A 90-year-old man & his 9-year-old granddaughters dancing to Saturday Night Fever: it doesn’t get cooler than this.

The human mind reels before the racist savagery of the US government toward refugees.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/immigrant-medical-treatment-deferred-action.html?

Day 29 #Kashmir

I will speak to you- in detail,
In broken English, with
My heavy Kashmiri accent,
How they want us
To forget and move on.

They want us to forget
That we ever lived happily
Under the shade of chinars;
Until they settled our history
And set us free.

I will write to you perhaps
Should my tongue be silent;
How they want us to forget:
Who stole our apples and Godly
Statured Deodar trees.

If I survive this siege of history;
I will – tell it to you, my children,
Even to my grandchildren:
How one fine day I was
Robbed of my memories.

— by Kashmir poet Ashaq Hussain Parray

Kuala Lampur, Malaysia #StandWithKashmir rally coming up September 6th, 2019.

“Love in the Time of Clampdown.”

–Muddasir Ramzan

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/lovers-innovate-during-article-370-lockdown-in-kashmir?fbclid=IwAR1YZ3-s2SNs5LouhFGhrvRaJRde7wGk6xVkR8RjF1-l8vACXE0U8_uiLTA

“The Azadi movement in Kashmir is not just a struggle for justice, it is also a struggle of memory against forgetting… For the families of Kashmiris subjected to ‘enforced disappearance’ by the Indian State, to forget is to accept the injustice around them, to succumb to the oppressor’s power. Remembering, on the other hand, makes them stand up and fight for justice. While the families push themselves to believe that their children are coming back, the photographs remind them of the void created by the politics of powerful states…”

#StandWithKashmir

https://thewire.in/rights/in-photos-an-archive-shows-how-kashmir-resists-and-remembers?fbclid=IwAR2kAzvHaGF78DZfmO-fGMnesDy9t6_IZOq5qaoHv2UScRVw5nM4GgdVKwU

The Bangladesh ban of mobile phones in Rohingya refugee camps is unspeakable. Are they punishing them for refusing deportation back to a dangerous, inhuman life in Arakan state where the Burmese Army can finish off the ‘final solution’? Bangladesh authorities claim Rohingya were “abusing” mobile phones to conduct criminal activities. Maybe they should use their clairvoyance in knowing that by cracking down on sweatshop owners in Bangladesh whose entire business practice is criminal. Rohingya also use mobiles to chat with family in other camps to let them know about marriages, deaths, sickness, to report news, to take photos & videos. This is just an outrage & we hope the boycott of Burma organized by Rohingya activists & their supporters will strike some fear into the Hasina government just as it will the Burmese genocidaires.

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2019/09/bangladesh-bans-mobile-phone-access-in-rohingya-camps/?

Protest in Soura, the neighborhood in Srinagar which has barricaded itself, making it a ‘no-go zone’ for Indian troops.

#StandWithKashmir #BoycottIndia

Panoramic view of Karachi, Pakistan #StandWithKashmir protest so massive & impressive. It looks like Kashmiri solidarity is ‘going full Hong Kong’ & it also looks very much like the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria.