Western Sahara and how to create activists

Benjamin and Sanna spent three years cycling around the world to spread the word about the Western Sahara: the world’s largest remaining colony, the last such project in Africa, and a weirdly (but not accidentally) under-covered topic. Tune in and cover it with us! We also cover:Benjamin’s year-long walk from Sweden to PalestineThe strange lack of social movements in SwedenA burgeoning ‘activist cafe’ projectWhat Les Résistantes means to us as visitors, and the role it could play in pan-European organising I can’t help but note in passing that the activist cafe concept is quite reminiscent of Joël’s frame-building mentality in the previous interview. Could space-holding be the new leadership? For more about the two’s work, check out Solidarity Rising: https://solidarityrising.com End music end music from a spontaneous performance at Les Résistantes by what I think was La Criée, a feminist choir Montreuil in Paris. This song is ‘Canción sin miedo’, a feminist hymn.Follow me on Bluesky @douglasrogers.bsky.social‬ or Twitter at @writingDouglas if you're into that kind of thing