We Must Remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre
June 4th, 2021 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre – and the first year since the 1989 massacre where no formal commemoration event will be held as per government-sponsored censorship rules. Following a tumultuous year of pandemic restrictions, civil and political unrest, and government censorship, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has deemed vigils to commemorate the deaths of up to several thousand peaceful protesters an “unauthorized political act.”
Why India's Ruling Party Just Scrapped the Laws that Caused the Biggest Protest in Human History
New Delhi, India
On the morning of September 17, 2020, the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the bicameral Parliament of India, followed by the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) on September 20, passed 3 contentious Farm Acts – amidst protests from opposition parties – titled as “Farm Laws, 2020”. The laws were formatted in a way that made farmers fear an abolishment of the minimum support price (MSP) guaranteed by the government on selective crops, leaving them under the heel of big corporations.
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her, an identity
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