for when you need a lot of jewish movement music

Bay Area Hub | Spring 2019

Sunrise MVMT

Brucha at Shekhina (Blessed are you, divine presence throughout the physical world) who grounds me
Brucha at Shekhinah who reminds me that I know
Brucha at Shekhinah who guides me
Brucha at Shekhinah who gives me courage to let go
Brucha at Shekhinah ruach ha'olam hameikhinah mitzadei isha
(Blessed are you, Shekhina, spirit of the universe, who makes firm a woman's steps)
-Ri J. Turner

From Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook by Rabbi Jill Hammer and Kohenet Taya Shere 

Available here: http://isabellafreedman.org/store/siddur-hakohanot%3A-a-hebrew-priestess-prayerbook-rabbi-jill-hammer-and-holly-taya-shere/dp/6432

Birchot haShachar by Ri J. Turner

by Batya Levine with creative collaboration from Noam Lerman

recorded by Batya Levine & Noam Lerman
November 13, 2016

We Rise

Art by Brandon Boyd in Support of Standing Rock

Voice Memos

May I Be Empty/Full

Adapted 2016 from Chance the Rapper’s ‘Blessings’, by Momentum Trainers from Black Lives Matter, Movimiento Cosecha, IfNotNow, and more!

LYRICS: 
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.

A team of cross-movement leaders adapted “Blessings” for use by social movement organizations. Sunrise is part of an in an interconnected network building for a just world and social transformation brought together by Momentum.

A team of cross-movement leaders adapted “Blessings” for use by social movement organizations. Sunrise is part of an in an interconnected network building for a just world and social transformation brought together by Momentum.

If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Rise Up

From the Leonard Cohen song “Anthem,” 1992. 

LYRICS
Forget your perfect offering 
(Forget your perfect offering)
There is a crack in everything
(There is a crack in everything)
Just ring the bells that still can ring
(Just ring the bells that still can ring)
That’s how (that’s how)
The light (the light)
Gets in (That’s how the light gets in)

If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Light Gets In

Written by KJ SongJune in 2019 on Maui and gifted to Sunrise Movement. See http://www.kjsong.com for more. 

LYRICS: 
Count me in I’m here to lend a hand 
Count me in I’m here to protect this land 
Count me in I’m here to help make it right 
Count me in I’m here to shine a light

If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Count Me In

Sunrisers from the recording studio share why they want to be counted in for the movement.
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Sunrise Bay Area volunteer Daniel Jubelirer reading Sunrise Principle #11, We Shine Bright. 

“There are hard and sad days, to be sure. This isn’t easy work. But we strive to bring a spirit of positivity and hope to everything we do. Changing the world is a fulfilling and joyful process, and we let that show.” See more at https://www.sunrisemovement.org/principles
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Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Counted In For | Invocation

Artist: MaMuse
I learned at a MaMuse concert in August 2018.

Sung at a song circle on August 18, 2019 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Part 1:
Findin' my way (x5)
Findin' my way back home
Findin' my way (x5)
Findin' my way back home

Part 2:
Oh river
I hear you feel you callin' me
Oh river
Who will I be when I reach the sea

Part 3:
I am, I am home
I am, I am home

Finding My Way / Oh River (MaMuse)

Adapted from Bob Dylan's classic song.
Chords are G, Em, C, Am, D and briefly some funky ones I don't know the names of right before the 'the times, they are a changing' refrain

The Times They Are A-Changing, Updated

Adapted from Masters of War, by Bob Dylan.

Masters Of Coal

Adapted from There Is Power In A Union, by Billy Bragg.
Chords are G, C, and D

There Is Power In A Movement

for the trans bodies, covid bodies, black & brown bodies, disabled and chronically ill bodies, gloriously fat bodies & all the bodies that have to forge their own beautiful path to wholeness.

this body is the earth that holds my bones
this body is the air that i breathe
this body is the water flowing at the shore
this body is the path that guides me home

this body, this body, this body sets me free

This Body

Sunrise is building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We call ourselves Sunrise because we know this dark hour in America, when fossil fuel executives and climate deniers run our government, cannot last. The sun will rise again.
We have a 4-year plan to make climate action an urgent priority in every corner of the country, expose the fossil fuel executives who have purchased politicians and blocked progress, and lift up champions who will work for the people at every level of government.