March 8, 2012: Next Immigration Court Date
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/09/march-8-2011-next-immigration-court.html
Questions Prepared By My Lawyer For Immigration Court Date Tomorrow
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/06/questions-prepared-by-my-lawyer-for.html
Immigration Court Date: June 6, 2011: Prepared Statement
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/05/immigration-court-date-june-6-2011.html
April 22 Immigration Court Date
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/09/march-8-2011-next-immigration-court.html
December 18 Court Date
http://democracyforum.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-18-court-date.html
Rudra 7.16.12
My Push For
Political Asylum
Paramendra
Bhagat
My lawyer
first made a case in 2008. And I have showed up for court date after court date
over the years. Volunteering for Barack Obama is what landed me into trouble –
I was inside for six months, they had me disappear the precise day Barack beat
Hillary, I guess they were attempting poetry, and I was let out a few days
after Barack beat McCain – and the guy is now on his way to reelection. See,
they knew me for who I was.
Barackface:
The First Time I Heard The Obama Name
http://democracyforum.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-time-i-heard-obama-name.html
I
was not living in the city at the time, I was about nine months away from
moving in. I was in town for a few days, staying with someone in Chinatown.
I
remember exactly where I was. I was at Grand Central near the newspaper store.
I overheard two women excitedly talk about the guy. I am not much of a TV guy,
so I had not watched any of the ongoing speeches at the Democratic Convention.
These two white women looked comfortable about how he looked, but they were
more excited about what he had said. Whoever this guy was, he was some sort of
an arrival. I sensed that before I learned his name, before I saw his face. I
immediately walked over to a newspaper stand. There he was pointing his finger
into the crowd like in a famous JFK picture. I dropped the rest of my plans for
the day and headed straight home. I looked up his speech online and I watched
it. I did what I do when I come across a really good music video. I watched it
again and again and again. The speech was nothing short of mesmerizing.
For
the next few days I went all over town taking pictures of anything and
everything. The person I was staying with worked at Goldman Sachs. A high
school classmate was at Citi. I did go to the many of the tourist spots, but
for me it was not about that. The entire city was one big tourist spot for me.
I
would take hundreds of pictures, come back home, download, go back out, take
hundreds more pictures. The MTA ran a major loss on my weekly metro pass for
those few days. The following evening I got told that a few police officers
showed up at the door, they were let in, they walked to the roof, then walked
back down and went away.
Soon
after Tom Ridge issued an alert. A few days later Bill Clinton went ahead and
had a heart attack. John Kerry is the first presidential candidate in history
not to have received a bounce from his convention.
I was Barack
Obama’s first full time volunteer in New York City. The day of the Democratic
primary in February 2008, the top Hillary event was at the Tonic in Times
Square, the top Barack event was at the Tonic in Little India.
Brooklyn
And Santogold/Santigold
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/02/brooklyn-and-santogoldsantigold.html
Barack
almost took Brooklyn during the February 2008 primary. Things were looking so
bad before the primary day, Congressman Weiner urged Hillary to make an
appearance in Brooklyn, and she did.
I
moved to New York City summer of 2005 and placed myself in the smack center of
the borough.
It is not love
for the country I grew up in. I don’t have one. It’s not Nepal (there was too
much prejudice against people like me in that country while I was growing up),
it’s not India (I have never lived there) – although I take plenty pride in my
heritage, it is not America. I don’t have a country. The Internet is my
country, the closest thing to a country that I have. But Nepal happens to be
the country I know better than any other with India and America close seconds.
And I intend to play as big a role as possible in its economic growth over
decades. Nepal is my political laboratory. And digital tools are enough, just
like they were enough for my work towards Nepal democracy. Nepal is not a
country I am trying to avoid. But is not safe for me to be there. That continues
to be the case.
Barackface:
A MLK Style Death Awaits Me In Nepal
http://democracyforum.blogspot.com/2008/11/mlk-style-death-awaits-me-in-nepal.html
There
is a concrete mathematical theory called the butterfly effect. A butterfly
flapping its wings in the Amazon forest could be the reason a cyclone hit
Bangladesh. What happened in Nepal in April 2006, January-February 2007, and
February 2008 were political cyclones. I was the butterfly flapping my wings in
New York City. What I did I could not have done from Kathmandu.
In
April 2006, over a period of 19 days, about eight million people out of the
country's 27 million came out into the streets to shut the country down
completely to force a dictator out. The Maoists wanted to take credit but they
had been pushing for an armed uprising all along. The seven democratic parties
kept pushing for a mass meeting here, a mass meeting there, a daylong shutdown
here, and a daylong shutdown there. I am the father of the concept of
continuous movement in the Nepalese context. I pushed the concept from the very
beginning. If there is a tortoise sitting on the fence, chances are it did not
randomly get there.
All
the political actors and parties that took credit for April 2006 were
fundamentally opposed to the Madhesi movement of January-February 2007 that was
a more intense movement than April 2006. February 2008 was the second chapter
of the Madhesi movement and the third chapter to the April 2006 revolution
itself. I was the one constant to all three.
When
Upendra Yadav, now leader of the largest Madhesi party and fourth largest party
overall after the April 10, 2008 elections to the constituent assembly in
Nepal, landed in Los Angeles in July 2007 for the annual conference of Nepalis
in America, his first words were "Where is Paramendra Bhagat?" They
took him to the hotel. He again asked, "Where is Paramendra Bhagat?"
They had to fly him over to NYC to meet me.
What has
changed in Nepal? Not much so far in terms of political volatility. The country
still does not have a constitution. The law and order situation is weak. The
hardliner Maoists recently broke away from the mother party vowing a
revolution. Many armed Madhesi groups are still at large.
Nepal Runs Out Constitution
Clock, Slips into Crisis (May 27, 2012)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303807404577430741243205950.html
Nepal dissolved its
four-year-old Constituent Assembly at midnight Sunday and set new elections
after political parties failed to agree on the model of federalism the country
should adopt in a new constitution.
India anxious about Nepal's
constitutional nail-biter
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-anxious-about-Nepals-constitutional-nail-biter/articleshow/13573531.cms
Nepal: Constituent Assembly
Dissolved After Epic Failure
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12257050-nepal-constituent-assembly-dissolved-after-epic-failure
BBC News: Nepal Maoists:
Faction breaks away from governing party
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18504403
A hardline faction within
Nepal's governing Maoist party has said it is breaking away to form a separate
party.
The leader of the new
grouping said the split was happening because the party's leadership had
"annihilated the achievements" of the 10-year civil war which ended
in 2006.
Split in Nepal Maoist party
will revive relations with CPI (Maoist)
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-02/delhi/32507320_1_maoist-army-nepal-s-maoists-indian-maoists
Split in Nepal Maoists
spells trouble for India
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-02/india/32507561_1_nepal-maoists-maoist-army-indian-maoists
