@ Amnesty International On JUNE 4, 1989, hundreds – possibly thousands – of protesters peacefully calling for economic and social reforms were killed by troops around Tiananmen Square. Today, in the face of an escalating crackdown on free expression by the Chinese government, the memory of what happened on Tiananmen Square teeters on the brink of… Read More Remembering Tiananmen Square: Defending Memory Amidst Repression
To respect God and to pretend to do that for votes are two different things: Vipin Kumar Tripathi Sameer Yasir One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop. From her sling bag,… Read More Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry
NB: Sure, that’s what Trump is, a failing mafiosi. Meanwhile Biden has just completed abetting the murder of over 128,000 Palestinians (killed, maimed or missing), which includes over 10,000 murdered children. Many children who are still alive are amputees, (after operations conducted without anaesthesia); traumatised for life, and orphaned. Had a tiny fraction of these… Read More Trump is no outlaw, just a grubby, sad criminal
GAZA casualties, live statistics There are lessons to be learned from our faith and history, as we watch the same dehumanization that fell upon my community now land upon another. Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the… Read More Biden was my boss. As a Jew I cannot endorse the Gaza catastrophe / Phyllis Bennis Calls Out the US for Supporting Israel
Millions of Evangelicals have “anointed” Trump as their modern day King Cyrus, despite his deeply UN-Christian lifestyle. Why? Because he promised them to end legal access to abortion in the US, which is all they care about as a fast-track toward Christian theocracy in the US… Six of the nine SCOTUS justices are devout, ideological Catholics,… Read More US Supreme Court is Driven by Christian Theocracy
‘Authorities are behaving like the hilltop youth in the West Bank,’ says Jabr Abu Assa, one of the leaders of the campaign against the demolition of Wadi Khalil Eden Solomon; May 24, 2024 At the entrance to the ruined community of Wadi Khalil there is a sign: “Our children deserve a home like every child… Read More Israel Already Razed Hundreds of Homes in This Bedouin Village. Next, It Tore Down Anything Left Standing
The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances join JVMI and survivors of the 1988 massacre in Geneva on 15 February 2024 in an appeal for justice London, 2 April 2024 – A group of 77 current and former United Nations special procedure mandate-holders and commissioners… Read More Civil Society Hearing into the 1988 Massacre in Iran / Open Letter to the UN Human Rights Council
Ahmad Farhad was pushed into vehicle hours after posting about threats from country’s spy agency, says Syeda Urooj Zainab Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad The wife of a Pakistani poet and journalist who was abducted from outside his house last week has accused the country’s spy agency of responsibility, saying it acted because of his activism.… Read More Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife
NB: Salute! For resisting state oppression, for defending the defenceless people of Gaza, and for upholding the democratic traditions of American students, I salute you. We are Spartacus. DS A group walked out during Harvard College’s commencement to decry the exclusion of 13 would-be graduates who were said to be involved in an earlier pro-Palestinian… Read More Hundreds walk out of Harvard College graduation; UCLA contends with new protest
Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according to a new report on freedom of expression. In its annual report, the advocate group Article 19 found the number of people… Read More More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds
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