Podcast appearances and mentions of ora wise

Ora Wise is a Brooklyn-based chef, community organizer, cultural producer, and educator whose current work invests in community controlled and regenerative food systems. For over a decade, Ora focused on media-based education, including co-facilitating the Palestine Education Project's high school program Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture & Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine, serving as Youth Education Director for a progressive synagogue, and co-leading the Indigenous Youth Media Delegation to Palestine. In recent years, Ora founded The Dream Cafe, an experimental cooperative pop-up restaurant in Detroit as part of the Allied Media Conference and co-produced The Asymmetrical Table, a food sovereignty dinner series in downtown Manhattan centering the cuisine and activism of Palestinian women chefs. She currently co-directs the grassroots food justice collective FIG which operates political education and food distribution programs in partnership with frontline community organizations, farmers, and chefs.

Once again, death rains down on the children of Gaza while Hamas holds over a hundred Israelis hostage. Israel-Palestine has exploded predictably after decades of blockades, occupation, and inaction. Where has the leadership been to move the region towards real peace? Organizer Ora Wise joins Francesca to break down the ongoing terror of what many anti-occupation activists have warned was inevitable, and Francesca has some tough love for liberal Zionists. Then will the House GOP come full circle and re-elect Kevin McCarthy to the speakership? Seems like Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are even harder to stomach.Featuring:Ora WiseFood Justice Organizer FIG-NYCIG: @orawiseRayyvanaStreamer & TYT Contributor@RayyvanaTVThe Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Once again, death rains down on the children of Gaza while Hamas holds over a hundred Israelis hostage. Israel-Palestine has exploded predictably after decades of blockades, occupation, and inaction. Where has the leadership been to move the region towards real peace? Organizer Ora Wise joins Francesca to break down the ongoing terror of what many anti-occupation activists have warned was inevitable, and Francesca has some tough love for liberal Zionists. Then will the House GOP come full circle and re-elect Kevin McCarthy to the speakership? Seems like Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are even harder to stomach.Featuring:Ora WiseFood Justice Organizer FIG-NYCIG: @orawiseRayyvanaStreamer & TYT Contributor@RayyvanaTVThe Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioSupport The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH*Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVEMusic by Nick StarguFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we dive headlong into how the relationship between Israel and Palestine intersects with food politics. In our first segment, Food Book Fair co-director and organizer Kimberly Chou Tsun An speaks to chef and artist Amanny Ahmad about her advocacy work and about what she misses from Palestine. They also recap a dinner Ahmad cooked last year with Bay Area chef and restaurateur Reem Assil. In our second segment, Soleil talks to chef and organizer Ora Wise about hummus, food media, and olive trees. Finally, we revisit a poem by George Abraham, “Ars Poetica in Which Every Pronoun is a Free Palestine,” recorded at the 2018 Kundiman writers' retreat. We hope you enjoy this episode! Produced by Juan Ramirez. Music by AF the Naysayer and Blue Dot Sessions.

Ora Wise, coordinator of AMC2018’s FERMENT Track and the Dream Cafe, speaks to the personal transformation and professional growth that’s resulted from her longtime involvement with the AMC. Follow Ora’s journey from the early days to her current work of creating sustainable food practices through AMC community dinners and the Dream Cafe. Special thanks to: Rev. Joan Ross (WNUC Station Manager), Morris Porter (sound engineer), Puck Lo (editor), Kat Aaron and Kristy Li Puma (interviewers), Emi Kane (AMP Board member, interviewer and co-wrangler of this project), and all of our guests, especially Sterling Toles for providing the theme music!

This week Ashley speaks with chef and social justice worker, Ora Wise. In this conversation Ora shares her recent travels to Puerto Rico, the effects Hurricane Maria has had on local farmers there and what she is doing to help. Ora keeps honest about her struggles of taking care of herself while at the same time continuing to do the important work she is doing. We get to hear what inspired Ora to get her start as a chef and what lead her down this unique path combining food and social justice. May this episode leave you charged!!! 

We're next-level proud to be supporting an amazing crew of friends, comrades, chefs, and educators in a new series celebrating the cuisine and history of Palestine, popping up Nov. 13-14 at Dimes and Lalito. Chef and artist Amanny Ahmad — one of the badass Palestinian women chefs leading the pop-ups — joins us with chef and community organizer Ora Wise on #RecommendedReading to talk food and sovereignty, here and everywhere. Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair is powered by Simplecast

Ora Wise’s professional journey has taken her from community organizer to food politics blogger to Brooklyn chef, and she’s always pushing to do more. Choose your battles, embrace your imperfections, but don’t ever back down from trying to make a difference, she counsels. Today, you can find Ora at Harvest & Revel, the mindful catering company in Brooklyn that she co-owns with her partners. She also helps coordinate FIG, the Food Issues Group, which looks for creative and practical ways to address issues of sustainability related to environmental impact, food justice, and profitability. Ora also explains how to make a mean popsicle and get hummus through airport security.

On this episode, Co-Collaborators Sara Elise and Ora Wise, chat with host, Julia Curtis-Burnes about their inspired event catering company, Harvest & Revel (formerly known as Bed Stuy Kitchen.) Sara Elise and Ora share the ins and outs of running a business, developing a successful business partnership, disrupting the inequalities of the food industry, making organic food accessible, the gentrification of Brooklyn, and the importance of celebrating around food and drink! Check out their amazing work at Harvest and Revel: www.HarvestandRevel.com Instagram: @HarvestandRevel Email: hello@HarvestandRevel.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/outsidehers/support