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