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spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikait, stated the protests would only cease once the laws were repealed.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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I want to make a series of comedy movies based on historical events in more or less the style of a Coen brothers comedy, cause there are some thst are begging for it and I can picture them.
The Robert Hansen/Richard Ames thing. This one basically comes pre written and I know exactly how I'd want to do it. Characters switching narration based on their pov and a lot of gags based on that.
John Waynes biopic. The degree to which this dude was both a piece of shit and a totally pathetic drunk piece of shit who got big cause all of Hollywood were pieces of shit. Contrast that with a kinda western motife with a nice cowboy voice talking about him beating his most recent wife publically before going to Mexico to find another underage girlfriend. I'm picturing Sam Elliot who starts as referent to the guy and tries to sorta make excuses or come up with ways to make things seem positive like it's his job to do so and gradually giving up as it goes on.
JFK Assassination, I'm going with the Warren Report is pretty much accurate but the CIA investigates the mob doing it while numerous people doing the investigation are pretty sure they did it and the mob deciding they did it and both of them putting up Jack Ruby to kill Oswald at the same time out of paranoia. This one is more of a thing that I broadly do believe to be the case but specifically think it would make for a good comedy.
Would suggest checking out both Dr. Strangelove and History of the World Part I by Mel Brooks. Both have a lot of "product of their times" CWings, so be warned.
Seen em. Both good. Mel Brooks is fantastic but I don't know if I'd get thst zany. Strangelove would be closer to the tone but even still play it a bit straighter. Most of this stuff the story does the jokes for you, it's more about the tone than really jokes themselves.
For the John Wayne one I'm kinda split between titles, either Marion (his real first name) or A Dog Named Duke (he got the nickname Duke when he was a kid hanging around the fire dept to get away from his shitty mom and had a dog with him named Big Duke and the firefighters called him Little Duke as a gag and then he called himself Duke cause Marion was a shitty name)