Disha Ravi On Her Activism

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The Delhi Police arrested 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi for allegedly editing two lines in the farmer protests “toolkit” shared by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. This is Ravi speaking about her climate change movement back in 2019...

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00:00So Fridays for Future is a global youth movement that was started by Greta Thunberg back in Sweden

00:06So why we picked Friday as an interesting day, so she started skipping school every week to progress for

00:14Climate change because the government and those in power aren't doing anything about it

00:19Okay, what did your parents have to say about skipping school? Not very complimentary, I assume

00:24so when we started Fridays for Future, I was still in college and

00:28It's in college, so they didn't really mind that I was skipping Friday's school

00:32So what we want to do is understand the local issues like you mentioned

00:36So first thing was awareness and then to make ourselves aware about the various issues that we are facing in Bangalore

00:44So what we did was because we are a youth movement that's spread out all around Bangalore

00:49We decentralize the society every Friday

00:52So this way we interact with the public every Friday to understand what the issues they are facing in their local area

00:59And tell them about what we are doing and why we are doing this

01:04And almost every two weeks on a Sunday we meet to discuss what the issues were in different areas

01:10And understand what we can do about it

01:12The events like clean up drives and plantation drives

01:16It's just environmental administration activities which will help us engage with the public

01:22As well as understand the requirements of the public

01:26While we don't have leaders, we do have a working group

01:30These are people who have been actively taking part in Fridays for Future for a while now

01:35One of our main working groups, she's studying climate science

01:39We also interact with climate scientists

01:43For our last protest we had a senior climate researcher from WRC come down and talk about the science aspect of it

01:50So we might be young but we really want to learn more about the topic

01:54So we engage with people who work in similar fields to understand that

01:59So while we are leaderless, we do have a working group that is quite active

02:04So if anyone wants to reach out, they can email us or reach out to us on our social media

02:09So the next step of action is we want to present our demands to the government

02:15And who would be meeting the government?

02:17The Delhi team has already met the Ministry of Environment from their last two previous strikes

02:22They were invited into the ministry

02:24So the national coordinator's meeting is to ensure that we are all on the same page

02:29On the demands that we want to present to them

02:32Because we have quite a few ideas and not all of them might be in the best interest of the movement and what we are demanding

02:38So it centers down in research on what we want together

02:43So that the Delhi team can present it to the government or the Ministry of the Environment about what our demands are

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