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Note: no signs of squash bug eggs. Healthy and bushy in habit. Relatively early fruit set.
Note 7-16-11, eggs found in abundance. Little suckers are prolific.
There's no good excuse, really. If I watered more, she would be alive. Still, I have only so much water bill to go around. Cucumber harvest may be thin this year.
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STUDEN.TS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
SFI salutes to the revolutionary memory of Com. Chandrashekharl Ex-JNUSU president who was killed by the goon .
of Shahabuddin and resolves to carry foJWard the struggle for an egalitarian social order for which Com .
Chandrashekhar made the supreme sacrifice. .
SFI-GBM .
Agenda: JNUSU's Charter of Demands; ISOLATE TilE IHVISIVE ;\NU UESTI~t:('TI\'E FORCES!! .
Any other matter Jrd April 9.30 pm Sutlej Mess l i ~ITI·: TO Fl!l.FII.I. .J;\1( iSll'S CIIAI{'ITR OF I)L\1.\NUS!!! .
01-04..06Friends, .JNU's student movement and acaden1ics faced severe threat from c~mmunalfascistic onslaught ofRSS-.
BJP-ABVP in last one decade. It was the heroic battle thatJNU's lef't and democratic students fought, particularly , .
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during the NDA regime, which ensured that the secular and democratic fabric of our university remains intact. .
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JNUSU under the leadership ofSFI-AISF successfully resisted the then NDA government's attempt to introduce .
obscurantist courses likeAstrology and Karmakand and Yogic Sciences andHuman Consciousness. The SF1-AISF led .:· .
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JNUSU successfully fought against the introduction of X-Plan proposal overtly meant to communalize and commercialize JNU's education system. While the BJP led NDA made every possible attempt to destroy the .
progressive and socially sensitive character of our university through governmental pressures and mechanisms, .
ABVP played the most communal and destructive politics within campus by attempting to divide students on communal, caste and regional lines. In its fight against fascistic forces, the SFI-AISF led JNUSU always ensured broader unity of democratic minded students which resulted into defeats ofRSS-ABVP's sectarian andcommunal .
politics in our campus. Creation of progressive institutions like GSCASH and Equal Opportunity Office had been one of the .
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important aspects of struggle against the casteist and patriarchal politics of Sangh Parivar. Hence it was not .
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surprising that organization like ABVP always stood against formation ofGSCASH and anykind ofattempts of .
gender sensitization. Today, when GSCASH is underattack from the administration, the organizations like ABVP-.
NSUI andJPF are completelysilent on the new undemocratic andunjust rules ofGSCASH. We appeal to these .
.. organizations to clarify its position on new rules and procedures of GSCASH which had been imposed in .
the most undemocratic manner on the student community. While SFI-AISF ledJNUSU is demanding more .
teeth for Equal Opportunity Office and its democratization, the casteist and opportunistorganizations like ABVP-.
JPF-NSUI are again silent on this very important demand of student con1munity. We appeal to the student .
community to be vigilant against any attempt on the part ofthese rightist organizations to scuttle this demand by .
dividing the students and allying with the administration. Wewouldlike to remindthat ABVP had the history of .
taking out a procession against JNUSU and burning the JNUSU's effigy when JNUSU was leading a .
struggle against administration in the form of indefinite hunger strike demanding formation of GSCASH .
and construction of hostels. In 2004, when SFI-AISF led JNUSU called for academic strike demanding .
students, representation in Academic Council, increase in the MCM amount, Book Bank and other .
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demands, ABVP took a stand against students' strike. Since then ABVP had never answered why it was so .
much against all those important demands. Students of this campus cannot forget how ABVP vitiated the campus by taking out the venomous processionagainst members ofthe minority community after the Godhra incident. It was the same rank and file of ABVP that indulged in large scale violence, on the provocation ofAshok Singhal, against thepeaceful protesters on lOth August, 2002. Again, it attacked thepeaceful screening ofaward-winning documentary Final Solution andpublic meeting of S.A.R. Geelaru in 2004. JNU administratio,n, till date, has not punished these perpetrators of violence and even after reconstitution of Harjit Singh Committee, administration is most unwilling to ' ,. .
proceed·with the enquiry of the 17th August, 2004 incident. We demand imn1ediate reconvening of the Harjit Singh Committee enquiry and speedy pun ishment to the guilty. SFI appeals to all its members and .
sympathizers to attend organisation's GBM to deliberate on the JNUSU's charter ofdemands andto strengthen Ot.!-r fight .ainst communal and fascistic forces. .
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After the Jessica Lal murder case judgement, in yet another decision, the court has not punished anybody for the murder of a .
nnvnising cartoonist lrfan. It ag~in raises serious doubts on the capabilities of Delhi Police to bring the guilty to book. We demand that. like Jessica LaJ case, inthis casealso the Delhi police must appeal in the higher fora and ensure justice. .
Sd-/ Subhanil Chowdhary, Secretary,JNU-SFI.
Sd-/ Rajiv Kr. Ranjan, President, JNU-SFI .
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.JA,VAIIARLAL NEIIRll llNIVEI{SI'rY STUDENTS UNION .
28 F~bruary, 2002.
PRESS RELEASE .
With the BJfJ-Ied government at the Centre and M.M. Joshi as the HRD-Minister, the progressive, secular,.
democratic, scientific and rational content of our higher education system is increasingly coming underattack. A lot of dubious moves are being made by the HRD Ministry and the UGC which seek to destroy the.
credibility and social relevance of university education in India. The recent X Plan Profile prepared by the.
UGC is another step in this direction which exposes the academic bankruptcy and ignorance of those who.
are at the helm of affairs. This document is guided only by the principles of privatization, commercialization.
and commercialization of education. .
It is extremely unfortunate that the JNU Administration has chosen to capitulate before this onslaught.Rather than questioning the dubious formulations of UGC's X Plan Profile and defending the academiccredibility of JNU, the Vice-chancellor and few others in the JNU Administration have gone out of the way tocompromise the academic integrity and progressive character of our university. The X Plan Proposal of.
JNU was prepared hurriedly during winter vacations and submitted to the UGC without any meaningful.
discussion in any academic fora of the university. This arbitrary, unde1nocrdtic. attitude and the deliberate.
adhocism shown by our Vice-chancellor, who has finished his term as JNU VC in November, has put thefuture of our university under grave threat. .
The X Plan Proposal of JNU contains arbitrary recommendations for autonomous Centres like Centre forthe Study of Human Consciousness, (already rejected by the Academic Council}, Centre of Cultural Policyand Development Studies, History of Science, Technology and Medicine etc. which contain in its ambit.
disciplines like purohitya and jyotirvigyan which do not qualify as scientific disciplines, but rather reflect the.
implemer:'tation of a polit~cally motivated sectarian agenda. This proposal also dl'srega d th.
the open1ng of commerc1al courses in JNU but reco ..
and certificate courses in SLL&CS and SSS b 'I.
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mm~ndsfurther proliferation of self-financed diploma.
does not co~tain important ~tudents n~l~tP.n ~::,:sJ~o~tlnuatlo~ of the ~i~~reOited ~IT Th~ ~ a~_,...al c>bu.
"~ e.-hlarohtp uf ~C/~ I StUdents and other dfun~.. l.k.-.t cyuranza~IOn of Maht-Mandavi Mess, pt-ovisions for library, sports the list of grievances ofth~es~ sectrons, recn~rtm~nt ot. staff in Health Centre, more.
polltrcal spectrum of the student communit .
is unite~d.
Issues were discussed yesterday in the U~iversit .ent comf!lun.lty With t~IS plan is endless. The entire.
resolution was passed unanimously: In the rejeCtion ~f this X Plan Proposal. All theseY General Body Meeting of Students and the following"The UGBM. categorically rejects the X Plan Pro osal ·.
repre~entat1ve plan of the university It has b .
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democratic procedures of JNU and ~effects e~~· rna be In total defa.nce of the existing rules and .
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within JNU with the agenda of Saffronisation ~~d mg.
We refuse to compromise the character of N ut ~ ~om~rom1se made by vested interestscomme~ca.zatl~n of education..
move in defense of the secular, progressi:e ~~~f~re ~~Is d~bol~c agenda and resolve to fight this.
system. We demand the immediate withdraV:,al of t~~a IC ~n ratlo~al component of our education.
from the UGC and the subsequent pre arati .
f IS un emocratlcally prepared X Plan Proposal.
bodies as well as in consultation with jNUS~ ~N~T~e~~~ka~ through discussion in statutory.
inclusion of the demand for mess staff for Mah'i Mthe fresh plan as per agreement with the JNUsu< an davl'. h t 1 & JNUOA. We also demand theos e and other forthcoming hostels in!he following resolution was also passed by the UGBM of all students:.
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VIO ence oes not spread any where else. In this connection th' UGBM t 1.
tthe Cet ntAral Government to immediately intervene to stop the movement of Karseva~ss mobilis!~~nygt~eu~g~~.
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Albeena ShakilPresident, JNUSU Ginu Z. OommenGen. Secy. JNUSU .
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Still don't know if it's drought, disease or both. Sad, these were the most hardy and prolific of the rootstock I purchased last year.
i was walking to work sometime in the winter in 2007 in the bronx and this was actually out there lol .. i had to shoot it
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A Party, Its Intellectuals, and The ldeotogical Quagmire.
! l2.11.09 "I am specially requestmg them (Congress supporters) to support the Left for the sake of peace, orderand .Democracy is underattack, peace is disturbed. We had restored peace and.
development m the state .
democracy in 1977 w1th people's support.... We hadprovided unconditional support to the Congress in the mterest of the country and to fight communalism." .
Jyoti Basu~ in an appeal to Congress supporters to vote for the Left in the recently held by-elections (see www.zeenews.com, CPI-M seeks Jyoti Bosu 's services in countering Trinamool, Nov 1. 2009) .
On the eve ofthe assembly by-polls in W Bengal, CPI(M) made a last-ditch attempt to regain at least some ofits lost turf: it got an ailing Jyoti Basu to issue a fervent appeal to Congress sympathisers to vote for the Left Front!However, this .
desperate begging ofvotes from the Congress did not bail out the CPI(M), which suffered a rout in the by-elections. It is notabll' that tht CPI(M) did not consider correcti11g its course (the course of corporate land grab, neo-liberal policies and state repression, first independently and now in partnership with the Congress). Rather, it' hoped to escape people's punishment in the elections by echoing Chidambaram in raising the .
'Maoist' bogey and appealing to the Congress to support the Left Front to counter the 'Maoist' threat! Jyoti Basu's letter refers, interestingly, to the ''restoration of peace and democracy" in 1977 by the Government headed by him. The year is signiftcctj1t -it is the year in which the entire country defeated the infamous Emergency imposed by the Congress regime. Jybt'i Babu actually appealed for the vote and support ofthe very forces ofthe Congress which brutally assaulted peace and democracy throughout the state-terror ofthe early 1970s leading up to the Emergency of 1974. Todny the CPI(M) is shnmefully partnering the Congress in once again assaulting democracy and imposing a virtual Emcrgc.tcy, raising the bogey of 'Maoism' to justify corporate land grab and all-out repres-.
sion on people's movements. To lend the 'appeal' a personal touch and 'above party' appearance, Jyoti Basu's statement was typed on blank paper rather than on the party letterhead. CPI (M) Politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP from Bengal Sitaram Yecburi endorsed the statement in the following words: "Jyoti Basu is a senior political father figure ... [he} has risen above party politics. He is talking about the country, the countrysfuture .... " .
Will SFI and CPI(M) tell us -why do the great stalwarts of CPI(M)'s parliamentary practice -be it Jyoti Basu or Somnath Chatterjee -manage to rise 'above party politics' and closer to the Congress 'party'?! (ln .
the process, Somnath Chatterjee, of course, rose so much above the party that he actually preferred to quit the party rather than vote against the Congress-led UPA Government on the floor ofParliament-and often claimed the blessing of,_. Jyoti Basu in so doing; the latter never refuted this claim). Predictably, the Congress rudely rebutTed the proposal, and Jyoti Basu's appeal only invited personal humiliation for the pnrty's senior-most lcad~:r aud ~::-.pns~:d the ~.:ompktl..! idcologi~.:nl bankruptcy that the CPI(M) is displaying.Reliance on own plank of'saving the country from Maoism') did not save the CPI(M) from suffering.
the Congress {and the Congress' yet.another drubbing in its former bastion ofWest Bengal. Meanwhile, intellectuals, who are either card-holder members of CPI(M) or are close to the CPI(M), have issued n statement (Concerned Citizens on "Maoist" Violence) that yet again reveals the intellectual .
bankruptcy of the CPI(M). r .
The statement begins with the line, "There has been a spate ofgrowing murder and violence in certain areas of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal by armed persons acting on behalfof the 'CPI (Maoist)"' Clearly the CPlCM) inte.llectuols share and echo the Indian State's own claim that 'Maoist violence' is the central issue for the country-especially in the states named above. But for the people at large, it is clear that .
it is these very states that are the main sites of corpora.te land grab, brutal eviction of adivasis and state .
repression in service of corporates. The statement then says, "While every conscious citizen opposes acts ofoppression committed by members of the exploiting clusses or individuals in the slate apparatus, the so-called "Maoists, " by their violent acts of .
vendetta, torture and gruesome killings, are gravely damaging the cause ofthe popular democratic movement. " .
Do these CPI(M) intellectuals want us to forgot the basic Marxist precepts about the State? Is oppression .
merely a set of isolated 'acts' committed by individual 'members' ofexploiting classes and state apparatuses? Isn't the .
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Stateitselfan organ ofclass rule? Does the State not have an agenda of oppression and repression ofpopular democratic movements? We too hold that the Maoist tactics are damaging the cause of popular democratic movements. But most of the .
CPI(M) intellectuals who are signatories to this statement must tell us: why did they not support the popula r democratic movements nt Singul', Nandigntm, Lalgarh? Why were they silent and supportive of the West .
Bengal State Govcmment when it unleashed brutal repression on those popular democratic movements? 1,.T.O. .
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