“Have a surge of patients visiting our pharmacy for psychiatric medication. Patients, who had been out of medication for years now have a relapse. On this couldn’t get medicine as suppliers because of communication clampdown weren’t able to place orders. Had to travel out of state to fill the shortage.
Yes, yes, all is well in valley.”
— report by Nasir Patigaru from Kashmir
There have been or will be #StandWithKashmir rallies in several more cities & countries, including Oslo, Norway, Surry UK, St. John’s Canada, Bangalore, India, Malmo, Sweden, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Cardiff UK, Atlanta, Georgia.
You can watch the movement grow on: https://www.facebook.com/pg/StandWithKashmir/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1644749318991227
Indian activist Kavita Krishnan, an outspoken supporter of Kashmir, is being trolled by nationalists as ugly because of her dark skin not like the ‘fairer Kashmiri girls’ they are sharing rape fantasies about. Since she is beautiful, regardless of her solidarity politics on Kashmir, it only shows the utter depravity & misogyny of nationalism.
Indian activist Kavita Krishnan, an outspoken supporter of Kashmir, is being trolled by nationalists as ugly because of her dark skin not like the ‘fairer Kashmiri girls’ they are sharing rape fantasies about. Since she is beautiful, regardless of her solidarity politics on Kashmir, it only shows the utter depravity & misogyny of nationalism.
Indian doctors living in the US wrote this truly detestable letter to The Lancet protesting the editorial about the health consequences of the occupation on Kashmiris–health consequences that only a shameless propagandist with a criminal mind would deny considering only India’s use of pellet guns against unarmed Kashmiris which has injured, disabled, & killed thousands. But there are also health consequences to the Indian Army’s use of rape as a weapon of war, to those nearly 10,000 families who have lost a loved one to forcible disappearances, to those thousands who sustained incarceration & torture, for the small children growing up under the presence of overwhelming & hostile martial force. Apparently to Hindutva doctors, that Hippocratic oath thing means nothing. Kind of like how ethical standards meant nothing to Dr. Mengele & the holocaust doctors of Nazi Germany. But it does mean this organization should be registered as a foreign lobbying organization for the Indian government, functioning not unlike AIPAC for Israel.
Pia Klemp, the German ship captain who faced prison time for rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean just refused the Grand Vermeil medal awarded from the mayor of Paris. This is her magnificent letter of refusal:
“You want to award me a medal for my solidarity action in the Mediterranean Sea, because our crews ‘work to rescue migrants from difficult conditions on a daily basis’. At the same time your police are stealing blankets from migrants that you force to live on the streets, while you raid protests & criminalize people that are standing up for rights of migrants & asylum seekers. You want to give me a medal for actions that you fight in your own ramparts. I am sure you won’t be surprised that I decline the medal.
“I’m not a humanitarian. I am not there to ‘aid’. I stand in solidarity. We do not need medals. We do not need authorities deciding about who is a ‘hero’ & who is ‘illegal’. In fact they are in no position to make this call, because we are all equal.
“What we need are freedom & rights. It is time we call out hypocrite honoring & fill the void with social justice. It is time we cast all medals into spearheads of revolution!
“Documents & housing for all!
Freedom of movement & residence!”
–Pia Klemp, 20 August 2019″
This album is a composite of #StandWithKashmir rallies in Kansas City & Philadelphia.
The National Education Union (NEU) is the largest union of teachers in the UK with 461,950 members. It published this statement of solidarity with Kashmiris on August 20th, 2019.
“Until the last Kashmiri is out of jail, and all Kashmiri journalists allowed to write and publish exactly as they want to, India must be relentlessly condemned as a prisonhouse and a totalitarian state. #StandWithKashmir #EndTheOccupation #RedForKashmir
–Indian activist Satyadeep Satya