Anti-Bush protests in Pune city
2nd March 2006
Over 400 activists, peacelovers and students from Pune city joined the echoes of other voices of the anti-imperialist peoples all over the world - in the US, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Australia, South Korea, and many others who, in recent months, have spoken "Bush Go Home! Get out of our country!" Bush was in India for two days to sign a nuclear deal with the Indian government; despite continuing oppositions both within the US and India, and also at the international levels – both governmental and popular. While red carpets were rolled out by the government of India to welcome this ‘distinguished’ dignitary, large sections of people were out on the streets asking this guest of honour to “Go Back!”
It’s not the usual privilege of a visiting dignitary to face such openpublic wrath. But then Bush is no ordinary dignitary either. He is the head ofthe most powerful state of today’s world – the only ‘superpower’, so to say.That’s precisely why the Indian government was so excited. And, rather paradoxically, it’s precisely the crass display of gross, and awesome, military‘power’ that makes Bush perhaps the greatest hate figure in the contemporaryworld. In the eyes of too many, he is the nastiest criminal around.
In Pune, the CITU and 15 other organisations marched from Swargate to the Municipal Corporation. Carrying placards and banners, and shouting anti-Bush slogans, they walked from Jedhe Sataue at Swargate upto the PMC and then had meeting there. Delia, Chandamma and Pradip of Lok Raj Sanghatan, one of the participating organisations in the protest carried the following slogan: Butcher Bush You are not our guest ! You are not welcome ! We all unitedly oppose Bush's visit to India !
The peaceloving people of India, and Pune like all those in the world, stood up and said NO!
Over 400 activists, peacelovers and students from Pune city joined the echoes of other voices of the anti-imperialist peoples all over the world - in the US, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Australia, South Korea, and many others who, in recent months, have spoken "Bush Go Home! Get out of our country!" Bush was in India for two days to sign a nuclear deal with the Indian government; despite continuing oppositions both within the US and India, and also at the international levels – both governmental and popular. While red carpets were rolled out by the government of India to welcome this ‘distinguished’ dignitary, large sections of people were out on the streets asking this guest of honour to “Go Back!”
It’s not the usual privilege of a visiting dignitary to face such openpublic wrath. But then Bush is no ordinary dignitary either. He is the head ofthe most powerful state of today’s world – the only ‘superpower’, so to say.That’s precisely why the Indian government was so excited. And, rather paradoxically, it’s precisely the crass display of gross, and awesome, military‘power’ that makes Bush perhaps the greatest hate figure in the contemporaryworld. In the eyes of too many, he is the nastiest criminal around.
In Pune, the CITU and 15 other organisations marched from Swargate to the Municipal Corporation. Carrying placards and banners, and shouting anti-Bush slogans, they walked from Jedhe Sataue at Swargate upto the PMC and then had meeting there. Delia, Chandamma and Pradip of Lok Raj Sanghatan, one of the participating organisations in the protest carried the following slogan: Butcher Bush You are not our guest ! You are not welcome ! We all unitedly oppose Bush's visit to India !
The peaceloving people of India, and Pune like all those in the world, stood up and said NO!
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