03-05-2004, 05:24 AM
Email from AID list. Look what AID is upto!
<<original email message>>
>hey guys, here's the email flier for Biju Mathew's talk, make changes
>to it if u
>want, but please start sending it out to people and groups as soon as
>you can,
>the talk is coming up very very soon...hope everyone is doing well
>and enjoying
>the break!
>
>take care,
>Shiny
>
>*Association for India's Development(AID)*
>~ presents ~
>Funding Hate: Hindutva in the U.S.
>A conversation with Professor Biju Mathew
>Thursday. March 4th - 7:00 p.m.
>Room 1636 International Institute
>
>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
>"Are the charity dollars generously provided by American companies,
>including
>some of our leading corporate citizens of the high technology world,
>being used
>to fund violent, sectarian groups in India?"
>
>Prof. Mathew will be discussing Hindutva in the United States and the
>transfer
>of funds from the US to organizations that spread sectarian hatred in
>India.
>
>~*~*~*~*~*
>
>Biju Mathew is a professor of business at Rider University, New
>Jersey, a
>member
>of the Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers' Alliance,
>and a
>coordinator for the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL).
>
>His works revolve around three primary thematics: Hindutva,
>Migration, and
>Globalization and attempts to explicate the inter-relations between
>these three
>nodes of interest for contemporary South Asian scholars and
>activists. On
>Hindutva, his work is largely on Hindutva's relation to the politics
>of
>identity within diasporic Indian-American communities and on the
>specific
>aspects of caste and class that make Hindutva such a potent force in
>diasporic
>life. Further it locates the flourishing of Hindutva in North America
>within
>the context of globalization. The other mode by which the thematic of
>globalization is reflected in his work is through a critical
>examination of the
>discourses of globalization and its(dis)connections with post-80's
>South Asian
>labor migration into the US. Much of this work is related to his work
>as a
>volunteer organizer for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
>
>~*~*~*~*~*
>
>The Association for India's Development (AID) is a non-profit
>organization
>dedicated to grassroots/sustainable development in urban and rural
>India. For
>more information on AID-Ann Arbor please visit
>www.umich.edu/~aidindia or
>www.aidindia.org or email skmathew@umich.edu
>--- End forwarded message ---
Can someone prepare a short report in bullet point format with references to counter the speaker at the next university he is scheduled to speak.
An outreach has to be made to the Graduate students in different universities who are AID volunteers so that they question these things from within.
<<original email message>>
>hey guys, here's the email flier for Biju Mathew's talk, make changes
>to it if u
>want, but please start sending it out to people and groups as soon as
>you can,
>the talk is coming up very very soon...hope everyone is doing well
>and enjoying
>the break!
>
>take care,
>Shiny
>
>*Association for India's Development(AID)*
>~ presents ~
>Funding Hate: Hindutva in the U.S.
>A conversation with Professor Biju Mathew
>Thursday. March 4th - 7:00 p.m.
>Room 1636 International Institute
>
>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
>"Are the charity dollars generously provided by American companies,
>including
>some of our leading corporate citizens of the high technology world,
>being used
>to fund violent, sectarian groups in India?"
>
>Prof. Mathew will be discussing Hindutva in the United States and the
>transfer
>of funds from the US to organizations that spread sectarian hatred in
>India.
>
>~*~*~*~*~*
>
>Biju Mathew is a professor of business at Rider University, New
>Jersey, a
>member
>of the Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers' Alliance,
>and a
>coordinator for the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL).
>
>His works revolve around three primary thematics: Hindutva,
>Migration, and
>Globalization and attempts to explicate the inter-relations between
>these three
>nodes of interest for contemporary South Asian scholars and
>activists. On
>Hindutva, his work is largely on Hindutva's relation to the politics
>of
>identity within diasporic Indian-American communities and on the
>specific
>aspects of caste and class that make Hindutva such a potent force in
>diasporic
>life. Further it locates the flourishing of Hindutva in North America
>within
>the context of globalization. The other mode by which the thematic of
>globalization is reflected in his work is through a critical
>examination of the
>discourses of globalization and its(dis)connections with post-80's
>South Asian
>labor migration into the US. Much of this work is related to his work
>as a
>volunteer organizer for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
>
>~*~*~*~*~*
>
>The Association for India's Development (AID) is a non-profit
>organization
>dedicated to grassroots/sustainable development in urban and rural
>India. For
>more information on AID-Ann Arbor please visit
>www.umich.edu/~aidindia or
>www.aidindia.org or email skmathew@umich.edu
>--- End forwarded message ---
Can someone prepare a short report in bullet point format with references to counter the speaker at the next university he is scheduled to speak.
An outreach has to be made to the Graduate students in different universities who are AID volunteers so that they question these things from within.