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We Rise
by 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
Episodes
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The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation: Grassroots Baddies | EP 2
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 &…
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The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation: The Legal Precedent | EP 1
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…
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The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation | TRAILER
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…
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SUBMERGE | Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds | Season 2 Trailer + Dance Series
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | Even In Our Dreams, Part 2 | EP 8
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | From the Sea | EP 7
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | Even In Our Dreams, Part 1 | EP 6
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 &...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | Walking with Sumud: An Oakland Palestine Mural Tour | EP 5
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…
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Rising for Our Motherlands | We're Ganna Paint About Our Victories | EP 4
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | This is the Land: Remagination Farm | EP 3
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | This is the Land: Thurayya | EP 2
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…
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Rising for Our Motherlands | nicky & Nadya's Pivot Points | Bonus Episode
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...
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Rising for Our Motherlands | We Become a Wave | EP 1
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...
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Cacophony of Joy | Gunalchéesh | Part 3
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...
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Cacophony of Joy | Original Teachings | Part 2
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...
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Cacophony of Joy | Lingit aani áyá | Part 1
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…
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Rising for Our Motherlands | Trailer
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…
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Oakland People's Arms Embargo | Press Conference | EP 60
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...
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For the Salmon | Herring Protectors Series | EP 59
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...
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Visions of a Climate Just World, Ep. 58
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...
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Enero Zapatista: Lithium Mining & Indigenous Resistance, Ep. 57
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...
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Crosspollination | Roots of Justice, Panel Part 2 | Ep 56
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…
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Crosspollination | Roots of Justice, Panel Part 1 | Ep 55
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...
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Crosspollination | Roots of Justice, Opening | Ep 54
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…
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Blessed Assurance | Ep. 53
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...
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Healing with the Land, Stewarding Shelterwood Collective | Ep. 52
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...
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Crosspollination | We Show Up for Each Other, Part Two | Ep. 51
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...
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Crosspollination | Diasporic Care, Part One | Ep. 50
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 Dr. Uzo Nwankpa, & the beginning of our speakers panel, featuring...
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Stewardship, Remembrance, & Sovereignty with Layla Feghali & Iman Labanieh | Ep. 49
Join Layla K. Feghali of River Rose Remembrance & Iman Labanieh of Baylasan Botanicals for a timely conversation about Layla's newly released book, The Land in Our Bones. Highlighting lineages of herbal resilience, diasporic stewardship, and unraveling the rippling impacts of colonial violence on...
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Crosspollination | Emergent Orgs for the People | Ep. 48
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...
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¡Aye Que Chismear! with Nalgona Positivity Pride & Radically Fit, Ep. 47
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…
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Wash It All Away with Adrienne Shamszad, Ep. 46
Born and raised in the Bay, Iranian-American singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad hops on the mic and shares her voice with We Rise listeners, debuting her first full-length album in 15 years: Wash It All Away! Adrienne's music is dedicated to our collective liberation - and is an intimate...
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Somos Semillas EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our Crossroads
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our...
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Somos Semillas EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our Power of Shedding
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our…
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Somos Semillas EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our Sexual Creativity
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our...
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Queer & Well: We Take Care of Us, Ep. 45
From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A panel with Christina Chase of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) & Cat Brooks of Anti Police Terror Project (APTP), moderated by Layel Camargo When we think about communal care it is vital that we talk about the ways in which we take care...
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Queer & Well: Caring for the Land, Ep. 44
From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A Conversation with Layel Camargo of Shelterwood Collective & Inés Ixierda of Sogorea Te Land Trust As queer Black and brown folks, what does it look like to be reconnected to land our ancestors stewarded before colonialism & white supremacy? What are the ways...
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Somos Semillas EP 2: Sacred Earth, Returning to our Body Sovereignty
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. In this episode we are reclaiming Earth...
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Somos Semillas EP 1: Sacred Waters, Returning to our Natural Flow
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. Episode One: Sacred Waters, Returning to...
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Somos Semillas EP 0: Sacred Ether, Returning to our Spirit
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. How do we want to be seeds now? In…
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Pilot: Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds
Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. In this 5-episode series, we’ll...
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The Real Work, Ep 6: Dreaming Forward
This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you’re here right now, and you’ve been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who…
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The Real Work, EP 5: Applied Practice
Last episode, we focused on the accountability part of community accountability. We explored how changing our behavior to live accountably is lifelong work, is violence prevention, takes building skills until they become muscle memory. Fortunately for us, Mia gave us many opportunities to…
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Celebrating 6 years! Autumn Fundraiser, Ep. 43
Thank you for listening to our podcasts over the years, or months – or if you're new to our work, welcome! After 6 years of groundwork, we’re celebrating how far we’ve come & asking you – our community – for support. Donate to our first ever fundraiser! Your contribution supports queer, femme,...
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The Real Work, EP 4: Living Accountably
As the cohort continued, we learned that building the capacity to practice transformative justice takes immense and consistent personal work. We’re talking the basics of being human, like self reflection, and how to communicate. These personal inquiries into how we live our values, and how we...
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The Real Work, EP 3: Softening the Fist
Our facilitator, Mia Mingus, used the metaphor of a fist to explain how, unlike our current severely punitive carceral system, TJ creates conditions that support folks to step up and take accountability when they’ve caused harm. In this episode, we explore how these systems have shaped us, and…
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The Real Work, EP 2: TJ 101
On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ? Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2 Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org Save the…
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The Real Work, EP 1: A Kind of Origin Story
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...
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The Real Work Pilot: What /is/ the Real Work of Transformative Justice?
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…
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Justice for Derrick Clark, Ep. 42
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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