A Talk with Indian Student Activist Kavita Krishnan
Oscar Beard | 20.10.2007 18:50 | Education | Globalisation | London | World
A ten-minute introduction talk by Indian Student Activist Kavita Krishnan, President of the All India Students' Association and editor of the CPI(ML) Monthly Liberation.
Excuse poor video quality, heavily compressed to get it online and keep sound as good as possible.
Excuse poor video quality, heavily compressed to get it online and keep sound as good as possible.
Kavita Krishnan is the Presdient of the All India Students' Association, a campaigning Left students' organisation with mass membership across India.
She is also currently editor of the CPI(ML) Monthly Liberation. She is centrally involved in organising round key issues facing the Left in India including the current nuclear deal between India and the US, India's role in the War on Terror and the resistance to Special Economic Zones.
She has also written and campaigned widely on violence against women and challenges to patriarchal power. Recently she took up the issue of conditions for women prisoners in Tihar Jail, Delhi's High Security Prison, after being held there herself for taking part in a protest against the assassination of a fellow student.
The talk was recorded at the Calthorpe Arms, Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross on Wednesday 10 October 2007.
With the gradual privatisation of the UK education system, as Academy schools spring up under corporate control with taxpayers money, and other schools are forced to take corporate investment because the government say it does not have any education funds for them, this talk is imperative to all UK students. It gives an insight into what you can expect in the future, as education leaves the campus to make way for employment engineering.
Guess you won't be wearing a Pepsi T-shirt on Coca Cola day. And forget about sports activities, but we've set up a nice after-school call centre training camp to keep you off the streets. Or there's always the military, the recruiting office is next-door to the headmaster's.
Welcome to the future of YOUR education.
She is also currently editor of the CPI(ML) Monthly Liberation. She is centrally involved in organising round key issues facing the Left in India including the current nuclear deal between India and the US, India's role in the War on Terror and the resistance to Special Economic Zones.
She has also written and campaigned widely on violence against women and challenges to patriarchal power. Recently she took up the issue of conditions for women prisoners in Tihar Jail, Delhi's High Security Prison, after being held there herself for taking part in a protest against the assassination of a fellow student.
The talk was recorded at the Calthorpe Arms, Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross on Wednesday 10 October 2007.
With the gradual privatisation of the UK education system, as Academy schools spring up under corporate control with taxpayers money, and other schools are forced to take corporate investment because the government say it does not have any education funds for them, this talk is imperative to all UK students. It gives an insight into what you can expect in the future, as education leaves the campus to make way for employment engineering.
Guess you won't be wearing a Pepsi T-shirt on Coca Cola day. And forget about sports activities, but we've set up a nice after-school call centre training camp to keep you off the streets. Or there's always the military, the recruiting office is next-door to the headmaster's.
Welcome to the future of YOUR education.
Oscar Beard
Additions
Correction
21.10.2007 10:52
As of December 2006 Kavita Krishnan is no longer President of the All India Students' Association.
Oscar Beard