https://www.aysegursoz.com/overview daily 1.0 2026-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/df6bd8f1-e0fc-4754-ba6f-5b0e0611d66a/L1130490.jpg Overview Lima, Peru – Lourdes Esther Huanca Atencio, Indigenous rights activist and the founder of the National Federation of Female Peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Workers of Perú. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a7578daf-eac2-4b37-baeb-ed2d147ef666/DJI_20240307213247_0415_D.jpg Overview Wainunu Bay, Fiji – A view from drone of a Wainunu Bay village that is fighting to protect their waterways from industrial agriculture projects threatening ocean wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7e2378df-5df7-4ff8-a36d-11ae7ab9023b/Ayse_Gursoz_02_WaterProtectors.jpg Overview Cold, Lake, Canada – Snutetkwe Manuel, pictured with her daughter, of the Tiny House Warriors, e a group of Secwepemc land and water defenders who are on a mission to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline from crossing unceded Secwepemc Territory. Their ten tiny houses are placed strategically along the 518 km Trans Mountain pipeline route to assert Secwepemc Law and jurisdiction and block access to this pipeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/803f2550-e1fd-41eb-9ff2-7ab38253fa6f/L1090439.jpg Overview Wild Coast, South Africa – Human rights activist, Nonhle Mbuthuma at South Africa's Eastern Cape. Nonhle's organization Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) has protected Xolobeni's ancestral lands on South Africa's Wild Coast from destructive titanium mining and corporate exploitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/968fd308-dc22-4417-925b-8836fa9f6a62/1v5a5590_orig.jpeg Overview Oakland, Ca – brontë velez, founder of Lead 2 Life, utilizes art, ecological restoration, and ceremony to transform instruments of violence (like surrendered firearms) into shovels and arbors for community tree-plantings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ea189a89-456b-45b8-8675-9cf162b5cffd/L1030047.jpg Overview São Paulo, Brazil – Portrait of Zenaida, the Vice President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Ecuador's largest indigenous rights organization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/42ce33e6-68d0-49d7-93ab-853009e27954/DSC00638.jpg Overview Cordova, Alaska – Dune Lankard (Eyak) guides us through the rapidly melting Sheriden Glacier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/4def7e3f-bd2f-4372-8939-920783d06595/TUN00793.JPG Overview Gilgil, Kenya – Johnson shares the physical toll of exposure to agricultural pesticides, documenting the tumor on his face and rashes on his legs. Living with cancer, he hopes his story will encourage other smallholder farmers to carefully consider the risks associated with chemically intensive farming systems promoted alongside genetically modified seeds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ba6342ce-9cf3-4f9a-8b3e-3089d72ad872/ayse-gursoz-06631_orig.jpeg Overview Madrid, Spain – Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca) embraces Bineshi Albert (Anishinaabe) at a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women rally in Madrid, Spain outside the UN COP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/afbb8ad8-6759-4a81-9de3-9ac268d13c72/L1120134.jpg Overview Namosi Province, Fiji – Toma Damudamu, a member of Namosi village who is standing up against the proposed dam and mining project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/328e2e57-d00b-473f-933d-f78edb7a2868/20251012-L1140609.jpg Overview Portland, OR – Portrait of Switch, an activist in Portland Oregon. Assignment for Swiss-based WOZ Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/eead73ca-0222-434b-a62e-897b5b9db25e/img-6833_orig.jpeg Overview Oakland, California – Joey Montoya, founder of Urban Native Era. Oakland, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/925fc6f2-dbaf-4907-94bb-2023cdd8daba/TUN05714.jpg Overview Sousse, TunisiaPortrait of elder and granddaughter at the New Media, a cultural heritage center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/10f71a54-0e67-4e7a-a3fc-54950d5c460d/20240210-BAL01960-1+Edit.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Pratheep Rakhanthong (often spelled Prateeb) is a prominent land rights defender and a founding member of the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT). Operating primarily in Surat Thani province, he and the SPFT advocate for landless small-scale farmers fighting to reclaim degraded or illegally occupied corporate palm oil plantations to establish community-run sustainable food forests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ab924271-42bb-488b-a2ed-d93921be28a3/20240210-BAL01825.jpg Overview [Surat Thani, Thailand] Pratheep Rakhanthong (often spelled Prateeb) is a prominent land rights defender and a founding member of the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT). Operating primarily in Surat Thani province, he and the SPFT advocate for landless small-scale farmers fighting to reclaim degraded or illegally occupied corporate palm oil plantations to establish community-run sustainable food forests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ae271c89-591c-473b-961f-884954d8cee4/BAL09038.jpg Overview Bali, Indonesia – A participatory mapping initiative led by AMAN has documented more than 32 million hectares of Indigenous territories across Indonesia. By working to register these maps in the national database, AMAN helps protect ancestral lands from encroachment while advancing formal government recognition of Indigenous territories and the communities' rights to steward them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b1eac42e-353f-44b1-8579-d9a53df77bca/L1100667.jpg Overview Bonao, Dominican Republic – Esther Girón, prominent Afro-feminist attorney, community organizer, and co-founder of Aquelarre RD (and Aquelarre Bonao) in the Dominican Republic. She advocates for reproductive rights, human rights, and sustainable local livelihoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/9b2c8a8c-602e-4459-85a4-2daa509fb33a/Indigenous+Leaders+III+Stamp+400P+Mandamin.jpg Overview Canadian postage stamp collaboration featuring a portrait of Josephine Mandamin (Anishinaabe), who is known as "The Water Walker." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/247f39d7-d60b-4282-a533-c86a03e8144f/L1090749+%281%29.jpg Overview Wild Coast, South Africa – Human rights activist, Nonhle Mbuthuma at South Africa's Eastern Cape. Nonhle's organization Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) has protected Xolobeni's ancestral lands on South Africa's Wild Coast from destructive titanium mining and corporate exploitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/4d27df6e-1064-4527-bb5d-fcb4b594a1ce/L1060789.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Choosri Olarkit, Committee Member of the Women's Articulation of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0a116559-433a-45e5-840a-04832a120409/1V5A1671-2.jpg Overview Washington, D.C. – Kandi Mossett (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara), Native Energy and Climate Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), has emerged as a leading voice in the fight against environmental racism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/1689322a-10bb-49de-9ab9-71fbbe76a964/ayse-gursoz-06615-orig_orig+%282%29.jpeg Overview Madrid, Spain – Niria Alicia Garcia, Xicana environmental activist at a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women rally in Madrid, Spain outside the UN COP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b841502a-ce9e-4680-9664-2e0476a645ea/L1020656.jpg Overview <Sao Paulo, Brazil – Lourdes Esther Huanca Atencio, Indigenous rights activist and the founder of the National Federation of Female Peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Workers of Perú. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/edb4b471-d4bd-424a-8885-ca5076d6eaaa/L1130220.jpg Overview Ollantaytambo, Peru – Members of the National Federation of Female Peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Workers of Perú process large Incan corn, choclo or Cuzco giant white corn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a0fe0e84-736c-42f1-890e-7e0c827f0e49/BAL09298-2.jpg Overview Bali, Indonesia – Gusti Mangku Rupa, the leader of Catur Customary Village in Bali, Indonesia. His community's coffee farm employs traditional agricultural practices to restore the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/e63678fe-e8e2-408c-98d5-f740a3f96f41/Redfeather+%281%29.jpg Overview Standing Rock, South Dakota – Helen "Granny" Redfeather at Standing Rock, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/532de7af-5494-45a5-8326-f1b4421c83d1/dji-0065_orig.jpeg Overview Cordova, Alaska – Drone view of the rapidly melting Sheriden Glacier in Cordova, Alaska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/9c45f65e-78bf-4c84-a93e-d6a67946ee31/1v5a5537_orig.jpeg Overview Oakland, California – Stormy Saint-Val, member of Lead 2 Life, a group that utilizes art, ecological restoration, and ceremony to transform instruments of violence (like surrendered firearms) into shovels and arbors for community tree-plantings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/652e1902-511b-4bb1-b9da-414b4ced251c/FB4BC076-3F5C-43B0-AA48-C62AEA776A10.JPG Overview Bali, Indonesia – Members of the Catur Customary Village in Bali Indonesia at a meeting discussing their coffee farm which is restoring the land through traditional agricultural practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/29558183-1f68-4e6d-a5ea-754f4a360556/L1090762.jpg Overview Xolobeni, South Africa – Father of Human rights activist, Nonhle Mbuthuma, at South Africa's Eastern Cape in from of his homestead. His daughter has protected Xolobeni's ancestral lands on South Africa's Wild Coast from destructive titanium mining and corporate exploitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/9c09d94d-ef83-4fbe-8080-0a37a4da1b93/20240210-BAL01712.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Choosri Olarkit, Committee Member of the Women's Articulation of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand holds turmeric grown from their farm. A symbol for remediating land devastated by monocropped palm oil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7b70247c-4d7b-4ae0-a46a-9dc86ea0559e/L1070023.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Choosri Olarkit, Committee Member of the Women's Articulation of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand on the way to their food forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a79d973e-8fd1-44d4-a5fa-1a5502b325df/L1110959.jpg Overview Nadivakarua Bay, Fiji – Farmer and member of the Social Empowerment Education Program (SEEP) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7eb1658a-8960-4718-ba84-5fce7f0cddca/TUN08297.jpg Overview Sousse, Tunisia – Habib, one of the last doormakers in Sousse stands inside his woordshop and studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/4b086cc7-1126-42d5-92ee-ba4ea0a26446/TUN08464.jpg Overview Sousse, Tunisia – Habib, one of the last doormakers in Sousse Tunisia poses with his granddaughter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/86221eb7-d34a-4de5-9ba3-b32f2bf61515/20240210-BAL01767.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Next-generation youth leader within the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT). They advocate for land rights, agroecology, and community self-governance against illegal palm oil corporate land grabs in Surat Thani Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/27c21b59-3c1e-4923-91fa-4532c75e3f56/DJI_20231016141042_0022_D.JPG Overview Bali, Indonesia – View of the Tenganan village rice fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ba3a5fcf-8774-41d2-b74e-640553ae35ff/ayse.gursoz-0052.jpg Overview Cordova, Alaska – Drone view of the rapidly melting Sheriden Glacier in Cordova, Alaska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/8b0a92d5-6eda-4b1b-a1eb-546bc6456737/TUN04484.jpg Overview Cordova, Alaska – Dune Lankard, founder of Native Conservancy has helped protect more than one million acres of coastline in the Gulf of Alaska while advancing Native stewardship and community resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/6aa5f2cb-9840-4add-b49e-f0084d8ecfef/turkey-21.jpg Overview Mardin, Turkiye – Sevkit, one of the last remaining porters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/651c5251-eff5-46c3-8334-8f114673b4f4/TUN00174.jpg Overview Portland, OR – Zion Arberry-Baribeault and her mother, Arjorie, who used to live in West Eugene, Oregon, stand for a portrait near their current home in Portland. Arberry-Baribeault got involved in Beyond Toxics after her friend’s son’s cancer diagnosis. Now, she’s the environmental watchdog’s community organizer for West Eugene, also called Bethel, helping residents understand what’s going on in their backyards and explaining how to contact city leaders and join community information and advocacy meetings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0c944a32-963c-43e0-b5da-b65aafcad696/L1130203.jpg Overview Ollantaytambo, Peru – Members of the National Federation of Female Peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Workers of Perú process large Incan corn, choclo or Cuzco giant white corn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/39507aca-f4ce-4b18-9ceb-1feddf931d10/L1120784.jpg Overview Ayacucho, Peru – Children playing on a makeshift basketball hoop. Members of The National Network of Women in Family Farming (RENAF), a network of rural, peasant, and indigenous women's organizations from regions such as Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Puno, feed children in the community through food sovereignty efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b88e653a-91b2-49cc-8944-84c9a8d598cd/20241108-L1030862.jpg Overview Niaguis, Senegal – Members of Nous Sommes La Solution (translated as “We Are the Solution”) is a major women-led grassroots movement and NGO in West Africa. It promotes family farming, agroecology, and food sovereignty by empowering rural women who lead traditional agricultural resource management and local food production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/1c70fadc-667a-438d-8551-b003bff15c01/20240210-BAL01797.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Pai, Leader of Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT). They advocate for land rights, agroecology, and community self-governance against illegal palm oil corporate land grabs in Surat Thani Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/d73faf12-71a3-4aff-b156-cabb1fcea3e2/L1110938.jpg Overview Vuanu Levu, Fiji – Portrait of elder who is anti-mining from Nakorovoi village https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3ec2abf5-8f3e-4969-97e9-00524a7a4723/20240210-BAL01928.jpg Overview Surat Thani, Thailand – Preeda Panmuang, Women's committee member of Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT). They advocate for land rights, agroecology, and community self-governance against illegal palm oil corporate land grabs in Surat Thani Province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3abe2b79-55d8-4953-a6e8-de1a4c264f88/untitled-00217.jpg Overview Portland, OR – Portrait of Hannes Wingate, land artist, place maker and creative director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a02dffb3-841c-4c1c-b6cd-1be2add783cb/L1120557.jpg Overview Ayacucho, Peru – Heirloom corn from farm in Cuzco highland region of Peru, grown by members of the National Network of Women in Family Farming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/80408cf6-76e5-462c-a5d6-151acf4a7e09/51670094926_d2401ce1fe_4k.jpg Overview [Glasgow, Scotland] A member of Amazon Watch outside a rally protesting Chase Bank for it's financing of fossil fuel mega-projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/d2967f92-248f-4426-81d7-12dc33e1fe3e/1v5a4723_1_orig.jpeg Overview [Standing Rock, South Dakota] Jackie Fielder is an American politician, educator, and activist serving as the member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 9, representing neighborhoods like the Mission, Bernal Heights, and Portola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7beef9d7-6056-452a-b4ab-29db5199c8cd/69480119_10107826819253303_3171512234866114560_n+%281%29.jpg Overview [San Francisco, CA] Niria Garcia and Xiomára lead a protest outside BlackRock, urging the private equity firm to stop making the climate crisis worse with its investments in fossil fuels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/f33a357b-807a-4a83-bef0-eaf74b7bfae7/1v5a0045_1_orig.jpeg Overview [Standing Rock, South Dakota] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7dfdd093-9677-426f-92f0-b3b63784d019/L1040296.jpg Overview [Niaguis, Senegal] Members of Nous Sommes La Solution (translated as “We Are the Solution”) is a major women-led grassroots movement and NGO in West Africa. It promotes family farming, agroecology, and food sovereignty by empowering rural women who lead traditional agricultural resource management and local food production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/e55eecb1-6268-404d-a8a3-d0e3205bd99e/TUN00751.JPG Overview [Baringo County, Kenya] Christine, a farmer and member of the Seed Savers Network holds seeds from her farm stored in a traditional method that can keep seeds viable more than 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/5fb952ac-6d8f-4e9e-8387-526dcca062ed/20240210-BAL01630.jpg Overview [Surat Thani, Thailand] A member of the Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand demonstrates the difficulty of removing oil palm trees left behind by a former plantation. Monoculture oil palm plantations can degrade soil health and biodiversity, and their extensive root systems make them difficult to fully remove during land restoration efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/80992d01-8838-49bf-a999-573b60e877e7/L1110517.jpg Overview [Laselavu Village, Fiji] It takes a long and challenging journey for farmers to bring their crops from remote villages to market. For the community in Laselavu Village, the trip begins with a boat crossing before continuing along rough roads for hours. The Social Empowerment and Education Programme (SEEP) supports farmers by helping transport their produce to market, advocating for improved road infrastructure, and securing market stalls where communities can sell their harvest directly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/4939651b-dc47-482a-a224-15038571f1a1/20241108-L1040325.jpg Overview An elderly woman wearing traditional African clothing, including a white and red patterned dress, a colorful yellow and blue scarf, and a headwrap, stands outdoors in a grassy area with trees in the background, holding a walking stick and looking at the camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/944d3fa7-5404-472d-b4bf-db8155e8f753/L1070600+%281%29.jpg Overview [Surat Thani, Thailand] Choosri Olarkit, Committee Member of the Women's Articulation of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b9865eaa-80f2-4a8f-b854-7b176a7f41d5/51670094536_06eb493383_o.jpg Overview [Glasgow, Scotland] A member of Amazon Watch outside a rally protesting Chase Bank for it's financing of fossil fuel mega-projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/25774d5e-a242-4e98-a38f-a292df95dd21/L1120632.jpg Overview [Ayacucho, Peru] A member of the National Network of Women in Family Farming (RENAF) peers into one of the fitotoldos they've constructed. These are handmade greenhouse shelters that protect crops in high-altitude climates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/6c771288-c6ec-465d-b8ad-5ecc0bb2fab6/L1120949.jpg Overview [Ayacucho, Peru] A member of the National Network of Women in Family Farming (RENAF) shares greens from the fitotoldos she's constructed. These are handmade greenhouse shelters that protect crops in high-altitude climates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a4be99ab-58f3-4757-b38b-fd5e9010c33c/L1120697.jpg Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/cebe1f7e-78d1-4fa4-a4c1-354cb1a03f8c/20241109-L1040994.jpg Overview [Niaguis, Senegal] Mariama, founder of Nous Sommes La Solution (translated as “We Are the Solution”) is a major women-led grassroots movement and NGO in West Africa. It promotes family farming, agroecology, and food sovereignty by empowering rural women who lead traditional agricultural resource management and local food production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/19e55cce-6850-4576-b55c-926de94f10d5/L1130370.jpg Overview [Ollantaytambo, Peru] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b19bbe09-d9ef-463c-99a5-579518b753ef/TUN07640.JPG Overview [Sousse, Tunisia] Community portraits during my residency at The New Medina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/e27245ef-4505-4df4-9d16-752e86c3f9e9/1V5A6108.jpg Overview [Oakland, Ca] Spiritual workers surround a robust altar, smoke wafting upward, as they cleanse surrendered guns before they are melted down and turned into shovels by Lead to Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0a20d8da-8bff-459e-be66-bf20752f8837/mark1_orig.jpeg Overview [Oakland, CA] Portrait of poet Mark Tilsen (Lakota) for his poetry book on Standing Rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/1659739270680-W2IUCLA3V1MO0LBGWFD7/1V5A0042+2.jpg Overview [Standing Rock, South Dakota] Sign posts of tribal nations that have visited the Standing Rock encampment to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/f6c802d3-0aa4-4f9c-9215-bed12b694f6f/leroy-2_orig.jpeg Overview [Montana] Leroy Comes Last (Lakota Sioux): “We will never have world peace until we go back to the matriarchy way.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/d30abdb1-6259-4379-a53a-5d594108ee7d/img-0527_orig.jpeg Overview [Lower Brule, South Dakota] Charles Pretty Sounding Flute says "I’m just an Ikce Wicasa, a common man. It’s the highest honor to be Ikce Wicasa, because it means you give yourself to your people. That’s the way I was raised, and I feel fortunate to be raised that way. It’s a life long-learning process." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7aaef998-d70e-467a-9447-45a77709e604/bw-awake-ag-photos-34_1_orig.jpeg Overview [Standing Rock, South Dakota] Members of the camp unload a batch of firewood that came in as a gift to the Standing Rock encampment to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/27b14a4b-0bac-455a-89d0-3f673e48a763/1v5a8157-2_1_orig.jpeg Overview [Oakland, CA] Katie Loncke, co-founder of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0a254a2b-081e-4514-8c94-d06db168e895/CADENCE.jpeg Overview [Sunriver, Oregon] Model Cadence at a shoot in Sunriver, Oregon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/f8c530bb-4059-4378-8a1a-375e37cc3869/DSC08790.jpg Overview [Cordova, Alaska] Sea otter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/34d6935f-e8ed-434b-b772-cab689d84c83/BAL09757.jpg Overview [Bali, Insonesia] Pura Tirta Empul (Holy Spring Temple), located in Tampaksiring near Ubud. Built in 926 AD, it features crystal-clear natural springs where worshippers and visitors undergo Melukat, a sacred purification ritual to cleanse the mind, body, and spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/39493ed7-b075-41d0-823b-388a85f245ca/L1110165.jpg Overview [Namosi Village, Fiji] A view of the community and lands that would be threatened by a proposed open-pit gold mining project in Namosi province. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/b849a486-36d6-4602-86c5-a8a5e627755c/20250515-L1120123.jpg Overview [Namosi Village, Fiji] Two kids from the Namosi village play in the river that would be threatened by a proposed gold mining project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/de301e4a-f688-4739-9959-7804e09c60a0/L1060800.jpg Overview [Surat Thani, Thailand] Choosri Olarkit, Committee Member of the Women's Articulation of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/d79677f5-6b95-478f-ab20-fbe4e4da2137/107E7FBC-F98C-4D47-9A83-8CABC565BF77.png Overview - Visual Storytelling for Social Impact Ayse is a photographer, producer, and cinematographer. 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Dancers from local Oakland African diasporic folkloric group Oya Nike dressing one another before the gun-melting ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7afce16c-a2a1-4ba2-a35a-38e4682c5cdc/1V5A5648.jpg Lead to Life This little one came up to brontë from the Lead to Life team with their mother as they were prepping for the ceremony and said they wanted to be a part and asked how could they get involved. They got painted as Eleggua (the orisha that opens the way for the prayers to enter so that the other orishas may hear them, the trickster that allows aché to move where it must), learned the “Ancestors watching” chant immediately and joined the brilliant children from Abundant Beginnings, radical Oakland community education program to open this beautiful evening processing candles to the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ae9d95a0-fbfb-4b2b-a594-05d8d7a6b1a6/1V5A5660.jpg Lead to Life Dancers from local Oakland African diasporic folkloric group Oya Nike dressing one another before the gun-melting ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a90ab6a9-f7f9-4ebd-9d2d-a931d6af4ee7/1V5A5687.jpg Lead to Life Folks present for the ceremony give offerings to the community altar. Present in the photo is also Ra Imhotep, co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought whose pedagogy deeply informs our practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/f4d31d1f-1bdc-4850-ba30-7bc1f81f02fc/1V5A5693.jpg Lead to Life Guest of ceremony offers cedar to the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7f0dbf48-9dda-49d6-8db6-3d78672bffe7/1V5A5711.jpg Lead to Life Community altar that folks present at ceremony could contribute to. Offerings to Ogun were laid down at the altar. They honored "plantcestors" who were traumatized during slavery (indigo, rice, sugar, tobacco). They honored the black ancestors’ labor and dreams who brought us to this moment in their practice (Dr. King, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells). They honored those we have lost to gun violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/23630670-0b9c-4aed-b90f-607c4c6be8bd/1V5A5716.jpg Lead to Life Rep from United Playaz shows love at the altar wearing their motto “It Takes The Hood to Save the Hood.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/52e0fc2a-83dd-4bc7-a203-bfa006e10524/1V5A5719.jpg Lead to Life Representative from United Playaz places down an offering at the community altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/adb57e57-56be-49c6-b016-94918a321577/1V5A5724.jpg Lead to Life Members of Thrive Choir and Lead to Life offer song to open ceremony (Kyle Lemle, Jiordi Rosales) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/1af05c93-daa7-4e1f-b054-41c17e76fc6d/1V5A5729.jpg Lead to Life Kele Nitoto from Thrive Choir offering song during the ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3240347f-455e-469d-aae3-917f4a99d531/1V5A5738.jpg Lead to Life View of those present for the ceremony at Oakland City Hall. Reps from United Playaz take their seat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/60788ad1-c333-4ea8-ad87-6d820620c332/1V5A5757.jpg Lead to Life Lead to Life team (brontë, jazmín, and Liz) & the co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought (Ra Imhotep) gather together at the altar to prepare their voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a873e7d1-9775-4e9d-9e66-6895d70fc21e/1V5A5781.jpg Lead to Life The young elders from Abundant Beginnings, radical Oakland education program for youth, opened the ceremony singing “Ancestors watching, I know they’re watching, Ancestors watching, I know, I know” and processed candles to the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/7534eedf-dbde-4f81-8001-ae4a4d9e016b/1V5A5798.jpg Lead to Life Dancers from Oya Nike open ceremony in dance, praise, and offering to Elegua for the community's prayers to be carried through. They dance with Lead to Life’s shovels made from guns to bring them to the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/ef2646fc-1dd2-4ec0-9776-6c87c6b03953/1V5A5825.jpg Lead to Life Dancers from Oya Nike open ceremony in dance, praise, and offering to Elegua for the community's prayers to be carried through. They dance with Lead to Life’s shovels made from guns to bring them to the altar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/bbaeba6f-2734-4b6b-8ebe-05be15e5cba5/1V5A5924.jpg Lead to Life Guest of ceremony practicing tactical urbanism brought a projector to display #ReclaimMLK onto Oakland City Hall along with MLK quotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3f2183b4-035e-4bdc-ba35-f09617762978/1V5A5929.jpg Lead to Life Lead metal casting artist Jim Brenner and local Oakalnd metal artists (Ivan Berejkoff, Kailas Rajan, Cassandra Kise, Christopher Keating, Kyle Milligan and Kim Ayotte) preparing crucible for gun melting ceremony in front of Oakland City Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/c6f0c344-c6ea-472c-a1d0-5fffb3e096cb/1V5A5930.jpg Lead to Life Singers and drummers from African diasporic folkloric group Oya Nike play to open the ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/682a9493-6026-4568-bf78-6affe19ffb54/1V5A5933.jpg Lead to Life Lead metal casting artist Jim Brenner prepares the crucible to melt guns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/a8929cf1-c50d-44bd-996e-4ce9cf3d79c7/1V5A5949.jpg Lead to Life Jennifer Johns opens the ceremony powerfully in song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/db0bc93c-779b-4693-9875-1c2bdbbd5cf1/1V5A5957.jpg Lead to Life Brenda Salgado, director of East Bay Meditation Center, offers opening blessing and a land acknowledgment to presence that we are in occupied Ohlone territory and to ensure we open with the prayer and intention of being in right relationship to the original people of this land. She reads a statement from Corrina Gould, Co-Founder of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Indian People Organizing for Change, who could not be present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3c8c3cdf-27ba-4696-9d9a-2ab166395261/1V5A5968.jpg Lead to Life Konda Mason, co-founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland, pours libations as an offering to open the ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0a204e93-4fad-49c4-85a5-f92f0f7d31b2/1V5A6034.jpg Lead to Life Ra Imhotep, co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought offers opening statements regarding situating Dr. King’s work in the lineage of black feminists who made his work possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/e9ebedd9-ca36-40f1-a482-0d45babd3649/1V5A6037.jpg Lead to Life Ra Imhotep, co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought offers opening statements regarding situating Dr. King’s work in the lineage of black feminists who made his work possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/4439b388-a39e-4092-80b5-6c9b2852a348/1V5A6041.jpg Lead to Life Before Lead to Life and The Church of Black Feminist Thought recite a prophecy together, brontë from Lead to Life shares about Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Black Feminist Breathing Chorus practice and dedicates their prophecy to Marielle Franco, the Afro-Brazilian lesbian city councilwoman and activist who was assassinated in Brazil last year by the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/efe9b286-78cd-441d-85da-19b3df5a8f33/1V5A6057.jpg Lead to Life Folks from the Lead to Life team (brontë, jazmín, and Liz) & the co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought (Ra Imhotep) recite an afro-futurist prophecy together written by brontë on ecologizing black liberation, decomposing white supremacy and the future of climate justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/846a320f-5887-45d8-9284-7d4953b1bce4/1V5A6065.jpg Lead to Life Folks from the Lead to Life team (brontë, jazmín, and Liz) & the co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought (Ra Imhotep) recite an afro-futurist prophecy together written by brontë on ecologizing black liberation, decomposing white supremacy and the future of climate justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/c576006f-8dc7-4c06-843b-ea523f4b2131/1V5A6077.jpg Lead to Life Folks from the Lead to Life team (brontë, jazmín, and Liz) & the co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought (Ra Imhotep) recite an afro-futurist prophecy together written by brontë on ecologizing black liberation, decomposing white supremacy and the future of climate justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/5377f591-e7a4-483d-a5fe-0166a32a711f/1V5A6081.jpg Lead to Life Folks from the Lead to Life team (brontë, jazmín, and Liz) & the co-founder and co-convener of The Church of Black Feminist Thought (Ra Imhotep) recite an afro-futurist prophecy together written by brontë on ecologizing black liberation, decomposing white supremacy and the future of climate justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/e27245ef-4505-4df4-9d16-752e86c3f9e9/1V5A6108.jpg Lead to Life Dancers from Oya Nike wash guns in water and bless them with plants, smudge, and alcohol before they are processed to the furnace by folks impacted by gun violence in the community to be transformed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/46c5d0f2-6d3f-456c-a353-9491d59788d5/1V5A6167.jpg Lead to Life Pati Navalta Poblete, Editor-in-Chief of San Francisco Magazine and founder of The Robby Poblete Foundation, shares about creating her foundation in honor of her son Robby who was killed by gun violence and how she is reimagining a world without violence through her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/6a811dab-a7b4-43c7-b386-d0f0fdbd8488/1V5A6173.jpg Lead to Life David Monroe, Program Coordinator at United Playaz shares with us his story as a previous perpetrator of gun violence and the path of redemption, healing and transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3f9434ca-486e-41f2-ac36-6948f705f62a/1V5A6180.jpg Lead to Life Dancer from African diasporic folkloric group Oya Nike holds space with lantern as Pati Navalta and members from United Playaz process to the crucible to offer a gun to be melted and transformed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/250ee8fc-4d8a-41b7-85eb-95ff5f9e7b11/1V5A6201.jpg Lead to Life David Monroe, program coordinator of United Playaz, invites everyone present from United Playa to join him down at the altar to reflect how many lives have been transformed by their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/81ba98fe-b6ac-4c72-b95c-6bec87690d1b/1V5A6204.jpg Lead to Life Thrive Choir & Jennifer Johns offer a song as the first gun is brought to the crucible to be transformed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/8b088938-9cca-44c4-9683-c31447a45287/1V5A6247.jpg Lead to Life Lead metal casting artist Jim Brenner and accompanying local Oakland metal artists pour molten gun metal into molds that reflect the stars above Oscar Grant the evening he was murdered 10 years prior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/3c5f261d-4e73-43a1-b5d4-d19c80acc675/1V5A6281.jpg Lead to Life Yolanda Banks-Reed, founder of Mothers Fight Back, mother of Sahleem Tindle who was shot and killed by police in Oakland in 2018, shares her and Sahleem’s story and offers a song and prayer to protect the children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0477d7c8-db99-4492-9c4f-a320145135d2/1V5A6285.jpg Lead to Life Barbara Doss, mother of DuJuan Armstrong, who was killed by authorities in Santa Rita Jail in 2018 shares her and DuJuan’s story along with a call to end violence and a request for support for advocacy and for redistributing grief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/679106d9-66ad-4367-a680-07ac6c774803/1V5A6300.jpg Lead to Life Cat Brooks, founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, offers a prophecy for Oakland without state and economic violence, an Oakland where all black people are housed, an Oakland where all black people are safe, well & free. She stands alongside Turha AK also repping APTP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/099d209c-5103-4f39-bf75-c53ba5e469f2/1V5A6302.jpg Lead to Life Cat Brooks, founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, offers a prophecy for Oakland without state and economic violence, an Oakland where all black people are housed, an Oakland where all black people are safe, well & free. She stands alongside Turha AK also repping APTP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/fc23a0ff-f4fd-4f62-9bf2-c2cfe0653433/1V5A6314.jpg Lead to Life Brenda Grisham, mother of Christopher Lavell Jones shares her and Christopher’s story. Christopher who was killed in 2010 by gun violence. Her request to the community was to support the redistribution of grief when we lose children in our community and to keep the families who have lost their children to gun violence in our prayers. She also offered up her visions for an Oakland without a gun violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/0ab89975-fc92-4df3-8a5b-ad4fe10cda05/1V5A6342.jpg Lead to Life Guests of ceremony are led into a community pledge by Turha AK from Anti Police-Terror Project to commit to finding what their gifts are and how they will weaponize them on behalf of the people because “The People are the Power.” He invites us to wield the ceremony as energy towards a call-to-action to interrupt and end the oppressions imparted by white supremacy and state violence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628f14e5437e577eb3f9b4d1/dc02a6c6-ef22-461b-a709-b8948407e899/1V5A6419.jpg Lead to Life Lead to Life team and curators/producers of the ceremony offer their gratitude to the community for all the beautiful work it put it into make this dream come to life! 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