The Real Work, Ep 6: Dreaming Forward

We Rise

This is it, right here, this is the final episode.
And if you’re here right now, and you’ve been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, healing, imagining, practicing, remembering, and organizing to get there. As Black feminist revolutionary writer June Jordan said, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Now is the time to generously bring forth our gifts and throw down for our collective liberation. So again, thank you for choosing to be here.
Let’s dream forward.
Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-6
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org
Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org
June Jordan: JuneJordan.com
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, ed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.html
Democracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World’”: www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015
Kim Tran: www.KimTranPHD.com
Kyra Jones: www.KyraJones.me
Adrienne Skye Roberts: TherapyWithAdrienneSkye.com
Mia Mingus: www.soiltjp.org & leavingevidence.wordpress.com
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: batjc.wordpress.com
For additional resources, including this episode’s ASL video: WeRiseProduction.com/TheRealWork
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This project is supported by an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation & the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, and was incubated with initial support from Cal Shakes.