Top 21 Activism Podcasts

Celebrating Women Who Inspire — A Podcast About Remarkable Women

Looking for a podcast that highlights inspiring women and their incredible stories?

Join two sisters every Friday night as we shine a spotlight on extraordinary women from around the world—past and present—who have shaped history, led movements, broken barriers, and made a difference.

From trailblazing female leaders and historic pioneers to modern-day changemakers and unsung heroines, we share powerful, uplifting stories of resilience, courage, and impact. Whether you’re into women’s history, female empowerment, or just love inspiring true stories, this podcast is for you.

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Monks and Punks is a podcast about fighting the power with all your heart.

Hosted by Sander Hicks, the show explores radical spirituality, nonviolence, punk rock, democratic socialist politics, grassroots activism, and the everyday work of resisting empire — from elections and organizing to culture, music, and building things with your hands.

These are long-form conversations and sharp arguments about how people actually challenge power, stay human, and refuse to give up — even when the odds are stacked against them.

This is not passive commentary.

It’s for listeners who still believe ideas, culture, and organized people can change the world.

Fight the Power, With All Your Heart!

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THE PRESENT

Our newly renamed podcast, Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast is all about radical hope and resistance in the age of climate disaster. This newest iteration of Solarpunk Magazine's podcast will launch it's first episode on Monday, January 27, 2025.

On Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson (founder and co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine) envisions a world where humanity thrives in harmony with nature, equity and justice guide our communities, and creativity fuels solutions to our shared challenges. By imagining brighter futures and confronting current crises with resilience, we aim to cultivate hope and empower individuals to co-create a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving planet. Our mission is to inspire hope and action by exploring solarpunk ideas, sharing grassroots solutions, and amplifying the voices of change-makers who challenge dystopian realities. Through critical analysis, meaningful conversations, and creative storytelling, we provide listeners with the tools and inspiration to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world while nurturing optimism in the face of adversity.

THE PAST

Our podcast began with the title Solarpunk Futures and has gone through a few different iterations. Starting in the fall of 2021, the original podcast ran for seven monthly episodes. Then beginning in fall 2022, the podcast was rebranded as Solarpunk Presents. That iteration was hosted by our then non-fiction co-editors Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha. In January of 2023, Solarpunk Presents branched off on its own as a separate podcast, and in the spring of 2024 Solarpunk Futures came back briefly for a few episodes before going on hiatus for a reworking and rebranding.

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What “WORK” are you doing? Overtime's Chloe Pavlech and Brandon Rhodes' new podcast, "The Work," is here to inspire the next generation of activists.

Highlighting personal stories and experiences while interviewing high profile athletes, Chloe and Brandon will educate, you, our family, on ways to help make a change in this world.

When did you first realize that you were black? How does it feel to be a black woman in the sports industry? What can you do to make a difference in your community? Come along and join the movement. This is "The Work."

We can't fix the world alone. But we all know that collaborating is hard. And systems? Well, they seem to be allergic to change. So how do we do it without losing our damn minds?

On System Catalysts, you will learn from activists, philanthropists, and change makers who put their egos aside to improve the systems that run the world. This season, we’ll be looking into healthcare, marriage equality, migration, climate and more. Join Jeff Walker and English Sall as they go behind-the-scenes of systems change, cracking the code on making the world a better place.

System Catalysts is produced by Hueman Group Media.

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Welcome to the Winter Will Come Again podcast, where we will be exploring the story behind the energy crisis Europe faced the winter of 2022, its connection with plastic production and why, to ease Europe’s energy needs, plastic has to go.

In 2022, once it became clear that Russian gas supplies were to be cut by at least 80%, energy costs in Europe surged. The debate around the energy crisis dominated policy and media spaces, and this in combination with the cost of living crisis that concerned countries throughout the continent, forced industry, businesses and individuals to adapt their behaviour as governments scrambled to secure gas reserves that would meet energy demands.

What this scrambling looked like has an unlikely connection to plastic production: while in EU Member States like Germany, the general public was told that they should take cold showers and use less heat to reduce the overall fossil fuel consumption, the EU explored new trade deals to secure energy supplies for the colder months of the year, in particular with the United States and African countries like Senegal.

Not only did EU governments demand far more action from individual citizens than from industrial sectors that consume the lion’s share of fossil feedstock and energy, they also completely overlooked the huge potential to actually reduce fossil fuel consumption by tackling unnecessary use.

What does unnecessary use look like? Well, if the global petrochemical producers were a country, they would be the third-largest oil consumer in the world and the fourth-largest gas consumer. These were the findings from Break Free From Plastic’s Winter is Coming report published late in 2022 in the midst of the energy crisis.

This extremely high fossil fuel-consuming industry remained and still remains a complete oversight in the EU public energy and climate debates. This is despite clear and feasible pathways to reduce consumption of one of its main products: plastic. The EU cannot buy its way out of the multiple current crises by simply replacing Russian fossil fuels with imports from other regions. Every barrel of oil or cubic metre of fossil gas that goes towards plastics is a major roadblock towards the goals of tackling the climate and plastics crises and breaking free from the fossil dependency that foments instability and fuels wars.

Join us in this three episode podcast series as we explore the stories behind the data of the Winter is Coming report. We will be joined by activists, researchers and campaigners from Europe, Africa and the US. Each bringing new insight and perspective to help us understand why this high fossil fuel-consuming industry remains a complete oversight in the EU public energy and climate debates and what can be done to ease the energy dependency of Europe on the US and countries in Africa.

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Woman's Place is Wherever She Wants to Be! Women's history in bite-sized pieces! Tune in to learn more about how the role of women has evolved over time, how women gained the rights we have today, and to find inspiration to push forward for equality!