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Sputnik International
These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action From India and Palestine to Canada, these ongoing campaigns demonstrate how ordinary people are mobilizing for worker s rights and an end to war.
In today’s media world especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters. Overall, it presents a dismal view of our fellow citizens not to mention a disempowering one. But here are six of the many stories of ongoing nonviolent campaigns for change in countries across the world. They show the agency and power of ordinary people working for justice, rights, peace and dignity. They show that people don’t have to hold wealth, weapons or traditional power to be powerful. Instead, they need community, connection and some tools of nonviolent action.
Natasha Badhwar
My family and I spent the last two weeks travelling through Punjab to Dharamkot in Himachal and back home to a Delhi suburb. As we drove away from the capital city, we were cheered by the sight of tractors and cars with banners and flags of farmers’ unions going towards Delhi. On our way back, we found ourselves joining the cavalcades arriving at the protest sites on Delhi’s borders for the Tractor Parade on Republic Day. On the night of January 25, the traffic on the highway had swelled so much that we were unable to find a way to enter the city. We had become one with the farmers.
FEMALE farmers staged thousands-strong rallies in many Indian states on Monday calling for the repeal of pro-corporate agricultural laws.
January 18 was declared Women Farmers’ Day in India and a range of women’s organisations staged rallies and tractor parades demanding the Narendra Modi government reverse the laws, which lift price controls on essential crops and allow private stockpiling and unregulated cross-state sale of foods.
A joint statement issued by the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (Aidwa), the National Federation of Indian Women, All-India Progressive Women’s Association and others read: “The Modi government has launched a full-scale attack on the survival of a large section of our population.
Focus on the role of women in agriculture on Women Farmers Day ANI | Updated: Jan 19, 2021 00:55 IST
New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): Protesting farmers celebrated Women Farmers Day across the country and at Delhi borders on January 18 to respect the incomparable role of women in agriculture.
Women farmers took the initiative by leading the rallies, dharnas and meetings for the day. Samyukta Kisan Morcha member Dr Darshan Pal said that women farmers took out huge rallies in Madhya Pradesh s Barwani and Khargone.
In Maharashtra, they took out a rally with bullock carts driven by women while a tractor rally was arranged in Rajasthan.