Grounded Futures Show

Episode 22

Dreaming a Future — with carla and Uli

Delighting in our Friends!

Uli and carla spend episode 22 delighting in pals, AKA celebrating awesome artists, storytellers, and musicians who range in ages 3 – 63. This is an uplifting episode where they share wonderful songs, swoon over friends, and weave in other musings — including how they each find thriving in the everyday!

Show Notes

Other Music played:

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

The GF Show art by Robin Carrico

Sound Editing by Chris Bergman

Thanks for listening!

Lyrics for I’m Still Here (U.S. Political Prisoner Never Forgotten version)

[scott crow, Dissonance]

I’m still here

These song notes are kite notes

Fire blinking, spelling love in Morse code

Floating between bars with messages of life boats

No more pipelines, the pipe broke

We melted every cage into a key until our mouths could recite hope

[Time]

He said when it rains he pretends the cement is the smell of wet stone

he said i want my grandkids to find fossils of prisons smelling sour

like dead bones

The moon bowed to the birdsong morning

I’m trying to find god in an octave I’m still exploring

I mailed you libraries they threw em in the trash

The warden took your freedom but couldn’t shackle your laugh

That’s not dew, the prison grass is crying

The weeds that grow through the cracks is freedom trying

Birds drop seeds in the prison yard

Growing gardens of hope conspiring in the dark

The vines make a ladder and drape the barbwire

A crow flies overhead and drops a lighter

Orange reflects from her eye the image is fire

The ash swirls like a galaxy the stars wink and admire

He said “They will never be able to break me”

Turns out that’s what broke the bars I’ve been reflecting on that lately

He said “I was dedicated to building things, not tearing them down”

He said “If you can breathe you can get through anything” I’m hearing him now

[scott crow, Dissonance]

I’m still here

[Herman Wallace]

A defined voice

They removed my whisper

From general population to maximum security

I gain a voice

They removed my voice from maximum security

To administrative segregation

My voice gave hope

They removed my voice from administrative segregation

To solitary confinement

My voice became vibration for unity

They removed by voice from solitary confinement

To the supermax of Camp J

And now they wish to destroy me

The louder my voice

The deeper they bury me

I said, the louder my voice

The deeper they bury me

Free all political prisoners

Prisoners of war

Prisoners of consciousness

Herman Wallace, Angola 3

[scott crow, Dissonance]

I’m still here

[Time]

This is for:

Herman Wallace

Russell Maroon Shoatz

Marilyn Buck

Alvaro Luna-Hernandez

Iya Fulani Sunni-Ali

Romaine Chip Fitzgerald

Afeni Shakur

Delbert Africa

Safiya Asya Bukhari

Richard Mafundi Lake

Oscar Washington

Luis Rodriguez

Mondo We Langa

Phil Africa

Brian McCarvill

Hugo Yogi Bear Pinell

Geronimo Ji Jaga

William Lefty Gilday

Alan Berkman

Eddie Hatcher

Bashir Hameed

Robert Hillary King

Merle Africa

Kuwasi Balagoon

Robert Webb

Tom Manning

and

Albert Woodfox

[scott crow]

Dream of future, know your history

Organize your people, fight to win

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About the Show

The Grounded Futures Show is hosted by carla joy bergman and Uilliam Joy.

Uilliam and carla discuss topics that are important to our collective survival and thrival… They also dig into ways youth (and anyone really) can gain new skills to thrive amid current and ongoing disasters. The third season’s meta theme is all about Trust, trust in ourselves, trust in our work and art, and trust in each other. The show will take a deep dive on these issues, and be in conversations with incredible guests. We are a Gen-X and a Gen-Z, and we are keen on tearing down the walls between generations together and on our show!

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

The GF Show art by Robin Carrico