We'll be live tweeting here from this historic event. #BlackDalitSolidarity #SouthAsians4BlackLives https://twitter.com/EqualityLabs/status/1276682461003554816

Right now, @CornelWest speaking to over 1.5 of you watching about how we can have courage and revolutionary love in the face of white supremacy. White supremacy seeks to divide us, he says.

"Now more and more people are seeing that even the Black neoliberal president could not speak to the issues of poverty, of imperialism, of class subordination." - @CornelWest

There are two Indias, says Chandrashekhar Azad. One for upper caste people, and one for Dalit Bahujan people.

"Only 26% of all crimes against Dalit Bahujan people are registered. Since this government has come on board, only 16%. The emergency is graver and graver now. We [Dalit people] face mob lynchings, discrimination - caste is a curse that Dalit Bahujan has to go through every day."

"The fascist sections of our society do not believe in our rights -- it makes me want to cry, the level of oppression we all face, but the dedication of our life is to liberate all oppressed people." - @bhimarmychief Chandrashekhar Azad

Historic: @BhimArmyChief says he believes in the work of the Black Panther Party, and the slogan "all power to all the people." #BlackDalitSolidarity #SouthAsians4BlackLives

Chandrashekhar Azad is describing his own experience of police brutality and prisons, because the #abolitionist movement is international in scope. The leader himself was arrested for trying to protect Dalit Bahujan people from being killed as a result of casteist violence.

Now, Tanzeela Qambrani, the first Afro-Pakistani woman to serve in Pakistani politics, says, "the case of the Sheedis is like leaves separated from the tree..." She says although Sheedi was a word meant to be an insult, like "slave," she insisted on it being attached to her name.

Tanzeela says, "We love our thick lips, our extra curly hair...we deserve rights no matter how we look."

"I am a fourth generation African South Asian living in Pakistan...." - Tanzeela Qambrani, #southasians4blacklives #blackdalitsolidarity

"People left the political party ....because I was Sheedi and a woman...what does it mean for a woman of African descent to get ahead in Pakistan? My ideas that I was living in a liberal society were shattered." - Tanzeela Qambrani

"If there is a robbery, if there is an inter-caste conflict, the assumption is that 50% blame must be with the Sheedi person." -- Assumed criminality and anti-Blackness are global conditions.

Tanzeela: Sheedi children are discouraged from schooling because they're assumed criminals. Sheedi men leave school because of the indignity, and Sheedi women get ahead, learn more. But then Sheedi men won't marry Sheedi women because they don't want Black children.

Tanzeela makes an insightful note that her cause, and the cause of all Sheedi people is helped by the fact that Pakistan still has a free press -- compared to the Indian media, which Azaad recognized as corrupt.

Momentous. Tanzeela describes the moment where a Pakistani governor held up a photo of George Floyd in parliament and said, "This is the world's biggest murder."

#southasians4blacklives #blackdalitsolidarity

"We've been learning so much from Black Lives Matter, and we've been building our campaign on them. We are together in this struggle." - @BhimArmyChief #blackdalitsolidarity

"There are Sheedi people in India as well, in Gujarat, in South."

"Our hearts beat for each other. I promise today to Dr. Cornel West and Tanzeela Qambrani to fight as hard as I can against the rising tide of fascism."

"For liberation, two things are necessary: education and opportunity that we have been denied. We want to be taught how to fish, how to take care of ourselves. The rest we will do." Tanzeela with the final word.