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We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show...
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We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show explores the practice of solidarity in today’s freedom movements.
Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA's sister station KPFB.
Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production.
www.weriseproduction.com
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Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA's sister station KPFB.
Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production.
www.weriseproduction.com
20 NOV 2024 · Welcome to the third and final episode from our Crosspollination community block party series Roots of Justice: Protecting the Land, Protecting the People. As you probably know, we’re sharing this event out in 3 episodes. You can listen to episodes 54 and 55 to hear the beautiful opening ritual and the first part of the conversation with our panelists: moderator, Dr. Rupa Marya, and speakers Layel Camargo from Shelterwood Collective, Aniya Butler from Youth vs. Apocalypse, and Andrew Yeung from Mycelium Youth Network.
In this episode, we turn our attention to Dr. Rupa Marya inviting questions from the audience.
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We’ll be announcing our Crosspollination After Party in 2025 at Oakstop in Oakland. We’re really looking forward to gathering again, celebrating the incredible labor & visions of our communities, & continuing to nourish these relationships that support us in building the world we need. We are so grateful for Oakstop’s sponsorship of our Crosspollination series.
Panelists:
Dr. Rupa Marya, https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/
Layel Camargo, https://www.shelterwoodcollective.org/
Aniya Butler, https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/
Anderw Yeung, https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/
Thank you to Nikbo for sharing their music: tracks from their song We Need Each Other. Follow their work at https://NikboMusic.com.
If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via https://www.patreon.com/werise or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction.
What did you think of this series? Email us at https://protonmail.com with any reflections or ideas you’d like to share.
Subscribe to our newsletter at WeRiseProduction.com & follow us https://www.instagram.com/weriseproduction/ on Instagram for updates & announcements.
20 NOV 2024 · Welcome to part two of our final iteration of the Crosspollination community block party series Roots of Justice: Protecting the Land, Protecting the People. Because of the fullness of the dialogue, we’re sharing this event out in 3 episodes.
Listen to episode 54 to hear the beautiful opening ritual, featuring musical artists Sam and Nikbo, and our own co-director, co-conspirator nicky.
We’re so excited for you to hear from our amazing panelists. For this conversation, we invited collaborators and community organizations we’ve created with in different ways, and it was beautiful to bring everyone together and hear them weave insights and lessons about climate justice, Queer Trans Black Indigenous & people Of color (QTBIPOC) led land stewardship, rematriation, and land back in action.
Panelists:
Dr. Rupa Marya, https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/
Layel Camargo, https://www.shelterwoodcollective.org/
Aniya Butler, https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/
Anderw Yeung, https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/
Thank you to Nikbo for sharing their music: tracks from their song We Need Each Other. Follow their work at https://NikboMusic.com.
If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via https://www.patreon.com/werise or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction.
What did you think of this series? Email us at https://protonmail.com with any reflections or ideas you’d like to share.
Subscribe to our newsletter at https://WeRiseProduction.com & follow us https://www.instagram.com/weriseproduction/ on Instagram for updates & announcements.
20 NOV 2024 · In this political moment, we are so grateful to share with you the final episodes of our Crosspollination series. In these transformational times of simultaneous pain and potential, may we continue to weave & fortify our relationships with ourselves, each other, our ancestors, with land, with water and the other beings that call this earth home.
May these conversations support you and your loved ones.
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Our final iteration of the Crosspollination community block party series is Roots of Justice: Protecting the Land, Protecting the People. Because of the fullness of the dialogue, this event will be shared out in 3 episodes. Join us as we ask: how do we embody care? What ancestral memories guide our relationships with land? With water? What does reciprocity look and feel like for each one of us? How does art nourish us as we build the future we need?
For this panel, we invited collaborators and community organizations we’ve created with in different ways, and it was beautiful to bring everyone together and hear them weave insights and lessons about climate justice, Queer Trans Black Indigenous & people of color (QTBIPOC) led land stewardship, rematriation, and land back in action.
Before we hear from our panelists, we begin with this beautiful opening, featuring musical artists Sam & Nikbo, and our very own We Rise co-founder, co-conspirator, nicole gervacio.
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Thank you to Nikbo for sharing their music: tracks from their song We Need Each Other. Follow their work at https://NikboMusic.com.
If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via https://www.patreon.com/werise or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction.
What did you think of this series? Email us at https://protonmail.com with any reflections or ideas you’d like to share.
Subscribe to our newsletter at https://WeRiseProduction.com & follow us https://www.instagram.com/weriseproduction/ on Instagram for updates & announcements.
25 SEP 2024 · La Madre Tiarra of Auspicious Acoustics introduces Blessed Assurance: Auspicious Acoustics grassroots fundraising initiative for their work with the Parents, Families, Caregivers and Loved Ones of Ascended Young Ones, aka The Angel Baby Constellations (ABCs).
We Rise invites you to listen to our dear friend & collaborator, Tiarra as she shares about her beloved Angel 🌸Cherry🌸, her personal initiation into Angel Motherhood, Angel Ascension Awareness Month, and Auspicious Acoustics’ call to action for their work with the ABCs.
Learn more & connect: https://www.auspiciousacoustics.com/
Contribute & support: https://www.auspiciousacoustics.com/bless
Join us for Blessed Assurance event, this Saturday September 28th 1PM - 4PM at Pink Salt Wellness Wellness in Xučyun (Huichin) Oakland: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blessed-assurance-tickets-1012359984967?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm-source=cp&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing
14 SEP 2024 · Welcome to this conversation between Co-founder, Layel Camargo, Wellness Practitioner, Erica Gibbons & Artist in Residence and Somatic Scribber Kate Morales, of Shelterwood Collective. We Rise is honored to be in community with Shelterwood, a queer, trans, black, indigenous, people of color-led land stewardship project located on unceded Kashia and Southern Pomo territory in so-called Cazadero, California.
In their 3 years of stewarding the 878 acre forest, the Shelterwood community has weathered wildfire, atmospheric flooding, the strains of the nonprofit industrial complex, and relationship tensions as they discover how to be in right relationship with themselves, one another, local indigenous tribe and the land to bring this project into sustainable being for future generations.
Kate, Layel & Erica offer us a generous deep dive into how Shelterwood is practicing and experimenting with a common thread in our communities: navigating triggers, tensions, & healing while trying to build the next world we want to live in. Shelterwood lets us into their process in hopes of continuing to illuminate an arduous but worthwhile journey.
Learn more & follow their work at https://www.shelterwoodcollective.org/
Connect with Kate | http://asthecrowfliesdesign.com/ | IG: @CrowCamino
Connect with Erica | IG: @DecolonizeMovement
Like what you hear? Both the Shelterwood team and We Rise would love to hear from you. How did this conversation land? What questions remain? What do you want to learn more about? Who do you want to hear from? Let us know! You can connect with us at https://protonmail.com
22 JUL 2024 · Welcome to part two of our recording from our June 8th Crosspollination community block party, Diasporic Care: We Show Up for Each Other.
Because we had so many incredible guest speakers on our panel, we are breaking this conversation up into parts one & two. If you missed part one, we highly encourage you to listen to We Rise podcast https://www.spreaker.com/episode/crosspollination-diasporic-care-part-one-ep-50--60720389, which includes a beautiful opening prayer with Dr. Uzo Nwankpa.
In this episode, we pick up where we left off, with Tierra -We Rise advisor & panel moderator- asking our panelists how they see the safety of our relatives overseas as linked to the safety of our relatives here on Ohlone territiry?
Join Mansi, Jesse, Lubna, Ant, Mira & Sarah to explore how they are practicing collective care, resistance, resilience, & safety.
Sarah O'Neal, https://sarahadbiboneal.com/ABOUT
Lubna Morrar, https://palestinianfeministcollective.org/
Ant Lorenzo, https://www.liyangnetwork.org/
Mansi, https://www.asata.org/
Jesse Strauss, https://ijan.org/
Mira Stern, https://www.instagram.com/jvpbayarea/& https://www.mirastern.com/
Join us on August 3rd for the final event in this Crosspollination series! Learn more & https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/kPM+O9ZrqNAJMEpvi4lM-YSrLPC09eVXR3FwpkoBrWM/ at https://www.weriseproduction.com/crosspollination.
If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via https://www.patreon.com/werise or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction. We'd love to hear from you! Reach out at WeRiseProduction@protonmail.com.
17 JUL 2024 · Diasporic Care: We Show Up for Each Other
Welcome to Part 1 of 2 of this live recording from our Crosspollination community block party series. This event took place on June 8th, 2024. This episode features our opening prayer* with https://www.wellnesspromoters.net/, & the beginning of our speakers panel, featuring the brilliant hearts & minds of:
Sarah O'Neal, https://sarahadbiboneal.com/ABOUT
Lubna Morrar, https://palestinianfeministcollective.org/
Ant Lorenzo, https://www.liyangnetwork.org/
Mansi, https://www.asata.org/
Jesse Strauss, https://ijan.org/
Mira Stern, https://www.instagram.com/jvpbayarea/& https://www.mirastern.com/
*for the opening prayer, we invite you to gather a sprig of rosemary if you're able. if not & you have access to another plant or special object, we encourage you to get it so you can follow Uzo's guidance as you listen
What we get into throughout these two episodes:
How do we take care of us? What practices sustain us in these challenging times?What wisdoms are we drawing from to strengthen each other & our movements? How are we engaging in a diversity of tactics? For many of us, as we show up for each other here in Huchiun, we are also caring for our communities in our motherlands. We know all land is connected, all waters are connected. Like seeds, we know the power of diaspora, the potency of biodiversity to nourish & create liberatory ecosystems, never forgetting where we come from. From Huchiun to Palestine, from the Philippines to Mexico, we honor our interconnectedness across borders.
Gratitude to We Rise Advisor, teaching artist & theater worker Tierra Allen for MCing this event.
If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via https://www.patreon.com/werise or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction. We'd love to hear from you! Reach out at WeRiseProduction@protonmail.com.
31 MAY 2024 · Join Layla K. Feghali of River Rose Remembrance & Iman Labanieh of Baylasan Botanicals for a timely conversation about Layla's newly released book, https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/book-page. Highlighting lineages of herbal resilience, diasporic stewardship, and unraveling the rippling impacts of colonial violence on our earth and communities, this book about people and traditions of the Levant offers relevant fodder to grapple with the dire times we are in.
As organizers and herbalists with roots in Lebanon & Syria, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has been particularly heavy on our hearts and minds. Many of us have shifted our practices to respond to the needs of this moment including organizing, fundraising, and providing political education. It is our hope that this conversation will provide generative insight into more practical wisdom for action in our local and care-taking communities — for Palestine and beyond.
Connect with Layla https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/ & https://www.instagram.com/riverroseremembrance/
Connect with Iman https://www.baylasanbotanicals.com/ & https://www.instagram.com/baylasanbotanicals/
Direct aid to families surviving genocide and displacement https://givebutter.com/c/river2sea
30 MAY 2024 · https://www.weriseproduction.com/crosspollination is a block party series created by We Rise Production with the purpose of strengthening and deepening existing connections and initiating new ones, after the changing culture and community landscape Oakland experienced in years of social distancing and pandemic.
Our themes will deepen into an exploration of how WE TAKE CARE OF US. We Take Care of Us is a phrase that comes out of BIPOC-led community spaces dedicated to the practice of mutual aid & abolition as a strategy for long-term collective wellbeing. We use this phrase intentionally to lift up & carry forward this invitation in our own communities as we crosspollinate.
We use the word “emergent” – in part drawing on adrienne maree brown’s https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html – to signify that these organizations’ work reflects a vision they are each stewarding of collective liberation.
We Rise is committed to offering free education and raising awareness on important community work and causes through live events and cultural production. This series of seasonal intercommunity block parties will cultivate cross-pollination of intergenerational and intersectional identities coming together to learn about & support social justice, community safety, local businesses, & celebrate our artistic abundance.
Opening prayer with https://www.wellnesspromoters.net/communal-healing
Poetry by https://www.dariussimpson.com/ of People’s Programs
Panel Moderator Yemi from https://www.peoplesprograms.com/
Panelists:
James Birch, Deputy Director, https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/
Dr. Cesar Cruz, Co-Founder https://www.homiesempowerment.com/, Founding Principal https://homieshighschool.org/our-school-design/
Delency Parham, Co-Founder, https://www.peoplesprograms.com/
Sound Tech: Frank Sterling aka http://www.kpfaapprentice.org/, with assistance from http://www.kpfaapprentice.org/
Music:
Quantic - Cumbia Sobre el Mar, El Buho Remix
Gingee - Gong Spirits
Mos Def - UMI SaysLowkey - Free Palestine (Instrumental)
Get involved! Learn more & connect at https://www.weriseproduction.com/crosspollination
Become an event https://www.weriseproduction.com/sponsor-crosspollination!
Support this vital work on https://www.patreon.com/werise & https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/weriseproduction
16 NOV 2023 · Join Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride & Luca Yacón of Radically Fit Oakland in this enlightening & heart-to-heart discussion diving deep into the realms of Harm Reduction, Eating Disorders, & Body Movement.
This thought-provoking conversation is an exploration of:
- Harm Reduction Strategies
- Personal Eating Disorder Journey
- Body Movement and Acceptance
- Decolonial approaches & navigating whiteness in the Medical Industrial Complex
LINKS
Follow @NalgonaPositivityPride on IG for more non-conventional eating disorder support.
https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/
Follow @RadicallyFitOakland for QTBIPOC communtiy rooted in fat liberation + joyful movement.
https://www.radicallyfitoakland.com/
MUSIC samples from Combo Chimbita https://combochimbita.com/
TRANSCRIPT coming soon!
We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show...
show more
We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show explores the practice of solidarity in today’s freedom movements.
Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA's sister station KPFB.
Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production.
www.weriseproduction.com
show less
Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA's sister station KPFB.
Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production.
www.weriseproduction.com
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