Ep. 51 - War! What is it good for? ft. Tanvi Kapatral

BrownTown shares space with Tanvi Kapatral as the team talks
anti-militarism organizing, narrative-building, and working
towards a world where we actually fund live-giving services, not
endless wars. Tanvi explains Dissenters organizing strategy of
mobilizing on college campuses and other institutions while
critiquing and resisting the military-industrial complex in all
its forms. By finding commonalities between other clubs that also
are oppressed from war (i.e. environmental club learning the US
military is the world's largest institutional green houses gas
emitter), they can broaden their coalition.


War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Now that that's
understood, how do we resist, reclaim, restore, and love? Here's
their take. Originally recorded March 2, 2020.


GUEST
Tanvi Kapatral was born and raised in Chicago. She began
organizing at 15, as a member of Chicago Desi Youth Rising. She
is currently on a break from college and utilizing this gap year
to get further involved in Chicago organizing, particularly on
issues surrounding the oppression of minorities in India and the
rise of Hindu Nationalism. She is a member of Dissenters, a
national youth-led anti-war movement that is working to put
pressure on college campuses and other institutions to divest
from endless wars and reinvest in life and healing. Her other
interests include classical South Asian dance and music, and
studying the usage of psychedelic therapy on addiction, anxiety,
and trauma. She hopes to eventually pursue her PhD in Psychology.


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Follow Tanvi on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and Dissenters
on their site, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.


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CREDITS: Intro song War (What is it good
for) by Edwin Starr. Outro song Killing in the Name by
Rage Against the Machine. Audio engineering by Genta Tamashiro.


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