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In fact,the sexual abuse dubbed virginity testing was stopped after a demo by Awaz followed by a sit in by Awaz & OWAAD at Heathrow. Soon after Mrs Kakar spoke out bravely about her horrific experience. Earlier I had exposed the practice in my book Finding a Voice Preeti Dhillon

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone for your support! Come join us this Saturday🍰🧁☕️🫖🎵

London friends, as #IndiaElections2024 begin, don't miss this brilliant new film on India's equal citizenship anti- #CAA movement, following women of #ShaheenBagh , +Q&A with dir. Nausheen Khan. Organised by SouthAsia Solidarity & The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) Dr Kamna Patel. Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-of-my-d…

Today's High Court ruling sets a dangerous precedent.

It targets Muslim students, and cannot be removed from the ramping up of Prevent and recent govt extremism definition.

No child should be policed for the peaceful practice of their faith.
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Garden Open Day and Plant Sale at Pearl and Mizanur's Memorial Garden Sunday 21 April, 12-3pm. Cornwall Street E1 2QF. Activities for kids. Plants, tea and snacks. Come visit a new community garden in East London built fr9m scratch by local residents. #communitygardens #Shadwell

🫵🏽 You can help protect Shepherd's Bush Market

✍️ Please keep signing & sharing petition for Sadiq Khan to call in & reject YOO plans

💪 Stand with our community against property development displacement

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DON'T MISS the brilliant 'Land of My Dreams'! It follows the women whose peaceful sit-in at #ShaheenBagh against India's Islamophobic, exclusionary Citizenship Amendment Act #CAA grew into a nationwide movement. Screening + Q&A with director Nausheen Khan eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-of-my-d…

“The #PostOffice have either destroyed records or in some cases just lost them. Then, we should err on the side of the victim and that's what certainly should happen in this case.”
Jayakanthan's death is the 5th known suicide associated with the PO scandal apple.news/ASY9N-Ng2QaKUL…

'Only 'Hindu workers' should apply' because the 'Israeli government fears the potential for pro-Palestine solidarity among Muslim Indian workers.' A remarkable Boston Review essay on Indian migrants replacing Palestinians in Israel, a modern-day indenture bostonreview.net/articles/labor…

One of our Kashmiri speakers for our first South Asians for Palestine teach-in shared how the apple tree is to Kashmiris what olive trees are to Palestinians.

Thoughts and prayers go out to the Philadelphia Muslim community celebrating Eid-Al-Fitr after the mass shooting that took place in a West Philadelphia mosque. While this is a developing story, one has to figure this is likely a hate crime.

Mental health awareness and…

Pritpal asad rehman Mukhtar Dar DrRajYouthWorker Taj Ali fahim qureshi NPMP Tariq Ali SouthAsia Solidarity peter kalu writer Tariq Mehmood Ken Fero This international solidarity was why they called themselves Black shouting the slogan ‘Black people must unite here to stay here to fight’. This international solidarity is so relevant and important to speak about in the context of the current #Gaza_Genocide 12/20

Pritpal asad rehman Mukhtar Dar DrRajYouthWorker Taj Ali fahim qureshi NPMP Tariq Ali SouthAsia Solidarity peter kalu writer Tariq Mehmood Ken Fero Asian youth were also anti-imperialist. They identified with their brothers and sisters in South Africa fighting Apartheid as well as the struggle of Palestinians against genocidal violence and settler colonialism. 11/20

Pritpal asad rehman Mukhtar Dar DrRajYouthWorker Taj Ali fahim qureshi NPMP Tariq Ali SouthAsia Solidarity peter kalu writer Tariq Mehmood Ken Fero And why did it give racist police officers so much space and yet fail to even ask Gurdip Singh Chaggar’s family about what he was like, to humanise him? The ability to convey emotion and humanise a story is the power of film. 5/20

Channel 4’s #Defiance is a problematic & superficial narrative of the resistance to racism fought by South Asian youth fought in the 1970s and 1980s. For more on this history see my bk Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements plutobooks.com/9781849649469/…
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Black People Against State Brutality march, 1979. This photo captures 2 of the things that were missing from #Defiance - the role of women as organisers, & African-Asian unity. Holding banner: Jocelyn Wolfe of Brixton Black Women's Group & Amrit Wilson she/her of Awaz Asian Women's Group

Children celebrate Eid over the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza.

Excited for the screening of this very moving, inspiring and timely film, and looking forward to welcoming director Nausheen Khan. Tues 23 April 6pm. Book your tickets! eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-of-my-d… Dr Kamna Patel The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU)

Seeing stories from people in Gaza today is soul crushing. Story after story of them wishing a Eid Mubarak to their loved ones who were killed by Israel. It just doesn’t end.