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WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN MODI'S HINDUTVA NAZI INDIA? AND WHERE HAVE THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BRIGADE DISAPPEARED? THESE HYPOCRITICAL ORGANISATIONS SEEM TO CARE MORE ABOUT ANIMALS THAN MUSLIMS. WHEN IT COMES TO MUSLIMS BEING VICTIMS OF TERRORISM THE WORLD IS SILENT. IT IS TIME THE MUSLIM WORLD AT LARGE PAYS URGENT ATTENTION ON HOW DO WE STOP STATE SPONSPORED HINDUTVA TERRORISM RUNNING RAMPAGE AGAINST INDIAN MUSLIMS. THE DELHI POGRAM WAS SPARKED BY RELIGIOUS HATRED AND INCITEMENT BY BJP LEADER KAPIL MISHRA IN DELHI. THE CLEAR OBJECTIVE WAS TO END THE PROTESTS AND SIT-IN TAKING PLACE IN DELHI BY MUSLIMS AGAINST THE RELIGIOUSLY DISCRIMINATORY CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT.
THEREAFTER MUSLIM AREAS IN THE INDIAN CAPITAL WERE SET ON FIRE BY RSS THUGS WHO WERE SET LOOSE WITH THE INDIAN ARMY AND DELHI POLICE LOOKING ON. THE DELHI POLICE ARE UNDER CONTROL BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SO IT HAS BLOOD ON IT'S HANDS. AS MUSLIM AREAS WERE SET ABLAZE AND HOMES, BUSINESSES AND MOSQUES WERE SET ON FIRE LEAVING DOZENS MASSACRED AND HUNDREDS INJURED AND IN HOSPITALS.
IT IS DESPICABLE THAT THIS HAPPENED EXACTLY WHILST TRUMP WAS IN TOWN AND SHOWING HIS TRUE ISLAMOPHOBIC COLOURS BY BACKING MODI'S EFFORTS IN UPHOLDING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN INDIA. THIS IS LIKE MUSSOLINI SAYING WHAT A WONDERFUL CHAP HITLER IS WHEN JEWS WERE BEING TARGETTED IN NAZI GERMANY IN THE 1930s.
LET US BE CLEAR THAT THERE ARE OVER 200 MILLION MUSLIMS IN INDIA AND THEY ARE AT A CROSSROADS. THEY NEED TO REALISE THEY ARE ON THE FRONTLINE AND NEED TO RADICALLY RE-ORGANISE THEMSELVES AND THEIR LEADERSHIP IF THEY ARE GOING TO DEAL WITH HINDUTVA INDIA. THEIR SITUATION IS LIKE THAT OF 1947 WHEN INDIAN MUSLIMS IN BRITISH INDIA DECIDED TO CREATE A HOMELAND FOR THEMSELVES AND CREATED PAKISTAN.
THE HINDUTVA CONTROLLED INDIAN STATE IS ENGAGED IN AN ANTI-ISLAMIC AGENDA AND IS INSTITUTIONALISING ISLAMOPHOBIA IN ITS LAWS AND IT IS NO LONGER GUARANTEEING EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW NOR PROTECTING LIFE AND PROPERTY. THE INDIAN STATE IS DIGGING IT'S OWN GRAVE. INDIAN MUSLIMS IF THEY WANT TO SAFEGUARD THEIR FUTURE NEED TO PREPARE AND GEAR THEMSELVES TO SECEDE FROM A HINDUTVA INDIA BY FORMING NEW STATES. WHEN THERE IS OPPRESSION IN THE LAND THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER WHICH IS HIJRAH AND JIHAD. MORE ON THIS WILL FOLLOW SOON.
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The Indian economy is tanking under Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule. The promise of creating 12 million new jobs annually for people entering the market is fast receding. The Modi regime has thus resorted to a dangerous policy of religious and ethnic discrimination to divert attention from its failed policies. But it is not merely a diversionary tactic. It targets India's 200 million Muslim citizens. Modi has a pathological hatred of Muslims, having honed his anti-Muslim skills while he was chief minister of Gujrat state before he became prime minister in 2014.
Two instruments are being used: The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). India's Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the bills in parliament at the end of December 2019. He said the BJP government will pass the Citizenship Amendment Act. The bill seeks to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Buddhists — who have come illegally to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan — but excludes Muslims. This is a drastic change in the Citizenship Act of 1955 that does not define citizenship on the basis of religion.
The NRC, originally confined to Assam in the northeast, is now being applied to the whole of India. In Assam, the state that borders Bangladesh, there was widespread belief that illegal immigrants had come from Bangladesh. They should be identified and deported. The NRC idea emerged in the wake of the Assam Accord of 1985 that ended a separatist insurgency that had raged during the 1970s and 1980s. On August 31, 2019, Assam's NRC was published declaring 1.9 million people stateless, a far cry from the tens of millions alleged illegals bandied about earlier. These people have no documents to prove their Indian citizenship. Internment camps have been set up; others are being built.
In a country of 1.2 billion people, most of them rural dwellers, the notion of birth certificate or identity card is alien. Coupled with the ubiquitous caste system that divides people along caste lines — a form of religious apartheid — the vast majority of people are already disenfranchised. Launching a campaign against Muslims is another nail in the coffin of India's self-proclaimed secularism and the constitution.
There is, however, pushback, especially from students who have braved attacks from RSS thugs as well as the police. The students have transcended religious and caste boundaries and have stood shoulder to shoulder to defend fundamental rights. Their activism has attracted other civil society groups including members of the Bollywood fraternity that had previously cozied up to Modi.
Student activism to defend their fundamental rights has exacted a price. At least 20 students have been killed and hundreds injured in attacks by BJP-affiliated masked thugs armed with sticks, iron rods, and acid bottles. Protests started at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on December 13 and then spread to Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). The police barged into the university campus on December 15 and attacked students as well as vandalized the library. When news of the attack on JMI spread, students at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Ambedkar University also joined the protests. These have now assumed a life of their own. They are ongoing and despite attacks by the police injuring and arresting hundreds of students, they are held on a daily basis.
JMI has become the hub of student activism. Interestingly, this is spearheaded by female Muslim students. While the Modi regime has vowed to press on with implementing the divisive CAA and NRC bills, a number of states in India have said they would not participate in the registration process. This is a hopeful sign and may yet dissuade the fascists from pressing ahead full force with their nefarious agenda. Unfortunately, given corruption in the judiciary (as witnessed in the Babri Masjid verdict), the police, and the bureaucracy, it would be unrealistic to repose too much hope in the movement for sanity. What is more likely is that internal and external pressure may force a delay in the implementation of these divisive laws.
If the movement can be sustained until the next election due in 2024, the BJP can be consigned to the dustbin of history. It is a long struggle and will not be easy but with continuing strikes, the economy will suffer greater blows turning more people against the Modi regime and his fascist storm troopers.
ANTI-MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN INDIA REACHES ALARMING PROPORTIONS
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/anti-mu...ions-34129
The ongoing brutality in New Delhi dubbed 'communal violence' is the live unfolding of a pogrom against Muslims.
The international media fixated on the pomp and ceremony, or rather glitz and glam of what was a two-day extravaganza of right-wing populist and ultranationalist odes and slogans. US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went about their business pretending as though the country's second-largest city wasn't literally and actually on fire.
On Monday, pro-government Hindutva thugs responded to the city's ongoing and growing protests against recently legislated anti-Muslim citizenship laws, otherwise known as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), by attacking protesters and setting Muslim owned homes, cars and businesses alight.
Eerily, the same Hindu nationalist goons had marked Hindu-owned properties with saffron-coloured flags to help attackers identify Muslim targets, borrowing a sinister measure used on the eve of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than 2,000 Muslims killed and thousands more battered, raped, and abused. Starting in the Muslim-majority areas of northeast Delhi, the violence spilt into Monday evening, culminating with the deaths of at least two anti-CAA protesters, and the injuries of dozens more.
Footage shows Delhi Police officers firing tear gas shells into a crowd, followed by baton large charges. By Wednesday morning, the death toll had risen to at least 20. Among the dead are a 22-year-old rickshaw driver, a labourer, and a father of six. A video that went viral on social media shows a dozen or so Muslim males being kicked and beaten before being forced by police to recite Vande Mataram — India's national song and a nationalist ode of sorts — as they lay defenceless on the ground. Another shows an isolated Muslim man being mercilessly punched and kicked by a mob of dozens of pro-government street thugs, as cars and shops around him are vandalised, while another shows a Muslim shrine being torched with a petrol bomb.
"Hindus have woken up after long [passivity]," one man, who identified as a pro-CAA protester, told a local journalist as he carried out an arson attack. On Tuesday afternoon, a mob chanting Jai Shri Ram (victory to Lord Rama) and Hinduon ka Hindustan (India for Hindus) surrounded a mosque in Ashok Nagar, before setting it alight, while a man placed a Hanuman flag atop its minaret. That footage also shows Delhi Police officers participating in the violence, joining pro-CAA protesters in throwing rocks at Muslims, underscores the dangerous new reality the country's largest religious minority now face. "The police is with us," a Hindu man says in a video posted on Twitter, as his colleagues throw rocks toward mostly Muslim anti-CAA protesters.
Chillingly, these moments of violent mayhem and madness, which evidently enjoy the tacit and implicit approval of the Modi government, are perpetrated to an ode to a Hindu deity, but one now heard as a death chant to victims of this violence. Today, Jai Sri Ram is typically the last three words a Muslim hears the moment before he or she is attacked or murdered.
All across India, Modi radicalised saffron terrorists are assaulting, raping, and lynching Muslims with impunity, as government leaders openly refer to the religious minority as "termites" and "pests," while they declare an urge for another 1947-scale Muslim exodus. Earlier this month, hundreds of right-wing nationalists converged on New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI), chanting anti-Muslim slogans and shouting, "shoot the bastards" as police stood by as idle onlookers. Recently, the international watchdog group Genocide Watch recently issued genocide alerts for Muslims in both Kashmir and Assam. "Preparation for genocide is definitely underway in India…The next stage is extermination – that's what we call a genocide," said Professor Gregory Stanton, the author of the 10 Stages of Genocide in a speech to US lawmakers in December.
Certainly, both territories are ground zero in the government's effort to marginalise and make invisible the country's persecuted religious minority, with eight million Muslims in Kashmir living under a military lockdown and communications blackout that has now surpassed 200 days. Three million Muslims in Assam face the prospect of deportation or detainment as a result of measures implemented as a result of the NRC. "My mother gave birth to me at home. My birth was never registered, so how do I produce a certificate?" a Muslim resident of Assam told Foreign Policy. "Nor do I have land ownership or tenancy records dating back five decades. Although we're law-abiding citizens, having lived peacefully in India all our lives, we might be thrown out of the country."
The events of the past 48 hours have demonstrated that the safety and well-being of India's 200 million Muslims have never been in greater peril since the Gujarat pogroms and the violence of partition. Should they become the target of overt state-sanctioned violence, recognising they always been the target of covert violence in the country, then the international community would be presented with a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions, resulting in the world's largest pogrom and humanitarian crisis. At the helm is Narendra Modi, a man accused of direct involvement in the country's most recent anti-Muslim pogrom during his capacity as Gujarat's chief minister. If these realities aren't enough to give rise to global alarm, then what is?
INDIA BURNING
https://www.dawn.com/news/1537334/india-burning
This week witnessed Hindutva mobs killing and torturing Muslims, burning homes, mosques and ransacking entire Muslim neighbourhoods while the Delhi police stood by or aided and abetted them. With blood in their eyes — and on their hands — Hindutva marauders owned the streets of the Indian capital as the body count piled up by the hour. Loathing lurked in open sight.
Some people say Prime Minister Narendra Modi has weaponised India's majority by stoking the latent fires of communalism for political gains; others say he has merely given voice to brute majoritarianism that has always been an organic part of India; while still others argue that the pogrom in Delhi represents a freak streak of Hindu anger boiling over into violence. The reality may be a combination of all three, but one thing most India-watchers agree on:
India is sick. Very sick. For sickness to be cured, it first needs to be acknowledged. Communalism manifesting itself in Muslim (and other minorities) bloodletting is almost an Indian tradition. Except for a few years since Partition, communal riots have broken out on a regular basis across diverse geographical parts of India. Invariably, Muslims have been the victims. All through these decades, India has pretended that its officially sanctioned secularism has spawned an 'Indian-ness' that has enveloped in itself Hindu and Muslim identities. This delusion has ingrained in most Indians an air of misplaced arrogance dripping with condescension for Pakistan and its post-independence struggles.
In the early 1990s Manmohan Singh, as India's finance minister, unfurled sweeping economic liberalisation reforms that unshackled India from the constraints of a regimented public-sector driven system. As the years rolled by, India's economic strength kept on growing under successive governments. This economic muscle spawned confidence, which spawned insolence, which spawned hubris. The slogan of 'India Shining' showcased this newfound imperiousness as more and more Indians began to digest the narrative that they were the next big global thing.
And yet something bubbled under this thin glitzy surface of India's newfound self-image. The toxic currents of communal hate, other-isation and socio-religious divisiveness raged with an intensity that could, perhaps, be felt more than seen. These currents gurgled across into the new millennium unbeknownst to a world besotted by the exotic charms of a billion-strong nation flinging open its markets for all those with strong capitalist urges. India, it seemed, could do no wrong. Pakistan could do no right.
Today, the picture that Modi's India paints is a frightening one. It is a society where Hindutva maniacs will lynch Muslims, tear them from limb to limb and the government will do nothing; where Hindutva maniacs will threaten genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' against Muslims and the government will do nothing; where Hindutva maniacs will savage Muslims on the streets, torch entire neighbourhoods and the government will do nothing. India will get worse. Modi's majoritarian project is rolling across the country with a ferociousness that gains intensity with every anti-Muslim pogrom. Through a combination of state power and street power, Hindutva is on the march and Muslims face an uncertain and bloody fate.
An unstable, unhinged and unbalanced India is a danger for the region and for the world. Like most uber-nationalist and fanatical regimes, Modi's India excretes aggression and militarism. Bloodlust fuels its fervour. The sickness grows stronger by the day. A diagnosis requires some answers.
What do you call a country that officially sanctions the persecution and killing of its minorities? What do you call a country that dehumanises an entire Muslim population? What do you call a country that converts an area into an open prison and sanctions torture on men, women and children? What do you call a country that converts its media into a groveling lapdog and a tool of state propaganda against minorities? What do you call a country that aims to disenfranchise an entire minority and threatens to lock them in camps? What do you call a country that forces the judges to do its bidding and punishes them for refusal? What do you call a country in which the judges agree to fall in line with the executive? What do you call a country whose normal rhetoric is laced with threats of war?
Today you call it India. It is a remarkable reversal. As India slips into the abyss of fascistic mayhem, Pakistan must rise as a country determined to become more progressive, tolerant and democratic. As India satisfies its bloodlust against minorities through greater repression and persecution, Pakistan must hug its minorities tighter and provide them with all the rights, protections and privileges that a state can offer. As India gnarls and snarls and waves its weaponised fist, Pakistan must be willing to unclench its fist into a handshake. And as India's democratic structure begins to crack under the weight of its Hindutva ideology — with a controlled media, pliant judiciary and collapsing rule of law — Pakistan must strengthen the credibility of its media, reinforce the independence of its judiciary and make a concerted effort to enhance and improve its rule of law. That time is upon us. While India is busy chopping off its own limbs, we may want to grow our own wings.
INDIA's MUSLIMS ARE PUNISHED FOR ASKING TO BE INDIAN
The Delhi violence opens a new dark chapter in India's modern history.
[url=https://www.aljazeera.com/profile/vidya-subrahmaniam.html]Vidya Subrahmaniam
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio...42176.html
On February 24, Hindu nationalist mobs descended on the northeastern parts of India's capital, New Delhi, and wreaked havoc for four days, targeting Muslim businesses and homes. More than 50 people were killed and hundreds were injured in the violence.
In the aftermath of the attacks, I visited one of the worst-affected neighbourhoods, Shiv Vihar, and witnessed the destruction. While Hindu shops and residences looked largely intact, most Muslim houses and businesses were gutted down to their bare bones. The burnt remains of the possessions of Muslim families - fridges, TV sets and cars - were scattered across the neighbourhood's narrow lanes.
While one local mosque was charred to the ground, another named Auliya looked largely unaffected from the outside. But inside, I found that it, too, was a charred, mangled mess. Hindu residents seemed to be carrying on with their lives as normal, but Muslims were nowhere to be seen - they had all left, seeking safety in relief camps set up by the government. The unrest that left Shiv Vihar in ruins was triggered after the weeks-long sit-ins in Delhi against the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which opponents say discriminates against Muslims, who were attacked by Hindu nationalists.
Anti-CAA protests in Delhi had been peaceful from the beginning. People got together to sing patriotic songs, wave Indian flags, recite from the Indian constitution and listen to speeches on freedom, solidarity and secularism. The protesters - many of them women - demonstrated nothing but loyalty to their country, but this did not stop the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from portraying them as "traitors" and making them prime targets for vigilante attacks.
In the run-up to the February 7 Delhi assembly elections, for example, the BJP ran a vicious campaign targeting the city's Muslims. Anurag Thakur, the junior finance minister, incited the crowd at an election rally to shout "shoot the traitors". Another minister, Parvesh Verma, swore the protesters would be "sent packing" within hours of a BJP victory, adding that if left unchecked, they would "rape and kill". Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, meanwhile implied
the protesters were anti-India and pro-Pakistan. Modi termed the ongoing protests a "conspiracy"
designed to undermine "India's harmony". Shah claimed protesters had raised slogans like "Jinnah wali azaadi (We want Jinnah-style independence)", suggesting they demand the disintegration of India.
When the inevitable happened and the protesters were attacked, the violence quickly spread across Delhi. The authorities did little to ease the tensions, while the police faced accusations of looking the other way. Many observers compared the attacks in Delhi to previous episodes of communal violence. Indeed, India's post-independence history is bristling with such incidents.This most recent episode was neither the biggest nor the most violent in India's recent history.
Yet, for careful India watchers, what happened last month was in a different category. To understand what makes these attacks unique and therefore more frightening, let us recall two other episodes of intercommunal violence in India's recent history: the 1984 massacres of Sikhs in Delhi and the 2002 pogroms targeting Muslims in the state of Gujarat.
The roots of the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 can be traced back to a separatist armed uprising that formed in the state of Punjab in the mid-1970s. As the movement grew in power, fighters started staging violent attacks in Delhi and other northern cities. In 1983, the leader of the movement, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and some of his most prominent followers took refuge in the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines located in Amritsar in Punjab, to escape arrest. In June 1984, then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian military to flush out the Sikh fighters from the temple. More than 500 people were killed during the operation, including many Sikh civilians. Then on October 31, 1984, two Sikh guards assassinated Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi in retaliation. Her assassination set off a fury: at the end of three days of non-stop butchery, 2,800 Sikhs were dead.
The 2002 Gujarat pogroms followed a similar scenario. On February 27, 2002, a blaze in a train carrying Hindu pilgrims killed 59 people in Godhra, Gujarat. The passengers were Hindu pilgrims, returning from Ayodhya after a religious ceremony at the site of the Babri Mosque. The mosque was demolished 10 years earlier by Hindu mobs claiming it was built on the ruins of a temple dedicated to Ram, a major deity of Hinduism. One official enquiry concluded that the fire in the train was accidental, caused by someone cooking or smoking inside a coach, but this report was later dismissed by the Supreme Court as "invalid". The Indian authorities eventually concluded that the train was set ablaze by Muslims. The incident caused an explosion of rage in the Hindu community and led to the killing of more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.
The 1984 massacres of Sikhs and the 2002 pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat had a lot in common. In both cases, the police were accused of abandoning their supervisory duties, by either remaining passive or, in some cases, aiding and abetting the killings. Both instances were also marked by acts of extreme violence previously unseen in communal clashes in India. In 1984, Sikh men and boys were fitted with burning tyres around their necks so that their deaths would be slow and painful. Sikh women, on the other hand, were repeatedly raped and forced to watch their husbands and sons die. In 2002 in Gujarat, many men and boys were dismembered and burned. Ehsan Jafri, a former member of Parliament, for example, was hacked to pieces and burned despite repeatedly seeking help from people he knew in the state government. Another important similarity between these two horrific episodes of violence was accusations of government complicity.
In 1984, local Congress leaders in Delhi were accused of aiding and abetting rioters, while the central government faced accusations of turning a blind eye to the violence. In 2014, a fact-finding team jointly organised by two prominent civil society organisations, the People's Union for Democratic Rights and the People's Union for Civil Liberties, found that the attacks on members of the Sikh Community in Delhi and its suburbs "were the outcome of a well-organised plan marked by acts of both deliberate commission and omission by important politicians of the Congress". Four years later, Sajjan Kumar, who was a prominent MP at the time of the riots, was sentenced to life in prison for "inciting crowds to kill Sikhs".
In Gujarat, similar accusations were directed at the state's BJP government. Modi, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, was accused of failing to halt the violence and indirectly encouraging some of the Hindu rioters. During its deliberations on the Gujarat riots, India's Supreme Court even likened Modi's government to that of Nero, the Roman emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. In 2012, Modi was cleared of complicity in the violence by a Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court, but rights groups continue to accuse him of tacitly supporting the rioters.
Last month's anti-Muslim attacks in Delhi had all of these characteristics. There is, however, one aspect that sets the events of last month apart from the historic cases of communal violence. Both the Sikh massacres and the Gujarat pogroms started in response to alleged atrocities committed by the members of the targeted communities. Last month's anti-Muslim violence in Delhi, however, was not "revenge" for anything. It was not preceded by a major infraction against the Hindu majority. The Muslim community did nothing that could even remotely warrant retaliation. The only thing they had done in the weeks prior to the attacks was to peacefully protest against the country's new, discriminatory citizenship law. Thus, unlike in 1984 and 2002, there was no ostensible cause for the violence. This time, Muslims were punished, only for being Muslim and asking to be Indian.
And because of this, last month's attacks mark the beginning of a new, frightening chapter in Indian history. The Hindu mobs, empowered by the Hindu-nationalist central government, no longer appear to need a reason to attack minorities. This signals that for minority communities in India, the future is now darker and more frightening than it has ever been before.
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Liverpool Biennial appoints Learning and Inclusion Programme Manager
Liverpool Biennial has announced the appointment of Judy Thomas to the key post of Learning and Inclusion Programme Manager. Judy is currently Acting Head of Education and Public Programme at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead where she has worked since 2002. At Liverpool Biennial, she replaces Sharon Paulger who has taken up the post of Director of Inter-Action MK, a community arts charity in Milton Keynes.
Liverpool Biennial has achieved extraordinary growth in the last six years, not least though its Learning and Inclusion Programme's committed delivery of educational objectives through a year round programme of activities and the festival programme; working with communities, formal education networks and visitors.
Judy, who will take up her post on 16 April said: "I am absolutely delighted to join the Biennial team and to be moving to Liverpool at such an exciting time. This position creates an opportunity to work across all the areas I feel most passionate about – engaging people with a dynamic programme of contemporary art. 2008 promises to be a full, inspiring and unique year for the city. I feel very privileged to be appointed and I am looking forward to being part of it.
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Prestige Brands Forum 2019 Hosted at CEIBS Shanghai Campus
May 24, 2019. Shanghai – Co-organised by CEIBS and Shanghai Jing'an District Government, the 11th Prestige Brands Forum 2019 was hosted today at CEIBS Shanghai Campus. On the theme of The Chinese Market and Companies in Transformation: Building Brands by Embracing the Trends. CEIBS professors, representatives of fashion brands, and scholars engaged in discussions on new trends in consumer behaviour, the new era of brick-and-mortar business, and new marketing models in the digital age. The forum was moderated by Jane Wang, Associate Professor of Marketing, CEIBS and Director, CEIBS-Jing'an International Fashion Industry Research Center.
Presently, Chinese companies are facing intense pressure to transform and upgrade in order to make a stronger impression in the global arena. To do so, they need to shift their focus to innovation and entrepreneurship, instead of being merely low-value-added and efficiency-driven. As the rules of the game keep changing and the brand market is reconstructed, an array of intelligent technologies will play an increasingly instrumental role in brand marketing. Therefore, the timing cannot be better for this forum.
Dr. Snow Zhou, CEIBS Assistant President, and Zhou Haiying, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Shanghai Jing'an District Committee and Deputy Mayor of Jing'an District, delivered welcome addresses. Dr. Zhou noted that in the context of new consumption and retail, the balance of power in China's consumer market is tipping in favour of emerging brands that embrace digital technologies, including the internet, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. To ride the new wave of consumption, he said, both Chinese and overseas brands need to figure out how to capture consumer trends in the era of disruption.
Deputy Mayor Zhou also pointed out that the complicated and changing international political and economic landscape has added uncertainty to global economic development. He further emphasised that this forum is particularly significant in focusing on new trends for Chinese brands and the paths to corporate change and innovation.
Megatrends for the Chinese Market and the Paths to Corporate Change and Innovation
In his keynote speech, Dominique de Villepin, Distinguished Professor of CEIBS, Chairman of CEIBS International Advisory Board (IAB) and former Prime Minister of France, shared his insights on the megatrends and driving forces in the Chinese market and Chinese companies' new paths to change and innovation.
In his speech, Prof. de Villepin argued that China's economy has shifted from a low value-added, export-oriented model to a more dynamic one driven by innovation and domestic demand. Moreover, he said, this transformation is making China's economy more stable and sustainable for the long run. At the same time, he noted, during this transformation, enterprises will face many opportunities and challenges.
He further noted that reform and opening-up, and globalisation are transforming corporate structure and decision-making. As such, Chinese enterprises not only need to lay out a new vision and new structures to effectively manage their subsidiaries abroad, but also need to develop in-house capacities to keep up with international trends. At the same time, China's technological and cultural transition has opened up new territory for economic growth. For example, he said, some prominent high-tech companies have stood out, bringing people more convenience in terms of mobility, communication, and knowledge acquisition. Technological innovation is now driving social progress and improving people's quality of life. In this context, he pointed out, Chinese consumers represent rising demands and expectations for companies.
Prof. de Villepin also said he believes it is time to build a new economy focused on high quality and mutual benefit, which, in turn, means supporting prestige brands and high-quality products. "As consumers used to take price as the major decision variable, companies could compete on low prices," he said. "Nowadays, quality and service are crucial to building consumer trust." He also recommended that Chinese companies continuously strengthen customer loyalty by forging long-term ties with customers so as to build enduring brands.
Market Restructuring and Value Connection
In his talk, Bruno Lannes, Partner of Bain & Company (Greater China), stated he believes that China's consumer market is experiencing changes in four areas. First, a growing number of consumers choose to spend time at home rather than abroad; second, growth in the consumer market is driven by an expanding middle class with strong spending power; third, as one of the major customer groups, millennials have unique consumer behaviours and an inclination toward instant consumption, valuing product quality over price; and fourth, interactions between consumers and brands are no longer fulfilled through traditional channels, but through digital platforms. He pointed out that as consumers now place a premium on personalisation and customisation, companies should actively respond to their increasingly fragmented needs through consumer-centric models and provide them with better experiences and services.
Ms. Cai Hua (CEIBS EMBA2016), Co-Founder and CMO of Ymatou.com, said that millennials (born between 1984 and 2000), who have long been exposed to the internet, are more inclined to obtain information about luxury goods online and pay a premium for personalised products and services. In the era of consumption upgrade, enterprises are seeing plenty of business opportunities. Live-streaming e-commerce has redefined the relationship among consumers, commodities and scenarios, and strengthened consumers' trust in products and brands, upending the traditional e-commerce experience. In this sense, the live-streaming e-commerce market holds a $100 billion USD worth of potential.
Clemens Pflanz, Founder and Chairman of MEISTERKREIS, a German luxury goods association, put forward three suggestions about Chinese companies' brand transformation. First, that quality lays at the heart of a product. During the brand transformation, high-quality products not only ensure the stability of a brand, but also its sustainable development after the transformation. Second, in the digital age, brands need new partnerships that will give an impetus to innovation and transformation. Third, sustainable development should be given top priority in brand transformation and building. Chinese companies would need to gear product and technological innovation toward ever-changing consumer attitudes and behaviours so that their brands could withstand the test of the time and maintain their lustre.
Following the talks, Mr. Lannes, Ms. Cai Hua and Mr. Pflanz participated in a roundtable discussion moderated by Prof. Wang.
Corporate Transformation: Paths and Strategies
What opportunities will digital technology open up to companies? In his talk, Dr. Liu Yuliang (CEIBS EMBA1999), Chairman, China Association of Fragrance Flavour and Society of Cosmetic Science and Technology, cited the digital landscape of Chinese cosmetics companies as an example of how digital upgrading could deliver a boost to brand development. He noted that at the corporate level, the level of digitalisation is highly correlated with revenue growth and profitability. In addition, the impact of information technology on traditional companies is gradually going beyond communication channels to penetrate the supply chain and even the entire value chain. Companies should provide precise services for consumers through digitisation of supply chain based on the big data platform, he said, and boost brand development through digital integration of internal and external data for more efficient operations in terms of consumers, commodities and scenarios.
In her talk, Ms. Jessie Yang, Senior Vice President, InMobi Global and General Manager, InMobi Greater China, also cited the application of AI as an example of how technology can help companies with mobile marketing. She also explained how AI video advertising based on big data could cover all scenarios, including fragmented time. It could promptly capture changes in user scenarios to "find the right person" and "reach the right person" so as to ensure targeted advertising. Ms. Yang further emphasised that, in the era of mobile internet, companies must make good use of digital and algorithm technology to provide efficient solutions to brand marketing.
Cai Chongda, CEO of MAGMODE, shared his views about changes in brick-and-mortar businesses. He said he believes what has changed is all on the surface, while what has stayed unchanged is at the core. Brick-and-mortar businesses screen commodities by product attribute, frequency of product update, and suitability, with the advantage of trading physical space for customer experience. For example, shopping centres attract consumers with exquisite windows. The low frequency of product update, however, is an unavoidable soft spot for brick-and-mortar businesses. Nevertheless, Mr. Cai emphasised that brick-and-mortar businesses would probably see a new sales boom as long as they could provide commodities that catered to consumers' demand for personalisation and diversification.
Finally, Liu Yuliang, Jessie Yang, Cai Chongda and Wang Xiaoyi, Director of Tmall Luxury Marketing Center, held a roundtable discussion moderated by Ms. Irene Tang (CEIBS EMBA2011), Founder & CEO, Fulishe and Secretary-General, CEIBS Fashion & Creativity Alumni Association.
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Best things to do in Portland Discover the city according to locals.There are so many cool things to do with kids in Portland, Oregon, we had a very enjoyable stay.This three-day event aims to educate the public about the cacao tree and offers an expansive variety of chocolates to sample.
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There is a lot of wonderful iconic and amazing tourist destination in the region.
And visitors are likely to be able to identify the latest hot spot by the crowd of people lingering outside its doors.Of the many Portland shopping districts, one of the hottest new destinations is Union Way, an attractive fusion indoor-outdoor shopping corridor, which links downtown Portland to the Pearl District.
Find out all the best places to eat and drink in Portland over on the Intrepid Travel blog.All shopping in Portland, whether at big-box stores or in independent boutiques, is tax free.From museums to crazy over the top play places to some of the best hiking in the Pacific Northwest Portland has it all.
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Climate and Things to Do in Portland, Oregon The city of Portland, Oregon has a temperate climate with average temperatures that are relatively warm, especially when compared to other locations around the Pacific Northwest.
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Portland Night Market is a great outdoor place for young people, old people, locals, and tourists alike.
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You can definitely see Portland in four days if you plan ahead. They can learn to do almost anything, from cooking vegetables grown in a neighborhood garden to swinging from a trapeze.
And, as most everyone knows, the weather in Portland is rarely good: the rainfall averages an equivalent 37.5 inches (950 mm) per year in downtown Portland, spread over 155 days a year.It is also firmly on the tourist map of the West Coast, so here is a list of things to do in Portland if you are planning a trip there.Visit Portland, Oregon: Things to do in Portland - The Bridge City Oregon Zoo A zoo.Here are the best activities to discover on your next trip to Portland.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Attorney General William Barr weighed in on an immigration case on Tuesday, establishing a new precedent that could affect thousands of migrants at the southwest border seeking asylum in the U.S.
In his decision, Barr said that asylum seekers who begin in expedited removal, in which they are not given the right to see a judge, and are then transferred to full removal proceedings, in which they wait to make their case before a judge, should not be released on bond. It means that thousands of asylum seekers who once would have been out on bond and living in the U.S. while awaiting a decision on their status will now be kept in detention centers, where the wait times are climbing from months to a year.
Due to the limited capacity, Barr said his decision should go into effect in 90 days in order to give ICE time to build bed space.
Michael Tan, an attorney for the ACLU, said his organization and others are preparing to sue the Trump administration over the new policy.
Under U.S. law, the attorney general has the right to overturn the decisions of immigration judges and establish sweeping new precedents, such as this.
The decision is expected to affect a broad swath of immigrants coming to the southwest border to claim asylum. Immigrants who enter the U.S. without documents, or with documents suspected to be fraudulent, are placed into expedited removal before they have an interview with U.S. asylum officers at which they try to establish they have credible fear for their safety if they return to their home countries. And more than 90 percent of asylum seekers pass the credible fear interview, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics.
Barr's decision reversed an immigration judge's decision to release an immigrant on bond while waiting for his proceedings. He also said that the Board of Immigration Appeals, a panel that reviews immigration court decisions, "wrongly decided" that only immigrants who enter the U.S. through legal ports of entry should be detained while others could be released on bond.
As a result of the decision, thousands of asylum seekers will remain in ICE detention while they await a decision in their case. Families with children under 18, however, will not be affected because of a federal court decision that prevents minors from being held longer than 20 days.
The Obama administration was criticized in 2014 for placing bonds so high that immigrants could not afford them.
Barr's decision could be problematic for ICE, where space to hold detained immigrants is already extremely limited. Many private prison companies and state and local jails are awarded ICE contracts to hold surplus immigrants.


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NYCB's 'The Nutcracker' lead role goes to black ballerina for first time ever
There's nothing like sitting in a twinkly-lit theater and watching a performance of The Nutcracker to get you in the festive mood.
The beloved ballet has become synonymous with Christmas, after it was first staged in North America in the 1950s.
It seems we can't get enough of this fantastical tale of a nutcracker soldier, gingerbread men, the sugarplum fairy and of course the ever-growing Christmas tree.
New York City ballet has been staging the show since 1954 and for the first time this year the lead role of Marie will be played by a black ballerina.
IN THE NEWS // The four School of American Ballet @sab_nyc children who alternate the roles of Marie and the Nutcracker Prince were recently profiled in The New York Times by Gia Kourlas. She sat down with them to discuss the rehearsal process, their lives off-stage, and their roles in the ballet.⠀ ⠀ When asked about why ballet is important to her now, in this moment, 11 year-old Charlotte Nebres, pictured here in rehearsal for her role as Marie, said:⠀ ⠀ "To me, it just feels like when I dance I feel free and I feel empowered. I feel like I can do anything when I dance. It makes me happy, and I'm going to do what makes me happy. You don't need to think about anything else."⠀ ⠀ Photo: Heather Sten @heathersten for The New York Times @nytimes⠀ ⠀ See these very young dancers, who are the heart of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®, now on stage through JAN 5. Tap the link in bio for tickets and more information.⠀ ⠀ #nutcracker #nycbnutcracker #thenutcracker #nutcrackerballet #holidayseason #georgebalanchinesthenutcracker #ballet #dance #balletdancer #dancelife #balletlife #instaballet #dancers #choreography #balanchine #nycb #nycballet #newyorkcityballet #newyorkcity #linkinbio #schoolofamericanballet
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11-year-old Charlotte Nebres, whose mother's family is from Trinidad and father's is from the Philippines and is a student at the School of American Ballet (SAB) has been selected for the star part.
Charlotte will play the young heroine of "The Nutcracker," originally choreographed by George Blanchine, who danced the role of the Prince in The Nutcracker in 1919 in Russia and after moving to America founded New York City Ballet where he developed his own version.
Charlotte's proud mom described the moment she finished her audition and announced the news to her.
"With that poker face of hers, she said, 'Well, I'm Marie,' And I just thought, oh my goodness — they really did it. I couldn't believe it," her mother told the New York Times.
IN THE NEWS // The four @sab_nyc children who alternate the roles of Marie and the Nutcracker Prince were recently profiled in The New York Times by Gia Kourlas. She sat down with them to discuss the rehearsal process, their lives off-stage, and their roles in the ballet.⠀ ⠀ When asked who the Nutcracker Prince is to him, 11-year-old Kai Misra-Stone (pictured at top right) said, "The Prince is this character that develops. In the beginning, he is Drosselmeier's nephew and then it's almost as if he transforms into the Nutcracker and then goes back to being the Prince. He comes out of his shell and just opens up and is like: Here I am."⠀ ⠀ Thirteen-year-old Tanner Quirk (pictured in the foreground), is the oldest of the four, and has also previously played Marie's bratty brother Fritz in the production. To him, the Nutcracker Prince "is very brave and compassionate especially toward his Marie, which is what I aspire to be like in real life, too."⠀ ⠀ Photo: Heather Sten @heathersten for The New York Times @nytimes⠀ ⠀ See these very young dancers who are the heart of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®, now on stage through JAN 5. Tap the link in bio for tickets and more information.⠀ ⠀ #nutcracker #nycbnutcracker #thenutcracker #nutcrackerballet #holidayseason #georgebalanchinesthenutcracker #ballet #dance #boysdancetoo #balletdancer #dancelife #balletlife #instaballet #dancers #choreography #balanchine #nycb #nycballet #newyorkcityballet #newyorkcity #linkinbio #schoolofamericanballet
Meanwhile, Charlotte has mixed feelings: both amazed at being cast in the lead role but adding: "Wow. That seems a little late."
Charlotte's mom said her daughter's role gave her "chills" but is also hesitant when it comes to celebrating, "It's tough because we have past hurts, past injuries and disappointments," she said.
'Fresh perspective'
"You don't necessarily want to color their worldview that way. You want them to approach it with their fresh perspective," she said.
Charlotte hopes her part will inspire other young people of color to want to start ballet.
"It's pretty amazing to be not only representing S.A.B., but also representing all of our cultures," she told the New York Times. "There might be a little boy or girl in the audience seeing that and saying, hey, I can do that, too."
With a talent and maturity like Charlotte's she is bound to go far and inspire so many other children of color along the way.
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On Saturday June 13th, 2015, the traditional Mataderos Fair, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires, moves to Avenida de Mayo with a festival where visitors will have the chance to enjoy folk music shows, and purchase crafts, traditional food and regional products.
The event, similar to the Fair held every Sunday in Mataderos, will be held from 11 am on Avenida de Mayo between Bolivar & Chacabuco, in downtown Buenos Aires.
Dance and music shows will be presented on the main stage, with the presence of Babel Orkesta, and performances by guest artists.
The Fair will feature stalls with traditional crafts from our provinces, like "mates", cutlery, silverware, textiles, leather and handicrafts of indigenous peoples, local products from around the country, including goat cheese, olives, wine, salami and alfajores, and traditional foods such as empanadas, locro, humita, tamales, meats, choripan, tortas fritas and pastelitos.