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Journalist 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 concessi

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Avaşîn Podcast, journalist Fréderike Geerdink talks to guests around the world who wage a struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
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Journalist 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 concessi

Journalist 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 bet

No 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 unrealisti

We 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 thi

Turkey’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.

“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 o

In the podcast, Alxas explains how important it is to not erase the Kurdish origin of the current protests in Iran, “Kurdish women are double repressed: both as women and as Kurds. Kurds suffer reprisals from the regime

Fréderike 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.

The 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 an


As climate change dries out the rivers in Kenya, Winnie Cheche fights to protest the wildlife. She speaks with journalist Fréderike Geerdink about her activism.

-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 p

-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

In her latest podcast in the series of personal struggles, Fréderike Geerdink speaks to Kamna Singh who struggles against the discriminatory caste system in India.

-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 lea

Avaşîn 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 Musev

Nadja 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 militar

Eva (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.

Listen 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.
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