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29 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
twitter is deplatforming our citizen journalists & activists reporting from protest grounds. @Twitter took 4 years to suspend a murderous white supremacist president...they take minutes to block sikhs sharing some of the only reliable info coming out of india. #FarmersProtest
silencing of citizen journalists and news coverage against an authoritarian government is criminal. @Twitter @jack @misskaul @TwitterSupport suspending the accounts of vital journalists and activists reporting from the ground could mean LIFE or DEATH for my people
DO BETTER.
who's paying you? ambani? modi? rss? cause we know you go where the $$$ goes.......
what will it take for you to fix up? are you confused? do you need sikhs to educate you? i got time.

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31 Jan
on january 12—haryana police abducted nodeep kaur from her tent at singhu protest. since then she has been beaten & sexually assaulted while under police custody.

nodeep is 23 yold punjabi dalit woman & trade union activist who has been bravely speaking up about the protests.
“we come from a village to earn, we are dalit, we are women. i am a student. there is a class difference, even the police attack a labourer like tyrants. there is a class issue.”

- nodeep’s sister rajveer kaur

sabrangindia.in/article/why-wa…
nodeep’s case is emblematic of both the treatment of dalit activists and the custodial violence that’s taken place against punjabi women by indian security forces ranging from the 1980s to now.

india commonly uses police abduction to silence activism and protest.
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30 Jan
my friends: i've spoken to protestors on the ground & they ask us to keep amplifying their voices:
1. they require human rights orgs like @PENamerica to look into abuses against journalists. @CPJAsia is are already on it

#MandeepPunia #DharmenderSingh #farmersprotest
2. continue putting pressure on international media to do their job thoroughly. editorial boards at @washingtonpost @nytimes remain silent as the indian gov’t cracks down on journalists and peaceful protestors with torture and violence. modi’s fascist government must be exposed
3. we will not tolerate the attempted censorship of journalists. when press freedom is attacked- democracy dies. for every journalist that’s being tortured beat and illegally arrested we will rise up in their place.
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30 Jan
indian police are kidnapping journalists. we’re incredibly worried about the safety of reporters incld. many citizen-journalists on the ground.

attn: @pressfreedom

@Twitter @TwitterSupport @misskaul stop suspending the accounts of journalists because of government pressure!
#ReleaseMandeepPunia !!! everyone amplify.

this is why it’s imperative for @Twitter to stop the silencing of reporting and activists on the ground. without their work these atrocities would be happening without anyone knowing.
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29 Jan
international media-especially @nytimes recent problematic coverage of the #farmersprotest has provided india the global cover it needs to brutalize citizens. these misinformed articles enable hindutva mobs to riot in a country w a terrible history of state-sponsored violence
intl media: you were silent last year when bjp leaders incited violence and sent mobs to kill people in delhi. you’re silent again as the same scenes are happening once more..

there are so many brilliant people who work at intl media outlets. i admire so many of you. yet your silence while your employers resort to whitewashing the modi govt is heartbreaking. please ask why none of the following is being covered. if possible—push for better:
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28 Dec 20
when much of india’s media failed to report on the current #FarmersProtest with truth and nuance protesters took matters into their own hands by launching the @TimesTrolley : a newspaper for and by protesters
the @TimesTrolley exists as a grassroots people-led effort that seeks to capture the heartbeat of the protests. it is a welcome and inspiring antidote to india’s notoriously bigotted media machine - that’s long been a cheerleader for nationalism. majoritarianism and mob violence.
thank you to the @TimesTrolley for including a piece of my work in this week’s edition (shoutouts to @yourstruli_hf for translating it into punjabi). this edition of the paper was launched by women protesters with a special focus on women’s involvement.
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