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Wingate, N.C. -- Top-seeded and 14th-ranked Wingate hit .315 on the match, sweeping fourth-seeded Catawba in semifinal action in the NCAA Southeast regional Saturday evening in Cuddy Arena. Wingate won by scores of 25-18, 25-17 and 25-21 to improve to 32-0 overall, advancing to the regional championship match for the third consecutive year. Catawba ended its season at 24-8 overall.
Junior outside hitter Cory McGowan led the Wingate attack, piling up 15 kills and 14 digs, hitting. 433 on the match. Freshman outside hitter Susie Murach added 13 kills, while redshirt sophomore right-side hitter Anna Hilton had 10 kills, 10 digs and a .400 hitting percentage. Senior setter Liz Willis notched 40 assists and eight digs, while senior libero Maggie Malone added 12 digs for the Bulldogs.
"Our players did a great job of preparing for this match this past week in practice, and it really showed in our execution of a game plan," head coach Shelton Collier said. "We are certainly excited about playing in the championship match Sunday. Flagler is playing at very high level at this point; however, we are on our home court, so we are hoping we can play well enough to win."
Junior outside hitter Kaitlyn Whitmer had nine kills to lead the Catawba attack. Senior outside hitter Shay Meeks added six kills for the Indians. Junior setter Jordan Raye had 19 assists, 11 digs and three kills, while junior libero Jenny Young had a match-high 17 digs.
A 3-0 Wingate run, capped by a kill from freshman middle blocker Lexi Potter gave Wingate an early 11-7 lead. Raye answered with a kill to trim the lead to three, but the Dogs responded with kills from Murach and Hilton to help stretch the advantage to 17-10. The Indians would get no closer than five the rest of the way. Kills from McGowan and Hilton made it 24-18, while another Hilton kill finished the first set.
Kills from Willis and Hilton, along with a McGowan ace gave Wingate a 15-9 lead in set two. Sophomore middle blocker Savannah Tomlinson answered with a kill to trim the lead to five. The Dogs scored the next four points to extend the lead to nine, thanks to two kills each from Murach and junior middle blocker Grace Krauser. Catawba would get no closer than seven the rest of the way. A kill from senior outside hitter Janice Ehorn, followed by a Catawba error made it 24-16. Wingate claimed the second frame on a Catawba error. The Bulldogs hit .368 in set two.
The third set stayed tight early, with a Whitmer kill and Wingate error tying it at 12. The Dogs scored five of the next six points to go on top 17-13. Murach started it with a kill, while McGowan added a kill in the flurry. A Meeks kill, followed by an ace from sophomore middle blocker Emily Richardson trimmed the lead to two at 19-17. Whitmer added a kill to get Catawba to within one at 21-20. Krauser responded with a key kill to push the lead to two, while McGowan slammed home the final three kills of the night for the Bulldogs.
Wingate had 53 kills and 13 errors in 127 attacks to hit .315 on the night. The Indians had 27 kills and nine errors in 103 attacks for their .175 hitting percentage.
Wingate and Flagler will meet in the regional title match for the third consecutive year. The Saints won 3-1 in the 2009 title match, while Wingate won 3-0 in 2010. Wingate and Flagler have met six times since the 2009 season, with the Bulldogs winning four of those contests. Wingate defeated Flagler 3-1 on the opening weekend of the season.


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While self-distribution is usually the last resort for indie film, the producers of "Adam Resurrected" have gone a step further. Not content with a simple specialty release, they're paying handsomely for an Oscar campaign around star Jeff Goldblum.
Paul Schrader directed the adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a former circus performer and Holocaust survivor stuck in an Israeli mental institution.
While Goldblum's perf was hailed at the Telluride, Toronto and Mill Valley film fests, producer Ehud Bleiberg didn't like the offers they were getting — namely the proposed release dates. Distribs told him they had too much kudos bait already.
"Why would we screen the film at Telluride and Toronto and release it a year later?" Bleiberg asks.
Bleiberg is no stranger to Oscar nom drama. His last film — the Israeli hit "The Band's Visit" –seemingly auto-qualified for Oscar consideration after winning the top Israeli Film Academy award. It was later disqualified for having too much English in it.
With "Adam Resurrected," he got a lot of advice from high-profile admirers, including George Lucas, to go DIY. So Bleiberg and co-producer 3L Filmproduktion have committed "a substantial amount" to the pic's award campaign for a shot at best actor.
Full-page ads, 20-plus screenings in N.Y. and L.A., plus 5,000 screeners have been the first salvo, with more to come, Bleiberg promises.
In March, he'll release the pic himself, accompanied, he hopes, by a little Oscar heat.
"There are hardly any specialty companies in L.A. anymore," he says. "We have no choice to but to take our destiny in our own hands."


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Ever since a massive bomb killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, downtown Beirut has evolved into a solemn carnival, halfway between a wake and a rave. Outside the behemoth al-Amin mosque, where Hariri and his bodyguards are buried, young Beirutis camp out every evening to light candles, flirt and call for an end to the Syrian occupation. Once Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister resigned, local and international media picked up the drumbeat of peaceful regime change, trumpeting this nightly gathering as the next Kiev or Tbilisi. Could this be the Arab world's first bloodless coup–a velvet intifada?
Maybe. But the "cedar revolution," as the US State Department dubbed it, isn't over yet. The young protesters are drawn mainly from Beirut's middle and upper classes, predominantly Christian and Druse, with some Sunni Muslims, but almost no Shiites. On March 8, half a million demonstrators–mainly, but not all, Shiites–showed up for a counterdemonstration that made the cedar revolution look like a sapling.
The sheer numbers showed wide support for Syria among Shiites, who at 40 percent are the single largest confessional group in Lebanon (and, historically, the most disenfranchised). But it also showed the depth of support for Hezbollah, the Syria-backed guerrilla group and political party. As both sides dig in on either side of the Syria question, Lebanon heads for a looming showdown–not just over Syria but over UN Resolution 1559, which requires Hezbollah to lay down its arms. Meanwhile, with Lebanon facing parliamentary elections this spring, both sides will have to appoint a transitional government together, what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has described as "a national unity government."
"The question now becomes, In Lebanon, can a group of people come up with a vision that allows people to rise above their confession and their political differences?" says D. Roman Kulchitsky, a professor of political science at the American University of Beirut. "That's a very important question, and I don't think it has been answered yet."
When the bomb that killed Hariri exploded, the last thing anyone expected was a joyous celebration. Angry crowds gathered outside Hariri's house; radio stations switched from upbeat pop hits to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. At the American University of Beirut, students and staff gathered in the cafeteria to watch television. "When they announced he was dead the university went quiet, completely," says Anthony Letayf, a 21-year-old AUB student getting his BA in political science. "We were all in a state of shock."


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Indian toiling people like the peasants, workers, Adivasis and dalits have suffered the cruellest aspects of the foreign hand. The deceit, sadism and the helplessness of a colonized people cannot be worse when the British imperialists under the premiership of Winston Churchill diverted grain for British war abroad, resulting in the Great Bengal Famine where millions of people died of starvation. "We got a taste of foreign hand". Hence, we really cannot forget the foreign hand and so we are still struggling to fight that foreign hand. Broad masses of the working people and other artisans cannot forget the fact now that their indigenous textile industries and other crafts were destroyed.
The Adivasis are offering stiff resistance to the present foreign hands like Wall Street, hot money flowing via POSCO, Vedanta, Areva, etc., and their local agents like Manmohan Singh who have thrown open their resources, forests, livelihood and habitats cheaply for rapacious national and multinational corporations. It is the continuation of a glorious tradition of Adivasis' rebellions led by Birsa Munda, Sidhu Kano, in the Santhal Parganas, and Chhitu Kirad in the Bhil region of western MP and eastern Gujarat. From Rajmahal Hills in the east to Khandesh in the west, the heroic Adivasi uprisings fought against the then foreign hand – the marauding British imperial invaders, who were out to usurp their land, livelihood and territories. They brutally colonized northeast; even in the post-independent era the Indian state betrayed the democratic aspiration of the people of northeast and resorted to the worst kind of neo-colonial plunder, brutally suppressing the peoples' aspirations for a dignified life with barbaric state repression under draconian laws like AFPSA. The Adivasis had the bitter taste of foreign hand when their forests were snatched away by the British imperialists. Under the Indian Forest Act, they were declared intruders in their own habitat. There was massive deforestation for the sleepers for British Railways to plunder the natural resources of India, most of which is in Adivasi regions. Even after the transfer of power in 1947, the neo-colonial extractive plunder continues for cheap natural resources for world imperialism and their junior partners in the third world.
In India, the contemporary symbol of Uncle Sam's hand is Manmohan Singh; like the earlier foreign hand, the British imperialists, the present dispensation is continuing with extreme repressive measures like Operation Green Hunt.
The post-war era was also the defining moment of national liberation struggle and decolonization. After the victory of the Chinese revolution and the emergence of an assertive socialist bloc, Sputnik was sent to space and Valentina Tereshkova created hopes in working women that socialism provides the necessary base for every working woman to develop her potential. Socialism was in the air, it was hope of the oppressed masses. The idea of socialism reinvigorated the trajectory of history towards national liberation, equality and dignity. World imperialism, now led by the USA, faced its nemesis socialism. Socialism was the guiding compass for the struggle for justice, democracy and equity. The European bourgeoisie took recourse to social democracy and welfare state to legitimize itself and fend off challenges posed by the socialist camp and militant trade union movement in their own countries trying to co-opt its own working classes.
Therefore, one has to deconstruct the project of decolonization in the third world countries in the context of growing attraction of the idea of socialism and the need for legitimacy of the third world ruling classes. Foreign hand again played a significant role in the lives of the oppressed masses in the third world in the so-called post-colonial world. Post-colonialism is the biggest myth because of the neo-colonial exploitation of the people and natural resources of the third world.
Absolutely intellectual slaves of imperialism and the compradors of the third world helped to perpetuate this neo-colonial exploitation. For the past two decades, Manmohan Singh has been the most crucial foreign hand in India for ruthlessly implementing the policies of neo-colonial exploitation in India. The so-called project of "Decolonization" proved to be fraudulent. Imperialism changed it from colonial exploitation to neo-colonial exploitation where the broad masses of people of the third world have entered into a direct contradiction with world imperialism.
The Bretton Woods Institutions like World Bank, and IMF of late WTO, were used as instruments of neo-colonial exploitation of the third world. In the post-war period, the cruelty of the foreign hand did not stop despite the rhetoric of "Decolonization" and "Non-Alignment". It became more ruthless, cruel, barbaric and genocidal in the post-war period, under the leadership of the super imperial state – United States of America. The imperial horror continued. Vietnam was carpet-bombed, people sprayed up poisonous chemicals, Korea was invaded, Allende and Patrice Lumumba were murdered, hundreds of plots were made to assassinate Fidel Castro, and the great revolutionary Che Guevara was murdered. Tin-pot dictators imposed on Latin America to further enlarge the open veins of neo-colonial exploitation of its natural resources and sucking the blood of its working people. Compradors were installed in the name of regime change and so-called democracy (truly meaning exploitative bourgeois democracy and class rule). The predatory rule of the imperialist camp was managed by the local elites for their western masters as Manmohan Singh is doing now. The foreign hand was its most repulsive and sadistic impact in the recent decades.
Iraq and Afghanistan were mercilessly invaded by US-led NATO troops. Millions were killed, while the ordeal of Palestine continues under Zionist Imperialist designs. Another anti-people predatory weapon of the foreign hand has also used the anti-democratic arbitrary instrument of economic sanctions. It tried to strangle Cuba through sanctions; for appeasing the Zionist lobby, the criminal cowboy has used it against Iran recently. But the most savage, cruel and sadistic exploitative use of this monster US foreign hand was the sanction against Iraq to capture Iraq's oil and the US imposed sanction has murdered 5 million Iraqi children much before its fascist attack on Iraq in 2003, overriding the democratic protests of the entire globe. The invasion on Iraq was most barbaric, ostensibly in the name of democracy and the non-existent weapons of mass destruction camouflaged to capture Iraq's oil and to bring it under US imperial hegemony. Left thinker Ravi Sinha explains the attack on Iraq in the following words:
"We are all witness to and victims of the times characterized by monstrous brutalities of war and deep scars of deprivations, inequities and oppressions. We live under a world order wherein those who brought, for example, untold tragedy and destruction of Iraq, will never be brought to justice because they are global hegemons. They will not be questioned about the hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed Iraqi men, women and children; they will not be questioned about the thousands of dead and decapitated American soldiers; they will not be questioned about the trillions of dollars spent on the war and further trillions destroyed by the war; and they will not be questioned about the kind of Iraq they are leaving behind."
Further, Ravi Sinha says about our immediate neighbourhood:
"We on the sub-continent, too, have suffered grievously and felt the heat form far too close. Afghanistan is a continuing saga of tragedy; Pakistan has been made to pay too heavy a price; and India too has not managed to steer clear of catastrophe. And we know very well that when we count the countries that have suffered, the loss is borne invariably by the people and not by their rulers. [See Ravi Sinha's 'Three Formidable Barriers to the Advance of Democracy' keynote address at the joint convention of Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) at Allahabad from 29 to 31 December 2011].
Well, this is the foreign hand "US imperialism". This is the story of real foreign hand, Uncle Sam's monstrous brutalities. The obscene saga of Yankee Imperialism. The recent global economic crisis in 2008 was created by the favourite nieces and nephews of Uncle Sam, the greedy Wall Street operators of finance capital supported by the super imperial US state, or the emperor of the modern empire. Therefore, it is necessary to expose the economic basis of US imperial power. Explaining the economic basis of imperial power, James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer write: "Imperialism has taken diverse forms over time: 'pre-modern', 'modern', or 'post-modern' – to use the language of Robert Cooper, advisor to Tony Blair – or, in more analytically useful terms, pre-capitalist or capitalist. Lenin, one of the major 20th century theorists of capitalist development and socialism, defined imperialism as the most advanced stage of capitalism, in which financial and industrial forms of capital are merged into large corporate monopolies that, through the dynamics of state power (military force, principally), engage in a process of carving up the world into markets for their capital and surplus production, converting subordinate countries into colonies and local ruling classes into satraps and clients. However, whatever the form taken by imperialism, it entails the projection of state power in its various forms (economic, political and military) – whatever it takes for some nations to dominate others – to advance their class or national interests and subordinate other countries to these interests.
The dominant actor involved in this projection of power and creating the resulting relations of domination-subordination within the current arena of global politics is the capitalist nation-state. It has evolved diverse forms: democratic or authoritarian, and (with reference to its dominant policy agenda) liberal or neo-liberal. Other agents of imperialism include the largest capitalist corporations, which, in popular imagery or the dominant political "imaginary" of academic, roam the world in search of returns on their investment or capital. However, these corporations are not footloose or free from consideration of national interest. Indeed, the economic interest advanced and protected by the nation-states that make up what can be termed the "imperial state system", a system currently dominated by the US state.
Furthermore, it is these states, in their projections of military and political power, that create the conditions needed for the home-based multinational corporations to take advantage of and operate profitably in the world's "emerging markets". The US imperial state, both directly (via the departments of state and defense) and indirectly (via control over financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF), constitutes a directorate to manage the global systems. Just like the government of the country, the decision-making power concentrated in this directorate of the new world order (the world capitalist or imperialist system) is backed up by a repressive apparatus, the armed forces of the US State, whose maintenance and global operations cost US tax payers and US capital around $300 billion a year in 2003, at least $480 billion in 2004, and over $500 billion in 2005, including Iraq and Afghanistan supplementary budgets. (See "Empire with Imperialism – The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism", James Petras and Henry Veltmayer. Aaakar Books, New Delhi.)
Foreign Hand and the Post-Colonial Developmental Trajectory of India :
Like elsewhere in the third world, the project of decolonization in India was equally fraudulent. Behind the veneer of "Nehruvian socialism", "self-reliance", "import substitution" and "non-alignment", the Indian ruling classes maneuvered their path in the cold war rivalry to build what Prof. Randhir Singh calls "India specific capitalism". True to the new Indian states commitment to the pre-independent "Bombay Plan", the consumer goods sector was dominated by multinational corporations for which public money was spent to provide them infrastructure.
The public sector was projected as socialism, while in reality it was facilitating ruthless accumulation by imperialists and their Indian junior partners. Nehruvian socialism was extremely deceptive, American think-tanks like Ford Foundation imposed the so-called "Green Revolution" taking advantage of the humiliating PL-480 arrangements. Green Revolution opened up Indian agriculture for predatory penetration of imperialist capital. It was a big blow to the self-reliance and dignity of the Indian farmers. Hybrid seeds, pesticides (which were developed from Agent Orange used on Vietnamese) and chemical fertilizers were imposed on India to fill the coffers of the multinational corporations who control the seed and pesticide market. The entire Indian agriculture and the peasantry was mortgaged to the international agri-business, especially companies like Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, etc. This is the foreign hand. Indian farmers still suffer the worst symptom of this – the suicide of hundreds of thousands of farmers, unprecedented in Indian history.
Primitive Accumulation: Neo-Liberal Regime and Manmohan Singh the Contemporary Foreign Hand in India :
Due to the accumulation crisis suffered by global capitalism, world imperialism gave up Keynesian "demand management", "welfare state" to adopt neo-liberalism. Oil price shock, falling rate of profit and stagnation led to the abandonment of the Bretton Woods arrangements, dollar was delinked from gold, and the collapse of the socialist camp led the imperialist masters to "Washington consensus". The third world rulers were arm-twisted to adopt the new mantra "market fundamentalism", where "liberalization", "privatization" and "globalization" became the buzzword. Pauperisation, dispossession and commodification were the order of the day. Public sector, built on the sweat and toil of the working class, was sold to private players at throw-away prices. The imperialist camp, led by the US, unleashed the worst kind of primitive accumulation on the third world peasantry under the neo-liberal world economic order, forcible depeasantizationwas ruthlessly imposed on the third world peasantry to create the new reserve army of labour for predatory capital.
Following the balance of payment crisis, this World Bank employee Manmohan Singh, a slave of imperialist economic training, was imposed on India as the Finance Minster. The rest is history. World imperialism never had a faithful puppet like Manmohan Singh. This foreign hand was most useful and loyal to the imperialist masters, and institutions like IMF, World Bank and WTO dictated their policies to Manmohan Singh who sincerely implemented them. After the Narasimha Rao government, India has seen various formations like the United Front and the "India Shining" NDA rule marked by the ghastly Gujarat pogrom. Manmohan Singh became the Prime Minister in 2004 entrenching neo-liberalism in India. Explaining this phase and the hegemony of the neo-liberal project, my friend Shanker writes about the hegemony of the Indian neo-liberal project, "In itself the media's behavior may seem nothing surprising. The alienation of the English media from India's polity, and the solipsism and blindness of the elite it speaks for are hardly anything new; indeed, if anything, 2004 was only a further exposure of what was already increasingly obvious".
But, in a way, this was precisely the reason why it was significant, for it hence had direct implication for the role that the English media has played in the rise of Indian neo-liberalism. To discuss this role, it is first important to note that, in the absence of a political/institutional formation that has generated and detained Indian neo-liberalism as an ideology (in contrast to Thatcherism, Reaganism or other such forces), the effort to push neo-liberalism as a political project in India has taken place in a far more diffused and complex manner. The functions that such formation would play, rather than being concentrated and organized, have instead been dispersed to multiple centres of power in the Indian system.
For instance, one such function – the individual policy changes and reforms that are required has worked not through "public opinion" or the legislative system, but instead through backdoor operations primarily focused in the bureaucracy (and in cases that do require legislation, through "consensus" achieved by cross party action through neo-liberal elements without an organized formation). This was described by Rob Jenkins as a process of "reforms by stealth".
The second such role, increasingly appropriate in a time of shifts towards accumulation by dispossession, has been played by the judiciary. This has been the elimination and dilution of, on the one hand, legal protection for labour and criminal procedure, and on the other the strengthening and widening of state, coercive powers over resources (forests and urban land being the two most striking examples).
However, the third, and in our context the most important function, has been the evolution and projection of a hegemonic ideological project for neo-liberalism in the Indian context. (See Shankar Gopalakrishnan: The UPA Moment: Shadows of a Growing Crisis for the Indian State? In: Neoliberalism, Primitive Accumulation and Politics in India.)
This loyal foreign hand Manmohan Singh's biggest regret in his tenure in UPA-1 and UPA-2 has been the opposition of the mass movements of the urban and rural working classes, the peasantry and Adivasis to his big ticket reforms like:
(1) Dismantling of labour laws facilitating longer working hours, contractualisation of the workforce including the right to hire and fire.
(2) Withdrawal of food subsidies and withdrawal of PDS
(3) Privatisation of all major public sector enterprises
(4) Withdrawal of fertilizers and other subsidies to agriculture
(5) Pushing FDI in retail sector
(6) Pushing financial deregulators, banking and insurance sector reforms
(7) Unprecedented forcible land grab and expropriation of the peasantry
(8) Pushing the dangerous option of nuclear energy upon an unwilling population
(9) Severe repression of the mass movements
…. the list is endless.
Like the British imperial invaders, under this foreign hand Manmohan Singh, the peasants and Adivasis are facing the brunt of most violent dispossession in this neo-liberal regime of accumulation through dispossession. Millions of hectares of land are forcibly snatched, turning them into paupers and converting them into an impoverished army of reserve to serve as cheap contract labour for the private sector.
Singur, Nandigram, Kalinganagar, Kashipur, Bhatta Parsaul, etc., speak about the horrors of the 21st century primitive accumulation in India pushed by Manmohan Singh. This loyal foreign hand not only has forced hundreds of thousands of farmers to commit suicide, but is also responsible for the extreme brutalization of the Indian is policies have produced poverty, destitution and marginalization. It is this foreign hand – the loyal slave of World Bank, that has created Arjun Sengupta's 77% subsisting on Rs. 20/- a day. His push to primitive accumulation has turned fertile lands into the deserts of destitution. All this is done to please his masters at the Capitol Hill and Wall Street. For this, I want to underline the role of International Finance Capital and its third world agent Manmohan Singh – the loyal foreign hand in India.
International Finance Capital, through its myriad institutions and the exercise of diplomatic pressure, has put in place most developing countries, local servitors in key decision-making positions to implement that particular set of policies which serve the interests of global finance and, to a lesser extent, of global industry. The core elements of these policies include, as is well-known by now, trade and investment openness, income deflating fiscal and monetary measures which reduce public development spending and social sector spending, privatization of public sector undertakings, an attack on labour unions, and an attack on the livelihood and assets of small producers mainly comprising peasants and artisans, in order to promote corporatization. In most developing countries, the peasantry and artisans numerically outnumber by far the class of wage paid workers.
The attack on the peasantry's land assets and forest resources by the corporate sector – both domestic and foreign – usually aided by the ruling state power, is seen virtually everywhere in countries as diverse as India and China in Asia, and in Tanzania, Madagascar and Ethiopia in Africa. The bitter reaction which it has provoked, the resistance of the peasantry to corporate and state acquisition of its assets, is the stuff of the most significant unfolding of social and political mass mobilization to be seen today. What we see is a new phase of what Karl Marx had called "primitive accumulation of capital," comprising the separation of small producers from their means of production. The difference between the earlier phase of primitive accumulation and the present one, however, is all-important. Earlier phases were transitional to industrialization in Europe and in the lands settled by Europeans and the new world. The present phase of primitive accumulation in developing countries is transitional not to capitalist industrialization but to the accumulation of riches at one pole of the social structure, with rising unemployment, pauperization, the proliferation of small-scale services, and increased absolute poverty at the other pole.
This conclusion of absolute immiserization is not generally accepted in the extant mainstream or even the so-called "heterodox" discussions of globalization. (See Utsa Patnaik: "Capitalism and the Production of Poverty", Social Scientist Vol. 464-465.)
Manmohan Singh and his camp followers like Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chidambaram (with their unflinching loyalty to World Bank/IMF guidelines to cut subsidies on essential items like food grains and kerosene, despite rising food prices) have made the working people's life hell. On the other hand, the working people have been subsidising the corporate sector. According to P. Sainath, since economic reforms led by this World Bank stooge Manmohan Singh, the Indian government has subsidised the corporate sector to the tune of Rs. 20 lakh crores, while his lackeys in the media and Planning Commission make a big hue and cry over MNREGA, proposed Food Security Act, etc.
POSCO is a test case, where this shameless comprador Manmohan Singh bends backwards to please his imperialist masters. Under pressure from the Korean President, the PMO directed the Ministry of Environment to give forest and environment clearance to the POSCO project. It is to be noted that both the Meena Gupta Committee and Saxena Committee had written in their reports about the serious violations of the Forest Rights Act and had recommended cancellation of the forest clearance. However, under pressure from the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Environment was forced to give forest and environmental clearance to POSCO. These examples are numerous.
Biodiversity, GM Foods and the Foreign Hand :
India has very rich flora and fauna with several agro-climatic zones – from the Himalayas to thick rain forests of the Western Ghats and various types of traditional agricultural practices, to food grains. Manmohan Singh is the biggest robber of India's biodiversity and our seeds. He is the cruel imperial foreign hand to wipe out our seeds, traditions and agricultural practices.
Manmohan Singh is the foreign hand that facilitates "the great gene robbery" by multinational seed companies, especially Monsanto. Manmohan Singh is the foreign hand which has pushed Bt cotton down the farmers' throat. He is that foreign hand which like a vulture feeds on the corpses of tens of thousands of Bt cotton farmers who were forced to commit suicide. It is a cruel paradox of history when this imperialist lapdog talks about the foreign hand behind the anti-GM seed campaign. The reality is Manmohan Singh is trying to work very hard to be the best area sales manager for Monsanto.
Protesting against Manmohan Singh's interview to Science magazine about the foreign hand behind Kudankulam anti-nuclear struggle and anti-GM food campaign, eminent people like Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, Prof. Romila Thapar and 17 others say in their letter to Manmohan Singh, "There has been vide coverage of your interview with the journal 'Science' on 24 February 2012, concerning the opposition to nuclear power plants and GM crops in India. You choose to resurrect the old bogeyman of a 'foreign hand', this time pointing to external funding of NGOs to oppose Indian development, as if they are some sort of a fifth columnist operating to undermine that nation's interest. This, we feel, is a highly inappropriate misrepresentation of facts. The misdemeanours of these NGOs, if any, may well be only minor infringements of the letter of restrictive law that enables government to harass them as is now being undertaken. In reality, what we are all fighting against is indeed a foreign hand operating at the behest of and from within your Government, supported by Indian and foreign commercial entities, to corporatize Indian agriculture and farming practices and the energy sector, without in-depth and impartial analyses which prioritise the country's security and safety. If this is their sin, it is our too!
Your remarks, in essence, indict every signatory to this letter. Our individual and collective "unthinking state", an unlikely charge as that is, does not unduly perturb us; on the other hand, your charge that all those who voice dissent of your government's policy on GM crops and nuclear power do not belong to the "thinking segment" of society, is an indictment of a large section of our citizenry. It betrays an inappropriate distinction between "thinkers" and "non-thinkers" solely on the basis of agreement or disagreement with government policy. Surely, this cannot be. Informed dissent and a healthy response to it by our government through trusted dialogue are vital for a functioning democracy. The absurdity of this position is therefore self-evident and it absolutely requires us to make a measured and robust response through addressing the key issues surrounding GM crops and the nuclear power sector.
The prominently visible foreign hand of the US, in these greatly important issues with ramifications of our country far into the future (and with regard to GM crops, irreversibly so), is squarely created and abetted by the UPA government. One indication of such collusion is the line-up of support your government has sought or received thus far from ABLE (Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises). The Indo-US knowledge initiative on agriculture, the Indo-US CEOs Forum, the Indo-US Business Council, etc., all of which expose the distinct foreign influence, are deliberately brought into these critical policy areas. Along with your investigations of the so-called 'anti-national misdeeds of the NGO', why is your government not probing the influence peddled by these agencies and entities who are primarily furthering the interests of foreign governments and private multinational corporations? Or, is it that only those who support your policies are helping the nation, while those raising legitimate and scientifically based dissent are all branded as traitors working against the national interest?
(See the letter written by Krishna Iyer, Romila Thapar, Praful Bidwai, Admiral Ramdas and others to Manmohan Singh, dated 5 March 2012).
In fact, this insidious foreign hand Manmohan Singh (who is trying to devastate Indian agriculture and forcing farmers to commit suicide), is behaving like a ruthless field marshal of a foreign invading army. The great Second Green Revolution has been declared with much fanfare after turning the fields of Punjab and Haryana barren and poisonous. Now this salesman of international agri-business is casting his greedy eyes on the eastern states of India.
The aim of Indo-US knowledge initiative on agriculture is a conspiracy to recolonise India. The plan is being implemented through the present day Mir Jafar Manmohan Singh.
By submitting the Biotechnology Authority Bill in Parliament, this foreign hand is trying to impose legislative sanction for destroying Indian agriculture and handing it over to US-based seed giants. GM crops will not only damage health and environment, but our seeds will be lost forever and the entire peasantry will be mortgaged to the international agri-business led by Monsanto.
In the context of GM crops, Manmohan Singh's loyalty to his imperial masters is self-evident. GM crops were invented by the US; given their raison'd'etre of profit for the industry patent laws in that country and their commercialisation promoted at the behest of the White House to "foster the biotech industry" led by Monsanto, the international market leader holding 90% of crop patents. No GM crop is approved "as safe" by the US regulatory authorities in the US when they are put to market GM cotton and other crops. The industry has held sway; there is little regulatory oversight.
Indo US Nuclear deal, Kudankulam Struggle and the Foreign Hand
Yankee imperialism can never find such an obedient puppet like Manmohan Singh in the entire world who even staked his own Government to implement Indo US nuclear deal. The entire episode was akin to feudal loyalty of the peasant serf to the lord of manor. It is a well known fact that nuclear energy is an extremely obsolete screw driver technology which is not even preferred in Manmohan Singhs ideological Mecca the United States.
Manmohan Singh's imperial masters who have themselves abandoned this in their own country found a loyal slave in Manmohan Singh to bail out their private nuclear corporations like Westinghouse to make super profits in a poor third world country like India, when in their own country the technology is destined for oblivion. After Fukushima disaster when the ruling classes of advanced capitalist countries are giving up nuclear power this intellectual slave of the neo-liberal west is so blind informationwise. So blocked in his thinking that while his master have outgrown the nuclear option this loyal slave still thrusting nuclear energy into our throat. Nuclear Energy in India becoming an instrument for super profits of American nuclear corporations. They have imposed their obsolete and dangerous technology in India.
The Indo US nuclear deal was not only an instrument for bailing out the American nuclear corporations but it was an brazan attack on our sovereignty. It allows unrestricted entry into our nuclear installations by the Americans, it was an outrageous act by the US imperialists to consolidate their hold in South Asia for their defense and geo strategic interests. This foreign hand Manmohan Singh did everything in his capacity including striking a deal with Samajwadi Party to thrust the imperialist Indo US nuclear deal on Indian people. The loyal Foreign hand in India was at full play during the debate on Indo US nuclear deal. A conservative estimate puts it that the US nuclear corporation will make around 6 lakh crores of the business facilitated by the Indo US nuclear deal, Uncle Sam will never find such loyal agent like Manmohan Singh any where else.
It is a common sense world over that nuclear energy is undesirable ad dangerous. The per megawatt cost of nuclear energy is much higher than any other forms of power generation. Yet this extremely dangerous and price wise exorbitant this killer energy is being forcibly thrust on Indian people by this loyal Foreign hand Manmohan Singh Nuclear Energy hardly provides 1% of our power generation, and the official claim of being a clean and green source of energy is pure bullshit. The nuclear establishment clearly fails to account the embedded energy requirement to build a nuclear power plant. There is genuine and increasing public concern over the dangers of nuclear technology, particularly because the Indian nuclear establishment is directed by the government to expand their nuclear power activity on the basis of the import of untested reactors and in the absence of an independent and transparent nuclear safety regulator.
No nuclear power plant is 100% safe and for the government to make such a statement, as have been made only recently, stretch credulity and cone across as glib assurances in the back drop of the Fukushima accident, which has been particularly devastating and is fresh in people's minds. The accidents at Three Mile Island (1979) Chernobyl (1986) also involved human error and weak nuclear safety regulation. Japan is a technologically savvy country. Despite this, they have not been able to respond till date to the sheer Scale of the Fukushima disaster to contain its impacts. In India, with our dense population, our lack of management skills, the unilateral decision-making at the highest political levels on the purchase of very complex and hither to untested nuclear reactors and technology systems with out involving the national safety evaluation process, refusal to constitute a totally independent and transparent nuclear safety regulatory system in the country, and our singularly inefficient disaster mitigation abilities, etc. could altogether land us in a major nuclear disaster soon, if these deficiencies are not immediately corrected, cost estimates of the Fukushima accident are currently placed at more than immediately corrected. Cost estimates of the Fukushima accident are currently placed at more than US $16 billion and it is still rising.
It will take decade to cleanup Fukushima and the significant strech of surrounding areas of radioactive contamination, and the clean up may never be complete, as evident from the Chernobyl experience where the Russians are setting up a sarcophagus to shield the stricken reactors from humanity and the environment.
Despite an assurance given by the Prime Ministers office on April 26, 2011 that "Action taken on previous safety reviews will be put in the public domain", neither the DAE Nor NPCIL seems to make a mockery of the spirit of Article 19 of the constitution that entitles every citizen, as a fundamental right, to be informed about the functioning of any public authority, to the extent that its acts of omission and commission affects individual life. AERB, which is required to oversee and regulate the activities of DAE and NPCIC, continues to be subordinate to DAE and the new regulatory authority bill introduced by DAE before parliament, further more, does not ensure the independence of the regulator from the executive that controls it.
At many of our nuclear sites including Kudankulam, no truthful and comprehensive EIAs have been made and associated public hearing conducted as stipulated by law. Where representations of the local population have prepared scientific reports to the best of their ability, on their own, on pertinent safety deficiencies of a nuclear plant, and DAE has ignored those reports and not responded to the concerns expressed. A typical example is the recent PMANE expert groups report dated 12th Febuary 2012, which the Kudankulam protest groups prepared and submitted to the DAE. This report highlights serious questions about the safety of the Kudankulam site based on geotechnical and oceanographic considerations, backed by independent and scientific data ands publications from academic and research institutions. Through all this, the AERB which must come forth and defend the safety of these plants, has maintained a stoney silence, whereas, in any civilized country, it is the regulator's duty to defend what they have approved as safe. In India, it is because the AERB is a captive regulator who seeks permission of the DAE before they speak publicly on any issue.
Let us be clear that nuclear power, like most other power technologies, is not 100% safe and can never be. But, given that the downside risk of a nuclear accident can be immeasurable and the empirical evidence from the past three core meltdowns the world has witnessed reinforces such a possibility, how safe it can be will depend on the integrity of our regulators and our leaders who on the other hand are constantly manipulating the system, including the safety regulator. Our government has not yet realized that there is a strong positive correlation between the transparency of a safety regulator and the degree of eventual safety obtained. While the public is kept entirely in the dark on how safety is assured, the Prime Minister personally continues to endorse the relentless claims of DAE and NPCIL that nuclear power technology is 100% safe. On that basic there is little reason for comfort.
The enactment of the current civil liability law by the government betrays the PM's stance on safety claims. The government has gone out of its way to bow to pressures and demands exerted by the US and Western MNCs to ensure that civil nuclear liability law shields reactor suppliers from accident liability in excess of the ridiculously low cap of Rs 1500 crore (equivalent to US $ 300 million). Evidently, foreign reactor suppliers themselves are not as confident as the PM seems to be of the safety of their own reactors and want the Indian tax payer to bear what could be an astronomical part of the liability in case of a nuclear accident. The latest estimate of the Fukushima liability has touched US $ 16 billion, compared to the cap of US $ 300 million imposed by the civil nuclear liability law that the Indian government has enacted. Further more, yielding further to MNCS' pressure, the government has framed the rules under the liability law, exceeding the limits set by the law itself, imposing limitations on the definition of "consequential" casts and the timespan within which the Indian operator can prefer accident claims against reactor suppliers. The easy terms that the Indian government has agreed to in this matter are truly a national betrayal; a constitutional aberration in letter and spirit.
As far as Kudankulam unit 1 and 2 are concerned, the sketchy EIA report completed several years ago does not contain a comprehensive risk analysis, estimation of the probabilities of core-melt down or major radioactive releases, the factoring in of potential human errors, or a proper site evaluation from the geotechnical and oceanography points of view. We believe not even a cursory examination of such issues was done when the site was finalized, or thereafter. Even if NPCIL claims that such an analysis has been carried out, they have not placed it in public domain. When DAE and NPCIL choose to function in a shroud of secrecy with the implicit approval of the Prime Minister, it hardly seems fair of prudent on the part of the government to demand that the people who are going to be directly affected should refrain from raising their concerns. Why should this be? If the government has decided to investigate NGOs who have allegedly received foreign funding, it is appropriate and even more necessary to investigate thoroughly, the circumstances under which unusual accommodation with western MNC's has been made by the same government. (See the appendix to the letter written to the Prime Minister by eminent citizens)
The US pressure on the civil nuclear liability bill shows the impact of foreign hand in the nuclear matters in India. The struggle against the nuclear power plat at Kudankulam is the struggle against this foreign hand.
Conclusion: Manmohan Singh, operation Green hunt and state repression in India:
This foreign hand Manmohan Singh whose grips are tightening over throats of helpless peasants, Adivasis women, religious and national minorities has proved to be the most cruel henchman of Yankee imperialism in the third world, Manmohan Singh outclasses puppets like Batista, Marcos, Pinochet and other monsters in his competition to appease his imperial masters. How he crawls in front of his masters from the white house is proved by the fact he broke the tradition and protocol and went to receive Obama personally at the Delhi Airport. How he behaves as a starry eyed teenager was noticed when to meet President Bush he fell into love with him. This Uncle Sams favorite butler whose entire training has been in institutions like world bank designed for imperialist hegemony, has been ruthlessly commodifying every necessary life needs of Indian people, food, shelter, water, rivers, land, forest and so on. Life for the poor has become most difficult in the era of forward trading and speculative finance capital.
As soon as Manmohan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister, he declared Maoists to be the greatest internal threat to India. Thus he declared a war on the poorest and poor people who are struggling for survival and dignity against snatching away their water, forest land, life livelihood and dignity. At the behest of his imperial masters Manmohan Singh has launched a war on his own people to snatch away their land, forest, mines and water for rapacious plunder by international and national corporates. He installed another running dog of imperialism Chidambaram as Home Minister who in equal desperation to please his imperial masters launched "Operation Green Hunt". Tens of thousand of paramilitary forces with the tacit help of the army were deployed to severely crush the poorest of the poor's uprising against total destitution and state repression. Hounds of the Indian ruling classes BSF, CRPF, COBRA, GREYHOUND were unleashed on the struggling Adivasis' from Jangalmahal to Chattisgarh to Narayana Patna. Thousand were murdered, raped and tortured. Custodial torture, death and rape has became order of the day in the name of "Operation Green Hunt". The recent brutal custodial torture of Soni Sori will put to shame even the most cruel dictators. There is a witch-hunt on oppressed nationalities and minorities. Kashmir, North-east and the Batla house encounter are stark indicators of what is being done to the oppressed nationalities and minorities in this country. The recent arrest of the Delhi based journalist Mr Kazmi under pressure from the imperialist Zionist lobby is a test case, how Manmohan Singh operates on behalf of CIA and Mossad. This Foreign hand Manmohan Singh's hand is dripping in Blood from Kashmir to North-east, and regions from Bastar to Jangalmahal. We have seen blood dripping from this hand at Jaitapur, Kalinganagar, Nandigram, Narayan Patna, Kashipur, Sompetta, Bhatta parsaul and Tappal, the list is endless.
The people in Fatehabad, Jaitapur, Mithivirdi, Chutka are fighting to shove off this foreign hand off their back, to save themselves from the disasters of nuclear power plant. The struggle in Kudankulam is a struggle against this Foreign hand Manmohan Singh who is forcibly pushing the nuclear power plant into their throat. To save the people and environment of this and to free ourselves from the clutches of US imperialism this hand needs to be chopped off.
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So half a year has gone by, in a twinkle of an eye! We hope 2016's turning out to be awesome for you thus far - it sure has been for us with folks like you being part of our community! We've seen a countless number of products move through the HQ and it's always such a joy and challenge packing each of them so they get safely delivered to your homes.*Seen above, hunts from the Writing, Everyday Carry, and Outdoors Communities.*
In the first half of this year, we've also moved to our new location in Tai Seng (just 2 minutes away from the MRT) with the aim of serving you customers better with a larger and more convenient space. We're now almost running out of space again, which is a good thing!*A common sight that welcomes our visitors is our self-collection table, this photo taken a couple of weeks ago.*
We started out the year with just 2-3 self-collections a day, and today this is what we see on the collection tables - a constant overflow! It's always fascinating engaging in conversation every customer who comes into the office, learning about each other's passions and talking about the latest products. We are very glad that you have allowed us to be part of your enthusiast journey, and one day we hope that we can become a hub where exciting conversations can take place both online and in-person! With each hunt and each order, it brings us closer to our goal of bringing enthusiast communities together and realizing community commerce.
While we're at it, we take the opportunity to relook at 6 defining products that made the first half of 2016 a memorable one for the Grouphunt Community.
#1 - TATHATAThose who have been in our community from the start will know that the 4-way carry TATHATA bags are one of the mainstays for the [Everyday Carry Community](https://www.grouphunt.sg/?cat%5B0%5D=everyday-carry?utm_medium=community&utm_source=ghblog&utm_campaign=products_that_defined_2016). Having crossed the 100 order mark twice is testament to the quality of their bags which have spread through word-of-mouth, run after run. What we love is that TATHATA as a brand constantly reinvents itself, having put out 6 new deigns for the SWIFT model within the year, and we're expecting to see a couple of new models come up in the coming months so stay tuned!
If you'd like to be notified of the next run for TATHATA bags you can Join The Request Here, and if you can't wait we have some additional stock listed on the Marketplace.
#2 - KAISRThe [KAISR Ultimate Inflatable Air Lounge](https://www.grouphunt.sg/posts/AK4Y5NxxfT72wDwsY/kaisr-the-ultimate-inflatable-air-lounge-2nd-run?utm_medium=community&utm_source=ghblog&utm_campaign=products_that_defined_2016) made a huge splash when it first burst onto the scene, and although there was a slight delay in fulfillment (they didn't expect THAT many orders, and it does sometimes happen for crowdfunding campaigns which we make sure to state upfront), we have just received a FedEx Tracking number. So fingers crossed, we are really excited to receive and test them first hand - yes we got a couple for some down-time in the office!
If you'd like to be notified of the next run for the KAISR, Hop On The Request Here.
#3 - CABINZERO*📷 : wanderjungle.com*
Now on it's 3rd Run, CabinZero Carry-On Luggage Bags have been a timely introduction for the modern traveler. The capacious 44L allows you to maximize your carry-on volume while skipping the numerous baggage queues, security checks, and completely removes the possiblity of lost luggage. The 3rd Run is now live with limited quantities and colors left, so if you're planning that next weekender or backpacking trip, Join In The Hunt Here.
The CabinZero was instrumental in our year because it also led to a slew of travel related products being featured on Grouphunt, such as the Cabeau Memory Foam Evolution Pillow, The Matador FreeRain24 Portable Adventure Pack and Pocket Blanket, the Bellroy Travel Wallet, the Knomo Knomad Portable Organizers and much more. So much so, that many of you have requested for a "Travel" Category. For those of you who eagerly await that category, we've got something in store for the coming months that's top secret, but we can't wait to roll that out for you!
#4 - S'WELL BOTTLESWe'll be frank - the [S'well Bottles](https://www.grouphunt.sg/posts/X2dozRMTs7yxHjoS3/s-well-r-bottles-3rd-run), originally suggested by Grouphunter Christina Liang, were not easy to source. But with over 168 requests, we just had to find some way to get the community what they want. We've since fulfilled over 200 of these beautiful thermal-proof bottles to you good folks, and we're excited to keep doing so. So a big thanks to the community for pushing us hard on this one, and we're glad we could make it happen together!
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#5 - LAMY 2016 DARK LILAC EDITIONThe Lamy Safari is a great entry point into the world of fountain pens, which are making a resurgance in the digital age. It's modern, sleek, portable and hardy design makes it accessible to many, and it's price point even more so. We had done 3 runs for the Lamy Safaris prior to the discovery of the Dark Lilac 2016 Edition by Grouphunter karinlye. Since that discovery we've seen the community band together behind the hunt to unlock the lowest price for the first time!
Last but not least, the first class kids travel pillow was an amazing find by Grouphunter and parent justine_chong. To be honest, we did not initially realize the usefulness of this product, but boy were we glad to be proven wrong. This seemingly simple device literally turns your kids' flight into a 1st class experience, and is responsible for intangible hours of parental peace onboard - just enough to recharge and take care of the family when it matters.*"Used it recently for a 13 hr long flight. My kids could sleep better and had more room to spread their legs. Would not travel without it!!!" - lmalphettes*
"Recently borrowed this from a Friend for a Long flight... It is brilliant!" - taskeen
We've heard feedback from the community that it's also great for long car rides. What made us happiest though was knowing that this was community curation at its best, and the beginning of our Parenthood Community.
We've recently concluded the third run for these pillows but have some additional stock which you can purchase on our marketplace here.
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Vivione Biosciences Inc. ("Vivione") (TSX:VBI) is pleased to announce today that it has entered into an agreement with Daniel J. Edelman Inc. ("Edelman"), the world's largest public relations firm, for Edelman to provide strategic communications development and support to Vivione.
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JERSEY CITY – A record-breaking total of 4,587 individuals voluntarily and peacefully turned themselves in at last week's four-day Fugitive Safe Surrender event, resolving an estimated total of approximately 10,000 nonviolent criminal and civil warrants at Evangelismos Church in Jersey City, New Jersey Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced today.
This striking result represents the highest turnout of all five Fugitive Safe Surrender events held so far in New Jersey. (The previous record was set at New Jersey's second FSS event, held 2009 in Newark). With this event, a total of nearly 18,000 individuals have turned themselves in at New Jersey's five Fugitive Safe Surrender opportunities.
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"This Fugitive Safe Surrender event was a tremendous, record-breaking success that will touch thousands of lives for the better – not just the nearly 5,000 individuals who surrendered, but the lives of their loved ones and fellow New Jerseyans," Hoffman said. "By offering favorable consideration, not amnesty, New Jersey has helped an astounding 18,000 individuals begin to build new lives through Fugitive Safe Surrender. This is exactly the sort of collaborative partnership that helps break the cycle of unlawful behavior and makes our communities safer."
New Jersey State Parole Board Chairman James T. Plousis said, "The number of peaceful surrenders has exceeded our expectations and resulted in the third-largest Fugitive Safe Surrender event in the nation. Every single individual who took advantage of this program has made New Jersey safer. The former fugitives can finally walk in public without the fear that they will be stopped by law enforcement. This in turn frees up police resources that can better be used on other public safety matters."
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Another success story is that of Eddie Restrepo. Restrepo, 33, of West New York, lived in fear for years under the weight of multiple unpaid traffic tickets. But after he turned himself into the Fugitive Safe Surrender Program in Jersey City Wednesday morning, he walked away a free man with a clean record. Restrepo expected to pay thousands in fines but instead paid only a few hundred to resolve his warrants. After completing the Fugitive Safe Surrender program, he immediately decided to help out and volunteered at the program afterwards.
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Right-wing talk-show host Glenn Beck has called her "one of the nine most dangerous people in the world." DSA is proud to call her an honorary chair. Political scientist and sociologist Frances Fox Piven has inspired and angered political activists for decades. Almost 50 years ago, the Nation published an article by her and her colleague and husband Richard Cloward in which they argued that, with Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, poor people should claim the welfare benefits to which they were entitled. The result would swamp the system and lead to something new, a guaranteed annual income, which would end poverty as we knew it. The Cloward-Piven strategy, as it became known, was seen as a way for powerless people to take advantage of disruptive moments to make more than incremental gains. Later, the strategy was expanded to include massive voter registration drives. Cloward and Piven, with George Wiley, helped found the National Welfare Rights Organization, which, for a few years, was the militant voice of heretofore voiceless welfare clients. Michele Rossi talks with Piven about the impact of Bill Clinton's so-called welfare reform and its enduring impact on the poor. —Ed.
Rossi: It has been almost 20 years since then-president Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, also known as "welfare reform." You were a prominent critic of the legislation, maintaining that it wrongly focused on the morality of poor women's highly constrained personal choices and deflected attention from crises in the labor market. What consequences has the reform had for the women who were its target? And what has been its impact more broadly?
Piven: The passage of PRWORA meant the elimination of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which had been the main cash assistance program for poor families with children. It was replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which imposed time restrictions on the length of assistance as well as work requirements. In addition, it gave the states a big incentive to restrict aid, because they could use the block grant funds for other purposes. This, the states proceeded to do. Welfare caseloads plummeted, from about 14 million people in 1995 to a little over 4 million today. This has meant a doubling of households living in extreme poverty. Some three million children live in such households.
Of course, the effects are also felt more widely. AFDC functioned as a kind of unemployment insurance program for people who were not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits because they worked irregularly or in jobs that were not covered. With that safety net gone, many millions of precarious workers are much more vulnerable to the harsh terms of work at the bottom of the labor market.
Rossi: Hillary Clinton calls herself "a lifelong fighter for women's issues." Apparently, she does not see revisiting welfare reform as part of that fight. And neither do the prominent feminists and many other progressives lining up behind her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Why?
Piven: Hillary Clinton has a very mixed record on the issue of poverty, including the poverty of women and children. She began as a lawyer with Marian Wright Edelman's advocacy group, the Children's Defense Fund, and she later popularized the slogan "It takes a village to raise a child." But in the 1990s, as the right-wing campaign against blacks and the poor escalated, she joined with her husband in trying to minimize the damage the Republican assault was causing Democrats by endorsing some of its principles. Bill Clinton campaigned in 1992 with the promise to "end welfare as we know it," and when a Republican House put a bill that did just that on his desk before the 1996 election, he signed it, with Hillary's support.
The problem is not just Hillary. The main argument for PRWORA was that welfare caused the poor to become "dependent." Better to show tough love and cut out the checks, because then poor women would shape up, get a job, and begin the climb out of poverty. This conviction that wage work is always better than welfare is deeply ingrained, and it is shared by much of the Left as well as all of the Right. It's time we reevaluated it, not only because it has confused our support for income assistance to the poor but also because contemporary labor market conditions make full employment at decent wages less and less likely. Maybe there will come a glorious day when investment will mean investment in a green economy, caregiving jobs, and so on. But in the meantime, we should not endorse policies that punish the poor.
Rossi: How should we understand the energy and enthusiasm coalescing around Bernie Sanders's candidacy? Is this the beginning of a movement?
Piven: The Sanders campaign is the continuation of a movement, not the beginning. It's hard to be sure of the exact beginning. Was it the occupation of the Wisconsin state capitol? Or Occupy? Or Ferguson? Or now Black Lives Matter? All these events are evidence of the scale and intensity of popular anger at escalating inequality and the abusive government policies that inequality makes necessary. And just as neoliberalism is bigger than the United States, so is the movement. Occupy drew inspiration from the Arab Spring, UK Uncut from Occupy. And the movements are spilling over into electoral politics, not only with the remarkable Sanders campaign here, but also with the defeat of the arch-conservative Stephen Harper in Canada and the ascendance of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party in Britain.
It's a good time to be a political activist!
Michele Rossi researches and writes about inequality, culture, and politics. She is a member of Philadelphia DSA.
This article originally appeared in the winter 2015 issue of the Democratic Left magazine.
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