We Are One!

Rhia and I have known each other for years. Was an amazing time to reconnect and bring it sort of full circle. Sam joins us in a conversation around harm reduction and homelessness.

Reflection on uprising and our personal experience in Minneapolis during the first George Floyd protests.

Rhia's experience as a medic.

Social media and the roll of mainstream media 

Rhia's experience traveling to Peru for a 4 day experience with Ayahuasca 

Heroin addiction. From heroin to homeless.

Harm reduction. Safe drug use

Wet houses

The need for compassion

Brother Wes is back to talk again! This conversation covered a wide range of topics. I enjoyed quite a bit myself.

Wes's decision to be ghost and disconnect frequently

His decision to denounce holiday's

A broad conversation around our ideas of religion

Illuminati? Ruling class?

Being Gods ourselves as individuals

Mind, body and spirt

Reincarnation

This episode was entirely recorded on location at the George Floyd Memorial Square. I had the been out to register people to vote with #ThePowerof5 team and Black Vote Matters. I used this opportunity to also connect with many people and engage in some brief dialogues with activists, organizations, and community members. List of people and what time in the podcast we start talking below.

1:47 Wallace White with Minnesota Mad Dads

6:13 Dianna Bady with Turning Point (Longest active rehab center)

11:08 #ThePowerof5 team Noah, Case and Wes

13:30 Anika Robbins #BlackVoteMatters #The Powerof5 and many other organizations she is teamed up with

22:13 Omar with BLMfacemasks.com

24:37 Fox with Minnesota Freedom Fighters

31:42 King Kong VS. Godzilla Kickz

34:00 Niko Georgiades with Unicorn Riot and Julio Rosario with the Justice Squad and who is a cousin of Brian Quinones sadly, another victim of police killing

Ravyn and I sat down to discuss a wide range of criminal justice reforms. Holy shit, five hours? Yep. We really talked for that long. I uploaded the entire list to a google document for you to access at the link below. Please engage with this! Give some feedback. Discuss these ideas further. Enough of those vague ideas or statements. We need things that are actually actionable!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17J8AZbLwaWvZE8p_Eg2BciK-r-lM-CEelvMq3m5bho0/edit?usp=sharing

This episode was a fun one. A great dialogue between the four of us. Ngaynia Morris, Deshann Sanchez, & Kristin Mastantuono. Deshann has been with us previously and we love her so we brought her back to expand on some topics! Kristin one of our lovely engineers with a lot of very valuable input in this one. We've just briefly slowed down, but this thing isn't over. 

Titled "Tell Us", this is Yariah's first spoken word piece. 

In this episode Ngaynia (Linda) and Justin are joined by Yariah Myers. Yariah is a young woman from Illinois. Just before the George Floyd murder and protests that ensued, Yariah had relocated to Minnesota. You'll hear us talk about that and her experience since moving to Minnesota. Inspired through all of these experiences Yariah wrote her first spoken word piece, titled Tell Us. And wow, is it moving! Look out for a separate video and recording of the poem by itself. Yariah also shared with all of us the story of Eric Lurry from Joliet, Illinois. Skip to the 36 minute mark to hear that story in particular. Eric Lurry was brutally murdered by Joliet police, found in the parking lot of the Police Station. @TTLYRIAH

In today's episode we sat down with Huda. The three of us all met during protests in Minneapolis. Huda is an activist and community organizer. She works largely with youth and as you'll hear in this conversation has larger aspirations for her community. @justaskhuda on instagram to get in touch!

Imani is a University of Minnesota student and has a catering/chef service, Chopped and Served. Her and her team have been accepting donations and using it to serve community meals in the Twin Cities. In this episode Justin and Imani sit down to chat about a wide range of topics. Imani's experience as a black jew, their experiences through the most recent "activation", and even a tangent about psychedelics.

  We were missing Ngaynia (Linda) for this one unfortunately. 

*This was the first time recording mobile. Beware of dog and whatever other kinks may need to be worked out.

Deshann is an organizer with the Justice Frontline Aid. A group that has been and continues providing mutual aid for communities and for protesters. Among a few things, we discussed what mutual aid is and what it looks like. Look out for our follow up conversation with Deshann a week from the day this was put out.