
The Students Bring Back Hope
The students who organized and led the protests that have brought Dr. M. Yunus into the role of leader for an interim government charged, by specific request of the students, with building a new set of institutions free from coercive armed influence, have accomplished something extraordinary. They have removed an abusive government from power, with the tacit cooperation of some of the armed units at the disposal of that government, when the head of the military “refused to deploy his forces on Monday.” The kids apparently organized all of this, and now, students are even helping to protect police stations and Hindu temples, and directing traffic. This is what can happen with cooperative organization, and apparently, I don’t know for certain as the NPR article did not mention, but it seems that the students did this all themselves, rather than via adult supervision as the kids of SNCC did back in the 1960’s (as SNCC was itself formed by Dr. King and the SCLC, unless I am mistaken). I hope that NPR gives us more details about this situation, how it came about, and how it develops, as the previous 15 years of essentially dictatorship are dealt with and new policies and perhaps even new institutions put in place for a more democratic system that all of us may be able to learn from and use to build more tools for democracy. I am certain that Dr. Yunus will bring careful thought as well as his vast experience to bear on the problem, and I hope that the world pays attention.
(from NPR’s online article on Nobel laureate to lead Bangladesh at NPR dot org, Thursday, 8 August, ’24…)
Injustice Delenda Est
-Shira, aka ShiraDest
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