GL response: It is extremely disheartening to read the following post for someone from whom I would expect better. Do students go to college to learn and graduate with high skills or to be involved in political activism and a wasted career other than end being a low wage worker or at best a labor leader? Is the political activism a good use of the students' adolescence and their parents' hard-working money and efforts trying to give their children a good education? I wonder if the respected advocate would give his own children the advice of political activism in college? The job of cleaning up the "rampant corruption and bad Governance" lies with the legal profession and those who vote. A better and democratic way would of course be of them to run for political office. If this fails, I would suggest the advocate (along with like-minded colleagues) go on a hunger strike to demand reform and change in governance. It is much easier to be critical, negative, demonize and destroy than work cooperatively to grow and build and ne productive. Here is a motto - BE THE CHANGE ONE IS SEEKING. Lets stop using college and high school children as a political tool for our own personal agenda. Regards, GL
From: Aires Rodrigues, Advocate High Court STUDENT ACTIVISM IN GOA NEEDS TO BE REKINDLED Student activism encompasses student involvement in issues dealing with economic, environmental, political and social change on and off the campus. it is extremely anguishing and very disheartening that the student activism today is virtually nonexistent in the State. In our days students were known for having strong opinions and expressing them without fear. We demonstrated to the government that student power was a force to reckon with. Maybe, it is now time that the students in Goa find their voice once again. Today the social media is a very handy tool to expand the scope and strength of student activism. Students need to be the voice of the voiceless and through a well organized networked Student activism it must be a signal for democracy and justice. With Goa currently in dire straits soaked in rampant corruption and bad Governance, the Student activism could cause a political, environmental, economic and much needed social change that Goa so desperately requires.
