Podcasts about black organizing

We're on YouTube- Subscribe to the Be Well, Sis Channel today! Guest Spotlight: Prentis is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute, and the host of the new podcast, Becoming the People. For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and generative somatics and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network.   How to Connect with Prentis: Visit their website Follow on Instagram   -MORE: Connect: www.bewellsis.com Follows us on Instagram! Be Well, Sis Partners: Athletic Greens (AG1)– Redeem your offer for 1 year of high-quality Vitamin D + 5 free travel packs   Neurohacker: Resist cellular aging at the cellular level with Qualia Senolytic. Visit neurohacker.com/BEWELLSIS  for savings!

P. Gabrielle Foreman, PhD, is an award-winning professor of English, African American Studies, and History. A leader in the field of Black digital and public history, Dr. Foreman has been recognized for co-creating projects that build community and institutions while addressing pipeline and equity issues. As a teacher, scholar, and mentor, Dr. Foreman is committed […]

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with adrienne maree brown which originally aired in April 2019.adrienne maree brown begins this week's episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become possible? If we started to understand that pleasure is something that everyone should have access to, what would become possible?”This week on For The Wild, we are exploring how to embody pleasure in its many forms with adrienne maree brown. Drawing upon Audre Lorde's seminal publication, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, adrienne maree brown's latest book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, reiterates how once we truly know the pleasure of being alive, suffering becomes unimaginable. Above all, pleasure resides in our body, but many of us seem to forget this through lifetimes of social conditioning, performative identities, and the multitude of ways in which capitalism and patriarchy have filtered love and desire through the lens of ownership. Yet, whether we are cognizant of this or not, our pleasure and our liberation remain inextricably bound together.adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. adrienne facilitates social justice and Black liberation through the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Detroit Narrative Agency and is part of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. She and her sister, Autumn Brown, co-host the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Music by The Boom Booms, JB the First Lady, and Small Town.Support the show

I'm thrilled to have adrienne maree brown on the podcast, someone who 'grows ideas in public' through her writing, her podcasts and her music. Ideas like Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice. We talk about what it means to be in right relationship with change, how to be comfortable with the uncomfortable, sustainable relationships, Pleasure Activism, three thoughts about leadership, what adrienne would do if she was mayor of a large city, and finally some of her favourite practices at the moment. Resources: adrienne's website where you can find links to her writing and podcasts Audre Lorde's essay ‘Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power' Maurice Mitchell's article ‘Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power During a Crisis' The Embodiment institute  Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity  The Chani app Related podcast episodes: Ep. 37 with Miki Kashtan  

Mike Stephen discusses the decrease in public school students in Illinois with Chalkbeat Chicago's Samantha Smylie, learns about Black organizing pre-Civil War in Illinois with Northwestern University history professor Kate Masur, and discovers the Secret History of local saxman J.T. Brown.

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Mike Stephen discusses a new online exhibit that examines the role of the Black community in pre-Civil War Illinois with Northwestern University history professor and project director Kate Masur. Check out her book called Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Then, we hear from local tai chi teacher Arlene Faulk to learn her remarkable story of how she fought back against multiple sclerosis. She recounts her journey in the book Walking on Pins and Needles: A Memoir of Chronic Resilience in the Face of Multiple Sclerosis.

On this episode of Woke By Accident Podcast, we are joined by activist and lead organizer in the #Ferguson Uprising, Tory Russell. He currently serves as the Director of Black Organizing with The International Black Freedom Alliance. Tory was named one of #EbonyMagazine 's Power 100 in 2015. We discuss his thoughts on the movement including the #MikeBrown case which changed his life and catapulted his life in organizing and activism. Check out Tory's organization and contribute to the movement here: https://www.theibfa.org/ Check out Woke By Accident at www.wokebyaccident.net or on your favorite streaming platforms! Soul Searching · Causmic Last Night's Dream — Tryezz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c4challenge/message

On this episode of Woke By Accident Podcast, we are joined by activist and lead organizer in the #Ferguson Uprising, Tory Russell. He currently serves as the Director of Black Organizing with The International Black Freedom Alliance. Tory was named one of #EbonyMagazine 's Power 100 in 2015. We discuss his thoughts on the movement including the #MikeBrown case which changed his life and catapulted his life in organizing and activism.  Check out Tory's organization and contribute to the movement here: https://www.theibfa.org/ ---- Get your pack of @Poddecks now for your next podcast interview using my special link: https://www.poddecks.com?sca_ref=1435240.q14fIixEGL Music Soul Searching · Causmic Last Night's Dream — Tryezz

Named one of NYC ‘s 25 most influential women in Brooklyn, Zakiyah Ansari is a parent of 8, an education rights leader and a civil and social justice activist who is passionate about changing education for all bodies.  She is the advocacy director and New York City's director of Alliance For Quality Education (AQI) dedicated to ending systemic racism and economic oppression in New York City's public schools that has impacted generations of black, brown, low income and immigrant students who have been robbed of what they deserve, high quality education.  Zakiyah is also a founding member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, an incredible group of huas who sing songs of resistance and uplift.  Born in the heinous months following the election of Donald Trump.   What You Will Hear: Defining moments throughout Zakiyah's journey. Empowering students around educational equity. Being inspired by young people. Parent participation, PTA, organizing and growing a movement. Resistance Revival chorus and how it informs Zakiyah's work. Art and activism.  Joy in the resistance. What activism looks like at home with children.  Being honest and providing a space to share. Dehumanization of the black man.  Dignity and respect. How to accept and process praise. Politics and education.  The struggle of motivating and inspiring people to get involved and vote. The critical race theory pawn. Integrating spiritual beliefs into activism. Walking into a space as yourself with dignity and poise.   Combatting low self esteem.  Positive self talk. Organizing, bringing people together and being a bridge. Self love and empowerment. Changing the Narrative.   Quotes “Young people are inspiring me all the time.  This work coupled with their fearlessness has helped motivate me to move forward and be in this struggle in a way that honors them.” “Doing the work to improve all of their  circumstance is really a goal and a mission of mine.” “When you know there an absolute for black, brown and poor children in this country it is physically painful as well as psychologically and mentally exhausting.” “Resilience is overrated.”  “By us not taking care of folks who are mentally ill or  housing folks who are unhoused it allows too many people to accept that folks, children and babies in cages is acceptable too.” “It is really important to be and informed and educated voter.” “Remember to allow yourself to be held the way that you hold.” “I believe in the power of we.” “This organizing thing is a marathon, it is not a sprint.” Mentioned: https://boldorganizing.org/ (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD))

Welcome to the White Noise Collective Podcast! This is our first episode, and we are so excited and grateful! We'll begin with interviewing the powerful Amanda Ream and Dara Silverman, white racial justice organizers offering transformative somatic practices to our movements. We discuss their powerful contributions, in particular over the last year, engaging hundreds of white racial justice movement organizers in politicized somatic training for the sake of collective liberation. Not sure you're familiar with this word somatics? Check out more info in the show notes featured on our website, conspireforchange.org. If this conversation inspires you, we encourage those who are able to donate directly to Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity BOLD.  After the interview, you'll get to experience a guided somatic practice offered to us by Dara in a separate link. 

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website. Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

How do we continue towards freedom and care for one another during pandemic times? What does pivoting look like when the world demands we change our plans? This week, Jennifer Toles and Jonathan Stith of Black Organizing for Leadership and Change (BOLD) talk with The Emergent Strategy podcast host, adrienne about centering, adaptation and holding one another.

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Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a peace educator and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is also the co-founder of three nonprofits: Ceeds of Peace, The Institute for Climate and Peace, and Peace Studio. The Bravethrough Series brings Maya to the table with changemakers and influencers from the front lines of our communities. Listen to learn new strategies, revisit out assumptions, and challenge ourselves to take action in brave new ways. Guest: Prentis Hemphill Prentis Hemphill is a writer and cartographer of emotions, an embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way. For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and generative somatics and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network from 2016 to 2019. Their work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post. They are a contributor to ‘You are Your Best Thing', edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, ‘Holding Change' by adrienne maree brown, and ‘The Politics of Trauma' by Staci Haines. They live in North Carolina on a small farm with their partner, two dogs, two chickens while working on an upcoming book on healing justice. To learn more about Prentis's work, visit: https://www.theembodimentinstitute.org/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-our-way/id1519965068

Prentis Hemphill is a movement facilitator, Somatics teacher, and practitioner, and working at the convergence of healing, collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis has spent the last 15 years bridging wellbeing and power building as a part of movement building organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. In 2016, Prentis was awarded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Soma Award for community work inspired by Buddhist thought. At present, Prentis is the co-founder of Resilient Strategies, a project intended to deepen movement practice and understanding of politicized healing. Prentis is also a teacher of Somatics with Generative Somatics and with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.  In this episode we discuss: What is healing? How do we heal? How does somatics shift the paradigm of traditional therapy? What is healing justice and how does it differ from other approaches to social justice? Recovering pre-colonial practices in a post-colonial context through the lens of somatics. Healing individual and collective trauma. Critiques of the wellness industry and the structures that deny access to healing for everyone. Queer spiritual purpose, supporting repair and stretching the parameters of belonging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A conversation with leading Atlanta-based organizers about the deep, intersectional, and transformative struggle for Black liberation. ---------------------------------------------------- Much of the ‘back of the house' organizing that has made the current rebellion and political moment possible goes unseen. So often images of protestors in the streets capture our collective attention and imagination. People often think that protests and marches define organizing. However, so much of what Black organizers do involves more mundane and less sexy work like: mutual aid, transformative justice, fundraising for bail, working to fight evictions, healing and carework. This work helps lay the groundwork for getting people to imagine the abolition of policing and other violent systems in order to build support networks (and worlds) that don't rely on the logics of anti-Blackness. This behind the scenes work is also gendered, racialized, and classed labor that many Black queer, trans, non-binary, and disabled femmes perform. Why is this organizing work important? How is it beautiful/artful? How do we elevate/celebrate it? How do we invite people into this beautiful work? Speakers: Mary Hooks is the co-director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). SONG is a political home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. We build, sustain, and connect a southern regional base of LGBTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, coalition and alliance building, intersectional analysis, and organizing. Mary's commitment to Black liberation, which encompasses the liberation of LGBTQ folks, is rooted in her experiences growing up under the impacts of the War on Drugs. Her people are migrants of the Great Migration, factory workers, church folks, Black women, hustlers and addicts, dykes, studs, femmes, queens and all people fighting for the liberation of oppressed people. Monica Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to activism by calling her artistic and healing practices into the implementation of SisterSong's mission. Based in the historic West End in Atlanta, GA and founded in 1997, SisterSong amplifies and strengthens the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color and ensures reproductive justice through securing human rights. SisterSong's headquarters is known as the “MotherHouse” and is a national organizing center for feminists of color. Toni-Michelle Williams is a community organizer and advocate for black trans justice and liberation. She serves as the Leadership Development and Programs Coordinator for the Solutions NOT Punishment Coalition (SNaP Co) in Atlanta, GA. With SnaP Co she successfully launched the Trans Leadership Connection internship program (TLC) in 2015. In 2016, the program released “The Most Dangerous Thing Out Here is the Police,” a report on trans people's experiences with Atlanta Police Department. Tiffany Lethabo King is an associate professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019) and a co-editor of the book Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2020). ---------------------------------------------------- Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org Sister Song: https://www.sistersong.net/ Southerns on New Ground: https://southernersonnewground.org Watch the live event recording: Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

They knocked on 2 million doors in nine weeks and made over 7 million phone calls and 4 million text messages, all of which changed the course of history in the state of Georgia when it flipped to blue in the presidential and senate elections -- but the work is never done. Nse Ufot is the Principal Officer at the New Georgia Project and she discusses the power and history of Black organizing.Executive Producer: Adell ColemanProducer: Brittany TempleDistributor: DCP EntertainmentFor additional content: makeitplain.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm honoured to have shared in this conversation with Prentis Hemphill and to have listened to the wisdom they bring to embodiment and healing justice work. I trust you will feel both inspired and moved as well. They share about what inspired the creation of the Embodiment Institute and how evolving 'somatic practice' is a key to coming into collective healing and dismantling systems of oppression.Prentis Hemphill (They/Them) is a Texas born, embodiment practitioner, therapist, writer and the founder of The Embodiment Institute and Black Embodiment Initiative. For the past 15 years, Prentis has been unearthing the connections between individual healing, community accountability and our most inspired visions for social transformation. Before founding The Embodiment Institute, Prentis was the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network, co-founding partner of organizational consulting firm, Groundwork Project, and has been a teacher of somatics with generativesomatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) for nearly 10 years. In 2016, Prentis was awarded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Soma Award for community work inspired by Buddhist thought. Prentis’ work has been featured in the New York Times and Huffington Post and is a contributor to The Politics of Trauma by Staci K. Haines as well as the upcoming Holding Change by adrienne maree brown. Prentis is the host and creator of the popular podcast, Finding Our Way entering its’ second season in Jan. 2021. Prentis currently lives on a small farm in Durham, NC with their partner, Kasha and their three dogs, on land first loved and stewarded by the Saponi people and near where Prentis’ ancestors were first brought to Turtle Island. InstagramWebsiteFinding Our Way Podcast on SpotifyContribute to their work here:PatreonVenmoSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21191833&fan_landing=true)

Throughout much of the 20th century, Florida had been a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. Klansmen found friends in government who occupied offices on local, state and federal offices. By 1925 the Klan had about 3 million members nationwide. Three years later, their ranks began to shrink. In Florida, however, the Klan grew. Their strongest factions could be found in Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando. Members of the Ku Klux Klan were often responsible for lynchings. From 1900 to 1930, Florida had the highest ratio of lynchings per capita (per capita being the average per person). Some scholars believe that, "Black men were more at risk of being lynched in Florida than any other state” and viewed Florida as a lynching capital. Lynching was not only a tool of terror and control - but also a response to the changing landscape of the country. Such was the case in a community not far from Rosewood called Perry Florida, where an attack eerily similar in nature took place just one month before the community of Rosewood perished at the hands of a mob similar to those who terrorized Perry. The attack could be viewed as a foreshadowing of what was to come at the start of the New Year in 1923. However, as Florida State University Professor, Meghan Martinez explains, such incidents were unfortunately much more common and than most people understand. They had become woven into the daily realities of Black Americans and minorities in Florida in the early 1900’s. Listeners will also hear recordings of a talk given by Dr. Paul Ortiz. Professor Ortiz is the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is also the author of a number of books, including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. Professor Ortiz teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields. Musical attributions 1. Artist/Title: Axletree - Window Sparrows Licenses: Attribution 4.0 International URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Ornamental_EP/Window_Sparrows 2. Artist/Title: Lobo Loco - Place on my Bonfire (ID 1170) Licenses: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Adventure/Place_on_my_Bonfire_ID_1170 3. Artist/Title: Youssoupha Sidibe - Xaleyi Licenses: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Country?pageSize=20&page=1&sort=artist&d=1

In Part 2 of this episode, we hear from David Turner, another incredible Black community organizer from the Los Angeles area.For more information on the topics discussed in this episode, please visit the following links below:#ResistCapitalism to #FundBlackFutures: Black Youth, Political Economy, and the 21st Century Black Radical Imagination

As we near the end of 2020, we continue to reflect on the role that black organizers play amidst all the global injustice faced by the black community. In this episode, we hear from Rahje Branch, community organization from Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and Dimah Mahmoud, founder of #AfricaWeek2020 & The Nubian Collective.For more information on the topics discussed in this episode, please visit the following links below:Kamala Harris and Black Women Voters Helped Joe Biden Get Elected. Here's How America Can Do Right by Them6 Black women organizers on what happened in Georgia — and what comes nextStacey Abrams says efforts against voter suppression made 'the difference' in GeorgiaSudan sit-in: How protesters picked a spot and made it theirsSudan: A Year On, Justice Needed for Crackdowns

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Professor Paul Ortiz. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Professor Ortiz teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields in African American history, Latina/o & Latinx history, comparative ethnic studies, U.S. South, labor, social movement theory, oral history, digital humanities, ethnography and other topics. His 2006 publication, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, was awarded the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize. Gus discovered Professor Ortiz's work while reading Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson's references the history of White Terrorism against black people who attempted to vote. Specifically, Wilkerson's cites Ortiz's research on the 1920 Ocoee, Florida massacre - where dozens of black people were murdered for attempting to vote. We'll place this in context of our current presidential election. We'll get Professor Ortiz's thoughts on the Caste as well as the notion that black males are to blame for unfavorable election results. Pay particular attention to Professor Ortiz's response to his racial classification. Sometimes White Supremacists cause confusion about their White identity. #WhiteTerrorism #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

Monday, November 9th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Professor Paul Ortiz. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Professor Ortiz teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields in African American history, Latina/o & Latinx history, comparative ethnic studies, U.S. South, labor, social movement theory, oral history, digital humanities, ethnography and other topics. His 2006 publication, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, was awarded the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize. Gus discovered Professor Ortiz's work while reading Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson's references the history of White Terrorism against black people who attempted to vote. Specifically, Wilkerson's cites Ortiz's research on the 1920 Ocoee, Florida massacre - where dozens of black people were murdered for attempting to vote. We'll place this in context of our current presidential election. We'll get Professor Ortiz's thoughts on the Caste as well as the notion that black males are to blame for unfavorable election results. Pay particular attention to Professor Ortiz's response to his racial classification. Sometimes White Supremacists cause confusion about their White identity. #TheLanguageOfWhiteSupremacy INVEST in The COWS – paypal.me/TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Cash App: http://Cash.App/$TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. TUNE IN! Phone: 1-720-716-7300 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

Monday, November 9th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Professor Paul Ortiz. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Professor Ortiz teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields in African American history, Latina/o & Latinx history, comparative ethnic studies, U.S. South, labor, social movement theory, oral history, digital humanities, ethnography and other topics. His 2006 publication, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, was awarded the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize. Gus discovered Professor Ortiz's work while reading Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson's references the history of White Terrorism against black people who attempted to vote. Specifically, Wilkerson's cites Ortiz's research on the 1920 Ocoee, Florida massacre - where dozens of black people were murdered for attempting to vote. We'll place this in context of our current presidential election. We'll get Professor Ortiz's thoughts on the Caste as well as the notion that black males are to blame for unfavorable election results. Pay particular attention to Professor Ortiz's response to his racial classification. Sometimes White Supremacists cause confusion about their White identity. #TheLanguageOfWhiteSupremacy INVEST in The COWS – paypal.me/TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Cash App: http://Cash.App/$TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. TUNE IN! Phone: 1-720-716-7300 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

The predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was not the only so-called Black Wall Street in the early part of the 20th century. There were a number of thriving Black communities in the early 1900’s. Some were also known by the moniker, Black Wall Street. These were communities that were very much made up of working people, which some say resembled middle-class prosperity. Some of America’s firs Black millionaires called these communities home. Though it was not uncommon to find Black Americans of different classes or income levels living in these communities together. Nevertheless, creating such communities was no small feat for African Americans of this time. Segregation, Jim Crow, racism and corruption made it next too impossible for many black Americans to pull themselves out of poverty. Not to mention slavery was only abolished several decades prior. These communities began to take shape as the Black Americans became more politically engaged and economically mobile as a result of Reconstruction. However, an aggressive and often violent backlash to the improvement of the conditions of African Americans began to take hold in parts of the country, particularly the South. Unfortunately, wealthy, well-off, financially advantaged African Americans during this time often had targets on their backs. And because of that, many of these thriving black communities were destroyed and many people in them were killed. One of these communities includes the once-primarily Black, self-sufficient town of Rosewood Florida. What happened in Rosewood was a symptom of larger trends happening across the country, including but not limited to: the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan; a systemic effort to undo the gains Black people made as a result of Reconstruction through policy, discrimination and other aggressive measures; a rise in lynchings and massacres of Black communities; backlash against Black veterans who had recently returned from World War 1; the formation and growth of Black resistance to power structures; and efforts of Black Americans to assert their voting rights, the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Guests in this episode include Dr. Nashid Madyun who is the director of the Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum on FAMU’s campus. Madyun is also a distinguished publisher and researcher. Listeners will also hear recordings of a talk given by Dr. Paul Ortiz. Professor Ortiz is the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is also the author of a number of books, including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. Professor Ortiz teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields. Musical attributions 1. Artist/Title: Axletree - Window Sparrows Licenses: Attribution 4.0 International URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Ornamental_EP/Window_Sparrows 2 Artist/Title: Lobo Loco - Place on my Bonfire (ID 1170) Licenses: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Adventure/Place_on_my_Bonfire_ID_1170 3. Artist/Title: Youssoupha Sidibe - Xaleyi Licenses: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) URL: https://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Country?pageSize=20&page=1&sort=artist&d=1

This episode looks at the frequent occurrence where vibrant black cities and communities were destroyed during the early part of the 20th Century, either violently or through "legal" means. Here I focus on two black communities based in Florida that were destroyed during this period: Ocoee and Goldsboro. The black community in Ocoee was violently destroyed election night of 1920, and Goldsboro was destroyed when the Florida legislature abolished its charter and absorbed it into the city of Sanford. This ended with a case that went to the Florida Supreme Court. Resources-- Goldsboro Museum: https://goldsboromuseum.com/ Book: Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (Volume 16) by Paul Ortiz Twitter: @plaookesworld Instagram: @palookesworld www.palookesworld.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvWkh1FxD-EbUQRAxmou37Q

Art displaying solidarity between Indigenous & Black activists, from Instagram post by @99rootz On this show: 0:08 – 5.4 million people in the U.S. lost their health insurance coverage during Covid-19, and premiums are expected to skyrocket next year, including in the marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act. We speak with Stan Dorn (@standorn), director of the National Center for Coverage Innovation at Families USA.  0:34 – CA Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced statewide closures of all bars, and indoor dining, movies, cardrooms and more. The state's re-closing as hospitalizations have surged due to Covid-19 — are Newsom's actions enough, and do they come too late? Art Reingold, the Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, joins us.  0:45 – The Washington, D.C. NFL team has dropped a vicious anti-Indigenous racial slur from its name, after years of organizing and legal action by Indigenous organizers and tribal nations as well as court cases. But Jacqueline Keeler (@jfkeeler) says this moment is only possible because of the reckoning caused by the Black activists organizing after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Keeler is a writer and activist of Diné and Ihanktonwan Dakota heritage, co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, and editor in chief of Pollen Nation Magazine. 1:08 – Martinez held a peaceful 2,000-person-strong march for Black lives on Sunday, despite threats of racist counterprotesters and over the objections of the mayor and the police department. Sevgi Fernandez founded Together We Stand, an organization dedicated to dismantling racism, discrimination and police brutality, and organized Sunday's protest in Martinez — she joins us to talk about what happened. 1:34 – Berkeley High students on Monday held a ten-hour campout at the city police department building to demand the police department be defunded by at least 50%. We air voices of those students and talk with Cheryl Davila, Berkeley City Councilmember for District 2, who has an item before the city council today to substantially defund the police. Davila also shares her own experience with traffic stops in Berkeley — activists say traffic stops are often racially motivated and lead to deadly police encounters between officers and Black and Brown residents. Another measure before Berkeley City Council today would take police out of traffic stops. The public can find the agenda and information about participating in the meeting here. 1:49 – What is it like to bike while Black in Berkeley? Reporter Danielle Kaye spoke with Black Berkeley residents who have been policed. The post How Indigenous and Black organizing pushed Washington's NFL team to drop its racist slur name; Newsom re-closes businesses across California; Meet the Berkeley councilwoman trying to defund police appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode we discuss generative somatics as an activist and healing practice, the power of reclaiming our bodies, complicating queer belonging, the spiritual and disruptive possibilities of queerness and Prentis's particular focus on being authentically oneself. Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. In 2016, Prentis was awarded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Soma Award for community work inspired by Buddhist thought. Currently, Prentis is a teacher of Somatics with Generative Somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations, and with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and works as a facilitator and consultant for organizations and groups looking to center healing justice and transformative justice into the very core of their work to build more well and self-determined communities. Prentis has served as a board member for National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN), a network for connecting communities with representative mental health practitioners and an effort at bringing frameworks of healing justice more soundly into current mental health provision models; and on Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM), an organization committed to removing the barriers for Black people to receive mental and emotional care. Prentis is also a deeply committed practitioner and healer who utilizes Somatics methodology, intuitive and ancestral practice into their work to heal trauma, and unlock the unique brilliance and contribution of each person, body and being they work with. https://prentishemphill.com/ @prentis.h LITQB Podcast: This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody. The Host: Asher Pandjiris Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator Queering the Holidays Virtual Workshop December 8th: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/virtual-group-workshop SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

For our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more.   The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net Agustina Vidal has been part of The Icarus Project Community since 2006, and is currently the program Director. She has a masters degree in mental health counseling, and her focus is the development of new tools and resources for both the U.S. and Latin America. Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute. ----------- PRACTICE: Next week, join Agustina and Rhiana for their practice episodes where they teach us how to make our own Mad Map - a plan to support our own mental health. Mad Maps will be offered both in English and in Spanish. ----------- RESOURCES: Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla Fett The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Some Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery by bell hooks The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways by Wanda D. McCaslin (restorative and transformative justice) Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD): https://boldorganizing.org/ Join Icarus Project online spaces and find more resources at http://www.theicarusproject.net ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive occasional communication from us with resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.

adrienne maree brown begins this week’s episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become possible? If we started to understand that pleasure is something that everyone should have access to, what would become possible?” This week on For The Wild, we are exploring how to embody pleasure in its many forms with adrienne maree brown. Drawing upon Audre Lorde’s seminal publication, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, adrienne maree brown’s latest book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, reiterates how once we truly know the pleasure of being alive, suffering becomes unimaginable. Above all, pleasure resides in our body, but many of us seem to forget this through lifetimes of social conditioning, performative identities, and the multitude of ways in which capitalism and patriarchy have filtered love and desire through the lens of ownership. Yet, whether we are cognizant of this or not, our pleasure and our liberation remain inextricably bound together. adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. adrienne facilitates social justice and Black liberation through the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Detroit Narrative Agency and is part of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. She and her sister, Autumn Brown, co-host the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. This captivating conversation explores how the denial of pleasure contributes to our own oppression, how radical honesty and kindness can transform our relationships, moving through the limitations placed on radical imagination and desire, the importance of pleasure beyond sex, and how our pain and sorrow is a measurement of our pleasure and joy. We hope this conversation inspires you in your own experimentation when it comes to acceptance, desire, and liberated relationships as we collectively pursue sustainable long-term pleasure. You can purchase Pleasure Activism here, https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html Music by The Boom Booms http://theboombooms.com JB The First Lady https://www.jbthefirstlady.ca/ Small Town Artillery https://smalltownartillery.com/

In this episode, we speak to Professor Jakobi Williams about his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago and his research on black political organizing and resistance to white supremacy and capitalism in Chicago throughout the 20th century. Suggested Readings & Resources: Jakobi Williams - From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballot-Illinois-Coalition-Politics/dp/1469622106/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jakobi+williams&qid=1553292176&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull Amy Sonnie and James Tracy - Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Hillbilly+Nationalists%2C+Urban+Race+Rebels%2C+and+Black+Power%3A+Community+Organizing+in+Radical+Times&qid=1553292833&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+assassination+of+Fred+Hampton+%3A+how+the+FBI+and+the+Chicago+police+murdered+a+Black+Panther&qid=1553292441&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull Joshua Bloom - Black against Empire: The History of Politics of the Black Panther Party https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=black+panthers+chicago&pd_rd_i=0520293282&pd_rd_r=58cd0e1a-b13a-4807-91f2-e8517fade348&pd_rd_w=I4Z37&pd_rd_wg=MfSmd&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=X0J9HNE1YYJXWNAK8MKJ&qid=1553292465&s=gateway Robyn C. Spencer - The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Has-Come-Panther-Oakland/dp/0822362864/ref=pd_sim_14_4/145-7285454-7271234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822362864&pd_rd_r=0212ec40-4cef-11e9-889b-8de6206c1d4a&pd_rd_w=86PET&pd_rd_wg=LTn69&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN&psc=1&refRID=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN Davarian L. Baldwin - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-New-Negroes-Modernity-Migration/dp/0807857998/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=black+chicago&qid=1553292916&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7 Poor People’s Campaign https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/ -- Theme Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -- Interact: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud[dot]com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Support: Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc

This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? For this week’s practice, we recommend you dive back into the Healing Justice Podcast archives and listen to Practice 12: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar. Sumitra is also part of the teaching body for generative somatics, and the practice she shares is one of the core practices in gs methodology. ✨ PODCAST NEWS: LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ✨ Will you let us know what you’ve loved, what you want more of, how you’ve used the practices, and how you want to show up in this community? As we head into a summer break for discernment and planning, we want to shape season 2 based on your input! Click here to take the survey and let us know your thoughts: https://goo.gl/forms/ykXYxg0iFq6pUxBF3 --- FURTHER RESOURCES FROM GS: Article: What is Politicized Somatics? Snapshot of generative somatics (gs) programs and growth (2018) 2018-2020 gs Strategic Priorities: Video, Summary Webinar: Why Somatics: Conversation and Practice with Movement Leaders (12/12/17) Webinar: Somatics in the Time of Trump: A National Conversation & Practice Group (3/28/17) gs Practitioners Network (gsPN) information Donate to generative somatics for the sake of making their programs accessible to innovative movement leaders, to poor and working class communities, and to communities of color. To donate, click here: https://generative-somatics.networkforgood.com/projects/46334-donate-to-generative-somatics-gs-2018 To find out more about gs, visit: www.generativesomatics.org --- ABOUT OUR GUESTS adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. adrienne can also be heard on episode 10 of Healing Justice Podcast. Prentis Hemphill is a healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis can also be heard on episode 13 of Healing Justice Podcast. Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics, where she integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power. Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations, and  is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007). --- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: In 2 weeks we are beginning a summer break for reflection, restructuring, fundraising, and discernment. To stay in touch, make sure to join our email list at http://www.healingjustice.org    Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter   This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice (and consider joining at $8/month or above to sponsor a gift for one of our brilliant guests or volunteers!). You can also give a one time gift here https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb Please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening - it all makes a difference! THANK YOU to all our production volunteers:Producer: Janvieve Williams ComrieMusic: Oakland-based collective Mass BassMixing by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienCoordination & communications by Danielle Feris

At the heart of Emergent Strategy is moving towards life and learning from the wisdom of nature to drive our social movements. Emergent Strategy asks of us to think about spirituality and transformative justice central to the resilient future we are imagining together. This asks of us to really show up, for ourselves and one another, leaning into conflict across horizontal hostility and vicious critique. adrienne maree brown is the author behind Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Based in Detroit, she facilitates social justice and black liberation through the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute and is on the teaching body of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and generative somatics. She and her sister co-host How to Survive the End of the World podcast, and she writes the Pleasure Dome column for Bitch Magazine.

Professor Paul Ortiz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Floridaand is Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.  Professor Ortiz has published and taught in the fields of African American history, Latino Studies, the African Diaspora, Social Movement Theory, U.S. History, U.S. South, labor, and documentary studies. He currently works with students in these and related fields. He has written several books including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 received the 1990 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize. His latest book and our topic of discussion today is An African American and Latinx History of the United States.  From Beacon Press: “Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.” 

An interview with Dr. Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History from the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2006, UC Press). He discussed his latest book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018, Beacon Press) about the shared civil rights struggles of African American and Latinx communities.

This practice with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter, leads you to cultivate a sense of belonging within yourself that is untouchable by external conditions. It is a political act to claim a belonging and dignity that cannot be threatened by inequality or oppression, and an emotionally empowering act to resource ourselves with this very real human need to know we belong. You don’t need anything except a quiet space for this practice, and you can try it alone or together with a group.Download the corresponding conversation (episode 13) entitled “Blackness & Belonging” to hear Prentis talk about the ways anti-Blackness shapes all of us to deny our own humanity, the role of shame, how we heal so we can give our unique contribution, avoidance, the Black Lives Matter Healing in Action toolkit, how healers are real people with limitations who aren’t better than anybody else,  and belonging as a decision we make, not an external condition. ABOUT OUR GUEST: PRENTIS HEMPHILL Prentis Hemphill is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org  Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter   We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice     THANK YOU: Content editing this week by Yoshi FieldsMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Today we’re talking with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of the Black Lives Matter Network. We talk about the ways anti-Blackness shapes all of us to deny our own humanity, the role of shame, how we heal so we can give our unique contribution, avoidance, the Black Lives Matter Healing in Action toolkit, how healers are real people with limitations who aren’t better than anybody else,  and belonging as a decision we make, not an external condition.   ABOUT OUR GUEST: PRENTIS HEMPHILL Prentis Hemphill is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.   PRACTICE:Download the accompanying practice called “Reflection on Belonging” to hear Prentis lead you through cultivating a sense of belonging within yourself that is untouchable by external conditions. It is a political act to claim a belonging and dignity that cannot be threatened by inequality or oppression, and am emotionally empowering act to resource ourselves with this very real human need to know we belong. You don’t need anything except a quiet space for this practice. Practices post on Thursdays.   RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network Black Emotional and Mental Health Project Dignity and Power Now in Los Angeles Healing in Action: A Toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice & Direct Action JOIN THE COMMUNITY:Sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org   Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter  We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU:Content editing this week by Yoshi FieldsMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Protests, Black Organizing, White "Allies" , Obama's (non) response & More. In this episode we delve into what's been happening over the past two weeks in the US.

In our 2nd segment, some folks actually think that without a change in our present deplorable behavior, we can still build something long lasting to defeat out 600 year-recent enemy. We will explore how fallacious that is and we will look at other successful models that have actually worked and then examine what we can extract from those for our present situation. Blueprint for Black Power as well as successful Marroon societies will be examined in contrast to some present flawed thinking of no behavior change, no worldview changing being needed. Over the next few weeks, we will critically look at the masses first approach as well as the non-behaviorial-change, non-worldview-change approach to organizing that presently dominates Pro-Black, Pan Afrikanist and Black Nationalist circles. These talks WILL challenge previously well-sounding rhetoric and propose alternatives. These talks will NOT be for the non-critical people within our ranks, nor for those who haven't had a new thought in 2-3 decades. Please tune in for lively & endarkening discussions.

The way myself and most others get into 'consciousness' is by being beaten over the head with the rhetoric of 'we must awaken the masses.' Has that approach actually worked? If so, in what ways? If not, is there a better, longer lasting way to organizing that will limit 'agents' from infiltrating our ranks & reducing our good works? Over the next few weeks, we will critically look at the masses first approach as well as the non-behaviorial-change, non-worldview-change approach to organizing that presently dominates Pro-Black, Pan Afrikanist and Black Nationalist circles. These talks WILL challenge previously well-sounding rhetoric and propose alternatives. These talks will NOT be for the non-critical people within our ranks, nor for those who haven't had a new thought in 2-3 decades. Please tune in for lively & endarkening discussions.