Appeal for NAPM Membership: Organizational and Individual (Norms, Forms & All details)
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Appeal For Organizational & Individual Membership of NAPM
All documents & forms in English & हिन्दी are available here: https://napmindia.wordpress.com/
Dear comrades,
Greetings from NAPM. As you are well aware, NAPM is
a 27-year old pan-Indian alliance of grassroots organizations,
independent struggles, collectives as well as rights activists, academics and
well-meaning citizens from across the country, who, while retaining their
autonomy and identity, have also been working collectively to bring the
struggle for people-oriented, truly sustainable development, transformative social justice and the core constitutional values to the
centre-stage of politics and public life, alongside working on
alternatives. The Alliance is clearly committed to challenging and ending all
forms of fascism, inequality, exploitation, discrimination and oppression based
on caste, class, gender, race, region, religion, ethnicity, nationality,
language, access to information, resources and technology. More on the Alliance
Vision and Principles is available in the attached Annexure - I
Your movement / organization, as well as many of you in your individual capacities, have been co-travellers of the Alliance for many years. More recently, you have also been an active organizer / participant in the energetic All-India Samvidhan Samman Yatra, from 2nd Oct-10th Dec, 2018, which received overwhelming response and support from more than 200 struggle spots across the country. Following the yatra, we had a couple of intense meetings at Delhi (11th Dec, 2018); Wardha Chintan Baithak (3rd to 5th March, 2019); Delhi (1st-2nd April, 2019), Mumbai (13th May and 16th-17th June, 2019) and Bhopal (14th-15th Sep, 2019), leading to multiple state conventions and the 12th Biennial National Convention of 25 Years of NAPM at Puri, Odisha (23rd to 25th Nov, 2019).
At many of these meetings and conventions, while raising key contemporary socio-political issues, we also undertook detailed reviews of our work, reflected on the status of NAPM in today’s context and felt the strong need to streamline many of our processes, plan concrete follow-up actions and firm up NAPM's organizational & Alliance structures at the national and state level, considering the serious political situation in the country and the challenges as well as possibilities before NAPM. While Covid-lockdown has limited inter-state physical interactions in the past two years, even as state repression, livelihood crisis and corporate onslaught has intensified, we have all tried to remain in solidarity in multiple ways, including during the anti-CAA-NRC movement, response to the migrant workers, livelihoods & health crisis, the 1-year strong farmers resistance, Campaigns to Defend Democracy as well as through intense virtual engagements like ‘We Shall Speak’, ‘Grounded Voices’ and ‘Yuva Samvad’. Since 9th August, 2021, we have kickstarted a year long campaign called Jan Azadi 75: On the Path to Freedom, to remember the many values of the freedom struggle, re-assert the strength and gains of people’s movements in the past 75 years and reach out to people and organizations across the country, while we grapple with the current crises.
As we mark 27 years of significant journey, we are even more convinced of the need for a robust and autonomous all-India platform of people’s movements like NAPM, which is inclusive of diverse progressive ideas, ideologies and issues, to take on the many challenges we are facing head-on and move towards a truly transformative and socio-ecologically just society. During the 2018 yatra and in the subsequent meetings, we received many requests from states, organizations and individuals to activate the membership process of NAPM. People’s Organizations & Concerned Citizens have always remained the core strength of NAPM. It is in this context that we are writing to you to kindly consider taking / updating formal membership of NAPM.
The Organizational Membership Norms & Forms are attached as Annexure - II & III. [Links are below]
The Individual Membership Norms
& Forms are attached as Annexure –
IV & V. [Links are below]
We seek your active co-operation in this process. We wish to reiterate that NAPM is a broad-based alliance and the constituent organization retains complete autonomy and identity regarding their activities. Likewise, the constituent is free to be part of any and any number of other platforms, campaigns etc. that are progressive in nature and in particular, furthers the rights of struggling and marginalized peoples. We would appreciate an early response to this letter and submission of membership form from your end. (All the necessary documents can also be accessed from the links below). Kindly share the same with other concerned organizations and individuals.
In solidarity,
Inquilab Zindabad,
National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
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