Strength & Solidarity

Strength & Solidarity
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Strength & Solidarity

A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    47. Gaza: Is the global human rights system at risk?

    Israel’s war on Gaza and its population has now been underway for 13 months. An estimated 42,000 Palestinians have died from the violence.  A further 62,000 are reported to have died from starvation, and 5,000 more for lack of medical care and drugs.  The vast majority of those who have lost their lives are women and children.  Despite the clamor for powerful states to intervene and stop the killing, Israel’s campaign continues unimpeded.  The International Court of Justice has advised that occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and ordered provisional measures to avert genocide, yet governments seem paralyzed, unable to uphold international law despite their clear legal obligation to do.  Can the international human rights system survive this failure? https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    43 min

  2. OCT 11 · BONUS

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    The Strength & Solidarity team would be grateful for your help. With nearly 50 episodes under our belt we need some feedback from our listeners. Please go to this link and fill in our four-minute survey so we can get a better sense of what you, our listeners think of the show and how we can improve: ⁠https://s.surveyplanet.com/t0ly0puk⁠ Thank you for your feedback!

    1 min

  3. SEP 19 · BONUS

    Best Of: 37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred

    Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 37, first released, November 9, 2023. Original Episode Description from November 2023: Uganda has become one of Africa’s frontlines in the battle for LGBT rights. In 2014 a law was passed criminalizing same-sex conduct but it was nullified by the courts on a technicality. This year that same legislation was revived, passed again in parliament and signed into law by President Museveni. The penalties it prescribes include the death penalty and the queer community is vulnerable and anxious. Uganda lawyer Nicholas Opiyo talks about a litigation effort underway to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 and shines a light on the role of actors behind the scenes, including US Pentecostal activists. And in the Coda, a young Mexican disability leader finds inspiration and joy in a film about a brilliant generation of activists. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    38 min

  4. AUG 29 · BONUS

    Best Of: UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfill its promise?

    Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 39, first released, December 21, 2023. Original Episode Description from December 2023: The ⁠Universal Declaration of Human Rights⁠ (UDHR) turned 75 on the 10 December 2023. Passed by the UN General Assembly in the wake of two brutal world wars, it expressed an aspiration for a new world, one in which every human being’s rights would be acknowledged and respected, and international law would regulate the actions of states and hold them accountable for violations. That vision is as powerful today as it was then and it has sometimes, and in some places, been realized. But the failures are many. Despite their pledge, governments have repeatedly abandoned principle to pursue their own interests, leaving ordinary people – sometimes an individual, sometimes millions – without protection from brutal mistreatment or immiseration and lacking any recourse. Why does the the global human rights system fail? And can it be made to work? A group of moderators from the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights get round a table to argue it out. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit ⁠https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/⁠ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    48 min

  5. AUG 8 · BONUS

    Best Of: USA: A Jewish group’s 30-year solidarity with Palestine

    Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons, starting with episode 40,  first released,  January 11, 2024. Original Episode Description from January 2024: It is now three months since the October 7 brutal attack by Hamas on targets in Israel which triggered the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in which a reported 21,000 people have so far been killed. In the US, as much as widespread condemnation was expressed after the Hamas attack, the subsequent death toll in Gaza and suffering of surviving civilians have shattered whatever remained of a consensus on Israel. Polls show rising public criticism of Israel’s actions, and of the Biden Administration for continuing to supply Israel with arms. Week after week there are protests, and present in large numbers among the diverse crowds are Jews carrying signs that say, “Not in my name.” One of several organisations mobilising those protests is Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP’s Executive Director Stefanie Fox explains how they have built their movement against the grain of mainstream US politics. And in the Coda, a human rights lawyer talks about her artistic practice and how it connects with her work supporting communities to seek justice. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit: https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    40 min

  6. JUL 4

    46. Kenya: The Birth and Resilience of a Social Movement

    People power has been on display in Kenya as tens of thousands of citizens faced down tear gas and live bullets forcing the government to withdraw legislation that would have mandated higher taxes.  Notwithstanding enthusiastic praise for leaderless movements, Gen Z and the power of digital tools, it should not be forgotten that Kenya has a deep tradition of grassroots organizing dating back to the bitter struggle against British colonial rule. It has regularly re-emerged in subsequent decades to challenge authoritarian rule, election theft and corruption.  One emergent grouping currently organizing countrywide is the Social Justice Centres movement and its coordinating body, the Social Justice Centres Working Group.  National Convenor Happy Olal talks about how the movement took root in the capital Nairobi a decade ago, and has kept on growing. And in the Coda, how an invitation to tell personal histories revealed Burmese women’s powerful activism. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    57 min

  7. JUL 4 · BONUS

    46. [Excerpt] The Coda: How storytelling rewrote resistance in Burma

    Although women were, and still are, deeply involved in Burma’s fight against  military rule, their contributions were often invisible.. Activist and advocate Debbie  Stothard recalls that when she started paying attention, she discovered that “the auntie making our tea in the kitchen was a former resistance fighter.” She began getting women to write down their stories, with remarkable results. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    8 min

  8. MAY 20

    45. South-East Asia: When does a hashtag become a movement?

    Back in 2020, a hashtag - #MilkTeaAlliance – began appearing across the Internet. Netizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines seemed to be building a cross-regional solidarity movement to support pro-democracy activists, like the young people defying the generals who launched Myanmar’s coup in 2021.  Even though the hashtag was so visible online, it was hard to see an actual movement in the real world.  Did it really exist?  How did it come about and who did it represent? And with the apparent waning of the hashtag’s use, is it about to disappear? We talk to Marc Batac, co-founder and facilitator of the Milk Tea Alliance (Friends of Myanmar). And in the coda… Why does a Malaysian human rights leader moonlight as a TV script writer? https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    37 min
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A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.

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  • Creator
    Strength & Solidarity
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    100
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    Clean
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    © Strength & Solidarity
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