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Podcast#19 A glimpse into a more just future: Los Cedros and the revolutionary idea of Rights of NatureThe Los Cedros case is evidence that a more just future is possible. It
is a constructive story in times when we almost only get dystopian news
about the world we live in. It is a story humans need to not lose hope
in democracy and civil engagement. It shows us how powerful and
transforming civil society can be. How human rights and nature rights
are interconnected and how justice can be implemented.
The cloud forest of Los Cedros in Ecuador was the first case in which a
court clearly and irretrievable recognized the Rights of Nature...2024-04-0155 min
Podcast#18 Watermelons for Gaza. How to protest when freedom rights are restrictedIt is now almost six weeks since the horrors in Israel and Palestine
started – again, but this time in an unprecedented manner. It has never
been so cruel so far. So much has been said about all of it already and
it is still happening anyway. People are still getting killed on a daily
basis by a huge military apparatus that is supported by the big Western
countries of this world. Words don`t seem relevant or powerful enough in
the face of this.
The increasingly loud and aggressive discussions about Israel and
Palestine seem to create more and mo...2024-04-0130 min
Podcast#17 Keynote: How constructive storytelling can boost your life and impact in the worldWe are back from a long brake - with even more passion and new tools to
interconnect visionary people and bold ideas from around the world. Our
mission still is to inspire a more just future through storytelling.
Through constructive storytelling. And today Elisabeth will share some
insights about the power of constructive storytelling.
You will learn the very basics of:
* what is constructive storytelling and solution journalism
* why humans are always paying attention to the horror stories and how
that is affecting our mental health
* three principles + one tiny tool on how to brake the negativity...2024-04-0124 min
Podcast#1 Maria Toorpakai from Pakistan on Taliban and freedomMaria grew up in Taliban headquarter. That’s how she calls the tribal area of Waziristan where she was raised. Today she is a squash player in the international arena and has a foundation to encourage Pakistani girls to also be brave.
We talk about freedom, extremism and education. About Islam and Islamism. Maria is telling the story of her childhood and what made her burn her dresses as a kid. Also how she made it through such a long time in quarantine and what she thinks about the majority of schools today: nothing.2023-08-2442 min
Podcast#2 Grace Kabera from Congo on fear and democracyGrace is a member of the LUCHA movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is fighting for change. With change she means the end of corruption and violence. And instead creating a real democracy with social justice, clean water, paved roads and free education. With fighting she means non violent fighting: demonstrations, leaflets, social media campaigns.
Just a few days after our first conversation on democracy, useless NGOs and trauma LUCHA member Freddy Kambale was shot at a demonstration. Two police men were arrested. “We are trying our best to honor his memory and to call fo...2023-08-2453 min
Podcast#3 Majd Mashharawi from Gaza on business and politicsMajd is an engineer and founder of two companies in Gaza. A place that is often referred to as the biggest open air prison in the world. But instead of surrendering to her fate, Majd decided to create something under occupation, siege and patriarchy. In headscarf and high heels.
Her company Greencake is turning rubble and ashes into bricks and houses. Her company Sunbox is turning sunlight into electricity, and salt water into drinking water.
We talk about weddings, being betrayed, the sound of a rocket and social entrepreneurship.
Majd’s Utopia is fl...2023-08-2449 min
Podcast#4 Udo from Berlin on basic income and homelessnessUdo is a social worker in the streets of Berlin, the capital of one of the richest countries in the world. Nevertheless there are about 10.000 homeless people living on card boards or abandoned mattresses. To reduce poverty the city of Berlin invented a solidarity basic income and Udo’s organization Karuna a give-away of about 1500 Euros in cash a day.
We talk about money, solidarity, pain and paperwork.
Udo’s Utopia: Unconditional basic income for everyone and a society where people take care of each other. Where everybody can feel safe and home.Udo’s organi...2023-08-2426 min
Podcast#5 Melinda Janki from Guyana on oil, money and natureMelinda is a lawyer and environmental activist in Guyana, South America. The poor country wants to get very very rich – with oil. One of the largest oil discoveries in recent years was made off the coast of Guyana. Melinda says, we are rich already. We are a carbon sink, look at all the nature. So she is fighting with her government, with the World Bank and with one of the biggest oil companies in the world.
Melinda’s Utopia: the oil shall not be taken out. She sued her government.
We talk about money, frogs and...2023-08-2426 min
Podcast#6 Kübra Gümüsay from Germany on language and political discourseKübra is a journalist and activist in Hamburg, Germany. She just published her first book: “Language and Being” On the interdependence of language, perception and the way we treat each other. A broad and ancient topic, but Kübra found a way to talk about it that resonates with many. It’s a bestseller with ten editions in just a few months out. She speaks and lives in three languages: German, Turkish and English.
Kübra’s Utopia: It’s still under construction, for her next book. We get a sneak peek. It’s about political discourse.
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Podcast#7 Exit Part I: Fabian and Tülüfülügülümülü on Nazis in GermanyExit Part I is about stories, Exit Part II about facts and strategies. We’ll meet a Nazi-whisperer, an ex-Nazi, and a Nazi-target.
Tülüfülügülümülü is a writer and actor, son of a guest working cleaning lady and a guest working taxi driver. He grew up in Bavaria and learned the hard way. His Utopia is that people don’t try the easy way in life. You can’t find easy answers to really difficult questions, he says. Who are you in a room for 24 hours without internet?, for example.
Fabian grew...2023-08-2243 min
Podcast#7 Exit Part II: Fabian Wichmann on how to fight right wing extremism and racismExit Part I is about stories, Exit Part II about facts and strategies.
Fabian Wichmann grew up with Nazis in his schoolyard. Today he is working for Exit, an organization that helps people get out of extremist circles. His Utopia: To see that people can change. That is the biggest narrative in a democracy, he says. People can come back into society.
Fabian gives some hands on strategies of what to do about extremism and racism within your neighborhood or family. He is telling the story of the first involuntary charity march where Nazis marched...2023-08-221h 04
Radio UtopistanAyotzinapa II: A Human Rights Lawyer and a Psychologist on how to stay hopefulRadio Utopistan
We’ll visit the forensic institute of Guerrero to look for a missing son, we see if Padre Fili can establish a side hustle with a Mezcal brewer for his human rights organization Centro Minerva Bello. We learn about the connection of the violence in Guerrero to drug trafficking in the US and about the connection of illegally exported weapons from Germany to the missing 43. And Padre Fili will reveal his secret: how to talk to Narcos.
Along the way we will talk to Guadeloupe the psychologist and Hegel the human rights lawyer in Fili’s te...2021-10-3143 minRadio UtopistanAyotzinapa I: Padre Fili on drugs, violence and justice in MexicoRadio Utopistan
We are in the field again for this episode: In the drug strongholds of Mexico, the violence is unimaginable and the justice system overwhelmed or even involved. Less than two percent of crimes are solved.
Padre Fili disrupts the system. He spreads peace, joy and vanilla cream cake. In 2014 he set up camp in Ayotzinapa, where the 43 students disappeared. They were on their way to a demonstration, their buses were stopped and shot at by the police. Illegally supplied weapons from Germany were used.
Fili’s mission: to create dialogues between everybody involved: th...2021-10-1051 minRadio UtopistanSnorkeling for plastic in Mexico and talking to science in GermanyRadio Utopistan
We know there is way too much plastic in our world. And we produce and use more and more every day. It’s destroying ecosystems in the ocean and on land, our basis for life.
In the Mexican Caribbean Antonio and Alberto play Don Quichotte every Sunday morning at 7am to fight against the windmills of plastic on our planet. They pick up the trash that came with the ocean or with careless visitors. On different beaches along the Riviera Maya south of Cancun or in the waves off the coast. They are part of th...2021-04-0856 minRadio UtopistanMusicians from around the world on their very own UtopiasRadio Utopistan
Happy New Year! What is your Utopia? For the very first episode of the new year we asked musicians from around the world to answer us this very question not with words but with music. Because music sometimes is the only language left. It can articulate feelings, complexity and even politics in a way language will never be able to do. We got some musical answers from the Altai mountains, from the capital of DR Congo, from Spanish Berlin and Arabic Berlin. From the green hills of England, the streets of Moscow and the Caribbean.
...2021-01-0254 minRadio UtopistanExit II: Fabian Wichmann on how to fight right wing extremism and racismRadio Utopistan
Exit Part II: Fabian Wichmann on how to fight right wing extremism and racism
Exit Part I is about stories, Exit Part II about facts and strategies.
Fabian Wichmann grew up with Nazis in his schoolyard. Today he is working for Exit, an organization that helps people get out of extremist circles. His Utopia: To see that people can change. That is the biggest narrative in a democracy, he says. People can come back into society.
Fabian gives some hands on strategies of what to do about extremism and racism within...2020-12-201h 04Radio UtopistanExit I: Fabian and Tülüfülükülümülü on Nazis in GermanyRadio Utopistan
Part one is about stories, part two about facts and strategies. We’ll meet a Nazi-whisperer, an ex-Nazi, and a Nazi-target.
Tülüfülükülümülü is a writer and actor, son of a guest working cleaning lady and a guest working taxi driver. He grew up in Bavaria and learned the hard way. His Utopia is that people don’t try the easy way in life. You can’t find easy answers to really difficult questions, he says. Who are you in a room for 24 hours without internet?, for example.
Fabian grew...2020-12-1643 min