Celebrating Ram Navami today, it's become crucial to engage with the festival's increasing entanglement in the contemporary political landscape. The festival's growing prominence reflects the deeper political inroads being made in regional politics. buff.ly/4aGRn5B

“What we are witnessing in Sudan is the worst child displacement crisis in the world.' And yet, “in many of our countries, as the war enters in its second year, it is practically absent from our daily news.” -- German Foreign Minister Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock.
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For the past 11 months, the Kuki-zo and Meitei communities in India’s northeastern state of #Manipur have been locked in what is arguably the country’s longest-running ethnic conflict in the 21st century under the watch of the BJP-led government.

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End this test match! Now 4 years that journalist & writer Gautam Navlakha has been held in custody with no trial in India. #FreeBK16 .
See my📚 #TheIncarcerations for the significance of his life and works for the protection of democratic rights everywhere. Extract from p429👇

An NYC #CeasefireResolution is OVERDUE! We’re standing with 50+ orgs calling on Adrienne Adams to right this wrong by the 4/18 stated meeting.

📣 Calling all Boston friends of HfHR!

🤝 We are excited to be co-hosting 'Resisting Supremacy & Hate: Strengthening Grassroots Democracy' alongside Indian American Muslim Council, Boston South Asian Coalition, & India Civil Watch International.

📆 April 20, 4-7 PM

📍 MIT Room 56-154, 21 Ames St., Cambridge, MA

Our friends at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Heights held a beautiful and inspiring service for #AmbedkarJayanti yesterday. Thank you for helping Ambedkar's spirit live on and for lifting up him and his contributions to freedom.🕯️

#AmbedkarJayanti 2024

📜HfHR is proud to be a core member of the Savera: United Against Supremacy coalition, which just released this groundbreaking report on the VHP-A’s ongoing ties to the extremist VHP in India.

🔗 Read the report at wearesavera.org/resources/repo…

#HinduSupremacy #VHP #VishwaHinduParishad

Today on #AmbedkarJayanti , let us all—across India, South Asia and the global diaspora—commit to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's mission for the annihilation of caste. It's our collective duty to challenge and dismantle these divides. Act now for a just future! #DalitHistoryMonth

Happy #BohagBihu , #Vishu , and #PohelaBoishakh to all of our friends who celebrate! We wish you a New Year filled with love, light, community, and peace for all. 💚 🕊️ Let's make this a year where all celebrations, traditions, and cultures are uplifted and valued equally.

Happy #Cheiraoba , #Puthandu , #Vaisakhi , and #Navavarsha to all of our friends who celebrate! We wish you a New Year filled with love, light, community, and peace for all. 🧡🕊️ Let's make this a year where all celebrations, traditions, and cultures are uplifted and valued equally.

'Economic prosperity and social progress, the top concerns in the south, have no place left in the north. Modi didn’t create the vacuum of hope. He just filled the hole in people’s material lives with religious fervor.'

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Generative AI has been used ahead of the #IndianElections to create a 'sage-like and warrior-like' Modi; this strategically portrays a 'political leader who is indefatigable, undefeatable, beyond reproach and thus worthy of our unquestioned loyalty.'

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We firmly condemn H.Res.1131, introduced on Wednesday in the House of Representatives by Rep. Thanedar. This resolution reflects a longstanding effort by the Hindu supremacist movement in the United States to divide South Asian communities.

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📢 New Jersey friends: Join Ambedkar International Mission at 3:30 today in Jersey City for the 3rd Annual #EqualityDay Flag Rising Ceremony in honor of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary.

Haunting memories linger in the virtual exhibit 'Footprints of the forcibly disappeared in South Asia'. It's a stark reminder of the enduring pain of families throughout South Asia Enforced disappearances must end. Amnesty International #AmnestyInternational buff.ly/3Jghbto