Protyasha প্রোत्याషా
@protyasha.bsky.social
Curator, Urbanist, Architect
Was briefly on Narragansett lands📍 Providence, RI
Was briefly on Narragansett lands📍 Providence, RI
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Incredibly excited and honoured to make this announcement: the show 'No Father No Frontier' opens in Philadelphia on March 7th, at Twelve Gates arts. The two person show features the works of Seattle artist Humaira Abid and Brooklyn artist Aiza Ahmed, curated by yours truly.
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#Gaza: On July 27 and 28, MSF-supported clinics treated hundreds of people injured at food distribution sites and from ongoing attacks.
On July 27, medical teams at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic treated over 150 patients from five different mass casualty incidents.
On July 27, medical teams at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic treated over 150 patients from five different mass casualty incidents.
July 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#Gaza: On July 27 and 28, MSF-supported clinics treated hundreds of people injured at food distribution sites and from ongoing attacks.
On July 27, medical teams at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic treated over 150 patients from five different mass casualty incidents.
On July 27, medical teams at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic treated over 150 patients from five different mass casualty incidents.
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LIVE FROM COLOMBIA 🇨🇴🇿🇦🇵🇸 "Delegates from more than 30 nations gathered in Bogotá on Tuesday for an emergency summit focused on 'concrete measures' to end Israel's genocide in Gaza."
Read more from Common Dreams online.
Read more from Common Dreams online.
At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to 'Halt the Genocide in Gaza' | Common Dreams
Host nation Colombia's deputy foreign minister said participants "will not only reaffirm their commitment to opposing genocide, but also formulate concrete steps to move from words to collective…
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July 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
LIVE FROM COLOMBIA 🇨🇴🇿🇦🇵🇸 "Delegates from more than 30 nations gathered in Bogotá on Tuesday for an emergency summit focused on 'concrete measures' to end Israel's genocide in Gaza."
Read more from Common Dreams online.
Read more from Common Dreams online.
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The closing ceremony of the Emergency Conference for Palestine in Bogotá will begin at 15:30 UTC.
📺 Watch live from the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: buff.ly/NYkdube
📺 Watch live from the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: buff.ly/NYkdube
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The closing ceremony of the Emergency Conference for Palestine in Bogotá will begin at 15:30 UTC.
📺 Watch live from the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: buff.ly/NYkdube
📺 Watch live from the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: buff.ly/NYkdube
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🎙️ “You are basically fighting against a system that is accusing of you of being not from India. Your entire existence is questioned,” Aman Wadud on the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎙️ “You are basically fighting against a system that is accusing of you of being not from India. Your entire existence is questioned,” Aman Wadud on the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
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"When you can buy a personal bubble of coolness and not truly feel the heat, the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly."
Forget air conditioning. She's describing cars. Let's do something about that.
Forget air conditioning. She's describing cars. Let's do something about that.
July 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"When you can buy a personal bubble of coolness and not truly feel the heat, the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly."
Forget air conditioning. She's describing cars. Let's do something about that.
Forget air conditioning. She's describing cars. Let's do something about that.
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Hany Babu was booked under the stringent UAPA. However, independent experts have questioned the charges & credibility of the evidence cited.
scroll.in/article/1084...
“If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.
Mekhala Saran reports
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“If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.
Mekhala Saran reports
July 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Hany Babu was booked under the stringent UAPA. However, independent experts have questioned the charges & credibility of the evidence cited.
scroll.in/article/1084...
“If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.
Mekhala Saran reports
scroll.in/article/1084...
“If I ask them to tell me in a sentence what is Babu’s crime, will they be able to tell me?” asked his wife.
Mekhala Saran reports
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Grève des contrôleurs aériens : un millier de vols annulés en France ce vendredi, surtout dans les aéroports de Paris
Grève des contrôleurs aériens : un millier de vols annulés en France ce vendredi, surtout dans les aéroports de Paris
Ce mouvement social entre dans son deuxième jour, juste avant les vacances scolaires. Il a été déclenché par deux syndicats minoritaires qui réclament l’amélioration des conditions de travail des aiguilleurs du ciel et des effectifs plus importants.
www.lemonde.fr
July 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Grève des contrôleurs aériens : un millier de vols annulés en France ce vendredi, surtout dans les aéroports de Paris
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.
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A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
www.ohchr.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
We will see this happen again, as OPTs and STEM OPTs get processed, as O1s and H1Bs get processed. As B1s & B2s get processed. We were right to be worried then and we are right to be worried now.
Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests
Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests
Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We will see this happen again, as OPTs and STEM OPTs get processed, as O1s and H1Bs get processed. As B1s & B2s get processed. We were right to be worried then and we are right to be worried now.
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"I realized then I had no privacy left for them to invade."
Alistair Kitchen, an Australian reporter, recounts his detention and interrogation on the U.S. border. It's really well written and truly harrowing.
(Hate that the NYer doesn't support gift links, but you know what to do: archive.ph)
Alistair Kitchen, an Australian reporter, recounts his detention and interrogation on the U.S. border. It's really well written and truly harrowing.
(Hate that the NYer doesn't support gift links, but you know what to do: archive.ph)
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"I realized then I had no privacy left for them to invade."
Alistair Kitchen, an Australian reporter, recounts his detention and interrogation on the U.S. border. It's really well written and truly harrowing.
(Hate that the NYer doesn't support gift links, but you know what to do: archive.ph)
Alistair Kitchen, an Australian reporter, recounts his detention and interrogation on the U.S. border. It's really well written and truly harrowing.
(Hate that the NYer doesn't support gift links, but you know what to do: archive.ph)
It's not quite as harmless to the scores of international students who have been living with this exact fear for over a year now, only to be dismissed by the institution administrations, their mental health providers, departments and faculty. We were not worrying for nothing.
It's obviously a harmless case compared to what someone like Mahmoud Khalil or Rumeysa Ozturk are going through, but it's the same obsession driving it: lock up, harass, and ultimately deport individuals for speech, in the country of the first amendment.
June 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's not quite as harmless to the scores of international students who have been living with this exact fear for over a year now, only to be dismissed by the institution administrations, their mental health providers, departments and faculty. We were not worrying for nothing.
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"Writers, artists, and scholars must be free to express their views openly without compromising their free movement across borders," said PEN America's @jonfreadom.bsky.social following detainment and deportation of Australian writer Alistair Kitchen for his personal writings pen.org/press-releas...
Deportation of Australian Writer For Speech Fits “Disturbing Pattern” of U.S. Border Agents Screening Visitors For Their Viewpoints - PEN America
Australian writer detained at border for speech critical of Trump and Israeli administrations and part of a growing censorship trend.
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June 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Writers, artists, and scholars must be free to express their views openly without compromising their free movement across borders," said PEN America's @jonfreadom.bsky.social following detainment and deportation of Australian writer Alistair Kitchen for his personal writings pen.org/press-releas...
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WATCH: After writing about the student protests over Gaza, Australian Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and interrogated by DHS officials at LAX—before being deported from the U.S. Kitchen joins Chris Hayes to share his story. youtu.be/lVkB9gTCZ1w
'Deportation of dissent': Aussie writer deported after reporting on Gaza protests
YouTube video by MSNBC
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June 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
WATCH: After writing about the student protests over Gaza, Australian Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and interrogated by DHS officials at LAX—before being deported from the U.S. Kitchen joins Chris Hayes to share his story. youtu.be/lVkB9gTCZ1w
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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The results are in. The vast majority of Londoners and major businesses back our exciting plans for Oxford Street, so I'm pleased to confirm that we will now be moving ahead as quickly as possible.
June 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The results are in. The vast majority of Londoners and major businesses back our exciting plans for Oxford Street, so I'm pleased to confirm that we will now be moving ahead as quickly as possible.
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The Trump regime wants to harm universities & block free speech by throwing up barriers to international students. In the end, young people from other countries will fear coming anyway; the US will lose bright minds & talent, our economy will suffer, we'll all suffer. The cruelty - idiocy - shame!
Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting
It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Trump regime wants to harm universities & block free speech by throwing up barriers to international students. In the end, young people from other countries will fear coming anyway; the US will lose bright minds & talent, our economy will suffer, we'll all suffer. The cruelty - idiocy - shame!
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Israeli troops open fire as aid group loses control of distribution centre
Israeli troops open fire as aid group loses control of distribution centre
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, chosen by Israel, unprepared for thousands of hungry Palestinians, leading staff to abandon posts
Israeli troops have opened fire near thousands of hungry Palestinians as a logistics group chosen by Israel to ship food into Gaza lost control of its distribution centre on its second day of operations.
An 11-week total siege and a continuing tight Israel blockade mean most people in Gaza are desperately hungry. Hundreds of thousands walked through Israeli military lines to reach the new distribution centre in Rafah on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Israeli troops open fire as aid group loses control of distribution centre
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Calling all #History departments of #Universities
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
a cartoon of a fox holding a mug with the words just a crumb of attention please below it
ALT: a cartoon of a fox holding a mug with the words just a crumb of attention please below it
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May 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Calling all #History departments of #Universities
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
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The echoes are real—but this isn’t a rerun.
Naomi Klein calls it end times fascism:
It´s not just about reclaiming power, but about riding collapse like it’s prophecy.
They’re not planning for the future—they’re hoarding for the aftermath.
Destruction isn’t the cost. It’s the goal.
#EndTimesFascism
Naomi Klein calls it end times fascism:
It´s not just about reclaiming power, but about riding collapse like it’s prophecy.
They’re not planning for the future—they’re hoarding for the aftermath.
Destruction isn’t the cost. It’s the goal.
#EndTimesFascism
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The echoes are real—but this isn’t a rerun.
Naomi Klein calls it end times fascism:
It´s not just about reclaiming power, but about riding collapse like it’s prophecy.
They’re not planning for the future—they’re hoarding for the aftermath.
Destruction isn’t the cost. It’s the goal.
#EndTimesFascism
Naomi Klein calls it end times fascism:
It´s not just about reclaiming power, but about riding collapse like it’s prophecy.
They’re not planning for the future—they’re hoarding for the aftermath.
Destruction isn’t the cost. It’s the goal.
#EndTimesFascism
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Hannah Arendt discusses this phenomenon of sympathetic elite allying themselves with the mob because they took delight in debasing the institutions that rejected them only to later be discarded before the atrocities start.
Her insight into this phenomenon is pure insightful genius.
Her insight into this phenomenon is pure insightful genius.
May 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Hannah Arendt discusses this phenomenon of sympathetic elite allying themselves with the mob because they took delight in debasing the institutions that rejected them only to later be discarded before the atrocities start.
Her insight into this phenomenon is pure insightful genius.
Her insight into this phenomenon is pure insightful genius.
Can't wait to see this in person!
BIG NEWS: I’m very honoured to announce that I’ve been collaborating with the City of Paris under Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership to create a unique exhibition opening this summer at Paris City Hall on BOLD URBAN TRANSFORMATION, profiling cities around the world.
Stay tuned for details!
Stay tuned for details!
May 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Can't wait to see this in person!
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In Jharkhand’s Godda, 180 workers went on hunger strike outside an Adani power plant.
Why? Because they gave up their land for promised jobs. Instead, they got shuffled through outsourcing firms with backdated contracts and no job security.
Nolina Minj reports: scroll.in/article/1082...
Why? Because they gave up their land for promised jobs. Instead, they got shuffled through outsourcing firms with backdated contracts and no job security.
Nolina Minj reports: scroll.in/article/1082...
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In Jharkhand’s Godda, 180 workers went on hunger strike outside an Adani power plant.
Why? Because they gave up their land for promised jobs. Instead, they got shuffled through outsourcing firms with backdated contracts and no job security.
Nolina Minj reports: scroll.in/article/1082...
Why? Because they gave up their land for promised jobs. Instead, they got shuffled through outsourcing firms with backdated contracts and no job security.
Nolina Minj reports: scroll.in/article/1082...
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Yesterday was an emotional, historic and compassionate day for Scotland.
Thanks to everyone who contacted their MSPs and raised their voice in support, Liam McArthur's Bill can now progress. But this is just the beginning…
Thanks to everyone who contacted their MSPs and raised their voice in support, Liam McArthur's Bill can now progress. But this is just the beginning…
May 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yesterday was an emotional, historic and compassionate day for Scotland.
Thanks to everyone who contacted their MSPs and raised their voice in support, Liam McArthur's Bill can now progress. But this is just the beginning…
Thanks to everyone who contacted their MSPs and raised their voice in support, Liam McArthur's Bill can now progress. But this is just the beginning…
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Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0