-After the referendum about Catalonian independence in October 2017, the work of cultural organisation Omnium Cultural was expanded: suddenly they found themselves going to trails of prosecuted fellow activists, and to prisons to visit their people. Omnium international representative Elena Jiménez i Botías: “We were not familiar with that.”

-Vreer Verkerke advocates rights of trans people - and Kurds

-Since the 1990s already, vreer verkerke, who always writes their name with lower case letters, has been waging a struggle for trans peoples’ rights. The more insight they got into power structures and oppression, the more they spoke out about other peoples’ rights as well, like Palestinians and Kurds.

-Marisela Ramirez is part of the leadership of the Resistance and Popular Rebellion Block, a cooperation of several resistance groups against the authoritarian leadership of the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. She learned to struggle for freedom from her mother and gets inspired by the veterans in the movement, who once waged a guerrilla struggle in the country. She talks about her struggle with Fréderike Geerdink, host of Avaşîn Podcast.

Avaşîn Podcast: Fréderike Geerdink talks to Lina Zedriga, the second most important leader of the National Unity Platform, the grassroots political party in Uganda that is challenging the long-time rule of dictator Museveni.

Nadja Duhacek has been part of Serbia's Women in Black for some seventeen years. She shares how she got involved, and explains in what way the Women in Black struggle against yet again, increasing nationalism and militarism.

Below are just selected excerpts, listen to the full episode of Avaşîn Podcast.

Eva (22) struggles against gentrification in Exarcheia in Greece’s capital Athens. They are the second guest in Avaşîn Podcast, in which host Fréderike Geerdink talks to people who are waging a struggle.

Listen to the whole conversation with Mike Africa Jr. about his campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal in the first episode of Avaşîn Podcast, hosted by journalist and author Fréderike Geerdink.