“How Long Will or Can the Moon be Caged, Hum Dekhenge…”
Six months in prison for dreaming of freedom? Citizens demand the release of Devangana, Natasha and all anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters; message by Uma Chakravarti for all members of Pinjara Tod.
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Six months in prison for dreaming of freedom? Citizens demand the release of Devangana, Natasha and all anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters; message by Uma Chakravarti for all members of Pinjara Tod.
The Africans Rising organization unfurled an enormous open letter to the Queen on England on the UK House of Parliament, demanding debt cancellation and reparations for centuries of exploitation through slavery, colonialism and imperialism.
The nationwide protest is being carried out in rejection of police brutality, economic crisis, massacres and the indifference of the national government towards them.
It is possible to push Joe Biden to the “left” on health care, climate, the police, and other issues. That requires understanding the ways that past movements have won concessions from Democratic presidents, and the reasons why we mostly failed to do so with Barack Obama.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it.
We call on the countries of the South to exercise their right and to suspend the payment of their debt by invoking three arguments that are so pertinent and legitimate at this point of time …
The legislations take India back to the British era when slavery was a norm, workers organisations said in a note given to MPs before the bills were tabled in the House in September.
While the economy is climbing out of the abyss, since the recovery is occurring despite an absolute worsening of the conditions of the working people relative to GDP, it will get aborted before long.
We are hurtling towards a morbid claustrophobic talibanized society, the ruins of which are too grave to be redeemed. Let us hope we soon realize that what this country needs in these times of heightened religious polarization is more of love and not hatred.
The general strike of November 26 may not only be one of the biggest and most effective strikes to have taken place in the last several years; the farmers’ march to Delhi, planned to coincide with the strike, would take this protest into hitherto uncharted territory.
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