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I am not sure what they were printing but in this wonderful business I was invited in to take photos. I loved just being another person with a camera and being able to disappear so easily.
Just playing in the press room with the mixing of process ink. I used cyan, magenta, yellow and transparent white in this series.
NOTE: the ink shots are named for the order that I shot them. The higher numbers are the same ink, just more mixed than the lower numbers.
Inside the Star Tribune-Heritage Center Manufacturing Facility where the Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, USA Today and Washington Post are printed daily.
Gpa says: Demonstration of early printing press in reconstructed Williamsburg colony, Virginia, visited in Christmas season, probably in the 70s.
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10 Nov: National Protest Day Against State Repression----------+-Join Protest Demo against IndianState'sWarOn Democracv .
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With Rept-essive Policies, Draconian.
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10 Nov Jantar Manter 12.30pm .
Laws an~ Opet-ation Gt-een Hunt.
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Assemble at Ganga Bus Stop at 11am .
Defeat the UPA's War on Democracy! Maoist outfits Ju~tifies our stand as our own actions w.ere based on upholding the peace and harmony of the soc1ety Build Broad-based Democratic Resistance! as a whole." Quite clearly, the very right of workers (moral as .
The UPA Government has announced a virtual war in the name of combating the 'Maoist menace'. While Chidambaram shies away from describing the operation in terms of an outright war and while on record the Prime Minister has ruled out the possibility of deployment of the Army in the operation. the scale and framework of the proposed operation indicate nothing short of an all-out military offensive, covering over 2000 police station areas in 223 districts, with deployment of new firepower, new weapons, and even the possibility of 'retaliatory' aerial bombardment. A special central force called COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) has already been raised and pressed into service. .
This military offensive is accompanied by a full-scale propaganda war. Influential sections of the print and electronic media are working overtime to manufacture a 'national consensus' in favour of the military offensive. Various state governments, opposition parties and even the RSS, are all joining in. In West Bengal, the offensive is a joint operation of the CPI(M) State Government and the Centre, and CPI(M) leaders never tire of echoing Manmohan Singh's declaration that 'Left-wing extremism is the biggest internal security threat'. Mamata Banerjee of course conveniently seeks to distance herself from this consensus, expecting everybody to ignore the fact that the ongoing paramilitary offensive in West Bengal is very much a joint venture sponsored by the government at the Centre where she is a cabinet minister. .
Who are the targets of this war? .
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As we look around us, it is clear that the targets of this war are not only the Maoists in their jungle hideouts. .
The incarceration of Binayak Sen by the BJP-Ied Chhattisgarh Government seems to have served as a sort of blueprint for the Chidambaram Home Ministry. Leaders and activists of democratic movements are being branded as Maoists and arrested; intellectuals threatened with arrest for demanding the release of the above; printing presses sealed; intellectuals warned, Bush-style, that if they were not with the Government's war, they would be treated as being with the Maoists .... .
Hidden behind the smoke and sound and fury of this 'war on Maoism,' an older, more protracted war steadily intensifies -the war on the adivasis who happen to live on top of forests and rich mineral deposits that have been signed away in MoUs to corporations; the war on workers to disarm them of their hard-won rights. And every time these people resist, even their most democratic movements, not just in fields and forests, even trade union struggles in factories, are instantly lumped together with 'Maoism' to justify the most draconian crackdowns. For instance, in the Pricol factory in Coimbatore. the management justified its illegal refusal to negotiate with the majority union, claiming that the union was led by 'Maoists' (when in fact they were led by the AICCTU, a centrally recognised trade union affiliated to the CPI(ML)), and saying that the "recent ban by the Centre on .
well as eminently legal) to form a union of their choice and to demand that labour laws be upheld could, in the wake of the Centre's war-cry, be mischievously be equated with 'Maoism'. And the management which is violating the law could then virtuously count itself in the company of those defending the "peace and harmony of society." .
It can hardly be coincidence that key arenas of the proposed war are precisely those mineral-rich areas on which mining corporations have had their eye. Chidambaram, himself was one of the Directors of MNC Mining corporation Vedanta until becoming a UPA Cabinet Minister, and a favourite lawyer for many of mining companies; is it not likely that paving the way for corporate land grab is one of the hidden agendas of Chidambaram's war? .
Mass Movements or Militarism? .
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It is also important to counter the binary projected by the Government-of 'State vs Maoists.' Among the wide range of forces united in condemning and demanding a stop to the Government's offensive, are many mass movements and mass political organisations who differ with the Maoist militarism on the question of how to counter the Government's neoliberal policies and state repression. .
For Governments, mass movements such as those seen at Raigarh, Nandigram, Singur, Jagatsinghpur (POSCO), Kalinganagar etc... , and mass working class struggles like those recently seen at Pricol and at Gurgaon, are the biggest political challenge to their neoliberal agenda. Nandigram showed how governments and ruling parties paid a heavy political cost for police firing and forced land grab. The same governments calculate that the political cost of suppressing a military challenge militarily is relatively much less. Open repression can be justified much more easily if the movement can be projected as military one, rather than a popular mass movement on the question of land, livelihood and rights. The State always seeks to shrink the spaces for mass democratic protest and push mass struggles underground. .
In this context, the Maoists' exclusive emphasis on militarism actually ends up allowing the State to deflect from the issues of land grab and assault on livelihoods, and reduce the debate to a binary of 'violence vs non-violence,' thereby providing more fodder for the state to drum up support for harsh measures of repression. Time and again, the Maoists have shown themselves to be fundamentally out of step with mass movemP.nts. Lalgarh is the latest example of how such tactics has ended up pushing a popular mass uprising underground -and thereby allowing the State to launch a paramilitary offensive whose brunt is then borne by the common masses. .
AI SA calls upon students all over the country to join hands with people's movements and mount a robust challenge to the Government offensive, which is but a veiled assault on rights to land, livelihood and dissent, and demand an immediate stop to the Government's war on democracy. .
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Issued by Ravi Rai, General Secretw-y, All India Students' Association (A/SA), Contact 9868661628 .
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