Das Audio- und Textarchiv wurde in den vergangenen zwei Monaten von der Tatkraft-Redaktion von Radio Utopistan zusammen gestellt und professionell eingesprochen. Von Menschen für Menschen. Rund 40 Tatkräftige aus ganz Deutschland waren bisher daran beteiligt. Ehrenamtlich. Wir haben Stimmen aus Palästina, Deutschland und Israel gesammelt. Aus der UN, der Wissenschaft und der palästinensischen Diaspora. Bekannte Namen sind darunter, sowie Unbekannte. 64 Texte sind bisher zusammen gekommen. Viele davon wurden extra für die Aktion geschrieben, andere sind schon Jahrzehnte alt. Die Angaben findet ihr immer am Ende der einzelnen Tracks. Im Podcast hier gibt es eine Auswahl an 11 Stimmen.

Auch du kannst hier tatkräftig werden: Beteilige dich mit deiner Expertise, Zeit, Reichweite und deinem Geld. Das Audio- und Textarchiv steht nun allen frei zur Verfügung. Wer sich an unseren Code of Conduct hält, kann damit Veranstaltungen, private und öffentliche Räume sowie die eignen Ohren bereichern. Wir freuen uns über irgendeine Art von Beitrag deinerseits im Gegenzug dafür. Danke!

Link zum Archiv “Hör zu, Deutschland!”

Link zum Fundraiser

Link zur Tatkraft Gemeinschaft

Tracks in der Podcast-Folge hier:

02:54 Ein Brief an die Welt von Mary H.

08:10 Jedes Mal von Sonja Howard

11:55 One day von Omar el Akkad

13:10 Zwischen Chilling-Effekt, Verantwortung und radikaler Hoffnung von Asmaa el Idrissi

19:17 Erfahrungsbericht von Ahmad aDalu von B’Tselem

25:06 Vergebung von Hadas Emma Kedar

30:54 Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst von Judith Scheytt

34:53 Madleen von Lana Bastašić

38:40 Tatreez. Fäden des Widerstands von Sarah Tobail

43:31 An alle Verantwortlichen, mein letzter Wille von Anas al Sharif

45:30 Call to Action von der Tatkraft Redaktion

Free Palestine, free Germany. Danke, dass du zuhörst.

Today in German, heute auf Deutsch. Es geht um Kaffee und damit um alles. We talk about coffee and therefore about everything. This episode is in German because the coffee man I talk to prefers German and Germany consumes A LOT of coffee.

Deutschland ist nach den USA der zweitgrößte Rohkaffee-Importeur der Welt. 1,25 Millionen Tonnen importieren wir im Jahr, 165 Liter trinken wir pro Kopf im Schnitt im Jahr. Es geht bei Deutschland und Kaffee also um einiges. Hier wird viel bewegt: Unmengen an Geld, Unmengen an Wasser, Unmengen an Land, an Transportschiffen, an Menschen – und damit werden Strukturen geschaffen. Strukturen, die entweder aufbauen oder die zerstören. Weißt du, was dein Kaffee so gemacht hat bevor du ihn trinkst?

Immer weiß ich das leider auch nicht, aber meinen Kaffee heute habe ich mit einer Freundin in Ramallah getrunken. Via Videotelefonat. Sie in ihrer Wohnung mit Blick auf die Hügel Palästinas, ich am See mit Blick auf den deutschen Wald. Kaffee verbindet. Oder - er tötet. Oft direkt, die Natur. Manchmal auch indirekt die Menschen - durch Investitionen der Konzerne, deren Unternehmenspolitik oder schlicht schreckliche Arbeitsbedingungen und Wucherkredite. Es ist schließlich immer noch ein altes Kolonialprodukt. Und eine Profitmaschine.

Pingo, der Kaffeemann, den ihr hier gleich hören werdet, hat sich genau deshalb Kaffee als sein Lebenswerkzeug ausgesucht. Es hat einen mächtigen Wirkhebel, sagt er. Die Kaffee-Kooperative, die er mitgegründet hat, importiert mittlerweile rund 300 Tonnen fair gehandelten Kaffee aus unterschiedlichen Ländern. Unter anderem aus Ecuador. Deshalb kennen wir uns. Pingo war auch in Intag, dem Tal im subtropischen Regenwald von Ecuador, das seit Jahrzehnten gegen eine Kupfermine kämpft und von dem ich hier und anderswo schon häufiger erzählt habe. In Intag bauen sie Kaffee an als Alternative zum Bergbau und damit auch als Akt des Widerstands. Pingo importiert aktuell keinen Kaffee aus dem Intag, aber vielleicht irgendwann wieder. Er hat Kaffee nämlich selbst als Akt des Widerstands kennen gelernt. In Mexiko bei den Zapatistas. Und auch als Möglichkeit Geschichten zu transportieren. Quijote heißt deshalb die Kooperative in Hamburg. Einer ihrer Leitsprüche ist, Zitat: Wir wissen sehr genau, dass es im Kapitalismus keine Gerechtigkeit geben kann. Trotzdem tun wir unser Bestes.

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Unterstütze Radio Utopistan! Wir brauchen andere Medien. Radio Utopistan könnte eines davon sein. Dafür brauchen wir Geld. Danke! Bitte, gern geschehen.

“The first colony was not territory. It was our way to see the world.” I shared parts of this poem already with you in the community. Now you have it in sounds and voice in this episode.

And you also get excerpts of an interview I did with Cenaida Guachagmira, the strongest woman of the Intag valley in Northern Ecuador. She is also the woman of a previous post in the community: Looking nature in the eye. Today you get more of her wisdom. This time in words and not only her eyes and emotions. Translated and read by me. Cenaida is fighting her government and the biggest copper company in the world to protect the subtropical rain-forest which she calls home. She is doing this with Rights of Nature, with her community and her transformative wisdom that I had the honor to listen to. Here her words are around what being indigenous means and what justice means. And again you will see the parallels between the struggle for nature defenders and the struggle for a free Palestine. Because everything is connected. Always.

Enjoy. Here my two favorite quotes:

The human being is the most guilty in the face of justice. Because as long as we don't have balance we will not be fair with any species that exists on this planet, with any river, with any tree. So it is our responsibility to make good use of these resources that still exist. It is our responsibility to know how to manage our intelligence, our body, our consciousness, our food. It is our responsibility to know where we live. It is our responsibility not to be afraid to transform ourselves, to change. Because fear makes us weak.

In every daily act it is our responsibility to achieve justice worldwide. It is OUR responsibility. Not mine! Ours! Of all of us, it is our responsibility to understand in our daily lives, to know where the food I am eating comes from. To know where the water I am drinking comes from. When I know, when you know, you will want to balance those things out. Knowing what our existence is like, where it is coming from. We cannot exist without nature. Nature, yes, she can exist without us.

Possibilities to work with me and maybe even with Cenaida:

Nature, Rights of Nature, storytelling, social movements, etc.

Or just contact me.

See you in a more just future

Elisabeth

The topic of today is one of the core reasons why I question my country and my profession. We'll talk about a free Palestine. My guest is a farmer from the illegally occupied West bank. We try talking about Palestine in the most constructive way possible in such a dystopian scenario: we try to be human and honest and graceful while people are getting killed in horrific ways every day with weapons and political support from the big powers of the international community - also from my country.

After so many months of death and destruction it is still or even more so quite difficult to talk about Palestine. What is there left to say? We have seen so much horror on our screens and so much dehumanizing, misleading media. We have also seen soulful stories of truth of course and we've seen solidarity. Here and now you get a human being talking from his chest and heart. I hope it serves YOUR heart.

What impressed me most is that he can talk about Palestine without bitterness even though there are a lot of reasons to be not only bitter. But instead he manages to actually be full of hope. That is because he has a bigger vision that keeps him going. A one state solution, a free Palestine. How this could look like, he will tell you further down the episode.

The conversation might be challenging for some of you and a relief for others. Tell me in the comments or messages how it was for you. Lets keep talking about Palestine, a free Palestine.

There is no paywall to this episode, so I'd appreciate if you consider making a fair contribution to Radio Utopistan via Substack or on our website if you are not a member yet. And share the episode if you want to spread the word. Thank you.

If you are in Hamburg the next weeks or know somebody there come to our exhibition on nature and justice. Palestine will also be there. Down to Earth - Territories.

22.4. - 4.5. @galerie_ladons Do/Fr 17-20UhrSa/So 14-18 UhrEvents:24.4. Do. Eröffnung 19 Uhr mit Tanzperformancevon Jakob Jautz + Musik von Bobdrop25.4. FR. 18 Uhr Lesung mit mir aus “Die Natur hat Recht”19 UHR ARTist Talk English26.4. Sa. 16 - 0 Uhr Lange Nacht der Museen18 Uhr Tanzperformance von Jakob JautzKuratorin @sam_gora

Hope to see you there. Happy you are here, thank you for staying utopian. See you in a more just future.

Elisabeth

I am a journalist and writer from Germany. Questioning both, journalism and Germany.

I was working as an investigative reporter and news person in corporate media, then published a book on the revolutionary idea of Rights of Nature and founded Radio Utopistan. I wanted to bring more soul to the table than classical media allows. My political heart and mind revolve mainly around nature and Palestine, two seemingly doomed topics that taught me a lot about how to stay constructive in the face of crisis.

I also do readings, lectures and workshops. Every now and then I still publish in classical media like ARD or ZEIT online. Reach out if you want to work with me.

Mallence Bart-Williams is interconnecting many roles, topics and backgrounds. She is from Sierra-Leone and was born in Germany. She studied economics and finance in Paris, Singapore and the UK and is now based in Bali where she leads a cultural space. She is a social entrepreneur who dislikes donations and charity. She is into gold and minerals, and at the same time fighting capitalism and the patriarchy. Mallence is involved and leading several initiatives, for example FOLORUNSHO, a creative collective based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is a “Sharity” initiative which supports street children and helps them to get from homelessness into education and work. Some of them now produce art and fashion or study law.

Another project of hers is Ethical Minerals. She founded it to offer an alternative to a way of mining which is destroying nature and humans. To find it out what ethical mining actually is, Mallence started mining herself and went down the pit. However just recently she experienced a harsh setback: Betrayal. How she is getting out of it? She will tell you.

I found Mallence through her TED talk “Change your Channel” on the exploitation of resources and the richness of Africa that went viral. It was shared about a 50 Million times on different platforms. I asked her if she wants to tell us more about this topic and her work in general, and I am so happy she said yes.

She will also tell you what you can do to get your own projects and ideas going even before you have a lot of money. Her tips might irritate you, they definitely will challenge you.She also tells you how to be part of the collective and get out of the individualistic mindset of the West.Her version of Utopia will make you dream. And she also will share some uncomfortable truths. Curious what you think! Happy if you share it in the comments.

We talked about:

* How to build initiatives when you don’t even have running water and electricity

* Her Utopistan: Honoring nature and the feminine

* How Europe is still exploiting the world and needs healing

* How Israel and the Palestinians are serving us as humanity in the most horrific form

* How she mastered the art of not caring what others think of her

* How she is doing ethical mining in Sierra Leone and just recovering from a setback

* The new neo-colonial trend of making profit out of yoga and spirituality

* How the truth is often brutal and the voice of a white person has a different weight than the voice of a melanated person

* Why she still has hope in humanity and why this is especially because of Palestine

* Why she is speaking German to her puppies (in the 60 minute version at the end)

You get one hour of the conversation for free in almost any podcast app and on Substack. The 90 minute version you get only as a member of the RU community on Substack. For less than a coffee a week.

We are demanding justice and this starts with recognition

Mallence Bart-Williams

Happy you are here, thank you for staying utopian. See you in a more just future.

Elisabeth

I am a journalist and writer from Germany. Questioning both, journalism and Germany.

That’s why I published a book on Rights of Nature and founded Radio Utopistan e.V. with friends. To be able to bring more soul to the table. My political heart and mind revolve mainly around nature and Palestine, two seemingly doomed topics that taught me a lot about how to stay constructive in the face of crisis.

I also do readings, lectures and workshops. Every now and then I still publish in classical media like ARD or ZEIT online. Reach out if you want to work with me.

In Greece so called Western democracy was invented. It is supposed to give everybody the same rights and a voice in the decision making process of the collective. But it is getting more and more obvious that this principle doesn't apply for everybody. Nevertheless the core idea of democracy is about living in community between people with equal rights. And in a village you can learn a lot about this principle. What's working and what's not so working.

Este episodio forma parte de nuestra exposición sobre naturaleza y justicia en Hamburgo y en Quito.

En Ecuador se llama “Natura al habla” y se exhibe en el Centro Cultural Metropolitano en Quito hasta el veintidos de septiembre. Se enfoca en el hecho de que la naturaleza también es un ser vivo y debe ser tratado con respeto.

En este episodio puedes escuchar el audio de mi instalación sonora: "23 minutos, 15 segundos"

Procede de un estudio. La Universidad de California llegó a la conclusión de que, por lo general, las personas necesitan 23 minutos y 15 segundos para volver a concentrarse plenamente en una tarea después de una interrupción.

Entonces pensé: Asumimos que lo que dicen muchos pueblos indígenas es cierto, es decir, que la tarea de los humanos en este planeta es cuidar de una interacción equilibrada entre los diversos seres vivos. Entonces los siguientes 23 minutos y 15 segundos son un intento de devolvernos a esta tarea. Es una meditación con sonidos de diferentes ecosistemas y con distintas voces indígenas. Disfrútalo.

Heute geht es um Kunst und Meditation. In Kollaboration mit verschiedenen Institutionen haben wir eine Ausstellung an drei Orten in Hamburg organisiert. Es geht um Natur und Gerechtigkeit: Akut - Should Trees have Standing?

In dieser Episode könnt ihr das Audio zu meiner Soundinstallation hören: "23 Minuten, 15 Sekunden"

Der Titel stammt aus einer Studie.

Die Universität von Kalifornien kam nämlich zu dem Schluss, dass Menschen im Allgemeinen 23 Minuten und 15 Sekunden brauchen, um sich nach einer Unterbrechung wieder voll auf eine Aufgabe konzentrieren zu können.

Wenn wir nun davon ausgehen, dass stimmt, was viele indigene Völker sagen, dass nämlich die Aufgabe des Menschen auf diesem Planeten darin besteht, sich um ein ausbalanciertes Zusammenspiel

Es ist eine Art Meditation mit Geräuschen aus verschiedenen Ökosystemen und mit Stimmen von Indigenen. Viel Vergnügen.