Wood Street Commons 4th Solidarity Bike Ride from Oakland to Sacramento, CA, End of Day 1 Prayer

Описание: "Only if you are able. Go down to Mama Earth, but you don't have to. Only if you're able.

Thank you Creator for another day of life. Thanking the Sogorea Te’, the Ohlone people, the Miwok, the all so many relatives of this stolen land first and foremost. To all the relatives here in this occupied territory of Sogorea Te’ and other First Nations relatives who were erased by the violence of colonization.

Thank you for welcoming us in and for taking care of Mama Earth so well that we could even be here 530 and 250 and all the Gregorian colonial years later.

Sending prayer energy to the ancestors right here. All of the beautiful families. The workers, the love, who are here from this part of Mama Earth and are resting and are holding their descendants.

Thank you for allowing us to be here, for allowing us to sit in front of you, for watching over us when we sleep, and for holding in a good way all of our warriors, many of whom have been houseless on these streets.

Sending prayer, energy, and love to all the houseless black and brown and poor people who have died on these stolen streets. I wanna shout out to James Edward Oakley. I wanna shout out to the warriors that I don't know. I want to call in and shout out to JT and Luna from Huchiun, where we come from.

I wanna shout out and call in so many warriors who have died from home'lies' terror in this settler town who are here with us today.

I wanna thank all the beautiful relatives from Vallejo Homeless Union who are joining us, from Wood Street family, from Homefulness and Poor Magazine, and all the warriors who are here holding this space, and all of our ancestors who always watch over.

I wanna shout out and call in the babies from Palestine to Sudan to Haiti to the Congo and all the warriors who crossed these false borders and lost their lives behind the settler-colonial lie of borders.

THERE ARE NO BORDERS ON STOLEN LAND!

I wanna thank Mama Earth, Mother Tiera, for always giving so much. For holding these warriors tonight. And the animals and spirits that we don't know."

"Oya is the keeper of the the cemetery. She's the one that helps us with our transition.

We say bobo egun which means we honor the eguns which is all the ancestors egungun kiki egungun over there for them to watch over us all the nurturers and protectors tonight that we honor you.

Thank you for your experience. Thank you for your work on this earth."

"I love that these different organizations, different people are here from so many different places this year.

It's amazing to see all the homeless unions here and just the support.

Moving forward, in the environment that we are fighting against, this is what we need more of! It's just us coming together. It doesn't always have to be at city hall or in a stressful situation.

We really need to be able to hang out with each other and just BE! Just relax and have some fun! What we do, everybody knows. It's just work work work! It's hard and it's oppressive. But this is so beautiful!

We got people from New York who flew out here, that keep coming out here. We got people down from San Diego. More and more, every year, we get more people participating and helping plan it.

Thank you Danielle for all the food that you got. Everybody that got on the call and supporting each other. This is how it's supposed to be! This how it looks."

Vallejo, CA
October 10, 2025