Beyond Borders's Podcast

The studio team is joined by Guerchang Bastia a renowned artists, changemaker and political activists hailing from Hinche, Central Ayiti to talk about his music, fighting for rights in Haiti, the youth, and the opportunities to support changemaking.  Music as a cultural weapon to challenge patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism, etc is explored as well as the central role of Hinche as a center of political and popular challenge to the status quo. Check out his music here. 2nd Hour Beginning on March 10, thousands of people throughout southwestern Colombia took to the streets. The "Minga in Defense of Life, Territory, Democracy, Justice, and Peace" brings together people fed up with the government's empty promises and the continuation of a war that dispossesses and displaces them, as it simultaneously destroy the planet: Madre Tierra, Uma Kiwe, Mother Earth.   Over the course of three weeks, the Minga has been subjected to threats, attacks, and racist vitriol emanating from the Colombian nation-state.   Accordin