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Mon, 11/24/2025 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Decolonizing Thanksgiving: Views and Interviews from a Socialist-Feminist, Anti-racist, Anti-colonial and LGBTQ-positive Perspective
Desiree Hellegers hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving week show, featuring an all Indigenous line up of musicians and the following segments:
- “We need to dismantle settler colonialism in the United States. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank shows the world that settler colonialism only speaks the language of violence,” observes Diné (Navajo) Prof. Melanie Yazzie, in excerpts from a wide-ranging reading and talk entitled “Decolonization or Extinction: Reclaiming Our Humanity Through Our Love for the Earth.” We reprise Yazzie’s talk from WSU Vancouver’s April 2024 conference on “Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse,” Yazzie, co-host of the Red Power Hour podcast, draws on a November 2023 speech at the March on Washington for Palestine. And she reads excerpts from The Red Deal and Red Nation Rising, works that consolidate insights from more than 25 Indigenous organizers and intellectuals with The Red Nation media collective. Landback, she explains, is the “soundest environmental policy for a planet teetering on the brink of total ecological collapse.”
- “It’s important to recognize that the consolidation of the modern colonial state and the rise of the fascist state occurred pretty much at the same time. The modern colonial state and the fascist state are both particular forms of capitalist states,” observed Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash professor of History at UCLA professor of history at UCLA and author of books including Race Rebels, Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams. We hear excepts of his June 2025 talk entitled "Colonialism, Capitalism, and Fascism," which was recorded for air the weekly program Alternative Radio, hosted by David Barsamian.
- And finally, we hear reflections from student organizers with the the DocArts Initiative of Native American Programs and the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice (CSEJ) at WSU Vancouver on learning and challenging myths about Thanksgiving.
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