#farmer's protest

[murghmalaitikka]

Farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ for MSP Law Pushes Ahead; Reports of Chaos, Teargas at Shambhu Border | NewsClick

Delhi Police has imposed Section 144 throughout the city for 30 days, erected barricades and iron spikes on the borders to prevent the farme

"After the crucial second round of talks with the government failed to make any headway, the protesting farmers carried on with their Delhi Chalo march on Tuesday. There were reports of chaos on the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border as the Haryana police fired teargas shells as farmers tried to break the erected barricades. Drones have been deployed to keep track of farmers’ movements, most of whom are on tractors.

Delhi has imposed Section 144 throughout the city for 30 days, erected barricades and iron spikes on the borders to prevent the farmers from entering the Capital.

Internet and bulk SMS services were suspended for Tuesday in seven districts of Haryana- Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa. Several farmer leaders’ social media accounts were also reportedly blocked the previous day.

The farmers’ protest, being led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, has been demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, as promised by the BJP-led government at the Centre, among other demands like loan waiver and implementation of the MS Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations. The farmers participating in the protest are mainly from Punjab and Haryana."

[ginazmemeoir]

Ok so I come bearing bad news.

The farmers protest, now raging on for 10 months, was heading to protest in Karnal in opposition to a BJP meet there. On the way, they were mercilessly beaten by the Haryana Police. For those of you who don't know, Haryana is a BJP state. For those of you who still don't know, BJP had passed capitalistic, disgustingly colonial-era-resembling laws last year in November, which snatches power and financial autonomy from the farmer and instead serves it on a platter to the corporate sector. 42.6% of all Indians, or approximately 554 million Indians, are working in agriculture. Farmers all over India, though it is especially farmers from North India and Punjab who're getting coverage (Northern Plains are often called the "Granary of India" and have high population density), have been protesting against the govt and it's laws for the past ten months. They've endured poisonous propaganda, police brutality, flooded roads, scorching summers, harsh winters, even suicides, in these past ten months. And yet the BJP refuses to back down and instead choses violence.

This is sickening. This is setting my blood on fire. This makes me want to just shoot all BJP members in the head.

The Brits beat up our farmers and our patriots mercilessly when they protested. The BJP also beats up our farmers and our patriots when they protest.

This is not the first instance of police brutality in India. The cases are increasing at a frightening rate since the past few years, especially under the second term of the fascist BJP. The CAA protests, the Hathras protests and the farmer protests, to name a few, are instances wherein the police has blatantly shown that they live to lick the ass of the BJP.

If you're staying silent on the farmer's protests. If you're staying silent on police brutality in India. If you're staying silent on the BJP's atrocities. If you're "neutral" or "support Modi but not the BJP" or whatever half cooked bullshit lie you have, fuck you and please don't ever talk to me again.

Just. Fuck it all.

[headheartbellarke]

you know, regarding the crap happening in my country, india - what shocks me the most is the silence. people who were protesting against tr*mp a couple of months ago, people who were yelling ‘democracy is back!’ when biden won, people who protested against the hathras rape case, etc. are silent now.

people, and even my friends, who call themselves activists, are silent. they say that they’re too afraid of what people are gonna say.

but you know what? there are people right now, in delhi, who doubt whether they’re gonna make it through the night, and yet i don’t see an ounce of fear on their faces. 

there are people DYING, people being CRUSHED under the boots of a fascist government - a government arresting activists, protestors, blocking internet from the CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY, violating not one BUT SEVEN HUMAN RIGHTS, KILLING innocent people and so much more shit... but y’all are silent. y’all are afraid of what people are gonna say, and that is so SELFISH. to care more about your reputation than about other people’s lives, their rights.

and don’t even get me started on the so called “activist” celebrities in our country. there is something seriously wrong with y’all.

not much is being asked of you - spreading awareness is enough. there are people that i know, my friends, neighbors - that are unaware of what is happening in OUR country, and what do you expect, really, considering the media blockade, and the arrest of anyone who dares utter a word against our government. this is fascism, PURE FASCISM, and in the country that was said to be the strongest democracy in the world.

shameful.

[theburialofstrawberries]

Mandeep Punia's dispatch from Tihar: Jailed farmers remain steadfast, defiant

The farmers I met wanted me to get out and assure their families that they were undeterred. Their songs, of courage and protest, are still r

Mandeep Punia was recently arrested by police (their taunts as they beat him up in custody and knowingly classified him as a protestor, despite his journalist credentials, included, "You want to report, is it? Keep reporting, keep reporting …") for his reporting on the farmer's protests. He continued his journalist's beat from Tihar jail, speaking with arrested farmers, writing notes with a pen on his arms and legs. Bizzarely the names of all the farmers he spoke with started with the letters J, K, L, M and N -- probably more evidence of the entirely arbitrary nature of the police crackdown

[reslutcitate]

If anyone is bored or in need of some sardonic side reading please look up what Rihanna has done to right-wing indian media and webizens and feel free to reach me for a collective LOL

[theburialofstrawberries]

between rakesh tikait of muzaffarnagar riots fame (read caravan's reporting on his extremist hindutvadi past here) being vaulted to the face of the farmer's protest and new investigations into the use of blood mica and child labour by rihanna's Fenty (long story short great yes!! more scrutiny of mica use; but also mica is used sparingly in cosmetics and much more heavily in the cement, construction, and automobile industries, all owned by the very conglomerates that fund the BJP and have the most to gain by the farm bills; there will be no calls to investigate these companies) there is a LOT GOING ON RIGHT NOW

[exploring-sars-cov-2]

James Melville 🚜 on Twitter

“Netherlands 🇳🇱 Truckstar Festival, Assen A solidarity ring of lights for the Dutch Farmers. #NoFarmsNoFood #NoFarmersNoFood https://t.co/LHTQmBWbSc”

Christmas in August

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