Mitch Anderson: Join the Amazon’s resistance against oil expansion
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Ecuadorian government is currently planning to auction off 8.7 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests.
What is at stake — for the Indigenous communities of the Amazon, for people outside of the Amazon, and for the planet — with millions of acres of lively, intact rainforest being put on the line?
What can we learn from how the Waorani people won their historic legal victory in 2019 to protect 500,000 acres of rainforest from oil drilling? And how do we go about building solidarity across communities and borders, and between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous allies?
Today, Green Dreamer’s host, Kaméa, speaks with Mitch Anderson, who is, alongside Nemonte Nenquimo, the co-founder of Amazon Frontlines and co-author of We Will Be Jaguars.
Join us as we question economic incentives that narrow-mindedly privilege monetary currencies above other currencies of Life, re-examine the concepts of “convenience” and “remoteness,” and more.
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| 0:54.0 | So a lot of the indigenous communities in Ecuador's northern Amazon |
| 0:58.0 | have been surrounded by Western civilization, |
| 1:02.0 | industrial civilization, and because of that historical cruelty, |
| 1:07.0 | they have been forced to have more dependencies on the towns, on the cities, industrial supply chains, |
| 1:16.8 | precisely because the fish have been poisoned. |
| 1:20.8 | The wildlife that they depended on, you know, they've lost the habitat. |
| 1:25.1 | And one of the things that's been so powerful over the last, |
| 1:28.3 | you know, 15 years living and working with these communities is that from here, |
| 1:33.3 | some of the strongest resistance and inspiration and decolonial processes have been born. |
| 1:51.2 | Hello, dear one, you are listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane. |
| 2:00.0 | The Ecuadorian government is currently looking to auction off almost 9 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests. |
| 2:04.9 | So this is a very crucial time to learn more about the indigenous Amazon communities who have been leading this resistance. |
| 2:08.2 | That includes tuning into my previous conversation with Waurani leader, Nemonte Nankimo, |
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