Nick Estes: Expanding activism beyond electoral politics

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What does it mean to expand political action beyond the voting booth? What are some ways that colonialism and imperialism persist today? And what is the relationship between building community locally and confronting issues abroad that we may be entangled in?

In this honest, hard-hitting dialogue, second-time guest Nick Estes returns to invite us to think critically beyond the suffocating cycles of electoral politics.

Join us as we honestly face the limitations of representational change, while looking to the peripheries for alternative sources of inspiration and guidance.

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1:03.7	whatever forms of support you're able to share with us. For now, enjoy the show. But how you translate that into actual political power, well, you know, I think we're kind of having this come to God moment where it's like we, you know, have been sold down the river so many times by these people, you know, so what is that saying?
1:24.0	Like, fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me or something like that.
1:35.5	You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane.
1:40.4	Today we are honored to welcome back Nick Estes, an enrolled member of the Lower Burlesoo Tribe, and an assistant professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
1:53.9	We spoke with Nick a few years back for episode 328, exploring topics covered in his book, Our History is the Future, Standing Rock
2:03.8	versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance.
2:10.0	Today, we discuss moving beyond the toxic cycles of electoral politics.
2:18.2	I would like to just kind of dive right into the hard-hitting stuff.
2:23.2	I think a lot of people have this presumption that colonialism and imperialism are things of the past,
2:29.7	and we're in this post-colonial era.
2:33.0	But there are, of course, different forms and stages to these
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