Jessica Jane Robinson- Earth Warrior feat. Aaron Ableman

Song Credits –
Co-Created by: Jessica Jane Robinson and Aaron Ableman
Music by: Aaron Ableman
Music Engineer: Jermaine Hamilton, Studio Circle
Mural: Santana (2015) by Mel Waters and David Cho
Produced by: Resilience Birthright, Inc

Video Credits –
Directed by: Jessica Jane Robinson
Director Of Photography: Andre Champagne and Jake Azer
Drone Operators: Juan Acosta, Alex Brumfield
Special Effects: Cassandra Smolcic

Connect with Jessica Jane Robinson aka superhero, Resilience:
https://www.rbrorg.com
https://www.resiliencebirthright.org
https://www.instagram.com/resiliencebirthright/
https://www.facebook.com/ResilienceBirthright/

The story about the making of "Earth Warrior."
By Jessica Jane Robinson

The story about the making of "Earth Warrior," by Jessica Jane Robinson

2018 was a wake-up call for Californians due to the deadliest and destructive wildfire season (8,527 fires that burned 1,893,913 acres, the largest area of burned acreage in a fire season) on the record for CA (Cal Fire).

#climatechange is real; I have been informing communities through my work, documentaries, as a #climateleader for over a decade. #algore

The irony is my superhero theme song manifested during the fires. I met with award-winning songwriter, Aaron Ableman @ablemantra in early November at a cafe in Berkeley. We agreed to collaborate and write a song for #resiliencebirthright that I could use to promote the #graphicnovel and the newest product I will be releasing, my non-profit interactive website feature (it shares the name as the song). I am a two-in-one type of girl, and I like to make the $ stretch, and you have to be savvy when you are operating on limited funding as my non-profit does.

The day Aaron and I were brainstorming the lyrics of the song, he was dealing with a sore throat that he said had to do with the fire smoke. That same week I was teaching at Emery High School about climate change, #zerowaste. How incineration of waste is so harmful to human health due to the dioxins created by the process; simultaneously, the fire smoke began to blanket the Bay Area.

I drove up North that weekend to work on the newest feature of my website and brainstorm. I remember as I was planning to drive back home, and a friend told me they just saw the report that the Bay Area had the worst air quality in the world. So I stopped by a hardware store and bought a painter gas mask, that I later wore in the #musicvideo and everywhere else.

November 20th, 2018, was the day that I recorded with Aaron Ableman @ablemantra, and Jermaine Hamilton, at @studiocircle.

When filming the music video, "#earthwarrior," I wanted there to be a contrast between the city with hard concrete and the flourishing forest in #tahoe. The concrete from the city was symbolic of the disconnected relationship modern-day society has with the environment. Me sitting in a peaceful meditative state amongst trees was symbolic of inner stillness and the ability to breathe fresh air.

When I was filming in Tahoe, I felt as if I was channeling one of my great #grandmother #ancestors, who was full #mohican #nativeamerican. Connecting with my native roots in the #forest amongst the trees, filming an environmental song, calling #humanity to heal the world, just seemed as if destiny was calling me. I answered the call, showed up, and now I am shining my #innerlight as a #lightworker on my #lifemission, my #lifepath.

Let the movement begin, Earth Warriors, please rise!

Become an Earth Warrior and start counting your sustainable actions:
http://www.resiliencebirthright.org/about/

#resiliencebirthright #savethetrees #savetheworld #ecosystem #divinefeminine #lightworker #loveandlig

Lyrics:
Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
So (Inhale)
Hum (Exhale)
So Hum [ I am that]

Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
So (Inhale)
Hum (Exhale)

Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
So (Inhale)
Hum (Exhale)

Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
So (Inhale)
Hum (Exhale)

A billion miles of travel
Lost, Lost
from my planet,
like a yarn unraveled
From its thread back home,
A world that knows
we’re all inter-wove
all inter-wove

Fire, water, earth, air

The warring,
the peaceful,
Death,
the birth

I knew I had a purpose,
To clean up this wasteland,
earth’s fiery furnace
But little did I know what a battle it would be
What a battle it would be
What a battle it would be

To be an earth warrior is
To be an earth warrior is
To be an earth warrior is
Like an army, lay down your weapons

To be an earth warrior is
Be a movement
To be an earth warrior is
Restore the planet
To be an earth warrior is
Be a movement

Earth warrior
Earth warrior
Peace warrior

That’s when the trees taught me
how to breathe …
and then I learned how to breathe,
I learned how to be

Be Yeah-ah-ah, Breathe
I learned how to breathe, Yeah-ah-ah
Learn how to breathe, Yeah-ah-ah
I learned how to be