161) Mitch Anderson [PART 1]: Dismantling privileged views to support the struggles of the Amazon's indigenous peoples
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Mitch Anderson is the Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines, an international group of human rights lawyers, environmental activists, forestry specialists, environmental health scientists, filmmakers, journalists, anthropologists, and farmers working to support the struggles of indigenous peoples and defend their rights to land, life, and cultural survival in the Amazon Rainforest.
In 2011, Mitch moved to Ecuador’s northern Amazon to begin a clean water project with the indigenous communities living downriver from contaminating oil operations. Through building nearly 1,000 water systems in over 50 indigenous villages, Mitch supported the creation of the Ceibo Alliance, an indigenous movement for land, life, and cultural survival in the western Amazon.
On this podcast episode, Mitch sheds light on his journey dismantling his privileged worldview in order to truly understand and meaningfully support the struggles of indigenous peoples across the Americas; how to help the indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest and beyond to achieve their goals of conservation without perpetuating white saviorism or further marginalizing them with our senses of morality and idealism; and more.
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| 1:21.6 | I think that the fate of the entire Amazon rainforest is in the hands of the indigenous youth, |
| 1:26.6 | the next generation of leaders, |
| 1:28.6 | and how they navigate this complex reality that they're living. |
| 1:34.2 | That was Mitch Anderson, the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines, |
| 1:39.8 | which is an international group of human rights lawyers, environmental activists, |
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