Rise Up Bengaluru!-Global Climate Strike with Fridays for future,Bengaluru -RJ Divya - a podcast by Radio Active CR 90.4 MHz

In the 6th episode of Rise Up, Bengaluru!, RJ Divya Narayanan of Jhatkaa.org interviews Disha and Atha from the Bangalore Chapter of Fridays For Future India.

Disha is an animal rights and environmental rights activist who works at the plant-based dairy company, Goodmilk. Born in Bengaluru, Atha studies in Eastern Europe and is dedicating his gap year to applying what he has learned in Environmental Science class in school to help fight the climate crisis in India. He speaks about how Fridays For Future came to be, led by the protests of the now iconic Swedish teenage activist, Great Thunberg. Fridays For Future is composed of school-children and young persons, like Thunberg, and would mount protests on Fridays, taking a leave from school with the belief that there is no point in going if the future remains threatened by climate change. "We were really lucky to have found him on Instagram," Disha says about Atha. "We started the Bangalore Chapter back in March when the first Global Strike was taking place. FFF Bangalore has over 200 members now, all of whom are very active. Most of it is voluntary and most of it is student-run.

"The Global Climate Strike ran from September 20 to 27. Fridays For Future was one of the major groups lead this youth effort to rally in favour of climate action that is immediate and intensive.

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