We Rise

In our final episode of The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation, we sat down with Razan Zuayater, founder and General Coordinator of Arabs for the Protection of Nature (APN). APN is an organization rooted in liberating Palestine and the greater Arab region through what they call, green resistance. They help farmers in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan remain steadfast on their homelands by...

In our fourth episode of The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation, we sit down with Dr. Omar Nashabe, a Lebanese professor, human rights scholar, and an internationally-renowned expert on criminal justice. He helped organize the Special Tribunal on Lebanon, served as advisor to the Prime Minister of the country, and has led in monitoring the rights and well-being of prisoners in Lebanese...

In our third episode of The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation , we sit down with Raji Sourani, an expert witness and one of the most prominent Palestinian Human Rights lawyers. Raji has spent his livelihood defending the rights of Palestinians at the International Criminal Court of Justice, zionist military courts, and national jurisdictions across Europe. As founder of the Palestinian...

In our second episode of The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation, we sit down with Azra Syed, the Secretary General of the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), an anti-imperialist, democratic, & socialist organization. ILPS is one of the core organizers of this tribunal & has been an international force for Palestinian liberation. As part of the international leaders...

In our first episode of The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation, we sit down with Edre Olalia, The Amicus Curae, otherwise known as the Friend of The Court. Edre is a people’s lawyer serving the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, representing the national liberation movement in peace negotiations with the government of the Philippines. With Edre, we focus on the legal tactic o...

What does justice look like for the martyrs, survivors, & victims of zionist colonialism, imperialism, & genocide? How can today’s judicial processes & laws serve our liberation struggles? What is justice for Palestinians? In autumn of 2025, We Rise headed to Barcelona to bear witness, document, & archive the International People’s Tribunal for Palestine, titled, Right to Resist: T...

Welcome back to Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds! On season two, the center point of our conversations shifts to: Land. And practice. What seeds are you heartfeeding and nourishing in this season of crises, with the lands you steward? We welcome back guests from season one, and invite new guests to join our circles - crosspollinating from Lenca land and across Turtle Island. We explore queer, strange...

We dive back in to our conversation with Tina Shauf-Bajar, organizer with GABRIELA Oakland, and Lubna Morrar, with the Palestinian Feminist Collective. After sharing our histories of migration and displacement in Part 1, we discuss how these legacies continue to shape our communities – our identities, relationships, and sense of belonging – in the diaspora today. If you haven't listened to Even in...

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...

In the Spring, the Herring Protectors -- an Indigenous women-led grassroots movement -- invited We Rise and our friends at Movement Generation to what is known as Sitka, Alaska or Sheet'ká Kwáan for the yaaw koo.eex, a Lingit ceremony honoring the herring and Lingit ways of life. In the last episode of this series, we return to Totem Square with Louise, honorary Movement Generation member Ila, the...

In the Spring, the Herring Protectors -- an Indigenous women-led grassroots movement -- invited We Rise and our friends at Movement Generation to what is known as Sitka, Alaska or Sheet'ká Kwáan for the yaaw koo.eex, a Lingit ceremony honoring the herring and Lingit ways of life. In part two, we spend most of our time with the Kaayani Sisters Council, led by indigenous women wisdom keepers, learni...

In the Spring, the Herring Protectors -- an Indigenous women-led grassroots movement -- invited We Rise and our friends at Movement Generation to what is known as Sitka, Alaska or Sheet'ká Kwáan for the yaaw koo.eex, a Lingit ceremony honoring the herring and Lingit ways of life. In this series, we share teachings from our time together in Sheet'ká Kwáan. We honor grief, confront colonialism, navi...

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...

Live from Oakland International Airport, members of AROC (Arab Resource & Organizing Center) Action, Bay Area PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) & the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), along with other local leaders, gathered in solidarity demanding an end to all shipments of military cargo from ports of Oakland to Israel and an Oakland Arms Embargo on Israel. We Rise joined to docum...

In early May, on the morning of the kuu.éex --a nightlong ceremony in celebration of Tlingit ways of life, to honor relatives, and in this specific gathering, the herring -- we circled round a coffee table, folks on the floor, in chairs, cozied up on the couch and listened to Deloole & Rochelle talk about protecting Indigenous sovereignty in the Yukon river water shed. They share about the imp...

In autumn of 2024, a diverse crowd of artists, activists, and community members gathered at the New Parkway Theater on occupied Ohlone land known as Huchiun for a private screening co-hosted by the Center for Cultural Power and Movement Generation. Excited to immerse themselves in stories of climate justice, the audience came for the debut of two short films: Remembering Our Way Forward by Lily Xi...

Enero Zapatista is an autonomously organized month-long series of events commemorating the Zapatistas' January 1st 1994 uprising. The aim of the events is to gather and form connections through Zapatismo and the Zapatista struggle, across calendars and geographies. We Rise has been attending these events all month to record and document the series. On this episode, we bring you this timely convers...

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 Laye...