Shades of Green

Welcome to Shades of Green, a podcast exploring environmental justice from unceded Mi’kmaq territory. This series features a variety of amazing voices -- including Lincolnville resident James Desmond, MSVU Nancy’s Chair El Jones, frontline Mi’kmaq activists Barbara Low, Madonna Bernard, Paula Isaac and Michelle Paul, Order of Canada recipient Catherine Martin, Africville descendent and teacher Jaden Dixon, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Sipekne’katik District War Chief Jim Maloney, archeologist and ethnographer Roger Lewis, and environmental justice researchers Dr. Cheryl Teelucksingh, Dr. Carolyn Finney, Dr. Julian Agyeman, and Dr. Ingrid Waldron, amongst others. Shades of Green was made possible by countless people engaged in thinking about and fighting for environmental justice in Mi'kma'ki, across Turtle Island and Beyond. It has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network. Our theme was composed by Nick Durado. https://budi.bandcamp.com/ Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you enjoy fine podcasts, and follow us on Twitter: @NSShadesofGreen

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Justice in Public: Reconciliation, Reparations and the Decolonized Future

What will Mi'kma'ki look and feel like when environmental justice is achieved? Over the last couple of years, we've asked this question to dozens of people working on the front lines of these movements. Because it turns out that environmental justice is not just about dismantling systems of oppression like colonial and white supremacy. It definitely IS about those things, but it's also about imagining and shaping futures where we can all safely live, work and play together on these unceded lands...

Mar 15, 2018•1 hr 11 min

Listen Up: Building Relationships Across Difference in the Environmental Movement

When it comes to environmental justice, are environmental organizations listening? Are we willing to change in the ways that we are being asked? Environmental justice movements define our environment more broadly than the mainstream environmental movement, recognizing the interconnectedness of the social and ecological crises we are facing. Centring the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of colour, environmental justice works to resist and reshape the ways that race, space and power intersec...

Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min

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