Podcast appearances and mentions of april fishes

From a recent SAND Community Gathering (Feb 2025) hosted by SAND co-founders, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Deep Medicine Circle (DMC), a collective of healers, farmers, artists, and storytellers, is challenging colonial structures by redefining health and wellbeing through practices that heal communities and restore connections to land. Led by Dr. Rupa Marya, Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, and Walter Riley, this visionary group is creating a holistic food and wellbeing model that nourishes both people and land, recognizing the profound interconnectedness of human health within social, environmental, and historical contexts. Dr. Rupa Marya  is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. She is the co-author with Raj Patel of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. She works to decolonize food and medicine in partnership with communities in Lakhota territory at the Mni Wiconi Health Circle and in Ohlone Territory through the Deep Medicine Circle. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, J.D. is of Ohlone descent, from the village of Chitactac. She is dedicated to land back initiatives, land preservation, land restoration, cultural revitalization and environmental justice because she feels that these initiatives have a direct impact on physical and mental health. As a mother and grandmother, she completed a law degree so that she might better serve Indigenous communities. Today her focus is on regenerative leadership strategies, leveraging her legal skills, and mediation skills to advocate for Indigenous interests, negotiate agreements and build relational bridges. She is an acknowledged peacemaker, trained by Tribal Supreme Court Justices. Charlene is the former CEO and Director of Self-Governance for the Healing and Reconciliation Institute. Charlene also serves as Chairwoman of the Confederation of Ohlone People, Co-Chair of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council and Board Vice President for the Santa Clara Valley Indian Health Center. Charlene was recently brought into the Planet Women's 100 Women Pathway, a cohort designed to increase the number of diverse women leaders at the helm of the environmental movement. Walter Riley was born in 1944, number 9 of 11 children born to a farming family in Durham County, North Carolina. His family farmed until he was about 6 years old. He grew up in the Jim Crow south and in his early teens, Walter became active in the Civil Rights Movement organizing voter registration, sit-ins, jobs campaigns, and in his late teens became Field Secretary for CORE (Congress for Racial Equality), got married and became a father. He moved to the Bay Area in the 1960s where he became active in the political, social justice movements. Walter is a long-time community activist and civil rights attorney. Topics 00:00 Introduction and Greetings 00:47 Introducing Dr. Rupa Marya 01:46 Deep Medicine Circle and Board Members 02:36 Charlene's Introduction and Ancestral Tribute 07:33 Walter Riley's Introduction and Civil Rights Work 23:48 Connecting Food Systems and Colonial History 26:40 Healing Through Music and Cultural Awareness 27:43 Addressing Hunger and Malnutrition During COVID 28:06 Farming as a Path to Justice and Resilience 30:26 The Role of Historical Trauma in Land Restoration 30:51 Holistic Problem Solving and Cultural Stewardship 36:13 Youth and Community Engagement in Healing 41:28 The Importance of Ethnic Studies and Solidarity 43:08 Reflections on Historical Movements and Future Change 52:29 Concluding Thoughts on Healing and Unity Resources Farming is Medicine (film) Do No Harm Coalition Inflamed (Rupa Marya) Rupa and the April Fishes Boots Riley (Filmmaker and Musician) “I'm a Virgo” (TV Series by Boots Riley) “Sorry to Bother You” (Film by Boots Riley) The Coup (Boots Riley's Band) Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

Dr. Rupa Marya illuminates the hidden connections between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. What is deep medicine? How can re-establishing our relationships with the Earth and one another help us to heal? The first part of the episode is taken from a live SAND Community Conversation hosted by SAND Co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. The book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel is available now. In the second part of this episode, Rupa is part of a panel hosted by Dr. Gabor Maté as part of The Wisdom of Trauma film launch 'Talks on Trauma' series. This panel discussion is called: “How Trauma Literacy Can Transform Medicine” with MDs: Pamela Wible, Will Van Derveer, Jeffrey Rediger, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Rupa Marya. You can listen to this entire panel and 32 other talks as part of The Wisdom of Trauma All Access Pass. Dr. Rupa Marya  is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. Dr Marya founded and directs the Deep Medicine Circle, a women of color-led organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning. She is also a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. Dr Marya was recognized in 2021 with the Women Leaders in Medicine Award by the American Medical Student Association. She was a reviewer of the American Medical Association's Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity. Because of her work in health equity, Dr. Marya was appointed by Governor Newsom to the Healthy California for All Commission, to advance a model for universal healthcare in California. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” Together with Raj Patel, she co-authored the international bestselling book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. Topics: 01:00:00 – Introduction 01:03:16 – Part 1, SAND Community Conversation 01:04:28 – Rupa's Personal Story and Childhood 01:07:58 – Patterns in Traditional vs. Western Medicine and the Writing of ‘Inflamed' 01:11:10 – Influence of Collective and Individual Trauma of Health 01:12:49 – Colonial Power Structures in Medicine 01:15:39 – Climate Collapse and Global Health 01:17:27 – Indigenous Wisdom of the Interconnected Web of Life 01:21:11 – How Do We Heal in a Balanced Way? 01:31:33 – Part 2, How Trauma Literacy Can Transform Medicine with Gabor Maté 01:35:59 – Pamela Wilbe Introduction 01:38:37 – Jeffery Rediger Introduction 01:41:55 – Will Van Derveer Introduction 01:46:35 – Rupa Marya Introduction 01:51:15 – Jeffrey Rediger Introduction 01:54:17 – Overcoming Incurable Diseases 02:03:45 – The Science of How Society Gets Into Our Cells 02:36:39 – Conclusions

From farms to citizens of the world,  inflammation causes disease and makes health impossible. Part of the social milieu that is impacting the body also includes the soil and includes how we treat the Earth and how we treat ourselves in the way we work with the Earth. Global transformation will need recognition that farming is medicine for the health of all life and of earth itself. That is a message shared at an Eco Farm  conference, a Farm To Table Talk podcast and in the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Dr. Rupa Marya: physician, writer, musician, mother, farmer's wife and Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco.  In addition to her extensive engagement in support of indigenous communities, she is the lead singer and composer of a globe circling band, Rupa and the April Fishes. www.deepmedicine.org  

Dr. Marya and Raj both have amazing work that they have done and continue to do, this background will not do them justice, but to give you a glimpse of who they are, Dr. Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration. Through her work she earned her trust from Indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence towards indigenous people. Dr. Marya advocates for creating a culture of care as the most effective way to manifest impactful change in population health. She believes the interruption of ways of caring through colonial structures disproportionately causes the suffering of Black, Brown and Indigenous people around the world. Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. The second book he authored, The Value of Nothing, was a New York Times and international best-seller. His first film that he co-directed, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper. Together they authored a very important book: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice Purchase their book here: https://amzn.to/3BvG2Ty

When academic, best-selling author, and filmmaker Raj Patel and physician, musician, and activist Rupa Marya joined to write a book together, the result was a deep dive into how our economic, political, and social structures fan disease, often invisibly. “Inflammation is the body’s appropriate response to damage, or the threat of damage,” says Marya. “We’re learning that the social, environmental, and political structures around us are tuning the immune system to sound out the full range of inflammation.” Patel adds, “Capitalism primes our bodies for sickness.” In Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, released in August 2021, Marya and Patel arrive at a new systems level of diagnosis that incorporates history and the pathologies of power, offering treatment options to heal people and the planet. Rupa Marya, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She’s co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of healthcare workers committed to changing social structures that impede health and wellbeing for different groups of people; and the founder and executive director of Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to “healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.” Working with her husband, the agroecological farmer Benjamin Fahrer, and the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone in their ancestral territory, she is a part of the Farming Is Medicine project, where farmers are recast as ecological stewards of rematriated land and food is liberated from the market economy. Her work in social advocacy has earned her trust from indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served, such as Lakota territory. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence toward indigenous people protecting their sovereign land in the face of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Outside of her medical work, Marya is a gifted guitarist, singer, and composer. Her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, mixes styles -- from jazz to punk to reggae -- and spans multiple languages. Her music explores themes of climate justice, ecology, politics, culture, and the impact of violence and racism on people of color. She lives with her husband and two sons in the Bay Area where, at the invitation of Lakota elders, she is helping to develop a clinic to “decolonize food and medicine” at the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm. Raj Patel, PhD, is an author six times over, a filmmaker, and an academic. He is a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, a professor in the university’s department of nutrition, and a research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Patel credits an upsetting encounter witnessing an adolescent girl carrying a crying infant while begging on the roadside during a family trip to Mumbai in his early childhood as a formative experience that led to the big questions that shaped his life. Those questions never left him, and prior to his writing and academic work, he worked for the UN, the World Bank, and the WTO to explore possible solutions to poverty, hunger, and inequity. Later, he would become a fierce critic of those very same multilateral institutions, and has been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. Yet today, he serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and has advised governments worldwide on the causes of and solutions to crises of sustainability. Among Patel’s books are Stuffed and Starved, which examines the inequities of the world food system wherein a billion are obese even as another billion starve; the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, which critiques the free market’s notions of value, especially with regard to fundamental needs like clean water, housing, and health care; A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, which details how capitalistic distortion of environmental, social, and health costs of goods has devastated society and the planet. As a filmmaker, Patel recently co-directed a documentary on climate change and the global food system called The Ants and the Grasshopper, which follows Malawian women impacted by climate change as they travel the United States and attempt to convince Americans of the reality of the global threat. Please join Rahul Brown and Andrew Kim for this illuminating conversation with two trailblazers dedicated to deep consciousness and deep medicine for healing the earth and all her people.

When academic, best-selling author, and filmmaker Raj Patel and physician, musician, and activist Rupa Marya joined to write a book together, the result was a deep dive into how our economic, political, and social structures fan disease, often invisibly. “Inflammation is the body’s appropriate response to damage, or the threat of damage,” says Marya. “We’re learning that the social, environmental, and political structures around us are tuning the immune system to sound out the full range of inflammation.” Patel adds, “Capitalism primes our bodies for sickness.” In Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, released in August 2021, Marya and Patel arrive at a new systems level of diagnosis that incorporates history and the pathologies of power, offering treatment options to heal people and the planet. Rupa Marya, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She’s co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of healthcare workers committed to changing social structures that impede health and wellbeing for different groups of people; and the founder and executive director of Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to “healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.” Working with her husband, the agroecological farmer Benjamin Fahrer, and the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone in their ancestral territory, she is a part of the Farming Is Medicine project, where farmers are recast as ecological stewards of rematriated land and food is liberated from the market economy. Her work in social advocacy has earned her trust from indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served, such as Lakota territory. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence toward indigenous people protecting their sovereign land in the face of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Outside of her medical work, Marya is a gifted guitarist, singer, and composer. Her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, mixes styles -- from jazz to punk to reggae -- and spans multiple languages. Her music explores themes of climate justice, ecology, politics, culture, and the impact of violence and racism on people of color. She lives with her husband and two sons in the Bay Area where, at the invitation of Lakota elders, she is helping to develop a clinic to “decolonize food and medicine” at the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm. Raj Patel, PhD, is an author six times over, a filmmaker, and an academic. He is a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, a professor in the university’s department of nutrition, and a research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Patel credits an upsetting encounter witnessing an adolescent girl carrying a crying infant while begging on the roadside during a family trip to Mumbai in his early childhood as a formative experience that led to the big questions that shaped his life. Those questions never left him, and prior to his writing and academic work, he worked for the UN, the World Bank, and the WTO to explore possible solutions to poverty, hunger, and inequity. Later, he would become a fierce critic of those very same multilateral institutions, and has been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. Yet today, he serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and has advised governments worldwide on the causes of and solutions to crises of sustainability. Among Patel’s books are Stuffed and Starved, which examines the inequities of the world food system wherein a billion are obese even as another billion starve; the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, which critiques the free market’s notions of value, especially with regard to fundamental needs like clean water, housing, and health care; A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, which details how capitalistic distortion of environmental, social, and health costs of goods has devastated society and the planet. As a filmmaker, Patel recently co-directed a documentary on climate change and the global food system called The Ants and the Grasshopper, which follows Malawian women impacted by climate change as they travel the United States and attempt to convince Americans of the reality of the global threat. Please join Rahul Brown and Andrew Kim for this illuminating conversation with two trailblazers dedicated to deep consciousness and deep medicine for healing the earth and all her people.

SMOA Survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey Raj Patel and Rupa Marya join on this episode to draw the links between physical inflammation, injustice, decolonizing medicine, and the relationship between human and non-human flourishing. They discuss environmental racism, political economy and capitalism, the way that inflammation modulates social and biological health, reductive Enlightenment science, the need for decolonized care, and what deep healing looks like. Their new book is Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (2021). Raj Patel is an author, film-maker, activist, and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing, as well as co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. He co-directed the documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, the founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration. In addition to her work in medicine and writing, Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes. Animation Video (3:18) for Inflamed: bit.ly/3B4Zp6y Video (28:28): Health and Justice: The Path of Liberation through Medicine (Rupa Marya): bit.ly/3a0xXLe Synopses of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2021): Prasad A, "Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel review – Modern Medicine's Racial Divide," The Guardian (2021), bit.ly/3nQWUkp Jones S, "The Public Body: How Capitalism Made The World Sick," The Nation (2021), bit.ly/3lLHlYu (Disclaimer: at the request of the podcast, two free pre-print copies of the book were supplied by FSG in preparation for this episode)

The Covid pandemic has starkly demonstrated the reality that those individuals experiencing poverty and social inequality get sick and die at higher rates than the general population. This is also true with other illnesses. Inflammation is the body's response to infectious agents and environmental toxins but also to chronic stress and suffering inflicted by things like poverty and structural racism. It is not hyperbolic to say at this juncture that we are an ‘inflamed' society and planet, and radical change is needed.   “Most patients you sit with long enough will tell you why they are sick,” says Marya. However, for doctors to truly identify and treat the underlying causes of ill health, the authors argue that we must start by understanding how systemic racism, inequality, and environmental degradation all contribute to a type of persistent, harmful inflammation leading to an illness of not just the body but also of our political, economic, and health care systems. As doctors and advocates, these two disruptors have both been in the trenches, the streets, the villages, and worked in some of the most prestigious academic and medical institutions in the world. Dr. Patel is a PhD, journalist, author, father, and academic, often referred to as "the rock star of social justice writing”. Dr. Marya, when not working as an internal medicine specialist at UCSF, is an activist as well as a mother, composer, singer, and guitarist, fronting the global alternative group Rupa and the April Fishes, infusing her music with the same passion and urgency. It is this combination of activism, academia, medical experience, creativity and tireless spirit that has propelled our guests to demand radical change in our world view and approach to illness and medicine. They are daring us to not only listen to their analysis, but become a part of the change.  In this provocative and groundbreaking work, the pair endeavors to shift the traditional paradigm. Marya and Patel explain the unique tasks performed by each operating system of our amazing human bodies, head-to-toe and everything in between, tying each to its approximate counterpart in our healthcare system. Inflamed is not a work of naivete but one that delivers a message of precarious hope, offering a clear diagnosis and treatment plan but with a truly uncertain prognosis. Join Paul for a lively discussion of the book, their life's work and the revolutionary path they are proposing to humanize medical care for all.

Thijs Borsten & Erminia Fernández Córdoba Nací En Álamo Jacob Gurevitsch & Buika Melancolía Compay Segundo Morir de Amor (Mourir D'aimer) (con Charles Aznavour) Mina Adoro Guadalupe Pineda Historia de un Amor Halie Loren Sway (Quien Sera) Tony Dallara Norma Silvana di Lorenzo He Sabido Que Te Amaba Shirley Bassey Life Goes On Leonard Cohen Almost Like the Blues The Cooltrane Quartet Back to Black (feat. Dinah York) L.E.J Encore Victor Biliac Kamia Fora Maya Fadeeva & Club des Belugas Straight to My Heart Cassette My Way Anouk Aiata Ce n'est pas une larme Ibrahim Maalouf & Golshifteh Farahani Love In Portofino Ibrahim Maalouf, Monica Bellucci & M Paroles paroles Dj Club feat. Enbe Orch. Rain Enrico Macias & TOMA Mon histoire c'est ton histoire Luca Barbarossa Dance Me to the End of Love (feat. Chiara Civello) Mel Tormé Comin' Home Baby Alfredito Linares Ain't No Sunshine French Latino Fly Me To The Moon (Llévame a la Luna) Sting & Shirazee Englishman / African in New York Gigi D'Alessio 'A città 'e pulecenella (feat. Dear Jack) Schérazade L'amour à plusieurs Waldeck Quando (feat. Patrizia Ferrara) Michel Louvain Qui sait, qui sait, qui sait ? Les Au Revoir Tha Ksanartheis Monika Stala Rupa & The April Fishes Neruda Dj Dami & Relight Orchestra Woman Jessie Ware Selfish Love Michelle Gurevich First Six Months of Love Victor Biliac Boheme Bodane Caruso ( Rumba / 28 Bpm ) The Brave ¡Hasta Luego! Goodbye

  From farms to citizens of the world of the world inflammation causes disease and makes health impossible. Global transformation will need recognition that farming is medicine for the health of all life and of earth itself.  That's a theme for a KeyNote presentation at EcoFarm by Dr. Rupa Marya: physician, writer, musician, mother, farmer's wife and Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco. Her forthcoming book, authored with Raj Patel, is "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the anatomy of Injustice." In addition to her extensive engagement in support of indigenous communities, she is the lead singer and composer of a globe circling band, Rupa and the April Fishes.  info@eco-farm.org

This year, the government of Japan announced plans to dump contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean. Till this day, cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima disaster continues and it is estimated that by 2022 the Fukushima site will be at capacity for storing contaminated water. As outrageous as this news is, even more so is how little coverage it received, or outcry it warranted. This week’s episode is dedicated to changing that. We talk to Dr. Helen Caldicott, who draws our attention to the realities of nuclear power reactors, proliferation and weapons, as well as the ways in which nuclearism has already wrought an unimaginable amount of havoc and trauma on our environment, culture and bodies. ♫ Music by Rupa and the April Fishes and Cat Clyde Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.

We are angry, angry when we are treated without dignity, when we witness or experience injustice, angry about politics, angry when we are unable to communicate, angry over wounds we haven’t been able to heal - anger is something we are all familiar with, yet amidst this familiarity, our relationship with anger is strained. This week on For The Wild, we are joined by Lama Rod Owens to explore anger’s purpose in liberation. Rather than denying our anger, or policing and demonizing the anger of another, how can we allow it to alert us to imbalance and injustice? How do we make space for anger as an illuminating and guiding force? And as we empower our feelings of rage, how do we recognize that anger is paradoxically both a privilege and a necessity under white supremacy? As we make space for our own rage, we are called to the work of denouncing the oppressor’s strategy of invalidating emotional expression, we are called to recognize and witness each other’s anger. Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. Music by Rupa and the April Fishes, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Nathan Salsburg, and Bird By Snow. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Uur 1 1. Moon river – Audrey Hepburn 2. Elke avond als de beeldbuis is gedoofd – Frans Halsema 3. Green lights & blue skies – Gregory Page & Jason Mraz 4. Caminante nocturne – La Santa Cecilia 5. Midnight – Ray Charles 6. Bij jou vandaag – RIET 7. Anywhere is – Enya 8. Please don’t make me play piano man – Julian Velard 9. Les amoureux des bancs publics – Georges Brassens 10. Le gorille – Francis Cabrel 11. From Paris with love – Melody Gardot 12. Vida triste – Nynke Laverman 13. Gone – John Hiatt 14. Can’t get used to losing you – Andy Williams 15. Et les oiseaux chantaient – Sweet People Uur 2 1. Both sides now – Joni Mitchell 2. Why don’t you do right – Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour Quartet 3. Pena penita pena – Maria Jose Llergo 4. De fanfare van honger en dorst – Jan de Wilde 5. Ghost town – Katie Melua 6. no song without you – HONNE 7. M’ionam – Capercaillie 8. Autorijden met mijn zoontje – Mondo Leone 9. I used to be color blind – Ella Fitzgerald 10. I’m putting all my eggs in one basket – BB King & Diane Schuur 11. Goodbye Jimmy Reed – Bob Dylan 12. Mijn naam is Mien – Jan Rot 13. Une Americaine a Paris – Rupa & The April Fishes

Mountains rising and oceans swelling, Earth’s 4.5-billion-year story has been punctuated by the cyclical turning of processes, a dynamic, balancing act of breakdown and repair. This week on For The Wild, we dive into the folds of deep time with professor, author, and geologist Marcia Bjornerud, exploring the wealth of knowledge etched into the landscapes around us. How might we understand the unprecedented scale and pace of transformation we’re seeing today in the context of the geologic record? And what does our planetary story reveal about the adaptive capacity of life? Moving between theory and grounded practice, Ayana and Marcia discuss the notion of “timefulness” and healing our relationship with time, the marvel of mountain-building, the necessity of multigenerational spaces, mass extinction events of the geologic past, change as constant, and the brilliant complexity of Earth’s systems. Music by Rupa and The April Fishes and Te Martin. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.

Our second episode of the Plague features an interview with Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition, and the band Rupa and the April Fishes. Dr. Marya explains how the racism and colonialism in daily life, the grocery store, the workplace (including the hospital she works in), and in global politics, makes Covid and other plagues more destructive. We discuss this societal plague, and how to cure it through anti-racist work and reclaiming the commons. Rupa then shares a song from her latest album, Growing Upward.Host and Editor: L.M. Bogad: www.lmbogad.comMusic: Jason Montero https://m.soundcloud.com/jamojaand my other friend named JayDo No Harm Coalition: https://www.donoharmcoalition.org/The April Fishes: https://www.theaprilfishes.com/Sound effects clips from soundbible.com

For The Wild presents Homebound as an offering of curated episodes from the archives intended to share perspective and guidance in the midst of a time of tremendous uncertainty and possibility. In light of the personal and global impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak, our team has been drawing on wisdom from the archives to anchor us and help us to navigate this new reality. We understand that while society appears ripe for transformation, we are also being inundated with information that may feel paralyzing and that also perpetuates a culture of fear. As a response, we offer this series that explores physical, emotional and spiritual preparedness, self-reliance and community sovereignty. We invite you to join us on Fridays to hear seeds of wisdom from the weavers of transformation and mobilizers of personal and cultural shift featured in Homebound. We hope that this may serve as a North Star as we all traverse through our grief and fear that accompany this perplexing time fraught with shattering of systemic injustices alongside opportunities to co-create the world anew. As our second offering, we’re re-releasing our conversation with Dr. Rupa Marya on “Decentralizing the Power of Healing.” As you listen, please take moments of gratitude for the incredible healthcare workers and frontline responders, like Dr. Marya, who are showing up every single day.  Initially aired in January of 2020, this episode reminds us that the blatant neglect for people’s wellbeing amidst this global pandemic is not coincidence or negligence, it is the result of a global system that has historically centered profit over people. Rupa reminds us that “the health of the people should be our guiding light and principle” so we ask ourselves the following:  How can we begin investing in our own economies of care?  Why is healthcare for all and the abolition of medical debt and the for-profit medical system absolutely imperative?  And most importantly, how can we derive our medicine in relation to one another, as we acknowledge that the wellness of self is inextricably connected to the wellness of others? Music by Rupa & the April Fishes

How can we understand our own ailments as a map of society’s illness? A by-product of an inhuman, unbridled industrialized society where the pressures of productivity and the harm inflicted by violent institutions are causing a collective decline in health. On today’s episode, we explore these topics with Dr. Rupa Marya. Rupa Marya, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of over 450 health workers committed to addressing structural issues that make health impossible for communities. Dr. Marya has been working to make visible the health issues at the nexus of racism and state violence through: her medical work; The Justice Study (national research investigating the health effects of police violence on Black, Brown and Indigenous communities); helping set up a free community clinic for the practice of decolonized medicine under Lakota leadership at Standing Rock (the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm); and international outreach with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes. She is currently working on a book with author Raj Patel looking at the health impacts of colonization and capitalism. 
 Music by Rupa and the April Fishes

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Police violence and law enforcement violence is a pressing public health issue. Period. In particular, indigenous, Black, Latinx, disabled, mentally ill and poor people are disproportionately targeted by police violence. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rupa Marya who co-leads the Justice Study, a community-based study that researches health outcomes in communities where there is police violence and no justice. We talk about what true community partnership means, how art & music blend with Rupa's justice work, and how we can use white coat privileges to join in the fight for the communities that continue to experience trauma related to law enforcement violence. For more about the Justice Study, visit: https://www.donoharmcoalition.org/the-justice-study-english.html Bio: Rupa Marya, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Hospital Medicine. Her interests center around the intersection of society and illness, focusing research on how social structures may predispose different disadvantaged groups to certain illnesses. She is Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, a 450+ member strong group of health workers and students dedicated to ending racism and state violence. In partnership with Dr Sara Jumping Eagle, Dr Linda Black Elk and MASS Design Group, she is currently helping to set up the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic at Standing Rock, at the invitation of Lakota and Dakota health leaders to create a space for the practice of Decolonized Medicine. She is the co-investigator of The Justice Study, a national effort to understand the link between police violence and health outcomes in communities most affected by that violence. Since residency at UCSF, she has been the composer and front-woman for the international touring group Rupa & the April Fishes, a project that uses music as a way to explore the intersection of society and disease.

Rupa Marya of Rupa and the April Fishes speaks with Elisa Parker about their new Album, Growing Upward, social movements, and the integration of music and medicine.

Working Class Audio #175 with Adam Muñoz!!! Adam Muñoz has been an engineer in the Bay Area since 1991. Having joined the Fantasy Studios team as a full-time House Engineer in 2008 Adam has had the opportunity to engineer sessions for many local and national recording artists. Adam has worked with artists like Herbie Hancock, Dave Mathews, Marcus Miller, Snarky Puppy, Jason Moran, Lisa Fisher, Joanna Newsom, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bruce Cockburn, Jerry Granelli, Etienne Charles, Neal Schon, Animals As Leaders, Eric Gales, Tiffany Austin, The Marcus Shelby Orchestra, Bomba Estereo, Brad Mehldau, LaToya London, Carie Rodriguez, Rupa and the April Fishes, Rinde Eckert, Autopsy, Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Sean Paul, Lyle Lovett, Matt Nathanson, Six Pence None the Richer, Hank Williams III, Otis Redding and Vince Guaraldi. Adam’s long-time relationship with Bill Frisell and producer Lee Townsend resulted in the 2015 AND 2016 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Adam came to Fantasy after many years as an independent engineer working out of some of the finest studios in the San Francisco and abroad.  As a staff engineer at Different Fur and Brilliant Studios, Adam worked on many notable sessions for artists like Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Sleep, Neurosis, Chris Isaak, Bonnie Raitt, The Cranberries, Paula Cole and on George Winston’s Grammy Award-winning project “Forest.” Adam has been fortunate to have worked along side many super talented producers and engineers including Andy Wallace, Matt Wallace, Howard Johnston, Billy Anderson, Frankie Blue, Karl Derfler, Marc Senasac, John Cuniberti, Judy Clapp, Mike Curb, Steven Haigler, Thom Wilson and more. Adam's background also includes ADR/VO, Foley, lock-to-picture sessions and orchestral film scores. Photo by Monica Jane Frisell  About this Interview: Adam joins me to talk about his journey starting out as a DJ examining the credits on the back of records to working as a house engineer at the world famous Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. We talk studio leadership, survival, dedication and the increasing difficulty of repeating his journey in todays recording world.  Enjoy! - Matt Show notes and links: Adam's site: http://www.adammunoz.com/ Fantasy Studios: http://fantasystudios.com/ Saul Zaentz Company: http://www.zaentz.com/

Working Class Audio Session #114 with Monte Vallier!!! Monte Vallier grew up in the Bay Area and launched his musical career by dropping out of high school and moving to London with his band Half Church who he played bass with. After making a record and playing tons of gigs with bands such as The Fall, Echo and the Bunnymen, and PIL,  the band called it quits in 1986. After interning at The music annex and Coast Recorders (Bay Area) Monte built his own studio with engineer Gibbs Chapman that was destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake . It was that same year that Monte started working with the band Swell as a bass player. They Made 5 albums and toured extensively in the 90’s and eventually signed to Rick Rubin’s Def American label in 1993. They made all their our own records starting with a Tascam 38 but then took all the recording advances and bought more gear. They built studios in LA and NYC and in various places in SF to make the records. Monte says he truly learned how to a make a proper record while working with Swell. After Monte left Swell he got busy by producing other people, partnered with Marc Capelle to pursue commercial composition, film scoring, and corporate music and audio post , formed Jet Black Crayon with Tommy Guerrero and toured a bit, making 3 albums then working on 9 solo records for Tommy. Eventually Monte partnered with Jamie Kahn and Nathan Harlow to create a recording space in San Francisco in 2006.  Monte has worked with many bands and solo artists including,  Tommy Guerrero, Wax Idols, Mark Eitzel, Sean Hayes, Oxbow, Chuck Dukowski and Blackface, Weekend, Mall Walk, Houses of Heaven, Never Young, Wild Moth, Hariguem Zaboy, Terry Malts, The Mattson 2, Young Prisms, Wax Idols, Jet Black Crayon, The Mumlers. The Soft Moon, BLKTOP Project, Vetiver, Rova Saxophone Quartet (OrchestraRova-Larry Ochs), [the] caseworker, Beautiful Machines, Tomorrow’s Tulips, Peggy Honeywell, GoJoGo, Kelley Stoltz,  Money Mark, Swell, The Japanese Motors, Erik Arnaud, My Diet Pill, Warbler, Kurt Nilsen, Ice Sun, Xiu Xiu, TODD, Bunuel, LiXi, Seventeen Evergreen, Rupa and the April Fishes, Ghost in the City, Trust….etc

A San Quentin Prison report about forgiveness, Rupa and the April Fishes, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians La Peña Community Chorus.

Napa community comes together to rebuild after earthquake; finding a home on Hotel 22; homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter; In legal grey area, West Oakland resident discovers free house; and local band Rupa and the April Fishes.

In this episode, you'll hear five cumbia songs - or songs that were at least influenced by cumbia. Cumbia is a genre of dance music originally from Colombia. It has spread far and wide since then. This wonderful, energetic music is definitely worth checking out. The songs are "Bebiendo" by Cumbia Hasta El Lunes, "Cumbia" by Luz Buena, "No dueles mas!" by Kontra Golpe Noise Manifesto, "Culpa de la Luna" by Rupa and the April Fishes, and "Jenny Wilson - Wooden Chair (Makina Western Cumbia Remix)" by Makina.

Rebroadcast of June 9, 2011 show featuring: Pee Wee Ellis's STILL BLACK, STILL PROUD - An African Tribute to James Brown at Yoshi's in Oakland. Eurydice Ross and Tanya Marie's Grown Women Dance Collective's "Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration through Dance," June 18th, 2011, 8:00pm at Diablo Valley College Theater in Pleasant Hill. Call (925) 680-4400. Brother Osei Terry Chandler and Deborah Wright, join us to talk about the 14th Annual Libations for the Ancestors this weekend, June 11, 2011, 9 AM PT, at FortMoultrie, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. The ritual there is 9 AM-1 PM. We close with a conversation with two programmers and directors from the Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 10-12 at Brava Theater in San Francisco, Kebo Drew - QWOCMAP's Managing Director and Filmmaker for this year,"Ain't I A Woman" (2011) and Meja Tyehimba – Filmmaker “Cantelop” (2009). Visit http://www.qwocmap.org/festival.html It is a free event.  We close with music from Rupa and the April Fishes's Este Mundo.

Today we will feature guests who illuminate African Culture at its highest: Pee Wee Ellis who is in town this weekend, Friday-Saturday, June 9-10 for STILL BLACK, STILL PROUD - An African Tribute to James Brown Feat. Pee Wee Ellis, Vusi Mahlasela & Meklit Hadero at Yoshi's in Oakland. Visit yoshis.org Eurydice Ross, Tanya Marie Amos and Michelle Ned speak about Grown Women Dance Collective's "Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration through Dance," June 18th, 2011, 8:00 p.m. at Diablo Valley College Theater in Pleasant Hill. Call (925) 680-4400. Brother Osei Terry Chandler joins us to talk about "Libations for the Ancestors" this weekend, June 11, 2011. This event collectively honors the millions of enslaved Africans who perished during the Middle Passage, the Transatlantic "slave trade" route from Africa to the Americas. This commemoration held annual on the second Saturday in June. The SC memorial is in its fourteenth year, at Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, 9 AM-1 PM. For information call: (843) 556-2041. The commemoration is held in conjunction with programs in Brooklyn, NY (Coney Island); Portobello, Panama; San Francisco, CA; Oakland, CA; Cape Coast Castle, Ghana and others. We all gather to honor the millions who perished in the horrific voyage, the Middle Passage.  We feel and understand that if we don't remember and honor them, who will! What is unique about this ritual is its sychronicity. We all pour at the same time. On the West Coast it is at 9 AM sharp. We close with a conversation with programmers and directors for the Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 10-12 at Brava Theater in San Francisco. Visit http://www.qwocmap.org/festival.html It is a free event. Music: Rupa and the April Fishes's "Este Mundo."  

General summary of this issue's articles; plus an interview with Rupa Marya, MD, of the University of California in San Francisco and world music ensemble Rupa and the April Fishes.

The 9th Annual Oakland International Film Festival, directors of shorts screening Thursday, April 14 & 15, 2011: Howard Egger-Bovet, dir. Nobody Knows Where the Bullet Goes (5:09 min.) screens, 4/14 6-8:15 PM slot; Sean Morris, Native Time, (9:30 mins.) screens at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, CA, 4/14 6-8:15 PM, and Zondre Smith, Fuss and Fight (4 mins.) screening at Art Deco Auditorium in Alameda, CA, Friday, April 15, 6-8:15 PM slot.  Visit www.oiff.org We close with a conversation with cast members: Charles Branklyn (Feste) and Renee Wilson (Viola) in The African American Shakespeare Company's production of Twelfth Night or What You Will up Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM through May 1.   Visit www.african-americanshakes.org   Music: We open with music from Rupa and the April Fishes's "Este Mundo" and close with a Renee Wilson number, "Crepe Covered Sidewalks."

Rupa Marya speaks about "Rupa & the April Fishes," two concerts one in Oceanside, March 25, 2011, the other at The Independent in San Francisco, April 1, 2011. International Roma Celebration (the official International Roma Day is April 8th, 2011) and a portion of ticket sales will benefit the Voice of Roma, a nonprofit organization based in the Bay Area and Kosovo that works to improve the plight of the Roma in Europe and bring awareness of their condition around the world. L. Peter Callender, African-American Shakespeare Company Artistic Director, Reneé Wilson, Actress, Singer, Songwriter, filmmaker and proud New Orleans native, and Marcus Shelby, Artistic Director and leader of The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, The Marcus Shelby Septet, and The Marcus Shelby Trio, speak about the African American Shakespeare Company's upcoming Twelfth Night: April 1 to May 1, 2011 at the African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, in San Francisco. Shelby's band perform live opening night. Visit www.African-AmericanShakes.org We close with Oliver Mtukudzi, speaking about the Acoustic Africa Tour with Habib Koite and Afel Boucoum and other reown African artists. The tour stops in Oakland, CA, at the Paramount Theatre, then on to LA. Tuku began recording in the mid-1970s as a member of Wagon Wheels. After WW rolled to fame in Southern Africa, Tuku formed the Black Spirits, the band which backs him to this day. Tuku's music is heavily influenced by chimurenga music, which in Shona means music of "struggle," the genre pioneered by Thomas Mapfumo and inspired by the mbira (thumb piano). A fantastic writer and creative artist, Tuku reflects in his music the lives and histories of his people, a people who love freedom and justice and are tireless in their quest to achieve such. Visit http://www.cumbancha.com/habib/tour Music: Singing Sandra's "Die with Dignity," something from Howard Wiley's Angola Suite, Rupa & the April Fishes, a Renee Wilson,Ruth Foster's "Truth."

Our first guest is Clarence Lusane, author of "The Black History of the White House" (Open Media Series @ City Lights Books 2011). Dr.Lusane is an Associate Professor of Political Science at American University. In "The Black History of the White House," Dr. Lusane presents a comprehensive history of the White House from an African American perspective, illuminating the central role it has played in advancing, thwarting or simply ignoring efforts to achieve equal rights for all. Juxtaposing significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for civil rights. The author makes it plain that the White House has always been a prism through which to view the social struggles and progress of black Americans. This work shines a light on the untold stories of African Americans whose lives are part of the White House legacy. Our next guest is Dr. Rupa Marya, Physician and Musician/Rupa and the April Fishes. San Francisco based musical agitators Rupa & the April Fishes will be launching their April Fools Tour 2011 with a special show on their namesake day at The Independent, Friday April 1st, 2011. After their last rousing Bay Area performance with Manu Chao at The Warfield, the band has been busy working on new material inspired by bandleader Rupa's travels to Chiapas, Mexico where she did an artist residency working with an international group of artists as well as indigenous Tzotzil children. Visit http://www.cumbancha.com/rupa/press Between the two live interviews we will rebroadcast an interview with Tonye Patano (Mama Nadi) & Oberson K.A. Adjepong (Christian), two cast members of Berkeley Rep's production of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined," up through April 10, 2011. Visit www.berkeleyrep.org

This week the show comes from the 10 day World Music Festival (FMM) in Sines, Portugal with Rupa and the April Fishes from the USA, The Ukarinians and The Portico Quartet from the UK and Carmen Souza from Cape Verde/Portugal.I hope you enjoy the change, back to normal next week

When all else fails music lifts us - it's like laughing. Absolutely necessary. Another mish mash from all sorts of corners. 1. Joséphine - Rachid Taha http://rachidtaha.artistes.universalmusic.fr/ 2. Sother - John Zorn www.tzadik.com 3. ? - Zeina Daccache www.banadoura.com/index2.php 4. Kahe Toh Se Sajna - Sharda Sinha, Salman Khan, Bhagyashree ('Maine Pyar Kiya' soundtrack) 5. Om Shanti - Zilverzurg - Tandava Vol 2 - Music selected by Pathaan www.pathaan.com 6. Ritorno a Casa - Badara Seck, Giuliano Taviani & Carmelo Travia ('Forse Dio E' Malato' Soundtrack) 7. The Hill - Marketa Irglova ('Once' Soundtrack) 8. Old Fashion Morphine - Jolie Holland www.myspace.com/jolieholland 9. Nha Nobréza - Mayra Andrade www.mayra-andrade.com/en/accueil.php 10. Lirun Biganute (Sad News) - Julia Nunez (The Garifuna Women's Project) www.cumbancha.com/albums/umalali 11. Poder - Rupa and the April Fishes http://theaprilfishes.com 12. Maneak - Max Pashm www.myspace.com/maxpashm

Filipina domestic workers in Lebanon jumped off buildings to escape from Israel's bombardment as well as escape from abusive Lebanese employers. We talk with Irynn Abano of the Center for Migrant Advocacy in Manila. Also, selectively targeted South Asian convenience store owners and clerks in rural areas of Northern California in San Joaquin County were accused of selling key ingredients for the making of methamphetamine. Atashi Chakravarty, director of Narika, reports on a local sting operation enforced by California's law enforcement. * Live music from Rupa and the April Fishes, a Bay area South Asian musician who sings in English, French and Spanish. Pratap Chatterjee hosts. (*more on the up-shot of targeting of South Asians in Lodi on www.apexexpress.org, in the audio clip "Who & What Flys.") The post APEX Express – September 21, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.