Suchitra Vijayan
Writer at Freelance
Founder and The Executive Director at The Polis Project
I write books. Founder @project_polis; Teach @NYUgallatin & @columbia. Barrister. Chair, International Human Rights Committee, New York City Bar
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3 days ago |
thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan
On June 1, 2025, the Madleen departed from Catania, Sicily. Its destination: Gaza. Named after Gaza’s first fisherwoman, the vessel carries urgent supplies—flour, baby formula, water desalination kits, children’s prosthetics, and sanitary products—that have become contraband under siege. The Polis Project is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 month ago |
thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan
On April 3, 2025, a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations—including 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media—issued an open letter to the international community. In clear, urgent language, it warned of an escalating campaign by the Israeli government to suppress dissent, dismantle civil society, and insulate itself from legal scrutiny.
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1 month ago |
thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan
"Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn't the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away."— Mahmoud Khalil, letter from ICE detention, March 2025"They really brutalized me."— Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, recalling his gagging and beating in a U.S. courtroom, 1969The mask is off.
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2 months ago |
thepolisprojectinc.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan
On April 7, 2025, the United States Supreme Court quietly authorized what can only be called a state-sanctioned act of disappearance. In a four-paragraph, unsigned per curiam opinion, the Court vacated two emergency restraining orders that had temporarily halted the Trump administration’s mass deportation of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This ruling—in Trump v.
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2 months ago |
mediapodcast.substack.com | Suchitra Vijayan
Senator Cory Booker spoke for over 24 hours straight — a historic marathon of words that many media outlets immediately heralded as a sign of political revival, resistance, and moral courage. “Finally, some fire,” said The New York Times. “A stunt that worked,” said Bloomberg. Pundits praised his energy, commitment, stamina and “moxie”. But we’re not clapping. It's Not You, It's The Media is a reader-supported publication.
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