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10K RESOLUTION RUN
The Stroke Association
Sunday 15 August 2010
Finsbury Park, London
photo by: Robert Piwko
10K RESOLUTION RUN
The Stroke Association
Sunday 15 August 2010
Finsbury Park, London
photo by: Robert Piwko
Here I am in Resolution Park in Anchorage. The mountain barely visible in the background is Mount Susitna.
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10K RESOLUTION RUN
The Stroke Association
Sunday 15 August 2010
Finsbury Park, London
photo by: Robert Piwko
Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places, species and people all over the world. We need to work together to resolve the issues and protect the earth and its environment. To adequately address this crisis we must understand the gravity of the matter and look towards well thought workable solutions.
This year’s theme for Presidium Model United Nations-2016 is ‘Presidium for Environment’ being addressed through 11 committees. PMUN seeks to make them the front runners who will engage in debates and discussions while confronting the critical global challenges and drafting resolutions in response to them.
Such academic stimulations broaden the horizons of students towards the issues that affect our global community. They are an apt tool to develop skills of critical analysis and operative dialogue in them and have them plunge into the issues which plague humanity in today’s world. Such platforms invite the students to understand their responsibility towards the global community and see themselves in a meaningful position to impact and inspire a change.
10K RESOLUTION RUN
The Stroke Association
Sunday 15 August 2010
Finsbury Park, London
photo by: Robert Piwko
This is my memorial orchid (I got the day Rollie died). It is named
Coco cause I watched that Coco Chanel movie a few days before I got it.
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, On the SFI GBM held on 5.01.2012 .
7.07.2012 .
SFIt GBM Resolution~ The SFI JNU Unit held a General Body MeeU'lg on 5.07.2012 to discuss the CPI (M)'s decision .
to support Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential Elections. On be~alf of the Executive Committee, SFI-JNU Unit, a ~ .
resolution was placed in the GBM for discussion. The GBM passfd the resolution by a margin of 37 votes against 2 .
(with 7 abstentions). Nobody, who participated in the vibrant ard lively discussion, spoke in favour of the support .
extended to Pranab Mukhe~ee. The resolution expresses concen at the disruption of Left unity over the presidential \ elections and has termed the CPI (M)'s decision to support UP~'s nominee Pranab Mukhe~ee unconvincing. It also · .
evokes the SFI's programme, which gives the orga~ization. a :i~ht to. t~ke an independent position guided by its .
objectives of promoting a discussion on ways to ach1eve sc1e1t1f1c soctallsm and zealously guarding its progressive .
character. .
Why GBM Now? A wide debate has unfolded after t.1e CPI (M)'s decision to support Pranab Mukherjee in the .
presidential elections. Despite the ongoing summer vacruons, JN~ h~s not.been untouched by this debate. Inthe past .
few weeks the SFI came under severe attack from ultraleft organ1zat1ons like the AISA over this issue. Students were .
asking about SFI's position and we could not afford to n~ain sile~t: .Given the urgency of the situation and considering .
the interests of the organization in JNU, the SFI EC dc1ded to m1t1ate a debate involving all available SFI members .
and arrive at acommon position. To do so, the highes democratic platform of the GBM has been uUiized. In the given .
situation, this exercise could not have been delayed af.j further. .
s Legacy: The SFI has been a major potical force in JNU ever since the inception of the JNU student.
JNU·SFI'.
movement. The SFI takes great pride in its contributin to the evolution of the JNUSU and the JNU student movement 'sI .
which have played a pioneering role in the progrssive-democratic student movement in our country. The SFI.
commitment to the JNU student movement was praed beyond doubt by the manner in which it resolutely fou_ght the .
four year long struggle for restoration of the JNUSJ Elections despite all attempts of disrupting unity cma diversion. .
, with Qf=l boi...~-istent pol~ I f1e (.
Historically political polarizations in JNU have faker place on a bipolar baci~.
SFI has retained the leadership of the JNUSU for anajor part of the four decade old JNUSU. .
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Post-2007 Situation: There has been a structural 'reak in this trend since 2007. For the first time in 2007 JNUSU .
Elections, the SFI failed to win any Office-Bearer psition. The elections were held in the aftermath of the political .
developments in West Bengal, surrounding Singur ad Nandigram. In the JNUSU elections held in March 2012, the .
SFI failed to reverse the adverse electoral trend \itnessed in 2007. Organizational reviews in this period have identified both political and organizational reasons fo~he poor performance. However the primacy of political factors, primarily those related to Singur-Nandigram and the gneral state of the Left movement in the country has been noted in inner-organizational discussions. In a left leaning plitical campus like JNU, these developments have eroded the .
SFI's support base among the progressive and demcratic minded students. The developments since 2007 have made the SFI vulnerable to attacks of "double-speak" b. the ultra Left, which has gained at SFI's cost. Sections of the Left leadership though, have stressed on organizatioral reasons to explain the SFI's performance in this period. Focusing exclusively on organizational issues without ~dd·essing underlying political questions is not a scientific approach. .
Relevance of Political Issues: Questions have been rais~ whether Singur-Nandigram, the state of the Left movement in India or the current debate over CPI (M)'s suppontor Pranab Mukherjee are issues which at all concern student politics and hence the SFI in JNU. Such an approach v\'lich seeks to depoliticize the student movement has never found favour within the students of JNU, who consider amajor international and national issues of the day relevant for the student movement. That is precisely why SFI-JNLJ since its inception, has taken positions on all major .
national issues like the Emergency, Mandai Commission, Sabri 1\asjid Demolition, anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat, '.
Indo-US nuclear deal etc. and international issues like Vietnam ~r. Tiananmen Square protests, 9/1 1 and war on .
terror, Palestine, Arab Uprisings, Occupy Wall Street etc. It is nolonly the SFI but all other student organizations .
functioning in JNU, representing diverse ideological-political streans, which take positions on major ~ international and national issues. SFI's Constitutional provision of ; primary unit's purview of decision-~-making has never come in the way of SFI-JNU's adopting positions 'n international and national issues,.
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10K RESOLUTION RUN
The Stroke Association
Sunday 15 August 2010
Finsbury Park, London
photo by: Robert Piwko