Posts in Colonial Violence
VANESSA CAVANAGH, RACHAEL CAVANAGH, & DEB SWAN on Ancestral Fire Regimes /205
VANESSA CAVANAGH, RACHAEL CAVANAGH, & DEB SWAN on Ancestral Fire Regimes /205

Deb, Vanessa, and Rachael share about the 2019 fires, the role of Indigenous women in cultural burning, the relationship between kin and fire, and how the intensity and scale of these bushfires need to be situated in context to the Australian government’s continued aggressive expansion of fossil fuels and coal mining.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, For The Forests, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Climate Solutions, Conservation RestorationFor The WildCultural Burning, Cultural Fires, Australia, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Australian Fires, Bushfires, Australia Fires 2019, Aboriginal Knowledge, New South Wals, Environmental Conservation, Indigenous Rights, Aboriginal Women, Women in Cultural Burning, Firesticks Alliance, Climate Change, Fire Regimes, WildfiresComment
Dr. HELEN CALDICOTT on Nuclear Narcissism /203
Dr. HELEN CALDICOTT on Nuclear Narcissism /203

Caldicott draws our attention to the realities of nuclear power reactors, proliferation and weapons, as well as the ways in which nuclearism has already wrought an unimaginable amount of havoc and trauma on our environment, culture and bodies.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, GlobalizationFor The WildFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, nuclear radiation, nuclear energy, green energy, nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, uranium, uranium mining, plutonium, Trinity testing site, Bikini Atoll, nuclear testing, nuclear disarmament, Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, nuclear war, nuclear fuel cycle, Holtec, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nuclear Madness, Missile Envy, Sleepwalking to Armageddon, ChernobylComment
GINA RAE LA CERVA on Wild Foods and Our Web of Relations /197
GINA RAE LA CERVA on Wild Foods and Our Web of Relations /197

Gina shares how colonization eradicated many wild foods, the status of wild foods in the global market, and how “feasting wild” not only awakens a central part of our being, but it is also an opportunity for foragers to leade the way in ecological restoration and conservation.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Food Sovereignty, Globalization, Conservation RestorationFor The WildGina Rae La Cerva, Santa Fe, NM, Feasting Wild, wild foods, foraging, mushroom foraging, wild mushrooms, the commodification of wild food, biodiversity, Borneo, Democratic Republic of Congo, game meat, bushmeat, wild meat, conservation, women and conservation, Noma, ramps, rewilding, biophilia, green sea turtle, extinction, industrial agriculture, diet, hunter-gathererComment
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil [ENCORE] /196
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil [ENCORE] /196

Join Faith Gemmill & Princess Lucaj in conversation around the fight to protect the life giving grounds of the Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that has been going on for decades and will continue to do so as the first leases to drill for oil and gas could be sold by the end of 2020.

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Ancient Ice, Direct Action, Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildArctic Village, Alaska, Gwich’in, earth defender, pocupine caribou, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Native Voices, wildlife protection, Honor the Earth, indigenous activism, Frontline DefenseComment
JACKIE WANG on Carceral Capitalism /189
JACKIE WANG on Carceral Capitalism /189

Explore the pervasiveness of debt, our temporal and spatial understandings of prisons, and the technological dimensions of surveillance and incarceration. We ask how we can resist the accession of predictive policing and what can digital carceral infrastructure reveal about the state’s growing surveillance apparatus?

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Political Ideology, Racial Equity JusticeFor The WildJackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, The New School, Harvard, Prison, Prison Reform, Abolition, Mass Incarceration, Austerity Measures, Coronavirus, Shock Doctrine, AI, Facial Recognition, Police Reform, Defund the Police, Surveillance, Technocracy, Neoliberal, Crime Bill, Disaster Capitalism, Racialized Debt, Debt Economy, Student Debt, Allyship Guide 1, An End to Patriarchy & PunishmentComment
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment [ENCORE] /187
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment [ENCORE] /187

Mariame joins us for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Design+Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Activism AllyshipFor The WildMariame Kaba, Survived & Punished, Transform Harm, youth incarceration, criminalized survivors, PIC, prison industrial complex, Project NIA, Transformative Justice, Restorative Justice, abolition, mass incarceration, jail, prison, safety, policing, race, abuse, domestic abuse, criminalization of survivors, criminal punishment system, reform, climate change and prisons, incarcerated women, climate disasterComment
Homebound: Embodying the Revolution with brontë velez /184
Homebound: Embodying the Revolution with brontë velez /184

Many of us are feeling pulled in this time, towards grief, towards urgency...towards feelings of helplessness. This week we invite you to shatter these repetitions and take a moment of intentional slowness to ask: How can I decompose violence in this life? Are urgency and intentionality compatible? What are the vessels that will carry us through these troubled times?

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Homebound, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity JusticeFor The Wildpoet, visionary, critical ecology, rebellion, Black wellness, decolonization of literacy, multi-media artist, black-latinx, critical geography, black liberation ecologies, creative placemaking, envioronmental racism, Lead to Life, police brutality, bronteComment
CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ on Habitat Threshold /183
CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ on Habitat Threshold /183

We discuss parenting and caring in the Anthropocene, the connection between tourism and militarism, Guåhan’s layered history and his most recent book of eco-poetry Habitat Threshold, which intimately explores ancestry, ecological collapse and the ongoing legacy of capitalism, imperialism and colonization.

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Climate Change, Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Shore Ocean Communities, Activism AllyshipFor The WildEcopoetry, Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez, Chamoru, Chamorro, Pacific Islands, Pacific Islander, Guåhan, Guam, University of Hawaii Manoa, Climate Change, Militarization, Tourism, Hawaii, Exploitative Tourism, Demilitarization, Cultural Resiliency, Deep Sea Mining, Deep-Sea Mining, Green Technology, Green Energy, Climate GriefComment
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172

Alnoor invites us into a guided conversation on neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. Topics include Wetiko mind virus, Anarchy, the root causes of poverty, the dangers of technocracy, and more.

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Homebound, Colonial Violence, The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wildpolitical organizing, systems thinking, storytelling, technology, decentralization of power, The Rules, climate change, poverty, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers, wetiko, Anarchy, Bill Gates, origins of oppressionComment
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic /171
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic /171

Ayana and Linda discuss what will be left in the wake of COVID-19, how will we tend to the wounds of disposability? What systems will endure? What must we dismantle and what will we grow? How can we deepen our actions so that they are not just a response to fear, but are rooted in the promise of collective wellbeing?

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Plant Intelligence, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Grassroots Herbalism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Transition TransformationFor The WildCOVID19, novel coronavirus, coronavirus, pandemic, food sovereignty, food security, traditional medicine, traditional foods, plant medicine, herbs, healing, restoration ecology, prairie grasslands, Linda Black Elk, victory gardens, decolonization gardens, sacred medicine, ethnobotany, United Tribes Technical College, Right Relationship, Black Elk, LindaComment
ESTRELLA SANTIAGO PÉREZ on the Importance of Community Sovereignty /168
ESTRELLA SANTIAGO PÉREZ on the Importance of Community Sovereignty /168

Estrella discusses the legacy of U.S. imperialism and global economic corruption, the erasure of Puerto Rico’s presence in mainstream media, community land trusts, gentrification in the wake of natural disaster, the complexities of property ownership and global aid initiatives.

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Colonial Violence, Design+Strategy, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Conservation RestorationFor The WildProyecto ENLACE, Puerto Rico, Cano Martin Pena, Environmental Justice, US Imperialism, Hurricane Maria, Disaster Recovery, San Juan Bay Estuary, Martina Pena Channel, Community Land Trust, Gentrification, Affordable Housing, Flood Risk, Caño Martin Peña G8, Community Investment, Community Sovereignty, Natural DisasterComment
Homebound: Personal Preparedness in Advance with Reverend M. KALANI SOUZA /166
Homebound: Personal Preparedness in Advance with Reverend M. KALANI SOUZA /166

Join us in conversation as Ayana and Kalani discuss an “all hands on deck approach” to addressing human behavior and developing personal preparedness.

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Homebound, Wisdom Keepers, Colonial Violence, Shore Ocean Communities, Transition Transformation, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildHawaiian Islands, frontline climate change, national disaster preparedness, climate chaos, adaptation, storyteller, singer, songwriter, musician, performer, poet, philosopher, priest, political satirist, peacemakerComment
InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended /160
InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended /160

Uplifting the untold story of mining, this episode braids together the history of the Gold Rush and colonization in B.C., the state of salmon, the practice of free, prior, and informed consent, dirty mining for a “clean” energy revolution, and the urgent necessity of reform.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, In The Field, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildMount Polley Mine disaster, Imperial Metals, Secwepemc, Nuxalk, Williams Lake, Fraser River, Fraser River Watershed, British Columbia, Canada, First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining, mining, mining laws, mineral tenure, salmon, toxic spill, seven generations, sacrifice zone, UNDRIP, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, clean water, responsible mining, Gold Rush, water contamination, toxic accumulation, environmental assessment, resource extraction, colonization, boarding schools, gold fever, just transition, living libraries, climate change, renewable energy, clean energy, zero-emission energy, rare earth metals, luxury, earth connection, potlatch, Indigenous bloodline, free, prior, and informed consent, consent, professional reliance, environmental protectors, earth defenders, water guardians, the Palmer Project, Constantine Metal Resources, Chilkat territory, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, love story, revolutionary love, In The FieldComment
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en ⌠ENCORE⌡ /159
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en ⌠ENCORE⌡ /159

Eriel sheds light on what Unist’ot’en Camp represents, the ongoing history of surveillance faced by frontline protectors, how policy can be a tool of forced assimilation, and the illegality of the actions taken by Canada’s federal and provincial governments.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Decolonization, Direct Action, Indigenous Sovereignty, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildLNG Pipeline, resource expansion, Wet’suwet’en Territory, Gidumt’en territory, surveillance, frontline protectors, tools of assimilation, Canadian governments, cultural identity, Indigenous land reclamation, Indigenous governance, Indigenous sovereignty, Denesuline, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, coalition builderComment
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157

Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging. Let us rekindle more generous and sustaining forms of intimacy that flow beyond the bounds of coupledom, embracing all of our kin alike.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Sexual Body Liberation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildsexuality, intimacy, kinship, decolonization, decolonizing sexuality, decolonizing intimacy, decolonizing family structure, colonial project, biopolitics, genomics, Indigenous erasure, Indigenous appropriation, nonmonogamy, polyamory, monogamy, heteronormativity, nuclear family, technoscience, liberal multiculturalism, more than human kin, caretaking, caregiving, community, Donna Haraway Inspired, Right RelationshipComment
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154

Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust.  

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Activism AllyshipFor The WildLine 5, Line 3, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Michigan, Kyle Whyte, allyship, settler colonialism, colonialism, environmental justice, ecological tipping point, relational tipping point, climate justice, climate change, climate science, DAPL, Back Forty Mine, paradigm shiftComment
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151

Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate & environmental justice.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, The Cost of Capitalism, Design+Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Activism AllyshipFor The WildMariame Kaba, Survived & Punished, Transform Harm, youth incarceration, criminalized survivors, PIC, prison industrial complex, Project NIA, Transformative Justice, Restorative Justice, abolition, mass incarceration, jail, prison, safety, policing, race, abuse, domestic abuse, criminalization of survivors, criminal punishment system, reform, climate change and prisons, incarcerated women, climate disaster, Allyship Guide 1, An End to Patriarchy & PunishmentComment
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149

Lean into Kasyyahgei’s haunting testimony of heart that bridges stories from her childhood, the incredible mycelial worlds humming beneath the forest floor, and the land of talking trees.

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In The Field, Indigenous Sovereignty, For The Forests, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial ViolenceFor The Wildtemperate rainforest, land claims, Alaska, Hoonah, ANCSA, ANILCA, Alaska Native corporations, national interest lands, old growth logging, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, ancestral wisdom, extractive tourism, Indigenous subsistence, matrilineal leadership, Roadless Rule, Tongass, Tongass National Forest, Voices of the Tongass, In The Field, CIGAW, treeoflifeplaylistComment
InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148
InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148

Guided by Wanda’s indomitable warrioress spirit, we wind through the history of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Tlingit balance of Raven and Eagle, Indigenous food sovereignty, extractive tourism, and more.

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For The Forests, Indigenous Sovereignty, In The Field, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial ViolenceFor The Wildtemperate rainforest, land claims, Alaska, Hoonah, ANCSA, ANILCA, Roadless Rule, Alaska Native corporations, national interest lands, old growth logging, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, ancestral wisdom, extractive tourism, Indigenous subsistence, matrilineal leadership, Voices of the Tongass, In The Field, CIGAWComment
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground /135
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground /135

Ayana and Pádraig explore the language of uncommon belonging; how we must learn from our shame and the danger of forgetting history, the life cycle of violence, the nature of colonial power, and how to confront the inheritance of privilege.

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Decolonization, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildJoy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy BeingsRichard Blanco, How to Love a CountryMarie Howe, MagdaleneFaisal Mohyuddin, The Displaced Children of Displaced ChildrenDanez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead, Happy Heart Salve Bright Futures, padraigComment