Contribute for All India Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra-2014!
Contribute in building a new India!!
“When a state of obstruction traps people, they are reluctant for any kind of change, to break away from this trap and this state of inactivity, a revolutionary spirit is necessary; to change this situation, it is necessary to refresh the
spirit of revolution, so that humanity’s insides become dynamic.”
Bhagat Singh
In the context of India’s education system facing insidious assault from the twin dangers of neo-liberal corporate capital and communal-fascist forces along with entrenched upper-caste and patriarchal domination, there is an ever pressing need for building a strong resistance. Be it deteriorating condition of government schools; auctioning/closing/sale of government schools; policies encouraging privatization at all levels of education; policies promoting plunder of our pockets and public funds by private education shops; attacks on democratic spaces of the universities and the banning of teachers’, students’ and employees’ unions; increasing contractualization of teachers; plans to introduce sectarian, majoritarian and anti-people communal-fascist ideas, beliefs and practices in curriculum in name of “Indian values”, the list of communal-fascist and neo-liberal attacks on education is endless.
With the objective of building a protracted struggle to resist commercialization and communalization of education and to establish a fully free and state-funded Common Education System that is capable of realizing a just, democratic, secular, socialist and humane society in our country, All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE), along with its member and fraternal organizations, is organizing an All India Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra-2014 (AISSY-2014). The AISSY-2014 would commence on 2nd November 2014, in solidarity with Irom Sharmila’s struggle for democracy, in all states/UTs of the country. In addition, nation-wide zonal Yatras will also begin from five different points in North-East, South, West, East and North of India. Crossing through diverse cultural, historical, linguistic, political, social and geographical mass of our country the Yatra will culminate on the 4th of December 2014 in Bhopal in solidarity with 30-years long struggle of Bhopal gas leak disaster victim’s struggle against imperialism. All IndiaShiksha Sangharsh Yatra-2014 aims to establish the fact that there is no alternative to a radical transformation of our education system which requires building a national movement through widespread mobilization of all sections of the people of India.
Such a historic and Herculean task requires unprecedented amount of support, solidarity and participation.AIFRTE believes that resources for a people’s movement should come from the people only and therefore we do not take any financial support from any government body or the NGOs. AIFRTE appeals for your considerate financial contribution to meet the challenge of building a new India through an equitable education system.
Come forward for this historic struggle!
Reclaim education!! Reclaim India!!
To donate funds for All India Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra-2014, contact any of the following:
All India Shiksha Sangharsh Yatra Conveners:
Prince Gajendra Babu (Chennai) - 09445683660; Guddi S.L. (Mumbai) - 09869059860; &
Lokesh Malti Prakash (Bhopal) - 09407549240;
AIFRTE Organising Secretary: Ramesh Patnaik (Hyderabad) - 09440980396;
AIFRTE Office Secretary: Vikram Amarawat (Ahmedabad)- 08128293711
Email - aifrte.secretariat@gmail.com; aifrte.shikshayatra2014@gmail.
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