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Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch - MAKAAM (Forum for Rights of Women Farmers) is an informal forum of over 120 individuals & organisations from 24 states of India.
India
Joined April 2018
Support the 2nd National Mahila Kisan Sammelan! 🗓️ 7–9 May 2025 |📍Pune Stand with women farmers as they come together to assert their rights over land, resources & livelihoods. Contribute here: 🔗 https://t.co/3JROr7GHdA ⚠️ Only Indian funds accepted
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An engaging audience, excellent discussion on my book with @VinuthaMallya , a great talk on agrarian distress and women farmers by Seema Kulkarni @MahilaKisan and wonderful anchoring by Arya Jayan @PARInetwork at Bhandarkar Institute today #Pune
Pune Folks, do come! Wednesday, 13 August, 6pm, Discussion on my book: Farmers Protest! A Movement for Our Times with @VinuthaMallya at the Bhandarkar Institute (BORI). Seema Kulkarni @MahilaKisan and #SOPPECOM to talk on Farmers Movements. #YodaPress @arpitayodapress
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Pune Folks, do come! Wednesday, 13 August, 6pm, Discussion on my book: Farmers Protest! A Movement for Our Times with @VinuthaMallya at the Bhandarkar Institute (BORI). Seema Kulkarni @MahilaKisan and #SOPPECOM to talk on Farmers Movements. #YodaPress @arpitayodapress
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📚 Book Launch ✊🌾 Farmers Protest! A Movement for Our Times by @NamitaWaikar (Foreword: Aruna Roy) With Namita Waikar, Vinutha Mallya & Seema Kulkarni @seemakulkarni21 📅 13 Aug 2025 ⏰ 6 PM (Tea 5:30) 📍 Firodia Auditorium, BORI, Pune #FarmersProtest #BookLaunch #PuneEvents
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🕔 Starting in 30 minutes! Join today’s @MahilaKisan Sharing Session on the Devanahalli farmers' resistance ✊🏾 📅 6 Aug | ⏰ 5 PM IST 🔗 Zoom: https://t.co/0eKJu9Rkrx 🗣️ Interpretation available #DevanahalliStruggle #LandRights #WomenFarmers #RightToLand
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Join today at 5 pm! #devanahalli
Farmers in #Devanahalli resisted the forcible takeover of 1,700+ acres of land for an industrial project — and won. ✊🏾 Hear their story at MAKAAM’s Sharing Session: 🗓️ 6 Aug | 🕔 5 PM IST 💻 Zoom: https://t.co/0eKJu9RSh5
#LandRights #WomenFarmers #RightToLand
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Farmers in #Devanahalli resisted the forcible takeover of 1,700+ acres of land for an industrial project — and won. ✊🏾 Hear their story at MAKAAM’s Sharing Session: 🗓️ 6 Aug | 🕔 5 PM IST 💻 Zoom: https://t.co/0eKJu9RSh5
#LandRights #WomenFarmers #RightToLand
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A Tamil Nadu farmer from Erode confronted @ChouhanShivraj on the question of safety of gene-edited rice varieties. 'We are not against any technology', he said, adding: 'First do biosafety tests and then tell us it is safe'. Wow! That's what every farmer should demand. #GM
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This week, Westland has published our book on food colonialism and ideas of resistance to it
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Gadchiroli’s forests under siege. mining projects are clearing lakhs of trees, threatening Adivasi livelihoods n a key tiger corridor. Sign the petition to stop the destruction @Jhatkaadotorg
https://t.co/uDQLg2ozli
@MahilaKisan @BhavreenMK @mongabay @LandConflicts
act.jhatkaa.org
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To move towards equality, we must: ✅ Recognise women as farmers & rights-holders ✅ Address structural violence ✅ Ensure land rights, credit, healthcare, wages, & safety ✅ Centre women’s voices in all policymaking #FeministFutures
#MahilaKisanSammelan
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Yet their lives are shaped by a continuum of violence — In the fields. At home. Fueled by caste, class, patriarchy & state neglect. Breaking this invisibility is not optional. It is urgent. #StructuralViolence #GenderJustice
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As the agrarian crisis deepens, let’s be clear: Women are not just shadow workers behind distressed farms. They are cultivators, labourers, heads of households — and holders of rights. #MahilaKisanSammelan #WomenFarmers
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These are not isolated demands — they are a feminist blueprint for justice, built from lived experiences. #MahilaKisanSammelan
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Economic Rights & Safety Strengthen women’s cooperatives Direct wage payments to women Increase patrolling in rural/farm areas Regulate alcohol to reduce harm to women #MahilaKisanSammelan
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Rights to Land & Life End female foeticide & son-preference Put women’s names on land titles, ensure control & ownership #MahilaKisanSammelan
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No AFSPA Impunity Sexual violence by armed forces must be prosecuted under regular criminal law Revoke immunity under AFSPA or similar laws #MahilaKisanSammelan
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Recognizing All Work Sex work = work Ensure legal protection, licensing, health services & social security — esp. for women forced into it by agrarian collapse #MahilaKisanSammelan
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Justice for GBV Mandatory FIRs in all cases: witch-hunting, harassment, social boycott Enforce labour laws: fixed hours, rest days, paid leave for women workers #MahilaKisanSammelan
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Leadership & Voice Safe, respectful spaces for women leaders in panchayats & CBOs Grievance redressal for women whistleblowers exposing corruption/misuse #MahilaKisanSammelan
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