Support Councilwoman Sawant On: No War with Iran & Oppose India's persecution of Muslims
The Issue
Join us Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Avenue, Tue Jan 21, 1:30PM
Support Seattle Council Member Sawant's Resolution against War on Iran and Discriminatory Indian laws CAA/NRC:
1. Trump’s policies toward Iran, including air strikes and the prominent drone assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, are risking war. The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq have not expanded the freedom, democracy, standards of living, or safety of ordinary people in the Middle East; and have not increased the safety of people in the U.S. Instead they have caused massive loss of human life and ongoing suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq, and among U.S. Soldiers. Ordinary people, especially women, young people, and marginalized communities, always pay the greatest price of imperialist war.
Border Patrol agents in Washington have also begun targeting people of Iranian descent, including U.S. citizens. People have been detained and questioned for hours, including families with young children.
2. The right-wing, Hindu fundamentalist government in India, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has passed new laws that blatantly discriminate against Muslims, and threaten the citizenship rights of not only the 200 million Muslims of India, but also the poor, the oppressed castes, and indigenous people.
These laws (together called the Citizenship Amendment Act, CAA, and the National Registry of Citizens NRC) in combination are India’s Nuremberg laws. The BJP government is backed by a hindu supremacist group called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The founders of the RSS visited the Fascistas under Mussolini, and were inspired by the Nazis. They share a similar imagined nation based on Aryan heritage. Their aim is to establish a Hindu rashtra (nation) based on an upper caste/Brahminical (Aryan) hegemony. When the Nazis executed the Nuremberg laws, the RSS founders called it the highest form of “race pride”, “a good lesson for us to learn and profit by”.
The RSS is anti-Muslim, Sikh, Christian, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ, anti-dissent. Every tactic of theirs is drawn from the Nazi playbook of dehumanizing, isolating, discriminating, and murdering people.
India has seen massive strike actions and protests nationwide against these right-wing laws. The Indian government has responded to the protests in brutally authoritarian and violent ways. The global progressive community needs to stand in solidarity with the movements in India, which are calling for a full repeal of these laws. This is especially true here in the United States, where in September last year, Donald Trump hosted an odious "Howdy Modi" rally in support of Modi and his right-wing regime.
As Indian Americans, we are standing with those opposing these attacks, both in America and India.
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The Issue
Join us Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Avenue, Tue Jan 21, 1:30PM
Support Seattle Council Member Sawant's Resolution against War on Iran and Discriminatory Indian laws CAA/NRC:
1. Trump’s policies toward Iran, including air strikes and the prominent drone assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, are risking war. The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq have not expanded the freedom, democracy, standards of living, or safety of ordinary people in the Middle East; and have not increased the safety of people in the U.S. Instead they have caused massive loss of human life and ongoing suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq, and among U.S. Soldiers. Ordinary people, especially women, young people, and marginalized communities, always pay the greatest price of imperialist war.
Border Patrol agents in Washington have also begun targeting people of Iranian descent, including U.S. citizens. People have been detained and questioned for hours, including families with young children.
2. The right-wing, Hindu fundamentalist government in India, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has passed new laws that blatantly discriminate against Muslims, and threaten the citizenship rights of not only the 200 million Muslims of India, but also the poor, the oppressed castes, and indigenous people.
These laws (together called the Citizenship Amendment Act, CAA, and the National Registry of Citizens NRC) in combination are India’s Nuremberg laws. The BJP government is backed by a hindu supremacist group called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The founders of the RSS visited the Fascistas under Mussolini, and were inspired by the Nazis. They share a similar imagined nation based on Aryan heritage. Their aim is to establish a Hindu rashtra (nation) based on an upper caste/Brahminical (Aryan) hegemony. When the Nazis executed the Nuremberg laws, the RSS founders called it the highest form of “race pride”, “a good lesson for us to learn and profit by”.
The RSS is anti-Muslim, Sikh, Christian, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ, anti-dissent. Every tactic of theirs is drawn from the Nazi playbook of dehumanizing, isolating, discriminating, and murdering people.
India has seen massive strike actions and protests nationwide against these right-wing laws. The Indian government has responded to the protests in brutally authoritarian and violent ways. The global progressive community needs to stand in solidarity with the movements in India, which are calling for a full repeal of these laws. This is especially true here in the United States, where in September last year, Donald Trump hosted an odious "Howdy Modi" rally in support of Modi and his right-wing regime.
As Indian Americans, we are standing with those opposing these attacks, both in America and India.
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Petition created on 18 January 2020