anniezaidi

anniezaidi, 3 days ago to random

"The law school journal’s faculty and alumni board had shuttered the website for most of the week rather than publicize Eghbariah’s 105-page article, titled Toward the Nakba as a Legal Concept.... it wasn’t the first time his ideas were deemed too dangerous...
He had worked on his contribution for almost half a year, finding a home for it at the Columbia Law Review after a shorter web piece he had written for the Harvard Law Review had been blocked at the last minute"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/columbia-law-review-rabea-eghbariah-palestine-censorship-controversy?s=09

anniezaidi, 6 days ago to random

https://article-14.stck.me/post/279614/Field-Notes-Farmers-Armed-With-A-Book-Are-A-Force-No-Barricades-Can-Stop?s=09

anniezaidi, 7 days ago to random

"Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant Limited (VISL) have proposed to take up mining in the area in a project presented to the Forest Department as an essential undertaking for the survival of the VISL.
29,400 trees have been enumerated...will be cleared once the proposal gets approval from the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The majority of the marked trees are native species and support a diverse fauna..."
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/mining-ravaged-sandur-set-to-lose-over-29-000-trees-3054655

anniezaidi, 9 days ago to random

"So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women especially that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown Muslim men with beards, right?"

https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-if-harrison-butker-was-a-muslim?s=09

anniezaidi, 11 days ago to random

"Haji Malang hill has been a shared space with multiple religious associations – Haji Malang, the Muslim pir or saint; Nal Raja, a Hindu chieftain; and the Brahmin Mujawars who have been caretakers of the dargah for over 14 generations. A family from the Koli community also participates in the Urs... it also hosts a shrine to Wagh Devi in a Nav Durga temple within the complex.
Pilgrims climb over 1,500 steps to the village of Malanggad to pay their respects"

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/05/29/a-700-year-old-dargah-a-tradition-of-inclusivity-and-a-threat-urs-at-haji-malang-in-mumbai?s=09

anniezaidi, 14 days ago to random

"discharging 11 Muslim men charged with rioting, criminal conspiracy and destruction of public property as communal violence was breaking out in northeast Delhi on 23 February 2020, a judge has found that the police had fabricated the case, using planted witnesses and concocted statements"

https://article-14.com/post/delhi-riots-how-a-delhi-police-investigating-officer-framed-9-muslim-men-for-an-attack-by-a-hindu-mob-66569d8b05c28?s=09

anniezaidi, 14 days ago to random

"government in Uttar Pradesh withdrew the power subsidy the loom traders used to get. The cost of running each machine went up from ₹75 a few years ago to ₹165; but it didn’t stop there. The power bill per machine per month today is ₹860, even though they run far fewer hours"

https://www.telegraphindia.com/elections/lok-sabha-election-2024/lok-sabha-elections-despair-looms-on-varanasi-government-policies-bring-fabled-sari-zari-hub-to-its-knees/cid/2023344?s=09

anniezaidi, 14 days ago to random

"French documentary maker, who spent 30 minutes at a Dalit protest for land rights in Gorakhpur on 10 October 2023 while researching for a film on Dalit women, spent a month in jail after the Uttar Pradesh police accused him of violating visa conditions by attending the event. Valentin Jean Roger Henault said his French identity was criminalised and used by the media to raise allegations of “foreign funding”

https://article-14.com/post/targeted-for-being-a-foreigner-no-help-from-embassy-frenchman-jailed-after-attending-dalit-protest-in-up-6657f24eaf348?s=09

anniezaidi, 15 days ago to Jewish

"Some communities refused to accept families with children, according to the petition. Others declined to help Indian families in need of medical aid, even forcing a victim of a stabbing to pay for the ambulance."
#indian #jewish #migrants
https://scroll.in/magazine/1057506/disillusioned-with-israel-hundreds-of-jews-chose-to-return-to-india-in-the-1950s?s=09

anniezaidi, 15 days ago to random

Two party democracies aren't great democracies. And democracies where elected reps jump ship to rival parties after winning the election are allowed to continue in office aren't sound democracies either. Ideology is at the centre of the process & there has to be room for nuance as well as consistency. People should be able to say, if not this person, then we'd rather support that person. Or, that we prefer a third or fourth or fifth party, or a coalition, to either of the two major parties.

anniezaidi, 16 days ago to random

"India’s prime people-mover, the Railways—a key focus area for his administration—carry fewer passengers, are losing money but are costlier, especially for poorer passengers, who are packed into proportionately fewer seats in trains run at largely the same speed as during the previous government."
https://article-14.com/post/costlier-shoddier-fewer-passengers-losing-money-beyond-vande-bharat-bullet-trains-the-reality-of-the-railways-6653f6961744e?s=09

anniezaidi, 16 days ago to random

Have you read Syed Muhammad Ashraf's The Silence of the Hyena?
There's a story about deer (barasingha?). There's a fight to death between 2 males. It's a story that really shifted how I thought about violent 'species'. +

anniezaidi, 17 days ago to random

"the 11-year-old was cogent enough to identify one of her assailants from the photographs shown to her. He is a resident of Hindaun, owner of the land on which the tribal girl was playing... The 30-year-old man was detained for one night... The police have filed an FIR against ‘unknown persons’ under IPC Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (criminal act done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all)."

https://theprint.in/ground-reports/my-daughter-told-me-in-gestures-what-happened-mother-of-rajasthan-tribal-girl-burnt-alive/2100757/?s=09

anniezaidi, 17 days ago to random

"Israel had secretly held mostly Arab foreign nationals captive... Many were Lebanese citizens kidnapped during Israel’s 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. But there were also Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Iranians.
This site would soon be known as a “black site”, a term popularised by Washington's invasion of Iraq that year. Drawing on techniques refined by Israel at Facility 1391, the US would...torture Iraqis and others at Abu Ghraib"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-torture-chambers-message-directed-us-palestinians?s=09

anniezaidi, 17 days ago to random

Talked a bit about identity, small (and big) towns and the physical-economic and reputational violence embedded in them.
Good podcast too. Mind your Buffalo.
https://youtu.be/eD6TvDoI6ms?si=CgzSYY_p2fIUKpev

anniezaidi, 18 days ago to random

"horrifying situation… two days after the military had retreated from the town … and the Arakan Army claimed to have taken full control of the village.”
One survivor had described seeing dozens of dead bodies.. tens of thousands who fled the town only to find themselves blocked by the Arakan Army...
Other survivors also said AA members had abused them and extorted money from them as they tried to make their way to Rohingya villages south of the town."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25/some-45000-rohingya-flee-amid-allegations-of-beheading-burning-in-myanmar?s=09

anniezaidi, 19 days ago to random

'THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS NOT A BEAR'
"I’m a solo woman stuck in a forest with an angry man...There’s no time to think, so I operate on instinct. My task is ridiculously complex. I need to deescalate any signs of aggression, guide the man into a state of emotional balance, and exit the situation safely, all at once...
I’ve been in this position so many times... Sometimes, it’s not that I’m afraid of men; I’m just really, really tired."

READ

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3diJb5CKlJ4xhF5KCyH7d89fXGRUTDbsQ1WIupzov-W3PJgkcMfS1cf3E_aem_AYQQhYmn9jao4hTsqPCS_3RoTrsRaDZ07y17SofF2eo9Cl3gbmomdDXSwGZ9o91kB3fycl_8p0oOYsjPZ8cHHMrM

sarahf, 19 days ago to random

Had forgotten how absurd and utterly wonderful The Banshees of Inisherin was! 🙌🏽

anniezaidi, 19 days ago to random

Folks. Esp desi folks who spend so much time & love on mangoes, arguments about which ones are better & the whole ecology of literature+ music around the experience of mangoes. This podcast series is for you. I am listening to all 10 episodes & loving it.

Link to the first episode
https://youtu.be/XLvoVBK6fGo?si=2rtyRsy-okJwHjgD

The second episode has a bit about the botanical aspects of mango cultivation.
youtu.be/AmcyjY_OFxs?si…

The fourth includes mango diplomacy. Delicious listening for all sorts of reasons.

anniezaidi, 19 days ago to random

The most irritating thing about the "Shop like a billionaire" ad jingle is my keen awareness that billionaires buy aircraft and politicians & their shopping tends to overthrow the people's mandate. They do not go looking for cute £2 T-shirts saying 'I take after my grandma'.

anniezaidi, 19 days ago to random

"“Even my grandfather has stories of it [the dargah ],” says Vinayak Jadhav, 76, a farmer with over 15 acres in the village. “Imagine how old it must be. Hindus and Muslims have maintained it together. It has been a symbol of peaceful coexistence.”
Things changed in September 2023. The much-loved shrine acquired a new meaning in Malgaon – a small but loud group of young men claimed it was an encroachment. They had been egged on by a coalition of Hindutva groups."

https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/malgaon-stands-up-to-polarisation/?s=09

anniezaidi, 20 days ago to random

"Boycott Theory presents the common arguments...against boycotting Israeli universities all stem, Riemer argues, from a one-sided belief in the importance of educational institutions... Ignored by these arguments is the extent to which Israeli universities undermine Palestinian education... In the West Bank, the lives and rights of teachers, administrators, and students are disrupted by checkpoints that transform their daily routines into obstacle courses."

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/israel-university-boycott-theory-review/?s=09

anniezaidi, 20 days ago to random

"a group of five men allegedly lynched 40-year-old Mishrikhan Baloch early in the morning on Thursday as he transported buffaloes to an animal market.
Mishrikhan was accompanied by a man named Hussainkhan Baloch, who escaped from the assailants and is the complainant"

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/gujarat-banaskantha-cow-vigilante-lynching-police-deny?s=09

anniezaidi, 20 days ago to random

"Metadata from the video shows it was taken a month before electors went to the polls.
"The [polling] agent will challenge the voter by accusing him of voting on forged documents," Mr Kumar says.
"Do not use violence, no use of firearms and any other weapon, don't physically assault anyone... there will be chaos, so women will stop coming to polling station.
"This is one way to ensure low turnout."
He goes on to instruct his colleagues to also bribe police officers..."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/voters-share-their-experiences-in-india/103868424?s=09