---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vijayan MJ <[email protected]> Date: 14 August 2010 16:33 Subject: Urgent - ALL is not Well, students teach CWG organisers and they demand your active presence & solidarity in this struggle To:
*Dear friends,* * * *Delhi University students *are finally turning the heat on University authorities, Delhi Govt and the CWG organisers. Thrown to the streets after their hostels have been surrendered to Commonwealth Games organising committee by the greedy University/college establishments, the students are up in arms (though not literally, yet) against a system thats denying them any space in their own campuses. However, their struggle is not for themselves of for their hostel rights; they are fighting for labour rights in this city and against the national shame and disaster this Commonwealth Games business has become for India's working people and poor...*.* * * *F*or us, in Delhi Solidarity Group, this is a moment when some of our own comrades have pulled-off this rather stunning opposition among University students that has the potential to stun Kalmadies of the UPA and the CWG organising lobby... We need to join them in our own ways, as friends, comrades, as parents (!) - upholding them, their spirit, sitting with them at the dharna sthal, raising resources for their programmes across the university, getting pamphlets made for them, etc (being some ways).* * * * *P*ls remember that nothing compensates for your active presence and solidarity. Writing about them and their struggle, sending petitions supporting their demands to Government, bringing diverse groups from all over to understand their struggle and provide solidarity, talking about their struggle to other constituencies in this city, etc are also good ways of providing solidarity to them at this moment*. * * * *L*ets remember that this could be the beginning of what could well be the end of the Commonwealth dirt. If someone could initiate it with so much energy and strength, it is the University friends and they have shown the way. They have stood with us in the past - for Narmada, for Singur, for Nandigram, for Chengara, for fishworkers, for Palestine, for Human Rights in Kashmir, for Kashipur, for Niyamgiri, against AFSPA... and the list is endless. They need us to stand with them, in this struggle of theirs, for their rights and demands..*.* * * *For *all we know, they may create history ... and we are sure they will script a new victory* ! * *Today, *it is our privilege to be part of that. After all, it is for all of us, for democracy, that they are on the warpath... * * *Venue: Arts Faculty, Univ of Delhi North campus - 9am to 9pm...* * * *Kindly read and circulate the below note (prepared and circulated by UCD friends)... * * Regards,* * * Tarini Manchanda, Shabnam Hashmi, Joe Athialy, Bhupendra Rawat, Kalyani Menon-Sen, Kaveri Rajaraman, Vimalbhai, Rajendra Ravi, Sunita Rani, Bipin CC, Purnima Ramanujan, Sherebanu Frosh, Anita Kapoor, Anil T Varghese, Sandeep Ekka, Abhay Xaxa, Aanchal Kapoor, Shalini Sharma, Madhuresh Kumar, Kabir Arora, Vijayan MJ* & others in DSG *collective...* * * * * * *The University Community for Democracy is initiating a relay hunger strike from 12th of Aug onwards between 9 a.m and 9 p.m at Arts Faculty, North Campus, DU against:* * * · *Eviction of students and labouring poor of the city in the name of Commonwealth Games* · *Violation of legally guaranteed labour standards in the University in particular and in the city in general.* · *Lack of rent control around the university which has resulted in the sky rocketing of rent rates making accommodation for common students unfordable. * · *Arbitrary decision making and shrinking of democratic space.* Everyday 5 people (teachers, students, researchers and activists) will be on hunger strike and rest would join in solidarity. UCD is a forum that has formed in the university with the intent of resisting the outrageous and deeply undemocratic manner in which Delhi as well as the university is being re-engineered for the 12 day commonwealth games. As the games are drawing closer it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to mask the exploitative and unjust nature of the ‘world class city’ that being imposed on the citizens of Delhi. As members of the university community we urge you to join our relentless battle against oppressive state action that will only intensify as the weeks go by. This hunger strike provides us the opportunity to come together in solidarity as students, teachers, activists, journalists and all those who have been disposed by the state in the name of national pride. Let us come together and ask What is this aggressive nationalism which is obsessed with making hollow political assertions of super-powerdom while neglecting the labouring lives of millions? Let us gather and demonstrate our collective strength by asserting our rights and resisting the repressive attempts made to silence the people of the city. -- Ranjit -- 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.
