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2 Feb, 9 tweets, 3 min read
farmers and farm workers started the most powerful revolution to ever challenge modi’s fascist government. our people started protesting in punjab as early as july 2020. they marched to delhi november 27 and have been sleeping on the streets since. #farmersprotest
punjab. haryana. up. rajasthan. and beyond. the people are united across religion and geography. over a million on the protest grounds ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 brave journalists & photographers showing india's human rights abuses to the world. .
our people singing songs of freedom. our people feeding the masses. our people dying. activists abducted. journalists kidnapped. they try to divide us and defame our heroes. our sister #NodeepKaur is being tortured and sexually assaulted by indian police.
but truth will always prevail. all of you. all of us. the diaspora marched and continues to give its heart out. everyone poured love and energy into this movement online.
the modi government thought they almost shut the movement down after Jan 26th.....oh HUNNNNNYYyy we the children of guru gobind singh……we don't play 👀

protestors mobilized. you all kept applying pressure online.
months of energy and support amounted to a mass outpouring of support today. yesterday global press and advocacy orgs. today @rihanna and the wonderful climate activists all demanding that the world pay attention to what’s happening in india.
onward. louder. stronger my friends. it’s working. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 #farmersprotest
p.s.........i can hear modi whining and throwing a temper tantrum rn 😂😂😂 music to my ears
shoutouts to EVERYONE & EVERY movement bravely resisting this regime. kashmiris who have suffered endlessly. shaheen bhag protestors. the students. activists. jailed journalists. women. dissent matters against authoritarians. & that's what's happening right now #FarmersProtest

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5 Feb
many have asked what more they can do for the #farmersprotest. we’ve been told by human rights orgs that raising awareness on social media is most effective in this situation. it is pertinent that we keep bringing international attention to this!!!!!
posting on socials may feel small but it IS action. doesn’t matter if you have 10 followers or 10,000- EVERY voice makes a difference. don't diminish the power of awareness. speak loudly and proudly my friends. ✊🏽 we’re on the right side of history.
let’s also keep focused: modi’s 3 farm bills will corporatize agriculture and millions will lose their livelihoods. months ago punjabis marched to delhi in what has now become the largest protest in the world. across india ppl organized the biggest strike in human history.
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4 Feb
we’re trying but you keep silencing us #FarmersProtest
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2 Feb
someone please get her a siropa 🙌🏽
WE LOVE YOU RIH ♥️
your voice will help save lives of protesters on the ground #FarmersProtest
this is the biggest protest in the world. millions are protesting a fascist govt’s corporate takeover.
protesters are facing brutal human rights abuses and journalists are being abducted. women are being sexually assaulted by police and mobs.
while bollywood celebrities and most diasporic south asians with platforms continues to be silent @rihanna shows the world once again: what true leadership looks like. rihanna be doing more for human rights than entire governments 😭😭😭
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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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