Indigenous rights + activism, with Princess Esméralda and Martina Fjällberg
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“Civil disobedience all through history has had a big impact. If it's non-violent but determined, it has a big impact and it has changed things. People say, how can you be against the law? I say, if the law is not right, of course you have to denounce it. That was the case for slavery. It was the case when women didn't have the right to vote. It was the case in South Africa with apartheid.” It’s not every day you get to tune in to a conversation between a member of the Belgian royal family and a 22-year-old indigenous reindeer herder from Sweden! In this episode, Princess Esméralda of Belgium and Saami activist Martina Fjällberg discuss the human costs of climate change, from language and culture to mental health; indigenous rights in conservation; and Princess Esméralda’s eye-opening experience of being arrested for her environmental activism.   To access the transcript of the show or find out more, go to https://lp.panda.org/forces-of-nature-podcast/episode3 Follow WWF on Twitter https://twitter.com/WWF or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wwf/ Join the conversation using #ForcesofNature If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review! Follow Princess Esméralda here: https://twitter.com/esmeraldadereth Check out Esméralda’s new book Quel monde pour demain? here Follow Martina here: https://www.instagram.com/martinafjallberg/  Check out Martina’s Saami youth organisation Saminuorra here: https://www.saminuorra.org/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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