According to this report in India Today, the Indian Home Ministry has contacted Twitter “to suspend eight Kashmir-based accounts for spreading rumours,” including my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mscully94. I have never been more honored than to be declared an enemy of the Modi government & a supporter of the Kashmiri freedom struggle.
San Francisco #StandWithKashmir rally coming up August 17th.
#StandWithKashmir protest at White House, August 11th
Thank you DC for giving a voice to the voiceless in Kashmir yesterday at this rally in front of the White House! ✊🏽Urdu: "Hum kya chahte hain? Azaadi!" English: "What do we want? Freedom!" #StandWithKashmir #RedForKashmir #SOSKashmir
Posted by Stand With Kashmir on Sunday, August 11, 2019
The Kashmiri Mona Lisa: an ironic protest against the use of pellet guns on unarmed protesters.
Los Angeles #StandWithKashmir rally, August 10th, 2019.
(Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP)
Some go all moralistic & new-age pacifism when it comes to stone pelters. But it is the only weapon unarmed protesters have against soldiers armed to the teeth with a high-tech arsenal, including pellet guns, rubber bullets, & tear gas shells. Stone pelting is & has been used by mostly working class youth from Northern Ireland to Palestine to Kashmir & in many ways functions as civilian defense guards for protesters.
We will not condemn protesters for standing with rocks against an armed occupation of nearly one-million troops.
#StandWithKashmir
(Photo by Altaf Qadri/ AP)
There are expressions of solidarity with the Kashmiri freedom struggle from the Syrian Arab Spring in Syria & at rallies elsewhere. Kashmiri voices are silenced now but they have always been exemplary in solidarity, including with the Syrian people against the Assad dictatorship & the bombing of civilians.
This is a sketch by artist Marc Nelson from an eyewitness photo of a small boy killed by Syrian & Russian bombing in Idlib, now in its third month. May this young child Rest In Peace.
As we demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian forces from Kashmir, we demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Russian, Iranian, US-coalition, Hezbollah, & Israeli forces from Syria. Stop the bombing of Idlib.
(Sketch by Marc Nelson from Twitter)
Irish human rights activist Micheal Clinton reports that San Francisco is planning a #StandWithKashmir rally & there is another one being planned for London. Will post when we get more info.