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I Unite to Ensure JNUSU Elections: Address the Twin Challenge of Ensuring Elected.
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1.1 0!1111!11111~-Student Representationand the Struggle Against Lyngdoh Recommendations!!.
Eversince the Supreme Court (SC) stayed the JNUSU elections in 2008,Lhe JNU student community has fought along and protracted battleto defend the JNUSU constitution against the arbitrary imposition of Lhe Lyngdoh recommendations in JNU. For three long years now, this campushas functioned without the existence of an elected JNUSU.In this period,the JNU administration tried to use the absence ofan elected JNUSUin various decision-making platforms as agolden opportunity to push through their pet anti-student policies,and tocreate many inconveniencesfor the student community in several day-lo-day affairs. Filling the vacuum arising from the absence ofJNUSU is agenuine, fe.
lt~need.
ofthe student community which must be addressed. .
It is true that even in the absence of JNUSU, its legacyof resistance was howeverkept alive through numerous protest actions and.
rw.>vements. Be it the massive struggle against usercharges and commercialization.or theprolonged movement against the faulty cut~ffcrHerionfor OBC students,or themovementtoreopen the JNUSU office, wehave spearheaded criticalmobilizationsto defeatthe designs ofthe state andthe administration.However, at each ofthese criticaljunctures, the limitations posed by the absence of an elected student bodywere clearly felt. .
In the last few months,both the All-organisation platform as well as theJoint Struggle Committeecameto be marked by repeated displays.
of sectarianism and petty one~upmanship, .
rather than by unity of purpose. For instance, even on aminimum question of opening thelocks on the JNUSU office this summer, SFIinordinately delayed the joint deliberation process and finally andrefused to join the united protestSimilarly,JSC was given a mandate by the very first UGBM of 25 October 2008 to unitedlycarry forward the struggle to defend the JNUSUconstitutionin JNU.Despite this UGBM mandate,some organizations (SFIand DSU) repeatedly undermined the JSC through sectarianism andone-upmanship,whichmade the process ofcollective decision-making almostimpossible. The student community hasrepeatedly seen howthe efficacy ofunited platforms ofstruggle has been weakened through such acts.Therefore,the need of the hour today fortheentireJNU community is an elected, accountable, representative platform of struggle that cannot be held ransom by .
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organisational bickering and attempts at political score-settling.We need a credible, accountable body to carry forward ALL ourstruggles on various issues-including the struggle againstLyngdohrecommendations. .
The UGBM of 6111 September 2010 gave the JSC amandate to initiate negotiationswith theamicus curiae Mr. Gopal Subramanium formaximum possible relaxations fromthe Lyngdoh recommendations. Asthe student community is well aware,these negotiations have come to anend. with Mr. Subramanium in principle agreeing to certain relaxations from the Lyngdoh recommendations in JNU's case.As per the 6111September2010 UGBM mandate, the results ofthese negotiations have to be placed before aUGBM for the student community to ratify or rejectAtthe upcoming UGBM of3 Oct 2011, AISA appeals to the student community to ratify these relaxatjons, so as to ensure JNUSUelections as well as aunited, credible, accountable platform ofstruggle. .
As soon as these relaxations were announced to the studentcommunity, some organisations (which have repeatedly tried to sabotage theprocess of negotiations)have started avirulent anti~campaign, .
appealing to the student community to reject theserelaxations.The relaxationsbeing offered by the amicus curiae are definitely an important step forward,though they are by NO MEANS perfect and we in fact agree with someofthe criticisms being put forward. .
AISA has anational position against Lyngdoh recommendations, and has consistently struggled against the imposition of Lyngdohrecommendations in JNU, as well as led national campaigns against Lyngdoh recommendations in several parts of the country. Despite their.
sound and fury, all that organizations like DSU have done so far against l yngdoh is to issue rabble~rousing leaflets ONLY priorto UGBMs, with the express purpose ofproving themselves more 'radical' than others. Have the students ofJNU ever seen DSUmobilrze opinion wrthin JNU on anyotheroccasion other than 'radical' leafleteering during UGBMs? Have they ever campaignedoutside JNU ormobilized any public opinion against the Lyngdoh recommendations? .
The Twin Challenge at Hand .
What the student community faces today is a twin challenge:to recognise and address the urgent need for elected representation and an.
effective, timctjonalplatform ofstruggle against anti-student policies, AND to resist the Lyngdoh agenda in JNU and beyond.DSU, in itsrhetoric.
against Lyngdoh, simply refused to address the problem posed by the long-term suspension ofelected representation to leadstudents' struggles.We do notfeel that the student communitY. can afford to do likewise.We need an effective way in which we can continue the.
struggle againstthe Lyngdoh agenda,while also correcting the serious Issue of indefinite delay in elected student representation. Even to.
continue an effective struggle against l yngdoh we need an elected and united body; more so in a situation where the unityofJSCstands underminedbycompetitive one-upmanship anddeliberate attempts to undermine1tbycertaingroups.This is where AISAfeels that thenegotiated relaxations in the Lyngdoh recommendations can be accepted by the studentcommunity asaninterim measure,while we continue ourstruggle against Lyngdoh. .
DSU,SFR and PSU are today undermining the hard work that has gone into the negotiations. According to them, accepting the relaxationswould be a'compromise'. The fact ofthe matter is: accepting the SC stay order indefinitely, accepting noJNUSU elections and noelected representation endlessly is ALSO acompromise.DSU's half-hearted 'suggestion' ofan elected JSC (which it did not even botherto put to vote at the 2Qih September UGBM!) is technically flawed. JSC is registered in ourSC case as aunited platfonn.Unlike JNUSU, JSC is .
DEFINED in SC as aunited body with some organizations (AIDSO, ABVP. DSU, SFI,AISA NSUI and PSU) as constituents. Howl then, can theconstitution and definition ofJSC be redefined by elections inwhich some constituents will win and some lose?! .
The student community is currently ata crucialjuncture, where aresponsible and mature response isrequired.Simply 'radical'phrase mongering does not help in addressing the twJi7challenges ofensuring afunctional, accountable platform of struggle againstanti-studentpolicies,and also an effective struggle againstthe Lyngdoh recommendations. .
Abhishek Kr. Yadav, Vice-President, AI SA, JNU Sucheta, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU .
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION.
NEW OELHI-11 0067Phone: 2671 7676, 2671 7557, 2670 4741 .
Memorandum .
To .
The H'ble Minister .
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For Human Resource Development. .
Government of India. .
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Date: 14-11-05Respected Sir. .
On behalf of the students of JNU, we would like to draw your attention to certain Issues concerning.
Indian education in general and our University in particular. on the occasion of your visii to JNU..
It has been a long-standing demand of the student community that elected students' representation.
should be provided in the Academic Council and the Boards of Studies of the University. Last year after aprolonged agitation by the students. the Administration had agreed to this demand. However. till date no suchelections have taken place due to the non-clearance of the proposal from your Min1stry. We would request you to ensure that your Ministry endorses the proposal for students' representation in the declsion-making .
bodies of JNU like the AC and BoS at the earliest. .
While JNU is one of the most prominent research centres in the country, it is unfortunate that our researchstudents do not get adequate financial support like scholarships/fellowships from the Government to pursue.
their r!3search. As a result many meritorious students are forced to abandon their research mid-way. We.
therefore demand that every needy student of our University be given financial assistance to facilitate hisor herresearch. Such scholarship may be named after the late Shrl K.R.Narayanan, former President of India and aformer Vice-Chancellor of JNU. Additionally. your Government had promised in the Union Budget 2005 toprovide Rajiv Gandhi fellowships to all SC/ST students pursuing research. However, till date this scheme has notbeen introduced. We req uest y ou to implement this scheme at the earlie$t and provide scholarships to all the.
SC/ST research scholars of JNU. .
The students of the Science Schools of JNU are facing a serious problem related to frequent instances ofdelay in the release of funds for the CSIR fellowship. We request you to look Into the matter and take steps toensure the timely release of the fellowship funds. .
We would also like to raise certain important issues related to the education sector of our country. Formore than a decode now, there has been a gradual decline in the funds allocated for higher education as aproportion of GOP. In order o develop India into an intellectually self-reliant country. it is of paramount.
importance that more funds are allocated for higher education. In the Common Minimum Programme of yourGovernment, it has been prom.
ised that 6% of GDP will be spent on education. We appeal to you to fulfill your.
commitment of spending 6% of GOP by stepping up public expenditure on educatio·n and reverse the.
declining trend in the proportion of fund allocation towards higher education..
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We are apprehensive about ihe efforts to enact the Private Universities Bi ll. We believe that PrivateUniversities are unnecessary for the development of higher education in our country. The experience of private.
institutions in professional education shows that while they charge exorbitant fees. the quality of education and.
infrastructure facilities provided by them are sub-standard. Moreover. we also consider the moves to allowforeign universities to operate in India and open up the education sector under the GATS as fu rthering theprocess of commercialization of education and being detrimental to our intellectual self-reliance. Therefore we.
appeal to you to discard the proposed Private Universities Bill and Instead fo cus upon improving the condition.
of the existent Universities. .
Another crucia l issue concerns the mushrooming of the private educational institutions. It is highlyunfortunate that the Supreme Court instead of strengthening the social and government control on these.
instituti~ns. .
f-)as recently delivered a judgement allowing these institutions to bypass the Constitutionally.
mandcnted· provision of providing reservation to students from deprived sections. We urge upon you to bringabout legislation to ensure that these Institutions conform to the Constitutionally mandated provision ofreservation to SC/STs and students from other deprived secHons, while also conforming to merit-basedadmissions and an affordable fee structure. .
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Dhananjay Tripathl Aranl Sinha.
Vice-President .
Joint Secretary .
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"The Process"
Ginzah / Cinzah Merkens
Museum of Transportation and Technology (MOTAT)
Auckland, New Zealand
February 11, 2018
I was an idiot and used 2 different cameras for this, to try to blend the higher quality of this dslr shot i had to pixalize the image and also add noise(thats right add). The end result wasn't really what i wanted but i had to deal, I was low on time. I should have trided for a more even lighting but i was an idiot on day 18 i guess.
I ended up actually trying to reduce the quality of the final image in a number of ways, jut to try to mask the varying quality of the images.
The Process live painting. 23 artist at the metropolis collective. Show is done but you tube videos and pieces of the canvas is for sale.
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February 27 2003 (To her mother).
as an anestheticfor weeks andthen in tlze evening or at night itjusthits me again-a little bit ofthe reality oftlze situation~ I am really scaredfor the explosive in the ground nearby-one that appears to have been plantedby Palestinian resistance. .
Jeeps because hethought his house wasgoing to be exploded. Jenny andI stayed in the house with several women andtwo small babies. It was our people here. Yesterday, I watchedafather lead his two tiny children, holding his hands, out into the sight oftanks and a sniper tower andbulldozers and .
Loveyou. Really missyou. I have badnightmares abouttanks andbulldozers outside ourhouse andyou andme inside. Sometimes the adrenaline .
actstheJtz, while tanks andbulldozers destroyed 25greenhouses-the livelihoods mistake ill translation that causedhint to think it was his house that was being exploded. Infact, theIsraeli army was in theprocess ofdetonating .
This is in the area where Sunday about 150 nten were roundedup andcontained outside the seUlement an .
the point ofentryfor tanks that 1night cotne back again. I was terrified to think that this tnafl felt it was less ofa risk to walk outin view ofthe tanks with .
with gunfire over their heads andaround .
probably because I felt it was ourtranslation problems that made him leave. for 300people. The explosive was right infront ofthe greenhouses-.
l right in his kids than to stay in his house. I was really scared that they were allgoing to be shot andI tried to standbetween them and the tank. This happens .
every day, butjustthisfather walking out with his two little kidsjustlooking very sad, just happenedto get nty attention more at thisparticular moment, .
(the closest city in Israel) make what used to be a 40-minute .
I thought a lot about whatyou said on the phone about Palestinian violence nothelping the situation. Sixty thousand workersfrom RaJah workedin co11nection to the resistance but who happen to live along the border. I think it is maybe official now thatRafah is the poorestplace in the world. There Israel twoyears ago. Now only 600 can go to Israelforjobs. Ofthese 600, many have moved, because the three checkpoints between here andAshkelo11 .
sources ofeconomicgrowth are allco1npletely destroyed-the Gaza internationalairport (runways demolished, .
drive, now a 12-ltour or itnpassiblejourney. In addition, whatRaJah identified in1999 as .
usedto be a middle class here-recently. We also get reports that in thepast, Gazanjlower shipmentsto Europe were delayedfor two weeks atthe Erez bulldozers totally closed); the borderfor trade with andthe Gush Katifsettlement). The countoflzoJttes destroyed in RaJah since the beginning ofthis intifada is up around 600, by andlarge people with no Egypt (now with a giant Israeli snipertower in the middle ofthe crossi11g); access to the ocean (completely cutoffin the last two years by a checkpoint .
crossingfor security inspections. You can imagine the value oftwo-week-old.
Ifany ofus hadourlives and welfare contpletely cutflowers in the European1narket,.
meanstoprotect whateverfragments so thatmarketdried up. Andthen the .
care and cultivation. .
come andtake outpeople's vegetablefarms andgardens. What is leftfor people? Tell me ifyou COil think ofanything. I can't. thatsoldiers andtanks andbulldozers couldcomefor us at any 11wmentand destroy all the greenhousesmostpeople woulddefendthemselves strangled, lived with children in a shrinkingplace where we knew, because ofprevious experience,.
You askedme aboutnon-violent that we hadbeen cultivating.
resistance~ for however long,.
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re11wined? I think aboutthis especially when I see orchards andgreenhouses.
When that explosive detonatedyesterday it broke allthe windows in thefamily's house. I was in the process ofbeing servedtea andplaying with the $' andfruit trees destroyed-anddidthis while some ofus were beaten and heldcaptive with 149 otherpeoplefor severalhours-do you think we mighttry to use somewhat violent .
as bestthey could. I think Uncle Craig would. I thinkprobably Grandma would. I think I would. .
justyears of I think aboutyou and how Long it takes to make things grow and what a labour oflove it is. I really think, in a similar situation, .
two small babies. I'm having a hardtime right now. Justfeel sickto my stomach a lotfrom being doted on allthe time, very sweetly, bypeople who are .
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