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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

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

How do we navigate the overwhelm that comes from staying informed about the world’s many interconnected crises — many of which may feel extremely dire and with grave urgency? Why do we need to look beyond conventional approaches to social change, such as electoral politics and even protests asking for things to be changed? And what does it mean to shift beyond acting from a place of reactivity and resistance — and to strategize for the longer term intention of supplanting oppressive governance?

In this pertinent conversation, Green Dreamer’s host, Kaméa Chayne, is joined by Sasha Davis, who takes us through some of the themes explored in his latest book, Replace the State: What to do when protests and elections fail.

Join us as we gently but critically hold up a mirror in front of ourselves to examine our methods and mentalities of change — ultimately landing on practical lessons from many Indigenous and people-led movements that have reclaimed power through effectively “replacing the state” in some shape or capacity.

We invite you to…


Episode featured music: "Sisters of Winter" by MILCK

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0:53.8

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

1:02.0

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

1:07.0

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

1:12.4

treating it badly. And we are going to try and govern it ourselves for as long as we can and

1:18.4

for as big of a spatial extent as we can. And essentially, we're going to try to replace the state.

1:24.1

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

1:29.3

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

1:35.1

in North America.

1:40.8

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

1:46.0

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

1:52.2

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

1:57.5

reimagining sovereignty and social change, and the empire's edge, militarization,

2:03.5

resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific.

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