On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ?

Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org

Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org

BATJC Pods & Pod Mapping Worksheet Instructions: batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/

BATJC Pod Mapping Worksheet:
batjc.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/batjc-pod-mapping-2016-updated.pdf

EdSource, “At this Oakland high school, restorative justice goes far beyond discipline”: edsource.org/2022/at-this-oakland-high-school-restorative-justice-goes-far-beyond-discipline/673453

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth/RJOY: RJoyOakland.org

Mia Mingus: www.soiltjp.org & leavingevidence.wordpress.com

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: batjc.wordpress.com

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

For additional resources, including this episode’s ASL video: WeRiseProduction.com/TheRealWork

zAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & soundcloud.com/diasporadical

Connect with us at [email protected], and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on Twitter at @WeRiseProducers.

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.

How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out...

Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org

Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org

Anti Police-Terror Project: www.AntiPoliceTerrorProject.org

The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople @villageoakland: www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment: www.ACCEAction.org

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative: ebprec.org

Washington Post, “Chicago theaters said ‘Not in Our House’ to sexual abuse and harassment”: ​​www.WashingtonPost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/chicago-theaters-say-not-in-our-house-to-sexual-abuse/2017/12/14/e2db9c30-e014-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

Howlround, “What Playwrights Can Learn from Intimacy Directors: A Conversation with Gaby Labotka“: HowlRound.com/what-playwrights-can-learn-intimacy-directors

Coalition of Black Women Professional Theatre Makers in the Bay Area, California: BlackWomenBayAreaTheatre.wordpress.com/

The New York Times, “Long Wharf Theater Leader is Accused of Sexual Harassment”: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/theater/gordon-edelstein-long-wharf-theater-sexual-misconduct.html

Kim Tran: www.KimTranPHD.com

Kyra Jones: www.KyraJones.me

Adrienne Skye Roberts: TherapyWithAdrienneSkye.com

Resources for Addressing Sexual Harassment & Violence (compiled for It’s Time: Bay Area Town Hall on Sexual Harassment in Our Theatre Community): www.TheatreBayArea.org/general/custom.asp?page=itstimeresources

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

zAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & soundcloud.com/diasporadical

Connect with us at [email protected], and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on Twitter at @WeRiseProducers.

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.

We are proud to present The Real Work: a podcast about theater culture & transformative justice! This collaboration has been in the works since 2018, and we are thrilled to share it with you now. Join us for our free online premiere of this series with a community dialogue August 22nd 7PM-9PM PST. Register at the link below. Let’s gather, witness episode 1, and dialogue about how transformative justice — a paradigm of community accountability and intervention in harm, violence, and abuse — can strengthen our art-making and activist spaces.

Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Pilot-Episode

Register for the 8.22.22 online premiere: www.eventbrite.com/e/online-premiere-of-the-real-work-podcast-with-asl-interpretation-registration-389740062017

The Real Work is a 6-episode audio miniseries exploring transformative justice as a tool for preventing, addressing, and healing harm in Bay Area theater and beyond. Over the course of one year, nearly thirty local theater makers gathered monthly to learn together about transformative justice, under the facilitation of Mia Mingus, co-founder of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. This podcast series documents our learnings with an aim to share out and grow our collective capacity to practice transformative justice, especially in our arts and activist spaces.

True to its name, The Real Work reveals the seemingly mundane relational practices we can engage with one another to build cultures of safety and thriving within our communities. From communication skills, giving and receiving feedback, and learning how to make good apologies, to understanding roots of harm, TJ illuminates patterns of violence and abuse and offers dynamic ways of taking accountability to fundamentally shift them.

The Real Work: A Podcast About Theater Culture & Transformative Justice is created & hosted by Tierra Allen, in partnership with We Rise Production.

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org

Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org

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

zAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & soundcloud.com/diasporadical

Connect with us at [email protected], and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on Twitter at @WeRiseProducers.

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.

CONTENT NOTE: Racist police murder.

On Saturday, June 18, 24-year-old Derrick Clark was shot and killed by 30 members of the Oregon State Troopers and Clackamas County Sherriff’s Office for a DUI.

Derrick’s loved ones are in deep mourning, and organizing to get answers about Derrick’s murder, and obtain justice in some way in the face of this white supremacist, racist, colonial, militarized so-called justice system.

On Saturday, June 25, Derrick’s friends, family & community gathered in Aquatic Park in Clackamas, just south of Portland, OR, occupied native land of the Clackamas, Kalapuya, Multnomah & many others.

We Rise joined in community, and with permission, recorded speeches from the march & rally, as well as some 1-on-1 conversations.

Please listen with care. You’ll find ways to stay connected at the end of the episode & in show notes. Justice for Derrick Clark.

STAY CONNECTED:
[email protected]
@JusticeForDerrickClark on Facebook

As with all specially designated months, we get to celebrate being queer year round. That said, happy pride friends! And happy belated summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
In December of 2021, just before the Winter Solstice, cat & nicky got to sit down (virtually) with KPFA Radio’s First Voice Apprentice & Full Circle producer Sentient Shiloh AKA DJ Loh to reflect on lessons received in the first two years of global pandemic as queer, community-centered creatives.
From roots to relationships, and slowing down to dispelling gaslighting, nicky & cat pause, listen, and share a bit about how we’ve navigated these challenging, painful, and deeply transformational times.
In honor of this Pride & solstice season, and because it feels poignant to share this content now, here is our conversation with Shiloh.

You can hear other queer artists & educators on the Full Circle show (link in show notes). Thank you again to Shiloh for inviting us to share in the power of reflections. If you’re moved to share, we’d love to hear from you. Find us on social media or email us at [email protected].

FULL CIRCLE LINK
https://kpfaapprent.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/full-circle-03-18-2022-part-1-rona-reflections-queer-resilience/

As we approach the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine, Layla Kanaan joins Cat for an in-depth discussion of the history of Zionism, the founding of the settler state of Israel, the ongoing impacts of violence on the Palestinian people, how this struggle is all our struggle, and how we can get involved and act in solidarity for a free Palestine.

We learn, too, about local organizations doing solidarity work, and share details about this weekend’s Nakba Day event on May 15.

*this show also aired on KBOO Portland!

EVENT
May 15, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/psu_super/

EDUCATION
Ilan Pappe’s books https://www.versobooks.com/authors/1636-ilan-pappe
Gaza Fights for Freedom, film by Abby Martin https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/
Related We Rise Production podcasts https://www.spreaker.com/show/we-rise

Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights
The 4th Geneva Convention of 1949 https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/text_blocks/2751
UN Resolution 194 https://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194

ORGANIZATIONS
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions https://bdsmovement.net/ & bit.ly/RiseUpWithPalestine
Center for Study & Preservation of Palestine https://www.cspp.site/
Demilitarize PDX to Palestine https://www.instagram.com/demilitarizepdxtopalestine/
PSU Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights https://www.instagram.com/psu_super/

SONGS
Dammi Falastini by Mohammad Assaf
Long Live Palestine by Lowkey

Mayra, Tierra, Cat, and Nicky are interviewed by a beloved comrade and filmmaker, speaking to our experience in Akiing alongside water protectors resisting Enbridge Corporation’s Line 3 pipeline. Akiing is the Anishnaabe name for the land we were on. It means “the land to which we belong.”

Following the interview, we share updates on the Stop Line 3 movement, other calls for land and water defense in the region, and how you and your people can participate.

LINKS & RESOURCES
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/24/nickel-mining-hidden-environmental-cost-electric-cars-batteries

https://talonmetals.com/

https://www.Line3legalfund.com

https://www.dropline3charges.com

https://www.stopline3.org/

On the heels of ‘Strike-tober’, more than 100,000 workers in the so called “United States” either participated in or prepared for strikes in one of the largest increases of organized labor in the twenty-first century. Striketober began amidst the Great Resignation, when people started to quit jobs due to low wages and oppressive working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which some economists described as a general strike.

In response, we share one water protector’s reflections from the frontlines of the Stop Line 3 movement, as they discuss how labor organizing is vital to our movements, like LandBack, Climate Justice, and Prison & Police Abolition.

Their story from a direct action is a beautiful allegory for how we can collaborate, strategize & care for each other - on the frontlines and in our daily lives - as we continue to navigate the very real daily, personal challenges amidst the pandemic, economic & climate crises collectively.

Here is our complete interview with Jaike Spotted Wolf, who we met on Anishnaabe land, and who you heard snippets of on our episode called The People are a River.

Jaike discusses the significance of Line 3 across Turtle Island - from the summer heat domes of the Pacific Northwest to polar cap ice melting in Alaska - the need for indigenous leadership and land stewardship, strengthening cross-movement solidarity, and how this movement effects all of us.

If you are just learning about Line 3, here is some context...
Line 3 is a pipeline expansion project that will process tar sands from Alberta, Canada and carry the refined oil across Anishnaabe treaty land in Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Enbridge Corporation, the Canadian pipeline construction company, is responsible for the largest oil spill in the U.S. in 1991, Grand Rapids, MN. They’ve been permitted by the state of Minnesota to remove 5 billion gallons of water from the Mississippi headwaters to complete this project, which has already wreaked havoc on the land, water, and water protectors: the Mississippi headwaters have dropped 10 feet since April 2021, there have already been 28 drilling spills in the wetlands, and over 700 water protectors have been arrested by local sheriff departments, which are being paid off by Enbridge. The situation is dire, worse by some accounts than the Dakota Access Pipeline, as this pipeline will cross over 227 waterways, including the Mississippi twice. The project’s destruction and violence perpetuates climate catastrophe, and the brutalization of indigenous people, the vital wild rice, the animals, and land.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: stopline3.org

This episode offers our full conversation with Ember Phoenix & Ben Joselyn, water protectors on Anishnaabe land, building community & protecting the sacred.

For more on the movement to Stop Line 3, you can listen to We Rise episode 32 (called Have you heard of Line 3?), 35 - The People are a River, and 37, our full interview with water protector Jaike Spotted Wolf.

ABOUT LINE 3:
Line 3 is a pipeline expansion project that will process tar sands from Alberta, Canada and carry the refined oil across Anishnaabe treaty land in Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Enbridge Corporation, the Canadian pipeline construction company, is responsible for the largest oil spill in the U.S. in 1991, Grand Rapids, MN. They’ve been permitted by the state of Minnesota to remove 5 billion gallons of water from the Mississippi headwaters to complete this project, which has already wreaked havoc on the land, water, and water protectors: the Mississippi headwaters have dropped 10 feet since April 2021, there have already been 28 drilling spills in the wetlands, and over 700 water protectors have been arrested by local sheriff departments, which are being paid off by Enbridge. The situation is dire, worse by some accounts than the Dakota Access Pipeline, as this pipeline will cross over 227 waterways, including the Mississippi twice. The project’s destruction and violence perpetuates climate catastrophe, and the brutalization of indigenous people, the vital wild rice, the animals, and land.

As we continue to experience climate emergency after emergency, we have so much to learn from the struggle against Line 3. Despite the ongoing violence and destruction to people, land, and water, mainstream media is not picking up this narrative. While the Biden administration canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, they continue to support the Line 3 pipeline.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: stopline3.org