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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 & potential, may we continue to weave & fortify our relationships with ourselves, each other, our ancestors, with land, with water and the other beings that call this earth home. May these conversations support you and your loved ones. Listen to Crosspollination, Roots of Justice 🌿 episodes 54 - 56 on the We Rise Podcast that features our final iteration of the Crosspollination community block party! The We Rise podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & Spreaker...listen now : https://lnkd.in/gY94bFHc... Our panelists from Roots of Justice: Protecting the Land, Protecting the People include... 🌱 Dr. Rupa Marya, Deep Medicine Circle 🔥 Layel Camargo, Shelterwood Collective 💦 Aniya Butler, Youth Vs Apocalypse 🍄 Andrew Yeung, Mycelium Youth Network Listen, share with your loved ones, let us know what you think! And check out 3 community calls to action to support Indigenous solidarity featured at the end our latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gnjU7Edb

Post-election offerings from MYN's Executive Director, Lil Milagro Henriquez. 💜 "This is the work of many lifetimes. Tending to the practices that move us along the arc of a just transition; divesting from the extractive systems of harm, investing in a regenerative future rooted in reciprocity, care, solidarity. These are practices. We must grow stronger in the relationships that support our collective journey to practice living in accordance with our values.   In times of despair, I lean into my communities who, when faced with what feels like insurmountable odds, find strength in one another to unite even more. We need our communities and networks, more than ever, to continue building together at a hyper-localized level to manifest the world that we want to see not just for our youth but for our plant and animal relatives. I deeply encourage you to connect. Refuse consumption of the false narratives that perpetuate hyper-individualism, scarcity mindset, hopelessness. Build with your community; contribute to your networks. Tend and grow the relationships that inspire you to live into your role as a future ancestor. Listen, and learn from past and present movements for decolonization and liberation. Follow the calls-to-action from frontline organizers who are steadfast in global solidarity work and grassroots movements across identities and borders. Keep showing up in fierce, rageful, and loving solidarity with the people of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and all Indigenous and frontline peoples of the planet. Build at scale; move in pace with the cycles and seasons of the Earth. Rest.  Hold your loved ones close. Grieve the contradictions that cannot be reconciled. Practice how you resource yourself, and how you return ready to fight in solidarity alongside youth and future generations. Practice rest.  As Mycelium reflects on our role in this moment, we remain committed to building a joyous and liberatory world where youth feel powerful and courageous knowing that they’re never alone in this fight. A world where they feel held in love, where they can greet the dawn with a purpose and hope. We will plan for how we can best share educational, care-centered, and action-oriented resources.   We invite you to resource the Mycelium Movement so that we may continue to plant the seeds of tomorrow. Your contribution supports our work to empower frontline BIPOC youth towards futures rooted in ancestral connection, place-based solutions, & untethered imaginations." Check out Lil's full letter below: https://lnkd.in/gGD9atHv

We invite you to listen to our beloved friend, co-conspirator, and fellow starseed, Tiarra as she shares about her beloved Angel Cherry. Tiarra shares her personal initiation into Angel Motherhood and the Angel Ascension Awareness Month (also known as Infant Mortality Awareness Month, intentionally renamed by Auspicious Acoustics). Auspicious Acoustics uses sound and ritual as a medium for innovative grief-work, community building, and radical-healing. This Saturday, Auspicious Acoustics hosts BLESSED ASSURANCE – a grassroots fundraising initiative inviting support for the expansion of their services to the ABCs - Angel Baby Constellations – the parents, families, caregivers and loved ones of ascended young ones. Join us this Saturday September 28th 2024 from 1PM to 4PM at Pink Salt Wellness in Xučyun (Huichin) Oakland for BLESSED ASSURANCE; an Abundance Affirming Sound Ceremony and radical convening of Bay Area Sound Artists in a powerful prayer up for the Ancestry, and past/present/future generations. Link for tickets: https://lnkd.in/gt3E4KGD

New We Rise podcast episode 52 features our friends over at Shelterwood Collective! 🦋 the We Rise podcast is available 🎧 on Spotify, Spreaker or Apple Podcasts, transcript coming soon! Healing with the Land, Stewarding Shelterwood Collective is a conversation between Co-founder, Layel Camargo [They/Them], 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 land stewardship project located on unceded Kashia and Southern Pomo territory in so-called Cazadero, California. In their 3 years of stewarding the 878 acre forest, the Shelterwood community has weathered wildfire, atmospheric flooding, the strains of the nonprofit industrial complex, and relationship tensions as they discover how to be in right relationship with themselves, one another, local indigenous tribe and the land to bring this project into sustainable being for future generations. Kate, Layel & Erica offer us a generous deep dive into how Shelterwood is practicing and experimenting with a common thread in our communities: navigating triggers, tensions, & healing while trying to build the next world we want to live in. Shelterwood lets us into their process in hopes of continuing to illuminate an arduous but worthwhile journey. 🌱 Learn more & follow their work at ShelterwoodCollective.org 💧Connect with Kate | asthecrowfliesdesign.com | IG: @CrowCamino 🌿 Connect with Erica | IG: @DecolonizeMovement Both the Shelterwood team and We Rise would love to hear from you. How did this conversation land? What questions remain? What do you want to learn more about? Who do you want to hear from? Let us know! You can connect with us at WeRiseProduction@protonmail.com 🌈!

🌱 Hannah & Cat first met at a Nakba Day 2021 rally on Chinook land, when Hannah spoke powerfully to a packed crowd. The focus then, a mere 3 years ago was on #SaveSheikhJarrah. As the violent Zionist occupation deepened their murderous terror, we deepened our friendship & organizing with the Oregon to Palestine Coalition. 🌿 On Land Day 2024, on the lush land of Baylasan Botanicals farm, planting olive trees, Hannah asked Cat if We Rise would be down to have her as an intern. Cat was elated. We are so honored to have Hannah join the team & cannot wait to witness, support & nourish her cultural production. 🎙 Hannah (pronounced Henna like the tattoo) Alzgal is based in Portland, Oregon - occupied Kalapuya lands, and ancestrally hails from Yaffa and Ramle, Palestine. A second-generation Palestinian student born in exile, she is learning how to tell the stories of communities, here and abroad, who are resisting the violence of U.S. imperialism and colonialism as a way to overcome the forgetting their loved ones have had to do as a result of it. Hannah comes from a history of youth leadership, first starting in student government and becoming politicized around identity to join Palestinian youth-centered organizing. Her time has been most dedicated to being part of her university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, fighting alongside comrades in joint struggles from the Philippines and allies in solidarity to pressure their university to cut all ties with war profiteers for the liberation of all lands. As a culmination of her experience so far, Hannah finds her ✨ North Star in storytelling as a way to disseminate revolutionary knowledge and have loved ones connect memory to popular education. In her free time, Hannah enjoys expressing her (amateur) artistic abilities through poetry and painting. Image description: We Rise graphic with turquoise & light green/yellow background with faint images of thistles & dandelion puffs. center is a photo of Hannah wearing a kuffiyeh & mask, speaking on the mic at a Palestine solidarity event. text above the photo says "Introducing our new team member Hannah!". text on bottom right says "Hannah Alzgal, We Rise Apprentice & Audio Producer in Training"

Karina Falcon returns for 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 this autumn. Karina Falcon is Mexican Transgenerational Consultant, Writer, Poet and Editor centered in the Sacred Feminine Wisdom. She has been practicing the way of the Medicine Wheel from ancestral medicine such as traditional mexican healing, astrology, Native American and Maya-Tolteca spirituality for about 18 years. 📍Learn more / support the work / apply now: https://lnkd.in/g_fz6RWh 🌱APPLY by September 17! 🤲🏼The purpose of this program is to engage participants in self-study with the content of Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds, a podcast about Indigenous sovereignty and collective storytelling. 🌈 This offering is a collaborative radical space co-created by Sanadora Práctica Creativa and We Rise Production #SomosSemillasCircles #WeAreSeedsPodcast #Ancestors #Storytelling #WeavingAcrossBorders #TheSpiritualIsPolitical

An excerpt of Karina leading last autumn's consciousness rooting circle... Grateful to be collaborating with this circle again. This invitation is open to all who show up with curiosity and open hearts. Please share with people who may be interested in joining us, we begin October 1st! More info / link to application: https://lnkd.in/g_fz6RWh

Many of us at 🦋 We Rise are starseeds of the freedom school LIBERATION SPRING LLC! We’ve experienced many seasons of 🤲🏽 unlearning & learning, 🤲🏿 re-membering & storytelling, 🙌🏾 imagining & dreaming with this community that deeply roots & guides how We Rise navigates 💧 ideas, ✨ collaboration & 🌈strategy. We are so excited to dive into Uprising, a course formerly known as Revolution 🔥. For more info or to apply now 🌱: https://lnkd.in/gZxKSrxZ Hope you will join us this autumn, apply by September 9th! There are BIPOC only circles available & the class is offered at sliding scale donation / no one turned away for lack of funds. “Have you been wondering what it’s gonna take to actually disrupt the status quo & get set on the path to collective liberation? If so, I invite you to join us for our autumn course: Uprising. This journey is back for the first time in over four years & not to be missed. Let’s identify ethical praxis as transformative change agents on the lands where we live & within our communities at this particular moment in history. If you’ve been feeling defeated or like trying to make a difference is hopelessly futile, please know that it doesn’t have to be like that. The challenges we face today for our planetary survival are immense. So, too, is our potential. Our capacity to nourish mutiny. To create rebellion. I imagine you want to be in integrity and make your descendants proud. In this community course, we’ll vision what that can look like moving forward. Let’s (re)connect with our responsibilities as future ancestors & (in)finite beings. Feel free to be in touch if you have any questions whatsoever. Looking forward to sharing this experience with you soon.“

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds pilot episode invites us to reflect on these inquiries... What does it mean to live in presence and purpose? What does it mean to honor our coexistence? What relationships make you feel your power? 🌱 Our consciousness rooting & storytelling circles return this autumn, sessions begin October 1st! 🕸 Learn more / apply by September 17th: https://lnkd.in/g6Zbuv9V

🤲🏼 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 is now receiving applications! This is a highlight from last autumn's circle where our collaborator, creator, and co-conspirator, Erika Murcia introduces the medicine wheel to our participants. 🌱 Join us this autumn for our live weekly 2 hour zoom sessions to move through offerings of embodied practices and a season of self study that will be guided by each of the co-creators & guest educators of the Somos Semillas journey. 🕸 Learn more at https://lnkd.in/g6Zbuv9V 🌱 Apply by September 17! Please invite folks who may be interested in this offering! 🤲🏼 The purpose of this program is to engage participants in self-study with the content of Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds, a podcast about Indigenous sovereignty & collective storytelling co-created by Eri Sanadora Práctica Creativa and Catherine Petru & nicole gervacio of We Rise Production. #SomosSemillasCircles #WeAreSeedsPodcast #Ancestors #Storytelling #WeavingAcrossBorders #TheSpiritualIsPolitical