RESIST FORCED EVICTION OF STUDENTS IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000114865387#!/group.php?gid=135067129852679
Students of Government Hostels in Delhi University are, without prior notice, being removed from their legitimate accomodation, and without any information about alternative housing options. With thousands of students without accomodation, we will see severe inflation of private accomodation, where rates will skyrocket, with no controlling mechanism. Not all students can afford expensive accomodation. The University is displacing its own students until late October until the Commonwealth Games are over. This is only an extension of a broader policy of blindly displacing legitimate residents, first from the Yamuna banks, then from slum settlements, and now it is finally affecting the student community. This is the price of our silence during all the other displacements during the drive to make Delhi a "World-Class" city - we are now tasting the policies of blind development, where rights cease to matter before the megalomania of the State. It is time now for us to break this silence and unite with all those affected by this disastrous project which is costing people their homes. Students all over the world have been protesting mindless policies of the State, and it is now time for us to radicalise and agitate for an end to the despotic nature of the University, and above it, the State. There has been a wave of radical and assertive students movements all over the world lately, which are not afraid to do what it takes to win their demands. At the University of California, there was a strong student movement last year against fee hikes and job cuts amongst faculty. The students occupied central buildings in the University, and we not afraid to face the authorities because they all stood in unity. In the National Autonomous University of Mexico, recently, there were huge strikes against an attempt to charge fees in a system where higher education has traditionally been free. Despite attempts of the administration to make the students compromise, the students stood strong against moves to make university learning inaccessible. There have also been powerful student movements in Greece and Japan. University students in India have an image of being passive automatons and learning-machines, who do not react to bad university policies or political moves (like the recent semester system). It is time to prove the authorities wrong, and ACT NOW TO STOP DISPLACEMENT IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES. This group is merely a beginning, for people to brainstorm on how to begin an agitational campaign, to coordinate and organise. Please invite as many people as you can to this group. This is our opportunity to create a positive student politics of resisting the State and its unjust and draconian policies!! Inquilab Zindabad! -- " The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings." - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
