Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 A podcast and radical media hub reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
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Ep 337 - Reginald Dwayne Betts Live!
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This week's episode features a convo with poet and writer Reginald Dwayne Betts, recorded live at the Logan Center in Chicago. For more than twenty-years, he has used his poetry and essays to explore the world of prison and the effects of violence and incarceration on American society. The author of a memoir and three collections of poetry, he has …
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We've got a lil quick One Million Experiments-related PSA for y'all! We're going to be screening the film in NYC on 4/24–the event is at Starr Bar in Brooklyn at 8pm, and is free with RSVP! Sign up here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-million-experiments-screening-conversation-starr-bar-tickets-873424996677Hit us up to build a screening near you…
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Ep 336 - Rabbi Brant Rosen
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This week's guest, Rabbi Brant Rosen, is the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a "Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity." In the almost-decade of the reconstructionist congregation's existence, Tzedek has worked to build a Judaism beyond nationalism that centers solidarity, nonviolence, and spiritual freedom. Br…
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Ep 335 - Robin DG Kelley Returns
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The guys welcome back movement mentor and brilliant scholar-organizer Robin DG Kelley back to the show. Robin is a Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of seminal texts Hammer & Hoe, Freedom Dreams, and other offerings to the radical canon. He joins the show to talk about his personal path to his politic, the ebbs and flows of movem…
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Ep 334 - Shawnee Dez Returns
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The AirGo stu is blessed by the presence of community luminary and vibrant musical artist Shawnee Dez. Shawnee, who recently released her full-length project Moody Umbra, talks about finding the trust to show all of her creative impulses, the joy of playing for her people, the unexpected power of her project the Black JoyRide, and much more!SHOW NO…
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Ep 333 - Prentis Hemphill
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We're fangirling pretty damn hard over here because we have the one and only Prentis Hemphill on this week's episode! Prentis is a therapist, somatics teacher and facilitator, political organizer, writer and the founder of The Embodiment Institute who has been a centering and leading voice in the work to create new pathways to healing conflict and …
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Ep 332 - Kennedy Bartley
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The Don Dada is on the air! We're thrilled to be rocking with Kennedy Bartley, who has been a steadfast leader through Chicago's progressive political victories as the Executive Director of United Working Families. Kennedy breaks down her Waukegan backstory, how she imagines electoral work as part of the fight for a public good, and a whole lot mor…
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Ep 331 - Bring Chicago Home with Brian Rodgers and Tynetta Hill-Muhammad
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AirGo's so excited to be back in full effect and regular flow of conversations reshaping culture for the more liberatory and creative! With the Chicago municipal election coming up on 3/19 (early voting is open now!), we're starting off with a call to Bring Chicago Home, a referendum aiming to restructure the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-…
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Ep 330 - One Million Experiments Part 20 - The Conclusion with Mariame Kaba
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This is it! We've reached the end of Season 2, and the last episode of 1ME (for now). And who better to close us out than our OG partner in decriminalization and 1ME creator Mariame Kaba. Mariame returns to the show to discuss what she's learned across twenty episodes of the show, the importance of movement-led archival work, how she understands th…
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Ep 329 - One Million Experiments Part 19: Practicing New Worlds with Andrea Ritchie
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On the penultimate episode of One Million Experiments, our hosts turn to collaborator and movement mentor Andrea J. RItchie. Andrea, who is the cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization, talks about how the emergent power of movement can sustain us as people and communities in the face of state violence. She also explores what she learned in the cr…
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BONUS - Malik Eternal (2023)
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On the birthday of movement brother and beloved ancestor Malik Alim, who passed in 2021, we journey with his community in the practice of liberatory grief work that aims to uplift his life and legacy.Produced by Jeanette Harris-CourtsDoor Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
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Ep 328 - One Million Experiments Part 18: Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with Vivien Sansour
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The 1ME squad has the honor of talking with Vivien Sansour, the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library (PHSL), which seeks to preserve and promote heritage and threatened seed varieties, traditional Palestinian farming practices, and the cultural stories and identities associated with them. Recorded five weeks into the 2023 flashpoint of ge…
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Ep 327- One Million Experiments Part 17 - Just Practice Collaborative w/ Shira Hassan & Deana Lewis
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The 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative…
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Ep 326 - One Million Experiments Part 16: API Chaya Natural Helpers
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On this episode, the 1ME crew talks with some of the folks behind the Natural Helpers program at API Chaya, a Seattle-based org that empowers survivors of gender-based violence to gain safety, connection, and wellness. They build power by educating and mobilizing South Asian, Asian, Pacific Islander, and all immigrant communities to end exploitatio…
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GUARANTEED Episode 7 - What's Possible?
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On our finale episode, Eve takes her learnings from talking with program participants over the last five episodes and brings a final set of questions to the folks who have run two of the guaranteed income pilots discussed–Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, who oversees the Cook County Promise Pilot: and Richard Wallace, who as Executive Direct…
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GUARANTEED Episode 6 - Raul
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Raul is a mathematician, movie nerd, deeply analytical thinker, and dad who is a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the municipality of Evanston, which is the suburb just north of Chicago.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.…
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GUARANTEED Episode 5 - Topaz
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Topaz is a health care worker, BDSM and kink educator, and Chicagoan who is a participant in the Cook County guaranteed income pilot, which recently was made permanent by the county.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/GUARANTEED is a p…
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GUARANTEED Episode 4 - John
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John is a minister, grandfather, military veteran, and former Freedom Rider who lives on the West Side of Chicago. He's a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the City of Chicago.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/GUARANT…
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Ep 325 - One Million Experiments Part 15: Philadelphia Community Bail Fund with Candace McKinley
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On part five of our second season, the 1ME crew celebrates the work of bail and bond funds across the country by talking with Candace McKinley of the Philly Community Bail Fund. We learn about the growing pains of building a bail fund, the shifts in theory of change that have been necessary, and what the recent retaliatory raid of the Atlanta Solid…
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GUARANTEED Episode 3 - Stephanie
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Stephanie is a dance teacher, parent, and lifelong resident of the Southeast Side of Chicago. She is a participant in a guaranteed income pilot from LIFT, which includes one-on-one coaching programs that empower parents to set and achieve goals that put families on the path toward economic mobility, as well as the pilot run by the City of Chicago.S…
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Episode 6 - The Center of the Gardens
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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsCo…
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Episode 4 - Mothering the Movement
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We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still connecting the dots in her home community.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Med…
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Episode 3 - From the Center of the Donut
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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsCo…
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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberation, and personal lineages that make up the area.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production…
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Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
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Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight t…
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Episode 5 - Inheriting the Shoebox
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As her health begins to wane, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing, and disrespect.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairm…
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GUARANTEED Episode 1 - Guaranteed Income 101
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We're proud to share the first episode of GUARANTEED, a new podcast we made with our pal Eve Ewing! On the first episode of GUARANTEED, we start at the beginning–what does guaranteed income mean, what does it not mean, and how does it make freedom and dignified life more possible? Our host Eve learns from three of the world's foremost experts on gu…
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GUARANTEED Episode 2 - Sherrif
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Sherrif is a Chicagoan, father, community builder, and participant in the Chicago Future Fund, a guaranteed income pilot program for formerly incarcerated individuals run by community organization EAT (Equity and Transformation). Also, a small note for our non-Chicago listeners: 26th and California is the intersection where the Cook County Jail is …
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We're SO hyped to share the trailer for Help This Garden Grow, the second Respair project dropping this summer. It's dropping 7/27, and we're celebrating with a BIG release party at the Winter Garden in the Harold Washington Library. It's free and open to the public, come through! Here's the RSVP link: Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuser…
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Ep 324 - One Million Experiments Part 14: Queenie's Crew with Zara Raven
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On this episode the 1ME crew talks tots and transformation with Zara Raven of Queenie's Crew! Queenie’s Crew engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing. Every month, members receive an email with an activity that kids can complete to learn more about abolition: they share activities like coloring pag…
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We wanted to give y'all a peek at the first project from our new org Respair Production & Media! GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when regular people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s a show about the choices people make, the dreams they pursue, and the impossible things that become a little more possible wh…
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Ep 323 - Announcing Respair Production & Media!
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We've got some news! Dame and Kiss are announcing the launch of Respair Production & Media, a new movement media ecosystem hub that supports the media needed to reshape Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Respair builds new media projects in partnership with social movement participants and visionaries, enabling their work to reach new audiences,…
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Ep 322 - Bernardine Dohrn
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The guys have the great honor and joy of talking with the legendary Bernardine Dohrn on this episode of AirGo. Recorded on the land that she, her husband Bill Ayers, and five other families have communally stewarded for the last 40-plus years, Bernardine reflects on what she's learned about time, grief, transformation, liberation struggles, and lov…
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Ep 321 - One Million Experiments Part 13: Ujimaa Medics with Martine Caverl
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The 1ME squad talks with Martine Caverl of Ujimaa Medics, a Chicago-based crew of organizers, community members, and health professionals who offer training in Urban Emergency First Response, primarily to people who live in or love people who live in communities where shootings often occur. Martine breaks down how historical flashpoints like 9/11, …
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Cottage Groove #24 - DJ Duane Powell Guest Mix
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This Cottage Groove guest DJ mix comes to us from DJ/Tastemaker/Music Historian Duane Powell. Duane is the founder of SOUNDROTATION, and a lecturer on the heroes and hidden figures of soul music.Get in tune with DJ Duane Powell - allmylinks.com/djduanepowellTracklist01. Never Ending Song (Cherise) / Lil Louis02. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long (Sophist…
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Ep 320 - One Million Experiments Part 12: Feed Black Futures with Ali Anderson
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The 1ME crew gets their hands dirty this month with Ali Anderson of Cali-based experiment Feed Black Futures. Created in 2020 as a crowdfunding campaign to feed 20 families for two weeks at the start of the pandemic soon became an organization that feeds Black mamas/caregivers impacted by the carceral system in counties across California by partner…
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BONUS - You Didn't See Nothin'
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AirGo is hyped to share the first episode of a great new podcast from one of the members of our movement media community here in Chicago. The Invisible Institute just dropped You Didn't See Nothin'–part investigation and part memoir, the show follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalis…
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Ep 319 - One Million Experiments Part 11: Harriet's Wildest Dreams with Makia Green
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AirGo, Interrupting Criminalization, and Project NIA kick off season two of One Million Experiments, our collaborative podcast showcasing and exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. We start off in the DMV with Makia Green of Harriet's Wildest Dreams, a black-led abolitionist community defense hub centering …
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Ep 318 - Rossana Rodriguez Returns
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As AirGo continues its election coverage on our own terms, the guys are honored to welcome Rossana Rodriguez back to the show. As the Alderwoman of the 33rd Ward, Rossana has been a tireless advocate for policies that bring resources of care to her community and beyond. She is the lead figure behind the Treatment Not Trauma ordinance, and has stood…
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Ep 317 - Brandon Johnson Returns
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As Chicago's municipal election approaches at the end of February, Dame and Kiss chop it up with mayoral candidate and liberation movement member Brandon Johnson. A longtime organizer and public servant, Brandon has been running a campaign championing many of the policies and campaigns that our movements have been pushing for, and has coalesced the…
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Ep 316 - Alec Karakatsanis
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The guys are joined by Alec Karakatsanis, a lawyer by training who creates impactful, detailed, and thoughtful critiques of the ways that carceral sentiments and ideologies pervade corporate newsrooms. His twitter threads breaking down the work of the NY Times, among others, have helped popularize the language of "copaganda," and challenged reporte…
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AirGo kicks off the year with the brilliant and wonderful Lisa Lee, a communal creative spacemaker who has fought for a public square for decades. Lisa is the Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum, and is also an Associate Professor in Art History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, teaching f…
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Ep 314 - South Side creators Bashir, Diallo, & Sultan
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AirGo ends the year with the illustrious creators of South Side! Dame and Kiss talk with Bashir Salahuddin, Sultan Salahuddin, and Diallo Riddle, who have birthed a truly hilarious and visionary TV comedy that shows the rich fabric that is the south side of Chicago. The three co-creators talk about legibility and illegibility of Chicago-specific jo…
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Ep 313 - Jared Ball Returns
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What if we told you that we had a thoughtful, insightful, informed conversation about the relationship between American Black folks and American Jews, in the midst of the Kanye Kyrie Kerfuffle? Would you believe it? This episode is the proof that it is possible and in fact pivotally important. The guys are joined by repeat guest and friend of the s…
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Ep 312 - Treatment Not Trauma Pt. 2 with Asha Ransby-Sporn & Cheryl Miller
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AirGo is joined by Treatment Not Trauma organizers Asha Ransby-Sporn of DefundCPD and Cheryl Miller from STOP to break down the blowout win of the Treatment Not Trauma referendum on Election Day 2022. They talk about what they learned across months of conversations with thousands of residents in the 6th, 20th, and 33rd wards, and break down how the…
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Ep 311 - Treatment Not Trauma Pt. 1 with Delaine Powerful
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With a trip to the ballot box just around the corner on November 8, AirGo hops on the line to discuss an impactful referendum that several Chicago wards will have the chance to vote on next week. As a result of organizing from the Treatment Not Trauma coalition, Chicagoans in the 6th, 20th, and 33rd wards will be asked whether Chicago should reopen…
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Ep 310 - One Million Experiments Part 10: Chicago Torture Justice Center
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On the final episode of Season 1, the 1ME crew talks with two of the leaders of the remarkable Chicago Torture Justice Center, an experiment born from the first police torture reparations victory in the history of the United States. Survivors and their families fought for decades for access to the trauma-informed resources and politicized healing s…
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Ep 309 - Ravyn Lenae Listening Party
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From time to time, a Chicago artist drops a new project that the AirGo crew is vibing with–when that happens, we get them on the line for a special listening party episode! Using a few of the project's tracks as jumping off points for the conversation, we dive deep into process, creativity, and growth.This listening party reconnects us with AirGo f…
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Through the Portal Episode 5 - Climate Justice with Leah Penniman
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Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The …
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Ep 308 - One Million Experiments Part 9: WA Roundtable
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1ME heads to the Pacific Northwest on this episode to learn from a roundtable of experiments in Washington. With Kiss out on vacation, Eva joins Dame in conversation with JM Wong, a writer and activist in Seattle; Cassandra Butler of Free Them All WA, a collective committed to the abolition of the criminal punishment system in WA that began as a su…
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