#sampat pal devi

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I have learnt that our greatest strength is when we are united. United we are unbeatable.  - Sampat Pal Devi

She is an Indian social activist from Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, North India. She is founder of the Gulabi Gang, an Uttar Pradesh-based social organisation, works for women welfare and empowerment.

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All major parties are grappling with corruption charges. 

 - Sampat Pal Devi

She is a social activist from Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, North India. She is founder of the Gulabi Gang, an Uttar Pradesh-based social organisation which works for women welfare and empowerment.

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Getting justice is very hard, especially for women. Unlike criminal gangs, we do not rob or kill. We just try to help women who have no one else to turn to. - Sampat Pal Devi

She is an Indian social activist from Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, North India. She is founder of the Gulabi Gang, an Uttar Pradesh-based social organisation, works for women welfare and empowerment.

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I’m working on a short comic about the Gulabi Gang for my Eng/Myth class and I threw this together real quick because this woman and what she does is the absolute definition of badass.

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Walk Proudly and Carry a Big Lathi

Jessica Barker writes about brave Indian woman Sampat Pal Devi who started the Gulabi Gang, or the “Pink Gang,” whose mission involves the public shaming of molesters and abusers and the removal of corrupt public officials. 

When men won’t hear what women have to say, when they turn a blind eye to a rape every twenty minutes, when peace isn’t working anymore, sometimes the only way for progress is paved with force.

Read Walk Proudly and Carry a Big Lathi by Jessica Barker, with illustrations by Gabrielle Conlon. 

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Who is She? 9- Gulabi Gang 

The Gulabi Gang is a group of women in Uttar Pradesh India who are activists for women's and human rights. The group was started by a woman named Sampat Pal Devi who was fed up with being mistreated by her family after being married off as a teen. The gang started with her seeing a man beat his wife. When she tried to stop him, he hit her as well so she came back with a heavy wooden stick and many other women to hit back. News spread that she was willing to fight back and women around her way began to ask her for help. Slowly, case by case other women started to join her and they began to wear pink (Gulabi) sari's to signify their unity together. Sampat began helping women dealing with abuse, fights, and family disputes. Many things would go unchecked by local police but she has been proven to challenge her local police as well. And now because she fights back and teaches other women to fight the men give her more respect. Now the work of the Gulabi Gang extends to helping people get employment, fixing roads, and fighting for women's empowerment and education. The crew has earned several awards in India and internationally and continues to inspire, now through video stories done by International media. They walk through the streets chanting and are now thousands strong! Sources: http://www.gulabigangofficial.in/ (site) , "The Unstopabble Indians (video)

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