The Fire These Times | Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy (with Saint Andrew)

This is a conversation with Andrew, the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel 'Saint Andrewism.'

Topics Discussed

What is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism?
The problem with Greenwashing
How to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movement
Generational shifts in the climate movement
The importance of intersectionality
Switzerland's voting patterns and the reaction to Covid-19 (tangent on my part)
Why the revolution needs therapy (Reading Ashanti Alston & bell hooks, community care and solidarity, dealing with emotional baggage in revolutionary settings)
Everyone needs feminism, including men
The risks of psychologizing patriarchal oppression (brought up episode 27)
Mutual Aid
Emotional Anarchism (brought up episodes 59/60)
On social media and their limitations
Growing up in Trinidad + some chat about that specific context (legacies of colonialism, colorism, patriarchy, class divides, government corruption, education system, black capitalism, crime)
Some interesting Trinidad and Lebanon intersections/differences
Addressing Gen-Zers as a Gen-Zer
Learning from past movements' mistakes and successes
The past being taboo in Lebanon
Intersections between Solar Punk and Afro-Futurism
The radical roots of carnival (Trinidad, Notting Hill)
Discussions within anarchism

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