Salpi Ghazarian
@salpi.bsky.social
Librarian, teacher, connector, co-founder CivilNet.am.
Previously USC Inst of Armenian Studies.
Interested in nurturing the good and the free in Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan - starting with political prisoner release. Oh yes. And the US.
Previously USC Inst of Armenian Studies.
Interested in nurturing the good and the free in Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan - starting with political prisoner release. Oh yes. And the US.
A most decent human being, a pacifist, a connector and creator - osman kavala.
Locked Up by Erdogan | Aryeh Neier
For his work as an activist and philanthropist, Osman Kavala has been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey for seven and a half years.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A most decent human being, a pacifist, a connector and creator - osman kavala.
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Swedish journalist who was detained on arrival in Turkey for a protest he didn’t attend and a social media post he didn’t make gets an 11-month suspended sentence in first trial, but remains in custody because he’s facing terror charges as well www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...
Swedish journalist gets 11-month suspended prison term in Turkey for insulting Erdogan | eKathimerini.com
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
www.ekathimerini.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Swedish journalist who was detained on arrival in Turkey for a protest he didn’t attend and a social media post he didn’t make gets an 11-month suspended sentence in first trial, but remains in custody because he’s facing terror charges as well www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...
Brilliant. Asking the question that matters.
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
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www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Brilliant. Asking the question that matters.
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This is as close as the UN can get calling it a genocide without using the term itself:
“ … Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
“ … Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
Gaza: Increasing Israeli “evacuation orders” lead to forcible transfer of Palestinians
The increasing issuance by Israeli Forces of “evacuation orders” – which are, in effect, displacement orders – have resulted in the forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza into ever shrinking spaces...
www.ohchr.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is as close as the UN can get calling it a genocide without using the term itself:
“ … Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
“ … Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
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These are always must-reads, canonical documents for anyone on politics social media.
NEW: We're about to enter a very (very) busy stretch of elections. Enter Bolts, to help guide you through it!
I put together this guide of 20 elections to watch this April.
There's Wisconsin's judicial race, of course, but that's just the start — Congress, mayors, school boards, & more.
I put together this guide of 20 elections to watch this April.
There's Wisconsin's judicial race, of course, but that's just the start — Congress, mayors, school boards, & more.
The 20 Elections to Watch This April - Bolts
A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Tuesday, March 25. Democrats, who will now repres...
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March 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
These are always must-reads, canonical documents for anyone on politics social media.
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“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
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March 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.
open.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Stop them.
Chronicle of a murder foretold - CIVILNET
In this special edition of the CivilNet podcast, commentator Eric Hacopian raises the alarm on Azerbaijan’s hidden intentions behind the expulsion of the International Committee of the Red Cross, whic...
www.civilnet.am
March 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Stop them.
When #Baku sends #ICRC home, as it just has, it means they are planning the worst for these political leaders - #Armenian political prisoners in a sham trial. There are lots of global political knots that are hard to unravel. This one is not. They should be freed. For peace.
In an emotional audio message recorded Wednesday to his family from isolation in a Baku prison, Ruben Vardanyan said he is “ready to bear the most severe punishment if only it would help bring peace and stability,” and optimistically believes one day it will be achieved.
Ruben Vardanyan sent an audio message of peace from his Baku isolation cell - CIVILNET
In an emotional audio message recorded Wednesday to his family from isolation in a Baku prison, businessman and former Artsakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan said he is “ready to bear the most severe ...
www.civilnet.am
March 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Not releasing political figures whose job it was to govern a disputed space, defend people’s homes & negotiate a peace means not wanting peace. #Azerbaijan defeated #Armenians of #Karabakh, and now wants to break the soul of a nation & bodies of its leaders. There is no peace.No one is safe indeed.
If Armenian prisoners, including my father, are not freed, no Armenian is safe, says Ruben Vardanyan’s son.
If Armenian prisoners, including my father, are not freed, no Armenian is safe - CIVILNET
If Armenian prisoners, including my father, are not freed, no Armenian is safe, says Ruben Vardanyan’s son.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Not releasing political figures whose job it was to govern a disputed space, defend people’s homes & negotiate a peace means not wanting peace. #Azerbaijan defeated #Armenians of #Karabakh, and now wants to break the soul of a nation & bodies of its leaders. There is no peace.No one is safe indeed.
If #Ocalan is offering peace, what might #Ankara be ready to give after a century of violent rejection of all minorities, esp #Kurds? Historian Taner Akcam’s take on @civilnet.bsky.social
How should Öcalan’s call for peace be interpreted? - CIVILNET
By Taner Akçam Abdullah Öcalan, jailed leader of the PKK, the Kurdish Workers’ Party, a militant political organization, has made a historic call, declaring that the PKK, a product of the Cold War era...
www.civilnet.am
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If #Ocalan is offering peace, what might #Ankara be ready to give after a century of violent rejection of all minorities, esp #Kurds? Historian Taner Akcam’s take on @civilnet.bsky.social
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2 million people now in peril. 2 million! www.rescue.org/article/unit...
United States terminates thousands of aid programs
The U.S. State Department's termination of over 10,000 foreign aid grants has crippled IRC programs, leaving 2 million vulnerable people without critical humanitarian services.
www.rescue.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
2 million people now in peril. 2 million! www.rescue.org/article/unit...
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Bernie Sanders has put Democrats "on notice" that they need to fight the billionaires – and make issues like healthcare and income inequality "THE issues" – Harold Meyerson @theprospect.bsky.social comments – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/41t2htm
February 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Bernie Sanders has put Democrats "on notice" that they need to fight the billionaires – and make issues like healthcare and income inequality "THE issues" – Harold Meyerson @theprospect.bsky.social comments – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/41t2htm
In the midst of insanity, a photo of a carpet made me happy. #Oslo-based film director, grandson of Bergman and Ullman, sitting on a hand-woven carpet from #Armenia’s Syunik mountains. @financialtimes.com Weekend HTSI. Links my worlds
February 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In the midst of insanity, a photo of a carpet made me happy. #Oslo-based film director, grandson of Bergman and Ullman, sitting on a hand-woven carpet from #Armenia’s Syunik mountains. @financialtimes.com Weekend HTSI. Links my worlds
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
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Cezaevinden Hrant’ın arkadaşlarına seslenen Çiğdem Mater, “Sadece acı ve üzüntüyle değil, umutla buradayız” demişti. Çekmediği “Gezi belgeseliyle” suçlanan ve 18 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırılan Mater, 1004 gündür hapiste adaletin sağlanmasını bekliyor.
#ÇiğdemMaterİçinAdalet
#ÇiğdemMaterİçinAdalet
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Cezaevinden Hrant’ın arkadaşlarına seslenen Çiğdem Mater, “Sadece acı ve üzüntüyle değil, umutla buradayız” demişti. Çekmediği “Gezi belgeseliyle” suçlanan ve 18 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırılan Mater, 1004 gündür hapiste adaletin sağlanmasını bekliyor.
#ÇiğdemMaterİçinAdalet
#ÇiğdemMaterİçinAdalet
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2 bin 641 gündür hapiste…
Osman Kavala: “Annem 97 yaşında. Onu bir daha göremeyeceğimi düşünmek, çok hüzün verici…”
#FreeOsmanKavala
Osman Kavala: “Annem 97 yaşında. Onu bir daha göremeyeceğimi düşünmek, çok hüzün verici…”
#FreeOsmanKavala
January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
2 bin 641 gündür hapiste…
Osman Kavala: “Annem 97 yaşında. Onu bir daha göremeyeceğimi düşünmek, çok hüzün verici…”
#FreeOsmanKavala
Osman Kavala: “Annem 97 yaşında. Onu bir daha göremeyeceğimi düşünmek, çok hüzün verici…”
#FreeOsmanKavala
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Former Nagorno-Karabakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan, currently detained in Baku, has accused Azerbaijani investigators of falsifying interrogation records and coercing him, his lawyer, and translator to sign backdated documents.
Ruben Vardanyan: All protocols bearing my signature are falsifications - CIVILNET
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and former Nagorno-Karabakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan, who has been under illegal arrest in Baku for more than a year, said yesterday that Azerbaijani investigators f...
www.civilnet.am
January 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Former Nagorno-Karabakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan, currently detained in Baku, has accused Azerbaijani investigators of falsifying interrogation records and coercing him, his lawyer, and translator to sign backdated documents.
If only policy - good policy - would trump politics. Now.
Opinion | How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Awareness of doom in Los Angeles, and yet a need to push disaster away, has created a kind of collective psychosis.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If only policy - good policy - would trump politics. Now.
One great roundup trying to make sense of the pronouncements of a “trickster” president- as seen NOT by Americans only.
January 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One great roundup trying to make sense of the pronouncements of a “trickster” president- as seen NOT by Americans only.
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"One of the mysteries of Hubble’s universe is why we haven’t found other intelligent species. One explanation is that most civilizations do themselves in before they can reach out into space."
LA's fires are whirling around the telescopes where we discovered the expanding universe.
We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
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We've never needed human intelligence and curiosity more
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The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
billmckibben.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"One of the mysteries of Hubble’s universe is why we haven’t found other intelligent species. One explanation is that most civilizations do themselves in before they can reach out into space."
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📍 French President Emmanuel Macron rebukes Moscow for supporting Azerbaijan and Baku for interference in French overseas territories.
📍 Former Armenian military official Tiran Khachatryan was arrested on charges of military negligence during the 2020 war.
www.civilnet.am/en/news/8113...
📍 Former Armenian military official Tiran Khachatryan was arrested on charges of military negligence during the 2020 war.
www.civilnet.am/en/news/8113...
Macron rebukes Russia, Azerbaijan over Armenia issue - CIVILNET
French President Emmanuel Macron rebukes Moscow for supporting Azerbaijan and Baku for interference in French overseas territories.
www.civilnet.am
January 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
📍 French President Emmanuel Macron rebukes Moscow for supporting Azerbaijan and Baku for interference in French overseas territories.
📍 Former Armenian military official Tiran Khachatryan was arrested on charges of military negligence during the 2020 war.
www.civilnet.am/en/news/8113...
📍 Former Armenian military official Tiran Khachatryan was arrested on charges of military negligence during the 2020 war.
www.civilnet.am/en/news/8113...
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Azerbaijan lacks any motivation to sign a peace treaty with Armenia and is instead focused on gaining influence over Armenia’s southern regions over the next three to five years, according to Benyamin Poghosyan, a senior analyst at the APRI Armenia research center.
Azerbaijan lacks any motivation to sign a peace treaty with Armenia, says expert - CIVILNET
Azerbaijan lacks any motivation to sign a peace treaty with Armenia and is instead focused on gaining influence over Armenia’s southern regions over the next three to five years, according to Benyamin...
www.civilnet.am
January 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Azerbaijan lacks any motivation to sign a peace treaty with Armenia and is instead focused on gaining influence over Armenia’s southern regions over the next three to five years, according to Benyamin Poghosyan, a senior analyst at the APRI Armenia research center.