By Dilip – Thursday, February 18, 2021 WE STAND WITH INDIAN FARMERS We – farmers, activists, and citizens of the world – stand in solidarity with farmers in India protesting to protect their livelihoods. Nearly one million farmers are peacefully organizing and demonstrating, but the Indian government has responded with state-sanctioned violence, including the use of tear gas, water cannons, mass arrests and indefinite detention. These human rights abuses must end now. Indian farmers are standing up to defend their dignity and livelihoods. They are protesting three new laws, passed hastily without due deliberation, that will deregulate agriculture in India. For many, this Read More
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Civil Disobedience – The Indian Farmers Gandhian Struggle
Since five month’ Indian peasants are in a historic, non-violent standoff with the authorities whom they blame to have caved in to corporate interests. Please listen to Giraffe-Hero Dilip Simeon’s podcast on the subject:
Rebellion to Reconciliation, by Dilip Simeon
…. Any serious social-democratic program must affirm fundamental respect for human life, and place on its agenda society’s determination to liberate itself from fear. Violence is both the expression and the symptom of social and political crisis. We need to debate its roots, forms and functions, in order to cast fresh light on the iniquitous relations between the sexes, castes and classes; and on the structured violence of the global polity. If I have learned anything of significance about politics, it is this: to question what is known as ‘commonsense’ is our primary responsibility as human beings. Such questioning and Read More