Rising for Our Motherlands

Today, on Nakba Day, we’re honored to share a very special interview with you. Nakba Day commemorates the mass displacement of Palestinians that began on May 15, 1948. “Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” refers to the forced expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians and the destruction and depopulation of over 500 Palestinian villages, towns, and cities by Zionist militias and, later, th...

In this episode, we dive into a powerful conversation about what it means to live in diaspora. As people whose homelands are shaped by ongoing struggle and displacement, we reflect on how living away from our ancestral lands informs our identities, relationships, and sense of belonging. Lubna & Tina illuminate our histories of migration and displacement from Falasteen & the islands known a...

In this episode of Rising For Our Motherlands , we take listeners on a guided tour of two of Oakland’s most powerful and politically significant murals: the Oakland to Palestine Solidarity Mural (completed in 2014) and the SUMUD: Resistance Until Liberation Mural at Uptown Body and Fender (completed in 2024). Oakland to Palestine Solidarity Mural In the first part of the episode, we walk listeners...

What does it mean to be  an artist for the people ? In this episode of Rising for Our Motherlands, we talk with muralists and cultural workers Cece Carpio and Chris “C” Gazaleh about making art in movement spaces — from the Philippines and Palestine to the murals that filled downtown Oakland after the George Floyd uprisings. Cece Carpio uses acrylic, ink, aerosol, and installations to tell stories...

In this episode, we traveled north to Remagination Farm on Eastern Pomo and Lake Miwok land—also known as Kelseyville, CA—ancestral homelands of the Pomo people. There, we had the profound honor of sitting with Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, whose life and work reflect a deeply powerful and life-altering return to the land. For so many of us rooted in homeland struggles, this return is a dream—an ac...

In this episode we speak to Nadia Barhoum, founder of Thurayya - an initiative to cultivate Palestinians seeds and keep Palestinian crops alive in diaspora. We traveled to her farm in Petaluma where we were able to sit down and talk about what farming means, the significance of seed saving and the dream to build spaces for Palestinians to exist within each other. ABOUT NADIA Nadia Barhoum is the f...

Rising For Our Motherlands is a project born from deep commitments to our people, our homelands, and to one another. This episode features a conversation between friend, kasama, and early collaborator of Rising For Our Motherlands, Nadya Tannous, and co-host nicky, as they reflect on their pivot points, their shared history of organizing, and what it means to build across movements and motherlands...

Rising For Our Motherlands is a podcast about our love for our people, our lands, each other. Our first season draws connections from Palestine to the Philippines and illuminates our interconnected struggles. In this first episode, we introduce the vision and power behind Rising for Our Motherlands . You’ll get to know our hosts, Maisa and nicky — with a special cameo from our audio producer, Cat...

Rising For Our Motherlands is a podcast series about our love for our homelands, our people, and each other. Our pilot season draws connections from Palestine to The Philippines, and illuminates our interconnected struggles in our homelands and as people in diaspora. In this series we will dig deep into our roots as artists and organizers, building political resistance to oppression, granddaughter...