Power, People and Planet
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
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Disha Ravi | Climate and Environmental Activist
“There are no prisons big enough for ideas. They can’t put our ideas behind bars. Your movement and what you work for will always be bigger than you.”
Disha Ravi is an Indian climate and environmental…
Dr Amara Enyia | Managing Director of Diaspora Rising
“The social contracts can always be negotiated. I think our responsibility actually is to be constantly negotiating what that social contract looks like. How we relate to each other. How we live with…
Ashish Kothari | Environmental activist and co-founder of Kalpavriksh
“Understanding that actually power lies inherent in us. It’s the responsibility and the rights and the beauties and the power to actually change society from within and outside.”
Ashish Kothari is an …
Dr Tolullah Oni | Urban epidemiologist and founder of UrbanBetter
"Health is a public good. So if we have a market system that's not working for the public good, then that needs to change."
Dr Tolullah Oni is a public health physician and urban epidemiologist. She g…
Tasneem Essop | Executive Director of Climate Action Network
"There's nothing like watching the home that you live in being demolished by bulldozers to make you politically conscious."
Growing up in Cape Town's District 6 in the 1970s, Tasneem experienced racia…
Aruna Rao | Activist, feminist and co-founder of Gender At Work
“We need to centre care, care in the widest sense of the word, as we try to rebuild in this post COVID era.”
Aruna Rao is a feminist, an activist, and the co-founder of Gender At Work, an internationa…
Carne Ross | Writer, former British diplomat and founder of Independent Diplomat
“Due to COVID 19 people have been questioning their basic contract. Is this government protecting me, and are these politicians doing what they claim to do, which is to look after us and to protect o…
Introducing | Power, People and Planet with Kumi Naidoo
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 th…