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In der zweiten Episode der Roots geht es um Gesetze und Gerechtigkeit und dabei auch um die Rechte der Natur. Also, um eine der stärksten realen Utopien, die die Menschheit gerade so zu bieten hat - im Angesicht von Klimakollaps, Massensterben der Arten, Genozid, Faschismus und AI. Bei den Rechten der Natur geht nämlich darum, alles Leben tatsächlich als lebenswert anzuerkennen und zu respektieren. In unserem Weltverständnis und auch in unseren Gesetzen. Ökosysteme gelten mit den Rechten der Natur nicht mehr als Eigentum, sondern als das was sie tatsächlich sind: als Lebewesen. Und wir Menschen gelten als Teil dieser Ökosysteme. Damit hätten dann auch wir zB ein Recht auf Regeneration. Imaginate! Imagine! Keine Ausbeutung mehr, nur noch Wohnungen, die man sich auch leisten kann. Und natürlich absolut keine Unterstützung für einen Genozid mehr. Sogar in Deutschland gibt es Initiativen, die sich dafür stark machen. Das erste und bisher einzige Land auf der Welt, das die Rechte der Natur bis auf Verfassungsebene realisiert hat, ist Ecuador. Und der Nebelregenwald von Intag dort, der ja die Lehrmeisterin unserer Roots of Everything Reihe ist, der hat gleich zwei elementare Präzedenzfälle zu den Rechten der Natur zu bieten. Wir hören in dieser Episode aber auch von anderen Territorien und von den Gesetzen, die wir in Deutschland ohnehin schon haben. Wir gehen mit Miriam zum Beispiel nach Pakistan, wo Menschen noch immer unter den massiven Überschwemmungen von 2022 leiden und jetzt mit deutschen Gesetzen und Gerichten deutsche Mega-Konzerne zur Verantwortung ziehen wollen. Zur Verantwortung für ihren Anteil am menschengemachten Klimakollaps. Mit der Unterstützung von ECCHR und Medico. Wir gehen außerdem nach Sarayaku. Das liegt auch in Ecuador, aber nicht im Nebelregenwald sondern im Amazonas dort. Hier leben die Menschen schon seit Jahrtausenden auf ihre ganz eigene Art und Weise mit Rechten und Respekt vor der Natur. Schon lange bevor es die Rechte der Natur als juristische Idee überhaupt gab. Links und Initiativen zum Weiterlernen und vor allem auch Machen: European Center for Human and Constitutional Rights (ECCHR) Living Forest Constitutionalism, Jenny’s Buch zu Sarayaku Initiative Lieferkettengesetz Rechte der Spree Spende an Radio Utopistan e.V. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

The Roots of Everything is an event series Radio Utopistan is hosting right now together with the Club of Engineers and Friends in and with Spore in Berlin. It is about utopias and resistance in a rather dystopian world and time. We learn from the cloud forest of Intag in Ecuador and from other territories around the world, like from Bangladesh, from Palestine, from Brandenburg and Berlin herself. We have five big topics and several events and workshops around it. Its on rights and justice, on community building and alternative economies for example. In the podcast you will get the recordings of the evening events with our guests. And we invite you warmly to come to the live events, of course. They run until mid- July. Come. The first event was and this podcast episode here is on the Power of Imagination, because this is basically the root of really everything. Only what we can imagine, we can then turn into reality. Our guests are economist and climate activist Tonny Nowshin and futurist Ouassima Laabich. As well as some voices from the cloud forest of Intag, Ecuador. DATES. Events in English, German and some Espanol: May 5 / 6: The Power of Imagination: The Cloud Forest as a Real Utopia May 19 / 20: Von Würde und Gerechtigkeit: Rechte der Natur vor Gericht June 2 / 3: Radikale Regeneration: Für Wälder und Seelen June 30 / July 1: Resiliente Gemeinschaften: Zusammenwachsen statt zerstreiten (mit Cenaida Guachagmira) July 7 / 8: Alternative Ökonomien: Reichtum neu definieren (mit Cenaida + Carlos Zorrilla) July 10 / 11: Utopien Ernte und Fiesta (mit Cenaida) Programm Details at Spore in English und Deutsch Support the protection of the Intag forest here. Money goes to projects built by the community of Intag. Support Radio Utopistan e.V. and more constructive stories and real Utopias here. Become part of The Roots and join us at our events, workshops or even in organizing the series, its publications and its future! Join a workshop: Each topic has a deep dive the next day. You can find more information at Spore Website or Radio Utopistan Instagram. Join the organizing team. And if you are not on Instagram, just send a mail to: [email protected] See you in a more just future Elisabeth This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

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. Storytelling Workshop digital oder auf Anfrage auch in echt vor Ort 1:1 Mentorship Programm Unterstütze Radio Utopistan! Wir brauchen andere Medien. Radio Utopistan könnte eines davon sein. Dafür brauchen wir Geld. Danke! Bitte, gern geschehen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radioutopistan.substack.com 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.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radioutopistan.substack.com 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.

Kübra Gümüsay ist Autorin des Bestsellers „Sprache und Sein“ und aktuell Fellow am New Institut in Hamburg, wo sie zu realen Utopien, der Politik der Imagination und und zu gerechten Zukünften forscht. Sie ist außerdem Moderatorin der Gesprächsreihe „Utopia Talks“ am Thalia Theater. Also die perfekte Partnerin, um sich über die Kraft von Utopien und konstruktiven Geschichten auszutauschen. Wir sprechen über reale Utopien und was es für einen nachhaltigen Widerstand gegen die bestehenden Systeme sonst noch so braucht. Was die Palästina-Protestcamps damit zu tun haben und über die Frage, wessen Träume und Vorstellungen von einer gerechteren Zukunft denn überhaupt in die Wirklichkeit übertragen werden und warum. Es geht um Reichtum, um Wissen und um ein Geheimrezept von Kübras Großtante in der Türkei. Vor allem aber geht es um Macht und wie man sie aufbrechen kann. Viel Vergnügen. Das Gespräch war Teil unserer Veranstaltungsreihe zur Ausstellung „Akut – Should Trees have Standing?“ im Westwert und im Gängeviertel Hamburg. Kunst ist schließlich der Ort, an dem Imagination besonders gut wachsen sollte. Moderiert von Mariam Dabdoub INHALT 2:30 Was ist überhaupt eine Utopie? Was sind reale Utopien? 6:00 Medien erzählen uns meistens von Problemen und Disaster. Umso wichtiger ist es reale Utopien zu suchen und zu erzählen 8:00 Utopie des einen kann die Dystopie des anderen sein. ZB Neo-Liberal kapitalistische Versprechen gaukeln uns eine Utopie vor, die nicht real ist 10:00 Wer darf überhaupt über Utopien sprechen? Wer wird gehört? Elon Musk oder Gerechtigkeitsbewegungen 12:00 Über die Utopie von Reichtum 15:00 Achtung: Menschen machen Fehler und alles ist missbräuchlich, von Demokratie über Marktwirtschaft und Religion 17:00 Manchmal wird altes Wissen über gerechtere Möglichkeiten ausgelöscht oder geht verloren. Beispiel aus Hawai 20:00 Wie stärkt man Imaginationskraft? 22:00 Wenn man vor allem damit beschäftigt ist die Gegenwart zu dekonstruieren, fällt es besonders schwer eine Alternative zu konstruieren, zu imaginieren 23:00 Wir werden dazu gezwungen, ständig die Missstände zu beweisen und haben deshalb gar keine Zeit und Kraft übrig, um Alternativen zu schaffen. Beispiele. Umoso wichtiger ist es Ressourcen ins Imaginieren und in reale Utopien zu stecken 25:00 Dabei wichtig: Ressourcen in wessen Imaginationskraft? Elon Musk oder organical farming zB? 27:00 Bedeutung von Sicherheit und Ressourcen, um überhaupt imaginieren zu können 30:00 Geschichte über Musiker, der in den 70ern aus Frankreich nach Ecuador geflohen ist, um wieder atmen zu können. Da hat er verstanden, wie gefährlich und mächtig das Patriarchat ist und warum 34:00 Imagination und Polizeigewalt in USA 35:00 Lernen und Wissensproduktion: Was gilt überhaupt als Wissen und was nur als Erfahrung oder Spinnerei 40:00 Kübras Großtante in der Türkei: Zero Waste bevor es das Wort dafür überhaupt gab 41:00 Indigene Wissensverbreitung ohne Wissensverlust: Sarayaku im ecuadorianischen Amazonas 43:00 Wie können wir die aktuellen Denkschablonen durchbrechen, anderes Wissen in den Diskurs speisen und den Imaginationsmuskel trainieren? Beispiele 46:00 Trick: Sich mit Sehnsüchten beschäftigen 48:00 Imaginationskraft alleine ohne sie mit Handlungsmöglichkeiten und Handlungsfähigkeiten zu verknüpfen, führt dazu, dass es wirklich bei einer Träumerei bleibt und dann eigentlich nur Ohnmacht in Menschen sähen. Beispiele 50:00 Was haben die Palästina-Protestcamps damit zu tun? Zeigen und erleben, dass eine andere, solidarische Welt möglich ist. Außerdem wird Wissenslücke geschlossen 57:30 Robin Wall Kimmerer: How to become indigenious to a place. Was bedeutet es ein Verhältnis zu einem Ort zu entwickeln? 1:00: Was sind Kübra's und Elisabeth's Utopien? Kübra Gümüsay @kuebrag https://kubragumusay.com/ Radio Utopistan @radio_utopistan https://radioutopistan.de Paypal: @RadioUtopistan This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

Wir bringen Palästina und die Klimakrise zusammen, tauschen Geschichten und Erfahrungen aus, und stellen mal wieder fest: Alles ist mit allem verbunden und Community is everything. Diese Episode ist der gekürzte Mitschnitt des Gesprächs im Rahmen unserer Ausstellung „Akut – Should Trees have Standing?“ in Hamburg. Wir sprachen in kleiner, intimer Runde und konnten so dem sonst üblichen Mechanismus der deutschen Debatten entkommen. Wir sprachen als Menschen, nicht als Funktionen. Es ging nicht darum, irgendwie zu überleben und einen Punkt zu machen, sondern darum zuzuhören und etwas zu lernen. Alena Jabarine ist Journalistin und Deutsch-Palästinenserin. Von 2020 bis 2023 lebte sie im besetzten Westjordanland und war dort für die Konrad Adenauer Stiftung tätig. Mariam Dabdoub hat moderiert, Elisabeth Weydt hat Passagen aus ihrem Buch vorgelesen. 03:00 Gedanken zur Wassermelone an der Wand. Kunstwerk von Khaled Hourani 06:00 Wassermelone auf den ersten Demos in Hamburg 09:50 Die Natur hat Recht. Was heißt das eigentlich? 13:00 Was ist Gerechtigkeit? Was ist Recht? 20:00 Verknüpfung von Klimagerechtigkeit und Palästina 22:00 TEXTausschnitt zu Edward Said und Othering aus Elisabeths Buch „Die Natur hat Recht“ 29:30 Alena erzählt von deutschen Delegationen in Palästina + Entmenschlichung 32:00 Inwiefern ist der deutsche Diskurs ein Spiegel dieses Phänomens? 33:30 Wie kann man Empathie erzeugen? Wer kann das? Wer muss das? 35:00 Wie hat Elisabeth als deutsche Kartoffel den Weg nach Palästina gefunden? 38:10 Zone of Interest und das Phänomen Wirklichkeit auszublenden, die man nicht sehen will 40:00 Warum ist Solidarität so wichtig? 42:15 Warum wird Expertenwissen auch bei der Klimakrise immer wieder ignoriert? 46:40 Fridays for Future und Palästina 48:20 Müssen wir nicht einfach den Kapitalismus abschaffen und alles ist gut? 51:05 TEXTausschnitt zu Kupferminenkonflikt und Rechten der Natur in Intag/Ecuador 59:50 Sinn und Unsinn von Freiwilligendiensten 1:01:00 Indigene und ihr besonderer Bezug zum Land 1:04:00 Muss man selbst Schreckliches erleben, um Empathie mit anderen haben zu können und ins Handeln zu kommen? 1:05:00 Was heißt es, Privilegien aufzugeben? 1:06:00 Wünsche für die Zukunft: Banden bilden, mutig sein, Alternativen zu klassischen Institutionen, Verständnis für die Dringlichkeit, ins Handeln kommen 1:10:00 Abmoderation und Unterstützungsaufruf für Radio Utopistan 1:15:00 Song: Solo le pido a Dios, gesungen von Umweltaktivistin Cenaida Guachagmira aus dem Intag Wenn du unsere Arbeit gut findest und denkst, die Welt braucht mehr davon, dann unterstütz uns gerne. Finanziell und/oder indem du unsere Geschichten weiter verbreitest. Ihr wisst: Sharing is caring und alles Wechselwirkung Paypal: @RadioUtopistan Patreon: Radio Utopistan Alena Jabarine: @alenajabarine Mariam Dabdoub: @mariam_dbdb Sam Gora: @sam_gora Buch von Elisabeth: Die Natur hat Recht. Wenn Tiere, Wälder und Flüsse vor Gericht ziehen - für ein radikales Umdenken im Miteinander von Mensch und Natur. Erschienen im Knesebeck Verlag This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

Ireland is the only place in Europe that was once a colony. Because of this experience the Irish people have a very special connection to their land and to decolonial struggles around the world, says Peter Doran. Peter is a senior lecturer at the school of law at Queens University in Belfast and has been involved in the struggle for justice on the island of Ireland since many years. Within the peace process after a long violent conflict and within the environmental movement. He is one of the authors and activists behind the proposal that wants Ireland to recognize Rights of Nature on a constitutional level. Ireland is very close to becoming the first country in Europe to implement this legal revolution on a constitutional level. The citizen assembly (a highly respected democratic instrument in Ireland) proposed to the government to make a constitutional referendum on RoN. A real breakthrough, says Peter. We talk about his background story growing up in Derry, a center of the “the troubles”, the violent conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted almost 30 years and killed 3.500 people. “I am a born radical. I inherited a radical perspective. I am being true and faithful to my heritage. As an Irish man who grew up on the streets of Derry where we have a long history of asking difficult questions of the status quo and confronting injustice on our doorstep and across the world.” He sees the local struggles, the local attempts to transform the world in front of your doorstep, connected to the struggles in the world. “We are always acting in solidarity with other peoples and with the earth as well.” “The Irish identify with Europe, they see EU as a peace process. But they are also a people who have been colonized. For hundreds of years the colonial process subjugated our land, our people and our language. There is an intuitive sense that in reaching for the Rights of Nature discourse and the underlying world views that we challenge this notion that the world is simply an object there for the taking.” “The RoN project is a process of recalling a deep memory, deep practices, recalling that there are others ways of being in the world, outside of the European modern experience.” About the Commons: “A notion that the real value that we generate today comes not from competition, not from private claims on things but from our ability to bring and support and cultivate the genius that arises from connection, from sharing, from caring. And from understanding that all that we value, that all things come from our relationships. That everything is preceded by relationship and the quality of our relationships.” About Palestine: “In the Gaza scenario, what we are seeing there is an acceleration of the deep settler colonial violence that has been part of our history as a Western privileged people. What we are seeing there is a microcosm, an acceleration of a feature of the world that has been experienced by many people through the times of empires and colonialism.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

The 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. It ruled in favor of the forest and against an open pit copper mine and against its own government. This was only possible because a strong social movement fought for it. The Rights of Nature movement and within it the Los Cedros case are the beginning of a revolution. They have the power to change everything. It means to respect nature as a subject, as a being, as a partner and not as an object, a commodity or a servant we can exploit and use as we like. It is a world view. If we live by it it would change how we organize our economy, our food supply, our transportation system, our housing, everything. In this episode we visit the cloud forest and talk to biologist Elisa Levy-Ortiz who is a research coordinator in the Los Cedros nature reserve and was part of the group that started the legal case and the social movement around Los Cedros. You'll learn: What is the magic behind the Rights of Nature concept, why is it relevant? How could Rights of Nature dissolve the systems colonialism and patriarchy brought us What made the social movement around the Los Cedros case so successful What does it need to implement justice and win a landmark court case What is the connection between Rights of Nature and Human Rights What is the connection between nature and justice More information and connection: Website of Los Cedros https://reservaloscedros.org/ OMASNE, Alianza de Organizaciones por los Derechos Humanos y de la Naturaleza del Ecuador https://www.instagram.com/omasne_ecuador/ CEDEMNA https://www.instagram.com/cedenma.ec/ GARN, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature https://www.instagram.com/garnglobal/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

It 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 more division instead of an understanding and an end to the killing. We took some time to reflect how we could add something constructive to the horrors unfolding. Because especially in those dark and violent times Utopias are needed more than ever. So in this episode we don`t give you a lecture about “the conflict”. We`ll tell you how we tried to create an Utopian moment in the midst of all the darkness, violence and despair happening. A tiny moment of freedom and justice from Germany for Gaza and for people in Germany that do not feel heard in their pain and disagreement towards what is happening. We`ll talk about: How we organized a protest with watermelons and for freedom rights for all people The very special German relation to Israel and Palestine The difference between antisemitism and criticizing the government of Israel The importance of freedom rights, especially the right of free speech The relation between journalism and activism A Haward study on the success of non-violent protest A young man from Gaza who is sending messages of comfort to the protesters in Hamburg More information about context and history of Israel/Palestine: BOOKS: The blue between sky and water by Susan Abulhawa The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé FILMS: The Promise Omar 5 Broken Cameras The heart of Jenin PODCASTS: in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjYxIkjGvQE in English: recommendations? PEOPLE/ORGANISATIONS TO FOLLOW Breaking the silence B'Tselem Motaz Azaiza Noura Erakat Issa Amro This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

We 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 cycle * the areas where constructive storytelling is working: in your head, your home, society and business * how constructive stories are used in media * how Elisabeth came to constructive storytelling and what is her Utopia You can dive deeper in all of this and more in our masterclasses. We work with you on the role you can play in all of this. How you can apply this power to your personal life, to your community, your movement or your social business. Online or in person. Information on our website: www.radioutopistan.de Links: Solution Journalism Network, USA: https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/ Constructive Institute, Denmark: https://constructiveinstitute.org/ Bonn Institute, Germany: https://www.bonn-institute.org/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

When she had just become a journalist Ronja went to Afghanistan for almost two years. There she did reports about the war, about drug addiction, poverty and other really devastating things. Sometimes all the misery left her hopeless and without perspective. So she started to look for the constructive aspects within her stories: for people who are trying to find a way out, for projects that are offering solutions. This is called constructive journalism or solution journalism. She didn`t know it by then because it is a recent but very much needed version of journalism. It doesn`t mean to ignore the problems and crises but rather to focus on possible solutions. Now, ten years after her first journey to Afghanistan Ronja wrote a book about constructive storytelling. She finished it last summer while the Taliban were taking over Kabul. On the phone in Germany she helped people escape the deadly regime thousand miles away. So, around her the world was falling apart and inside her head she was thinking about good news. We talk about what stories and news can do to your mind and mood. How we all are storytellers in our everyday life and how we can turn the negative narratives into constructive ones without ignoring reality. She even has a formula for it. It goes like: S**t + X Her book is called “How we see the world” in German. It's still not available in English yet, but soon it will be published in Polish, Czech and Korean. Maybe in Arabic. You can find her here: https://www.vonwurmbseibel.com/ @ronjavws This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe

Carolyn Ekyarisiima wanted to become a doctor to help people. Now she is an IT-Expert training thousands of girls in Tanzania how to use technology to create the world they want to live in. She founded the organization Apps and Girls. They are teaching girls how to code. And how to use IT and technology to get their voices heard and ideas out into the world. When she founded the NGO in 2014 she was pregnant, today she has four kids and 11 employees. In the last eight years more than 100.000 girls learned about the power of IT with Apps and Girls. Thez focus on girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds to reduce the gender gap in IT and empower more change makers in Tanzania and across Africa. We talk about: * Her story on how she managed to build Apps and Girls, starting with voluntary teaching sessions in her living room up until now with 11 full time employees and some voluntaries in almost 200 schools in Tanzania and Uganda. * Best practice example of one of her students: coding against harassment * How it is still not easy to get funding, but how they do it anyway. * What Europe could learn from Africa Tecwise. * How coding is a super power. Carolyn`s Utopia: Apps and Girls becoming an Pan-African organization. Offering girls the technology to create different solutions and to have a positive impact on their communities. I see female developed big start-ups creating a better world everywhere because technology is an enabler. You need it in health, in economy in everything. LINKS Apps and Girls: https://www.appsandgirls.com/ @ecarolyne @appsandgirls https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioutopistan.substack.com/subscribe