{"id":28069,"date":"2021-02-08T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/feb\/08\/california-indian-farmers-protest-sikh-punjab-yuba-city"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:00:38","slug":"this-has-to-end-peacefully-californias-punjabi-farmers-rally-behind-india-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28069","title":{"rendered":"‘This has to end peacefully’: California’s Punjabi farmers rally behind India protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

In northern California, home to a large Punjabi population, residents join backlash against laws \u2018shoved down people\u2019s throats\u2019<\/p>\n

Sukhcharan Singh grows walnuts in Yuba City, California, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. Like many Sikh farmers in this small Central Valley city, Singh\u2019s thoughts are occupied by the ongoing protests in India.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lose sleep over this. When I was there, it was a poor country, yes, but it was a good country,\u201d said Singh, 68, flipping through notes he has taken on the latest news out of India. \u201cLast night I finally slept at 11.30.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In northern California, home to a large Punjabi population, residents join backlash against laws \u2018shoved down people\u2019s throats\u2019Sukhcharan Singh grows walnuts in Yuba City, California, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. Like many Sikh farmers in this s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,1084,62,80,61,1083,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-california","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28071,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28069\/revisions\/28071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}