Rising For Our Motherlands is a project born from deep commitments to our people, our homelands, and to one another. This episode features a conversation between friend, kasama, and early collaborator of Rising For Our Motherlands, Nadya Tannous, and co-host nicky, as they reflect on their pivot points, their shared history of organizing, and what it means to build across movements and motherlands.

Recorded in the summer of 2023—before the ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza—this bonus episode captures themes that remain urgent today: internationalism, solidarity, and the power of collective struggle. You’ll hear sounds from the Unity Intifada of 2021, a historic moment of Palestinian uprising and resistance that transcended geographic and political borders, uniting Palestinians from the river to the sea and in the diaspora. Included are echoes from the 2021 Unity Intifada car caravan in Yelamu (San Francisco), featuring the voice of Lubna Morrar chanting in the streets—an early vision for what Rising For Our Motherlands would become.

This episode reminds us that the liberation of Palestine is deeply connected to other struggles for sovereignty and freedom—especially that of the Philippines. It is a call to deepen our international and joint struggle, recognizing that our futures are intertwined, and that rising for one motherland means rising for them all.


A huge thank you to Salma Taleb, Hesham Jarmakani, Francesca Juico, Chris Wanis, and Carmelo Ibanez for our beautiful theme music and to our co-conspirator & We Rise producer Cat Petru for weaving our voices and songs together.

Podcast art created by nicole gervacio.