The Breakfast Podcast

Imagine it is today in any European city. You are a young woman, and you are told that the veil is either a symbol of pure oppression or an absolute banner of freedom.

Imagine it is 1914. You are young, full of energy, and you are told that going to war is the greatest adventure of your life. That dying for your country is an act of pure beauty.

Horror never breaks down the door; it enters by asking permission to "clean house." In 1930s Germany, they didn't start with trains, they started with words. They invented Blut und Boden: Blood and Soil. 

Abuses against domestic workers, especially migrants, represent a serious form of exploitation and violence.

The challenge is how to improve a neighborhood for the people who already live there, without accidentally pricing them out of their own homes. The social success of an intervention often becomes its greatest real estate threat.

I bring you more examples of urban transformation: .Gårdsten, Brixton and Baia Mare tell us how they did it possible.

 I want to bring you the positive side and show how social intervention, which is our topic for today, works to improve specific situations in certain neighborhoods.

Did you know that writing wasn't invented to write love poems, but to count sacks of grain? The paradigm shift: For thousands of years, humanity lived orally.

Mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery in 1981. However, despite its legal status, international organizations accuse the country of perpetuating caste-based slavery.

Criminalizing migrants has reached a new level: now they're called "MENA - Erasmus". "MENA" stands for "Unaccompanied Foreign Minors." Discover why they are called so.

The nuance of a "climate of violence": It explains that someone doesn't have to physically assault another person live on air. If a TV program creates an environment where migrants are dehumanized, it's crossing a red line.

I know what a shelter in an industrial park is like. True. It's not the best place. I know this from my experience as a Community Activities Coordinator. You don't want them there because they bother you, not for jumanity.

While channel surfing, I stumbled upon a program that, in my opinion, has lost its way. There was an announcement for a report on the regularisation of migrants, but instead of educating the public, it gave a platform to all sorts of xenophobes.

While I was studying Literary Analysis for my undergraduate degree in English Literature, a debate arose about the definition of literature itself. One of the topics of the debate was the novel *Superman* by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The debate concluded that the work falls into the category of literature because it is not simply a comic book but has a complex historical background. 

We tend to place people on pedestals that dazzle us. People who, because of their media presence, wield considerable influence. Hypocrisy in Hollywood often manifests itself in the disconnect between celebrities' public activism and their actions, in their silent censorship, and in their lack of consistency on issues like diversity and human rights. There are also artists who neither protest and o...

What truly reveals and defines a xenophobe is the progress of migrants: they are bothered by migrants playing sports, because they are taking up space; by migrants studying, because they might be taking places away from Spaniards; or by migrants working, because even in service sector jobs, a Spaniard could be there. It bothers them that a migrant can reach their level.

The Third Man is a crime novel written by British novelist Graham Greene and first published in 1950. It is set in Vienna at the end of World War II. During the war, Vienna suffered indiscriminate aerial bombardments that destroyed much of its historical heritage.

Believe it or not, there are more people than we think who put aside their safety for the good of their fellow human beings.

Today I want to talk about the skin of these migrants, human beings first and foremost. Their skin tells the story of the harshness of the journey: they arrive covered in crusts of salt.

This organization, called The Parents Circle – Families Forum,  has been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Can you imagine? It would be a devastating blow, because these are Israeli and Palestinian parents sitting at the same table to promote peace.

George Orwell's "1984" explores themes such as totalitarianism, the manipulation of truth, mass surveillance, and the loss of individual freedom in an oppressive state.

Without a doubt, that September 11th remains etched in our memories. Not the one in the US, but the one in Chile. On September 11, 1973, a coup d'état led by the Armed Forces and Carabineros (Chilean police) brought an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende.

I'm not one to stop at the first page. Yes, I'm very proud of my education, starting with volunteering, but at the cost of my self-esteem. Proud to have helped integrate migrants.

For those who believe that Africa has no culture, for those who continue to say that "the others" are "savages," today I bring you a work written by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka.

With everything we're going through, and given what we know of history, I have the feeling we're going back 90 years, to that time when future Nazis were already doing their dirty work, almost surreptitiously.