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- Of Silences, Suffering and Solidarity: Facing South Asia’s “Original Sin”
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A monthly column by South Asia Solidarity Initiative that discusses current social justice issues in South Asia and the imperative of transnational solidarity. This month, Mohamad Junaid and Balmurli Natrajan explore the need for South Asians to rise in ...
- The Islamophobic Warriors
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Yet the ranks of the Islamophobic phalanx goes beyond the evangelical right and the Tea Party movement. Among their cadre are fixtures of the security establishment, the foreign policy elite and the academy. ...
- Wrestling the Dinosaur: Reflections on the Post 9/11 Decade
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American imperialism is like a dinosaur fighting extinction. There are two long term trajectories that have continuously intersected and are leading to its failure - the “super power” infrastructure of mass violence that gave rise to insurgents and the ...
- September 11th and the Future We've Built
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By placing civilian law enforcement on a single continuum with military options, the government has set the stage for the (further) militarization of American society. ...
- A Decade of Detention: The Post 9/11 Immigrant Dragnet
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Immigration law, once a set of civil administrative rules to regulate population flow – has become part of the enforcement apparatus of a government that functions increasingly as a police state. The politics of fear have changed the whole nature of ...
- On 9/11 and the War on "Terror": Names, Numbers and Events
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Categories and names are often misleading, even for those of us who are often wary of the dominant rhetoric. As much as we want to escape it, dominant discourse is only there to shape our ideas and reactions, as is the case of the rhetoric surrounding ...
- Disappeared Men and Searching Women: Human Rights and Mourning in Kashmir
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Ather Zia documents how women who live with shadows of disappeared loved ones organize around human rights. Her work chronicles the Kashmir conflict’s gendered violences that shape how these women continue to resist Indian militarism. ...
- The Summers of Discontent
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In this photo essay reflecting on his return to Kashmir as a journalist, Talal Ansari animates some of the more recent returns to calls for independence. He guides us from the early years of the conflict through the contemporary and renewed protest ...
- Reflections from the Valley of Controlled Chaos
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Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din gives us vignettes of his cultural work in Kashmir against the brutal terrain of violent conflict that are simultaneously hopeful and melancholic. He points to promulgation of the word “normalcy” as a way to deny the distinct and ...
- Erasures and Resistance: What Peter King’s Hearing Said. And What It Didn’t.
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Representative Peter King’s (R-NY) first hearing on the radicalization of American Muslim communities exemplified the right wing’s ongoing commitment to constructing the idea of a radical, threatening Islam. The hearing also exposed what is, at best, ...
