(Rediff) Episode 68 - Vandana Shiva - 🇬🇧

Pendant la coupure estivale, Lauren Bastide vous invite à (ré)écouter certains des épisodes les plus marquants de La Poudre 🔥 Et pour commencer, dans ces temps où la catastrophe écologique est de plus en plus palpable, voici l’interview de la grande militante Vandana Shiva à (re)glisser dans vos oreilles. Diffusée le 19 mars 2020, cette discussion résonne toujours avec autant de force. Cet épisode de La Poudre est disponible à l’écoute dans une version doublée en français. Cliquez ici pour l’écouter. The ecofeminist activist Vandana Shiva is the guest of the 68th episode of La Poudre.With Lauren Bastide, they talked about staying hopeful, hugging trees and disobey. Lauren’s foreword: On the 21st of January 2017, I was in Washington D.C. at the Women’s March. This gave birth to the episode « La Marche », published on the 8th of March 2017. That’s where I recorded the « We are not afraid of Donald Trump » that you can hear in the opening credits. I can’t believe it’s been three years already. It was the spark, the starting point of the feminist revolution we are living today. On that day, half a million women were on the streets in Washington. And on that day, I met one woman : Ashley McCray. This encounter was crucial for me. Thanks to her, I understood that patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism are three sides of the same system. Episode summary: Vandana Shiva has been leading both environmentalist and feminist fights for more than fifty years accross the globe. Despite this long-term endeavor, she is also one of the few carrying the idea of necessary hope in her speeches and writings (02:45). She sees hope as essential to avoid defeatism: we need to fight fatalism and use all the remaining time to act instead of running away and abandoning the planet (03:29). Born on the 5th of November 1952 in Dehradun (India), she studied physics and science philosophy, in both India and Canada. After fighting against gigantic dams construction, or taking par