Power, People and Planet
by Kumi Naidoo
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Radical Love in a Time of Hate | Harsh Mander
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About this podcast
Feeling at all freaked out by the state of the world at the moment? Wondering what you can do about it? Join Kumi Naidoo, the veteran social and environmental justice campaigner, to tackle some of the biggest issues of our time. In each episode Kumi is joined by activists, artists and community leaders who are dismantling our broken system - and building something better in its place. Hear their stories. Learn what has kept them fighting. Find out how we all can make a difference. Learn more about the podcast by visiting: powerpeopleplanet.org
Episodes
The newest 20 of 39 episodes
- Radical Love in a Time of Hate | Harsh Mander · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 3How do we fight hate without answering it with hate? Kumi Naidoo speaks with Harsh Mander about radical love as politics, social action, and courage, drawing on the example of…
- Fossil Fuels, War & Climate Justice · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 2What happens when we stop treating fossil fuels, war and the climate emergency as separate crises? Kumi Naidoo speaks with Mitzi Jonelle Tan about the interests shaping energy…
- “Development” Has Failed Too Many People, So What Comes Next? · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 1The world is changing, but the institutions built to drive development are struggling to keep up. In this episode of the Power, People and Planet Podcast, Kumi Naidoo speaks with…
- “The Constitution Was Eaten by the Donkey” — Reem Turkmani on Power, Media & Cultural Resistance · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 12In this powerful episode of Power, People and Planet, Kumi Naidoo sits down with Syrian writer and cultural activist Reem Turkmani to explore how power operates beyond force —…
- Africans Rising: Leadership, Unity, and the Future of Pan-African Activism with Hardi Yakubu · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 11What does it mean to be an activist today — and who gets to claim that title? In this episode of Power, People & Planet, Kumi Naidoo is joined by Hardi Yakubu, Coordinator of…
- Eco-Anxiety as a Call to Action: Fossil Fuels, Palestine and the Artivist Path with Tori Tsui · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 10“Your eco-anxiety is a sign your humanity is intact. You’re reacting rationally to an irrational world.” In this episode of Power, People & Planet, Kumi Naidoo sits down with…
- “Fearless Artivism: The Beauty & Power of Art” | Shilo Shiv Suleman · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 9Can beauty become the backbone of a social movement? 🧠✨ In this episode of Power, People & Planet, I sit down with artist and artivist Shilo Shiv Suleman to explore how art…
- The Power of Artivism: Art for Dignity and for the Planet | Thiago Mundano Power, People and Planet · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 8🔥 In this episode of Power, People and Planet Podcast, Kumi Naidoo sits down with Thiago Mundano — the Brazilian street artist and activist turning waste, ashes, and struggle…
- Laudato Si, Music and Culture: Reimagining Climate Activism | Joe Moeono-Kolio | Power, People and Planet · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 7“Laudato Si’ reframed climate change as an issue of justice, shifting the conversation into the moral and spiritual realm.” In this episode, Kumi Naidoo speaks with Joe…
- Climate Justice & the Pacific’s Fight for Survival | Alopi Latukefu | Power People and Planet · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 6🔥 What can young leaders, indigenous wisdom, and the arts teach us about saving our future? In this episode of Power, People, Planet Podcast, Kumi Naidoo sits down with Alopi…
- Resisting from the Shadows: Ivetta Sergeeva on Covert Acts of Defiance · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 5Can small, hidden acts of resistance change the world? Kumi Naidoo talks to Dr. Ivetta Sergeeva, postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule…
- Can Storytelling Hold Power to Account? · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 4Kumi speaks with journalist and Coda Story co-founder Natalia Antelava about reinventing journalism in the age of authoritarianism, disinformation and algorithmic manipulation…
- Imagination Is a Weapon: Favianna Rodriguez on Creative Liberation · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 3Is Culture our most powerful tool for making a just world? Artist Favianna Rodriguez joins Kumi Naidoo to explore how art isn’t just a mirror to society—it’s a hammer to shape…
- AI x Human; Together for a Just World? Part 2 · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 2Kumi speaks with decolonial thinker Dr. Vanessa Andreotti about what it means to create change in a collapsing world. Together they explore how art, activism, and even artificial…
- AI x Human; Together for a Just World? Part 1 · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 1Kumi speaks with decolonial thinker Dr. Vanessa Andreotti about what it means to create change in a collapsing world. Together they explore how art, activism, and even artificial…
- Season 3 Trailer · 2 min · Season 3 Episode 1Feeling at all freaked out by the state of the world at the moment? Wondering what you can do about it? Join Kumi Naidoo, the veteran social and environmental justice campaigner…
- A Life In Activism | Harsh Mander · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 10In this special episode, which concludes Season 2 of the podcast, Kumi speaks with Indian activist Harsh Mander. This episode was recorded in August 2022 at a time when Harsh was…
- Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 9Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and…
- Talking South Africa | Vishwas Satgar · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 8In a wide-ranging discussion on South Africa with veteran activist Vishwas Satgar, Kumi explores the country's political past, present and future. With crucial elections taking…
- Engaging Global Power | María Fernanda Espinosa & Meena Raman · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 7In the early 1980s there was a slogan: think globally, act locally. Behind the slogan was the idea that, irrespective of the issue we were trying to address at the local or…
