Episode 46 - Daze Aghaji - A Kindness Rebellion

“So when we start looking into ideas like regenerative cultures, you can see the ways we’ve learned to treat one another, which starts to link to the social justice element, of ways of using each other, abusing each other, and treating each other like shit, to be quite honest. And what we’ve done is taken that same energy to the earth, but the earth is kicking us out like we’re bad tenants; and that’s what’s happening with climate change. And the only way we can really resolve the issues with the environment and climate, is by solving the ways that we treat one another and puting love, duty and care at the heart of everything we do and this is where I feel that Covid has really began to highlight that for us; what can society look like when we help each other?” Daze Aghaji is a climate justice activist and a history and politics student at Goldsmiths University. In 2019, she became the youngest person to run as a MEP candidate at just nineteen years of age. Her advocacy for radical systemic change has seen her work with major NGOs, leading charities and grassroots change makers all across the globe. She’s currently a member of Extinction Rebellion and a trustee at Belgrave Trust, championing regenerative cultures, intersectionality, environmental justice, youth political engagement and funding social change. Listen to Dan and Daze discuss: - Formative years and the journey into climate activism - Reflections as a European member of parliament candidate - Covid lifting the veil upon systemic injustice - Finding and raising our voice as a collective - Resilience, self belief and community care - Identifying blind spots and inviting marginalized voices to help find solutions - Encouraging and supporting young dreamers to envision new futures - Overcoming conditioning and human constructs to make change - Uncovering the hidden consequences of destructive actions - How to support and empower those suffering eco-anxiety - Healing; an inside job. - Mixed feelings for COP26. When will something be done? - Community solutions. No-one is forgotten - Involvement creates change. How can you better this world? - We’re all crew upon Spaceship Earth! Community and Links People: Roger Hallam (Co-founder of XR) Greta Thunberg Projects: Extinction Rebellion - https://extinctionrebellion.uk Force of Nature - https://www.forceofnature.xyz/ COP26 - https://ukcop26.org Places: London Lincolnshire Skegness Europe Photo: Amber Pinkerton Connect Instagram: @dazeaghaji ————— Play out track: People Help the People - Birdie https://music.apple.com/gb/album/people-help-the-people-ep/473981658 Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth Podcast. Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Subscribe to monthly newsletter: https://becomingcrew.substack.com/welcome If you wish to support The Spaceship Earth podcast, please leave us a review or share your favourite episode on social media, as this helps others find it.