For the first episode of the year, I decided to dedicate the show to the global south and it's fighting people

All around the globe, indigenous people and marginalised communities are still suffering from the brutality of colonialism, imperialism and extractivism.

Wether the oppression comes from the USA, France, China, Israel, Russia or from paramilitary groups financed by criminal activities and often backed by states and firms who have interests into destabilising the concerned regions, the result is the same: oppressed, displaced, tortured, sexually abused, disappeared and killed innocent civilians.

Even when these crimes are being broadcasted live to the eyes of the whole world, most of the Western countries and their elites will try to justify these crimes in one way or another if they benefit from them.

In a world where wild capitalism is shaking hands with fascism, where a lot of Western countries are choosing to go backwards and return to the far right corner, where the biggest social medias say no to fact checking but yes to disinformation and toxic-masculinity, where neo-nazi movements are being supported by billionaires and think they can take the streets without fear, it’s important that we, the soulful human beings, remember the past, think for a livable future, and fight the rising and normalisation of fascist ideologies in this alarming present.

In order to do this, we have to unite in tolerance. We have to bring a counterspeech to all the hatred and bullshit that’s being spread out.
We have to tell the stories that are being hidden and give visibility to what’s really happening.
We have to speak for the oppressed people who are being silenced.

Colonisation is a key element to understand this matter. It is an essential instrument for the oppressor to keep on exploiting and stealing natural resources in the Global South.
The same natural resources that are being used to fuel consumerism, causing the environmental crisis humanity is facing right now, all over the planet.

Even though Europeans are not the only ones to have practiced colonisation so far, they inarguably are responsible for the biggest and most dramatic consequences of it on a global scale.

It’s core dogma, white supremacy, is thus more than just a foolish racist ideology. It’s a powerful and dangerous tool used (in a more or less dissimulated way) to penetrate the minds of the mass (even the stigmatised people’s minds) and justify the systemic oppression of minorities in our society.

So when the USA, with Trump and Elon Musk known for their openly anti-migrants, racist, sexist, transphobic positions stick with Biden’s zionist political line (affirming even harder their support to an ethnic cleansing), when they support Putin on his deadful colonisation of Ukraine and still pressure the country to hand their natural resources to them, when European leaders in France, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany hide behind the antisemitism shield to justify selling weapons to Israel for its mass killing of civilians, when the atrocities in Congo endlessely go on for the sake of rare minerals needed in high-technology, when LGBTQIA+ and women’s fundamental rights are being attacked by totalitarianism, when countless other territories suffer the consequences of colonialism and wild neo-liberal productivism, artists need to use their voice and their tools to speak against all this on-going violence.

One of the main goals of this show is to do so through music.
The name itself says it: « Tumba Fronteras »
This means “frontier breaker”, and it’s by breaking frontiers that we will bring the people together.

The introduction of the show is a vocal message recorded in Gaza by Ibrahim Badra. He is a young Palestinian translator who shares information on social medias about his life as a displaced survivor of the ongoing genocide.
He personally sent this message to me on January, asking to share it in order to make his voice, as well as the voice of thousands of other civilians living in the same conditions, heard in our societies.

Thanks to him for delivering this precious testimony.

Thanks to Radio Flouka for hosting my show, to the people who listen to it, and thanks to the musicians who gave to the world the music you are going to be listening for the next hour.

Free all oppressed people from all oppressed lands !
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾

Intro by Ibrahim Badra (Audio recording from Gaza) Don't Leave! الفنون - زريف - El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe (Palestine فلسطين)
巴希巴亚宛木卡姆 Bash Bayawan Muqam - 麦盖提刀郎木卡姆乐队 Mekit Dolan Muqam Group (Uyghur people)
Mongali - Tabu Ley Rochereau (Congo)
Jefã Canto Embera - Resonar Lab (Embera people, Colombia)
Te'eb T'taab - Azar Habib (Lebanon)
Kabanulo Thapajanebot - Chanteurs de Tenan (Kanak people, Kanaky "Nouvelle Calédonie")
Koma saja - Chanteurs de Wetr (Kanak people, Kanaky "Nouvelle Calédonie")
Mohomoneh - Pura Fé (Tuscarora people, First nations, "USA")
Na Sispann Pedi - Manno Charlemagne (Haïti) Nitlaga, Nitlaga - Abdel Gadir Salim (Sudan, السودان)
Rgan gya' skar ma and sman tshong tshe skyid (Tibet)
Tibetan Resistance Chant ("Tibet in song" movie extract) (Tibet)
Tocata y fuga (Los Mapuche) - Illapu (Chile)
بدري عليك - أبوبكر سالم (Yemen, ﺍَﻟﻴَﻤَﻦ)
Long Live the Sahrawi Army - El Wali (Western Sahara, الصحراء الغربية)
DAYÎK (extract for outro) - Memo Gül (Kurdish people)