#STUDENT MOVEMENT

[shihlun]

Beijing, 1989.

[hojarascart]

We are revolting children! 

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[curtwilde]

Throughout the day I have seen enough to have lost my faith completely in the quota reform movement. I still believe in the students and I respect those protecting the mandirs and police stations in their neighborhood. But I saw a bunch of policemen being burnt alive and their corpses hung upside down in the police station. Whatever spirit of revenge led to this, nothing, absolutely nothing in this world can ever justify it.

[ilovepencils]

TOMORROW WE START ANEW TOWARDS A COUNTRY WE WANT, TOWARDS A COUNTRY WE SHALL HAVE.

DEMOCRACY,

NOT DICTATORSHIP.

[studynxiety]

Im not sure if anyone cares, but im back in contavt with my friends after nearly 100 hours of blackout in Bangladesh. Im so happy. I missed them so much. If this shows up on your feed, contact that one friend you have been meaning to talk to, call the people you love and tell them. You never know what might happen. More than anything, i am just glad that everyone is safe.

For context: bangladesh has been in a state of civil unrest for the last week. On july 18th, 9 pm bangladesh time, the govt effectively cut off cell reception and internet and the country was in complete black out until yesterday night when some regions started to regain network. This was the longest communication blackout in the country.

The reason for the civil unrest is simple: students protested against an unfair quota system over civil service jobs. The government responded with state violence which angered the poeple even more so it turned into a quota movement + overall antigovernment movement. There has been confirmed 300+ deaths and educated guesses estimate more than 1000 people died.

[its-zaina]

Harvard University🇵🇸.

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[transgenderpussycat]

students ar copenhagen have startet their encampment in solidarity with gaza today. They have named the encampment Rafah garden.

[earthleave]

এবার খুলনায় কোচিং সেন্টারের শিক্ষক কর্তৃক ছাত্রী লাঞ্ছিত | PTI Khulna

[acepumpkinpatrick]

I know exactly how this feels to the dot. My country was in this exact same situation 4 years ago. It is horrible. You don't need to be sorry. It will never stop hurting or being shocking 💔

I hope from the bottom of my heart that your country's uprising turns out better than mine.

This is my message from Bangladesh

i'm sorry but this is going to be political, but my country's students are currently at war with the government. beleive it or not, we are being mowed down with bullets in our own country, only because we spoke up about our rights about equality in job sectors. they are killing students of ALL AGE, when i say that i mean from kindergarteners to university students. what started as a peaceful protest about the quota system of our country soon turned into a blood bath, all because the govt leaders ordered the specific section of students under them to attack the protesting students, more that 50 students have alr died and more are being hunted down and killed. and now they have deployed police forces.

PLEASE, please respond to our calls, spread this news as fast as you can. they are turning off mobile data nation wide, and i'm currently using a vpn to post this. my hands are shaking and there's gunshots outside my window. no student are safe, people i know have been shot in the chest for joining protests.

being at war with my own country's leaders was not something i would've thought of happenning even 5 days ago, but here i am holed up in my room refreshing my feed with shaking hands just get news of more of my brothers dying.

i'm sorry this isnt what i post usually, but i cant right now, the martyrs had so much to live for, they are aspiring students, briliiant minds of this country. and now their parents and friends mourn their untimely death.

[townpostin]

Congress Silence on Violence Against Bangladesh Hindus in Dangerous: Rajeev Ranjan Singh

Rajiv Ranjan Singh criticizes Congress leaders for failing to condemn the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. BJP leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh has called for immediate action to stop the deadly attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, urging Congress leaders to speak out on the issue. JAMSHEDPUR – BJP leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh has expressed deep concern over the ongoing violence against Hindus in…

[bhaskarlive]

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head B’desh interim govt: Student Movement

Coordinators of the Anti Discrimination Student Movement on Tuesday said that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government.

In a video on social media, coordinators of the Movement said that they have spoken to Yunus who has given his ascent for the same, The Daily Star reported.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Yet, as seen in the case of Todai, the Zenkyôtô movement rapidly deviated from a struggle for rights claims to a student rebellion that upheld self-negation and the dismantling of the university as such. This spread immediately to universities across the nation. At precisely the same moment that research in the university and the positionality of professors was subject to intense critique, this form of critique also became internal to the student population. Students themselves were asked to manifest their self-critique in the same way that they had demanded of their professors. Certainly, in contrast to those who were persecuted in the name of "self-negation," there was the motivation of indicting the elite social status of Todai students. Yet, this slogan quickly spread to the broader Zenkyōto movement across the country. Breaking with one's social determination (the class stratum of worker or student) in rebellion is part of what defines the rebellious subject, but it gradually became a kind of ethical self-expression of the excess of rebellion, in a form missing even from this definition. Once again, the Zenkyōtō fundamentally transformed the style of politics. It replaced the emphasis on the "we," sustained by Marxism's scientific analysis, with the entrance of the "I" as the grammatical subject of the political text. Even when put forward with the grammatical subject "we," in truth, it was the self-expression of multiple individual "I"s. To say that rebellion was liberated from revolution is also to say that another political style and grammar was liberated from the prior style of the political text. This was the actualization of the themes of rebellion and politics, which, at the same time, destroyed the consensus that education was a sort of cooperative enterprise between teachers and students in the university as a site.

Education is a system composed of teachers and students, one premised on their inequality or asymmetry. But this inequality is meant to function precisely in order to eliminate the inequality itself. The pupil is brought up to the level of the teacher. The teacher's capability for specialization, however, negates the self within the pupil, and so, paradoxically, one must be particularly strict in self-awareness with respect to one's own professionalism. This is the originary self-contradiction of what it means to educate, but sometimes the contradiction loses its substance and is transformed into a type of relation between teacher and pupil, resulting in the systematization of inequality. So long as education consists of the teacher bringing the pupil to a higher lend there can be no equality. To be a professor at Todai is to be a figure of authority, a leader. These leaders take their own authority to be stable as a function of being leftist intellectuals, and self-deceivingly hide the fact that they themselves are precisely the figures of cultural power in the postwar era. Is this not exactly the form of the university today, mere shadow of its former self from the days of postwar democracy.

The Zenkyōtō students wanted nothing less than to bring down teachers and the university to this point of origin that is the contradiction of education. What seems to be an excessively ethical fixation on the self and other could be interpreted as an attempt to persevere toward this point of origin. The students self-negated the position of pupil, but the could never begin without the teachers' self-renouncement of their privileged position. And as this was intolerable for the teachers themselves, it could only function as an absurd demand. Perhaps, deep down the professors were simply disgusted by the idea that some student with the bearing of a teenager could have the temerity to try to grasp their specialized research but since declaring openly that students were incapable of understanding would make the professors fearful of how they were perceived, so what if this asymmetry between teacher and pupil remained fast in place as a formality? If we return back to the originary sense of democracy as equality, what emerges, in this case, is what Rancière referred to as "dissensus." The Zenkyōtō critique of university education and academic research had already unconciously moved far from a place where it could be settled by slogans like "the democratization of education" or "reform of the educational curriculum." Paradoxically, it was a movement that attempted to reset education all the way back to an originary democracy.

Having said that, the very word "democracy" is seductive. "Democratization of education" was certainly a slogan of the anti-Zenkyōtō factions and, by contrast, the Zenkyōtō itself tended toward a complete negation of postwar democracy as such. Today, virtually everyone upholds democracy and critiques its opponents, protecting their own position by means of the name "democracy." The more this goes on, the greater the proliferation of individual definitions of democracy, all with the same result: that in the end it comes to mean nothing at all. And yet this seems to make no difference, never stopping claims in the name of democracy from persistently appearing. Further, today, in the wake of the collapse of the socialist system and the fall from grace of the Marxist-Leninist theory of revolution, all the convenient slogans have been lost, and no matter how radical the movement, everyone upholds the pretense of democracy. From the viewpoint of this contemporary inflation of the concept of democracy, we can consider the unconscious of the Zenkyōtō to have been a demand for "democracy" in education. Not any sort of organized "democratization," but an attempt to restore the dimension of struggle to the ideal of equality at the foundation of the emergence of democratic systems by means of dissensus.

The Zenkyōtō generation was raised in the system of democratic education of postwar Japan. The right of opposition is, of course, included within democracy, but only when internal to the limits of liberal politics and the legal system. Through the personification of resistance as struggle and as rebellion, the movement experienced its estrangement from liberal democracy. So, where, outside of liberal democracy, can one discover the style and grammar of struggle and rebellion Japan's accumulated knowledge? Such a search would open our eyes to the excavation of minor knowledges beyond the traditional authoritarian literature, but which are subordinated and concealed by it. Once this might have been the emperorist rebellions of the military, and at the time of the long '68, it might have been the rise to rebellion of the writer Yukio Mishima and his comrades. Both examples were held back from becoming events that might disclose forms of knowledge suppressed by postwar democracy. The rebellion of 1968 would thereafter be inherited as a rebellion of knowledge.

- Hiroshi Nagasaki, "On the Japanese '68,” in Gavin Walker, ed., The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese '68. London and New York: Verso, 2020. p. 31-33.

[studynxiety]

Genuinely, what is UN's job.

[disruptiveempathy]

The Tent City really protected the occupation and the issue, because a lot of times the issue gets a little lost. Or, people who oppose the issue try to make it get lost. They try to distract from the issue at hand. They make it about the occupation, and the legality or the criminality of it, or whether there are “outside agitators.” That’s a playbook that’s been said by people in power for decades about student protest. 

—Roona Ray and Stephanie Luce, from "Student Occupation Backed Workers’ Demand For a Living Wage," in Convergence

[laindarko100]

Just gonna leave this here...

[earthleave]

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