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College students, World Service, Kashmir & Dr Sen – 2011


College students, World Service, Kashmir & Dr Sen – 2011: On Wednesday twenty sixth January 2011 the Schooling Activist Community had referred to as for college kids to return to a protest in Trafalgar Sq. in opposition to training cuts. But it surely wasn’t clear what they supposed to do and few had bothered to return. Ultimately most of them determined to go to affix the NUJ protest in opposition to cuts within the BBC World Service at Bush Home which I had additionally been desiring to go to. And because it was India’s Republic Day there have been additionally a few protests exterior the Indian Excessive Fee just a few yards down the highway from there.


Scholar Day of Motion – Trafalgar Sq.

The occasion organisers, the Schooling Activist Community who describe themselves as “group of educationalists, lecturers, and college students who marketing campaign in opposition to cuts in grownup, additional and better training” had referred to as on college students to stroll out of their colleges and schools and are available to a protest in Trafalgar Sq., however there appeared to have been little planning about what would then occur.

Students, World Service, Kashmir & Dr Sen - 2011

Fewer than 100 had turned up and there have been a few literature stalls gathering petition signatures and promoting the Socialist Employee and so on there gave the impression to be only one man with a megaphone. A number of others got here up and made quick speeches in opposition to the cuts and a Heritage Warden and myself took some images however no person knew what to do subsequent.

Students, World Service, Kashmir & Dr Sen - 2011

Just a few folks stood round holding Socialist Employee placards with the message F**Okay FEES – Save EMA – Free Schooling and others. After some dialogue most determined to march to Aldwych the place the NUJ have been holding a protest I had deliberate to {photograph} in opposition to cuts within the BBC World Service’.

Scholar Day of Motion


Save the BBC World Service – Bush Home, Aldwych

Students, World Service, Kashmir & Dr Sen - 2011

Bush Home was constructed overlooking Kingsway as a serious new commerce centre for American industrialist Irving T. Bush, who authorised its designs in 1919 however this imposing Portland Stone Grade II listed “most costly constructing on the earth” was solely lastly accomplished in 1935. Just a few years later in 1941 it turned utilized by the BBC and have become the headquarters of the BBC World Service. The BBC’s lease expired round a 12 months after this protest and they didn’t renew it, with the constructing being taken over in 2015 by King’s School.

The BBC World Service has a well-deserved status as the very best on the earth and is a crucial a part of the UK’s ‘comfortable energy’. NUT Common Secretary jeremy Expensive who spoke on the protest put it effectively: “The variety of employees and their presence in so many key places world wide contributes to creating the BBC World Service the main voice in worldwide broadcasting. At its greatest the World Service can problem corruption, expose human rights abuses and promote democratic values. By chopping the service the federal government will minimize British affect in the remainder of the world, and cuts can even be deeply damaging for goal high quality information providers across the globe.

Authorities cuts within the grant from the UK’s International & Commonwealth Workplace for the World Service introduced in October 2010 and the switch of the service in 2014 fully to the license charges led the BBC in January 2011 to announce swingeing cuts, axing Portuguese for Africa, Caribbean English, Macedonian, Serbian and Albanian providers, the top of all shortwave radio providers and extra. These cuts have been estimated by the BBC to lead to a lack of greater than 30 million listeners internationally, together with in India, China and Russia.

The cuts have been additionally anticipated to lead to 480 BBC workers dropping their jobs in 2011 and an extra 170 by the point the service turned completely licence charge funded in 2014. Lots of the NUJ members participating within the protest can be amongst these made redundant.

Save the BBC World Service.


Free Kashmir & Khalistan – Indian Excessive Fee, Aldwych

Kashmiris and Sikhs held a protest collectively exterior the Indian Excessive Commision on Republic Day, the 61st anniversary of the Indian Structure, calling for the liberty that their nations have been denied by Indian army repression.

Kashmir was an historic kingdom, turning into a Muslim monarchy in 1439, later part of the Sikh empire however once more turning into a monarchy below British steering within the nineteenth century. However Kashmir – in addition to the Sikhs – have been unfairly mistreated within the negotiations for Indian independence and the 1947 partition.

Though Kashmir has am 80% Muslim inhabitants its then Maharajah ceded the dominion to India as a solution to defend his privilege and rule in opposition to an invasion by Pakistan. In return Kashmir was granted some restricted autonomy by the Indian Structure (revoked in 2019.)

Kashmiris campaigning for freedom from Indian rule have been savagely repressed and the nation has an enormous occupying drive of Indian troops and police, with widespread human rights abuses, many persevering with to be imprisoned, tortured and murdered.

Each India and Pakistan have been discovered by UN our bodies and different investigations to be responsible of widespread human rights abuses within the areas of Kashmir they administer. The UN in 1948 referred to as for the folks of Kashmir to be allowed to find out their future by a free and truthful vote, however this has by no means been potential because of the opposition of each India and Pakistan. A small a part of the nation can be occupied by China, likely additionally abusing human rights.

Protesting with the Kashmiris have been Sikhs, additionally uncared for at Partition which divided the Punjab between India and Pakistan. Widespread agitation for their very own unbiased state of Khalistan was accelerated by the 1984 assault by the Indian Military on the Golden temple at Amritsar, and the widespread anti-Sikh riots and killing which after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards which adopted. As in Kashmir, Sikhs in India have suffered widespread and persevering with human rights abuses.

Free Kashmir & Khalistan


Launch Binayak Sen Now – Indian Excessive Fee

Dr Binayak Sen is a extremely regarded Indian physician, internationally recognised for his work with indigenous and marginalised folks with a lifetime of service of the agricultural poor.

He helped set up a hospital serving poor mine staff in Chhattisgarh and based a well being and human rights organisation that helps group well being staff in 20 villages, and was an officer of the Individuals’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).

Dr Sen criticised the state Authorities’s atrocities in opposition to indigenous individuals who have been preventing the handover of their lands for mining, and their institution of an armed militia, the Salwa Judum, to battle in opposition to the Naxalite (Maoist) rebels within the space.

In 2007 he was arrested and charged with having hyperlinks with the Naxalities and was held in jail till granted bail two years later in Could 2009. However in December 2010, Dr Sen was discovered responsible of sedition and conspiracy and sentenced to life imprisonment. On the time of the protest his attraction was persevering with. He was granted bail in April 2011 and the case in opposition to him has not been pursued.

Launch Binayak Sen Now


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