#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 November 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Air Date: 11/23/2019
Today we take a look at just a few forms the decolonization movement is taking from finance to cartography to the internet and beyond.
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SHOW NOTES
Laura speaks to Edgar Villanueva, about being one of the very few indigenous people working in grant-making, and ask what he thinks Native American traditions have to teach philanthropy. His latest book is "Decolonizing Wealth"
Ch. 2: Decolonizing philanthropy - Native America Calling - Air Date 12-13-18
Edgar Villanueva, author of “Decolonizing Wealth,” questions the wisdom of accepting funds from philanthropic endeavors built by corporate giants whose business is in direct conflict with Native sovereignty and sustainability.
Ch. 3: Decolonize the Internet - Tiny Spark - Air Date 3-8-19
The internet is very white male-biased, it's important to find and prop up all other voices.
Ch. 4: Decolonizing Maps - Native America Calling - Air Date 8-28-19
Indigenous Map making is a greatly different experience from what western colonialism forces people to use. Maps can tell a story, and engage with people.
Ch. 5: Decolonization Is For Everyone with Nikki Sanchez - TEDx Talks - Air Date 3-12-19
Nikki Sanchez shares her vision of a world where we listen and care and stop dehumanizing people.
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Ch. 6: Hoping to save a life - James from Sacramento, CA
Ch. 7: Wealth tax for the children - Chris from San Diego
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Ch. 8: Final comments on the tragedy of wealth and the difference between aggregation and curation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | learn just a few different forms of decolonization. |
| 0:11.4 | But before we get started I will explain what I mean by decolonization. |
| 0:16.8 | But before I do that I'm going to back up even further for context because I love context. |
| 0:21.9 | Today's episode is about native people specifically in the decolonization movement amongst native |
| 0:27.5 | people in North America. |
| 0:30.4 | And so this episode is a part of a series, very loose series that I've been doing for |
| 0:35.6 | more than a year. |
| 0:37.3 | It started back with Columbus Day 2018, so more than a year ago, with episode number 1216. |
| 0:45.2 | Taking a different look at Columbus Day because Columbus was terrible. |
| 0:49.4 | Next up was number 1230 looking at Thanksgiving, sort of going in historical chronological order. |
| 0:56.7 | So looking at Thanksgiving and the cultural heritage that came from that. |
| 1:00.8 | Next up of course was Westwood expansion, the first steps of American imperialism. |
| 1:07.5 | The next one up was 1265, which was a more complicated and nuanced one talking about |
| 1:14.2 | the fact that a lot of white people don't seem to know is that native people are not |
| 1:18.4 | gone. |
| 1:19.4 | They didn't disappear. |
| 1:22.1 | They weren't wiped out. |
| 1:24.7 | They didn't, sure, but they're actually still here. |
| 1:27.8 | And so 1265 was titled moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting, meaning that native |
| 1:33.6 | people are still here. |
| 1:35.4 | They're in a slightly different form than when Europeans came and met them originally, |
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