The strike took place following months of protest from Indian farmers, a response to three farm acts passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. According to protesters, the farm acts would leave small farmers, the vast majority, at the mercy of large corporations. Poor farmers were already desperate before the laws were passed - in 2019 alone, 10,281 agricultural workers committed suicide.
Dozens of farm unions began organizing protests demanding the repeal of these laws. After failing to get the support of their respective state governments, the farmers decided to pressure the Central Government by marching to Delhi en masse.
The farmers arrived at Delhi on November 25th, 2020 and were met by police, who employed the use of tear gas and water cannons, dug up roads, and used layers of barricades and sand barriers to try and stop their march.
On November 26th, 250 million workers from all over the country initiated a general strike in solidarity with the farmer's struggle. According to Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, trade unions issued a twelve-point charter of demands which included "the reversal of the anti-worker, anti-farmer laws pushed by the government in September, the reversal of the privatisation of major government enterprises, and immediate [Covid] relief for the population".
Farmer protests continued for more than a year, featuring mass marches, clashes with police, and many failed negotiations between farmers' unions and the government. Rakesh Tikait, a leader with Bharatiya Kisan Union (English: Indian Farmers' Union) stated in October 2021 that approximately 750 participants have died in the protest.
Among the dead was a Senior Superintendent of Police in the city of Sonepat, who committed suicide, saying he could not bear the pain of the farmers. His suicide note read "Bullets fired from the guns kill only those whom they strike. The bullet of injustice, however, kills many with a single stroke... It is humiliating to suffer injustice."
In a televised address on November 19th, 2021, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that his government would repeal the three acts in the upcoming winter parliamentary session in December. The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikait, stated the protests would only cease once the laws were repealed.
The film actor Deep Sidhu also joined the protests, and was quoted as having told a police officer the following: "Ye inquilab hai. This is a revolution. If you take away farmers' land, then what do they have left? Only debt."
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gonna attempt watching the entire Harry Potter film franchise. pray for me y'all
Watched half of em way back when cat sitting and that's what was there. First 4 are pretty fun a d then it starts taking itself seriously and drops off fast. Silly wizard school adventures for kids is where Harry Potter should have stayed.
yeah parts 5/6 is where I lost interest as a kid, both the books and movies. maybe having the tone of the series mature with the characters and readers wasn't a bad idea in theory, but Just Kidding Rowling just isn't a good enough writer to pull it off
I just realized why so many Potter Adults are that way. The books were supposed to mature with them and they chained their maturity to where the books were at. This clarifies a lot from junior high up until now.
nostalgia should carry me through the first 4, but Order of the Phoenix is where things might get rough
Done this before. For some reason. Recommend self medicating. Good luck.
THC will be involved for sure
Even 4 is a rough watch, although it helps that the first 5 book chapters are squeezed into 7 minutes. A bit of a shame that the world cup match is completely missing.
Why
there's no good reason, but I just watched David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, a documentary about the Harry Potter stunt performer who became paralyzed after a stunt went wrong. which probably shouldn't have made me want to watch the movies since they ruined this guy's life and career and all. but there's a scene at the end where he and Daniel Radcliffe visit the props dept. and reminisce about the good times and Daniel's reaction to holding the wand again was very adorable and now I feel like watching that trash
besides, despite their faults those movies are still fun on a visual level and the worldbuilding is cool. and they were a big part of my childhood so I'm curious to see how they'll hold up now
they're much much better than the books, i wouldn't call em great but the Mother TERF wasn't very involved in the mechanics of the films so they managed to be mostly OK.
those Beasts movies she wrote later are, without exaggeration, the absolute worst movies ever made with that calibre of budget.