For Yara, Sanaa and All Your Comrades
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 | Tags: 16 days, Activism, Egypt, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, in solidarity, Irom, no protest law, Sallam, Satchidanandan, Seif, Sharmila, Sherman, ZandiPosted in Blog | 0 Comment(s)
More than a year ago I heard one of India’s most powerful activist poets, K Satchidanandan, recite a poem he had written for Indian activist Irom Sharmila. Sharmila has been on hunger strike for the last fourteen years in protest against the brutal Armed Forces Special Powers Laws. Similar to you -and others like you, in Palestine, […]