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Ramachandra Guha on the three waves of Indian environmentalism

https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/ramachandra-guha-on-the-three-waves-of-indian-environmentalism/article69421911.ece  Environmentalism, according to Dr. Ramachandra Guha, “like feminism, like socialism, like democracy,” is a modern phenomenon. “It’s really the product of the industrial revolution, which started in Europe and then, of course, moved to other parts of the world,”  The Industrial Revolution, driven by fossil fuels, for the first time, saw radical transformations of transport and communication systems and gave birth not only to the factory system, but also to capitalism and colonialism, 

Video of lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKprWbTNPc

The Intersectional History of Environmentalism  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqYN90PPjE Mar 15, 2021
This project illuminates the diverse histories within the environmental movement that are often overlooked, watered-down, or entirely erased. Our intentions with the project:

    illuminate historically-overlooked narratives of community members, organizers + original stewards of Turtle Island.
    shed light on the contributions Black, Indigenous + people of color have made to the environmental movement. 
    encourage folks to reclaim their relationships with the nature they're already a part of 
    amplify initiatives that are creating a more just + equitable future for all people + the planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpOJU4qdS5c  Understanding Economic Crisis: Three Charts That Explain Everything Wrong with Capitalism Today Why did the US lose manufacturing jobs? What's the problem with Donald Trump's global tariff plan? Why is housing unaffordable in the US? Why are most of us economically insecure? And why is wage work so precarious? 

https://www.epi.org/blog/union-decline-rising-inequality-charts/

https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-collective-bargaining/ 

Reclaiming resistance in an age of surveillance and authoritarianism  https://diem25.org/reclaiming-resistance-in-an-age-of-surveillance-and-authoritarianism/ on 26 March 2025

There is ...an urgency to understand what comes after and alongside the movements and the protests that can help break away from the endless cycle of oppressive State-sponsored institutional tactics. What kinds of political and cultural practices, actions, and organising locate temporary moments of a kind of ‘making visible’, systems of domination? What particular formations and forms of organising have changed in New York, Serbia, Berlin, and India that are addressing the entangled histories of the far right – both in its historical forms and new structures of fascism? What kind of organising is needed to problematise the institution of art, culture, education, and politics?

What does breaking away from operating within the dynamics of these systems look, and feel like? How do we move away from identitarian politics and present the potential for renewed thinking about our futures?

The intention must be to find new ways around collectivity and community. A vocabulary outside of its mass co-option of the language of resistance.

...Many of the answers lie in the histories of cultural production that privilege documentation of vulnerable histories, and have the potential of being erased, lost, and designated to the realm of marginal-centre binaries –  from participatory filmmaking including citizen cinema to radical publishing, exhibition-making, and autonomous collectives that refuse to be legible to state-sanctioned systems to even the simple act of making a reel to tell us a story or writing a statement as political prisoners.