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Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint

Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint Priyanka Samy   https://thewire.in/caste/transformational-solidarity-a-dalit-feminist-viewpoint  We live in times where struggles for social justice and equity converge, revealing inherent similarities between issues.... we must transition from our binary understanding of systems and power. This mandates the social justice movement to rise to a new level of consciousness and action. It is an urgent call – to move from performative politics to progressive politics, from tokenistic solidarities towards transformational solidarities.

Transformational solidarity goes beyond the superficial allyship often displayed by those who remain ensnared in the webs of white and Brahminical supremacy. It demands of us a deep, introspective commitment to understanding the diverse ways in which people are systematically oppressed.

Recalibrating our politics to embody transformational solidarity is not a one-time action but a continuous process of unlearning, learning, strategising and re-strategising. Moreover, as the civil society space is increasingly shrinking across the globe, the time for surface-level solidarities has long passed.

Ladakh Solidarity- PUCL-NAPM-VS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx-zYD4hZus 

Ladakh Solidarity- PUCL-NAPM-VS 

webinar on Ladakh: https://www.youtube.com/live/xx-zYD4hZus?si=aGj7bkd-m9616g4_

Ashish Kothsri hISTORICAL Context   https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=441  end=861 Land issue.. for tourist, miining, Vision from outside... - commwercial industrial profit making, security zone, religious,  the narrative itself..  Ecological crisis in terms of water, people from outside ladakh are also dependent on this as a source of water.. https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=861

https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=921 Kavita welcome Sonam...

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For 2024, Opposition is still in the game

For 2024, Opposition is still in the game https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/yogendra-yadav-writes-for-2024-opposition-is-still-in-the-game-9058961/

.. the BJP has not received a massive popular endorsement in the latest round.

Suppose the citizens of these states vote exactly the same way next year as they did in the recent assembly elections, the net gainer will
be Congress, not the BJP.

If we add up assembly-wise votes for each parliamentary seat, the tally will be

24 for BJP and 5 for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh (compared to 28-1 in 2019),

8 for BJP and 3 for the Congress in Chhattisgarh (9-2 in 2019),

14 for BJP and 11 for Congress in Rajasthan (24-0 in 2019) and

0 for the BJP and 9 for the Congress in Telangana (4-3 in 2019). In all, it would mean

46 seats for the BJP (loss of 19) and 28 seats for the Congress (gain of 22)

Look at the big picture.

In 2019, the BJP won 303 seats, just 30 seats above the majority mark.

The BJP faces significant depletions in Bengal, Karnataka  Maharashtra) and Uttar Pradesh

Add to it near-certain but minor losses in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana and Assam.