This is great!  I transcribed it as a 3-part round here:https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhuFjxHZaSbUgni-YesVPE9cxmJE

We Gonna Rise Up - adapted 2016 from Chance the Rapper’s ‘Blessings’, by Momentum Trainers from BLM, Cosecha, IfNotNow, and more!

Featuring original vocals from: https://soundcloud.com/batyalevine/trust-in

Thank you to Tim Henning (https://soundcloud.com/phase-system on Soundcloud) for help with the vocal processing.

Please check out and support Batya! They have a website here: www.batyalevine.com, a Bandcamp here: batyalevine.bandcamp.com/album/karov, a Patreon here: www.patreon.com/batyalevine, and is on streaming services such as Spotify.

Holy (Feat. Batya Levine) - Demo

Barukh ata adonai, eloheinu melekh halom, asher natan lesechvi binah lehavchin ben yom uven layla.
Barukh ata adonai, eloheinu melekh halom, she’asani b’tzalmo.
Brukha at shekhina, elohoteinu ruach haolam, she’asani bat horin.
Barukh ata adonai, eloheinu melekh halom, she’asani yisrael
Brukha at shekhina, elohoteinu malkat haolm, malbisha arumim.
Barukh ata adonai, eloheinu melekh haolam, matir asurim.
Brukha at shekhina, elohoteinu malkat haolam, zokefet k’fufim.
Barukh ata adonai, eloheinu melekh halom, hanoten laya’ef koakh.

Blessed are you, Cosmic Majesty of the Universe,
for giving my heart the ability to distinguish between day and night,
who made me in Their Divine image,
who made me free,
who made me part of my people,
who clothes the naked, 
who frees the bound,
who straightens the bent,
who gives the weary strength.

Anat's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anat-hochberg
Anat's album on Bandcamp: https://anathalevyhochberg.bandcamp.com/album/how-can-i-keep-from-singing

Photo by Jess Benjamin, taken at Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat 2023

Birkot HaShachar / Morning Blessings - Anat Halevy Hochberg

created by Reverend Osby of Aurora Illinois in the Hinds County jail during the freedom rides based on an old gospel song from the 1960s

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17

lyrics:
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
Well I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
Hallelu, hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, hallelujah


Woke Up This Mornin

This song was written/ inspired by a team of cross movement leaders who are in an interconnected network building for a just world and social transformation brought together by Momentum. 

We're gonna rise up, rise up till it's won.
When the people rise up, the powers come down.
They tried to stop us, but we keep coming back.

We're Gonna Rise Up Momentum Song

Halleluyah- Psalm 150

Ein Od Milvado

Tzama Nafshi - composer unknown, Ashkenazi

Lev Tahor

Makom Bina - Deborah Sacks Mintz

A scrappy recording of this original nigun, recorded at Linke Fligl Sukkos in 2018.

Shtetl Wedding Nigun

written by sol yael weiss & molly bajgot, sukkot 2018

mishpacha nigun

IfNotNow is a movement led by young Jews to transform our American Jewish community’s support for the occupation into a call for freedom and dignity for all. Learn more about the songs we sing in our movement here: http://bit.ly/2mIZUks
>on singing songs from other movements of today and from the past:
We are lucky to have the songs of our own Jewish traditions -- they are for us to sing.  Some of us have ancestors who have been deeply involved in movements across the world for social change for generations, both as those directly affected and as allies.  We are also singing their songs. 
And.
We recognize that this can easily turn into cultural appropropriation, particularly when we do not have direct links. So, before we sing a song we have a practice of honoring where it comes from: we share the movement, the struggle, or the people who birthed this music. Singing these songs is one way of acknowledging that we’re in a long line of movements for justice. 
We continue to create new movement songs. We write new lyrics. We get inspired by old text- Jewish and non-Jewish.  We do not simply translate movement songs into Hebrew in order to connect with them. One possibility instead is to incorporate Jewish text with similar themes and vision. 
From the beginning, IfNotNow leaders have been building relationships with leaders from Cosecha, BlackLivesMatter, The Dream Defenders, and other movements through the Momentum Community where we have been creating and sharing our songs with each other. Diversity keeps our movements strong and interconnected. We understand this as an ecological system of access, ancestries, struggles and strategies for resistance. Song is part of the way we arrive in interdependent relationship. We are building a culture that is accountable, compassionate -- and vibrant as all hell. Please honor the history of each song -- learn it, share it. 
We will lift each other up.

We're Gonna Rise Up Momentum Song

IfNotNow

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