@turtelista
Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
#Iran: PEN International condemns all breaches of international law amid escalating hostilities across the Middle East and is gravely concerned by mounting civilian casualties in Iran and across the region.
Read our full statement ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/news/iran-pe...
แปะงานบรรยายออนไลน์ ที่ว่าจะเข้าไปฟังเหมือนกันฮะ
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Last year, GETSEA & friends brought you two webinars with faculty covering how to get into graduate studies programs. Next month, we are putting on a webinar with graduate students to provide insight into the same topic!
March 10th @ 6:00pm (PT)
tinyurl.com/4e9jtsed
On the subject of Letters from Political Prisoners: @turtelista.bsky.social recently both gave an interview to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights:
tlhr2014.com/archives/81975
and with @jsealab.bsky.social published translations of Arnon Nampa
seasia.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
Both are well worth a read
"Letters from other political prisoners were written in a way that suggested the struggle was over, but the letters from Anon and Get were different. They seemed to be giving advice to both those outside and inside the protests on how to prepare for a long struggle" :- @turtelista.bsky.social
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มองประวัติศาสตร์ไทยผ่านชีวิต เลือดเนื้อ และความเจ็บปวดของนักโทษการเมือง : สนทนากับ ไทเรล ฮาเบอร์คอร์น
tlhr2014.com/archives/81975
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
New translation from the Article 112 Project and @jsealab.bsky.social at UW-Madison!
** Letters from Prison: Year 2 (Nos. 140-234, 1 October 2024-26 September 2025), by Arnon Nampa (อานนท์ นำภา) **
Read/Download: bit.ly/467TWxu
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Translating these letters from prison written by Arnon Nampa was challenging and difficult, and also joyful. There is a theory of struggle and transformation between and within the lines.
** งานแปลใหม่ๆ จาก @jsealab.bsky.social **
จดหมายทั้ง 95 ฉบับ ที่ ทนาย อานนท์ นำภา เขียนหลังลูกกรงในปีที่สองของการถูกจองจำในคดีมาตรา 112 ที่โดนจากการเคลื่อนไหวทางสังคมและการเมือง การเรียกร้องประชาธิปไตย และกล้าฝันถึงความยุติธรรม
อ่านฉบับแปลภาษาอังกฤษตามลิงค์นี้: bit.ly/467TWxu
AOC for President!
This is an excellent idea, @ransone.bsky.social !
It will be a huge injustice if Pimsiri Petchnamrob is convicted for Lèse-majesté this week. Her speech did not insult the king of Thailand, she merely quoted the UN's special rapporteur that said 112 was being used as a tool of suppression. They didn't charge the UN rapporteur over it.
A book I've contributed to with a chapter on the Thai state's transnational repression is now out, open access. Read about the long reach of strongmen regimes to silence exiled critics and to control the political narratives at home and abroad.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
New free, online mini-course from @getsea.bsky.social on "Mobility and Circulation Across Southeast Asia." Details and application below --
#Myanmar: For 5 years, the military has attempted to silence a nation through terror, censorship, and brutality, yet it has failed to extinguish the voices of those resisting its rule. This anniversary must serve as a moment of renewed international resolve. www.pen-international.org/news/myanmar...
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
Golden temple rooftops in a Southeast Asian cityscape with a call for Gosling-Lim postdoctoral fellowship applications due February 2, 2026.
Southeast Asian scholars have one week left to apply for the 2026-27 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship—submit all materials by February 2 for this opportunity.
https://bit.ly/AASGL
New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow.
#ReadUP @asianstudies.org
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
“When you have absolute or runaway impunity, [...] when you’ve got law enforcement agencies working without accountability, the public have to almost step in to fill that gap.” Index's @nikwilliams.bsky.social in @notus.com following the murder of #AlexPretti ⬇️
www.notus.org/immigration/...
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
