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It was deeply moving to visit the Lynching Memorial & Museum in Montgomery, Alabama last week.
We need sites like that nationwide to document the atrocities of the past.
I was humbled to find American Hate at the museum gift shop. The struggle against racism & hate continues.
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Thousands peacefully kneeling in DC remembering George Floyd chanting, “Stop Killing Black People.”
Why isn’t this video viral? Why is the media only interested in talking about isolated acts of vandalism & theft?
We’re here & We ain’t leaving.
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Three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, while wearing Keffiyehs.
Let’s tell the world what Keffiyehs are all about.
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Any Palestinian who celebrates the release of their political prisoners will be charged with terrorism under Israeli law.
This is why we call it an apartheid state.
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“You failed Uvalde.”
“There is no riot here, why are you in riot gear.”
State troopers look ready to brutalize peaceful protesters at UT Austin.
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Trump has invited the boys from Covington Catholic to the White House.
Meanwhile he hasn't invited a single survivor of hate violence during his entire presidency to the White House.
Call Trump what he is: a racist & white supremacist.
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Here are the first 8 minutes of the new BBC documentary that Modi has banned.
Watch it. Share it. Spread the word.
Modi was “directly responsible” for the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 & Modi / BJP / RSS continue their atrocities against Muslims today.
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Compilation of genocidal statements from Israeli leaders & officials.
One day this will be evidence in a court of law. The genocidal intent is crystal clear.
via
@5Pillarsuk
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He called them children of darkness, then he murdered 4,000 of them.
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Now Israel is dropping leaflets in Southern Gaza telling Palestinians to relocate.
To where? And when?
This has never been a military campaign against Hamas. It’s always been about ethnic cleansing & the forced displacement of the Palestinian people.
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Indian media is the greatest fascist propaganda machine in the world.
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If you haven’t been following the latest out of India, this video tells you everything you need to know.
A pogrom against Muslims is underway in Delhi. Here’s a Muslim family hiding on a rooftop as Hindutva mobs terrorize their community.
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Every person on planet Earth should watch this video many times. These Muslim women saved their friend from near certain death at the hands of a uniformed Indian mob.
All of us should strive to be this brave. All of us should resist brutality in this way.
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These Sikhs don’t speak for me. Nor do they speak for the many Sikhs across the world who stand with our brothers, sisters & others in Kashmir, Assam & across India.
Nothing can whitewash your atrocities.
I had an excellent interaction with the Sikh Community in Houston. I am delighted to see their passion towards India’s development!
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The NY Taxi Workers Alliance are joining the protests at JFK. Read their extraordinary statement. An excerpt here:
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Do watch the banned BBC documentary.
Modi participated & helped direct the genocide against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002.
The US banned him for a decade & other countries admonished him.
Yet the people of India elected him to be Prime Minister. Twice.
Appalling & terrifying.
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Why would Israel bomb media offices & exile reporters?
You know the answer.
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San Francisco just passed a resolution denouncing the CAA & NRC. Six U.S. cities have now condemned Modi, Amit Shah & fascism in India.
Organized Hindutva elements tried to stop the measure, but they failed. More resolutions are coming. You can't stop the forces of history.
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“I was accused of having an agenda. Just now, some of my colleagues were accused of having an agenda. This is the cost of speaking truth to Modi, Amit Shah, the BJP, RSS & Hindu nationalists.”
Kashmir will never be silenced. We will never be silenced.
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“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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What looting? What vandalism?
An endless sea of people singing Lean On Me lighting up the sky with their phones outside The White House.
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This is beautiful.
Kamaru Usman just defeated white supremacist & Trump family friend, Colby Covington.
In an earlier interview, he said he was fighting for “every immigrant that stepped foot in this country.”
Just now post fight: “this one was for the world...love and unity.”
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Modi didn’t mention Kashmir in his remarks at the UN.
What could he say? The tide of world opinion is turning against him.
Scholars, human rights defenders, lawmakers, Nobel Laureates & countless citizens of the world have spoken out against his atrocities.
And we won’t stop.
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Narendra Modi is a war criminal. We learned that in Gujarat in February 2002.
Some of us never forgot.
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If you want a case study in fascism, look at India right now.
Kashmiris are being detained, arrested, beaten, tortured & blinded. Don't take my word for it. Read survivor accounts or BBC, WaPo, NYT & Al Jazeera.
Yet the vast majority of India says everything is normal. IT'S NOT
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Trump's Islamophobic retweets have already been forgotten. That's what happens when Islamophobia becomes normalized. We're desensitized to it.
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There was an earthquake that affected Kashmir today & because of the communication blackout, many can’t reach their loved ones.
Imagine seeing the devastating photos & not being able to call home.
India’s cruelty is like a dystopian novel only it’s real & has been for 52 days.
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The whole world must watch this video.
As voices of conscience demand justice in India, the RSS is mobilizing in places like Telangana. They want to create a Hindutva republic.
The RSS was inspired by the Nazis. Modi himself is a member.
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The United States has an extraordinary way of destabilizing the world, doesn’t it?
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Kashmir has been cut off for 60 DAYS.
No email. No cell phones. Children arrested. Children missing. Medicine shortages. Crushing curfew. Reports of torture everyday.
We need a global intervention, but because the victims are mostly Muslim & people of color, we’re turning away.
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The ADL is adding pro-Palestine protests organized by progressive Jews to their antisemitic incident database.
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Modi arrives in the US one week from today.
Some will cheer because they
support fascism, while others want access to the Indian market.
But people of conscience will protest. They will stand with Kashmir & Assam, support those who face daily hate in India & remember Gujarat.
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Her name was Akbari. She was 85 years old & burned to death in her home in Delhi because she was Muslim.
Witnesses say the mob was chanting Hindutva slogans as they swept through the community.
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The reports out of Kashmir get worse by the minute.
Indian soldiers are kidnapping children and molesting girls and women. They’re using the curfew & blackout to rape and pillage.
Where is the international community? Who will hold India responsible?
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Modi’s India:
*Muslims & Dalits are openly lynched
*Academics & journalists are threatened & detained
*Kashmir has been illegally seized & occupied
*Millions in Assam have been rendered stateless
*More internet blackouts than any country in the world
Join me to say:
#AdiosModi
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The assassination of Soleimani is a clear violation of int’ll law.
He did not pose an imminent threat to U.S. national security nor was he engaged on the battlefield. The strike also violated Iraqi sovereignty.
US media will hype this as a lawful preemptive strike. It’s not.
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Today was a victory for human rights in India & worldwide.
In the halls of the U.S. Congress, witnesses & elected officials denounced the atrocities in Kashmir, the detention camps in Assam & the mob lynchings of minorities.
Modi & Hindu nationalism were dealt a serious blow.
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The internet never forgets.
Here’s the BBC documentary that YouTube banned showing Modi’s direct role in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002.
Modi is a war criminal & should be shunned by the world.
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Protesters in India are facing arrest, pellet bullets, tear gas, live munition, beatings, deprivation of emergency care & internet blackouts. Dozens have been murdered.
Stop calling India the world’s largest democracy. It’s an authoritarian regime waging war on its own people.
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After tweeting in support of Kashmir, user accounts in India:
attacked my identity
accused me of inciting terrorism
threatened to kidnap my family
threatened my life
This is fascism. Occupation & militarization; troll armies & fake news; war on the press; silencing of dissent.
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India blocks the internet, threatens Twitter & openly charges journalists with sedition.
It's Fascism 101.
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Organized Hindutva elements have paid for ads in Times Square tomorrow. They will show images of the new Hindu temple to be built atop the ruins of Babri Masjid & Modi laying the foundation stone.
The ads celebrate genocide & ethnic cleansing of Muslims. They must be pulled.
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Some devastating news out of Ohio. Four members of a Sikh family were shot dead in their apartment yesterday. There was forced entry & and police are investigating hate as a potential motive.
Day after Day. Tragedy after Tragedy. It's truly unbearable.
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Tomorrow marks 60 days since Kashmir has been in the dark.
No internet, no mobile phones & so few landlines that people wait in line for hours to make a 45 second, wiretapped call.
India has used the blackout to arrest, torture & kill.
What would you do? How would you feel?
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Indian police forces have murdered unarmed Muslim civilians, looted their property & killed and maimed protesters.
This is the story that so much of Indian media refuses to cover. Ignore the fake news & state run media; this is the truth.
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Indian media is doing what they always do.
Through fake news, propaganda & censorship they’re trying to diminish the protests across the US.
But they can’t mask the truth: we showed up today & we’ll do it again. Modi will be held accountable for his atrocities.
#AdiosModi
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The tide is turning against Modi & Hindu nationalism.
This was the second Congressional hearing in a matter of weeks on atrocities in Kashmir, Assam & across India.
Today, India more closely resembles a fascist regime than a pluralistic republic, and the world knows it.
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As the clock hits 11 pm in DC, and curfew kicks in, protesters take a knee.
We’re not going anywhere. These are our streets.
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If this isn't fascism, what is?
A school principal & parent have been arrested in India because 4th, 5th & 6th grade students put on a play about CAA & NRC.
Modi & Amit Shah are afraid of children!
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Media reports suggest that Israeli bombing has killed 50 hostages.
Netanyahu doesn’t care. Just last week, he planted unverified, fake relatives at a meeting who told the hostages’ families “to stop this whiny behavior…we need to win the war.”
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Episode 2 of the Modi BBC Documentary is out.
Modi continued his Hindutva project through CAA / NRC, annexation & atrocities in Kashmir, impunity for lynchings & repression of journalists & NGOs.
India is the world’s largest authoritarian regime, and a war criminal serves as PM
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When Modi decided to cut Kashmir off from the world 64 days ago, I guarantee that he never imagined two leading contenders for U.S. President,
@BernieSanders
@ewarren
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Modi has been exposed. Kashmir is now an international issue.
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Hey
@BillGates
@melindagates
@gatesfoundation
: how about rescinding that award to Modi?
In September, you honored him even though the world told you otherwise. Do you see what Modi is doing to India?
Do the right thing & support human rights.
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Unprecedented.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has unanimously approved language about Kashmir demanding an end to the communication blackout and military curfew, and the release of those arbitrarily detained.
The world is turning against Modi.
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A group of prominent women in Srinigar, including
@hawa_khan1
, who peacefully protested India’s decision to revoke the autonomy of Kashmir & the brutality there have been arrested.
India is setting an example. They want to stifle all dissent in Kashmir.
Via
@Junaidbhatphoto
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The spirit of the Palestinian people is one of the wonders of the world.
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Modi may be speaking at the UN, but as he does, know that a groundswell of support has emerged worldwide to condemn his atrocities in Kashmir & across India.
Diverse coalitions are protesting in NYC & other cities & new voices of conscience are joining us everyday.
We will win
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Modi has organized a conversation tomorrow in Mumbai with Bollywood celebrities to gain their support for the citizenship bill. It’s “followed by a scrumptious dinner.”
Do these people have any conscience? History will remember you supported a tyrant.
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Never forget what happened in Gujarat. Mobs had dossiers of Muslim residents & businesses & no orders were given to stop the violence. Thousands were killed. As Chief Minister, Modi enabled the atrocities.
Modi showed us who he was a long time ago. Now he must be stopped.
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India has become a full blown fascist state.
49 celebrities wrote a letter to Modi raising concerns about mob lynchings, then they were charged with sedition.
Now imagine what it’s like for Kashmiri children 62 days into the blackout.
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Modi is interfering in the UK election.
The Overseas Friends of BJP UK is asking 1.4 million British Indians to vote against Labour because they support human rights in Kashmir.
Modi’s external affairs department is helping coordinate the campaign.
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Under Modi:
*textbooks have been rewritten, leaving out sections on Muslims
*sites with Muslim names have been renamed
*Hindu mobs openly lynch minorities
*Kashmir has been annexed
And now the Supreme Court has sanctioned mob violence against mosques. The entire govt is fascist
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As many as 10,000 Kashmiris have been forcibly disappeared & murdered by Indian forces in recent decades.
In the last 60 days alone, more than 13,000 Kashmiris have been arrested, many of them children.
This is why Kashmir is under a Genocide Alert. It’s a human rights crisis.
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Today is a dark chapter in US history. The Supreme Court just upheld the
#MuslimBan
. The dissent got this right. This was never about national security; only anti-Muslim hate.
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I’m being trolled because yesterday I shared the expose on the Indian govt & Hindu American Foundation stifling criticism of India.
As I told Congress last year: “This is the cost of speaking truth to Modi, Amit Shah, the BJP, RSS & Hindu nationalists.”
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Media is breathing a sigh of relief at early reports suggesting no US casualties, only Iraqi ones.
When did Iraqi lives stop mattering?
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Right now in NYC:
Hey Joe Biden, ask Modi why India is under a genocide watch today!
#ModiNotWelcome
#CrimeMinisterModi
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There will always be those who stand for justice.
Three Nobel Laureates just asked for the Gates award to Modi to be rescinded, noting that both Kashmir & Assam are under Genocide Alerts.
Are you listening
@gatesfoundation
@BillGates
@melindagates
?
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In 1992, the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed by Hindu mobs.
The Supreme Court of India ruled yesterday that Hindus are now free to build their own house of worship on the sacred ground.
The decision will embolden mob violence, genocide & impunity across India.
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What happened in New Zealand is what so many Muslims & others fear every day.
A white supremacist will take their lives because of who they are and what they believe.
Racism. Xenophobia. Islamophobia. All of it contributed to this unspeakable tragedy.
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The timing of this is not coincidence. The Modi regime is finally set to prosecute Arundhati Roy.
Netanyahu’s brutal war in Gaza, with the approval of global powers, will embolden authoritarians across the world.
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History won't look kindly
@gatesfoundation
.
They're honoring Modi at a time when millions of Kashmiris have been silenced, millions in Assam have been rendered stateless & Muslims & Dalits are openly lynched.
It's an attack on human rights everywhere.
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Modi arrives in Houston in 48 hours.
When he does, he’ll be greeted by a lawsuit alleging human rights abuses in Kashmir including land annexation, detentions, disappearances & deaths.
The whole world should treat Modi like the war criminal that he is
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#ThankYouSally
for enforcing the Constitution rather than your boss' illegal orders.
#SallyYates
#MuslimBan
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More than a thousand have now gathered in DC & we have shut down the busiest intersection in the city, DuPont Circle.
We are saying no to Modi, Amit Shah, CAA, NRC & Kashmiri oppression. We are saying yes to human dignity, freedom & liberation for all peoples.
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I remain shocked that so many Indians in the region & abroad continue to be silent, or even worse, cheer the atrocities in Kashmir.
Do you really support the arrest & disappearance of children? What about torture?
Fascism & ethnonationalism are destroying India before your eyes
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This is last night in Assam, where thousands protested India’s new citizenship bill.
India media is barely covering the opposition because they want to mask the truth.
People of conscience across the world are resisting Modi. Join us.
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Still disappointed that so many South Asians are silent about Kashmir.
Fascism has come to India. Why support a govt that bans journalists, stops contact with loved ones & covers it up with fake news?
You should support those taking on facism, cruelty & religious oppression.
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This Sunday, thousands will take to the streets to say
#AdiosModi
in Houston. They refuse to stand by while Modi commits atrocities in Kashmir, Assam & across India.
Some of these brave voices are now being trolled & smeared, but they're undeterred. Sending them love & support.
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India leads the world in internet blackouts.
Right now, it’s blocked in four different states: Kashmir, Assam, Tripura & Arunachal.
We all know what fascist governments do in the dark. Don’t be a bystander; speak now & speak loudly.
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This slow-mo cut of Messi confronting
Dutch manager Louis van Gaal is 🔥.
There’s bad blood between the two teams and LVG with Messi, Di Maria & old school Riquelme.
Also I’ve watched Messi for 20 years & he’s in rare form. There’s fire in his eyes 🔥
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Pogroms don’t just happen. They require preparation, organization, incitement & impunity.
The anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi is the work of Hindutva mobs, BJP leaders & police abdicating their duties.
It’s the culmination of fascist policies & a Hindutva supremacist ideology.
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How many Palestinians must die?
“You just told me they rescued 1 soldier in exchange for demolishing a third of the hospitals in Gaza, 29 UN schools in Gaza, killing 8,000 people in Gaza, killing 3,000 children in Gaza…it is disproportionate on its face”
@4noura
speaking truth
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Watch this video: Delhi police joined Hindutva mobs and terrorized Muslims in Delhi.
This was an anti-Muslim pogrom sponsored and enabled by government officials at every level.
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This isn’t complicated.
If you build a toilet in one room, and torture in another, you’re undeserving of recognition.
Do the right thing
@gatesfoundation
@BillGates
@melindagates
& rescind the award to Modi.
Reject fascism. Support human rights.
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The greatest fascist of them all has spoken.
Your fall from power will be even more spectacular than Trump.
You will be repudiated by India and the world.
Distressed to see news about rioting and violence in Washington DC. Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue. The democratic process cannot be allowed to be subverted through unlawful protests.
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Today marks 100 days since India annexed Kashmir and revoked its autonomy.
100 days of communication blackout, curfew, mass raids, medicine shortages, torture & humiliation.
This will forever be a stain on India & those who turned away.
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This is why we protest:
*Muslims & Dalits are openly lynched
*Academics & journalists are threatened & detained
*Kashmir is illegally occupied
*Millions in Assam are stateless
*More internet blackouts than any country in the world
And Modi is the architect.
#AdiosModi
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Fascism isn’t creeping in India, it’s already here.
More internet blackouts than any country in the world. Intimidation & harassment of civil society. Mass arrests of regime critics. Fake news.
Kashmir & Assam have become laboratories for the most dangerous forces in the world.
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A group of 500 organizations & noted thinkers spanning 30 countries have issued a statement of solidarity in support of Kashmiri women.
More people are joining the struggle everyday. Modi will be stopped. Kashmiris will be free.
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It’s one thing to study genocide, it’s another to see it in real time.
The dehumanizing rhetoric. The unspeakable violence on bodies. The assault on homes & infrastructure. The frantic oscillation between justification & denial. The expectation of impunity.
The mass enablers.
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37 development practitioners & academics just penned a letter urging
@gatesfoundation
to rescind its award to Modi.
They join human rights activists, NGOs, Nobel Laureates, philanthropists & others.
Soon the whole world will know the truth about Modi.
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An update on JNU:
the RSS led violence was organized on WhatsApp
15 are hospitalized with head injuries
first responders, including nurses & doctors, were badly beaten
the police made no effort to protect the students
This is mob violence enabled by an authoritarian state.
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The seeds of a truly democratic movement are taking hold in India.
Muslims, Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, progressives Hindus & others are marching to reject Hindutva fascism.
India belongs to all its people, and those who want self determination, including Kashmir, must get it.
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