Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)
Society & Culture
In this practice, you’ll learn how to facilitate a group game called the SINGDOWN. This exercise is designed by Jonny 5 & Brer Rabbit of Flobots to reconnect us with the power of collective song by immersing us in a lighthearted experience of collective singing. Follow along with the facilitator guide Jonny 5 wrote for us here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-WUwdQ6qQtFap00yhYWnZMpmmijJisT3ywfkSOPmNbw/edit?usp=sharing
Download the corresponding conversation (episode 19) titled “Songs for the Streets” to learn more about how this can translate into powerful songs for direct action. We talk about the role of artists in leadership, the Flobots’ late mentor Dr. Vincent Harding, the role of music in embracing and holding the range of emotions in our movements, comic books and creativity, and crafting our social justice spaces to be places that people deeply want to return to.
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ABOUT OUR GUESTS
Jonny 5 (James Laurie) & Brer Rabbit (Stephen Brackett) are Denver-based MCs that make up the band Flobots, as well as educators and community leaders. Their recent album, NO ENEMIES, is influenced by stories shared by their longtime mentor and Southern Freedom Movement historian and professor the late Dr. Vincent Harding, and inspired by their grassroots work hosting workshops, classes and keynote speeches about using collective song to build social movements. More at http://www.flobots.com/
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Editing by Yoshi Fields
Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM
Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien
All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning
Campaign Workers, Unite! There is Power in a Union (with Meg Reilly of Campaign Workers Guild & Shanequa Charles)
Building Transformative Campaign Culture with Nancy Leeds (CampaignSick) and Becca Rast (Jess King for Congress)
Elections vs. Movements: a strategy showdown with Sunrise (Varshini Prakash & Will Lawrence)
Surviving Elections: a new miniseries on midterms, movements, & staying human
Practice: Radical Gratitude Spell (by adrienne maree brown, read by Fhatima Paulino)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 3: Visioning the Future (Marcia Lee, Zach Meyer & Kate Werning)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 2: The Power of Practice (Justin Campbell & Kate Werning)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 1: Vulnerability & Voice (Jacoby Ballard & Kate Werning)
34 Trauma, Healing, & Collective Power with generative somatics (Spenta Kandawalla, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, & Staci K. Haines)
33 Practice: Centering Prayer with Mystic Soul (Alexis Francisco & Cicia Lee)
33 Contemplative Activism -- Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, & Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul
32 Practice: Relational Inclusion with Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising
32 Bridging Complexity Collectively -- Relational Uprising (Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman)
31 Practice: Heart Over Head with Teo Drake
31 Intention & Impact: Showing Up Right-Sized -- Teo Drake
30 Practice: Sing for Freedom with Resistance Revival Chorus' Abena Koomson Davis
30 Joy as an Act of Resistance -- Resistance Revival Chorus (Sarah Sophie Flicker & Meah Pace)
29 Practice: Reclaiming Our Names with AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez of Mystic Soul
29 Indigenous Reclamation -- Mystic Soul (AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, Ra Mendoza, & Teresa P Mateus)
28 Practice: Essences for Everybody... Making Your Own Medicine with Dori Midnight
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