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<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-farmers-who-help-keep-democracy-alive">The farmers who help keep democracy alive</a><p></p></h2><p>PARI’s first podcast features the voices of Maharashtra’s farmers, who marched peacefully from Nashik to Mumbai in March 2018. They speak of their struggles and hopes – and what they demand of the state</p><h5>June 29, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/samyukta-shastri">Samyukta Shastri</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/vishaka-george">Vishaka George</a></h5>

The farmers who help keep democracy alive

<h2><a id="5011" linktype="page">A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi</a></h2><p></p><p>Imagine a democratic protest where a million farmers, labourers and others march to the capital and compel discussion of the exploding crisis of the countryside in a special three-week session of Parliament</p><h5>June 22, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath">P. Sainath</a></h5><p></p>

A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi

<h2><a id="4860" linktype="page">The unending struggle of Kamli Bahota</a></h2><p></p><p>Now touching 70 years, she still energetically marches many miles at farmers’ rallies. She was at the Long March two months ago, at a May 3 rally in Dahanu, and is ready to walk to Delhi if her demands are not met</p><h5>May 14, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/siddharth-adelkar">Siddharth Adelkar</a></h5><p></p>

The unending struggle of Kamli Bahota

<h2><a id="4832" linktype="page">‘Forest officials cut and take away our crop’</a></h2><p></p><p>On May 3, to follow-up on the landmark Long March from Nashik to Mumbai, 35,000 Adivasi farmers gathered in Dahanu for a victory rally, signalling their determination to continue the fight for their demands</p><h5>May 10, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/siddharth-adelkar">Siddharth Adelkar</a></h5><p></p>

‘Forest officials cut and take away our crop’

<h2><br/></h2><h2><a id="4715" linktype="page">The Kisan Long March in Maharashtra</a></h2><p>This report documents three years – among many decades – of repeated protests and struggles by tens of thousands of farmers and peasants in Maharashtra, led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS). These struggles created the momentum for the historic Long March (March 6-12, 2018) from Nashik to Mumbai.</p><h5>April 27, 2018 | Authors: Ashok Dhawale, P. Sainath, Sudhanva Deshpande | Editor: Vijay Prashad</h5>

<h2><a id="4473" linktype="page">From fields of despair – a march with hope</a></h2><p>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding<br/></p><h5>March 15, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/binaifer-bharucha">Binaifer Bharucha</a> </h5>

<h2><a id="4484" linktype="page">They run the farm, they made the March</a></h2><p></p><p>They are up there amongst the hardest-working farmers anywhere. They’re down there amongst the poorest farmers – Adivasi women, who were at the March 6-12 march from Nashik to Mumbai in large numbers</p><h5>March 15, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/shrirang-swarge">Shrirang Swarge</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h5><p></p><h2></h2>

They run the farm, they made the March

<h2><a id="4478" linktype="page">&#39;I am a farmer, I walk this long journey&#39;</a></h2><p></p><p>A moving poem, along with a video, on the anguish of farmers who marched 180 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai from March 6 to March 12, 2018, with the desperate hope of being heard, and with determination too</p><h5>March 14, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/the-pari-team">The PARI team</a></h5><p></p><h2></h2>

'I am a farmer, I walk this long journey'

<h2><a id="4480" linktype="page">After the March, the aftermath...</a></h2><p></p><p>The Maharashtra government has guaranteed to make its farm loan waiver comprehensive, fairly implement the Forest Rights Act, and ensure that river-linking and dam projects won&#39;t displace farmers</p><h5>March 14, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h5><p></p><h2></h2>

After the March, the aftermath...

<h2><a id="4469" linktype="page">Long March: Blistered feet, unbroken spirit</a></h2><p></p><p>The protesting farmers who assembled at Azad Maidan on March 12, drawing support from Mumbaikars along the way, know they’ve won a battle but not the war – &#39;We are ready to march again&#39;, they say</p><h5>March 13, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h5><p></p>

Long March: Blistered feet, unbroken spirit

<h2><a id="4459" linktype="page">From farm and forest: Long March to Mumbai</a></h2><p></p><p>Tens of thousands of farmers are marching on Mumbai to encircle the Assembly and press for demands they feel the government has betrayed them on: crop prices, a loan waiver, forest rights, procurement and more…</p><h5>March 8, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h5><p></p>

From farm and forest: Long March to Mumbai

The march goes on…

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