A moving & poetic diary by Kashmiri poet Omair Bhat in response to the first few weeks of the Kashmir siege & lockdown last August.
Monthly Archives: March 2020
“China is weaponising the Corona virus in its ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people.
Uyghurs are being moved across China to provide cheap labour in factories whose original Chinese workforce has been sent home to protect them from the Corona virus.”
–Thamina Eff
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/work-02272020160853.html?
A BBC report on the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi.
A report by BBC about the anti Muslim pogrom / riots in New Dehli, India
Posted by Maqsood A Kayani Mak on Saturday, February 29, 2020
NYC emergency protest against state sanctioned violence in Delhi, today at India in NY, 3 East 64th St. (between 5th & Madison Avenue), 5:30 pm to 6:30.
At the time I should have been going into full campaign mode as an independent socialist candidate for US president, India imposed the lockdown on Kashmir. (I would not be so comical as to suggest an association between the two.) Maintaining campaign footing became very difficult & quite frankly didn’t seem important when there was so much to report about the lockdown & the emergent solidarity movement. I tend to be hard-nosed rather than delusional so had no hopes of getting elected but wanted to use the campaign to express uncompromising support for the oppressed & to help build their political power.
Okay, so we’re here in February 2020 & my campaign is now dragging its ass. I appreciate so much that many are still liking up my campaign wall even without my maintaining it. Thank you for that.
https://www.facebook.com/maryscullyforpresident2020/?modal=admin_todo_tour
Will all the socialists & liberals hailing Bernie Sanders as the second coming of Moses transfer their loyalties to another Democrat if, as is likely, the Democrats successfully maneuver him out of the nomination? The problem is not their credulity in eating up his populist & opportunist rhetoric. The problem is that they do not understand how the Democratic Party functions to maintain capitalist rule, that it’s incapable of political metamorphosis into an instrument of liberation no matter what the candidate promises. Or did the euphoria & then crash landing over Obama go over their heads? Do they actually think US policies are left to the vagaries of an individual president rather than the economic & political dictates of Wall Street?
In 2016, after Sanders lost the nomination, we saw socialists actually call it a duty to vote for war-monger Clinton who outspokenly pledged to increase the genocidal onslaught against Palestinians, collaborated with the Burmese generals, & was a shill for every US war. May they be reminded of Socialism 101 which does not consider the interests of working people anywhere in the world of lesser importance than or at odds with the interests of working people in the US.
So while thousands of socialists are out campaigning now for Sanders, the Palestinians, Syrians, Kashmiris, Rohingya, Iraqis, Yemenis, Afghans, & others are left stranded against the forces of death & destruction. Lesser evil politics are dead-end politics & no one understands that better than Sanders.
#fake #indianmedia
#insideout
By Mir Suhail Qadiri
“Kejriwal is not a coward, he is an opportunist of the worst order. Whatever he is doing is deliberate, he has his eyes on the highest post and he can’t get there by openly challenging Hindutva; he tried it in the past and failed, so that is the reality. Sacrificing a Muslim party member will definitely speed up the process. He bears all the signature signs of the old Congress, the original architect of a soft sangh masquerading as pluralistic and secular. Remember he went to the samadhi of the father of this ideology Gandhi when Muslims were butchered on the streets of Delhi. Next time he might sit on a fast to death too. So call him what he actually is: a Sanghi Opportunist.”
–Mir Laieeq
“Remember the viral video of cops making wounded men sing the national anthem? One of them, Faizan (in the blue shirt) has died of his injuries.”
#DelhiPogrom
Scenes from a genocide.
#BurningDelhi