Monthly Archives: September 2020
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–Tweeted by Kashmir Bleeds @ROFLvalley
In Beziers, France, a 33-year-old homeless Muslim man named Mohamed Gabsi died in April when police officers used heavy-handed methods to enforce the corona quarantine. Being homeless, he was out during the lockdown. Mohamed suffocated & went into cardiac arrest after a police officer sat on his back during the entire trip to the police station. On a video, he can be heard protesting in the same way as George Floyd.
Riots erupted in Paris at the heavy-handed methods police use against minorities to enforce the quarantine. Police responded with tear gas during a pandemic.
The officers are still free!
May Mohamed Rest In Peace.
#JusticeForMohamedGabsi #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
(Photo is Mohamed Gabsi)
A very powerful story by Mubashir Naik about how pellet injuries have changed the lives of a young man & his family.
It’s not new that so many are stumbling over the slogan ‘Black lives matter’. In objecting to that slogan by counterposing ‘all lives matter’, one is not more expansive in their humanity but in a sneaky-assed way are denying the humanity of Blacks who are incarcerated by the thousands for minor offenses, are dying at disproportionate rates from corona, & who are being gunned down in their communities simply for being Black.
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“I hope the world is listening. The Internet apartheid in Kashmir is bringing untold misery to people living here. Doctors, scholars, students, office goers–everyone is suffering. Work from home is near to impossible because files as small as 2 MB take ages to load.”
–Tweeted by Mir S @Meenwhile
On the morning of June 5, 1989, a day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, a column of tanks began rolling out of the plaza. A man carrying shopping bags stepped in front of the tanks waving his arms & refusing to move. The tanks tried to go around him but he moved into their path & even climbed on to one. Eventually, the man was whisked away, whether by undercover agents or supporters of the protesters we do not know. He remains anonymous. But he has become a symbol of resistance to autocracy representing the millions who have given their lives in the struggle for democracy & human freedom.
(Photo by Jeff Widener, 1989)
Just to remind Kashmiris who were under telecommunications lockdown last year: the protests around the world in solidarity with your struggle were not as massive as the civil rights protests today but many of them were massive, they were certainly sustained, & there were hundreds of them all over the world. They were mostly initiated by Kashmiris in diaspora but participants were every kind of human rights activist. A Kashmiri solidarity movement has come into its own when for 72 years Kashmiris stood alone. Those days are gone. You have thousands of supporters all over the world.
This is Times Square in NYC in September 2019 when Modi was being feted at the UN. The slogan was ‘Go red for Kashmir’. Times Square rang with the chant of ‘azadi’.