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                                                woman working in the
                                                korai fields, where
                                                women often work from a
                                                young age to earn a
                                                living.</span></p>
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                                            from the desk of the <a
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                                              Institute for Social
                                              Research</a>.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;"><b>Reminder</b>:
                                            Indian peasants and
                                            agricultural workers remain
                                            in the midst of a
                                            country-wide agitation
                                            sparked by the proposal of
                                            three farm bills that were
                                            then signed into law by the
                                            right-wing Bharatiya Janata
                                            Party government in
                                            September 2020. In June
                                            2021, our <a
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                                            summarised the situation
                                            plainly:</p>
                                          <p style="padding-left:
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                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">It
                                            is clear that the problem in
                                            Indian agriculture is not
                                            too much institutional
                                            support, but inadequate and
                                            uneven deployment of
                                            institutions as well as the
                                            unwillingness of these
                                            institutions to address the
                                            inherent inequalities of
                                            village society. There is no
                                            evidence that agribusiness
                                            firms will develop
                                            infrastructure, enhance
                                            agricultural markets, or
                                            provide technical support to
                                            farmers. All this is clear
                                            to the farmers.</p>
                                          <p style="padding-left:
                                            40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                            exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            farmers’ protests, which
                                            began in October 2020, are a
                                            sign of the clarity with
                                            which farmers have reacted
                                            to the agrarian crisis and
                                            to the three laws that will
                                            only deepen the crisis. No
                                            attempt by the government â€“
                                            including trying to incite
                                            farmers along religious
                                            lines â€“ has succeeded in
                                            breaking the farmers’ unity.
                                            There is a new generation
                                            that has learned to resist,
                                            and they are prepared to
                                            take their fight across
                                            India.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            January 2021, the Supreme
                                            Court of India heard a
                                            series of petitions about
                                            the farmers’ protests. Chief
                                            Justice S. A. Bobde reacted
                                            to them with the following
                                            startling <a
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                                            â€˜We don’t understand either
                                            why old people and women are
                                            kept in the protests’. The
                                            word â€˜kept’ rankles. Did the
                                            Chief Justice believe that
                                            women are not farmers and
                                            that women farmers do not
                                            come to the protests of
                                            their own volition? That is
                                            the implication behind his
                                            remark.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">A
                                            quick look at a recent
                                            labour force survey <a
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                                            that 73.2% of women workers
                                            who live in rural areas work
                                            in agriculture; they are
                                            peasants, agricultural
                                            workers, and artisans.
                                            Meanwhile, only 55% of male
                                            workers who live in rural
                                            areas are engaged in
                                            agriculture. It is telling
                                            that only 12.8% of women
                                            farmers own land, which is
                                            an illustration of the
                                            gender inequality in India
                                            and is what likely provoked
                                            the Chief Justice’s sexist
                                            remark.</p>
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            UN Food and Agriculture
                                            Organisation <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=a49cf9a266&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">pointed
                                              out</a> a decade ago that
                                            â€˜Closing the gender gap in
                                            agricultural inputs alone
                                            could lift 100-150 million
                                            people out of hunger’. Given
                                            the immense problem of
                                            hunger in our time â€“ as
                                            highlighted in last week’s <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=da5bdc9f84&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">newsletter</a>
                                            â€“ women in agriculture must
                                            be, as the FAO <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=08268ad0da&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              #007C89;font-weight:
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                                              underline;"
                                              moz-do-not-send="true">notes</a>,
                                            â€˜heard as equal partners’.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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                                            aligncenter"><img
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                                              loading="lazy"
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src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/04102021-karuna-pious-p_illustration_womenworker.jpg"
                                              alt="Illustration: Karuna
                                              Pious P (India) / Young
                                              Socialist Artists"
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/04102021-karuna-pious-p_illustration_womenworker.jpg
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                                              950px) 100vw, 950px"
                                              style="max-width:
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                                            <p
                                              id="caption-attachment-51839"
                                              class="wp-caption-text"
                                              style="margin: 10px
                                              0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                              Helvetica;font-size:
                                              16px;line-height:
                                              150%;text-align: left;"><span
                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Karuna
                                                Pious P (India) / Young
                                                Socialist Artists, Brick
                                                work, locally known as <i>pakka
                                                  me kaam.</i></span></p>
                                          </div>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
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                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">From
                                            Tricontinental Research
                                            Services (Delhi) comes a
                                            superb new <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=7bf1180f6a&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">dossier</a>
                                            on the status of women in
                                            India, <i>Indian Women on
                                              an Arduous Road to
                                              Equality</i> (no. 45,
                                            October 2021). The text
                                            opens with an image of five
                                            women working at a brick
                                            kiln. When I saw that
                                            drawing, I was transported
                                            to a <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=43b6ba20d5&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">calculation</a>
                                            made by Brinda Karat, a
                                            leader of the Communist
                                            Party of India (Marxist),
                                            about the labour of women
                                            construction workers. Bina,
                                            a young woman working in
                                            Ranchi, the capital of
                                            Jharkhand, carries between
                                            1,500 and 2,000 bricks to
                                            masons in a multi-story
                                            building. Bina carries at
                                            least 3,000kgs of bricks
                                            every day, each weighing
                                            2.5kgs, yet she earns a
                                            pittance of under â‚¹150 ($2)
                                            per day and suffers from
                                            severe body aches. â€˜The pain
                                            has become an intrinsic part
                                            of my life. I don’t remember
                                            a single day without it’,
                                            Bina told Karat.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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                                            class="wp-caption
                                            aligncenter"><img
                                              aria-describedby="caption-attachment-51850"
                                              loading="lazy"
                                              class="wp-image-51850
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                                              mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/05102021-Dossier45-Dani.jpg"
                                              alt="Illustration: Daniela
                                              Ruggeri (Argentina) /
                                              Tricontinental: Institute
                                              for Social Research"
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                                              768w" sizes="(max-width:
                                              950px) 100vw, 950px"
                                              style="max-width:
                                              100%;width:
                                              100%;padding-bottom:
                                              0;display:
                                              inline;vertical-align:
                                              bottom;border: 0;height:
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                                            <p
                                              id="caption-attachment-51850"
                                              class="wp-caption-text"
                                              style="margin: 10px
                                              0;padding:
                                              0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                              Helvetica;font-size:
                                              16px;line-height:
                                              150%;text-align: left;"><span
                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Daniela
                                                Ruggeri (Argentina) /
                                                Tricontinental:
                                                Institute for Social
                                                Research<i>, </i>Childcare
                                                workers protest the Modi
                                                government’s unfair
                                                treatment of women and
                                                workers.</span></p>
                                          </div>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"><b>Reminder</b>:
                                            Women in India have been an
                                            integral part of the
                                            farmers’ movement, the
                                            workers’ movement, and the
                                            movement to widen democracy.
                                            Does this need to be said?
                                            It seems that something so
                                            evident requires constant
                                            repetition.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">During
                                            this pandemic, women public
                                            health workers and women
                                            childcare workers have
                                            played a central role in
                                            holding together society,
                                            all while being disparaged
                                            and having their work
                                            trivialised. On 24 September
                                            2021, ten million scheme
                                            workers â€“ those who work for
                                            government schemes such as
                                            public health (Accredited
                                            Social Health Activist or
                                            ASHA workers) and crèches (<i>anganwadi</i>
                                            workers) â€“ went on strike to
                                            demand formal employment and
                                            better protection for their
                                            work during the COVID-19
                                            pandemic. â€˜Tax the
                                            super-rich’, they <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=2aaa5468a2&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              #007C89;font-weight:
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">said</a>,
                                            repeal the farm bills, stop
                                            the privatisation of the
                                            public sector, and defend
                                            women workers.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">Over
                                            the past few years, ASHA
                                            workers have complained
                                            about routine harassment,
                                            including sexual harassment.
                                            In 2013, the Indian
                                            government <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=56d09ecab0&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                              #007C89;font-weight:
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                                              underline;"
                                              moz-do-not-send="true">enacted</a>
                                            the Sexual Harassment of
                                            Women at Workplace Act to
                                            protect both formal and
                                            informal workers. No rules
                                            have been framed for ASHA
                                            and other scheme workers,
                                            nor are these workers able
                                            to lift up their experiences
                                            of harassment to the front
                                            pages of corporate media.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">Our
                                            dossier carefully dissects
                                            the prevalence of
                                            patriarchal harassment and
                                            violence, making sure to
                                            identify the different ways
                                            that such toxic behaviours
                                            strike at women of different
                                            classes. Working-class women
                                            in unions and in left
                                            organisations have built a
                                            kind of mass sensibility; as
                                            a result, their struggles
                                            now incorporate demands
                                            against patriarchy that had
                                            otherwise been distant from
                                            their lives. For instance,
                                            it is now clear amongst many
                                            working-class women that
                                            they must win maternity
                                            leave, equal wages for equal
                                            work, guaranteed crèches,
                                            and redressal and prevention
                                            mechanisms against sexual
                                            harassment in workplaces.
                                            Such demands cascade back
                                            into the family and
                                            community, where other
                                            struggles â€“ such as against
                                            patriarchal violence in the
                                            home â€“ expand the horizon of
                                            democratic movements in
                                            India.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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                                            class="wp-caption
                                            aligncenter"><img
                                              aria-describedby="caption-attachment-51883"
                                              loading="lazy"
                                              class="wp-image-51883
                                              size-full img-responsive
                                              mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/30092021-cover-dossier-45-6.jpg"
                                              alt="Illustration: Vikas
                                              Thakur (India) /
                                              Tricontinental: Institute
                                              for Social Research"
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                                              768w" sizes="(max-width:
                                              950px) 100vw, 950px"
                                              style="max-width:
                                              100%;width:
                                              100%;padding-bottom:
                                              0;display:
                                              inline;vertical-align:
                                              bottom;border: 0;height:
                                              auto;outline:
                                              none;text-decoration:
                                              none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
                                              bicubic;"
                                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                                              width="950" border="0">
                                            <p
                                              id="caption-attachment-51883"
                                              class="wp-caption-text"
                                              style="margin: 10px
                                              0;padding:
                                              0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                              exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                              Helvetica;font-size:
                                              16px;line-height:
                                              150%;text-align: left;"><span
                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Vikas
                                                Thakur (India) /
                                                Tricontinental:
                                                Institute for Social
                                                Research, A cycling
                                                training camp in
                                                Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu.</span></p>
                                          </div>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                            exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                            exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            dossier closes with wise
                                            words about the importance
                                            of the farmers’ movement for
                                            the women’s movement:</p>
                                          <p style="padding-left:
                                            40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                            exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">Though
                                            the Indian women’s movement
                                            has seen many ups and downs
                                            over the decades, it has
                                            remained resilient, adapted
                                            to changing socioeconomic
                                            conditions, and even
                                            expanded. The current
                                            situation might present an
                                            opportunity to strengthen
                                            mass movements and to steer
                                            the focus towards the rights
                                            and livelihoods of women and
                                            workers. The ongoing Indian
                                            farmers’ movement, which
                                            started before the pandemic
                                            and continues to stay
                                            strong, offers the
                                            opportunity to steer the
                                            national discourse towards
                                            such an agenda. The
                                            tremendous participation of
                                            rural women, who travelled
                                            from different states to
                                            take turns sitting at the
                                            borders of the national
                                            capital for days, is a
                                            historic phenomenon. Their
                                            presence in the farmers’
                                            movement provides hope for
                                            the women’s movement in a
                                            post-pandemic future.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;"><b>Reminder</b>:
                                            Nothing in the slogans
                                            coming from the farmers’
                                            encampments is unique. Most
                                            of these are long-standing
                                            claims. The demands made by
                                            women farmers at the protest
                                            sites and amplified by the
                                            farmers’ unions <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=c9f4dd35c2&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">echo</a>
                                            the Draft National Policy
                                            for Women in Agriculture put
                                            forward by the National
                                            Commission for Women in
                                            April 2008. This policy
                                            included the following key
                                            demands, each one applicable
                                            today:</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Ensure
                                              that women have access to
                                              and control over
                                              resources, including land
                                              rights, water, and
                                              pasture/forest/biodiversity
                                              resources.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Guarantee
                                              equal wages for equal
                                              work.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Pay
                                              minimum support prices to
                                              primary producers and
                                              ensure that sufficient
                                              food grains are available
                                              at affordable prices.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Encourage
                                              women to enter
                                              agriculture-related
                                              industries (including
                                              fisheries and artisanal
                                              work).</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Provide
                                              training programmes for
                                              women including
                                              agricultural practices and
                                              technologies that are
                                              sensitive to the knowledge
                                              that women possess as well
                                              as the practices they
                                              carry out.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Provide
                                              adequate and equal
                                              availability of services
                                              such as irrigation,
                                              credit, and insurance.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Encourage
                                              primary producers to
                                              produce and market seeds,
                                              forest and dairy products,
                                              and livestock.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Prevent
                                              women’s livelihoods from
                                              being displaced without
                                              providing viable
                                              alternatives.</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            left women’s movement has
                                            put these demands back on
                                            the table. The right-wing
                                            government will not hear
                                            them.</p>
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                                              Neves (Brazil) /
                                              Tricontinental: Institute
                                              for Social Research"
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                                              style="margin: 10px
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                                              Helvetica;font-size:
                                              16px;line-height:
                                              150%;text-align: left;"><span
                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Ingrid
                                                Neves (Brazil) /
                                                Tricontinental:
                                                Institute for Social
                                                Research, A seaweed
                                                harvester facing the
                                                rough seas.</span></p>
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
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                                            150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">Once
                                            more, our dossier comes to
                                            you designed with great care
                                            and love. This time, our
                                            team has worked closely with
                                            the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=ca7d059226&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                              #007C89;font-weight:
                                              normal;text-decoration:
                                              underline;"
                                              moz-do-not-send="true">Young
                                              Socialist Artists</a>
                                            (India). Together, we found
                                            powerful photographs from
                                            the history of the Indian
                                            women’s movement and from
                                            the farmers’ protests and
                                            used these as references for
                                            the illustrations in the
                                            dossier. We look forward to
                                            inviting you to an online
                                            exhibition of this art, our
                                            small gesture towards
                                            expanding a possible pathway
                                            to a socialist future.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">Warmly,</p>
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                                                          <table
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          width="100%"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
                                                          9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <table
                                                          style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
                                                          0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
                                                          cellpadding="0"
                                                          border="0"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="center">
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href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=72472e9286&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-twitter-48.png"
                                                          alt="Twitter"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
                                                          none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          height="24"></a>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                        </table>
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
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                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        <td align="center" valign="top">
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <table
                                                          style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-right:
0;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
                                                          valign="top">
                                                          <table
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          width="100%"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
                                                          9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <table
                                                          style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
                                                          0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
                                                          cellpadding="0"
                                                          border="0"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="center">
                                                          <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=a68cea2a29&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-instagram-48.png"
alt="Instagram" style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
                                                          none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          height="24"></a>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                        </table>
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        </td>
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                    </tr>
                                    </table>
                                    <![endif]--> </td>
                                                    </tr>
                                                  </tbody>
                                                </table>
                                              </td>
                                            </tr>
                                          </tbody>
                                        </table>
                                      </td>
                                    </tr>
                                  </tbody>
                                </table>
                              </td>
                            </tr>
                          </tbody>
                        </table>
                      </td>
                    </tr>
                  </tbody>
                </table>
                <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
                        </td>
                        </tr>
                        </table>
                        <![endif]-->
                <!-- // END TEMPLATE --> </td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
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          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td style="padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom:
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src="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=9f93c079cd&e=d206d0a40d"
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