Nepal...

With a modest proposal...

"This is the twenty-third year of my imprisonment for a crime I did not commit."

Nepal's lefts...

Free lands, critical education & health services for low working classes (caste & gender) should be some of the fundamentals that should shape Nepal's new futures...

+ Prof. Samuel Shearer (Rwanda) & most importantly Bentsang- & Bharbhong-Dolpo community members, securing this achievement would have been impossible. Thank you all again for being part of this empowering journey. Horchey!!!

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+ my partner Manisha Lamsal & our child Tsering Divya, beautiful sisters སྤེན་པ་ དབྱངས་འཛོམས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ & Sonam Paldon Ghale, & my committee members Prof. Choe-Khor Tshang Rinpoche (Dolpo), Prof. Bret Gustafson (Bolivia), Prof. Shanti Parikh (Uganda), & +

#phddiary
Finally I defended my PhD thesis "Brahmanical Infrastructure: States, Roads and Lands in Dolpo, Nepal." Without the continuous support of my advisor, Prof. Geoff Childs, my family including my parents Norbhu Ghale (Dolpo, Dolpa) & Tsering Palzom (Lho, Mustang), +

The MAGA-Democrat warmonger clique promoted the silliest lie of Iranian WMDs/nukes, a lie that has persisted for decades. Why? It’s not to stop Iran. It’s to prevent Iran from slowing down their bloody genocide against Palestinians.

The U.S. has attacked Iran’s nuclear sites because Donald Trump chose to side with Israel and their genocide instead of choosing peace and negotiation.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023

+ "Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation."

Here's the youtube link to her talk on the important book. youtu.be/KOtDO9yN_Ng?...

YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023

+ Curious minds need to read more about the history of Kashmir & how the Indian government supported by the imperial British has controlled the region. Maybe start with Prof. Hafsa Kanjwal's (2023) +

YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023

+ & will act as an angry neighbour with no shame to cover its domestic failures in Kashmir. Not surprising for folks aware of their big brother attitudes in South Asia. +

YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023

#antiwar
Considering consequences on both sides of India & Pakistan, none would deny the importance of the immediate ceasefire agreement. On the other hand, the Indian government has now clearly shown that they know nothing about diplomacy, nation-state territorial sovereignty, +

जंग तो ख़ुद ही एक मसअला है
जंग क्या मसअलों का हल देगी

आग और ख़ून आज बख़्शेगी
भूक और एहतियाज कल देगी

इस लिए ऐ शरीफ़ इंसानो
जंग टलती रहे तो बेहतर है

आप और हम सभी के आँगन में
शम' जलती रहे तो बेहतर है!

--साहिर लुधियानवी

Listening to Dr. Ruha Benjamin's speech at Spelman College, Atlanta (April 11, 2024; Georgia). 🧐

Crazy Horse and Joseph Marshall III A tribute to a Lakota writer

A tribute to Lakota writer Joseph Marshall III and a follow-up on my previous essay on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance. open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe | Contending Modernities Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.

In her response to CM's forum on her book _Colonizing Kashmir_ Hafsa Kanjwal reflects on the questions raised by the contributors related to sovereignty, the politics of life, and settler colonialism. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Reading isn't hard...

Ignore some typo

तुम काला कमाल लिखो ।
हम लाल गुलाब लिखेंगे ।

तुम जमिंनपे जुल्म लिख दो ।
आसमानपे इन्कलाब लिखा जाएगा ।

सब याद रखा जाएगा ।
सब कुछ याद रखा जाएगा ।

आमिर अजिज ।

सब याद रखा जाएगा

तुम रात लिखो, हम चाँद लिखेंगे ।
तुम जेलमैं डालो, हम दिवार फँड लिखेंगे ।

तुम फिर लिखो हम हैं तैयार लिखेंगे ।
तुम हमें कत्ल कर दो हम बनके भूत लिखेंगे ।
तुमहारे कत्लके सारे सबुत लिखेंगे ।

तुम अदालतोंसे बैठकर चुटकिले लिखो ।
हम सडकों दिवारों पे इन्साफ लिखेंगे ।

बेहरेभि सुन मैं इतनि जोरसे बोलेगें ।
अन्धभीं पढ्लें इतना साफ लिखेंगें ।

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How We Help the Immigrant Community Feel Seen | ACLU When Jeannie Parent and her volunteer group, KWESI, visit immigrants held in a California detention center, she’s inspired by the sense of connection and community she can foster in spite of the circu...

Many people in immigration detention are far from home, separated from loved ones, and in the dark about how long they'll be detained.

For over a decade, Jeannie Parent and her volunteer group have been visiting immigrants in detention and supporting immigrants in their community.

Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North Ame...

What settler states do. First to us to gain the land. Now, to who to keep it?

"Joanne Barker shows how US and Canadian leaders leverage the fear-driven discourses of terrorism to allow for extreme responses to Indigenous activists, framing them as threats to social stability and national security."

YES. The Left needs to get out of the habit of acting as if the key missing piece is the will to act, and needs to focus more on HOW things could get done and the very real challenges that make action more difficult.

Cultures of Energy: 227 – The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (feat. Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal) Cymene communes with Californian nature (slugs and all) on this edition of the podcast. Then (14:33) we welcome Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal to the podcast to talk about their amazing project, the Co...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Get ready to learn about one of the most inventive political art projects we've ever encountered: The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes... tinyurl.com/mt8fr532 @cymene.bsky.social @jonasstaal.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

Awesome. Great still if we have free health care for all. 👍🏾

Why not free health care?