Emergent wisdom is where we explore current events and the challenges of the human experience through a (somewhat) metamodern lens of ecology, system thinking, poetry, and relatable mysticism. This podcast is for you if you are ready to go from emergency to emergence and turn your life into a joyful ride toward collective liberation.
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The ELC is a podcast about embodiment as a primary vehicle for personal healing, liberation from oppression, and ancestral trauma. Hosted by T. Aisha Edwards, Kaila June, and Chris Morita Clancy, all somatic educators and healers with backgrounds ranging from mental health to movement science. These three explore trauma healing, guide vulnerable conversations with thought leaders and social justice activists, offer stories and poetry, lead embodiment practices and so much more. In these trou ...
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We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show explores the practice of solidarity in today’s freedom movements. Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA's sister station KPFB. Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production. www.weriseproduction.com
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Alchemy of Housing Justice is a podcast that nests conversations about lived expertise of houselessness and housing instability within an emergent arc of system transformation and housing justice. We explore liberation topics with guests who are imagining a transformed housing future for all of us.
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Death, Entanglement, and Individuation: How to be a Thriving Creature in a Collapsing World
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Why do I think we should kill hope? Where did our collective denial of death originate? What’s the difference between individuality and individuation? And how is this all connected to our collapsing world? All of that and more in today’s episode. We all have different relationships with what’s happening in the world; some of us gravitate towards de…
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Crosspollination | We Show Up for Each Other, Part Two | Ep. 51
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Welcome to part two of our recording from our June 8th Crosspollination community block party, Diasporic Care: We Show Up for Each Other. Because we had so many incredible guest speakers on our panel, we are breaking this conversation up into parts one & two. If you missed part one, we highly encourage you to listen to We Rise podcast episode 50, D…
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Crosspollination | Diasporic Care, Part One | Ep. 50
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Diasporic Care: We Show Up for Each Other Welcome to Part 1 of 2 of this live recording from our Crosspollination community block party series. This event took place on June 8th, 2024. This episode features our opening prayer* with Dr. Uzo Nwankpa, & the beginning of our speakers panel, featuring the brilliant hearts & minds of: Sarah O'Neal, Oakla…
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Water always finds their way home: A manual for vibrancy in the age of Moloch.
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And what are we to do? And what are we to do? What if this is not about progressing into something entirely new but rather remembering forgotten wisdom that already permeates in our cells, blood and bones? What if the journey is challenging but a lot simpler than we think? A paragon of possibilities rather than a set of problems needs solving. What…
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Why are humans the only species that managed to see themselves as a separate element from the very ecology from which they emerged? Why are we the only species, out of more than a quintillion species in this planet's history, that could individuate itself from its environment, at least experientially? In this episode, we attempt to express a fresh,…
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Stewardship, Remembrance, & Sovereignty with Layla Feghali & Iman Labanieh | Ep. 49
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Join Layla K. Feghali of River Rose Remembrance & Iman Labanieh of Baylasan Botanicals for a timely conversation about Layla's newly released book, The Land in Our Bones. Highlighting lineages of herbal resilience, diasporic stewardship, and unraveling the rippling impacts of colonial violence on our earth and communities, this book about people an…
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Crosspollination | Emergent Orgs for the People | Ep. 48
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Crosspollination is a block party series created by We Rise Production with the purpose of strengthening and deepening existing connections and initiating new ones, after the changing culture and community landscape Oakland experienced in years of social distancing and pandemic. Our themes will deepen into an exploration of how WE TAKE CARE OF US. …
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God. Allah. Yahawe. Bhagavān. Dao. Brahma. Beloved. Holy Spirit. Shchina. Ruach Jakodesh. Nana Buluku. Rūḥ al-qudus. These words, the names of God and holy spirits, and what they evoke in different people. For some, they are completely void and overused. Others are filled with the ecstatic nectar of devotional love, while many feel fear or awe. Whi…
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The cult of self: from meaning crisis to making friends with trees
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What can trees teach us about revolution and community? How to do "manifestation" from an ecological perspective? Why are myth and mystical vision the way forward for humanity? That and more in this new episode of Emergent Wisdom; enjoy 🙏🏽 Support us and join our monthly study group on Patreon: https://patreon.com/emergentwisdom Join the upcoming L…
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Collective Shadow, Alchemy & Palestinian Liberation
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How come one of the most historically oppressed groups turns out into a monstrosity of occupation, brutality, and military might? How does collective shadow play collectively and individually in an endless cycle of the oppressed becoming the oppressor? And what can you and I do to alchemize these shadows and bring about collective liberation? That …
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Emergent Wisdom. A life boat at the end of civilization?
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Hello, earth dweller; I am honored to welcome you to the first episode of the Emergent Wisdom project. Here, we explore current events and the challenges of the human experience through the lens of ecology and relatable mysticism. To bring about the internal and external liberation of all people, ecosystems, beings, and land. This is not a podcast,…
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¡Aye Que Chismear! with Nalgona Positivity Pride & Radically Fit, Ep. 47
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Join Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride & Luca Yacón of Radically Fit Oakland in this enlightening & heart-to-heart discussion diving deep into the realms of Harm Reduction, Eating Disorders, & Body Movement. This thought-provoking conversation is an exploration of: Harm Reduction Strategies Personal Eating Disorder Journey Body Movement a…
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Wash It All Away with Adrienne Shamszad, Ep. 46
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Born and raised in the Bay, Iranian-American singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad hops on the mic and shares her voice with We Rise listeners, debuting her first full-length album in 15 years: Wash It All Away! Adrienne's music is dedicated to our collective liberation - and is an intimate incantation of her heart. Equal parts silly and heartfelt, C…
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Somos Semillas EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our Crossroads
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our Crossroads In this bonus episode Cat, Erika, & nicky gathe…
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Somos Semillas EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our Power of Shedding
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our Power of Shedding In this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are…
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Somos Semillas EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our Sexual Creativity
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our Sexual Creativity In this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are…
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S3 E5: Forgiveness as a Breathing & Somatic Self-Pleasure with Lady J
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Join T. Aisha Edwards and Kaila June Keliikuli in this special release and the closing episode of Season 3. Season 3 is a year long exploration with the experience and force of forgiveness. In this conversation, we talk about rhythm changes, fractals of the Mother Wound, what it means to be a good ancestor, forgiveness over lifetimes and how ELC sl…
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From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A panel with Christina Chase of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) & Cat Brooks of Anti Police Terror Project (APTP), moderated by Layel Camargo When we think about communal care it is vital that we talk about the ways in which we take care of each other as queer and trans Black and brown fol…
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Queer & Well: Caring for the Land, Ep. 44
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From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A Conversation with Layel Camargo of Shelterwood Collective & Inés Ixierda of Sogorea Te Land Trust As queer Black and brown folks, what does it look like to be reconnected to land our ancestors stewarded before colonialism & white supremacy? What are the ways we can come back to this land and rebuild not only t…
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The Housing Justice Team is a group of people with lived experience of housing instability or houselessness who want to change our collective housing future. The group started without a predetermined outcome, and what emerged organically was a space where advocates across the country chose to rely on each other for support and shared-learning while…
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Somos Semillas EP 2: Sacred Earth, Returning to our Body Sovereignty
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. In this episode we are reclaiming Earth Mother and the soils as part of who we are, what we'r…
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Somos Semillas EP 1: Sacred Waters, Returning to our Natural Flow
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. Episode One: Sacred Waters, Returning to Our Natural Flow offers expansive praxis for a calli…
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Somos Semillas EP 0: Sacred Ether, Returning to our Spirit
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. How do we want to be seeds now? In Episode 0, Erika, nicky, & Cat are accompanied by writer &…
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Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. In this 5-episode series, we’ll deconstruct the ways we connect to each sacred element -Water…
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Intimacy, Community Ownership, and Housing Justice
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When we talk about community ownership, we’re talking about moving decision-making power to people in the community who have lived experience of the systems we are working to transform. In this way, community ownership is central to housing justice. It’s the root-system; it gives us the platform we need to grow transformed structures where people c…
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The Real Work, Ep 6: Dreaming Forward
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This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you’re here right now, and you’ve been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, heali…
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Bodily and Family Autonomy, Reproductive Justice and Housing Justice
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With the Supreme Court making a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision in June, our country’s history of restricting bodily and family autonomy becomes front and center in the public discourse. In this episode, Tiffany Haynes joins us for a conversation about the connections between reproductive justice, bodily autonomy and housin…
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The Real Work, EP 5: Applied Practice
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Last episode, we focused on the accountability part of community accountability. We explored how changing our behavior to live accountably is lifelong work, is violence prevention, takes building skills until they become muscle memory. Fortunately for us, Mia gave us many opportunities to practice. In this episode, we learn from this practice – and…
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BONUS EPISODE: Behind the scenes with the team
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Join us for a conversation with author, artist, and activist and producer of this podcast, Terrance Walker for a behind the scenes look into our production, and how we are trying to live into our values and use radical imagination in the everyday work of making this podcast. Credits: The Producer of Alchemy of Housing Justice is Terrance Walker, ak…
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Celebrating 6 years! Autumn Fundraiser, Ep. 43
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Thank you for listening to our podcasts over the years, or months – or if you're new to our work, welcome! After 6 years of groundwork, we’re celebrating how far we’ve come & asking you – our community – for support. Donate to our first ever fundraiser! Your contribution supports queer, femme, Black Indigenous and People Of Color-centered multimedi…
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The Real Work, EP 4: Living Accountably
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As the cohort continued, we learned that building the capacity to practice transformative justice takes immense and consistent personal work. We’re talking the basics of being human, like self reflection, and how to communicate. These personal inquiries into how we live our values, and how we respond to our inevitable mistakes, were like portals in…
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Aisha and Kaila expand on the discussion about neurodivergence begun in episode 3. We discuss neurodivergent diagnosis, affirmation, trauma healing, disability justice and cultural inclusion. Aisha also intimately explores the impact of autism in xer own family. Topics Kaila and Aisha give a life update Aisha gives more information about the DSM di…
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The Real Work, EP 3: Softening the Fist
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Our facilitator, Mia Mingus, used the metaphor of a fist to explain how, unlike our current severely punitive carceral system, TJ creates conditions that support folks to step up and take accountability when they’ve caused harm. In this episode, we explore how these systems have shaped us, and ask, how else can we respond to violence, harm, & abuse…
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On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ? Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2 Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org BATJC Pods & Po…
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The Real Work, EP 1: A Kind of Origin Story
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How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out... Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1 Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org Anti Police-Terro…
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The Real Work Pilot: What /is/ the Real Work of Transformative Justice?
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We are proud to present The Real Work: a podcast about theater culture & transformative justice! This collaboration has been in the works since 2018, and we are thrilled to share it with you now. Join us for our free online premiere of this series with a community dialogue August 22nd 7PM-9PM PST. Register at the link below. Let’s gather, witness e…
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In this special episode, ELC partners with the SquarePeg Podcast, hosted by Amy Richards. Square Peg gives autistic adults the opportunity to hear the lives and stories of other autistic adults. In her conversations, she explores life, love, work, health and relationships with later in life diagnosed folks identifying as femme, trans or nonbinary. …
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Belonging as a Path Toward Housing Justice
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This episode is a conversation about the concepts of othering and belonging, and the impact we might have if we could move housing and homeless systems and structures from ones that are built around “othering” over to ones that are built around “belonging.” We are diving into the ideas and thoughts of John Powell- his teachings, speaking and writin…
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S3 E2: Somatic Unwinding for Rupture and Repair
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This brief episode is a follow up for episode one. In it, Aisha shares a poem inspire by an encounter with a hummingbird and offers a somatic practice for working with the activation of rupture. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective Aisha Edwards https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness Kaila June https://www…
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CONTENT NOTE: Racist police murder. On Saturday, June 18, 24-year-old Derrick Clark was shot and killed by 30 members of the Oregon State Troopers and Clackamas County Sherriff’s Office for a DUI. Derrick’s loved ones are in deep mourning, and organizing to get answers about Derrick’s murder, and obtain justice in some way in the face of this white…
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'Rona Reflections & Queer Resilience, Ep. 41
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As with all specially designated months, we get to celebrate being queer year round. That said, happy pride friends! And happy belated summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. In December of 2021, just before the Winter Solstice, cat & nicky got to sit down (virtually) with KPFA Radio’s First Voice Apprentice & Full Circle producer Sentient Shil…
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Change Yourself to Change the World Toward Housing Justice
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You might recognize the saying “change yourself to change the world.” It’s an idea that a fair number of movement leaders have leaned into throughout history. In this episode, we explore the ideas that come from the life, activism, and teachings and ways of being of a beautiful ancestor, Grace Lee Boggs and how they will help us get to housing just…
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Nakba 74: Resistance Until Liberation & Return, Ep. 40
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As we approach the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine, Layla Kanaan joins Cat for an in-depth discussion of the history of Zionism, the founding of the settler state of Israel, the ongoing impacts of violence on the Palestinian people, how this struggle is all our struggle, and how we can get involved and act in solidarity for…
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Kaila and Aisha return for another season of ELC, sharing ELC’s changes over the hiatus. introduce the seasonal theme for 2022 Forgiveness. Together the two somatic educators explore the anatomy of forgiveness, foreshadowing the topics addressed throughout Season three. Return after a long hiatus and continuing slow podcast Goodbye to Chris Introdu…
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Water Protector Interview: Pass the Mic, We Rise interviewed by Beloved Water Protector, Ep. 39
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Mayra, Tierra, Cat, and Nicky are interviewed by a beloved comrade and filmmaker, speaking to our experience in Akiing alongside water protectors resisting Enbridge Corporation’s Line 3 pipeline. Akiing is the Anishnaabe name for the land we were on. It means “the land to which we belong.” Following the interview, we share updates on the Stop Line …
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