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Thread #ChipkoMovement 1/n: The movement began as a protest by both men and women of Reni and Lata village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand asking for their rights over lands and forest resources, including rights to be the labour that harvests the timber.
#ChipkoMovement 2/n: It was a movement to control land, forest and labour resources. It was later given this 'save the environment' hue to suit other interests and narratives. In fact one of its key leaders in the Chamoli hills came from the and was not of the Gandhian views.
#ChipkoMovement 3/n: Other leaders and interests from middle hills got involved much later to stretch the movement into something else. This included timber merchants that had lost timber harvest contracts.
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