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

Sasha Davis: What do we do when protests and elections fail?

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

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sasha Davis is an activist and professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His previous books examine activism and environmental politics in colonial contexts, while his latest book, Replace the State, takes the lessons of those social movements and applies them to current grassroots organizing in the United States.

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Episode featured music: "Sisters of Winter" by MILCK

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I started noticing that some of the more effective movements were ones that weren't really

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asking the government to change this or that. They were like, we're taking over this place

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because the government or a corporation is going to treat it very, very badly if we don't

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or is treating it badly.

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And we are going to try and govern it ourselves for as long as we can and for as big of a

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spatial extent as we can.

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And essentially, we're going to try to replace the state.

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And I started seeing just how effective those techniques were. And that's what kind of led

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me to write this book is I think they're techniques that really could be brought into more

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activism in North America.

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Hey, you're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane.

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This conversation, if I may say so, is a must listen for these times.

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I'm speaking today with Sasha Davis, the author of Islands and Oceans, reimagining

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