An Island with No Beaches - Teachout on the proposed mining investments in Sri Lanka
Galle Face Green (near Barracuda)
June 17th - 8.30 AM
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
By not being a signatory to this letter, Sri Lanka has decided to keep quiet about Israel's decision to expand its illegal settlements and annexation of Palestine land in the West Bank. @anuradisanayake @Dr_HariniA I didn't vote for NPP to do nothing about people's rights violations within and outside Sri Lanka. Please add our country's name to this list.
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
44 years ago the Jaffna Library was burned by mobs backed by state forces. Over 97,000 Tamil texts destroyed in this attack on Tamil identity. J.R. Jayewardene was president. Premadasa was PM. Cyril Mathew & Gamini Dissanayake were in power. #JaffnaLibrary #SriLanka #Impunity
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
She just stood there.
Her gaze unflinching. Steady.
Her eyes as they looked straight into the camera.
Seared my soul.
She didn’t say a word.
Yet, her screams were deafening.
Stay.
Don’t leave us.
#May18
#MullivaikkalRemembrance
#Genocide
- tinyurl.com/jbfrdzxm
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
These are my children. My heart.
Until they came into my life, I didn’t understand what real, unconditional love truly meant. From that moment on, every choice, every breath, every dream was shaped by them.
Now imagine someone whom you’ve never met believing they have a divine right to murder them just like that. Now multiply that horror by 15,000.
15,000 CHILDREN.. gone. Not because of anything they did, but because someone else decided their existence was inconvenient to a myth, wrapped in religious justification.
And now imagine people who call themselves moral, even CHRISTIAN cheering this on. Evangelicals, in particular, defending the slaughter of children in the name of a “divine right.”
Is that what it means to be good? To be godly? To be human?
You don’t have to be a parent to know that this is wrong. You just have to have a conscience. These were children, just like mine who wanted to live, laugh, and grow and now they can’t because the world let “divine right” become a license to murder innocents.
I feel nothing but shame that this is happening in my lifetime and even deeper shame that there are men and women, so called leaders, who twist themselves into knots trying to justify it as anything other than what it plainly is: genocide.
Just a mountain of silence and the graves of children 15,000 dead children...and counting.
This is not an invitation to debate. It’s just grief after months and months of seeing dead children on my timeline.
#ChildrenofGaza
#GenocideinGaza
#SriLanka
16 Seats for the People's Struggle Alliance. Thank you for trusting us. Thank you for voting for us ❤️✊
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- with regard to the DDR which affected EPF funds NPP was against it before and even went to courts - now they are going ahead with what the Previous Ranil Rajapaksa government did anyway !
- with regard to the DSA with the IMF they were against it before and said would ..
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
3 elections later, we are now told with the same arrogance to register again in May and they will be added in time for the provincial council election. The govt can revoke our basic rights with efficient ease, but it is a tooth and nail fight to regain it.
RT @chami9539: Displaced from their ancestral lands for decades, the people of Thaayiddi still fight for justice.
We can never truly empat…
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Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
“It was a pure moment of sovereignty. No matter what people say about the Aragalaya, I don’t think you can take that moment away,” Swasthika Arulingam of the People’s Struggle Alliance, speaks to Newswire on criticisms of the Aragalaya movement and her priorities if elected to Parliament.
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Was informed by a source there that police presence in "Synagogue" & STF presence on main road was to ensure no attacks on Isarelis by those who maybe hostile towards them due to situation in Palestine. More photos (all on 16-17Oct)
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
Cross party women politicians in #SriLanka urge male political party leaders to stand by their female candidates in #SriLankaElections against ‘already started online harassment’ without leaving the women themselves to face such harassment on their own.
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
SRI LANKA DECIDES - Making The Right Choice!
Swasthika Arulingam on Face To Face.
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#News1st #NewsFirst #NewsFirstEnglish #lka #SriLanka #local #colombo #FaceToFace #Election2024 #Democracy #Tamil
@swasarul
Spoke about the elections and the People's Struggle Alliance at @NewsfirstSL Fact to Face.
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Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
The last remaining 4 students of Horiwila Rohana school have been admitted to Horiwila Kashyapa school after Rohana school was closed down. The principle of the nearby Tamil medium school is requesting bicycles to help these children commute to the new school 1/
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
A uni student makes a powerful speech to the police at a recent @IUSFSL protest.
"We can't bear this anymore. We can't work part-time, study & do our degree at the same time. We don't get our monthly Mahapola allowance. We barely have 2 meals a day." - 1 -
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
PSA to all Twitter Ranilists, Alibaiyyas, constitutional experts & the likes : Not all those who criticize the government, your president-with-no-mandate or support the class struggle belongs to JVP/FSP or some other political party. Also, Ranil is Rajapaksha 🤘🏾
PC : Sanka M
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
Even 25 years ago when I was in uni in SL, this kind of thing was unthinkable. We see the state trying to go this way in the North, attacking Hindu worshippers. We do not want to become like India.
More than a dozen men have attacked international students who were performing Ramadan prayers at their university accommodation in India's Gujarat state, with police saying they are investigating the incident ⤵️
Read more: aje.io/e8d4es
Swasthika Arulingam retweeted
The proposed National Education Policy Framework represents @RW_UNP's second attempt to dismantle the #FreeEducation system that has existed in this country for almost 80 years (the first attempt was made in 1981 under JRJ).
As we foresee, @IMFNews-backed RW government is not only proposing cuts✂️ to university and vocational education but also to primary and secondary education using this framework.
These cuts will primarily impact rural and underprivileged schools🏫, where the majority of children from low-income families and marginalized communities attend.
This discussion, organized by the @IUSFSL on the proposed NEPF, was held yesterday at the public library.
It's simply heartwarming to see those "Right-to-Education Liberals", usually so vocal against IUSF's campaign against privatizing university education, suddenly finding themselves at a loss for words when it comes to defending the rights of the less fortunate.
After all, who needs accessible education when we can keep it a privileged club for the elite?
#lka #SriLanka #EducationForAll #EducationMatters #EducationCrisis
