Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold

• Black Liberation Community Vigil: What is Freedom and Healing for Stolen Children?

  Welcome to the cypher. Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents in New York, joins Mining For Gold to co-host this revelatory episode- Black Liberation Community Vigil: What is Freedom and Healing for Stolen Children?The Black Liberation Community are beloved comrades who have come together in a brave, sacred space over the past two years — to laugh, cry, talk shit, hold each other through the pain of losing loved one, to imagine and practice new worlds while abolishing our internalized beliefs, and loving on each other in ALL Black. This practice supports our collective healing. The Black Liberation Community is live in the cypher to publicize a vigil as a part of our duty and commitment to Stolen Children’s Month. We are joined by Edwin from Iowa, Samara from Arizona, Latoya from Arkansas and Courtney from Washington DC. In the background, America celebrates freedom and independence while carcerality reigns, and imperialism continues to inflict horrific family separation.  As you listen, you will feel the beautiful rhythm and the vibrations of the Black Liberation Community coming together to reclaim our liberated rights. To heal…to love…to commune...to challenge…and to grow.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Stolen Children's Month - The Visionary

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. We are excited to be joined by Ashley Albert for this episode, Stolen Children’s Month- The Visionary.Ashley Albert is a visionary mother, abolitionist, and founder of Stolen Children’s Month. Through Stolen Children’s Month, Ashley seeks to reclaim what has been stolen from us: our children, our joy, our lineage, and our rights to raise our babies in peace. Born into loss and raised through systems designed to break her, Ashley’s story is one of survival, power, and reclamation.This episode deeply explores Stolen Children’s Month; a call for the abolition of all systems that steal children and separate families, including the family policing, adoption, and foster industries; the ICE detention and deportation machine; and the prison-industrial complex. Throughout June, impacted leaders across the country are organizing vigils, love letter gatherings, storytelling projects, and healing circles to honor stolen children and build towards healing justice.Ashley embodies liberation and freedom. She is encouraging all of us to become the deep medicine of decolonization. Stolen Children’s Month is a rediscovery, a mourning, a dreaming, a commitment and an action. We can find our way to cultivate the change within ourselves and within our collective.  You can learn more about Stolen Children’s Month and all the ways to be involved and practice solidarity at June 2025: Stolen Children's Month. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Birthing Black- The Shared Fight

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are excited to be joined by Toshira Maldonado for this episode, Birthing Black- The Shared Fight.Toshira Maldonado is fueled by passion for Black maternal health and racial justice. She is an international birthworker, community organizer, and educator. Toshira co-founded a maternal wellness group that grew out of her church group in 2004. Today it is known as Most Beautiful W.O.M.B. Inc., (Women Overcoming Major Barriers), flourishing as a grassroots community led organization. Her professional experience with family policing in Philadelphia for over seven years added purpose to what she describes as her life mission to support women. Along with 26 years as a community birth worker, she holds four generations of holistic healing and birth keeping close to her heart. This episode explores Toshira's journey as a birthworker for freedom and liberation. Toshira's liberation is fortified by being a descendent of ancestors who birthed this nation, African spirituality, the power of communal midwifery, and healing. Toshira lives in her purpose of seeing the full humanity of Black women, and experiencing the love of people who came from generations of systemic abuse, inhumane treatment, and the legacy of enslavement.  Toshira reminds us..free people, free people...that want to see people free!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Reclaiming Humanity & Tenderness

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are blessed and honored to be joined by Dr. Resmaa Menakem for this episode, Reclaiming Humanity Tenderness.Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm shifter Resmaa Menakem, is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied anti racist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.We can't explain what you're about to listen to. Jump in with tenderness and love for the people. It is our role to tend to things. This is a time to reclaim the things we have been thinking are unclaimable. Because there's a little bit more room now. The cultivation of glue. The glue of peoplehood. To learn more about Resmaa and the Black Octopus Society, visit resmaa and Black Octopus Society.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Stay Ready For Freedom

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is blessed for the gift to be joined by BeKura Shabazz for this episode- Stay Ready For Freedom.BeKura Shabazz, a Virginia native, and a mother of four who through her challenges of taking on the system while trying to provide for her children as a single mother, learned the law to protect herself and many others navigating systems of oppression. She is the founder and President of the Injustice Reform Network.This episode illuminates BeKura’s embodied liberation and freedom. The episode uncovers the interconnectedness of carceral systems and state violence, and how that has fueled BeKura’s purpose in the revolution. Political education, legal education, community education, and learning the language of the oppressor are tactics for BeKura in organizing and movement building, as she activates and unifies people in building a new world and building nets that work. BeKura’s network is her net worth.The conversation deepens to explore the Injustice Reform Network’s pillars of criminal, family policing, environment, and housing injustice. Oppressive systems don’t narrow their scope; therefore, the vision and mission of the Injustice Reform Network can’t and won’t be narrow and siloed. Many individuals are impacted by a multitude of systems. BeKura reminds us of the need to expand our thinking and our learning.Naming injustice for the safety and protection of her people is a requirement for the way that BeKura practices justice. The level of care that comes from protecting her village is the care that cares for her.  BeKura leaves us with the most beautiful reminder---”We got work to do. If you are already ready, you won’t have to get ready!”This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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