PaRCha – JNU – DSU – 2011 ID-58360
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up to the stage,or the hootings made at every cultural . same reactionary, ~ With yourbitter, twistea ~~l function, it makes that woman (and other women} an obJect regressive anti-~ You may trod me in the very d,tt .
to be consumed by the male gaze. Is that not harassment ~ Butstill, like dust, I’ll rise..
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too? And what of the streets, buses, hostels, dhabas, .
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classrooms or even protest sites in JNU? What of the words, ~ .
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handshakes, the regular drunken misbehaviours in places and no issue Is a ~ .
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like 24*7 dhaba, or the disgusting stares, that others do not . . h~tefuln~ss, ~ .
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seem to even see? Even in aprogressive university like JNU alone. The fight for Butstt/1, like a1r, 171 nse. ~ .
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this is the harsh reality which women students are forced to fair wages for the Out ofthe huts ofhistory’s i.
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movement and particularly its progressive womensand smash :………………………..; .
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movement. GSCASH is aproduct of that movement, not the .
source of it. Of late however, there is an attempt to replace feudalism. The rape and murder of Manorama Devi in .
Manipur, the mass rape in Kunan Poshpora in Kashmir by .
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this very movement with onlythe institution of GSCASH. the Indian army, the attack on counfiess adivasi women in This not only undermines ground-level struggles for women’s central and eastern India by the state forces or the notorious rights, it also weakens GSCASH. It is because collective Salwa Judum demonstrates the particular vulnerability of movement of progressive students is the only way of truly women to all forms of attacks, discrimination and strengthening GSCASH. Otherwise, it just remains one of deprivation. The fight for women’s rights can only be fought the many toothless committees in JNU, an advocacy body .
with the collective strength of struggles waged against all that is dependent on the whims and fancies of apro status forms of oppression, and not in iso1ation. This has been the .
quo, anti-student administration. lesson of the students’ movement of our campus, as well as .
Only acollective and conscious movement of students the revolutionary women’s movement of this country .
around GSCASH can effectively strengthen it. A exemplified by mass organisations like Krantikari Adivasi .
movement that collectively ensures that woman students feel Mahila Sangathan of Bastar, Nari Mukti Sangh of Bihar-.
confident enough to report cases of sexual harassment and Jharkhand or nari lllat Bachao Samiti of Jangal Mahal. To .
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are not forced to retreat owing to mounting social pressures. strengthen and expand lhe scope of GSCASH and to revive .
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Aconscious movement that rejects and resists the culture of the women’s movement in this campus, we must build .
slander, flaunting of male machismo, asking for sexual bridges between movements that are being fought for the .
favours or harassing women in any fonn.Where women are democratization of education and of the campus at large. .
not forced to constantly adjust their behaviour according to ‘ representatives.
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DSU believes that the elected students.
the male choices or diktats. Bodies and minds are not forced in GSCASH has acrucial role to play in meeting the .
and tortured to adhere to beauty, chastity, housewife roles .
and rules-the prevalent feudal and consumerist morality. challenges faced by GSCASH, for which it is necessary’s.
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J that we do not feign political ‘neutrality’ of the studentWe must recognize that atrocious incidents like the MMS .
scandal has happened in our self-proclaimed progressive representatives, but rather choose our representatives .
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campus along with numerous other incidents of violence and to GSCASH on the basis of their .
politics. We therefore appeal to.
harassment. The right-wing forces whose politics flow solely the student community to support.
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from fascism and feudalism play amajor role in maintaining .
and elect Shriya-the DSU.
the oppressive assaults of patriarchy and its crude .
candidate for the post of GSCASH"’.
manifestations in the campus too. The blatant shielding of students’ representative..
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sexual harassers by various so-called ‘left’ organizations like .
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