https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/medya-news-frederike-geerdink-podcasts--5356522enPoliticsCopyright MedyaNewshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/05654d9f187f43bb5471231d10eac0ac.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/medya-news-frederike-geerdink-podcasts--5356522Fri, 30 May 2025 15:37:05 +0000MedyaNewsMedyaNewsmedyanewsnet@gmail.comAvaşîn Podcast, journalist Fréderike Geerdink talks to guests around the world who wage a struggle for freedom, justice and equality.cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kurds-still-need-insurance--66340892https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66340892Fri, 30 May 2025 15:18:31 +0000MedyaNewsJournalist Fréderike Geerdink reflects on a decade-old column amid the PKK’s recent move to end its armed struggle. She argues true peace requires reciprocal steps—disarmament must follow, not precede, political concessions. Until then, Kurdish arms...423cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mother-tongue-day-as-an-act-to-obscure-genocide--64510395https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64510395Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:35:09 +0000MedyaNewsJournalist Fréderike Geerdink criticises International Mother Language Day as a token gesture by the UN, arguing that true linguistic protection requires recognising forced assimilation as genocide. Drawing parallels between Kurdish and Palestinian...425cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-dear-roboski-village-i-am-with-you-today-from-a-distance-but-close--63495678https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63495678Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:11:39 +0000MedyaNewsNo conflict lasts forever. At some point in time, the full truth will come out, either via the courts or via a real peace process in which the state takes responsibility for what it has done. Don’t think it is unrealistic to hope for this. The...333cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-i-am-seriously-worried-about-kobani-and-the-whole-of-rojava--63324841https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63324841Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:15:36 +0000MedyaNewsWe know what Turkey wants Öcalan to say. He is supposed to announce the dissolution of the PKK and demand the YPG and YPJ drop their weapons. This much has been made clear by the AKP's coalition partner, the MHP, who think Öcalan can be lured into...625cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-in-the-light-of-the-gaza-genocide-turkey-s-crimes-aren-t-small-potatoes-at-all--62977098https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62977098Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:25:58 +0000MedyaNewsTurkey’s persistent war crimes against Kurds are no “small potatoes”. Fréderike Geerdink examines how these actions fit into a systematic plan of erasure, drawing parallels with the Gaza genocide.422cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marina-barham-uses-theater-to-struggle-for-palestinian-rights--51690628
Marina Barham is the co-founder and director of Al-Harah, a theater close to Bethlehem in Palestine. She strongly believes theater can help both children and adults not only deal with the traumas of occupation, but also to resist it.

In a constantly unsafe situation like an ongoing occupation, theater can help children feel safe again, according to Marina Barham of Al-Harah Theater in Bethlehem in Palestine. She has been involved in making theater in the occupied Westbank for almost three decades, and shares her experiences with interactive theater: “We had heard from schools that children were very inactive, traumatized, they literally wouldn’t move. We decided to talk to social workers and children psychologists about how we can help children get through the daily trauma. We developed an interactive show, with music, exercise, songs, lots of colours. We talked to the children, told them we were scared too, that we also sometimes wanted to close our eyes and just scream to get rid of the tension. Initially they hardly showed reaction, but after ten, fifteen minutes, they started to react, to move, to express themselves.”

Al-Harah Theater is deeply rooted in the community, as the name clearly shows: Al-Harah means The Neighbourhood. Barham is one of the founders, after she had worked for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) and for her own consultancy company for some years and tried to convince influential people from abroad to help end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. By coincidence, she became involved in theater. Ever since, she tries to help both children and adults deal with the trauma of occupation, and contribute to a free Palestine.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51690628Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:49:12 +0000MedyaNews“Theater can contribute to ending the occupation” Marina Barham is the co-founder and director of Al-Harah, a theater close to Bethlehem in Palestine. She strongly believes theater can help both children and adults not only deal with the traumas of...
Marina Barham is the co-founder and director of Al-Harah, a theater close to Bethlehem in Palestine. She strongly believes theater can help both children and adults not only deal with the traumas of occupation, but also to resist it.

In a constantly unsafe situation like an ongoing occupation, theater can help children feel safe again, according to Marina Barham of Al-Harah Theater in Bethlehem in Palestine. She has been involved in making theater in the occupied Westbank for almost three decades, and shares her experiences with interactive theater: “We had heard from schools that children were very inactive, traumatized, they literally wouldn’t move. We decided to talk to social workers and children psychologists about how we can help children get through the daily trauma. We developed an interactive show, with music, exercise, songs, lots of colours. We talked to the children, told them we were scared too, that we also sometimes wanted to close our eyes and just scream to get rid of the tension. Initially they hardly showed reaction, but after ten, fifteen minutes, they started to react, to move, to express themselves.”

Al-Harah Theater is deeply rooted in the community, as the name clearly shows: Al-Harah means The Neighbourhood. Barham is one of the founders, after she had worked for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) and for her own consultancy company for some years and tried to convince influential people from abroad to help end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. By coincidence, she became involved in theater. Ever since, she tries to help both children and adults deal with the trauma of occupation, and contribute to a free Palestine.]]>2086cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/viruben-nandakumar-struggles-for-tamil-self-determination-in-sri-lanka--51063969https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51063969Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:24:39 +0000MedyaNewsFréderike Geerdink speaks to Viruben Nandakumar a Tamil activist based in London about the situation facing the Tamils in Sri Lanka after the genocidal attacks they faced in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army.1607cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rojava-revolution-has-completely-refreshed-my-activism-frederike-geerdink-rahila-gupta--50815220https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50815220Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:10:57 +0000MedyaNewsThe revolution in Rojava, or North and Northeastern Syria, has “completely refreshed my activism”, said writer and feminist Rahila Gupta in a new episode of Avaşîn podcast. After having waged a struggle against racism and sexism, mainly focused on...2161cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/writer-behrouz-boochani-struggles-for-refugees-rights-in-new-zealand--50403157https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50403157Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:46:37 +0000MedyaNews1841cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-podcast-with-winnie-cheche--49989051https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49989051Sun, 29 May 2022 19:02:44 +0000MedyaNewsAs climate change dries out the rivers in Kenya, Winnie Cheche fights to protest the wildlife. She speaks with journalist Fréderike Geerdink about her activism.2168cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-podcast-with-elena-jimenez-i-botias--49795867https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49795867Sat, 14 May 2022 12:56:14 +0000MedyaNews-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....2101avaşin,medyanews,podcastcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-vreer-verkerke-podcast--49604199
-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.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49604199Sat, 30 Apr 2022 11:23:31 +0000MedyaNews-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...
-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.]]>3063avaşinpodcast,frederikegeerdink,medyanewspodcastcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/militancy-is-accumulating-in-the-block--49207795https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49207795Sat, 26 Mar 2022 10:32:26 +0000MedyaNews-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...1464cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-lina-zedriga-podcast--48907003https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48907003Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:59:24 +0000MedyaNewsAvaşîn 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.2132avaşinpodcast,podcast,ugandacleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-nadja-duhacek--48659601
Below are just selected excerpts, listen to the full episode of Avaşîn Podcast.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48659601Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:07:57 +0000MedyaNewsNadja 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...
Below are just selected excerpts, listen to the full episode of Avaşîn Podcast.]]>2130avaşinpodcast,black,blackstruggle,frederikegeerding,podcast,serbia,womenscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/exarcheia-is-filled-with-capitalism-and-state-power--48390999https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48390999Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:34:04 +0000MedyaNewsEva (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.2598avaşin,fréderikegeerdink,greece,strugglecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederike-geerdink-mike-africa-jr--48227832https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48227832Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:08:45 +0000MedyaNewsListen 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.1742avaşinppodcast,frederikegeerdink,mikeafricajrcleanfull