Ahmad and Karam: A Syrian Message for the World
Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:53 — 28.8MB) | Embed In 2011 Ahmad and Karam, two university students from Deir ez-Zor took to the streets as part of the mass protest movement demanding an end to the…
Syria Comes Closer
I have been silent over the past 2 weeks, trying to process a recent journey and an experience that had a profound impact on me. Although it would seem there are several ways to tell…
Marcela Olivera: After the Water Wars
Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:45 — 19.8MB) | Embed The year was 2000 and on the streets of Cochabamba, Bolivia, people marched and demonstrated against the privatization of their water. In what became known as the…
Forgotten Schools, Limited Vision
While spending some days in Portugal this month I got to enjoy the beauty of spring in the small agricultural villages of my ancestors. Places where social and economic life has slowed down over the…
Making Private Water Public Again
Podcast: Download (Duration: 27:24 — 18.9MB) | Embed Has your water utility been privatized in the past decade? Are today’s water companies really investing in infrastructure and improvements? How much democracy is there in your…
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Why I Talk to Jehovah’s Witnesses
Years ago, when I finally put my last name on the front door bell of my home in Amsterdam, I began getting visits from Jehovah’s witnesses. Not just any run-of-the-mill witness, but Portuguese and Brazilians who noticed my last name and figured – here’s a…
Lizz Winstead: Political Windsurfing While Droning Your Neighbor
Podcast: Download (Duration: 35:00 — 24.1MB) | Embed You can’t windsurf, because that would be elitist. But, if you’re the American president, you can drive around your ranch in a golf cart shooting guns, because people can relate to that. As comedian and writer Lizz…
The Refugee Church of Amsterdam
At the beginning of this winter, as I prepared for the great journey to North Africa, here in Amsterdam I heard about a group of asylum seekers who were living in a tent camp somewhere in the city. Despite my preoccupation with my own plans,…
Tony Pierce: New Media Pioneer
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:45 — 41.8MB) | Embed Tony Pierce was blogging before most of us had broadband internet and well before smart phones existed. For over a decade he has been writing daily and bringing people into his world on the busblog, where nothing…