Founder @project_polis; Teach @NYUgallatin & @columbia | Barrister. Chair, International Human Rights Committee, New York City Bar |

Joined May 2008
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Argentina often imagines itself as a white nation. But what happens to the people erased from that story? This is exactly the question Lucrecia Martel delves into with her documentary film Our Land.
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committed on Dalit, Bahujans and Adivasis. He obtained acquittal of hundreds of Dalit, Adivasis trapped in false cases. He also fought against cases of caste atrocities. It's high time this human rights defender is freed and urgently given bail.
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Today, Adv. Surendra Gadling completes eight years of wrongful incarceration without the trial having commenced, and having denied bail on multiple occasions. Adv. Gadling always fought for the rights of those falsely charged with draconian laws and fought against atrocities
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On World Environment Day, we’re revisiting two stories that show how time and again, the people most affected by ecological devastation are those already living on the margins.
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Persepolis author and filmmaker, Marjane Satrapi, has died at the age of 56. Through her groundbreaking work, Satrapi brought stories of revolution, exile and the everyday realities of life under state oppression to readers around the world.
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Activist and professor Hany Babu faced overcrowding, processing delays and even medical neglect for 1,955 days at Mumbai’s Taloja Jail, all without charge or conviction. Still, he refused to be broken, especially while many of his fellow inmates were in the same boat as him.
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Given that cockroaches are in the news, here is our recommendation for your best/pest self! @debhartha @josyjosephkj @tmkrishna @mrajshekhar @ashutosh83B @jyotiyadaav @suchitrav @jaffrelotc
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The Supreme Court called punitive demolitions “wholly unconstitutional.” So why are the police officers carrying them out posting the footage to Instagram for clout? New reportage by Samira Iqbal for @project_polis on the digital ecosystem legitimizing India’s “Bulldozer Raj.” thepolisproject.com/read/inf…
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Police officers across India are filming bulldozer demolitions like influencers set to mocking pop songs, hailed as “Singham” in the comments, where viewers drop GPS pins for the next target. Samra Iqbal reports on how Reels are turning “bulldozer justice” into entertainment. thepolisproject.com/read/inf…
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Thus far it includes ~30 examples that range from the individual to institutional, from the artistic to the political. It also showcases 8 examples of "Possible Futures," projects already dreaming up and building alternatives to Silicon Valley's extractive, corrosive vision of AI development.
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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. airesistlist.org
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Thomas Massie was the only member of the House to vote against a resolution affirming Israel’s right to exist and declaring that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. (AOC voted yes)
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NEW: Activists with the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement and No Harbour for Genocide (NHB) are raising the alarm over what they describe as a "flood" of military supplies from India to Israel, after six shipments of suspected military-grade steel were identified on multiple vessels en route to weapons factories in Israel. The shipments, activists said, amounted to around 806 tonnes of military-grade steel, and could produce up to 17,458 artillery (155mm) shells for the Israeli military.
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Jesus fucking christ. They made a woman appear for a criminal court arraignment even though she was 9 months pregnant and she gave birth while handcuffed to a bench *inside the courtroom*
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Exclusive 🚨 Americans worst employer just got worse Workers at LaGuardia and JFK Airport file federal labor safety complaints against Alliance Ground International in the latest scandal for the beleaguered company. Read more @Documentedny documentedny.com/2026/05/15/…
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New York, join us tonight! We have four fabulous diaspora writers — Aruni Kashyap, Zara Chowdhary, Anjali Enjeti, and Suchitra Vijayan — on what it means to write America now. They reflect on reporting on, living in, and making sense of a country we call home at a time of deep political rupture. Get your tickets! eventbrite.com/e/democracy-i…
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New York, join us tonight! We have four fabulous diaspora writers — Aruni Kashyap, Zara Chowdhary, Anjali Enjeti, and Suchitra Vijayan — on what it means to write America now. They reflect on reporting on, living in, and making sense of a country we call home at a time of deep political rupture. Get your tickets! eventbrite.com/e/democracy-i…
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I love how everyone is now an expert on the Thucydides Trap 😂 ..
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