02/06/2020
SAB YAAD RAKHA JAEGA: Nationwide Protest against repression on anti-CAA activists and democratic voices of dissent
3rd June, 2020, 12 PM
Over the past two months the Delhi Police has arrested Jamia students Safoora Zargar, Meeran Haider, Asif Iqbal Tanha, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita along with activists Ishrat Jahan, Khalid Saifi, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Shifa Ur-Rahman and hundreds of other Muslim youth. Some among them have been booked under the amended UAPA as a means of punishing the widespread protests against the CAA-NRC that emerged across the country in December last year. Most recently AMU students Farhan Zuberi and Ravish Ali Khan have been arrested by the UP police for participating in the anti-CAA protests. It is clear that the spate of arrests are far from over and new names of democratic activists are likely to be added to this already long list. Meanwhile those openly advocating violence against peaceful protesters such as Kapil Mishra, Parvesh Verma and Anurag Thakur have gone scot-free.
It is clear that the ruling dispensation, while refusing to engage with any social movements, prefers to silence all critical voices through blatant state repression and the use of draconian laws. Earlier, the government framed a number of democratic rights activists and academicians on the pretext of the Bhima Koregaon case. Other anti CAA activists such as Akhil Gogoi who has been charged under UAPA, Bittu Sonowal, Manas Konwar, Dhairjya Konwar and several others have been arrested in the course of the movement and continue to languish in prison. At a time when the government's energy and resources must be engaged in fighting the ongoing health crisis and an economic slowdown of a devastating scale, which has caused thousands of lives to be lost and millions of livelihoods to be destroyed, the government's efforts to stifle dissent by arresting students and activists is a shameful display of its oppressive power and misplaced priorities.
The attack on the anti-CAA protesters who participated in the democratic struggle against disenfranchisement of Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis, workers, women and all marginalized communities is an attempt to systematically demobilise the movement against CAA-NRC-NPR. It is a continuation of the government’s communal and anti-people policies which seek to undo all Constitutional safeguards available to its citizens and make an example of those who speak up to also silence others. As labour laws are dismantled, educational institutions become increasingly inaccessible, unemployment reaches unprecedented levels and violence in society against workers, minority and marginalized communities, women and students increase with impunity, the people of this country must speak in a united voice to challenge this regime of oppression!
Join the call for protesting against the government's repression on democratic voices! We appeal everyone to organize protests in their respective campuses or areas maintaining norms of physical distancing.
Release all activists of the anti-CAA movement!
Immediate attention to the plight of migrant workers and toiling masses instead of repression of democratic voices of dissent!
Arrest the Real Culprits of the Delhi Pogrom!
Release all political prisoners!
Scrap CAA-NRC-NPR! Scrap UAPA!
PEOPLE UNITED AGAINST REPRESSION ON ANTI CAA PROTESTERS
Signatory organizations of the Nationwide Protest call
Ahmedabad against CAA-NRC-NPR
All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU)
All India Democratic Student Organisation (AIDSO)
All India Democratic Youth Organisation (AIDYO)
All India Forum for Right to Education
All India Mahila Sanskritik Sangathan (AIMSS), Gujarat
All India Peoples' Forum, (AIPF) Bangalore
All India Progressive Women’s Association
All India Q***r Association
All India Revolutionary Student Organisation
All India Student Association (AISA)
All India Student Federation (AISF)
Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle, IIT Bombay
Ambedkar University Delhi Students' Council
Anhad, Delhi
अनुदानित शिक्षा बचाव समिती
Anweshan
Asansol Civil Rights Association
Association For Democratic Rights, Punjab
AUD Q***r Collective
Automobile Industry Contract Worker Union, Haryana
Bandi Mukti Committee, West Bengal
Bebaak Collective
Bebaak collective, Uttarakhand
Bengaluru Collective
Bahujan Samajwadi Manch
Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Student Organisation (BASO), JNU
Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch, (BSCEM) DU
Bhagat Singh Chhatra Morcha, (BSCM) UP
Bharat Bachao Andolan, Maharashtra
Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan
Bhim Army Students’ Federation, (BASF)
Campus Front of India (CFI)
Celluloid - The film society, Azim Premji University
Chaitanya Mahila Sangam, Telangana
Chhatra Ekta Manch, Haryana
Chhatisgarh Mukti Morcha - Mazdoor Karykarta Samiti, Chhatishgarh
Chhatisgarh Mahila Adhikar Manch
COLLECTIVE, Delhi
CONFLUENCE, IISER Mohali
Dakha, Punjab
Dayar i Shauq Students Charter (DiSSC), JMI
Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network, Gujarat
Dalit Lekhak Sang
Democracy Collective, Haryana
Democratic Teachers Front
Democratic Students Association (DSA), Kerala
Democratic Students Federation (DSF), JNU
Democratic Students Organization (DSO), Punjab
Democratic Students Union (DSU), DU
Democratic Students Union (DSU), Telangana
Disha Student Organisation
Faculty Feminist Collective, Delhi
Feminists in Resistance, Kolkata
Forum Against Oppression of Women (FAOW), Maharashtra
Fraternity Movement of India
Free Speech Collective
Friends foundation
Grameen Mazdoor Union, Bihar
Gujarat Federation of Trade Unions
Gujarat Mazdoor Sabha
Hasratein: A Q***r Collective, JNU
Humanist Rationalist Organisation, Odisha
Hum Bharat Ke Log, Bombay
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)
Hundred Flowers Group, JNU
Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU)
Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) Sarwahara
Indian Federation of Trade Union, Odisha
Indian Social Action Forum, (INSAF) Gujarat
Inquilabi Chhatra Morcha, Allahabad
Inquilabi Kender, Haryana
Inqlabi Kendra, Punjab
Inquilabi Mazdoor Kendra (IMK)
Jamia Coordination Committee
Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath
Jana Hastakshep, Delhi
Jagori, Dharamshala
Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, Bihar
Jan Sanskritik Manch
Jan Sangharsh Manch Haryana
Jan Sangharsh Manch, Gujarat
Janwadi Mahila Samiti (AIDWA, Delhi)
Jharkhand Nagrik Prayas
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU)
Karnataka Jana Shakthi
Karnataka Vidhyarthi Sangathan (KVS)
Kisan Adivasi Sanghatan
Kisan Sangharsh Samiti
Karnataka Shramika Shakthi
Krantikari Naujawan Sabha (KNS)
Krantikari Yuva Sanghatan (KYS)
Laali Guraas Collective, Darjeeling (WB)
L***A - A Q***r Feminist LBT Collective, Maharashtra
Lawyers Against Atrocities
Lok Kala Manch, Mullanpur
Lok Shikshak Manch
Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch
Mahila Mukti Morcha, Chhatisgarh
Mazdoor Samanvay Kendra
Mazdoor Sahyog Kendra
Minority Coordination Committee, Gujarat
Mazdoor Kranti Parishad (MKP), WB
Marxist Student Federation, Jharkhand
Muktiwadi, Maharashtra
Muslim Students Federation (MSF)
Muslim Youth League
Naavu Bhratheeyaru, Bangalore
National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW)
Nagrika Sammukhya, Odisha
National Hawker Federation
National Peace Group, Gujarat
Naujavan Bharat Sabha
New Socialist Alternative, Maharashtra
New Socialist Initiative, (NSI)
New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI)
North East Students Forum, JNU
Parivartankami Chhatra Sanghatan (Pachhas)
People’s Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL)
Pinjra Tod, Delhi
Pragatisheel Lekhak Sangh
Pragatisheel Mahila Ekta Kendra
Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan
Prantojon
Progressive and Democratic Students Community, AUD
Progressive Democratic Students Federation (PDSF)
Progressive Democratic Students Federation (PDSF), WB
Progressive Democratic Students Union (PDSU)
Progressive Democratic Students Union (PDSU), AP, Telangana
Progressive Democratic Youth Federation (PDYF)
Progressive Organisation For Women (POW), Telangana
Progressive Student Front, Haryana
Punjab Student’s Union (PSU)
Radical Study Circle, TISS Mumbai
Rajiv Gandhi University Research Scholars’ Forum
Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch
Rashtriya Manavadhikar Mahasabha
Refraction, WB
Revolutionary Students' Front, WB
Revolutionary Workers Party of India
Rihai Manch, UP
Saheli, Delhi
Sangwari
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Samajwadi Samagam
Samta Kala Manch, Maharashtra
Samtamulak Mahila Sangatan, Haryana
Samata Vidyarthi Aghadi, Maharashtra
Satya Shodhak Sangh, Delhi/UP
SAU Progressive Students, Delhi
Shramajibi Nari Mancha, WB
Shramik Sangram Committee (SSC)
Shrijan, Siliguri, WB
Sikh Muslim Dalit Christian Sanjha Front, Punjab.
Student Organization for Socialist Democracy, Haryana
Socialist Workers Centre
Socialist Workers Center, TN
Solidarity Youth Movement
Stree Mukti Sangathan
Stri Jagriti Manch
Struggling Workers Coordination Committee, (SWCC) WB
Student Federation of India (SFI)
Students of Aalim Muhammad Salegh college
Students For Society, (SFS) Punjab
Students Islamic Organization (SIO)
South India Federation of Trade Unions
Swaraj Abhiyan
Tamil Nadu Student Movement (TSM)
Telangana Vidyarthi Sangam (TVS)
Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika (TVV)
The Feminist Collective, Haryana
The Students' Outpost, Bangalore
Trade Union Center of India (TUCI)
Trans Rights Now
United Against Hate
United OBC Forum
Uttarakhand Mahila Manch
Utthan, Gujarat
Vidrohi Sanskrutik Chalwal, Maharashtra
Vimukta - Stree Mukti Sangathan
We The People of India (Hum Bharat Ke Log)
We The People Of India, Bengaluru
Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)
Young Tamilnadu Movement
Youth Alliance For Peace
Yuvak Kranti Dal, Maharashtra
