We Rise

How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out... Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1 Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org Anti Police-Terror Project: www. AntiPoliceTerrorProject.org Th...

We are proud to present The Real Work: a podcast about theater culture & transformative justice! This collaboration has been in the works since 2018, and we are thrilled to share it with you now. Join us for our free online premiere of this series with a community dialogue August 22nd 7PM-9PM PST. Register at the link below. Let’s gather, witness episode 1, and dialogue about how transformativ...

CONTENT NOTE: Racist police murder. On Saturday, June 18, 24-year-old Derrick Clark was shot and killed by 30 members of the Oregon State Troopers and Clackamas County Sherriff’s Office for a DUI. Derrick’s loved ones are in deep mourning, and organizing to get answers about Derrick’s murder, and obtain justice in some way in the face of this white supremacist, racist, colonial, militarized so-cal...

As with all specially designated months, we get to celebrate being queer year round. That said, happy pride friends! And happy belated summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. In December of 2021, just before the Winter Solstice, cat & nicky got to sit down (virtually) with KPFA Radio’s First Voice Apprentice & Full Circle producer Sentient Shiloh AKA DJ Loh to reflect on lessons received in th...

As we approach the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine, Layla Kanaan joins Cat for an in-depth discussion of the history of Zionism, the founding of the settler state of Israel, the ongoing impacts of violence on the Palestinian people, how this struggle is all our struggle, and how we can get involved and act in solidarity for a free Palestine. We learn, too, about local orga...

Mayra, Tierra, Cat, and Nicky are interviewed by a beloved comrade and filmmaker, speaking to our experience in Akiing alongside water protectors resisting Enbridge Corporation’s Line 3 pipeline. Akiing is the Anishnaabe name for the land we were on. It means “the land to which we belong.” Following the interview, we share updates on the Stop Line 3 movement, other calls for land and water defense...

On the heels of ‘Strike-tober’, more than 100,000 workers in the so called “United States” either participated in or prepared for strikes in one of the largest increases of organized labor in the twenty-first century. Striketober began amidst the Great Resignation, when people started to quit jobs due to low wages and oppressive working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which some economist...

Here is our complete interview with Jaike Spotted Wolf, who we met on Anishnaabe land, and who you heard snippets of on our episode called The People are a River. Jaike discusses the significance of Line 3 across Turtle Island - from the summer heat domes of the Pacific Northwest to polar cap ice melting in Alaska - the need for indigenous leadership and land stewardship, strengthening cross-movem...

This episode offers our full conversation with Ember Phoenix & Ben Joselyn, water protectors on Anishnaabe land, building community & protecting the sacred. For more on the movement to Stop Line 3, you can listen to We Rise episode 32 (called Have you heard of Line 3?), 35 - The People are a River, and 37, our full interview with water protector Jaike Spotted Wolf. ABOUT LINE 3: Line 3 is a pipeli...

ABOUT THE EPISODE: A small group of artists from We Rise Production went to the Mississippi headwaters in July 2021 and - with permission - gathered stories and sound. On this episode you’ll hear directly from people who have been on Anishnaabe land in Minnesota for months. What have they been doing there? Rising up against the construction of a tar sands pipeline called Line 3. As we continue to...

"What you are about to hear comes from youth from across Turtle Island - from occupied Ohlone land in the San Francisco Bay Area to Shawnee territory in Louisville, Kentucky. As we learn and explore media making, we bring you the wisdom we carry in our voices… and the seeds of our vision for the future..." This episode of We Rise was co-created by youth from our Telling Our Stories: Re-Envisioning...

This episode contains 9 speeches by organizers of the event: From The Shellmounds to Sheikh Jarrah: Call to Honor Those We Have Lost to Colonialism, held on Memorial Day 2021. We share their memories, visions & voices with utmost care & consent. A few times, speakers explain that they are going to share a prayer, but the prayer is not in this podcast. That’s because these prayers are sacred & We R...

Do you know about Line 3? Maybe you’ve heard of Keystone XL or DAPL (the Dakota Access Pipeline)? Many of us haven’t heard about Line 3… yet. Even though it is the biggest tar sands pipeline project in global human history. Enbridge Corporation is reconstructing a pipeline on Anishnaabe land in occupied Minnesota, and we must rise to stop it - to protect the clean waters, for the wild rice, to sho...

Part three of the Free Palestine! series features voices from Yelamu Ohlone land commonly known as San Francisco, California. We begin with Mama Tiny of Poor Magazine offering a warrior call & prayer. Then, Zeyad of Palestinian Youth Movement speaks to us on May 15th, Nakba Day, where nearly 10,000 people, families, children, and allies took to the streets that day in solidarity with the people of...

May 15 is Nakba Day. Catastrophe. Remembering May 15, 1948 when Palestinians were violently forced to leave their land, their homes by the settler colonial nation state of Israel. 73 years later, the violence has not stopped. Voices have not faltered. The call to return remains. Part two of Free Palestine! series is the second half of Center for Study & Preservation of Palestine's Nakba Day rally...

May 15 is Nakba Day. Catastrophe. Remembering May 15, 1948 when Palestinians were violently forced to leave their land, their homes by the settler colonial nation state of Israel. 73 years later, the violence has not stopped. Voices have not faltered. The call to return remains. Part one of Free Palestine! series comes from the Center for Study & Preservation of Palestine's Nakba Day rally on Chin...

We Rise has been partnering with Mycelium Youth Network for over a year, and together, we are so excited to share this two-part podcast series with you. Here is the second of two keynote speeches from MYN's Autumn 2020 conference entitled Apocalyptic Resilience: An Afro-Indigenous Futuristic Adventure. This episode features the brilliant organizer, researcher, & AfroFuturist Black feminist nerd Do...

We Rise has been partnering with Mycelium Youth Network for over a year, and together, we are so excited to share this two-part podcast series with you. Here is the first of two keynote speeches from MYN's Autumn 2020 conference entitled Apocalyptic Resilience: An Afro-Indigenous Futuristic Adventure. This first episode features the unstoppable Isha Clarke with Youth vs. Apocalypse, and Atekpatzin...

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has called for all organizations in support of Palestinian liberation to endorse the "Days of Resistance", in occupied Palestine and internationally, August 7-9, 2020. In response, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) chapters and many organizations across the nation are participating in actions throughout this weekend. This program was curated to go al...

This show is a follow up to our last episode about the indigenous led peasant movement in Nicaragua - in defense of land, water and sovereignty. On that episode David de la Gran of KPFA’s La Onda Bajita spoke with Medardo Mairena, one of the most prominent leaders of Nicaragua’s peasant movement, and a recently released political prisoner. His sentence by Ortega’s government was for 200 years… Tod...

We Rise had the extreme honor to record a show with David de la Gran of KPFA's La Onda Bajita featuring Medardo Mairena, leader of Nicaragua's indigenous peasant movement. David was joined by UC Berkeley students to co-facilitate the conversation. Mairena was joined by four members of Nicaragua's National Council in Defense of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty. On June 11, 2019, Mairena was released...

On July 15, Cal Shakes (an SF Bay Area theater company) hosted a community meal and civic dialogue about the role of joy in our movement building, our resistance, and our art, inspired by our production of House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar. We Rise got to record, produce, and edit this episode of Asides, the Cal Shakes podcast. Hosts: Tierra Allen, SK Kerastas, and Kimiya Shokri. Guests: Playwright M...

On July 9, Cal Shakes (an SF Bay Area theater company) partnered with Causa Justa :: Just Cause to host a community meal and civic dialogue called “Is Capitalism Killing Us?” inspired by their production of The Good Person of Szechwan. We Rise got to record, produce, and edit this episode of Asides, the Cal Shakes podcast. Hosts: SK Kerastas and Tierra Allen. Guests: Aimee Suzara, Ronald Flannery,...

This Sudan Uprising teach in was organized by Alaa Suliman, A Sudanese American residing in the Bay Area for about 20 years. "Having been born and raised in Sudan, the recent events of the Sudan uprisings have been a very emotionally involved experience for my family and I. These events have hit so close to home, we felt a great sense of obligation to bring awareness to our struggle through educat...

In the spring nicole gervacio of We Rise joined Mycelium Youth Network at Pear Tree Community School as they were finishing their 6 week program entitled 'Science for Survival' where youth learned water catchment, water purification, created emergency bags, made tinctures and salves, went on a medicinal first aid walk, and conducted a mini-home assessment of needs. Mycelium Youth Network educates...