Democracy Café

When I first met Nahui Ludekens many moons ago in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she was doing impressive work as a photographer and with Gravity Works, an aerial acrobatic dance company. Now Nahui, who has dual Mexican-Australian citizenship, is back in Australia (where I earned my PhD), or Oz, as a college student, and is a very involved and committed political activist. On this podcast, we explore the process and events that led to this amazing young person's keen and abiding social and political consciousness and activism. Nahui and I also juxtapose and explore the political climate in Australia in comparison to that of Mexico and the U.S., and the relative ability to effect change in Australia's system of governance and civic participation versus that of these other two putatively democratic nations. Nahui's nonpareil civic spirit is contagious and inspiring. Listen in.