took the longest. He's not fond of being a subject in photographs - even if it's just his hand.
" 'Need To' is about being in a relationship with someone you love so much but you are too scared to get close to them because you're paranoid that they may stop loving you.
You pull me closer, I push you away,
You tell me it's okay, I can't help but feel the pain.
I was used to being used by people I loved and any future relationship was going to feel the same. Every time I thought I was getting too close, I would push her away."
– Jonathan Davis, lead singer of KoRn
Album: Self-Titled (1994)
Song: Need To
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Can't quite get the correct blue co on my new betta - Macfin. I needto take him outside for natural light. May 2011.
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sexual violence, gender discrimination, state sponsored rapes and from the patriarchal establishments: Haame Chahiye .
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notion of <freedom' and 'autonomy' for women. .
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society, who seek to control the movement and choices not just of women, but of anyone who 'dares' to challenge right' and what is not. Several voices once more attempted to reinforce the status quo, a.
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status quo where young men and women had no right to make choices concerning love, marriage, relationships and dress, .
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where a woman's consent or the lack of it was of no consequence. In the midst of the raging protests, we saw several alike-telling us that rapes happen onlyin westernised 'India'.
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and not in 'Bharat', that too only to women who dress 'inappropriately' and who have the temerity to think that they are free .
to walk in the streets at any time ofthe day or night!! .
This discourse of patriarchy, this attempt to push back democratic concerns of gender justice and equality, continues in many ways, even in a campus like JNU which prides itself on its democratic culture. In the past one .
year, we have seen GSCASH verdicts being ignored, undermined and diluted; we have seen vicious attempts to vilify the .
institution of GSCASH and the values it stands for. And moreover, the fact remains that GSCASH is one of the most .
understaffed and underfunded bodies in JNU. Even as GSCASH battles these assaults from the administration, within the .
student community too, we see attempts to push back the discourse for gender justice. For instance, just a couple of days ago, we saw a 10-page folder distributed in various messes, parroting several of the myths and patriarchal norms that .
we continuously fight against. Therefore, as the GSCASH elections approach, we needto yet again remind ourselves of exactly what GSCASH andthe fight for genderjustice stands for. ': Confronting the Different.
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The battle for gender justice has often been reduced by patriarchal 'commonsense' to a bat11e for 'protection' of .
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In Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu, we witnessed vicious anti-dalit violence, orchestrated by the Leaders of the Pattali .
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From Patriarchal 'Protection' to Freedom and Autonomy We in JNU are witness to the fact that in the days and months after 16 December 2012, how from the slogans 'Hang the Rapists' and 'We want Justice', the streets soon started reverberating with the battle-cry for 'behauf azadi'-azadifrom sexual violence, gender discrimination, state sponsored rapes and from the patriarchal establishments: Haame Chahiye azadi, baap se bhi, khaap se bhi. It was a battle-cry for freedom without fear for all. To the consternation of many, it .
marked a paradigm shift from the from patronising framework of vengeance and patriarchal'protection' for women to the notion of 'freedom' and 'autonomy' for women. In a way, this heightened assertion sent chills down the spines of the entrenched patriarchal forces in our .
society, who seek to control the movement and choices not just of women, but of anyone who 'dares' to challenge patriarchal norms of what is 'right' and what is not. Several voices once more attempted to reinforce the status quo, a status quo where young men and women had no right to make choices concerning love, marriage, relationships and dress, where a woman's consent or the lack of it was of no consequence. In the midst of the raging protests, we saw several ·powerful' people-ruling class politicians to 'god men' alike-telling us that rapes happen only in westernised 'India' and not in 'Bharat', that too only to women who dress 'inappropriately' and who have the temerity to think that they are free .
to walk in the streets at any time of the day or night!! .
Thos discourse of patriarchy, this attempt to push back democratic concerns of gender justice and equality, continues in n"'any ways, even in a campus like JNU which prides itself on its democratic culture. In the past one year, we have seen GSCASH verdicts being 1gnored, undermined and diluted; we have seen vicious attempts to vilify the institution of GSCASH and the values it stands for. And moreover, the fact remains that GSCASH is one of the most understaffed and underfunded bodies in JNU. Even as GSCASH battles these assaults from the administration, within the student community too, we see attempts to push back the discourse for gender justice. For instance, just a couple of days ago, we saw a 1 0-page folder distributed in various messes, parroting several of the myths and patriarchal norms that we continuously fight against. Therefore, as the GSCASH elections approach, we needto yet again remind ourselves of exactly what GSCASH and the fight for genderjustice stands for. .
'Hang the Rapists' and 'Keep Potentia l Vic tims Behind Closed Doors': Confronting the Different Faces of Patriarchy! The battle for gender justice has often been reduced by patriarchal 'commonsense' to a battle for 'protection' of women. And so, we are told, if women are to be 'safe', they need to be constantly careful of what they do: wnere they .
go, when they go, with whom they go, what they wear, what they say. Transgress these codes, women are warned, and face the consequences. In other words, women's 'safety' becomes a codeword for controlling women. Along with this discourse of 'safety' and 'protection' of women, we also often see the issue of gender justice being reduced to the demand of death penalty for the rapists. Hang the rapists, we are told, and we will have a safe world for women! On the other hand, the women's movement along with the broader democratic movement, has constantly argued that the real solution to counter sexual violence lay not in awarding the death sentence but in painstakingly confronting the rape culture of patriarchal biases and policing of women in the name of 'safety'. This combination of 'hang the rapists' and 'protection' of women by shutting them up and designing elaborate codes for their safety, thus has to be rejected. What is needed is not 'protection' but freedom. .
Politics of 'Protection' and Profiling Apart from its inherent agenda of policing and controlling women, 'protection' also implies the PROJECTION of the 'Other' from whom women need protection. In the wake of the December 16 rape, it was easy to profile slum-dwellers as the source of the fear of rape. About 10 days after the rape, the Prime Ministerof India said 'footloose migrants' from rural areas represented the 'menace' that gave urbanisation a 'monstrous shape'. This demonising of the urban poor was yet again re·flected in a recent Delhi Police advertisement, which painted a little boy from an urban poor background as a potential murderer. Following the Mumbai gang rape in which several of the accused were Muslim slum-dwellers, the Shiv Sen a and MNS began a vicious campaign suggesting that 'Bangladeshi' migrants were responsible for rape. .
In Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu, we witnessed vicious anti-dalit violence, orchestrated by the Leaders of the Pattali Makkal Katchi and its front the Vanniyar Sang ham -who easily portrayed young Dalit men wearing jeans, T-shirts and sunglasses, riding motorcycles and wielding mobile phones as 'predators' staging 'love dramas' to lure girls of the Vanniyar caste. 'Protecting' Vanniyar girls from 'predatory' 'sexualised' Dalit men of course also involves preventing P.T.O. .
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For the abridged awesome, see Kimi's version!
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[01:18] Lithia Nightfire: fo shizzle
[01:18] Kimani Silvercloud: my nizzle~!
Texture Goddess Amara has unsheathed her Hamah!
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: is that a hammer
And HIT!
[01:19] Lithia Nightfire: :O
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: :O
[01:19] Amara Parmelee: yessum
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: JINX
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: HA I WIN
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: GET ME A SODA
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: NOA
[01:19] Kimani Silvercloud: NAO*
[01:19] Amara Parmelee: lol
[01:19] Lithia Nightfire: ......
[01:20] Kimani Silvercloud: don;t go silent
[01:20] Lithia Nightfire can still thikn about the word 'fo shizzle'
[01:20] Amara Parmelee: i will spike your stew
[01:20] Lithia Nightfire: \o/
[01:20] Kimani Silvercloud: fo rizzle fo dizzle in that drizzle my bizzles
[01:20] Lithia Nightfire: With what?
[01:20] Amara Parmelee: With cheap alcohol!
[01:20] Lithia Nightfire: \o/
[01:20] Kimani Silvercloud: I had that tonight!
[01:21] Kimani Silvercloud: wooooooooo
[01:21] Amara Parmelee: I thik everyone went out drinking today
[01:21] Lithia Nightfire: well you go down from a shot
[01:21] Lithia Nightfire: lol
[01:21] Amara Parmelee: who?
[01:21] Kimani Silvercloud: lol yea, that's why I don;t do shots
[01:21] Amara Parmelee: Was about to say...
[01:24] Lithia Nightfire: >.>
[01:24] Amara Parmelee: what?
[01:24] Lithia Nightfire: izzle... *runs*
[01:24] Lithia Nightfire: neener
[01:24] Amara Parmelee: Gotcha!
Lith TPs off and returns...to get hit!
[01:25] Lithia Nightfire: lol
[01:25] Lithia Nightfire: ........ow
[01:25] Amara Parmelee: I hope I broke some ribs
Sim Overlord Lithia has unsheathed her Hamah!
[01:26] Kimani Silvercloud: oh gods
[01:26] Amara Parmelee: XD
[01:26] Lithia Nightfire: Admin Wars: The Video Game!
[01:26] Amara Parmelee: HAHAHAHA
[01:28] Lithia Nightfire: Lithia VS Amara! Fight!
I WAS winning...then
[01:28] Second Life: Lithia Nightfire has frozen you for 30 seconds. You cannot move or interact with the world.
[01:28] Lithia Nightfire grins
[01:28] Kimani Silvercloud steps back
[01:28] Second Life: Lithia Nightfire has unfrozen you.
[01:28] Amara Parmelee: BISH!
[01:28] Lithia Nightfire: LOL
[01:29] Amara Parmelee: Don't test god powahs on me!
[01:29] Lithia Nightfire: Its like the cartoons
[01:29] Amara Parmelee: yep
scene jumped to...
[01:31] Amara Parmelee: And poor Kimi's like, "OMG Battle of the Titans!"
[01:31] Kimani Silvercloud documents
[01:32] Kimani Silvercloud: you both needto do it at the same time
[01:32] Kimani Silvercloud: haha yessssss
[01:32] Lithia Nightfire: lol
[01:32] Amara Parmelee: oooo we did it!
[01:32] Kimani Silvercloud smirks
[01:32] Lithia Nightfire: ...
[01:32] Amara Parmelee: wha?
[01:33] Lithia Nightfire: I dunno. But shes smiling, and that cant be good
[01:33] Amara Parmelee: ...
[01:33] Amara Parmelee: oh?
[01:33] Kimani Silvercloud: :D :D
[01:34] Lithia Nightfire: bwahaha
[01:34] Kimani Silvercloud goes back to dancing
This is the volume remote control for my desktop speakers. It has a very cool light inside, so i decided to shoot it some interesting way. Post-processing was also done to remove the wire, change the light's hue and add a bit of a lightsaber-like glow.
I placed it in front of a black t-shirt hanging on the control wire and lit also with a desktop lamp from left
Normally this thing sits on my table and looks like this
This is a bag filled with dreams & recipes for soups and he's deciding right now which he's really hungry for.
~Story People
It's not an easy choice, really. One could make the argument that there is no choice available as you just might starve if you were forced to make due with one or the other, but not both.
TOTW: Story People
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From Patriarchal 'Protection' to Freedom and Autonomy Rapists' and 'We wantJustice', the streets soon started reverberating with the battle-cry tor 'behaufazadi'-azadifrom We in JNU are witness to the fact that in the days and months after 16 December 2012, how from the slogans 'Hang the .
azadi, baap se bhi, khaap se bhi. It was a battle-cry for freedom without fear for all. To the consternation of many, it .
marked a paradigm shift from the from patronising framework of vengeance and patriarchal'protection' for women to the sexual violence, gender discrimination, state sponsored rapes and from the patriarchal establishments: Haame Chahiye .
In a way, this heightened assertion sent chills down the spines of the entrenched patriarchal forces in our notion of 'freedom' and 'autonomy' for women. patriarchal norms of what is 'right' and what is not. Several voices once more attempted to reinforce the status quo, a society, who seek to control the movement and choices not just of women, but of anyone who 'dares' to challenge .
status quo where young men and women had no right to make choices concerning love, marriage, relationships and dress, .
where a woman's consent orthe lack of it was of no consequence. In the midst of the raging protests, we saw several .
'powerful' people-ruling class politicians to 'godmen' alike-telling us thatrapes happen onlyin westernised 'India' .
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This discourse of patriarchy, this attempt to push back democratic concerns of gender justice and equality, .
continues in many ways, even in a campus like JNU which prides itself on its democratic culture. In the past one .
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institution of GSCASH and the values it stands for. And moreover, the fact remains that GSCASH is one of the most .
understaffed and underfunded bodies in JNU. Even as GSCASH battles these assaults from the administration, withinthe year, we have seen GSCASH verdicts being ignored, undermined and diluted; we have seen vicious attempts to vilify the .
student community too, we see attempts to push back the discourse for gender justice. For instance, just a couple of days ago, we saw a 10-page folderdistributed in various messes, parroting several of the myths and patriarchal norms that 1 we continuously fight against. Therefore, as the GSCASHelections approach, we needto yet again remindourselves of .
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exactly whatGSCASHand the fight forgenderjustice stands for. .
The battle for gender justice has often been reduced by patriarchal 'commonsense' to a battle for 'protection' of women. And so, we are told, if women are to be 'safe', they need to be constantly careful of what they do: where they .
Faces of Patriarchy! go, when they go, with whom they go, what they wear, what they say. Transgress these codes, women are warned, .
and face the consequences. In other words, women's 'safety' becomes a codeword for controlling women. Along with .
On the other hand, the women's movement along with tlie broader democratic movement, has constantly argued that this discourse of 'safety' and 'protection' o'f women, we also often see the issue of gender justice being reduced to .
the real solution to counter sexual violence lay not in awarding the death sentence but in painstakingly confronting the demand of death penalty for the rapists. Hang the rapists, we are told, and we will have a safe world forwomen! .
the rape culture of patriarchal biases and policing o'f women in the name of 'safety'. This combination of 'hang the .
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rapists' and 'protection' of women by shutting them up and designing elaborate codes for their safety, thus has to be .
rejected. What is needed is not 'protection' but freedom. Apartfrom its inherent agenda of policing and controlling women, 'protection' also implies the PROJECTION of .
Politics of 'Protection' and Profiling the 'Other' from whom women need protection. In the wake of the December 16 rape, it was easy to profile slum-.
from rural areas represented the 'menace' that gave urbanisation a 'monstrous shape'. This demonising of the urban poor .
as a potential murderer. Following the Mumbai gang rape in which several of the accused were Muslim slum~dwellers, thedwellers as the source of the fear of rape. About 1odays after the rape, the Prime Minister of India said 'footloose migrants' .
was yet again reflected in a recent Delhi Police advertisement, which painted a little boy from an urban poorbackground .
Shiv Sena and MNS began a vicious campaign suggesting that 'Bangladeshi' migrants were responsible for rape. .
In Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu, we witnessed vicious anti-dalit violence, orchestrated by the Leaders of th~ Pattali .
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Makkal Katchi and its front the Vanniyar Sangham-who easily portrayed young Dalit men wearing jeans, T-shtrts and Vanniyar caste. 'Protecting' Vanniyar girls from 'predatory' 'sexualised' Dalit men of course also involvespreventtng .
sunglasses, riding motorcycles and wielding mobile phones as 'predators' staging 'lovedramas' to lure girls of ~he .
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Finally, people's campaigns for justice forPn'yadarshini Mattoo have succeeded: Santosh Kumar Singh, her stalker .
who raped and k171edherin 1996, has been held guilty a full decade later. Priyadarshinl, a DU student of Law Faculty, had .
filed FIRs four times complaining ofsexual harassment by Santosh, a/so a senior student of Law. Despite this, the police .
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never filed any sen'ous charges against Santosh Since his father was a semor.officer of the Delhi Police. the police .
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deliberately weakened the case ofrape and murder against Santosh. This son ofan mfluential father was acquitted by a trial .
court in 1999. The acquittal ofSantosh despite a/f evidence against him was aslap in the face ofjustice. It took a massive .
public campaign andmass outrage for the High Court to finally recognise thatthe tral/court, in acquitting Santosh, .
"murderedjustice and shockedjudicialconscience". The entire case shows that Court verdicts cannot be above .
publicscrutiny-it Is the dutyofcitizens to protest againstbiased}udgeff1ents andto ensure that Courts dojustice .
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A Latin American proverb says: 'Justice is like a snake-Itonly bites the barefooted'.The Police always favour the .
rich and powerful; for the minorities, the dalits, the women, the poor, 'police' has always spelt fear. discrimination, custodial .
torture and violence. Increasingly nowadays, our Courts too are passing judgements voicing the concerns of the elites, .
against the rights of the poor and the deprived, are arrogantly try1ng to usurp the powers of the legislature and place .
themselves above democracy. .
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The SupremeCourt's latestdirective chastis1ng the Government for OBC quotas in educational institutions. and demanding .
the Standing Committee Report be placed before it, is yet another sign of this growing authoritarian and anti-democratic .
nature of the Courts The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to lnterfore In the functioning of the Parliament and .
the process oflawmaking. Its role is to uphold laws, not to dictate what laws can or cannot be passed, as long as .
the laws are not unconstitutional. .
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The Mandai Commission recommendations which were the basis for reservations injobs have already been upheld by .
the Supreme Court a decade back. There is no call forthe Supreme Court to suddenly demand that a fresh data-the data .
that is good enough for job reservations is also good enough for educational reservations. At any rate, Supreme Court's .
blatantbias in favour of the antl-reservationists is shown In Its approval for payment ofsalary to striking doctors. .
The Court is always very quick to punish striking workers and to pass directives against strikes-but in case it is doctors .
on strike against the deprived sections and backward castes, tt is protecttng them! This has encouraged the striking doctors .
to keep flexing their muscles. They continue to indulge in blatant abuse and discriminatory behaviour towards daliUOBG .
doctors and medical students in AIIMS, and the state of theAIIMS management is exposed when students and staff die of .
dengue even inside AIIMS itself. When the demand is raised that the Director be held responstbility for mismanagementand .
for the spreading virus ofcasteism (far worse than dengue) in the AIIMS hostel, the doctors have once again threatened to .
go on strike. At a time when thousands of people are In danger of losing their lives thanks to the dengue epidemic, .
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Courts are not above democracy; they are accountable to the people and must answer their questions: .
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A PIL has been filed against SEZs, and SEZs are nothing but blatant reservation of the country's richest resources and greatest privileges for the greedy corporates. Why Is the Supreme Court not declaring a moratorium on SEZs, which give corporates a free hand to rob farmers ofland, deprive workers of rights, destroy the environment, and undermine national sovereignty by creating 'foreign' territory on Indian soil? .
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The Supreme Court crossed all limits of insensitivity and inhumanity when it told slum-dwellers, "If you can't afford to rent a house, why do you come to the city?", branded them as uencroachers" whose numbers "keep growing and growing". The Supreme Court keeps ordoring domolitions of slums to make way for .
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The Supreme Court itselfhas passed a judgementthat Sardar Sarovar Dam oustees 1n the Narmada Valley must get irdgated land as compensation for land, and that rehabilitation ofthe displaced must be complete one full year before the height of the dam was raised But the dam height kept bemg raised. despite the fact that entire villages are yet to be rehabilitated and land-for-land rule 1n compensation has been blatantly violated. Yet the Supreme .
Court turned a blind eye to such violations and upheld the raising of the height of the dam1 .
Emboldened by the Supreme Court, the YFE in JNU has once agatn begun its campaign. They forget that theirclaims· ofstanding for 'Equality' lie in tatters after their blatant casteist leaflet branding rectpients of reservation as 'sub-standard human beings', 'inferior mortals', monly for stealing and unfit to study in JNU'. Standing for equality means consistently challenging elitism and injustice. IfYFE really stands for Equality, why don't they speak out against SEZs? Why did the YFE never bring out a single leaflet condemning the ABVP's murderous assault on Prof. Y K Sabharwal at UDain? Their silence reveals their unity with the greedy corporales and the Sangh Parivar-both the corporate world and the Sangh had backed the YFE's campaign against reservations. .
Democratic citizens needto be vigilant, andspeak out against everymove bytho Courts t.o Infringe on people's rights andsubvert ourdemocratic processes, ensuring that the UPA Governmentpasses the Quota Bill without furthet delay. .
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ARREST AND DETENTION OF PROTESTERS__THE TRUTH YOU NEEDTO KNOW.
Our attention has been drawn to a misleading caption in the media space about the arrest and detention of some youths in our church on Sunday, 4 July, 2021.
The narrative being peddled is that some youths wearing T-shirts branded with the inscription "BUHARI MUST GO merely came to church and walked up to the altar as first timers, and were arrested by the church and handed to the D.S.S.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
The church holds three services everySunday, and the Senior Pastor, Dr. Paul Enenche pereaches in all the services.
After the sermon in the first service that Sunday, an altar call was made, to which many people came out, including the said youths, and nothing happened to them.
No one questioned the legality or otherwise of the inscription on their T-shirts.
However, soon after their departure from the altar, they swung into protest with blaring trumpets and saxophones right from the exit door of the church.
Picture shows screenshot press release by DUNAMIS Church. DOCUMENT SOURCE: OMOYELE SOWORE
At the same time, the event was being covered and live-streamed with the background shots of the church building and those of the thronging crowd, both exiting and entering thesanctuary for the next service.
The live streaming had the caption: "BUHARI MUST GO Campaign Hits Dunamis Church in Abuja."
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has squarely blamed CPI(M)'s repression of Singur and Nandigram movements as the reason for its dE1eats in JNUSU etections, claiming.
that these developments have eroded the SFI's support base among the progressive and democratic minded students". Inlhe name of.
'forthright positions', SFI-JNU even tried to sum up the experi~nce of the international Communist movement by claiming that ·ooe of the.
major shortcomings of the socialist experiments of the 20th century was to address the quesUons of democracy, civil liberties, freedom of.
expression and tolerance towards pohtical dissent" -an argument repeated ab nausium by the revisionists and opportunists all over the wei ld.All such asserti0ns leave no one in doubt that SFI-JNU's 'critique' of CPI{M) is entirely based on its calculations for the JNUSU elections. Si 1..
JNU believes that to rev.erse the defeats in JNUSU elections, it has to now distance itself from CPI{M) and its past crimes.Even with this latest 'distancing' and 'dissi<ient', SFI-JNU is nothing but a new avatar of its old self. SFI-JNU is unable and.
unwilling to break th~umbilical chord that ties it w~h the reactionary and social-fascist politics of CPI{M}. Nor SFI-JNU's present anti-CPI(M}.
stance a reflection of any genuine attempt at se1f-reflection and rectification, because its 'dissent' is dictated purely by the considerations of.
victory and defeat in JNUSU elections. It is nothing but crass opportunism to conveniently put the entire blame of SFI's electoral defeat in.
JNUSU elections from 2007 on the 'mistakes' of its parent party, without accepting its own dark history of anti~student politics in the <!ampus..
· The students of this campus will not allow SFI-JNU to conveniently forget its past betrayals. While in JNUSU, SFI-JNU facilffated the entry of .the Nestle outlet mto JNU in 2004 and defended the corporatization of the campus, it sided with NSUI and ABVP if19PP~ing the students ofthe campus who showed black flags to Manmohan Singh when the World Bank-appointed PM visited JNU in 2005. SFI-JNU betrayed theunited struggle of workers and students in 2007 by demanding Proctorial enquiry and punishment for protesting students.JNUSU office.
bearers from SF! submitted apology letters to the VC along with AJSA's office bearers in JNUSU after the registrar was confronted by students.
the united anti-Lyngdoh struggle by surrendering tothe Solicitor Gen~rademanding worker'srights. SFI-JNU betrayed the struggle against the imposition of user charges and electfic meters in 2010. Hbackstabbed.
l in the name of 'negotiations' and helped impose Lyngdoh on JNUSUelections. These are only afew glaring samples of SFI's '.
glorious legacy' within this campus! Can it put the blame for such opportunist andCPI(M) outside. .
anti-student acts on CPI(M)? Students of JNU have rejected SFI as much for its misdeeds in the campus as for the crimes of social-fascistNow that 'SFI-JNU' .
has been summarily dissolved and its four leading members expelled by SFI's all-India committee, 'SFI-.
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is crying hoarse against CPI(M) brand of 'authoritarianism'. But this is the method in which CPI(M) and its affiliate organisations.
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have dealt with political opposition within its ranks and outside all along in its history. Why have SFI-JNU realized onty now that they have.
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the UPA government in 2004. in IArhich Pranab Mukherjee was a key player and one of the prominent cabinet ministers? Will not now SFI-JNU.
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accept that CPI(M) was willfully complicit in all the anti-people and reactionary policies of the Indian state, be·itthe passing of the notorious.
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SEZ bill or the rampant sell-out of the public sectors in the name of disinvestment, the passing and strengthening of the draconian UAPA and.
AfSPA, witch-hunt of Muslims in the name of 'fighting terrorism', implementing the fascist Operation Green Hunt in West Bengal, and so on? .
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de. governed states at the cost of the land and lives of peasants and workers? Shouting from rooftops about .
Is SFI-JNU also opposed to CPI(M)'s complete surrender to imperialist capital and its luring of MNCs to make investments in CPI(M)-.
va. 'authoritarian' and 'undemocra1ic'.
QO·< nature of CPt(M) when forced into a corner, but not raising even a whisper of opposrtion against CPI(M)'s sociat-fascist policies from 1960s till.
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2007 and thereafter, is sheer opportunism and political bankruptcy which both SFI-JNU and Prasenjit Bose are guilty of. Their latest political.
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b~ somersault is symptomatic of the bickering and power struggles that have afflicted all ruling-class parliamentary parties in India..
CPI{ML) Uberation-AISA's opportunist and bankrupt politics of fishing in the troubled waters needs to be unmasked. As·if.
l'4r they were vmiting with bated breath for the occasion, Liberation-A!SA 'welcomed' wholeheartedly SFI-JNU's anti-CPl(M) position without.
uttering asingle word of criticism for the 'dissenting' SFI-JNU, much like they welcomed 'Comrade Prasenjit Bose.
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AlSA probably was hoping that the 'dissrdent' SFI will split from CPI(M} and join the rag-tag NGO-ised 'Left movemenr fabricated by its parent.
Frie party CPI{Ml) LiberatiOnlit was only when SFI-JNU retorted back at AISA.
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krn. for a Left movement'\ CPI(M)'s "nght deviation" and its Herosion of mass base", CPI(M)'s intolerance of political opposition etc. (SFI-JNUpamphlet. 9 July), that AISA-Liberation made au-turn from their earlier position of blindly eulogizing SFI~JNUPal< made some 'cri1rque' 's 'opposition' to CPI(M),andban classes' to the 'of SFI-JNU. AISA thereafter took the responsibility of imparting lessons of 'correct Marxist politics' and 'rectificationindependent' SFl-JNU unit, wh1le declaring tn aself-congratulatory mode thal "thankfully, we [Liberation~AISAJ we do not have r.
Kas to correct any right-wing policy devtation that has crept into our line· (AISA, 10 July)!.
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AISA shameJe.ssly peddles such self-serving lies even after its parent party Liberation has opportunistically betrayed the.
political tine of Marxism-Leninism and armed agrarian revolution ushered in·by Naxalbari. This was dooe in order to enter the quagmire ~ .
the of parliamentary politics. Is it not right opportunism-in other words, revisionism-in the garb of Marxism, k.
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cons 'comrades'?! Has AJSA forgotten ''e.
about Liberation's electoral alliance with the same CPI{M) in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, etc., whom they are now claiming to be "right-.
deviationists'.
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? Why have they allied with CPI(M), which is guilty of Singur, Nandigram, "murder of TP Chandrashekhar~. etc.? When AISA.
It WJ accuses of CPI(M)'s aHiance will1 Jayalantha, Chandrabau Naidu, Naveen Patnaik-all former NDA partners-do we needto remind them.
that liberation too had allied with Samala party in 1990s in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar-presently an important NDA ally? In 'criticising.
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SFI-JNU for the compromises it has made in the campus,does AI SA want the students to forget about their own dark history of betrayals of.
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unrestrained bonhomie and camaraderie while 'critiquing' CPI(M), but soon breaking into an opportunist slanging match to outdo each othur,4fcannot hide AISA-SFI~s shared political basis of ruling-class opportunismand hypocrisy. \S .
It is this degenerate and unscrupulous politics of revisionism and opportunism that allows Liberation-A~SAto remajn.
shrewdly silent on th_edissolution of the 'dissident' SFI-JNU unit and"the expulsion of its four leading mQmbers. y.Jhyhas AI SA notstood with their 'comrades' in SFI~JNU or even 'Comrade' Prasenjit Bose when they were 'penalisedtn\s .
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manner. which AI SA had so wholeheartedly welcomed? Is this the sample of Liberalion-AISAfor opposing CPI(M) in a'principled''s much-touted idea of 'Left un~y'? Such.
opportunism of Li~ration-AISA sterns from betraying the caus~ of the oppressed classes to serve ruling-c!as~ interests through par1iamentarypolitics. The truth is that Liberation-AISA i~ j~st another variant of CPI(M~SF.
I in the garb of Marxism-Leninism, mired neck-.
~eep in the par1iamentary quagmire. This brand of reaction~ry 'left' p~itics has to b~ relentlessly a.nd resolutely exposed and ··11nally defeated for the.success of the struggle for a revolutionary sooal transformation. _ _ IIt:1· ·.
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scuttling the proper implementation ofOBC reservations (2008-The SFI..JNU expressed nodissentwhen the blood ofpeasants~ .
2011 ). Similarly, any attempt at corporate takeover ofcampus was spiltat Singurand Nandigram in 2006-07. SFI-JNU itself.
spaces has been firmly defeated by students' struggles in which admits that it only changed its stance after successive electoral.
AISA andAI SA's JNUSU representatives have played the leading defeats at the hands ofAISA in 2007 and 2012, because "-in a.
role: whetherit be the robust resistance to the administration's left leaning political campus like JNU, these developmentsplans to introduce privatization in JNU (1995). the rejection of (Singur. Nandigram, CPI(M) positions on AFSPA etc) haveeroded the SFI's supportbase among the progressive and.
the Nestle and Cafe Coffee Day outlets (2005 and 2009), or thestruggle which forced the administration to take back its democratic minded students...(making SFI) " vulnerable toschemes to extract user charges for electricity or to rent out attacks of double-speak" by AISA(Ieaflet dt. 7 July 2012). ThePSR for commercial purposes. SFI-JNU's Joint Secretary candidate has publicly said that herorganization decided to distance from CPI(M)'s stance mainlyThese struggles have been part of AISA's political vision that because that stance "affects ourchances of electoral victoryhas never seen JNU orthe JNUSU as an island removed from in JNU."the social and political realities of the surrounding world. In .
The fact that SFI-JNU's criticism of CPI(M) is hollow, is furtherkeeping with this. AISA has always expressed active solidarity.
with people's movements and struggles across the country proved by the fact that they continue to uphold the programme.
and the world. A JNUSU led by A/SA will boldly continue to and constitution of the SFI-which is the official student wing of.
offeractivesupportand solidaritywith struggling people in .
the CPI(M) (leaflet dt 11 July 2012)' Thus. self-admittedly, they.
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have ~o wish to resist CPI(M)'s overall opportunist politics -they merely wish to be the 'JNU edition' of CPI(M)'s SFI-a.
Towards A Pricipled Pro-Student, Pro-People Politics.
The right-wing student organizations like ABVP, NSUI, YFE are "federal fre~dom"and mere change ofcostume suitably tailored.
to fit JNU's Left-democratic sensibilities! We appeal to theopen agents of the social and political forces that are student community to reject this NEGATIVE politics of.
unleashing assaults on the people with communal and casteist .
SLANDER and OPPORTUNISM devoid of any issues orfrenzy and a whole-range of nee-liberal policies. They must be imaginationsresolutely defeated. But wealso need to assess the democratic.
commitment of the so-called uleft" groups too. The SFI and its We live in a time of serious challenges to the democratic.
movements of the country, of which the JNUSU is a part..
parent party CP!M have defended and imposed SEZs, corporate.
land grab, police firing on peasants ( Singur-Nandigram-Corruption, corporate land grab and forcible displacement is.
Lalgarh), Operation Green Hunt,AFSPA and UAPA; they have going handandin handwith corporate takeoverofthe educationsectorandthe scuttling ofall voices ofdissent. In such a context,.
remained silent on the witch-hunt of minorities and fake.
encounters; governments headed by CPIM have pursued it is allthe more important forthe student movement to expand.
privatization ofeducation and health and robbed workers' rights, the space of struggle and challenge the neo-fiberal agenda..
We need a JNUSU that will fight against the corporate and.
peddling the idea that 'TINA' (there is no alternative) to these communal common-sense ofour times, and take forward the.
policies. If these were SFI's policies on a national stage, it is.
inevitable that its policies in J NU too were no different. struggles for social inclusion, democratisation of decision-making bodies, financial assistance and campus democracy.
Even as the AISA-Ied JNUSU has been striving to advance .
both within the campus andin every possible forum beyond.students' and people's struggles on a variety of fronts, it has By resisting attacks, by imagining new futures, andfaced blind opposition and hurdles from not only reactionary institutionalizing progressive policy changes, A/SA hasrigh~wing outfits NSUI, ABVP and YFE and theAdministration, evolved and articulated a radical and creative vision of.
but also from all the avataars of the SFI in JNU..
The SH-JNU has been accusing the AJSA-Ied JNUSU of being politics in JNU. It has playeda vanguardrole in addressing the.
burning questions ofourtime. We needto defend this modelof.
a 'zero-achievement Union.' But for SFlin allits avatars, it is JNUSU which is committed to builda strong, robustresistance.
nothing new to blindly and baselessly attack AI SA-led JNUSU. .
to assaults on student rights and campus democracy and.
Note that in 2008 as well, the SFI had similarly accused the struggle fora secular, democratic, socially-inclusive andgender-.
previousAISA-led JNUSU of2007-08 too of 'zero achievement'! sensitive JNU and society at large. Re-elect A/SA ! Ensure.
(see its leaflets during October 2008).Why does SFI/SFI-JNU JNUSU remains true to its fighting vision andmission !I.
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The fact is thatthe SFI avatars have nothing to show in terms.
ofinitiatives and struggles. Rather, they have much to hide-Central Panel.
especially their role in promoting the corporate Nestle outlet in President : Omprasad.
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for workers' minimum wages; opposing AISA-Ied JNUSU's Jt. Secy. : Piyush Raj.
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throughout 2008-2010; and deriding the efforts to expose Akbar Chawdhary SIS .
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defeats at the hands ofAISA in 2007 and 2012, the SFI-JNU Geeta Kumari SAA.
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faction criticised CPI(M) on the issue of support for Pranab.
Mukherjee. However, this posture is merely a change of Sandeep Saurav CSLG.
costume, motivated by electoral opportunism. Sarfaraz Hamid -.
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Finally, people's campaigns forjustice for Priyadarshini Mattoo have succeeded: Santosh KumarSingh, her stalker who raped andkilled her in 1996, has been held guiltya full decade later. Priyadarshini, a DU studentofLaw Faculty, had filed FIRs four times complaining ofsexualharassment bySantosh, also a seniorstudent of Law. Despite this, the police never filed any sen·ous charg.es against Santosh. Since his father was a senfor.officer of the Delhi Police, the police deliberately weakened the case ofrape and murder against Santosh. This son of an influential father was acquitted by a trial .
courtin 19·99. The acquittalofSantosh despite all evidence against him was aslap in the face of justice. It took amassive .
publiccampaign andmass outrage forthe High Courtto finallyrecognise that the trailcourt, in acquittingSantosh, 11fflUrderedjustice andshockedjudicialconscience". The entire case shows that Court verdicts cannot be above public scrutiny-itis the dutyofcitizens to protestagainstbiasedjudgements and to ensure that Courts dojustice ratherthan serve the influential. .
A latin American proverb says: 'Justice is like a snake-itonly bites the barefooted'. The Police always favour the rich and powerful; for the minorities, the dalits, the women, the poor, 'police' has always spelt fear. discrimination, custodial torture and violence. Increasingly nowadays, our Courts too are passing judgements voicing the concerns of the elites, against the rights of the poor and the deprived, are arrogantly trying to usurp the powers of the legislature and place themselves above demoaacy. .
The Supreme Court's latest directive chastising the Government for OBC quotas in educational institutions,anddemanding the Standing Committee Report be placed before it, is yet another sign of this growing authoritarian and anti-democratic nature of the Courts. The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to Interfere in the functioning of the Parliament and the process of lawmaking. Its role is to uphold laws, not to dictate what Jaws can or cannot be passed, as long as the laws are not unconstitutional. · .
The Mandai Commission recommendations which were the basis for reservations in jobs have already been upheld by the Supreme Court a decade back. There is no call for the Supreme Court to suddenly demand that a fresh data -the data that is good enough for job reservations is also good enough for educational reservations. At any rate, Supreme Court's blatantbias in favour of the anti-reservationists is shown in its approval for payment of salary to striking doctors. The Court is always very quick to punish striking workers and to pass directives against strikes-but in case it is doctors on-strike againstthe deprived sections and backward castes, it is protecting them! This has encouraged the striking doctors to keep flexing their muscles. They continue to indulge in blatant abuse and discriminatory behaviour towards daliUOBG doctors and medical students in AIIMS, and the state of the AIIMS management is exposed when students and staff die of dengue even insideAIIMS itself. When the demand is raised that the Director be held responsibility for mismanagement and for the spreading virus of casteism (far worse than dengue) in the AllMS hostel, the doctors have once again threatened to go on strike. At a time when thousands of people are In danger of losing their lives thanks to the dengue epidemic, these doctors, confident of their backing by the Supreme Court itself, threaten a strike! .
Courts are not above democracy; they are accountable to the people and must answer their questions: .
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resources and greatest privileges for the greedy corporates. Why is the Supreme Court not declaring a moratorium on SFZs, which grve corporates a free hand to rob farmers of land, deprive workers of rights, destroy the environment, and undermine national sovereignty by creating 'foreign' territory on Indian soil? .
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The Supreme Court crossed all limits of insensitivity and inhumanity when it told slum-dwellers, "If you can't afford to rent a house, why do you come to the city?", branded them as "encroachers" whose numbers "keep growing and growing". The Supr,eme Court keeps ordering demolitions of slums to make way for .
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game-parks, and small shops to make way for malls. .
The Supreme Court itselfhas passed a judgement that Sardar Sarovar Dam oustees in the Narmada Valley must get irrigated land as compensation for land, and that rehabilitation of the displaced must be complete one full year before the height of the dam was raised. But the dam height kept being raised, despite the fact that entire villages .
are yet to be rehabilitated and land-for-land rule in compensation has been blatantly violated. Yet the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to such violations and upheld the raising of the height of the damI .
Emboldened by the Supreme Court, the YFE in JNU has once again begun its campaign. They forget that their claims of standing for 'Equality' lie in tatters after their blatant casteist leaflet branding recipients of reservation as 'sub-standard human beings', 'inferior mortals', 'fit only for stealing and unfit to study in JNU'. Standing for equality means consistently .
challenging elitism and injustlce. lfYFE really stands for Equality, why don't they speak out against SEZs? Why did the YFE never bring out a single leaflet condemning the ABVP's murderous assault on Prof. Y K Sabharwal at Ujjain? Their silence reveals their unity with the greedy corporates and the Sangh Pariv~r-both the corporate world and the Sangh had backed the YFE's campaign against reservations. .
Democratic citizens needto be vigilant, andspeak outagainst evetymove bythe Courts to Infringe onpeople's rights andsubvert our democratic processes, ensuring that the UPA Governmentpasses the Quota Bill without furtherdelay. .
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mechanism of English training programme (remedial courses), .
The central and state governments, with their basic texts and readings needto be translated intovernacular .
higher education policies, are hell bent on increasing languages, bodies have to be set up in each centre for the privatization, cutting back on services and facilities, shifting the purpose. .
burden for funding onto students in the name of 'user charges' Updating the Quartile list to Ensure More Social and higher fees, increasing authoritarianism and shrinking .
Inclusion:Several backward districts are not identified as such .
democracy, and undermining of social justice. by JNU, and students coming from these districts are notable .
In our campus. we have seen many ofthese highereducation to avail ofdeprivation points. Many ofthese are newly formed .
policy offensives ofthe government in action. In our struggles in districts {forinstance Siddharth Nagar, Mau and Gautam Buddha JNU in the past few years, we've had to take our fight, not only to Nagar), and JNU will therefore have to undertake an exercise to .
the JNU Administration, but to the HRD Ministry, UGC, and the update the Quartile list. .
Supreme Court Onlythose who have a consistentnational .
Further Expanding the Scope of Recognition of vision and commitmentto resisting this policy offensive, have Madarsa Certificates:After 40 long years, JNU finally started been able to conductthe struggles on campus too. recognizing madarsa certificates in 2008.Afterthe first round in That's whyit is A/SA andits JNUSU leadership which has 2008, this year 9 more madarsas have been recognized. This spearheadedthe strugglesin JNU fora range of progressive process has to be intensified. Also the anomalies requiring .
POUCYLEVEL interventions : additional English certificates from eligible madarsa students .
Againstcommercialization and corporatization ofcampus, have to be corrected. Against the subverston of OBC quotas through faulty RJghts and facilitiesfor PHNH students:Mandatory 3% 'cut-offdefinition, reservation in Teaching and Non-teaching posts must be strictly Forrecognition ofmadarsa certificates in admissions, implemented. Proper texts and readings (without markings) should be made available to PH students, and the Helen Keller Forenhancing MCM, Unit should be greatly improved with better infrastructure as usercharges·, Forbetter health services,Against 'well as manpower to make the process ofscanning easierand Defending small vendors spaces against big corporate more efficient. There should be transparency in the functioning outlets ltke Nestle, Forworkers' rights in the campus, of Helen Keller unit. JNU must recognise and implement the .
Proposing an autonomous bodylike GSCASH in the campus new rule of hiring scribes for VH students, which allows even .
waybackin 1996 itselflong before the Visakhajudgement, senior students to be scribes. The readers allowance for BA/ .
Againstthe imposit1on ofLyngdoh recommendations, MA (Rs.1000) and M.Phii./PhD (Rs 1500) be increased toRs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 respectively.
Against censorship and bans.... .
The new JNUSU must reassert this vision and rnrtiate newer Financial assistance to PH/VH students also has to be improved. In particular, a fellowship on the lines ofthe RGNF struggles to strengthen students' rights, social inclusiveness .
for the PH students has been a long-standing demand ofthe .
and the secular,democratic, gender-sensitive character of JNU. student community. Moreover, ramps and all required .
Issues of Social Justice and Inclusion.
.. infrastructure should be constructed in all burldrngs for greater Reduction in weightage of viva marks: In JNU's mobility and convenience of PHNH students; PH friendly toilets admission system, the weightage for viva voce is currently 30%, should be constructed in all school buildings and hostels. A .
which is not only illegal but also leaves a huge space for holistic solution to the problem of dogs has to be evolved. The .
already clinched issue of the representation of PH student in discrimination. This issuewas also raised in the petition that the CDC hasto be mandatorily implemented. The JNU Railway .
was filed in the High Court, challenging the JNU .
Reservation Counter should process railway concessionsadministration's cut-offcriteria. This has to be reduced to 10-.
15% as perthe Supreme Court judgment of 1980 delivered by entitled to the PH students .
a five-member Constitution Bench. Moreover, 5% should be Increased Financial Assistance and BetterDisbursal prescribed as minimum marks that can be obtained by a Mechanism for Scholarships and Fellowships: .
student. According to the present norms. the Rs 3000/5000 UGC Reduction in EligibilityCriteria for OBC Students and scholarship forM.Phil/Ph.D students is valid for a total offive Ending Gross Discrimination in Hostel Allotment:The years. As a result, research students, for whom this basic sustenance scholarship starts atthe beginning of M.Phil., are .
eligibility criteria for OBC students have to be reduced atvarious left without even this minimum financial assistance atthe last levels-BA/MA, MPhil1 st year to M.Phil2nd year, and also from 2 years oftheir Ph.D. Therefore. the duration ofthis scholarship. .
M.Phil to Ph.D. The present hostel allotment criteria which is must be increased, or some suitable scholarship system .
highly discriminatory has to be changed so that students from should be devised to cover the total research duration, so that the general and OBC categories are allotted hostels .
students (especially from deprived backgrounds) can sustainsimultaneously. .
themselves during the crucial last stages of their research. .
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Moreover,the long-standing demand of enhancingthe amount.
Academics: In JNU,we have fought and won several battles of both MCM and the Rs 3000/5000 UGC scholarship be .
for social inclusion -for deprivation points, for recognision of .
madarsa certificates, for proper implementation of OBC immediately implemented. In the face of run-away inflation, the reservations, against fee hikes and commercialization. enhancement of these basic scholarships has become an .
However, itis our collective responsibility to ensure that students urgent necessity. .
from all backgrounds are a.ble to continue with their academics The number of the RGNF fellowships and the Maulana Azad .
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in JNU, despite coming from various linguistic. social and fellowships should be increased. Also, tne disbursal .
economic backgrounds.Therefore, we need a completely fresh process for the Maulana Azad fellowship has to be D .
approach in this regard. Along with revitalising the existing .
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