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      'A Crime Against Humanity': Anguish and Anger as India Covid Crisis Surges

      'A Crime Against Humanity': Anguish and Anger as India Covid Crisis Surges

      "The system hasn't collapsed," wrote novelist and activist Arundhati Roy this week. "The government has failed."

      Andrea Germanos
      Apr 29, 2021

      With Covid-19 cases soaring in India, acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy wrote Wednesday that her country is witnessing "an outright crime against humanity" as outside observers fear the crisis could hamper global efforts to rein in the pandemic.

      As of Thursday, India now has the second highest number of total cases in the world--over 18 million--since the pandemic began, but a surge in recent weeks has made it into a global hot spot for daily infections and deaths.

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      US Farmers and Food Justice Groups Declare 'Solidarity' With Indian Farmer Protests

      US Farmers and Food Justice Groups Declare 'Solidarity' With Indian Farmer Protests

      "We stand with India's farmers! Now let's connect the dots between the forces of neoliberalism that stifle farmers, from India to the U.S."

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 18, 2021

      U.S. farmers and food justice advocates on Thursday published a statement of solidarity with Indian farmers protesting deeply unpopular new laws and "the forces of neoliberalism" imposed at the prompting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's far-right, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

      "India's farmers have mobilized to create one of the world's most vibrant protests in history."
      --87 groups

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      Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal

      Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal

      This is the new normal. Let’s keep it up.

      Jade Begay
      Jun 20, 2020

      From March to May, as many of us were adjusting and settling into quarantine life, we began thinking and talking about a "new normal."

      In an article by People magazine, Nick Tilsen, of NDN Collective said, "Everyone says, 'I can't wait until things get back to normal.' There's a part of me that's like, 'Normal never did us justice.' The normal meant injustices for Indigenous people. The normal meant underinvestment of our people. The normal meant fossil fuel industry exploiting our lands and our communities. This is a point in time for me where (I) don't want to go back to supporting the same old economic systems and the same old energy systems. There's opportunity here to architect and build a new world."

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