Modi is using a cannon to kill a cockroach aje.news/p8scno via @AJEnglish

RT @TEGP__: Today, we remember the burning of the Jaffna Library, set ablaze on the night of May 31, 1981, by Sri Lankan state forces. The…

Today, we join Sikhs around the world in commemorating the 42-year anniversary of Operation Blue Star. Read more about the connection between 1984 and the ongoing fight for justice, safety, and freedom via today's blog: sikhcoalition.org/blog/2026/…

From the historic appointment of Dr. Gunisha Kaur to legal and education updates to new resources for voting and immigration issues, learn more about our work from this past month via AVAAZ! sikhcoalition.org/blog/2026/…

Shame on @ucmerced @UCRiverside @UCBerkeley & any other sell out institution jeopardizing the lives of innocent ppl

Kudos to this young scientist #design #engineering #biomed cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener…

Shame on CJI & kudos to conscientious Gen Zs & to @abhijeet_dipke

Today, we celebrate a major milestone: SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act, has passed the California State Senate with unanimous bipartisan support. Thank you to @SashaReneePerez our coalition partners, @SALDEF, @CHIRLA , @JakaraMovement, @AAPIEquity, and @PublicCounsel

I am endorsing the No Hate in Washington State campaign, which is calling for a NO vote on two proposed appalling anti-trans ballot measures that threaten the rights of all children. If passed, IL26-001 would deny basic protections for child abuse victims and IL26-628 would subject girls to invasive genital exams to play sports. kshamasawant.org/fight-for-t… It is absolutely crucial that working people and the labor movement ensure these measures are defeated by Washington State voters. The working class needs to stand in solidarity against every form of oppression as well as economic exploitation under the capitalist system. My organization, Workers Strike Back, has also endorsed the campaign. Both Workers Strike Back and my revolutionary socialist campaign for the U.S. Congress will be doing everything we can to support the No Hate campaign.

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A Hindu prayer for peace and unity was delivered at the White House during the National Day of indiawest.com/hindu-prayer-f… ----------- 2 bad they r also alleged to be exploiting poor workers from india to build palatial temples in US - theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Happening now: CPEHN is here at the State Capitol with our @Fight4OurHealth coalition partners and @DisabilityVU. Together, we’re sending the message to #CALeg and @CAGovernor: Choose Californians who depend on Medi-Cal over big corporations. #FightForOurHealth

I love Rutgers and it’s disappointing and heartbreaking to see it abandon its students and its ideals. My full statement.

My interview with the @guardian about Rutgers’ unconstitutional and un-American decision to cancel my speech. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez has awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, for her advocacy throughout Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/tgg3uv

My Rutgers convocation address was canceled for opposing this.

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?" Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything? Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it! And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else. Francesca Albanese is that someone. She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen." Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name. And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity. Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people. There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased. There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled." There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.” Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks. She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape". Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence. What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik. These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named. Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable. We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know." Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise. So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that. A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything. Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky. Let us stand with her. Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now. [Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

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Vijay Prabhakar is a longtime activist with the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party — the international wing of India's ruling Hindu nationalist party, registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a Foreign Agent since August 2020. He also sits on the Campaign Finance Committee of U.S. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, to whom he has personally donated more than $15,000. In May 2022, at a Democratic Party primary debate at Bloomingdale Public Library in Illinois, @CongressmanRaja was asked one question about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — the fascist Indian paramilitary at the heart of the BJP. Prabhakar erupted. Shouting "Stop it! Stop it!" at the camera, he lunged to block the lens and laid both hands on Krishnamoorthi's shoulders to physically walk him out of the room. The OFBJP entourage closed around them. Krishnamoorthi did not answer. He let himself be removed. At least four other OFBJP activists and leaders flanked the congressman that night, including a former OFBJP National Vice-President and the organization's Chicago Coordinator. Krishnamoorthi sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. A foreign-agent network around a sitting member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, caught on camera in 2022. Krishnamoorthi remains in office today as one of three cosponsors of H.Res. 69, the so-called "Hinduphobia" resolution pushed by VHP America and CoHNA — both extensions of the same Hindu nationalist movement OFBJP works to advance. The full record is in the video. #HindutvaSquad #Krishnamoorthi #OFBJP #ForeignAgent #FARA #RSS #BJP #ForeignInfluence #Hindutva #HRes69