BREAKING: WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE LARGEST PEACEFUL PROTEST IN HISTORY HAPPENING IN INDIA RIGHT NOW
THE LARGEST peaceful protest in the history of humanity took place on November 26, 2020 where a staggering 250,000,000 protestors stood together in a pan-India workers strike. Why? The protests are against the now nefarious “3 Farm Bills”, illegally passed, without debate, during India’s brutal lockdown. Threatening food sovereignty, the livelihood of farmers, and accelerating the globalist corporate takeover of food supply – Human Rights and Environmental Activist, MEDHA PATKAR, of the National Alliance of Peoples Movements, says the 3 Farm Bills are “an absolute violation of the Indian constitutional framework”.
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The protests have since proliferated into the BIGGEST peoples’ uprising ever seen on our planet. All of India stands in solidarity with the Farmers Protests, with over 600+ Farmers and Workers Unions declaring solidarity with the “Kisan Andolan” (Farmers Movement). Massive ‘insta-city’ encampments have formed at the Singhu and Tikri borders, the two big protest sites, blocking the main highways into the capital city of Delhi – with an estimated 300,000 farmers and protesters currently at the front lines, braving sub-zero freezing winter. And it’s growing. Breaking through police barricades, withstanding water canons, tear gas and the violence of the Modi government’s draconian response, thousands more, each day, from all over India, march towards the capital to join the “Ekta Kisan Morcha” (United Farmers Uprising/March). Across six major talks between the Union Leaders and the Modi government so far, the Farmers have refused the Modi government’s offers for compromise – a seventh meeting/talk has now been called for the 29th of December, 2020. The Protestors demand to the Modi government is to repeal the 3 Farm Bills and to release all political prisoners, two non-negotiable terms in a list of others, before any further dialogue or talks with the Modi government can be possible.
Farmers statements:
“Kheti hamari Sanksriti hai” (Farming is our culture/heritage)
“Hum maangne nahi aye hain, hum apnø haq lene aye hain” (We have not come to beg, we have come to demand our rights)
INDIA IS NOW ONE MONTH INTO THE UNPRECEDENTED UPRISING OF THE FARMERS PROTESTS; IT IS ESTIMATED OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE, INDIA WIDE, ARE NOW ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN PROTESTS AGAINST THE MODI GOVERNMENT.
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Authors, writers and political commentators, AMANDEEP SANDHU and DEVDAN CHAUDHURI from India, join UK activist PIERS CORBYN, along with producers and contributors from the UK, US and India, to bring you news of the most beautiful and important fight for our food sovereignty in the great, ongoing Farmers Protests of India. Co-founder of the TROLLEY TIMES (a newspaper to counter the “godi media” disinformation campaign mounted by the national media), DR NAVKIRAN NATT, a young activist, sends us a video journal from inside the encampment at the Tikri Border protest site.