Resistance & Protests
https://civicus.org/documents/SOCS2021Part3.pdf#page=7
Another Year of Repression in India
The Indian government’s attempts to restrict the protesting farmers’ dissent went hand in hand with its continuing efforts throughout the year to clamp down on those who opposed changes to the citizenship law and demanded rights in Jammu and Kashmir. In February, scores of people were killed in deadly religious riots in Delhi, when, in reaction to protests against the citizenship law, Hindu mobs attacked Muslim groups, fuelled ( https://monitor.civicus.org/updates/2020/02/28/civil-society-calls-authorities-prevent-violence-delhi-and-address-police-failure-protec/ ) by hate speech by ruling-party Hindu nationalist politicians, and with the active assistance of the police (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53891354) ...The year also saw numerous arrests of journalists who criticised the government’s pandemic response, while farmers’ rights activists were arrested ( https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/31/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response ) for reporting corruption in the distribution of emergency food supplies.
References in the Report
Isnt it time, we recheck our traditional notions of the Bhakt and what motivates them?
See this Amanpour interview which gives you a profile of the Bhakts of Trump! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dskVval50AE
You will find them more where the Rights of the have-nots, is out-pacing the Rights of the Haves. It is the "fear of the Great Replacement"
See: https://cpost.uchicago.edu/about/ The Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)
It is in this light we here need to check out the issues which engage this group in India. I feel many of the so called Bhakts came in with something and this is the time they they are vulnerable to decoding their reaction..
Most of it seems to be a reaction to Centre-Left intransigence.. There is a big crop of people who got disillusioned with the Left..
Many advertising and Management types also initially when for the Modi alternative. Even Prashant Kishore has been moving round the spectrum.. and now wants "to quit the space" when he "is up" indicating that he wanted to do it earlier..
So superimposed on the social psychology of caste based mobilisation , we seem to now have "secular castes". If the Opposition has to make any headway in run up to 2024, it will have to build a narrative which neutralise the reasons why these bhakt came to support support the current dispensation in the first place and quite a lot of this revovles around the perpetuating the myth that aspirational Inida can be trickle down to the common man under a Dabang Leader.. That is why the main response to the crisis of COVID, as well as the economy, farmers agitation, Polarisations etc, has been twisted by the toolkit as an attempt to spoil Modi's and thereby India's image abroad.
Can Israel Palestine Unite into One Country? | One State Solution | Ceasefire | Dhruv Rathee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfju7EAukEs
Israel Palestine Conflict: 1000 year History | Jerusalem | Gaza | West Bank | Dhruv Rathee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CISbbt1x2dc
https://www.taghyeerpal.ps/theory-of-change
Taghyeer - Palestinian National Nonviolence Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e85OG3J2gsY
Ali Abu Awwad who, after being incarcerated as a 15 years old, was released and became part of the Palestine Authority in 1994, and was working towards the agreed goal of independent state in five years. This did not happen because of the continuation of military occupation, the political Palestinian failure. And because the intervention and international investment in the conflict, and not in our solution, there are some parties who are not willing to see peace in this land. and because of lack of engagement with civil society.https://youtube.com/embed/JPjZRzYSX3A?start=514&end=574 taken from Ahimsa Conversations
John Pilger Interview: Israel is a LYING MACHINE, Palestine Has The Right to Resist! https://youtube.com/embed/49Ly1wZSxnw?start=77&end=682
How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict | Free Documentary History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfuqUhzESg
Stay-at-Home Satyagraha 3rd Remembrance of Thoothukudi Massacre
Global Relay Hunger Strike to Hold Vedanta-Sterlite Accountable 12-22 May, 2021
https://www.justaction.cc/resources
The people’s struggle in Thoothukudi has been fought over decades, to challenge Vedanta’s impunity to pollute the villages for its own profits. The historic mass agitation on 22nd May 2018, which was a culmination of 100 days of continuous protest, led to a lethal firing by the Tamil Nadu police. The one-sided firing killed 15 people, including 17-year-old minor Snowlin, and left hundreds injured. Instead of dialoguing with the people protesting against the illegal and polluting operation of the Copper Smelter plant, the State Govt resorted to excessive and unjustifiable force and vilification of the movement.
and night has come upon my land... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEaB7DvMBw
Poet Nandini Sen Mehra writes on grief and helplessness in "and night has come upon my land". Yet, she believes that this too shall pass. Her heartfelt words have been set to music by Anindya Mukherjee and sung by Sukanya Mukherjee.