Raj Patel
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157 appearances
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first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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Colonized and it is gone.
But there is a moment of hope here, which is that actually if you talk to the Okinawan food activists, what they want is decolonization.
They're very clear that what they want is the base to go away and so that they can get their bloody land back and to stop epidemic levels of everything from violence and particularly rape associated with the military personnel there to a food system that works and land that they can have back and dignity that they can have.
They've been colonized by the US, by China and Japan.
They're fed up.
Just as
Book came out.
I remember we were talking to Mark Hyman, who was off to a blue zone in Sardinia, and then he couldn't go because it was on fire.
These blue zones are in places that are precarious, and they suffer from climate change no less.
And the thing that seems prophylactic to that is not just having a long lifespan, but organizing to seize power.
And this gets to the point that you were making earlier on, Rupert, that what we need is not merely a series of habits that we can transplant from one area to another, but we
We need a series of stories about how we belong and how we belong in charge together, in a sort of mode of equality with not just our fellow humans, but for the more than humans who are around us.
So I'm here in Texas, the state that fought for slavery twice.
And I say that just because, as Rupert's saying, history is a struggle to be able to tell different stories.
And here, that's not a story that certain children are allowed to hear.
They're not allowed to hear that in fact before Texas was Texas, it was part of Mexico, and then some white people had a cotton empire with enslaved people that they quite wanted to keep, and so they fought the Mexicans, and then they fought against the Union in order to keep slavery.
And
Beneath that, there's this particular part of Texas, it's a sort of palimpsest of histories of different empires.
This was the sort of southern tip of the Comanche Empire, and then before that, it was part of the Guahuiltecan and the Cado and the Alabama Cushata land, and then before that, the Isleta del Surpueblo.
And so this is a palimpsest.
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