Yajna Sanguhan

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

Next week, Penn grad workers will get ready to bargain. On Tuesday 9/17, first-years will get caught up on unionization at Penn. And on Wednesday 9/18, all grad workers will discuss our shared bargaining demands. RSVP now! https://t.co/OqLbSKSkD0 https://t.co/34GiT2W1gO

[Ambika Satkunanathan @ambikasat]

Another court order- this time in Kalmunai. To the govt, remembering #18May = reviving LTTE. Reasons for banning remembrance events have evolved from preventing spread of diseases to reviving LTTE. Shows aim is to stop remembrance of brutality & violence of last stages of war.

[Kumanan @kumanan93]

🚨A while ago, families of the disappeared in the Amparai attempted to hold a #MullivaikalKanji serving event in front of the Pandiruppu Arasadi Pillaiyar temple. The police and the Special Task Force (STF) intervened, threatening the organizers and blocking the commemoration.

[Anushani Alagarajah @Nachchellai]

"As I grew up, I understood the horrible contradictions between what I had witnessed during the last phase of the war & what the Sri Lankan army did in the name of ‘liberating’ the Tamils. None of what the SL army did to us – could ever fall under a ‘humanitarian’ operation"

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to 97. It's official. The majority of eligible voters turned out to the polls. Penn graduate workers have resoundingly declared: WE WANT A UNION AT PENN!

[Rithika Kumar @kumar_rithika]

Loved writing this piece about understanding female voter turnout in India! It gave me the opportunity to discuss so many aspects of this phenomenon that I have learned over the years. Big thanks to @MilanV and @CarnegieEndow for this opportunity. ✨

[Ambika Satkunanathan @ambikasat]

#CTUR #TransitionalJustice

1/Prez Media Division’s tweet on meeting held by Interim Sec for Truth and Recon Mechanism, which is part of attempt to show extensive consultations were held with stakeholders, is inaccurate and disingenuous. Sharing my experience engaging with ISTRM.

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

🚨 BREAKING – Sri Lanka fires tear gas and water cannons at Tamils, as protests erupt across homeland

Sri Lankan security forces shot tear gas and fired water cannons at Tamil students as they marched on Sri Lanka's 76th Independence Day this morning, with Tamils across the North-East launching demonstrations to mark it as a ‘Black Day’.

Read more ⬇️

https://t.co/ugGs7PCthP

[Jera Thampi @JeraThampi]

The 36th commemoration of 75 people including doctors, nurses and patients who were murdered by the Indian Army at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital on 21st October 1987 was held today.

[Rithika Kumar @kumar_rithika]

I recently spoke to @srajagopalan about my dissertation project and research agenda. Thank you for giving job market candidates this forums! A short thread about some of the key findings from my project examining the role of migration in empowering women *politically* (in India)

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

Today, we rallied to celebrate signing over 2700 union authorization cards which demonstrate supermajority support for GET-UP, and announce our plan to file for a union election. Over 600 of us signed a letter asking Penn to remain neutral and respect our right to form a union…

[Metro @MetroUK]

Eliyanna Andam - who was stabbed to death in Croyden yesterday - died trying to protect her friend, it’s been claimed.

She is said to have leapt to her friends defence on the way to school after her ex pulled out a foot-long machete.

[Kumanan @kumanan93]

🚨 Mullaitivu District Judge
T. Saravanaraja has left the country due to threat to his life.

It is Reported that he left the country due to threats from a politician and threats from Buddhist monks in the #Kurunthoormalai illegal Buddhist temple case. He has also sent resignation letter to the Judicial Service Commission.

[Kumanan @kumanan93]

📷A group of Sinhalese mobs attacked the #ThiyagiThileepan’s commemorative vehicle with stones and Batons in Kappalthurai Trincomalee district in the presence of the police.commemorative vehicle was severely damaged in the attack. Commemoration organizers and MP @skajendren who were traveling in the vehicle were also attacked.

A commemorative vehicle carrying #ThiyagiThileepan’s image has started journey from Poththuvil in the Eastern Province to Nallur, Jaffna. organized by the @TnpfOrg .

[Marlon Ariyasinghe @MarlonAriy]

“The meeting finished, Suresh Salley came to me and told me the Rajapaksas need an unsafe situation in Sri Lanka, that’s the only way for Gotabaya to become president,” Hanzeer Azad Maulana

#EasterAttacks #SriLanka
https://t.co/tZzNNpvdwR

[Renakj.bsky.social @ReenNahMean]

I famously and historically cannot stand Taylor Swift. Not her "vocals" nor her "dancing." Never been willing to give her any flowers (though I always had to admit Trouble was a bop). Can barely hear her name without rolling my eyes. It's a whole thing. And then I read this.

[Anushani Alagarajah @Nachchellai]

From the Internation day of enforced disappearances protest - from Kallady Bridge to Gandhi Park.

#InternationalDayofDisappeared

[ACPR @AdayaalamCPR]

ACPR Statement: Impunity persists for Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka

https://t.co/3HBNSjmLze