COTTON WIDOWS

More than 800,000 farmers have committed suicide in India. Vidarbha which was once the cott belt of India is now known as Suicide belt of India with highest rate of suicide across nation. This phenomenon has only started after the introduction of GMOs and illegal entry of handful of corporations that have now gained monopoly in cotton production through illegally acquiring all cotton seed companies, removing native seeds from circulation, pushing GMO and criminalizing agriculture. Headed by Monsanto, the most evil organization in the world, today the billionaires like Adani who has a history of corruption and environmental destruction in Australia have now joined hands to hijack agriculture and force their way into edible crops. If GMOs and corporate interference in non-edible have caused so much destruction, do we really need to anticipate what it will do if this model of business and agriculture is applied to edible crops?

We cannot stand up against corporations, demand change and create accountability if we are forever divided with our geographical borders of nations, race, and developed and developing world. There has to be a collective awareness; what happens to one is happening to all of us. We have to stand together for one world, one environment, and one race to even have a chance to hold these organisations accountable and make them extinct.

Create solidarity with a sense of urgency
Be the change you wish to see in the world and that change now has a sense of urgency. Cotton Widows aim to create that introspection that we cannot afford to wait any longer. Create an awareness of realization that’s all connected, corporate exploitation of natural resources, destruction of the environment, and gross violations of human rights and sooner or later we all will be affected. We are not separate from our communities, governments, or our systems. We are the system and it will only change when we have empathy towards all the environment, all communities, and earth as a whole – as ONE!

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Create a sense of urgency to be actively involved.
Stand in solidarity with indigenous communities whether in Australia ( STOP ADANI ) or whether in India ( current farmers protest). It’s all connected and so we all also have to!
Be a social media warrior – Follow, support, donate time, skillset, or anything that we can to organizations that are actively standing up and demanding change. Our words matter!
Support Women – So many council workers were protesting to remove a carcinogenic weedicide but the protest died as no one supported these women when it is well known that this weedicide causes breast cancers and yet its openly sold at one of our biggest hardware stores.