you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

China on Tuesday voiced support for Cuba at a UN General Assembly debate on the decades-long US economic, commercial and financial embargo against the Caribbean country, saying the measures have caused serious hardship for the Cuban people and should be brought to an end.

The General Assembly voted earlier on Tuesday to proceed with the debate by 136 votes in favor, nine against and 30 abstentions, despite opposition from the United States.

Speaking at the debate, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said China supported the convening of the meeting and voted in favor of holding it. The 136 votes in favor "fully demonstrated the aspiration of the international community and the call for justice", he said.

The debate, convened at the request of Cuba, focused on "the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba". The General Assembly last held its regular annual debate on the issue on Oct 28 and 29.

Fu said the United States has, for more than 60 years, imposed an economic blockade and unilateral sanctions on Cuba, "causing enormous suffering to the Cuban state and people".

"Cuba has suffered accumulated losses of more than $170 billion as a result of the blockade, while hospitals, schools, water supply systems, grain storage facilities and other infrastructure related to people's livelihood have come under severe pressure," he said.

Cuba is facing serious fuel shortages, a worsening electricity and energy crisis, and continued obstruction in the supply of medicines, medical equipment and other essential goods, with vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant women bearing a heavy impact, Fu said.

Cuba, which depends heavily on fuel imports, has received only one oil tanker in the past six months, the Russian vessel Anatoly Kolodkin, carrying about 100,000 metric tons of crude oil, Xinhua News Agency reported. The country needs about eight fuel tankers a month to maintain normal operations.

"Such acts violate the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, including sovereign equality, the peaceful settlement of international disputes and the prohibition of the use or threat of force," Fu said.

They also "infringe upon the Cuban people's rights to subsistence and development, and undermine the international order based on international law and the basic norms governing international relations", he said.

"China urges the United States to stop its blockade against Cuba and all forms of coercive pressure, and to stop infringing upon the Cuban people's rights to subsistence and development," Fu said.

Fu called on the international community to support Cuba in safeguarding sovereignty, equality and national dignity, and to jointly resist illegal blockades, sanctions and military threats.

He said countries should uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, adhere to sovereign equality, oppose interference in internal affairs, adhere to the peaceful settlement of disputes and oppose the use of force.m

Fu also called for opposition to all illegal unilateral sanctions, saying unilateral sanctions without authorization from the UN Security Council "have no basis in international law and damage the sovereignty and security of other countries".

"The international community should safeguard the Cuban people's rights to subsistence and development, and urge relevant countries to implement General Assembly resolutions, immediately terminate all kinds of sanctions and secondary sanctions against Cuba, refrain from frequently threatening sanctions, and protect the Cuban people's right to pursue a better life," Fu said.

Fu said international fairness and justice concern the survival and development of all countries. In the face of hegemonism and power politics, no country can remain immune, he said.

"No country can appoint itself as an international policeman, nor can any country style itself as an international judge," Fu said.

"The Chinese people empathize with the suffering of the Cuban people and China will, as always, provide Cuba with support and assistance within its capacity," Fu said.

He called on countries and UN agencies to step up humanitarian assistance to Cuba, help address shortages of fuel, food and medicines, ease the crisis facing the Cuban people and safeguard the bottom line of international humanitarianism.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla welcomed the Assembly's decision to hold the debate, saying Cuba rejects the claim that it represents a threat to the United States and condemns Washington's policy of hostility and aggression.

"Cuba is not a threat. Cuba is the nation that is under threat," said Parrilla, noting Cuba's commitment to "peace, international law, multilateralism, truth and justice".

Speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Uruguay's permanent representative to the UN, said the embargo "affects all the critical sectors of the Cuban economy, including public health, nutrition and agriculture, as well as trade, investment, tourism and banking".

The Burned Ones

Black burlap background made with scraps of fabric and coloured wool illustrating moments from the national strike of 2 July 1986 in Chile, when two young people, Carmen Gloria Quintana (20 yo) and Rodrigo Rojas de Negri (19 yo), are on fire after being set alight by uniformed officers and Pinochetist civilians. The scene takes place in the middle of the street in the context of protests against Pinochet's civil-military dictatorship installed by the United States. Several people representing the protesters in the street and some armed soldiers can be seen. In the lower right-hand corner of the burlap, we see the following scene in a forest, where Carmen and Rodrigo were thrown and abandoned by the military in a wasteland in the commune of Quilicura, on the outskirts of the city.

Rodrigo Rojas De Negri (R.R.D.) and Carmen Gloria Quintana (C.G.Q.) brutally burned

A greyish-white burlap background made from scraps of coloured fabric and wool illustrates the moments when activist and psychologist Carmen Gloria Quintana and photographer Rodrigo Rojas De Negri are on fire after being doused with petrol and set alight by Pinochetist military personnel and civilians. They are standing next to a wall, behind which we can see a church. In the lower right corner, we see these two people being abandoned in a ditch by the military to die.

The crime sparked protests, mostly by the proletariat. Since photographer Rojas de Negri was a US citizen, the son of Chilean exiles in the US, and had been sent to Chile to report on the protests, the crime became known outside Chile and protests were held in the US and other parts of the world.

At the bottom of the burlap, embroidered in white thread, reads ‘“The burned ones. 2- VII-1984. Chile”. The ‘i’ in Chile is a star. Below this text is ‘R.I.D.E.E’ and the name of the commune or province of Linares.

Rojas de Negri died four days later after both were rescued by agricultural workers. Quintana was taken to the Workers' Hospital on 6 July with second- and third-degree burns covering 62% of his body and many broken teeth as a result of the beatings by the military, and was in critical condition.

Only in 2015 did a conscript who participated in the operation and disclosure of cables from the US Embassy in Washington detailing the chain of command and the impunity sought by La Moneda for the authorities involved allow the case to be reopened and put an end to that infamous and recurring dismissal for lack of evidence, even though the military justice system had ruled arbitrarily.

#PopularMemory: 39 years since the Quemados Case and our Right to Memory. Frente Magazine

Justice came late and the sentences left many of the criminals free, acquitting some and allowing others to remain in their homes, and the present dictator, a pinochetist nazi installed by USA/The West is free all the tortures, agents, and other criminals of the Dictatorship.

In April 2026, the bourgeoisie ordered the theft of 30 burlap pieces that were on display at the Villa Grimaldi Memorial Site for the exhibition “Memorias (A)puntadas, nuestro lugar en la historia”. These works, created by women who survived the dictatorship and their female descendants, denounce the crimes of the dictatorship and subsequent crimes, as well as their lives during that period.

The collection was developed in 2023 as part of a “Bearers of Tradition” workshop organized by the National Subdirectorate of Intangible Cultural Heritage (SNPCI), with support from the National Historical Museum and the Handicrafts Foundation of Chile. The process was mentored by Patricia Hidalgo and María Teresa Madariaga, recognized as Living Human Treasures, alongside the practitioners Gladys Hernández and Hilda Mardones.

The National Cultural Heritage Service reports the loss of 30 heritage arpillera pieces and is coordinating efforts to recover them

As of today, they have not been recovered. They were likely burned, as this is one of the typical modus operandi of the dictatorship and its current agents (police, soldiers, intelligence agents, and civilians). Just as they did with Julia del Carmen Chuñil Catricura (72 yo), a Mapuche woman and defender of the territory.

Photo by photographer Percy Lam, showing Rodrigo Rojas De Negri.

Rodrigo Rojas De Negri (19) and Carmen Gloria Quintana (20) on 2 July 1986 in Santiago are burning alive after being doused with fuel and set alight by the military and Pinochetist civilians for participating in the national strike. Their smoking bodies are wrapped in blankets and loaded onto a truck by the military and civilian agents, then abandoned in a ditch to die on the outskirts of the city. Their smoking bodies are wrapped in blankets and loaded onto a truck by the military and civilian agents, then abandoned in a ditch to die on the outskirts of the city.

Photograph of Carmen Gloria Quintana speaking at a religious ceremony at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Sherbrooke, Canada

Carmen survived after weeks in critical condition with burns covering 60% of her body and broken teeth from the beating. Rodrigo died four days after the crime, after both had been rescued by farm workers who took them to hospital. Hundreds of people attended his funeral.

Funeral of Rodrigo Rojas De Negri

Rojas de Negri was a US citizen, a gringo, the son of Chilean refugees and exiles in the US and Canada. He had returned to Chile with the intention of photographing the protests against the dictatorship and publishing a book of photographs in the US, the same country that orchestrated the dictatorship in Chile and Plan Condor throughout South America. He was murdered, and the crime became known outside Chile, leading to protests against the US regime and elsewhere in the world. He was described as someone who did not measure his actions or their consequences, as he spoke openly in the street about being a communist and did not understand why people did not tell him where they lived. His yanki upbringing prevented him from grasping the gravity of a dictatorship and the situation in Chile and Latin America, as well as the fact that people were disappearing and being tortured for less than saying they were communists. His ignorance and his USAmerican status did not protect him.

Detail of the mural dedicated to Rodrigo Rojas de Negri in Washington, D.C.

The Chilean band Illapu dedicated the song ‘Para seguir viviendo’ (To Keep Living) to Rojas de Negri, which is part of their 1986 album of the same name. Quelentaro composed a song called ‘Rodrigo Rojas.’ The British group The Dream Academy dedicated the song ‘In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas)’ from the album ‘Remembrance Days’ (1987) to him. The Chilean band Tenemos Explosivos dedicated the song ‘Montreal, 400 negativos’ to him, included on their album ‘La Virgen De Los Mataderos,’ with several references to the crime.

In 2006, the Chilean Council for Culture created the Rodrigo Rojas de Negri photography award, but until then, no one knew about his work. This changed in September 2013 when Rojas' first exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (MAC) and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH), both in Quinta Normal, featuring a selection of 60 photographs from a total of 400 negatives.

In 2019, an artistic group called Colectivo Musa created a mosaic in tribute to the young man. Verónica De Negri, Rodrigo's mother, requested that it be installed in Valparaíso, at the former Vicente Santa Cruz School, which for a time was called República de Bolivia and is now the Pablo Neruda School.

Mosaic created in tribute to Rodrigo Rojas, victim of the Quemados Case: now looking for a place to install it

In 2024, the Municipality of Estación Central, in pursuit of collective memory and justice in Chile, with Verónica de Negri in attendance, changed the name of Hernán Yunge Street to Rodrigo Rojas de Negri Street.

Also present were the Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero, councillors, neighbourhood and human rights leaders, residents, photographers and a public committed to historical memory and justice.

Artists such as Roberto Márquez from the band Illapu, the Coulon brothers from Inti Illimani, Víctor Hugo and the Chilean-Haitian band LA-FA-MI Band participated in this tribute. An exhibition of photographs from Rodrigo Rojas's work was presented, highlighting his artistic legacy and commitment to historical truth.

In the Quilicura district, located in the capital of Chile, a health centre, which is the only emergency service in Quilicura that provides 24-hour care, is named after Rodrigo.

It was renamed in recognition of and appreciation for human rights in our community, after Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, who arrived at this service in 1986 with burns on his body and at gunpoint. The civil servants who were present at the time were eyewitnesses to the cruelty that was prevalent in those years.

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

right now they’re at $3,437/$10,520

Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising

https://crimethinc.com/StonewallRiots

God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs.

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