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As mining lobby “hijacks” Ajmer public hearing, “tokenism” on Aravallis condemned

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan has raised serious questions on the tokenisms behind the recent public hearings on the Aravallis, and condemned the “hijacking” of the process by the “mining lobby”

Unabated Conversion Of Agricultural Land In Kashmir Threatens Food Security

“Dismantling of land-related laws in Jammu and Kashmir is promoting unregulated sale and conversion of agricultural lands, leading to shortfall in foodgrains”

Over 90 former civil servants have strongly opposed “Green Credit Rules” making corporate access to forests easy

The Union environment ministry issued a notification last month saying corporations and other private entities can take up plantations on forest land

Farmers Protest: Three more protesting farmers die due to breathing problems; total death toll rises to 10

Two of the deceased were elderly farmers between the age of 75-80, while the third farmer was 40-years-old; farmer unions allege that the tear gas shells thrown by the state police force led to farmers inhaling toxic gas

RSS must stop demonising farmers’ movement: AIKS

Calling the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) a “betrayer of the freedom struggle,” AIKS has asserted that “the RSS has no right to question the patriotism of Indian farmers”

United they stand: ‘Kisan-Mazdoor Mahapanchayat’ at Ramlila Maidan sees a wave of farmers from across India, protesting

Farmer protestors in their thousands, from 37 Unions under the umbrella of the Samyukta Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (SKM) gathered at the protest site in the capital, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait says that the protest will not end till the government finds a solution to their demands

Four-hour long ‘Rail roko’ protest held by farmers on tracks across Punjab, participation from farmer unions associated with SKM

Another death of protesting farmer reported, seventh since the beginning of the protest

Déjà vu, a film that depicts the chilling effects of corporate-contract farming, resonates with Indian farmer’s protests

The film, inspired by the 2020-2021 Indian farmers protest against the now repealed three contentious farm laws offers viewers a unique insight; it explains how MSP is nothing but a levelling of urban & rural incomes at no cost to the consumer; director, Bedabrata Pain and two others drove over 10,000 kilometres, at the height of the pandemic, through the food bowl of America, capturing the heart-wrenching accounts of American farmers who became victims of the “mind-set of the market” 40 years ago.

SKM calls for massive Mahapanchayat at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on March 14, denounces BJP Regime’s repression on farmers, and MP ticket to Ajay...

The last month has seen a strong resurgence of the farmers’ movement in the country. It has also seen an equally repressive push-back by the BJP-RSS regime against farmers, which has led to the deaths of two farmer so far, and many more seriously injured.

Day 23 of Farmers March: Mass withholding of social media ahead of march to Delhi, third time since the beginning of the protest

Accounts of journalists, farmer leaders, supporters targeted, even accounts of US-based citizen supporting the cause not spared; farmer leaders provide that they will soon be approaching the Supreme Court against such undemocratic tactics

The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public

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