farm laws to be repealed!
before anything else, i am thinking of the 700 plus farmers and workers who died protesting over the past year. lives deemed worthless to this regime.
#FarmersProtest
#KisanMajdoorEktaZindabaad
before anything else, i am thinking of the 700 plus farmers and workers who died protesting over the past year. lives deemed worthless to this regime.
#FarmersProtest
#KisanMajdoorEktaZindabaad
i think of the grandparents who froze to death. the journalists abducted. the farmers trampled to death. the activists jailed.
it’s almost a year since farmers from punjab began a long march to delhi in opposition to the modi regime’s corporate monopolization of agriculture. in the year since, we saw the resilience of the farmers and the oppression of the state.
today, on guru nanak’s gurpurab, i think of the shaheeds who inspired the grandparents to march. the grandmothers who recalled the sahabzaday. the activists who spoke of the zafarnama. the tractors who evoked baba baghel singh.
(pc: manveertasveeran ig)
(pc: manveertasveeran ig)
i also think of the normalization of draconian laws like uapa, the continued illegal jailing of our brothers & sisters like jagtar singh jaggi #freejagginow. i think of their media who took every moment to gleefully defame our shaheeds. our movements. our grandparents & our kids.
as the world witnessed the brutality of the government firsthand, i thought of our parents. people made refugees by a brutality that’s not new but has always existed. i think of the @ensaaf page, each day of our calendar a remembrance of another death caused by an oppressor.
we don’t bow down to an oppressive state. and a return to a flawed previous status quo cannot be all. in marking the resilience of our farmers, i think of the solidarity i witnessed in the diaspora and back home. the brilliance of our youth.
those that took it upon themselves to fight for the #farmersprotest any which way they could. the rallies that spanned bridges the world over.
every institution of ours—from our langars to our gurdwaras that fed and fueled a movement. i’m inspired by the art that came. the solidary that grew. and the movements that are yet to come.
our battles continue. kisaan majdoor ekta zindabaad.
for tonight,
bole so nihal,
sat shri akal.
for tonight,
bole so nihal,
sat shri akal.
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