farm laws to be repealed!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 i think of the grandparents who froze to death. the journalists abducted. the farmers trampled to death. the activists jailed.

security forces kill civilians and then arrest their family members for asking for their bodies…

#kashmir

https://twitter.com/qazizaid89/status/1461032336972148737

"the families of at least three of those killed and witnesses to the killings rejected the police claims and alleged the two civilians were used as 'human shields' during the gun battle."

bit.ly/3DuWGV2

india is targeting young women to silence dissent & muzzle free speech. 21yo climate activist #DishaRavi was arrested for tweeting a benign google doc about the #farmersprotest. bjp ministers have called for her “eradication” & their online army "jokes" about her custodial rape 24yo #NodeepKaur a dalit labour activist supporting the #farmersprotest is being tortured & assaulted in police custody since jan 12. there are so many other women swallowed by india’s vindictive legal system whose names we don't know

https://twitter.com/rupikaur_/status/1355935600164016129

disha ravi, a 21-year-old climate activist, has been arrested by delhi police for sharing a toolkit @GretaThunberg posted in support of the #farmersprotest.

disha’s arrest is alarming and the world needs to pay attention. #freedisharavi

scroll.in/latest/986851/… disha ravi co-founded @FFFIndia campaign. she & her peers across the world are the courageous & brilliant young activists who’ve led the global movement for climate justice in recent years.

on jan 29 - freelance journalist @mandeeppunia1 discovers that police helped bjp mobs attack peaceful protesters at singhu border. these mobs pelted stones and petrol bombs into the protest site while attempting to target the tents of female farmers. instagram.com/tv/CLE9HzJBYpb/ after discovering the police’s complicity in supporting mob violence @mandeeppunia1 records a video of his investigation and posts it on facebook. police get word of his reporting and target him.

happy birthday nodeep kaur ♥️ it breaks my heart that you were illegally detained on january 12 and have since been held without any due process. you’re spending your birthday inside a jail cell. your crime? that you had the bravery to fight against exploitation in a country that criminalizes dissent. you fought for the rights of labourers. it breaks my heart to think of the torture and sexual abuse you are enduring in police custody.

tomorrow is nodeep’s birthday. let’s shake the world for her ♥️ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽#ReleaseNodeepKaur

https://twitter.com/rajveer88724/status/1359550087223857159

the three FIRs filed against nodeep are baseless. she’s been targeted for successfully mobilizing workers and labourers in fighting against exploitation and supporting the #farmersprotest

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.

we’re trying but you keep silencing us #FarmersProtest

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1271096187559567360

https://twitter.com/rupikaur_/status/1357199302322499584

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. .

someone please get her a siropa 🙌🏽
WE LOVE YOU RIH ♥️
your voice will help save lives of protesters on the ground #FarmersProtest

https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/1356625889602199552

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.

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…

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

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!

https://twitter.com/punyaab/status/1355541519520866307

#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.

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.

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..

https://twitter.com/WorldSikhOrg/status/1355223817405292547

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.