For the very first episode of Homegrown Power, we're out in the field talking to Alicia Bonner, Akilah Bonner, and Tré Vasquez, organizers with North Bay Organizing Project. In the wake of the deadly North Bay fires, they are running healing clinics and taking cues from the Black Panther Party newspaper to keep people in their homes and in community with each other.

http://northbayop.org
https://powercalifornia.org

Homegrown Power 1 - North Bay Organizing Project

For this episode we're recording live in the field with 99Rootz! Please excuse the traffic noises and occasional profanity. We talk to Alicia Olivarez and Crissy Gallardo, organizers who are following the example of the 1960's Freedom Summer and giving it a 2018 twist. Using art, culture, healing, and political education they're registering youth of color to vote and restoring a sense of pride in the Central Valley.

http://www.powercalifornia.org
https://www.facebook.com/99Rootz/

Homegrown Power 2 - 99Rootz

In this episode, we're recording live from City Heights, San Diego! We talk to Ismahan Abdullahi from Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) about Muslim-American identity, the refugee and immigrant experience, and the power of art and culture to shape connections.

https://powercalifornia.org
https://www.panasd.org

Homegrown Power 3 - PANA

For this episode, we talk to Celi Tamayo Lee from San Francisco Rising (SF Rising) about everything from the tech industry to public art to shifting the culture of phone banks. 

https://powercalifornia.org/
http://www.sfrising.org/

Homegrown Power 4 - San Francisco Rising

In this episode of Homegrown Power, we talk to Sammy Gutierrez from Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ) about everything from Filipino punk rock to gentrification and voting.

https://powercalifornia.org/
http://filipinos4justice.org/

Homegrown Power 5 - Filipino Advocates for Justice

Homegrown Power is a podcast hosted by two queer, immigrant women of color; Jasmine Leiva and Pacita Rudder, working in the field of cultural strategy. This podcast series centers the stories of organizers in California who are integrating art and culture into their work on the ground.

We'll be here every few weeks with more firsthand accounts of real organizers using cultural strategy on the ground in California.

http://www.powercalifornia.org

Music by Pacita Rudder.
Production by Pacita Rudder.

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