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May This Body Be a Bridge

Te Martin

Te Martin wrote this song after being at Standing Rock for several months in 2016 to stand with Indigenous water protectors from over two hundred tribes to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Said Abdallah, a Palestinian friend of Te’s, had joined the protests at Standing Rock and shared the connections he saw between the militarized violence at Standing Rock and the occupation of Palestine. He said that he wanted his “body to be a bridge for liberation of his Palestinian homelands.” These words and the persistence of the water protectors at Standing Rock inspired this song.

May This Body Be a Bridge

Te Martin

Tips for Impact

Use this video to ground a meeting or share on social media as a reminder that together, we can be a bridge for healing, peace, and collective strength.

This video is a prayer for healing, a ritual for justice, a cry for liberation. May it serve the collective waking up to climate emergency & melting ice, the remembering of wildness & knowing, and the taking of action on behalf of liberation & justice.

May This Body Be a Bridge (Live)

Te Martin

Te Martin joined Freedom Church of the Poor and Songs in the Key of Resistance (SKOR) on Sunday, November 12, 2023 to echo the cries of people around the world who were rising up to demand a Ceasefire Now! We came together as Muslims and Jews, Christians and non-believers; as leaders from movements for racial, economic, climate, gender justice and more to share music and art resources that can amplify our voices in this moment.

We gathered to remind ourselves that we are not alone and that in these times—silence is betrayal. We gathered as song leaders and artists from across the country who had been leading protests and sharing resistance art to strengthen our communities with courage and to let the world know what peace and justice sounds and feels like.