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We Rise

We Rise Production

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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19:47

Water Protector Interview: Pass the Mic, We Rise...

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2022/04/13

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 in the region, and how you and your people can participate.LINKS &

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21:16

Water Protector Interview: Resistance & Labor...

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2021/11/16

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 economists described as a general strike.In response, we share one water protector’s reflections from the

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30:23

Water Protector Interview: Jaike Spotted Wolf on...

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2021/09/29

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-movement solidarity, and how this movement effects all of us. If you are just learning about Line 3, here is

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57:53

Water Protector Interview: Ember Phoenix & Ben...

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2021/09/29

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 pipeline expansion project that will process tar sands from Alberta, Canada and carry the refined oil across

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47:57

The People are a River, Ep. 35

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2021/09/01

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 experience climate emergency after emergency, we have so much to learn from the struggle against Line 3

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43:26

Telling Our Stories: Youth Re-Envisioning the Future,...

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2021/08/03

"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 the Future⁠ initiative with Bioneers, Mycelium Youth Network, & Acclimatewest. In this 4 month series of

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77:10

Rising for Our Motherlands: From the Shellmounds to...

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2021/06/28

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 Rise does not record or share without explicit consent. We encourage you to listen deeply to the speakers’

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33:15

Have you heard of Line 3?, Ep. 32

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2021/06/16

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 show up in solidarity with the indigenous people who live there, & for our collective future.The songs,

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38:59

Free Palestine! Voices From Yelamu Ohlone Land, Pt. 3

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2021/05/28

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 Palestine, and against the on-going Israeli settler-colonialism and violence. As Palestinians of the

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50:52

Free Palestine! Nakba Day 2021, Chinook Land, Pt. 2

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2021/05/20

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 on Chinook land, known by settlers as Portland, Oregon. On this hot Saturday afternoon, listen,

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57:30

Free Palestine! Nakba Day 2021, Chinook Land, Pt. 1

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2021/05/19

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 Chinook land, known by settlers as Portland, Oregon. On this hot Saturday afternoon, Palestinians shared

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46:33

Apocalyptic Resilience, Part 2, AfroFuturism,...

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2021/02/23

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 Dominique Thomas speaking on "AfroFuturism, Organizing + Earthseed: Journey to Collective Liberation" (bio

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59:32

Apocalyptic Resilience, Part 1 with Isha Clarke &...

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2021/02/10

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, indigenous educator (bios below).Mycelium Youth Network prepares young people for climate change,

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44:12

Days of Resistance, No to Annexation, Ep. 31

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2020/08/07

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 along with these actions, furthering the conversation around what annexation has meant and currently means

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42:11

Edwin Carcache de Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la...

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2019/11/15

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… Today, we are joined by another courageous leader and recently released political prisoner. Edwin Carcache

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54:56

Medardo Mairena and the Nicaraguan Peasant Movement,...

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2019/11/14

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 from prison, after being sentenced to 200 plus years for his activism. Mairena is the national leader of

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39:25

The Role of Joy in Our Movements, Ep. 28

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2019/10/04

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 Madhuri Shekar and poet and RYSE Youth Center teaching artist and program manager Ciera-Jevae "CiCi"

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43:14

Is Capitalism Killing Us?, Ep. 27

We Rise ·

2019/10/04

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, Anjali Lynn Nath Upadhyay, and Cal Shakes community partner Causa Justa :: Just Cause.For more, including

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123:16

Sudan Uprising Teach In, Ep. 26

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2019/07/17

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 educating others, and hopefully inspiring people to contribute to creating a better Sudan."This event was

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49:56

Mycelium Youth Network, Ep. 25

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2019/07/01

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 young people on building eco-sustainable communities while maintaining personal and environmental health

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