anirvan

anirvan, 6 days ago to random

“the Right to Contraception act fell short of garnering the 60 votes Senate Democrats needed to advance the bill…Democrats…were daring Republicans to go on the record opposing the right to something that almost all American women use”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/05/legal-right-contraception-senate-vote?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

anirvan, 6 days ago to random

The Ask a Manager (@askamanager) thread of reply-all stories is my cringe read for the day

https://www.askamanager.org/2024/06/whats-the-etiquette-for-reply-all-email-disasters.html#comments

anirvan, 7 days ago to random

The Biden campaign should be trumpeting everyday consumer protections like this on the campaign trail

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/airlines-give-automatic-refunds-canceled-flights-delayed-3/story?id=109573733

anirvan, 7 days ago to random

"Hong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write '8964' in the air with his hand, a reference to the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, hours before Tuesday’s 35th anniversary."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-hong-kong-police-arrests-artist-sanmu-chen

anirvan, 7 days ago to india

"The INDIA coalition proved more resilient and successful than many analysts had expected, despite grappling with state agencies freezing party funds and jailing opposition leaders in the buildup to the polls. They were particularly boosted by regional parties who far outperformed the BJP, such as the Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh, the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in Tamil Nadu."

#India #IndiaElections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/india-election-results-narendra-modi-bjp

anirvan, 7 days ago to random

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender who helped launch the BDS movement:

"The current student-led uprising on campuses in the US, Europe and globally is a sign of Palestine’s South Africa moment, as the support for ending complicity in Israel’s genocide and underlying 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid is reaching a tipping point…the ‘B’ and ‘D’ in BDS have gone much more mainstream than before."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/bds-omar-barghouti-israel-campus-protests

anirvan, 8 days ago to random

This is incredible

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

anirvan, 9 days ago to random

A reminder for my Desi people: talk to your doctor about your heart health, because the numbers don't look good for us

https://redwhiteandbrown.substack.com/p/keeping-your-heart-healthy

anirvan, 9 days ago to random

"Student demonstrators held protests for Gaza in 11 out of 13 states in the Appalachian region, as well as in every state in the Rust Belt. Hundreds of the more than 2,900 student protesters arrested since the encampments started this spring hailed from inland schools."

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/02/gaza-student-protest-campus-rust-belt/

anirvan, 10 days ago to random

"'Private jets are the single most polluting form of transport, causing about 10 times more CO2 emissions per passenger than a regular flight, and up to 100 times more than trains. About two thirds of such flights are done for leisure over short stretches on which a lower-emitting alternative exists'"

https://stay-grounded.org/farnborough-action-week-may-2024-private-jets/

anirvan, 12 days ago to california

"A stunning 95.8 percent of all residential land in California is reserved for single-family housing, effectively barring denser housing options in those areas and creating an obstacle to racial and economic equality in the state, a new study released Wednesday from UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute shows."

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-study-staggering-96-california-residential-land-zoned-single-family-housing

#California

anirvan, 12 days ago to random

"In April 2022, a New Hampshire parent complained that Alison O’Brien, a high school social studies teacher, violated the divisive concepts law by showing two videos — 'Formation' by Beyoncé and 'This is America' by Childish Gambino — as part of a unit on the Harlem Renaissance. O'Brien said she showed the videos as part of a lesson where students 'listen to Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, read poetry, and study paintings by Harlem Renaissance artists.'"

https://popular.info/p/judge-defends-right-to-teach-beyonce

anirvan, 12 days ago to firefox

#Firefox is getting better, and without sacrificing privacy safeguards

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/

anirvan, 12 days ago to random

"To combat misperceptions, some have begun educating their Los Angeles neighbors on their own. Kashalkar helps organize weekly Zoom meetings to discuss India’s future with Americans. Geeta Sikand, a registered dietitian nutritionist originally from New Delhi and a communications director for Americans 4 Hindus, a pro-Hindu super PAC, said she’s submitted at least 35 'rebuttals' to the Los Angeles Times, none of which have been published."

https://americankahani.com/perspectives/in-defense-of-narendra-modi-indian-americans-strive-to-educate-americans-and-their-media/

#SouthAsianAmerican

anirvan, 13 days ago to random

"…suffragettes blocked traffic in front of the White House and served jail time for demanding their right to vote. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders marched on roads and bridges throughout the South to pressure President Johnson and Congressional leaders to enact voting rights legislation in the 1960s. Two decades later, Larry Kramer and activists with ACT UP held 'die ins' on streets to shame public health agencies into addressing the AIDS crisis."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/29/streets-and-highways-are-becoming-a-big-roadblock-to-free-speech

anirvan, 13 days ago to random

"I am consistently told, for example, 'You’re going to [play this role], be masculine.' Why? Who knows if they were masculine or not? That said, I think also a lot of things are up to interpretation. So if I feel comfortable, I can kind of portray it in the ways that I want and that’s kind of where I find my comfort."

https://indiacurrents.com/a-bay-area-journalist-on-her-south-asian-identity-and-being-a-non-binary-kathak-dancer/

anirvan, 13 days ago to random

Love this description of how the Design Action Collective refreshed their own identity

https://designaction.org/dac-rebrand-behind-the-scenes/

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

I’m helping a friend write an obituary for a family member, and I’m trying to figure out what a good obituary would even look like. I’d appreciate suggestions, advice, or starting points.

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

“The Liberation Commencement speakers contrasted the graduation celebration of the IU students with the situation in Gaza, where there will be no commencement following the Israeli ‘scholasticide,’ the systematic destruction of all of Gaza’s universities and the murder of hundreds of its teachers.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/a-tale-of-two-commencements-how-gaza-solidarity-encampments-are-changing-the-way-we-see-university-education/

anirvan, 14 days ago to random

“A majority of those surveyed (54%) believe local news outlets are doing “somewhat well” financially. Another 17% said they are doing “very well,” meaning that in total, 71% of respondents don’t know the news business is in crisis.”

https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/shift-to-smartphones-from-tv-and-print-in-full-swing.html

jef, 14 days ago to random

peacock - This lorge fancy boi has been hanging out near the Rockridge Trader Joe's lately. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/53755235966/

ssharadmohhan, 14 days ago to delhi

As #Delhi roasts at 49.9°c (a record) Maharaja Sur Singh of #Jodhpur #Marwar #Rajasthan sits smoking a #Huqqa without his shirt on!
And, so does his attendant, fanning him in this c1760 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from the Toby Falk collection sold by Christie's Inc on 27th October 2023 for £5040.

#Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Heritage #History #Artist #MastoArt #Histodons #Painting #India #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

anirvan, 25 days ago to random

On the 277th Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour (https://www.BerkeleySouthAsian.org/) last weekend, we visited the UC Berkeley Palestine encampment.

Halfway through a story about Indian student protestors in 1975, we stopped to point out the Palestine encampment behind us, and then welcomed our special guests: three students and faculty members active around the encampment. (1/4)