From Disha To Greta, Saving Democracy Requires We Get Radical
A rally in support of Disha Ravi in New Delhi - Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via ZUMA
The contemporary crises of our world – climatic, democratic, technological, economic, epidemic – can no longer be understood or contained within the logic of nation states.
2021-02-20
"I would like my books to be a kind of tool box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area."
– Michel Foucault
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NEW DELHI — On Feb. 14, Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old woman from Bangalore, was arrested by the Delhi police and charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy. We were told that she was participating in a global social media campaign to support the farmers protesting across India against the new farm laws and that this equaled attempting "to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India". Particularly, she was accused of modifying a document which is classified as a ‘toolkit' created for coordinating social media campaigns and protests to help the protesting farmers of India. We should note that "toolkit" may now appear to be an incendiary term for many Indians, however it is an ordinary document used by any organisation of people to coordinate and make their actions effective.