Decolonization: Digging deeper to get at the roots of systemic injustice and unsustainability.

PCI Executive Director Asher Miller speaks with Sherri Mitchell (Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset) on the long history of colonization and conquest -- upon which our legal, religious, and educational structures continue to be based -- and how the coronavirus pandemic and the growing recognition of white privilege present a unique opportunity to decolonize our society, minds, and hearts.
Sherri Mitchell is a lawyer, educator, writer, speaker, and organizer who has been actively involved with Indigenous rights and environmental justice work for more than 25 years.

[@hominidsteve]

The degree to which we unconsciously seek to conquer, is the degree to which we are fettered, and fail to love unconditionally...

[@ariggle77]

Thank you so much, what incredible insights. It made me think deeply about expressions like "love conquers hate" or "the war on hate" and how completely our minds have been colonized.

[@austinafrench]

Wow, astute observations!

[@cassandramichellecoaching]

i heard a story from sherri about how starlings dance away danger and how this is an alternative to conquest activism and i’ve been thinking about it ever since. how can we dance away the dangers of colonization without resorting to conquest activism?

[@christopherwallace608]

"Can't use the same tools that got us in this colonial mess" Biggest message I received. Time to break the chain of colonized problem solving

[@oscuevas1]

Sherri, enorabuena, un placer escucharte de nuevo. Con gusto voy a leer tu libro que recomendaste en una de tus conferencias.

[@atreyeeday6650]

Thank you so very much , it has taken me better parts of 2 days to slowly go back and forth ,with the unfolding of something so precious shared by this wonderfully wise woman. It is a deeply personal and political , literally like a mythic /heroic /shamanic journey, which is calling each of us to do their best bit in this unravelling and rebuilding process. Maybe more through silence, holding still and each other, and listening, to the other, to oneself for those like us who are newly awakened? Those wiser and awake longer are acting in larger spheres of influences. The colonial, capitalistic bindings around our hearts must melt first through shared stories . I would need to listen to it again and again. May you both be blessed .💛

[@cherieconrad15]

"Autobiography in 5 chapters" by Portia Nelson is the work that Sherri mentioned at around 50minutes

[@hart3105]

Thank you for your post. i am listening.

[@MargaLaubeEvolution]

It's rare to hear nuance and more deeply feminine ways of thinking, in the larger, charged conversations around the transformation of our colonized reality. As a bi-racial person (mother indigenous to India; father from Germany; first generation American) I so appreciate the bridge this conversation is.

[@cassandramichellecoaching]

the feminine way of thinking so needs to be brought back into focus!

[@motherwolf1529]

everyone is an essential worker. just throwing that out there. small businesses are hurting right now and this division caused by the media has to stop.

[@tyeminckler7774]

Phenomenal wisdom. Very profound. Thank you.

[@dinomiles7999]

Black Elk speaks. Eyes mind heart and soul wide open no fear....

[@motherwolf1529]

what are your opinions on AI and tracking that they plan to implement? what about the fact that the technology the government wants to implement that would destroy everything?

[@johnstewart7025]

Terrance nullis? It reminds me of the influence of isaac newton. Science assumes physical things have no personality, spirit or self consciousness

[@markschuette3770]

first we need to know that we are animals- like all the others- and totally dependent upon healthy ecosystems! the rest will then make sense and be clear. investing in a higher level of education will also help.

[@dinomiles7999]

I'm trying to comunicat and learn and help . Does anyone know how to contact Mrs. M. Is she located in Unity Me? Please. .

[@ninaz2120]

Then, why are you repeating the words of colonizers such as Climate disasters and Climate change invented by Algore, instead of saying environmental pollution???

[@FAMEROB]

who's non-white in this video? i can't figure it out

[@nw3949]

She sounds just like Charlie Brown's teacher

[@MW-sw7so]

We're NOT doing socialism.

[@TodBrilliant]

But we can and will!

[@chabi1207]

What is your brilliant solution then? That is all I hear but no other option to the fiasco we currently live in. Also, schools, police, fireman, politics, social security, medicare/medicaid, military, etc. are all socialism. Do some research please.

[@clavoillon]

We're collapsing. It remains to be seen which illiberal extreme will preside over contraction. We could see leftist authoritarianism follow after the right wing version. Post-modernism's denial of objective reality facilitates all forms of authoritarianism. Both illiberal extremes could create corrupt empires of raw power on a foundation of lies. Times of contraction are typically dystopian. newdiscourses.com/2020/07/complex-relationship-between-marxism-wokeness/

[@MW-sw7so]

@@clavoillon agree

[@MW-sw7so]

@@TodBrilliant no,we're not. Its incredibly stupid. Most people arent that dumb.