Painting A Protest #standwithfarmers

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February 13, 2021 a project of ServiceSpace The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe. - Masanobu Fukuoka - Painting A Protest #standwithfarmers Since September of last year, hundreds of thousands of farmers across India have been protesting against the introduction of a series of agricultural laws. "Close to where Praveen Kumar is sitting with his crutches on a scooter, a brush in one hand, talking to people around him, is a large canvas -- 18 feet in length -- on which he has painted images from the farmers' protest at Singhu. Praveen has travelled some 300 kilometres to Singhu from Ludhiana, where he is an art teacher and artist. He reached the protest site at the Haryana-Delhi border on January 10, compelled, he says, to make his contribution." { read more } Be The Change What is your own relationship to farming and farmers? What is one action you can regularly take to honor the growers of the food you eat? For more stories and perspectives from farmers in India, check out The People's Archive of Rural India. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus Children, Anger Control and Inuit Wisdom This is Me at 68: Elders Reflect During Crisis I Wish My Teacher Knew... Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story On Being Alone Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade A Pandemic Poem-Prayer DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,390 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More