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greendreamer.com slash alchemize. So a lot of the indigenous communities in Ecuador's northern Amazon have been surrounded by Western civilization, industrial civilization, and because of that historical cruelty, they have been forced to have more dependencies on the towns, on the cities, industrial supply chains,

precisely because the fish have been poisoned.

The wildlife that they depended on, you know, they've lost the habitat.

And one of the things that's been so powerful over the last,

you know, 15 years living and working with these communities is that from here,

some of the strongest resistance and inspiration and decolonial processes have been born.

Hello, dear one. You are listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane. The Ecuadorian government is currently looking to auction off almost 9 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests.

So this is a very crucial time to learn more about the indigenous Amazon communities

who have been leading this resistance.

That includes tuning into my previous conversation with Waurani leader, Nemonte Nankimo,

and also listening to this supporting discussion that I shared with Nemonte's partner, Mitch Anderson,

who is co-founder of Amazon Frontlines and co-author of We Will Be Jagg Wars,

also titled We Will Not Be Saved in the UK.

Our last episode on the Amazon focused more on Nemonte's personal experiences, stories, and wisdoms as a Waurani woman based on her memoir.

And I think this interview enriches our learning even more because Mitch shares a lot of critical context around their resistance efforts,

the current picture in terms of the extent to which different communities in the Amazon

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