[act-ma] 3/12 The Indian Farmers' Movement: Victory and the Road Ahead (today)

[Charlie Welch]

    TheIndianFarmers' Movement: Victory and the Road Ahead

Pratyush Bharati <pratyush_b at yahoo.com> writes

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*Speaker*: Navkiran Natt

*When*: Saturday, March 12th

*Time*: 12 pm in-person (Lunch from 12 to 1pm). Online event / Live 
broadcast starts at 1 pm

*Where*: Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge. (Harvard 
Square T Stop), MA

We invite you to a hybrid (in person+zoom) presentation and discussion 
led by Navkiran Natt.

The historic farmers' movement in India brought the government to its 
knees by forcing it to repeal the three pro-corporate farm laws. More 
than five hundred farmers' unions worked together with agricultural 
laborers organizations raising the slogan /Kisan Mazdoor Ekta Zindabad/ 
(Long Live Farmers-Laborers Unity). The women farmers were at the 
forefront from the start. They participated in large numbers, standing 
shoulder to shoulder with men. The movement has not just raised 
questions regarding exploitative corporate agriculture but also raised 
questions regarding the caste system, patriarchy, privatization, and 
capitalism.

While we celebrate the farmers' victory, numerous challenges lie ahead 
for the farmers' movement with one of their key demands like the minimum 
support price (MSP) still unmet.

Navkiran Natt will talk about this historic victory and throw light on 
the dynamics of the political unity of farmers and workers on the ground 
and discuss what lies ahead for this movement.

*Navkiran Natt* is a student-youth activist and film/media researcher 
who works between Panjab and Delhi. She is a trained dentist and has a 
Master's in Film Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She works on 
transnational Panjabi migration and its reflections in Panjabi popular 
culture and media. She did a podcast series on the Green Revolution's 
health implications in Panjab with the Goethe Institut, New Delhi. 
Currently, she is the co-editor of Trolley Times, a newsletter for 
India's historic farmers' movement.

*/We request that you join us in person only if you are fully vaccinated 
(including a booster shot). We will be asking everyone indoors to wear a 
mask covering their mouth and nose. /*

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