*[Enwl-eng] 3% of the world's population is protesting draconian laws in India

[ENWL]

            These new corporate giveaway laws are so bad, 3% of the world's 
population is uniting in India for the world's largest strike

                  Sign Now
                 Indian workers were already under seige from the COVID-19 
pandemic and economic collapse before their own government took up laws 
against them. Quoting the motto "never waste a good crisis," Prime Minister 
Narendra Modi seized the opportunity to push through a series of laws that 
dramatically increase corporations' power and further disenfranchises 
already vulnerable laborers. In a nation where 60% of the population is 
employed in agriculture for their main source of income, one of these laws 
gives corporations the right to set agricultural prices and undercut already 
impoverished farmers. Another curtails citizens' ability to sue corporations 
and restricts courts' jurisdiction to oversee such lawsuits.

                  Since the pandemic began, India's staggering levels of 
inequality have skyrocketed. Unemployment has risen to 27% — an unfathomable 
rate. Suicide among farmers has increased. As many as 76% of Indians in 
rural areas cannot afford to buy nutritious foods for their families. Yet 
the billionaires owning India's biggest corporations have increased their 
massive wealth by 35%. Amazingly, workers are banding together to protest 
this cruelty, and have created the largest workers' strike in the history of 
the entire world. Farmers, bank tellers, transporation workers, artists, 
athletes, and more are coming together for a strike that's 250 million 
people strong. We need to show our support. Sign the petition to demand that 
Modi and his government repeal their egregious anti-worker laws!

                  Thank you for all that you do,

                         Miranda B.
                        The Care2 Petitions Team



                  P.S. By attacking agricultural workers, Modi's government 
is attacking the vast majority of its people. Demand that Prime Minister 
Narendra Modi and members of Parliament reverse their chilling corporate 
empowerment laws now.








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From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:17 PM
Subject: 3% of the world's population is protesting draconian laws in India



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