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. Brought to you by We Rise Production. www.weriseproduction.com
Cat Petru (We Rise) and Theresa Adams (graduate of KPFA’s First Voice Apprenticeship program) guest host a special edition of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine in honor of Women’s History Month. Cat speaks with doulas, Megan Chadwick and Eri Guajardo Johnson (Birth Bruja host!), about birthwork as a site of healing, transformation, and justice. Theresa and Cat … Continued
This rebroadcast of Cat’s show on KPFA’s Full Circle commemorates the One Year Anniversary of the landmark SFO protest against one of Trump’s first Executive Orders: The Muslim Ban. On this episode of WE RISE: Lara Kiswani of the Arab Resource Organizing Center gives a retrospective on the 3 Muslim Bans that went into effect … Continued
What happens when kids view the world as investigative journalists? On January 16th, we visited Lodestar Elementary School in Oakland. We were told that the students of Ms. Laura Einhorn had been producing podcasts about Islamophobia. On today’s show we feature the official podcasts produced by the Lodestar Common Ground Expedition, and share sounds from … Continued
The women and girls of the Pink Panther Sorority join us in the studio to talk about self esteem and solidarity in sisterhood. PINK PANTHER SORORITY Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Pinkpanthersorority/ Email [email protected] Follow the women of @pinkpanthersororityinc on Instagram: Ms. T: @__mst__ Nyisha Moncrease: @blackberry_nyi Tamika Renee: @micky_cruz_ WE RISE Email [email protected] Twitter @weriseproducers Facebook & Instagram @weriseproduction
We want to celebrate the legacy of radical organizing in this region and also call into question the false narratives that pedestalize certain leaders and organizations without acknowledging the ways in which they were problematic and even counterrevolutionary. As the call to reclaim Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radical legacy sounds throughout the Bay Area, we … Continued
DJ Deep Space takes us through a galaxy of music to celebrate the turn of the Gregorian calendar – welcome 2018! We Rise co-producer Nicole Gervacio co-hosts with Cat Petru. Guests include the ineffable DJ Deep Space and doula and artist Megan Chadwick of NECTAR birth collective. Join us for jams that will get you … Continued
In this conversation about transformative justice and healing, Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective poses the questions, “What is accountability? What is justice?” How can our movements be survivor centered? What IS community? LINKS Mia Mingus’ website Leaving Evidence: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/ Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/ Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet: https://batjc.wordpress.com/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ BATJC Resource Page: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/ … Continued
Host Laura Echegaray discusses Puerto Rico – or Borinquen, the island’s indigenous name – the current social and political situation, how we got where we are, and what’s next. We will learn some historical facts about the relationship between the U.S. government and Puerto Rico. We will go over the concept of disaster capitalism as … Continued
On this episode of We Rise, we explore the conditions in the United States that set the stage for perpetual war. Guest Jason S. Ridler Ramirez, Canadian-born left-wing military historian and professor, speaks about his experience in the field of military studies in Canada and the US, the history of the military industrial complex, and … Continued
This is rebroadcast of Full Circle, produced by members of KPFA’s First Voice Apprenticeship program. This episode is hosted and produced by our own Catherine Petru. Arisika Razak and Hemal Lalabhai join Catherine to discuss Arundhati Roy and Alice Walker’s recent dialogue as part of KQED’s City Arts & Lectures. This show features: – Arundhati … Continued
