#StandWithKashmir protest outside the Indian High Commission in Pretoria tomorrow. Details about time coming up.
“We shall meet again, in Srinagar by the gates of the Villa of Peace, our hands blossoming into fists till the soldiers return the keys and disappear.”
– Agha Shahid Ali
Artistic tribute to Kashmiri freedom struggle by Rollie Mukherjee
“Supporting the Indian State means standing with fascism, patriarchy, caste, racism, feudalism, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism… #StandWithKashmir”
–Satyadeep Satya
“Indian women who know that ‘sex’ without consent is rape — a form of violence, not love, and a means of subjugation, not pleasure — should feel ashamed if they find themselves on the side of the Indian State, and not of the Kashmiri people resisting Indian rule. #StandWithKashmir”
–Indian activist Satyadeep Satya
Hi Asiya Ishaq and Ishaq
I know you won’t be able to see this post due to India completely cutting Kashmir off from any communications, but I wanted to let you know that the Kashmir issue is now being protested globally and that you have not been forgotten, the Kashmir voice is stronger than ever! 💪
I pray that you are keeping safe and much love to all from Australia — Nonama Namaz to Mohd Ishaq Chapri
Indian media is reporting & nationalists are twittering with a fury that London authorities allowed “murderous Pakistani thugs,” “hooligans,” & “former terrorists” bussed in from all over the UK to protest outside the Indian High Commission today without amping up security. They’re denouncing London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Boris Johnson, & the UK Parliament, threatening diplomatic repercussions, & demanding an apology to India.
Indian media & nationalist twitterers are the only sources that claim the protesters were violent. The Times of India reports that they “threw eggs, glass bottles, shoes, plastic bottles of water, lighters, bananas, batteries, potatoes, hot coffee, their own placards, & apples. “One man who was holding an Indian flag was left covered with eggs. There were scores of eggs, vegetables, & bottles all over the ground.” Wouldn’t you love to have seen that!? But it’s entirely the figment of a fevered nationalist imagination. No other media source reports such a farcical scenario.
The estimated 10,000 protesters of many different nationalities came by bus, car, train from Birmingham, Luton, Bradford, Manchester, Nottingham, & elsewhere to express their opposition to India’s military siege in Kashmir & commitment to Kashmiri freedom. They had placards reading “Kashmir is Burning”, “Free Kashmir”, even “Modi: Make Tea Not War.” Indian media & nationalists denouncing unarmed, peaceful protesters in London who are exercising their democratic right to protest is of a piece with their full, psychopathic support for the occupation of Kashmir with nearly one-million troops, locking down the entire population in their homes, closing schools & mosques, a complete telecommunication blockade, & shooting pellet guns, rubber bullets, tear gas shells at unarmed protesters. That’s the character of their stinking, rotten politics.
#StandWithKashmir
(Photo by Henry Nichols/Reuters)
Lahore, Pakistan #StandWithKashmir protest today, August 15th, 2019.
Didn’t Trump tell US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to ‘go back where she came from’? That would be Detroit, But now he ‘supports & respects” Israel’s decision to bar her from entering Israel or the Palestinian occupied territories? Her grandmother & other relatives in the West Bank were looking forward to seeing her & now can’t because she has the temerity to speak up for Palestinian justice against Israeli colonialism & occupation. Now that’s democracy for you!
(Photo of Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother tweeted by Tlaib)
London: “You see Palestine flags, Turkish flags , Kashmir flags, Khalistan flags. Sri Lankan flags. You have united everyone MODI 😡 for Kashmir.”
–Mehran Khan
Photos from the London #StandWithKashmir protest of 10,000 today.
