“My real dream is to be a free bird, to fly high, to have a free soul, & to live life on my own terms.”
This is an excellent article on the residents protesting in the Soura neighborhood of Srinagar which captures their hopes for freedom & their aspirations for their lives.
Trump will be huffing & puffing at the Howdy Modi rally in Houston this Sunday. Trump & Modi go together like cow pies in a pasture. Will we still be hearing calls for him to mediate between India & Pakistan over Kashmir? Just a simple question: what about the Kashmiris? What about their demand for self-determination against Indian colonial occupation? Thank God for the adios Modi #StandWithKashmir protest outside the rally & the lawsuit filed by victims of Indian crimes against Kashmiris.
Documentation that the Indian government is paying Indian students & teachers in the US to attend, as well as transport them to, the Howdy Modi rally in Houston:
“I got this note today, my employer university UNT facilitated a ticket for me to go to this event as a delegate, Americans of Indian origin will join President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, TX next Sunday. Indian embassy folks visited our university and told us they would arrange transportation for us from Dallas to Houston. I am amused.”
–Dhrubodhi Mukherjee
This is noted Hindutva fangirl, Islamophobe, Zionist, anti-Semite Tulsi Gabbard apologizing to Modi for being unable to do her aloha-namaste schtick at the Howdy Modi rally this Sunday due to a secret campaign event in Iowa. What’s noteworthy about this sleazeball who portrays herself as antiwar is that Modi’s occupation of Kashmir with one-million troops & human rights crimes in Kashmir & India don’t disturb her one iota. Just as Syrian & Russian bombing of Syria did not. Anyone who promotes her candidacy after this detestable display of amorality cannot be trusted politically. But then of course, her primary supporters are Assadists & Stalinists.
This is an open letter from Stand With Kashmir appealing to guest speakers at the Gates Foundation award ceremony for Modi asking them to withdraw. It will surprise many, not all, that among the scheduled speakers is New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. The deputy Secretary General of the UN, & the Executive Director of UNICEF are also slated to speak in tribute to Modi.
That halo Ardern received for her conduct after the Christchurch massacre is being knocked for a loop, first by her state visit to China without making objection to the Uyghur genocide & now honoring Modi whilst he has Kashmir under lockdown, is disenfranchising two-million Muslims in the state of Assam, & is encouraging violence against Muslims & oppressed castes in India.
This article in the Houston Chronicle on the eve of Modi’s arrival for the Hindutva hate fest this Sunday puts a big damper on the event. He hoped it would be a triumphal propaganda moment & Kashmiri activists & their supporters have turned it into a shambles. Hindutva fangirl Tulsi Gabbard withdrew from doing her aloha schtick & fawning over him, along with other politicians. Kashmiri & Sikh activists filed the lawsuit making front page news in Houston. Indian media is claiming that ‘shadowy’ forces are organizing a mass movement to disrupt the event but now it is learned that the Indian government is bankrolling much of the event, not just American Hindutvavadis. A mass #StandWithKashmir protest at the event is the last thing Modi & his gang wanted.
Trump will be speaking at the rally & we can be sure that Texas politicians, including the governor & senators, will be there because there is considerable commerce between Texas & India at stake. As we know from the concentration camps for refugees all over Texas, human rights mean absolutely nothing to them. Some of them have even tried to associate refugee children with prostitution & drug trafficking. There’s no hope for such creeps. But #BoycottIndia will have a strong impact on their deranged psyches.
Indian capitalism is not going to lose money from the blockade of Kashmir. One of its primary reasons is to exploit the considerable resources of Kashmir, like hydroelectric power. So to their minds, it makes perfect sense that they would bill Kashmiris for telecommunications services that have not been delivered for 48 days. Capitalism is a merciless, predatory system.
Durban, South Africa #StandWithKashmir rally tomorrow.
Parveena Ahangar, Kashmir’s ‘Iron Lady’, by Lori Dee Desgranges, Michigan artist & Kashmiri solidarity activist.
#StandWithKashmir rallies this Sunday in Dearborn, Michigan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, & Seattle, Washington.