Schools of thought sprout at farm protest sites Lecture series, publications and libraries mark the intellectual resistance against the new farm laws
The serpentine blockade of NH44 by farmers at Dakha Singhu on Delhi’s border with Haryana has been the cynosure of the movement against the new farm laws.
However, the blockade of NH9 at Tikri Kalan further southwest on the border has spurred an intellectual resistance to the new laws with the first library and newspaper of the movement emerging from here.
Organisers have now started a lecture series too, and they have inspired several such publications and libraries across protest sites of farmers.
The Birth of a Newspaper At Singhu Border To counter main media biased propaganda
With the second edition of Trolley times already out in print, it has established itself as an effective tool to achieve self reliance in documenting stories and voices from the protest site. The masthead of the second edition has included increased hindi representation. This is done to defy the false narrative propagated by biased media of terming the movement as solely of Punjabi farmers.
“This is an united movement of farmers of India. Different protest sites at five borders of Delhi are not isolated in any way”, explained one of the members of Trolley Times.
Content of farmers’ newsletter causes friction
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Editors say they want to assist movement; farmer leaders to discuss issue today
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Editors say they want to assist movement; farmer leaders to discuss issue today
Trolley Times, a newsletter which was published with much fanfare on Saturday as ‘farmers’ own newspaper’ has come into the limelight after the farmer leaders said that they are deliberating on whether they align with the content published in the bi-weekly newsletter.
Avtar Singh Mehma, State Press Secretary of Krantikari Kisan Union Punjab, said there is a meeting scheduled on Tuesday to discuss the matter. “We don’t know what the paper is all about. We have not read it and we don’t know who is publishing it. We are yet to take a decision on whether we are aligned with them or not,” said Mr. Mehma.