Marriott's Crimes Neither Start Nor End With Down: Marriott down with the down protest, Bangalore

Sat, 05 Sept 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Description On August 22, in Bangalore, animal rights activists "protested" against "Marriott", where I spoke about the numerous ways Marriott oppresses the non-human animals, be it by stealing their feathers, their eggs, mutilating their bodies, looting their milk, extracting physical labour out of them, blocking their migrations, destruction of environment or even displacing them. And while we criticise Marriott for these various actions, what we must not forget is: neither asking for the welfarist demands of cage-free eggs, nor just eradicating down feathers from their pillows would be enough for liberation. From displacing indigenous people to screwing with workers to failing to have a half-decent anti-sexual harassment policy – Marriott cares for none of them, all they care about, are their profits, and such industries need to be burnt to the ground for total liberation.

Acknowledgements The video of the speech was recorded by Rahul Ravihal and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The video of the chants was recorded by Sunil Sathyanarayan and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Subtitles track(s) for this video are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

What Feminist Critique of Objectification in the Fashion Industry Must Not Overlook: Indore ALC 2026

Tue, 15 Sept 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Description On January 10, at end of Day 2 of Indore Animal Liberation Conference 2026, a team of animal rights activists went to Vijay Nagar to speak up for the animals oppressed and exploited in the fashion industry. This is most of what I spoke during the demonstration. While fashion industry has long list of problems from exploiting women, causing environmental destruction, capitalists extracting as much labour from the workers for as cheap as possible, relying on sweatshops in the global south, and failing to meet animal welfare standards, it is important to know that it isn't the brutal ways that the animals are treated by the fashion industry but the fact that they are oppressed, and we have to topple this industry too, for the goal of animal liberation.

Acknowledgements The video of the chants was recorded by Shweta Borgaonkar and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Subtitles track(s) for this video are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Marriott's Crimes Neither Start Nor End With Down: Marriott down with the down protest, Bangalore

What Feminist Critique of Objectification in the Fashion Industry Must Not Overlook: Indore ALC 2026