A Common Pot: Stories and Recipes for Grassroots Justice

¿Cómo puede una comunidad defender su derecho a decidir sobre su propio destino? Especialmente cuando las decisiones se toman sin su participación. En este primer episodio, comenzamos a explorar esta pregunta. Viajamos a Argentina, donde comunidades de asentamientos informales están reclamando un lugar en la mesa donde se toman las decisiones que afectan sus hogares y barrios frente a la contamina...

On March 27, 2018, in an area of Malawi called Kasungo District, three men were arrested in a police sweep. The men demanded to know why they were being arrested, but got no response. The next morning, they were brought to court, where they were charged and convicted with the offense of being a rogue and vagabond. In this episode, our final episode of the season, we’re going to the streets of Mala...

In 2020, a community activist by the name of Leticia Caro approached FIMA, a grassroots justice organization in Chile. Leticia, a member of the indigenous Kawesqar community in the Magallanes region, was worried about the environmental impact of companies that were moving  into the fjords of the Kawésqar National Reserve.  In this episode, we’re going to take a dive into what lies beneath these fj...

In 2000, a group of farmers from an Indonesian mountain village were in the middle of protesting to regain rights to their ancestral land, when they were taken into custody. They were charged as criminals of the state, not knowing if or when they would be released to continue their struggle…  In this episode, we follow the story of the farmers of Bandungan and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (...

Change is inevitable. However, who gets to experience change when poverty is the accepted status quo? How can the tides of change move in favor of the poor? And what keeps everything from going back to the way things were before?  In Nairobi’s informal settlement of Mukuru, Jane Weru and Patrick Njoroge of Akiba Mashinani Trust must find answers to these questions while working alongside a communi...

How does a community preserve its right to determine its own destiny? Especially when decisions are being made without their input? In our first episode, we begin a journey to answer this question. We start in Argentina, where informal settlement communities are claiming a seat at the table to shape decisions that will protect their homes and neighborhoods from environmental pollution.   Along the...

“A Common Pot,” is a podcast where we explore stories and recipes for grassroots justice and systems change from around the world. When we look at the grassroots justice movement, we see innovative recipes for systems change; we see organizations around the world that are pushing boundaries and finding ways to build community power despite growing authoritarianism.  The work of grassroots justice...