-The Telegraph Farmers' march to capital on November 29-30 to demand special session of Parliament A farmers’ organisation along with P. Sainath, the award-winning crusader for agriculturists, has been visiting college and university campuses across the country, explaining how agriculture distress affects students. The main mover behind the campus cluster meetings is the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of 200 farmers’ outfits, which wants to sensitise students to...
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As Farmers March to Delhi, Climate Change Fuels Their Larger Crisis -Nagraj Adve
-TheWire.in Perhaps we can visualise a farmers’ march 20 years from now, with one more demand: resettlement, for lands and homes they have lost to the vagaries of a shifting climate. A few years ago, a group of us from Delhi, along with members of the Gujarat Agricultural Labour Union and the International Union of Foodworkers, went to eastern Gujarat to speak to farmers about how a changing climate could be affecting...
More »On Friday, farmers groups from across India will march to Parliament. Here is how they mobilised in a year -Kunal Talgeri
-CNBCTV18.com * The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee mobilised a farmers’ movement in a year. * The trigger was a June 2017 farmers’ agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, where six people died in the midst of violence and police shootings. * In 12 months, the AIKSCC has managed to drive the convergence of farmer groups, including those representing marginalised farmers (women, adivasis and Dalits), apart from the introduction of two Bills. “Farmer...
More »Farmers' march to Delhi: Photographers, lawyers and students mobilise support -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express On November 29, farmers are scheduled to gather at four locations on the outskirts of Delhi, from where they will march into the capital city. Mumbai: PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR farmers, lawyers for farmers, students for farmers and techies for farmers — these are some of a series of loose groups being formed across cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune in an effort to mobilise the support of...
More »Farmers' march: Fadnavis says land rights claims will be settled
-PTI Demands include compensation for drought, increase in MSP Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday assured tribal farmers that their forest land rights claims will be settled by December this year. Fadnavis gave assurance to representatives of the protesting farmers who marched to Azad Maidan here for redressal of their grievances, which include compensation for drought and transfer of forest rights to tribals. A delegation of the protesting tribals met Fadnavis at...
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