Raíces Verdes

Raíces Verdes
Raíces Verdes

Raíces Verdes is a platform dedicated archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. Through multimedia storytelling rooted in self-determination, Raíces Verdes envisions marginalized people finding healing by reconnecting with the environment through our unique ancestral frameworks to create a Hosted by Samara Almonte, La Fresa de Rancho Artwork by Dario Castellon

  1. Beyond Representation: Recap of 2022

    10/21/2022

    Beyond Representation: Recap of 2022

    Hello all, its been a while since our last episode! A lot has been happening since Raíces Verdes last episode was release Dec, 2021. During the first half of the episode I recap different collaborations and work over the past 10 months that have helped expand Raíces Verdes storytelling from podcasting to other mediums. Towards the second half of the episode I dive more into the topics of representation, and how Raíces Verdes' focus is shifting away from meeting a "diversity quota" in the environmental & sustainability field, and instead working towards storytelling and community building that is rooted in self-determination, healing and reconnecting to our green roots. Lastly, I talk about how my understanding of my own identity as a reconnecting Indigenous women, or P'urhepecha women has shaped the new direction Raíces Verdes is heading towards and what this means for the kind of content we want to develop in 2023.  To connect with Raíces Verdes visit https://raicesverdesmedia.com/ or follow on Instagram: @nuestrasraicesverdes If you want to donate to Raíces Verdes and support our growth visit: ko-fi.com/raicesverdes Mentions in the episode: Alimentando al Pueblo: Community Stories video Healing and Storytelling in Times of COVID-19  Sage Magazine Issue 07 ft Samara Almonte Brave Space Project: Expedition Reclamation SHADO Magazine editorial pieces Refuge Outdoor Festival Eddie Bauer ft : Live Your Adventure Weapons, Drugs & Money by Simon Sedillo

    1h 5m
  2. 11/22/2021

    Finding Roots Amongst Diaspora

    This episode features Francis Mendoza. Francis goes by he/they/sila pronouns and lives on the ancestral, unceded and contemporary land of the Chocheño people in present-day Oakland, California. They are the Manager of Community Development for the Children & Nature Network and Director of the JEDAI section of the National Association for Interpretation (JEDAI means justice, equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion). Francis is a first-generation Filipinx immigrant who identifies as a male-presenting, gender non-binary Asian-American Pacific Islander. I have been following Francis on social media for a while now, so I am glad we finally had the opportunity to collaborate on an episode together. This conversation was the perfect balance of real shit being discussed and also making space for laughter and chisme :) I always enjoy connecting with Filipinx folks, because our stories of diaspora (me being from "Latin America" diaspora) are so similar and we have also have so much to teach each other. Francis shares insights from their work as a naturalist, former park ranger, and thoughts on Indigeneity and how someone living in diaspora can be in good relationship with the land we occupy that is not our ancestral territories. To engage with some of Francis's work check out: https://linktr.ee/akialoa, and follow him @roving_ranger on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/roving_ranger/ Links and resources mentioned during the episode:  https://gyfoundation.org/The-Bridge-Project https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/ https://www.childrenandnature.org/ Raices Verdes Episode: https://nuestrasraicesverdes.com/podcast/abolition-the-outdoors/ https://www.instagram.com/outdoorsforall_oldfort/ https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1040

    47 min
  3. Feminists Frameworks to Climate Change

    03/25/2021

    Feminists Frameworks to Climate Change

    In this episode we featured Andrea Vega Troncoso a queer, dominican, decolonial feminist and climate justice advocate. Originally from Santo Domingo, DR, Andrea now lives in Lenape lands or Brooklyn, NY. She’s currently working at WEDO (the Women’s Environment and Development Organization), supporting their global advocacy work at the intersections of climate, environmental, gender and development justice.  During the first part of the episode Andrea shares with us what it means for her to work under a "feminist framework" for climate action. Andrea expands on the idea of "care work as climate work and care jobs as green jobs", and centering the lives of Black and brown women who perform care work across the world. Next we focused on Andrea's undergrad thesis as an example of looking at the climate crisis affecting the DR and other islands through a feminist framework. Her thesis looked closely at how intertwined coloniality is to our current crises, especially the climate crisis. Lastly, we discussed the violence that "Latinidad" or the homogenization of Latin America contributes to the further marginalization of Black and Indigenous people within climate justice. As people of the "Latin American" diaspora, we felt it is our responsibility to continue having honest conversations about our different positionalities based on race, gender and class within the climate justice movement. To learn more about WEDO visit https://wedo.org/  And to (re)listen to other episodes discussing the complexities of Latinidad and its intersection with environmental justice check out these episodes: https://nuestrasraicesverdes.com/series/chicanismoandindegeneity/ https://nuestrasraicesverdes.com/podcast/latinidad-representation-for-who/

    57 min

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Raíces Verdes is a platform dedicated archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. Through multimedia storytelling rooted in self-determination, Raíces Verdes envisions marginalized people finding healing by reconnecting with the environment through our unique ancestral frameworks to create a Hosted by Samara Almonte, La Fresa de Rancho Artwork by Dario Castellon

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