"Yo nací y el mar ya estaba ahí". Artista, bailarín y productor, Fabricio Di Giacomo y su comunidad han emprendido una lucha colectiva para proteger el golfo San Matías, en el norte de la Patagonia Argentina, de un oleoducto y de la consiguiente campaña de desinformación dirigida por políticxs y empresas petroleras para justificar la producción y contaminación . En este episodio, Fabricio explora su conexión con la naturaleza, el océano y sus ecosistemas. Habla de la importancia de organizarse, de la campaña para defender el Mar Argentino y de cómo la información puede utilizarse como arma para cambiar narrativas e historias.

“I was born and the sea was already there”. Artist, dancer, and producer Fabricio Di Giacomo and his community have been in a collective fight to protect the San Matías Gulf in Northern Argentinian Patagonia from oil pipeline, and an ensuing disinformation drive led by politicians and companies to justify producing and polluting. In this episode, which is in Spanish, Fabricio explores his connection to nature, the ocean, and its ecosystems. He talks about the importance of organizing, the campaign to defend the Argentine Sea, and how information can be weaponized to shift narratives and stories. 

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Why and how do we organize in times of crisis? Seb Alex is an animal rights advocate from Lebanon. He shares the powerful story of how he helped organize a food relief program in the immediate aftermath of the explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020, and the intersecting communities that were touched. Seb explores wider philosophical questions on the topic of faith and religion when it comes to veganism, providing an insightful window into organizing in space that we might not usually associate with human rights. 

About Seb:

Seb Alex is the founder of the Middle East Vegan Society, and author of the free Ebook When Animal Rights & Logic Meet. He’s also a content creator and podcaster, and gives lectures on Animal ethics in universities and schools around the world.

What does it mean to be able to slow down, observe, listen, and reflect? Climate activist, Human rights and land defender, Ayisha Siddiqa, shares the story of herself and her community in Northern Pakistan. It’s a story full of pride, but also of grief and loss. It’s one of migration, of land and of nature; and how poetry and the pen are powerful tools to process and protest. This story highlights how important those precious moments are where we can stop and breathe in the beauty; deeply  human moments of longing and belonging.

About Ayisha:

Ayisha Siddiqa is an environmentalist, a poet, a human rights defender, a storyteller, a climate advisor to the UN secretary general, co-founder of Polluters Out and Fossil Free University, research scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University, and a 2023 Time Magazine Women of the Year. 

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How do you organize when mere existence can be resistance? This is the powerful anonymous testimony of a climate justice activist from Kenya on what it’s like to campaign publicly for climate justice while having to keep her queer identity private for her own safety and security. This is a story about what it means to organize in contested spaces, and it’s one that mirrors the experiences of many other LGBQTI+ activists and marginalized communities around the world. It’s a reminder of why, every single day, we must collectively organize to fight systems of oppression wherever we find them, and in whatever form.

Practicing care to build community is as old as organizing itself, yet it is often seen as nothing short of radical. Writer, activist, and community builder Philsan Osman talks about how practices of care, ritual, joy and pleasure can be experienced in the vulnerable spaces of our homes as deeply human forms of resistance, and how they’re led by women, gender minorities, people of color, and other marginalized communities.    

About Philsan:

Philsan Osman (she/her) co-authored 'Dare To Care: Ecofeminism as a source of inspiration' (EPO 2021). She studies African Languages and Cultures at the University of Gent, and volunteers for Black History Month Belgium, online feminist magazine Spijker Magazine, and Burgerplicht in Gent. Philsan is from Somalia, and is a writer, activist, and community builder. 

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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone". Youth activist and filmmaker Nanticha (Lynn) Ocharoenchai makes the case for using humor to communicate effectively and to build resilience in community organizing.

About Lynn:

Nanticha (Lynn) Ocharoenchai is an environmental storyteller and climate activist from Thailand. From wildlife conservation and sustainable solutions to indigenous rights and youth movements, Nanticha uses writing and film to inspire and enable individuals, businesses and governments to help create a better shared planet and home. Her work has been featured in publications such as Mongabay and Bangkok Post, as well as NGOs like WWF and Greenpeace.

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Our so-called leaders are failing us, particularly vulnerable communities and minority groups most affected by the climate crisis. Pacific feminist activist and community organiser Noelene Nabulivou talks about how we move forward and lead in ecocidal times. 

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About Noelene:

Noelene is a feminist community organiser, analyst, educator and activist working for socio-economic, ecological and climate justice and universal human rights in urban informal settlements, rural and maritime Fiji, the Pacific and globally for over 35 years. Guided by autonomous feminist movements, Noelene works with communities, governments, development sector and the UN to advance heterodox strategies on urgent, complex questions of human rights and development justice.  She is the executive director of Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality and holds many social movement roles. In 2020 Noelene was the recipient of the International Women’s Health Coalition's Joan B. Dunlop award for advocacy.  She lives in Nadi, Fiji.

There is more that unites us than divides us, yet we still often struggle in silos. How do we unite for justice?

LGBTQIA+ activists Mike Jackson and Dave Lewis from the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) movement share their inspiring story - popularised through the award-winning movie PRIDE (2014) - about two very different communities bridging the divide and joining forces for justice. 

About Mike & Dave:

Mike grew up in Lancashire in the late 1950’s-60’s amidst cotton weaving  sheds, coal mines, iron foundries and an almost perpetually grey sky!  He left home at 16 determined to follow a career in horticulture and at 19 became a diploma student at Kew Gardens in London. The same year he  ‘came-out’ and became an LGBT+ activist. He has been a socialist since his teenage years and supporting the miners’ strike in 1984 came  naturally. He was the main consultant to UK Pathé in the development of the movie PRIDE which was released in 2014.

Dave grew up in South London in the 1960's. He worked in the National  Rail network for 35 years and is now retired. He came out to his parents and family aged 20 in 1979. Today, he still lives in South London, in blissful retirement.