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 partnering with Black and Brown-owned farms and food suppliers across California. FBF is committed to creating a world where Black people have access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it. Founder Ali breaks down what happened when she ended up with way more money than she expected, the bonds her work has forged, and the regenerative joy people get from keeping their hands in the soil. SHOW NOTES Support Feed Black Futures - https://feedblackfutures.org Soul Fire Farm Immersions - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/programs/bipoc-trainings/immersions/ Reparations Map for Black-Indigenous Farmers - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/ Arissa Hall - https://www.arissahall.com/ Delaine Powerful - https://homecomingcollective.com/who-we-are Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis by Dean Spade - https://www.versobooks.com/products/2722-mutual-aid Barnard Center for Women Intro to Mutual Aid - https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/introduction-to-mutual-aid/ Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/ Liberated Life with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams - https://www.liblife.net/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 journalism, and examines how its ripple effects have shaped his life over the past quarter-century. Make sure you subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts, and keep an eye out for new AirGo episodes dropping soon! Subscribe - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-didnt-see-nothin/id1662015767

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 all Black lives most at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington DC area. Makia breaks down the different pillars of their work, the ways their work is shaped by historical Black revolutionaries, and the unique challenges of organizing for liberation in the center of the U.S. empire. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Harriet's Wildest Dreams - https://www.harrietsdreams.org/ Harriet Tubman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman Ida B Wells - https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett Ella Baker - https://ellabakercenter.org/who-was-ella-baker/ DC Safety squad - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WpC8yxRXU4RAWM5S2WHEjniIOjhuE0b07aKRf9bDqGA/edit Erica Totten - https://erikatotten.com/ Mary Hooks - https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/mary-hooks/ The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/the-body-is-not-an-apology BOLD - https://boldorganizing.org/ Emotional Emancipation circles - https://communityhealingnet.org/emotional-emancipation-circle/ Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 shoulder to shoulder with organizers at many key moments over the past years. She talks about the progress of her campaign, the absurdities of Chicago's municipal structure, her entrypoints into liberation work on her home island of Puerto Rico, and much more.

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 support of grassroots organizations and progressive organized labor behind him as he elbows through the crowd of mayoral candidates. We talk with him about his understanding of what Chicago needs, his relationship to the movements that have elevated him, and much more. SHOW NOTES Find your voting locations and info - voter-information.html">https://chicagoelections.gov/en/your-voter-information.html Learn about the candidates with the Girl, I Guess voter guide - https://www.stephanieskora.com/voter-guide Plan your ballot with BallotReady - https://www.ballotready.org/ Listen to our first conversation with Brandon from back in 2018 - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/4/11/episode-132-brandon-johnson Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 reporters to understand and account for the ways their work feeds incarceration and structural violence. He breaks down the importance of these connections, the pathways to repair that he engages journalists in, and much more. SHOW NOTES Follow Alec on Twitter - https://twitter.com/equalityalec Listen to AirGo's convos about journalism in our Middle Suite - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/the-middle-suite Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 faculty with the Prison Neighborhood Art Project, and a member of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials. She talks with the guys about her journey to Chicago with a brief foray into the world of the 1%, what a public square is so pivotal for social movements, and how housing lives at the nexus of all battles against structural violence. SHOW NOTES Learn about the National Public Housing Museum - https://www.nphm.org/ International Sites of Conscience - https://www.sitesofconscience.org/ Listen to AirGo's convos with spacemakers in the Spacemaker Suite - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/spacemakers-suite Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 jokes, how the show focuses on the funny, and how their neighbors and loved ones have both contributed to and responded to the show. SHOW NOTES Check out Season 3 of South Side on HBO Max - https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYEaaAgS0AV9_ZwEAAAAC Hear AirGo talking with comedians in the LOL Suite - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/the-lol-suite Subscribe to AirGo - http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 show Dr. Jared Ball. Dr. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. He is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media which can be found at http://BlackPowerMedia.org, and his decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at http://imixwhatilike.org. SHOW NOTES Glenn Ford - https://blackagendareport.com/glen-fords-irreplaceable-journalism Black Power Media - https://www.blackpowermedia.org/ Sam Cornish - cornish.html">https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/bios/samuel-cornish.html John Russwurm - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/russwurm-john-1799-1851/ Freedom’s Journal - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/freedom-s-journal-1827-1829/ Negro World - aclgovernment.com/history/the-negro-world/">https://www.unia-aclgovernment.com/history/the-negro-world/ Black Panther Newspaper - https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm Jamilah Lemieux - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2021/1/21/episode-271-the-notebook-suite-vol-4-jamilah-lemieux dream hampton - https://www.dreamhampton.com/ I Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520251762/ive-got-the-light-of-freedom This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles Cobb - https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed Hammer and Hoe by Robin DG Kelley - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2020/7/19/episode-255-the-abolition-suite-vol-4-robin-dg-kelley Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856161/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement/ David Gilbert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilbert_(activist) Edgar Bronfman Jr. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman_Jr. Annie Levin on the history of zionism - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isr-iso/2002/no24/levin.html Subscribe to AirGo - http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 fight for mental health is a frontier in the battle against privatization and divestment. Support the work of the Defund CPD - https://twitter.com/defundcpdchi?lang=en Support the work of STOP - https://www.stopchicago.org/ Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 the mental health clinics that were shuttered over a decade ago, and whether funds from CPD should be used to fund a non-police mental health crisis response program. We break down the referendum and its importance with Delaine Powerful, who has been central to the campaign in the 20th ward. SHOW NOTES Find your polling location - voter-information.html">https://chicagoelections.gov/en/your-voter-information.html Volunteer with the campaign - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFQV6pQyVaMkxYozDVuMX1Zy8ffcQP8Ka6duvhvkuoWKBCEw/viewform Subscribe to AirGo - http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 support that the Center now offers. CTJC Community Organizer Mark Clements and Co-Executive Director Aislinn Pulley discuss the birth of the center, expanding definitions of repair and reparation, and what healing looks like for survivors of torture by the Chicago Police Department. SHOW NOTES Support the Survivor Repair Fund - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/repairfund Listen to CTJC Event Series from May 2021 - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/chicago-torture-justice-center Learn more about CTJC - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/ We Charge Genocide - http://wechargegenocide.org/ Damo Day - http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2015/05/20/we-do-this-for-damo/ Rekia Boyd - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/rekia-boyd Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. - https://twitter.com/chairmanfredjr1?lang=en People’s Law Office - https://peopleslawoffice.com/ Jane Elliot - https://janeelliott.com/ Prentis Hemphill - https://prentishemphill.com/ Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/about-us/ Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

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 fam and emerging superstar Ravyn Lenae. Ravyn, who first appeared on the show back in October of 2015 on Episode 14, just dropped her debut full-length Hypnos. We break down the types of growth that led to the sounds of the project, how she's learned to trust her voice, and the ways she is interested in contributing to community beyond her music. SHOW NOTES Listen to Hypnos - https://ravynlenae.lnk.to/Hypnos Follow Ravyn - https://www.instagram.com/ravynlenae/ Hear all of AirGo's listening party episodes - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/airgo-listening-parties @ravynlenaesounds

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 guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. On the final episode of the series, Dame and Teresa are joined by the brilliant Leah Penniman. A leading voice in the fight for food and land sovereignty for Black farmers and community, Leah is the Co-Director and Farm Manager of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm in upstate New York. She talks about the deeply rooted connections between our food systems and incarceration, how Afro-Indigenous planting practices protect and rejuvenate the land, and how the organization has grown from dropping off carrots to hungry neighbors to leading the fight to reimagine our food systems (while still dropping off carrots to neighbors). SHOW NOTES Tiffany LaShae - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/food-sovereignty-education/3d/tiffany-lashae/ Soul Fire farm - https://www.soulfirefarm.org Farming While Black - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/media/farming-while-black/ Baba Curtis Muhammad - https://snccdigital.org/people/curtis-hayes/ Freedom Food Alliance - https://freedomfoodalliance.wordpress.com/ Rev Garrison Frazier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Frazier Greenwood food blockade - https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/ Dr Gail Myers - https://www.drgailmyers.com/ Rhythms of the Land - https://www.rhythmsoftheland.com/ Booker T Whatley - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/you-can-thank-black-horticulturist-booker-t-whatley-your-csa-180977771/ Kombit (Haitian Work Parties) - agricultural-system-of-kombit-in-haiti.html">http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-agricultural-system-of-kombit-in-haiti.html Phytoremediation - https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-04/documents/a_citizens_guide_to_phytoremediation.pdf Hazel Johnson - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/ Karen Washington - https://www.karenthefarmer.com/about All We Can Save - https://www.allwecansave.earth/ Working the Roots - https://bookshop.org/books/working-the-roots-over-400-years-of-traditional-african-american-healing/9780692857878 Freedom Farmers - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469643700/freedom-farmers/ Black Nature - https://ugapress.org/book/9780820334318/black-nature/ Highlander Center - https://highlandercenter.org/ Reparations map - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/ Learn more about the Portal Project - sjiportalproject.com/ Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 subset of Covid 19 Mutual Aid; and Zhou Shuxuan of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project, a grassroots formation of Asian/Asian American community members organizing to provide support for migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers. The squad talks about the ways that criminalization intersects with Asian migrant experiences, food and communication as the building blocks of organization, how they adapted their approaches in the era of pandemic, and much more. SHOW NOTES Learn more about MPOP - https://www.mpopsea.org/ Support Free Them All WA - https://www.facebook.com/FreeThemAllWa/ Get in tune with APICAG - https://www.facebook.com/people/APICAGAsian-Pacific-Islander-Cultural-Awareness-Group/100069203014149/ Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Dig into One Million Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/

This episode's guest is community stalwart, photographer, and spacemaker ThoughtPoet. A longtime participant in creative and social movement spaces in Chicago, Thought has emerged as a curator and creative organizer in his own right over the last few years. His photography has shown the vulnerability and humanity of artists and organizers, and the conversations his exhibitions facilitate have been important for liberatory movement. We talk about this growth into a spacemaker role, the ups and downs of participating in these communities, and tenderness as a challenge and asset. SHOW NOTES Follow ThoughtPoet - https://www.instagram.com/thoughtpoet77/ Bring AirGo to your campus or organization - https://airgoradio.com/booking

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 guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. This episode's guest, Kennedy Bartley, is a Chicago-based organizer and thinker who until recently served as the Legislative Director of United Working Families Chicago and has been a central force behind the Defund CPD campaign. Kennedy breaks down the radical potential of contesting the electoral space, the value of participatory democracy, and how contested coalition with elected officials can be a pathway to tangible, liberatory change. SHOW NOTES UWF Chicago - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/ Defund CPD - https://linktr.ee/defundcpd Learn more about the Portal Project: http://sjiportalproject.com/

The guys have the opportunity to chop it up with organizing stalwart and long-time comrade Dixon Romeo. Dixon is the Campaigns Director for United Working Families, and is one of the cofounders of Not Me We, a group building community power in South Shore. He breaks down his tactics and methodologies for supporting his neighbors in the fight for housing protections, how the Obama Presidential Center is already impacting South Shore, and how a leaderful movement is the only path forward. SHOW NOTES United Working Families - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/ Not Me We - https://instagram.com/notmewe_ Follow Dixon - https://www.instagram.com/dixonromeo/

This month's Cottage Groove guest DJ mix comes to us from Ariel Zetina. Ariel is a Chicago based artist, focusing in music production and deejaying. Though her music can be considered techno, she takes inspiration from Chicago house, Belizean genres punta and brukdown, and the queer club scene worldwide. She's a resident DJ at the legendary Smartbar here in Chicago. You can hear more of her music here: https://linktr.ee/arielzetina. Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACKLIST DJ Gigola, Kev Koko, Perra Inmuda - No Es Amor CVNT TR4XXX - Can't Hide From House Jesse Saunders ft. Banig - Rock It (Col Lawton Dub) Annika Wolfe - Vibrate (No Vox) Tinashe - X (ft. Jeremih) O'ner - Magnetic Feel D. Tiffany, Roza Terenzi - Liquorice Skritch Ariel Zetina x ???????- ?????? (forthcoming) Laenz - Leopard Gate Maurice & Da Posse - I Got A Big Dick Michael Andrews - Goldfish DEBIT - 5th Night Maara - Take the Wheel Miss Sweetie dj genderfluid - let's get funky RAVETRX & Mani Festo - Feels Good Inside Bitter Babe & Nick Leon - Delirio Mister Wallace - HATERAID (Ariel Zetina Remix) Wilhemina x Jasmine Infiniti - Im Baby PlayPlay - Maneuvers (Drvmmy Remix) Ikävä Pii - East Wing Oslo House aya - and eats itself and eats itself and eats itself Club Politix - Morning Recording Viikatory - Assigned to Main Mix Asquith - Forget the Past Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down

¡El equipo de 1ME está muy feliz de recibir a Zinnia Alejandro de Taller Salud en el podcast! Zinnia es la directora del programa Acuerdo de Paz a Taller Salud, una organización feminista de base comunitaria dedicada a mejorar el acceso de las mujeres a la salud, reducir la violencia en entornos comunitarios y fomentar el desarrollo económico a través de la educación y el activismo. Fundada en 1979, Taller Salud es una organización independiente, no gubernamental, sin fines de lucro. Para nuestro primer episodio bilingüe, estamos publicando dos versiones, una en inglés y otra en español. Puede encontrar ambas versiones en el feed de su podcast, así como las transcripciones disponibles en los sitios web de AirGo y One Million Experiments. Gracias a nuestro coanfitriona Melissa Duprey, y tambien a Franceli Chapman-Varela para narración en traducción. SHOW NOTES: Lee la transcripción aquí - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rdiZLmrED-52ivnsCwiHSxqyoRp0VSIP/view?usp=sharing Aprende mas - https://www.tallersalud.com/ Escucha a One Million Experiments en ingles - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

The 1ME team is so hyped to welcome Zinnia Alejandro from Taller Salud onto the pod! Zinnia is the director of the Acuerdo de Paz (peace accord) program at Taller Salud, which is a community based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community and to encourage economic growth through education and activism. Founded in 1979, the organization is based in Loíza, Puerto Rico. For our first bilingual episode, we are releasing two versions–one in English and one in Spanish. You can find both versions on your podcast feed, as well as transcripts available on the AirGo and One Million Experiments websites. SHOW NOTES Read the transcript here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZ8kx62HGbMEvS68ONLgrXpRrIrZU9QP/view?usp=sharing Learn more about Taller Salud - https://www.tallersalud.com/

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 guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. On Episode 3, Damon and Teresa talk with Harsha Walia. Harsha is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and, most recently, Border and Rule (2021). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She breaks down how borders are central to carceral systems, the lessons to be learned from indigenous boundary protection, and what is more possible when we emerge through the portal into a borderless world. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Harsha's work - https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/

On this bonus episode, we hear a conversation recorded live at the Chicago Transformation Collab on June 26th, 2022. The Collab brought together a select community of leaders to get aligned in the current moment, have transformative conversations, and build stronger collaborative visions in the fight against fearmongering, carceral policies, and attempts to rollback modest reforms. This conversation, entitled "What We're Up Against," discusses the tension between the messages we want to share, and the messages people are ready to hear. In a conversation that centers the importance of this moment for narrative alignment in Chicago, panelists will discuss tactics that have succeeded or faltered in the past and what lessons we can glean from such outcomes. Participants include: Insha Rahman, Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships, Vera Institute of Justice Sam Sinynagwe, Founder, Mapping Police Violence & Police Scorecard Sharone Mitchell, Public Defender, Cook County Lacy Wright, Executive Director, Hillman Grad Foundation SHOW NOTES Learn about the Chicago Transformation Summit: http://chicagotransformation.org/summit/

The guys recently had the opportunity to be a part of Columbia University's Anti-Oppression and Decolonial Oral History workshop series. They hosted the final workshop in the series, entitled Talking Toward Repair, in which they break down how AirGo is attempting to create an anticolonial practice of dialogue, media-making, and archive-building. We wanted to share some pieces of the workshop as a teaching tool and resource for how to create humanizing, subject-to-subject dialogue in service of liberation! Bring AirGo to your campus or organization Hit up bookings@alliedmedia.org or go to http://airgoradio.com/booking. You can watch video of the workshop here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQHFokyNdjg

Recently Dame and Kiss had the opportunity to hop on City Cast Chicago, a daily news podcast, fresh every weekday at 6 a.m. It’s a smart and delightful new way to connect with the city we share. With host Jacoby Cochran, the guys talk about the use of Chicago as a political scapegoat for politicians unwilling to offer common sense solutions to gun violence, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 10 p.m. curfew for minors, the environmental justice fight to end “sacrifice zones,” and some more book-themed good news you definitely want to stick around for! Subscribe to City Cast Chicago - https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/city-cast-chicago/id1557798148 Learn more and subscribe to their morning newsletter at http://citycast.fm/chicago

AirGo's excited to help spread the word about a new show from our movement family! Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution. The first episodes just came out, subscribe wherever you get your pods!

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 guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. On Episode 2, Dame and cohost Teresa Cordova of UIC talk Economic Democracy with Esteban Kelly. Esteban is Executive Director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and is a worker-owner and co-founder of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance), a worker co-op that builds capacity for social justice projects through intersectional training and consulting. He breaks down how building a worker coop might be easier than you think, the ways that we have to reclaim concepts of structure and organization from the capitalist class, and what he imagines the great labor awakening of today turning into. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Esteban's work - http://Aorta.coop Clark Arrington - https://www.heroes.coop/post/clark-arrington Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance - https://philadelphia.coop/ The Working World - https://www.theworkingworld.org/us/ The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives - https://www.usworker.coop/home/ Democracy at Work Institute - https://institute.coop/ The CIA reads French theory: on the intellectual labor of dismantling the cultural left - https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/ Cyborg Manifesto - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto ROC USA - https://rocusa.org/ EB PREC - https://ebprec.org/ Kensington Corridor Trust - https://kensingtoncorridortrust.org/ Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard - 0-271-06216-7.html">https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html The Revolution will not be Funded - https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded When to Talk & When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue & Resistance - https://bookshop.org/books/when-to-talk-and-when-to-fight-the-strategic-choice-between-dialogue-and-resistance/9781629638362 Dragonfly Partners - partners.com/">https://www.dragonfly-partners.com/ Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/

Our Cottage Groove DJ mix series returns this month with another one of Chicago's best providing a new set of sounds. On this installment, we've got AirGo alum and fam Kane One sharing some sounds. Kane, aka Miguel Aguilar, is a DJ, artist, educator, and grassroots organizer who was on the show way back in 2018 (you can catch that episode link below). Get in the groove! Kane One on AirGo: https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/11/5/episode-161-kane-one Follow Kane One: https://twitter.com/kane_one_ Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACKLIST 1. My House - Rhythm Control 2. It's You - J Paul Getto, Joey Chicago 3. I'll House You - Jungle Brothers 4. Bring Down The Walls - Robert Owens 5. Nu Nu - Lidell Townsell 6. Welcome To My Groove - Mellow Man Ace 7. Cada Vez - Inaky Garcia, Jerry Davila, Mimi Barber 8. Sacude - Tony Touch 9. All I Need - Shiba San, Tim Baresko 10. House Sensation - CZR, J Paul Getto 11. Bad Enough - CZR 12. Love Can't Turn Around - Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk & Darryl Pandy 13. Jack Your Body - Steve 'Silk' Hurley 14. Land Of Confusion - Armando 15. Break 4 Love - Raze 16. French Kiss - Lil Louis

On this episode, the 1ME squad talks with Alicia Hurtado of the Chicago Abortion Fund, a movement stalwart that has been funding and supporting abortion access in Illinois and beyond for over 30 years. Alicia breaks down the relationship between abortions and criminalization, the steps we can all take right now to make abortion access possible in our communities, and the ways in which fighting the stigmatization of this necessary health care procedure can impact how we understand care as a whole. SHOW NOTES Support the work of the Chicago Abortion Fund - https://chicagoabortionfund.salsalabs.org/makeadonation/index.html Find help getting an abortion - https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/how-we-can-help Chicago Abortion Fund Helpline - (312) 663-0338 #CareNotCops campaign - https://www.uchicagounited.org/carenotcops Dissenters - https://wearedissenters.org/ Toolkit on how to talk about abortion - http://bit.ly/sayabortion Resource of fake clinics, known as "pregnancy crisis centers" - http://exposefakeclinics.com Repro Legal Help Line - https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over these four weeks, you're going to hear Dame and Kiss be interviewed by some of our closest comrades and compatriots about the show, who they are behind the podcast curtain, and much more. Come celebrate with us! We wrap up the Celebration Suite by welcoming our life partners Jennifer and Rosie into the booth as guest hosts. They share some mailbag questions from our listeners, ask about some of their AirGo curiosities, and dream a little about what podcasts they would each want to make. SHOW NOTES Sign up for Rosie's Chicago Abortion Fund raffle for a chance to win her screenprint: https://bit.ly/vulvaflytrap As a reminder–you can bring us to your campus, institution, or community organization for workshops and performances! Find out more here: https://airgoradio.com/booking Leave a rating and review of AirGo: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. On this first episode, cohosts Damon Williams of AirGo and Teresa Córdova of UIC's Great Cities Institute talk about Abolition with organizer, law professor, and writer Dean Spade. Dean breaks down how his work connects with larger movements for abolition, the ways that the legal system disrupts social movements toward liberation, and how to wrestle with grief collectively in this painful time. SHOW NOTES Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/ PREA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003 Black and Pink: https://www.blackandpink.org/ Oakland Power Projects: https://oaklandpowerprojects.org/ Young Lords and Lincoln Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over these four weeks, you're going to hear Dame and Kiss be interviewed by some of our closest comrades and compatriots about the show, who they are behind the podcast curtain, and much more. Come celebrate with us! On this episode, AirGo's Multimedia Producer Davon Clark steps to the mic to interview Dame and Kiss. The AirGo trio digs into Davon's contribution, how he's seen the show evolve, what he's learned about each of the hosts over the years, and much more. SHOW NOTES As a reminder–you can bring us to your campus, institution, or community organization for workshops and performances! Find out more here: https://airgoradio.com/booking Leave a rating and review of AirGo: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Leave us a question for our mailbag episode! Email the text or voice memo to contact@airgoradio.com

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over the next four weeks, you're going to hear Dame and Kiss be interviewed by some of our closest comrades and compatriots about the show, who they are behind the podcast curtain, and much more. Come celebrate with us! On this episode, we're surrounded by some of the most brilliant thinkers and question-askers who we're in community with–Tonika Lewis Johnson, Tiff Walden of the Triibe, Bill Ayers, Dometi Pongo, and Leor Galil of the Chicago Reader. This all-star team of community media-makers flip the script and ask Dame and Kiss about their friendship, lasting memories of the show, and much more. SHOW NOTES As a reminder–you can bring us to your campus, institution, or community organization for workshops and performances! Find out more here: https://airgoradio.com/booking Leave a rating and review of AirGo: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Leave us a question for our mailbag episode! Email the text or voice memo to contact@airgoradio.com

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over the next four weeks, you're going to hear Dame and Kiss be interviewed by some of our closest comrades and compatriots about the show, who they are behind the podcast curtain, and much more. Come celebrate with us! We kick off the Celebration Suite with our good friend Eve L. Ewing, who is kind enough to take over the interviewer seat for this convo. She gets us to break down the origin story of the show, the evolution of our friendship, the dream guest list, and a whole bunch of other gems. SHOW NOTES As a reminder–you can bring us to your campus, institution, or community organization for workshops and performances! Find out more here: https://airgoradio.com/booking Leave a rating and review of AirGo: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Leave us a question for our mailbag episode! Email the text or voice memo to contact@airgoradio.com

The squad heads to our movement sister city for this episode of One Million Experiments with the Detroit Safety Team, led by Curtis Renee and John Sloan III. The organization, which was birthed out of creating anticarceral safety processes for the Detroit-based Allied Media Conference, builds a network of community-trained safety practitioners across the city, providing a pathway toward communities that are self reliant—where it is understood that we have the capacity to rely on ourselves and our community to stay safe and handle harm productively. We talk about the evolving definition of safety, learning from communal evaluation, how the pandemic disrupted movement work, and much more. SHOW NOTES Support the work of Detroit Safety Team - https://www.redefinesafety.org/donate Learn more about Detroit Safety Team - https://www.redefinesafety.org/our-vision Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/ Ron Scott - https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/11/30/ron-scott-detroit-activist-dies-68/76555556/ Allied Media Conference - https://amc.alliedmedia.org/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Our Cottage Groove DJ mix series returns this month with another one of Chicago's best providing a new set of sounds. We're blessed to share a guest mix from DJ Lady D, a queen of the Chicago House music scene who has been holding it down for years. Playing internationally as well as in Chicago’s major nightclubs for the better part of two decades, DJ Lady D is a featured mixer every fourth Friday of the month for Vocalo.org's DJ series (91.1 FM-Chicago). Follow on IG: http://instagram.com/djladyd Learn more: http://Djladydchicago.com Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACKLIST Gorillaz – Strobelite feat Peven Everett (Kaytranada Remix) Nephertiti A.D. – Space & Time (Metaphonic Mix) Cajmere – Let Me Be (92 Mix) Mortimer Snerd III – The 90s Were Special LeRon Carson – 88th & Luella Artone, Jay J - Back In Da Dayz (Dutchican Soul Remix) Kid Enigma – Easily Triggered (Geology Mix) Mihalis Safris – Journeys Osunlade – I Knee’d Chez Damier – Berlin Nights In Paris JT Donaldson, Liv.E – Stay Inside ( Sandy Rivera Remix) GrooveJet – If This Ain’t Love (Riva Starr Skylight Hard Dub) Ralphi Rosario, Craig J. Snider, Eric Kupper, DJ Lady D, Frankie Knuckles – FK Always (Extended Mix)

AirGo is joined on this episode by the incomparable Maira Khwaja. Maira is a writer and organizer of Public Strategy for the Invisible Institute, a journalism organization on the South Side of Chicago. She's a determined and joyful community organizer, building collective power with a variety of community projects and initiatives including food distribution across the city, the fight for housing protections in the wake of the Obama Center, and many more. Maira is also one of the most loving and caring humans in our circles, and it was a pleasure to celebrate and learn from her. The convo went so deep that we had to break it up into two episodes for you to enjoy. Part 1 came out last week, we recommend checking it out before hopping into this episode! SHOW NOTES Explore Envisioning Justice RE:ACTION - https://envisioningjustice.org/AG/ Support the Chicago Torture Survivor Relief fund - https://www.classy.org/campaign/survivor-relief-fund-in-the-time-of-covid-19/c278576 Somewhere in Wiscansin episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000496157613 Harith Augustus exhibit - architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/chicago-architecture-biennial-2019">https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/chicago-architecture-biennial-2019 Chicago Police Torture Archive - https://chicagopolicetorturearchive.com/ The Mauritanian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tmxxzZXLEM John Burge Survivors - https://chicagotorture.org/reparations/history/ Deadly Exchange campaign - https://deadlyexchange.org/ Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo - the-exceptional.aspx">https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/Pages/remaking-the-exceptional.aspx KOCO - https://kocoonline.org/ Not Me We - https://instagram.com/notmewe_ STOP Chicago - https://www.stopchicago.org/ Jacqui Germain - https://www.jacquigermain.com/

AirGo is joined on this episode by the incomparable Maira Khwaja. Maira is a writer and organizer of Public Strategy for the Invisible Institute, a journalism organization on the South Side of Chicago. She's a determined and joyful community organizer, building collective power with a variety of community projects and initiatives including food distribution across the city, the fight for housing protections in the wake of the Obama Center, and many more. Maira is also one of the most loving and caring humans in our circles, and it was a pleasure to celebrate and learn from her. The convo went so deep that we had to break it up into two episodes for you to enjoy. Here's Part 1, with Part 2 to follow next week! SHOW NOTES Explore Envisioning Justice RE:ACTION - https://envisioningjustice.org/AG/ Support the Chicago Torture Survivor Relief fund - https://www.classy.org/campaign/survivor-relief-fund-in-the-time-of-covid-19/c278576 R3 Coalition - https://www.facebook.com/R3Coalition/ Andy Clarno - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-188-andy-clarno/id1016530091?i=1000438261203 UChicago Crime Lab - https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/labs/crime Trina Reynolds-Tyler on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000436477593 Jamie Kalven on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000434150947 Beneath the Surface, a project that investigates gender-based violence at the hands of the police - http://www.btsurface.com/ Citizens Police Data Project - https://cpdp.co/ Marketbox - https://marketboxchi.org/ Saul Alinsky - https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/saul-alinsky-american-community-organizer-political-activist-and-writer-discusses-his-book Almighty Black P Stone Nation by Natalie Y Moore - the-products-9781569768464.php">https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/almighty-black-p-stone-nation--the-products-9781569768464.php Natalie Y Moore on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000502721915 Dissenters - https://wearedissenters.org/ Asha Ransby Sporn on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000458120525

One Million Experiments turns to the Twin Cities to connect with Signe Harriday of Relationships Evolving Possibilies, or REP. REP is a network of dedicated abolitionists showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of the people in crisis. They help community build pods of communal reliance, and facilitate a hotline to address the needs of community members in times of crisis. We talk with Signe about how relationships are the building blocks of liberation work, how having a different number to call shifts individual and communal consciousness, and how Black liberation and indigenous sovereignty are at the center of the multi-century struggle of which we are all a part. SHOW NOTES Support the Work of REP: https://repformn.org/support-this-work/ Sharon Bridgforth: https://www.sharonbridgforth.com/ Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/ Mental Health First Oakland: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland Beyond Survival: survival.html">https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html The Fields at Rootsprings: https://rootspringsmn.org/ Follow REP: https://www.instagram.com/repformn In the Twin Cities and need help in crisis? Call or text the hotline Fri/Sat between 7pm and 12am: 952.737.3730 Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

As our Cottage Groove DJ Mix series hits its 20th episode, AirGo cohost Kiss aka DJ Empathy hops back into action with a new mix. Kiss shares what's been in his heavy rotation–mostly some rappers who say a lot of words–and even gets a little hopeful by the end. Listen to all of the Cottage Groove mixes: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACK LIST Nobles - The Alchemist x Earl Sweatshirt Tell Me Bout the Stars - @SemiraTruth All I Need - Wiki x Earl Sweatshirt Johnny P's Caddy - Benny the Butcher x J. Cole Skip to My Lou - Qari (@longlivecarl) x Twista (twistaofficial) Rice & Gravy - Smino x @MonteBooker $payforhaiti - @Kaytranada x @mach-hommy Soldier - @SabaPIVOT x @joseph-chilliams Time Moves Slow - @badbadnotgood x Sam Herring SELF LUH - Mach-Hommy

On this episode, the guys have the pleasure of kicking it with the brilliant Jared Ball. Ball is a Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore and is founder/curator of http://imixwhatilike.org, a multimedia hub of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. He is also author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, a text that has been deeply formative to Damon's thinking and ideological framework. We get into the weeds of the book, how Ball has evolved as a movement worker and media maker, the value and necessity of emancipatory journalism, and much more. The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power - 3-030-42355-1.pdf">https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-42355-1.pdf Dhoruba bin Wahad - https://www.dhorubabinwahad.com/ Line Goes Up - the Problem w NFTs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g Emancipatory Journalism, coined by Hemant Shaw - https://imixwhatilike.org/2011/02/01/imwil-emancipatory-journalism-and-media/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On Episode 4, the guys have the honor and privilege to talk with Tamar Manasseh. Tamar is the founder of MASK (Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings), an experiment that began in 2015 as a way to put eyes on the streets, interrupt violence and crime, and teach children to grow up as friends rather than enemies. From her lawn chair at 75th and Stewart in Chicago, Tamar and her village have transformed the responses to violence and harm in their neighborhood, generated educational and communal programs toward liberation, and illuminated a path forward that renders punishment obsolete. She talks about how the work has evolved, the role of news media in perpetuating state violence, how her positionality as a Jew and a rabbi has molded her vantage point, and much more. SHOW NOTES Support the work of MASK - https://www.ontheblock.org/support Follow them on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/maskontheblock/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

On this episode, the guys are joined by the hilarious Lisa Beasley. Lisa is a comedian, producer, spacemaker, and artist who has, most recently, blown up for her acerbic and spot-on impressions of our infamous mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lisa breaks down how she has grown as a creator, the heartbreaking origins of her fantastic Lori impression, and the ways in which this pointed political satire is a salve for both her and the Chicago movement community as a whole. SHOW NOTES Follow Lisa - https://www.instagram.com/lisabevolving/ JY Plantz - https://instagram.com/jyplantz Black Magic Potions - https://www.instagram.com/blackmagicpotions/ Wakandacon - https://wakandaconforever.com/ Anjanette Young - young-police-justice.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/opinion/anjanette-young-police-justice.html Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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. We had the privilege and joy of catching up with AirGo fam Tasha, who just dropped the wonderful album Tell Me What You Miss the Most. She digs into the stories behind the songs, creating refuge through music, drawing boundaries for relationships with audiences, the legacy of her collaborator on the project, and much more. Listen to Tell Me What You Miss the Most - http://fatherdaughter.co/tasha Follow Tasha - https://www.instagram.com/wowtashawow/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo. Rae Chardonnay Taylor is a DJ, Arts Administrator and events producer based in Chicago dedicated to encouraging a life of open-minded learning and expression. She began DJing in 2010 and has since held residencies at prominent venues in Chicago including the late Double Door, The Promontory and Soho House. She has opened for acts such as Janelle Monae, Jamila Woods, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Madison McFerrin, Megan Thee Stallion, OSHUN, Tiffany Gouche, CeCe Peniston, J Rocc, Just Blaze, Little Dragon, Big Freedia, G Herbo and many others. As an arts manager, she's been involved in programming at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Stony Island Arts Bank, School of the Art Institute and various arts organizations. She is the Founder of Black Eutopia, a series of segmented programming intended to cultivate space for marginalized communities. She is also a co-founder of the award winning Party Noire. She was recently noted as one of Chicago’s Top 5 DJ’s by NPR, and Chicago’s Best DJ by the Chicago Reader. Learn more: http://www.raechardonnay.com/ Follow: https://www.instagram.com/raechardonnay/ Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACKLIST as the night moves - tall black guy stuck - durran bernarr ft. ari lennox lately - yazmin lacey have a good time - adam ness ft jamila woods & mia gladstone ma foom bey - redsoul edit Music Man (DJ Spinna Remix) [feat. Grey Reverend] [DJ Spinna Remix] - Nickodemus Get Uugly (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow) - DUCKWRTH Meet Up (feat. Maleek Berry) - Estelle Tight Leash (Instrumental) - Black Noi$e Bahia Dreamin’ - Karriem Riggins Howigotover (feat. Klevah) - B. Cool-Aid Moody! (feat. Saba) - Jean Deaux Want 2 Love U - Budgie

AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo. This mix is from DJ Ca$h Era. A lover of community, connection, and all things Chicago, DJ Ca$h Era continues to shake the room as a multifaceted, internationally recognized performer. She is the official DJ for the Coulee Sisters and current preferred and resident DJ for Chicago’s hottest venues like Hydrate, Scarlet Bar, The Promontory, Soho House, and more. DJ Ca$h Era has worked with notable brands including Jordan, Nike, BET, Adidas, Beats by Dre, AT&T, and Jugrnaut. She has held stages at notorious music festivals including Lollapalooza, My House Music Festival, Pitchfork, Burning Man Music Festival and more. She has also opened for well-known artists including G Herbo, Taylor Bennett, Jamila Woods, Ghostface Killah, and more. Ca$h Era is producer at 720AM WGN Radio and a highly sought-after DJ in Chicago and beyond. Learn more: https://www.djcashera.com Follow on IG: www.instagram.com/djcashera/ Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACK LIST SHOTGUN - Matt Muse Feat. Femdot All Falls Down - Kanye West Get Em High - Kanye West All About The Benjis - Puff Daddy, Lil Kim, & Notorious B.I.G. Girls In The Hood - Meg Thee Stallion Hood Nigga - Gorilla Zoe LL Cool J - Squeak Pivot & MFN Melo Tombstone - Rod Wave Girls Want Girls - Drake Mmm Mmm - Kali Orange Soda - Baby Keem Moody - Jean Deaux & Saba 4 Thangs - Freddie Gibbs Bad Boys - Pivot Gang feat. Smino Bad Boyz - Shyne What Up Gangsta - 50 Cent Oh Boy - Cam'ron & Juelz Santana Maze - Juice WRLD Rapstar - Polo G Beat Box 2 - SpotemGottem No More Parties - Coi Leray Feat. Durk Gifted - Cordea

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On this episode, we talk with Selma Raven and Sara Allen of the Friendly Fridge BX, a community food distribution point and mutual aid experiment at 242nd Street and Broadway in the Bronx. The duo talks about how the experiment has been transformative for all, the steep learning curve that the two of them had as the fridge got up and running, and how the act of experimentation taught them to act boldly and without permission. Support the Friendly Fridge - https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-friendly-fridge-bx Follow them on IG - https://www.instagram.com/thefriendlyfridgebx/?hl=en Find a Community Fridge near you! - https://freedge.org/locations/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-…ts/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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. On this listening party episode, we're joined by AirGo fam femdot, who just released the stellar EP Not For Sale. We talk through the hypothesis of the project, creating cohesiveness across several years of music, the tension between money and self-worth, and much more! SHOW NOTES Listen to Not For Sale - https://femdot.ffm.to/notforsale Support Delacreme Scholars - http://delacremescholars.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On this episode, Dame and Daniel talk with Black Trans Travel Fund Founder & Executive Director Devin Lowe. Devin breaks down how the experiment emerged out of the needs of his loved ones, the surprising and gratifying ways that the work has expanded, and the relationship of freedom of personal movement to collective liberatory social movement. SHOW NOTES Support the work of BTTF - https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com/donate Miss Boogie - https://www.instagram.com/dearmsboogie/?hl=en Noname Book Club - https://nonamebooks.com/ TDoR - Trans Day of Remembrance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance The Emergency Release Fund - https://www.emergencyrelease.org/ Legal Aid Society - https://legalaidnyc.org/ STAR Manifesto - https://peaceandsocialism.tumblr.com/post/634720140594937856/star-manifesto Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas - https://twitter.com/AbolitionF_ists Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - https://millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo. This mix is from DJ LOkari, aka Elgin Bokari Smith. Elgin is a Chicago based DJ, Activist, Visual and Performing Artist from St. Louis, Missouri. He has shared stages with the likes of Bone Thugs and Harmony, Ruby Ibarra, The Terra Godz, Saba, Da Brat, Clark Airlines, Mega Ran, Bop Alloy, No Name Gypsy, DJ Esco, Young Chop, Lil Crazed, Rebel Diaz, Twista, and Chingy… just to name a few. Elgin also gives back to his community as a Teaching Artist, Program Director of Free Write Arts & Literacy, and President of the activist and artist collective, Elephant Rebellion. Elgin also is the co creator of Pocket Con the comic book convention that celebrates characters of color. Learn more about Elgin: https://www.elginbokari.com/ Follow Elgin on IG: https://www.instagram.com/djlokari/ Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes TRACK LIST 1. Ariel - Chai Tulani Feat Calid B 2. Say - Daryn Alexus 3. Whine For Me - Superboy Da Viper 4. 2 STEP (Clean) [feat. Masego & Rhymefest] - DJ Jazzy Jeff 5. Hang Loose (feat. Chuck D, Sam Veren & Lucas G) - Ric Wilson 6. Brother Feat Add 2 - Sam Trump 7. Chance The Rapper & Knox Fortune - All Night (Kaytranada Extended Joint) 8. Walkin On The Moon (Feat. Kanye West) - The Dream 9. I Want You (Kaytranada Edition) -Common 10. We Broke - Cole DeGenova 11. WCKFA [Sample] - Erthe St. James 12. OCTAVIA - Jamila Woods 13. So and So - Saba 14. Houdini - Ace Da Vinci 15. I hate humans (feat. Mic Terror) - MEL 16. CLOUDZ - Mother Nature, BoatHouse & Sir Michael Rocks 17. Uchiha Seji [prod. GODS HAND] - Säge, The 64th Wonder 18. Pokemon TRILL VERSIONI {カリウ} TGBI SPROUT TOWER, HM02, FLYI Prod. By ChakraVartin The Creator - Khalil Halim/Okugawa Jr 19. Mr. Socko - Joseph Chilliams 20. Slice Em Up - Kabashi 21. Floatin - Gem Tree 22. Free the Watoto (feat. Julian Harris) - Calid B 23. Y.G.M.F.U. (feat. Adam Ness) - Ridley Victoria 24. The Libation - Boukhepra. 25. Luggage (Remix) [feat. Sam Trump] - Sidewalk Chalk 26. Self Care Ft. Sayon Yoeun, Kahala Elizabeth - L O Kari 27. You_re Enough - Mykele Deville 28. Have a Good Time (feat. Jamila Woods) - Adam Ness 29. Reality Check (ft. Eryn Allen Kane & Akenya) - No Name 30. HEAVEN ALL AROUND ME - Saba

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action. On the final episode of Season 2, the guys head to the Bronx to talk with Diana Hernández. A professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Diana digs into her process of moving from advocating solutions to building deeper understanding of the problem, how her childhood in the South Bronx built her understandings of health and community, the complexities of fighting for quality housing for all, and much more. Plus, a cameo from her six month-old daughter! SHOW NOTES Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol - www.goodreads.com/book/show/51537.Amazing_Grace Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Jonathan Kozol - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heat-wave-eric-klinenberg/1117244493

This episode is an audio remembrance and tribute to our comrade and brother Malik Alim, who transcended this plane August 20, 2021. Thanks to all of the family and community members who shared their messages and memories. Donate to the Malik Alim Legacy Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/malik-alim-family-legacy-fund

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On this first episode, hosts Dame and Kiss introduce the project alongside Interrupting Criminalization's Eva Nagao. Then the guys take a deep dive into the project with 1ME co-creator Mariame Kaba, who talks about the project's evolution, the limits of framing the projects as "alternatives" to police and prisons, and how she hopes the project moves people into movement and action. SHOW NOTES The podcast is brought to you by AirGo (airgoradio) and Interrupting Criminalization (www.interruptingcriminalization.com). Subscribe to One Million Experiments wherever you get your podcasts! Explore the One Million Experiments Virtual Encyclopedia -http://millionexperiments.com/ Paola Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/# Project NIA - nia.org/">http://project-nia.org/ adrienne maree brown - adriennemareebrown.net/ Shira Hassan - just-practice.org/about-shira Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Mia Mingus - twitter.com/miamingus

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action. On Episode 5, Dame and Kiss head east to talk Detroit with the inimitable Monica Lewis-Patrick. Known as the "Water Warrior," Monica is the cofounder of We The People Detroit, a community-based grassroots organization aiming to inform, educate, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights, land, water, education, and the democratic process. She talks about the links between water access and austerity, the gender-based violence of water shutoffs, the regional coalition of water organizing across the Great Lakes, how her mother called her to action, and much more. SHOW NOTES Support We The People Detroit - www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com Gloria House - snccdigital.org/people/gloria-house/ Rev. Dr. JoAnne Watson - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_Watson ALEC - www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed Charity Hicks - https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commoner/remembering-charity-hicks Prof. Gwen Winston - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/one-song-playlist/monica-lewis-patrick-gwen-9ZWG3l-kheD/ We the Youth Detroit - www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com/youth-leaders The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274 Water Shutoffs During COVID-19 and Black Lives: Case Study Detroit -https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0064 Clean Water and Reproductive Justice - water-and-reproductive-justice.pdf">https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/repro/clean-water-and-reproductive-justice.pdf Water insecurity and psychosocial distress: case study of the Detroit water shutoffs - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32930795/ Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-changemakers/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo. This mix is from Sadie Woods. Sadie is an award winning post-disciplinary artist, independent curator, and deejay. Her work focuses primarily on social movements, liberatory practices, cultural memory, and producing collaborations within communities of difference. She also deejays under the moniker Afrodjia, focusing on diasporic music and culture of the Americas and the Global South. Follow her: instagram.com/woodsadie/ SONGS IN THE MIX: Chezere - I'm Not Blind Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Kai Alexander - Don't Mind Them Bella BAHHS - Black Power Avery R. Young - Right On For the Darkness Roy Kinsey - Crook County Pugs Atomz ft. Wes Restless - Fire Burnin' Frank Waln - My People Come From the Land ESHOVO - Forecast Illuminati Congo ft. Rocker T - Drug War Isa Starr - Middle Finger Pinqy Ring - Revolución Damon Locks - The Symbol for Change

AirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. The fifth and final episode features Eve in conversation with Moya Bailey, an African American feminist scholar, writer, and activist, notable for coining the term misogynoir, which describes a specific form of discrimination experienced by black women. Bailey is an associate professor at Northwestern University. SHOW NOTES Watch the lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ01Dx081fA&t=668s Follow the guest - twitter.com/moyazb Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

As you may have seen, over the last week our community here in Chicago experienced heartbreaking loss. As we move through the grief, AirGo wanted to share a few sounds and songs that have been grounding and connective during this time. May the memories of SqueakPIVOT, Malik Alim, and so many others lost in this time be a blessing. Donate to support the burial and children of Squeak: gofund.me/f6aac8d8 Music in this mix: Kaddish - Alex Jacobowitz A.P.I.D.T.A - Jay Electronica PDLIF - Bon Iver Don't Forget About Me - Noname Risk - MfnMelo x SqueakPIVOT feat. Rexx life Raj I'll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday HEAVEN ALL AROUND ME - Saba Shadow Man - Noname x Phoelix x Saba x Smino

We're hyped to bring you this bonus episode, featuring audio from the July 17th event Defund | Abolish | Reconstruct, featuring Ruthie Wilson Gilmore. Presented by the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Ruth Wilson Gilmore is interviewed by hosts Geri Silva from LA and our very own Damon A. Williams from Chicago. SHOW NOTES Learn about LRNA: https://lrna.org/defund-abolish-reconstruct-ruthie-wilson-gilmore/ Watch video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lDcQYZSOSA Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action. On this episode, the guys are joined by Neil Whitegull. Neil is the Executive Director of the Ho-Chunk Housing and Community Development Agency, a nonprofit organization on Ho-Chunk sovereign land in Wisconsin. He breaks down the history of trust responsibilities between the federal government and indigenous people, the contradictions and opportunities of federal funding, Ho-Chunk stories that go back three ice ages, the film Ice Age, and much more. SHOW NOTES Learn more about the HHCDA: hhcda.com/ Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clim…rs/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at https://www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. Episode three features Eve in conversation with Barbara Ransby. Ransby is the John D. MacArthur Chair, and Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She also directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative, a project that promotes connections between academics and community organizers doing work on social justice. She was deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid/ Free South Africa movement in the 1980s and later co-founded a number of organizations including: The Ella-Baker Nelson Mandela Center, Ella’s Daughters, and African American Women in Defense of Ourselves. She is a founding member of the national organization Scholars for Social Justice and works closely with The Movement for Black Lives and the multi-racial coalition, The Rising Majority. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, and the grassroots Chicago-based, Equity and Transformation, (E.A.T.) a group that supports formerly incarcerated persons and those working in the informal economy. SHOW NOTES Watch the lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm_guOnUi90 Follow the guest - twitter.com/barbararansby Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this sixth and final episode, we dive deep into the dynamics, structures, and transformative possibilities of the fight for Environmental and Climate Justice. The conversation is hosted by Teresa Córdova, who is the Director of the Great Cities Institute and a Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at UIC. She is joined by José Bravo, the Executive Director of Just Transition Alliance, and José Acosta-Cordova, the Environmental Planning and Research Organizer at LVEJO. The trio breaks down how the work has shifted over the last thirty years, some of the false solutions to climate change that are being proposed, and the value of multigenerational organizing in the Environmental Justice movement. It's a great convo to wrap up the suite–enjoy! Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

AirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at https://www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. Episode two features Eve in conversation with Khury Peterson-Smith, who is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. He researches the US Empire, borders, and migration. He coauthored the 2015 "Black Solidarity with Palestine" statement, which was signed by more than 1,100 black activists, artists, and scholars. SHOW NOTES Follow the guest - twitter.com/kpyes Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at http://www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. Episode one features Eve in conversation with C. Riley Snorton, who is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. SHOW NOTES Watch the lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlp9ZeJeJsU&feature=youtu.be Follow the guest - https://twitter.com/crileysnorton Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. On this fifth and final episode, Damon is in conversation with Kristiana Rae Colón, with a live performance on the street by interdisciplinary artist avery r. young. Special thanks to Kristiana for joining us as a special surprise guest and to avery for sticking with us throughout technical challenges! SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - http://chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at https://www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. Episode four features Eve in conversation with Ashon Crawley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press). His work is about alternatives to normative function and form, the practice of otherwise possibility. SHOW NOTES Watch the lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5n2F2rwlU Follow the guest - twitter.com/ashoncrawley Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. On this episode, teachers, healing practitioners, and organizers Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson and Prentis Hemphill joined CTJC co-directors Aislinn Pulley and Cindy Eigler in a conversation rooted in Politicized Healing, organizing, and staying close to what we care about. SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. With reflections from CTJM members Anthony Holmes, Dorothy Burge, and Alice Kim on how art and culture played a central role in envisioning reparations, this event examined how far we've come, what it took to get here, and the importance of the memorial. It also gave attendees time with artists, writers, and educators in breakout rooms, where they focused on making and creating in a world where there is so much un-making and destruction. Workshops include: Writing Workshop with educator Bill Ayers & CTJM member Alice Kim Make a quilt patch for incarcerated survivors with artist and CTJM member Dorothy Burge Make a protest poster with artist Aaron Hughes Learn about teaching the Reparations Won Curriculum via history and art with CPS educators Jen Johnson & Dave Stieber SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - http://chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. This episode, hosted by UIC professors Rachel Weber and Philip Ashton, explores how the public goods and services on which we rely have been commodified, packaged, and sold to the highest bidder. From the Chicago Skyway to the Green Line subway to the parking spots across the city, the municipal government has auctioned off the public infrastructure in an attempt to plug short-term budget holes, with often disastrous consequences. Dive deep into the weeds and emerge with a new lens to challenge the privatization of our lived environment in Chicago and beyond. SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. This second episode features audio from an event honoring the mothers of survivors who continue to fight with and for their loved ones. Participants include: Armanda Shackelford, mother of Gerald Reed, who was recently released after nearly 31 years incarcerated Regina Russell, mother of Tamon Russell Rosemary Cade, mother of Antonio Porter Carolyn Johnson, mother of Marcus Wiggins, the youngest known survivor of police torture Co-moderated by Mark Clements, Survivor and Organizer at the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Alice Kim, co-founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and Director of Human Rights Practice at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - http://chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. This first episode, entitled "how we got here, where we're going," explored the impact of early reporting about police torture in Chicago and journalism's important role in the continuing movement for justice for survivors and families. Participants include: Gregory Banks, torture survivor Mark Clements, torture survivor John Conroy, journalist and playwright, My Kind of Town Joey Mogul, attorney and author of the Reparations Ordinance Maurice Possley, journalist Co-moderated by: Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute Damon Williams, CTJC, #LetUsBreathe Collective, AirGo SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - https://www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Here's a lil status update on AirGo! We're taking our first summer break from regular original episodes, but will be releasing a couple of tremendous suites: first, a series of conversations entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," celebrating of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. Then we're partnering with our old pal Eve Ewing for the Black Freedom Conversations, a suite of discussions that she hosted as part of the Black Freedom Lectures in May and June. Hope you have a restful and joyous summer, and keep an eye out for all kinds of new stuff coming from the AirGo crew. Thank you for such a successful year of growth, learning, and laughing together! Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action. On this episode, Damon and Daniel have the honor of talking with two of the leading voices in the fight to save the lives and communities of Centreville, Illinois, a community that has been living in raw sewage for decades. Nicole Nelson is an attorney with Equity Legal Services, where she litigates on behalf of and works with Centreville residents, and Valerie Marion is a lifelong Centreville resident who is one of the founders of Centreville Citizens for Change, a community group that provides bottled water and other resources to their neighbors. The duo talks about how their town was structurally neglected, the physical and emotional toll of the struggle for justice, and what you can do to support. SHOW NOTES Donate to the Home Repair Community Fund - charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/…community-fund Learn more and dive deeper into the fight - http://floodedandforgotten.com/

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this episode, we dig deep into the contemporary undocumented rights movement with UIC Professor Amalia Pallares and Mijente Political Director Tania Unzueta. The former mentor-mentee duo go through the timeline of Tania's involvement in the struggle, from her canceled appearance in front of Congress on September 11th, to the fight for DACA to be passed in the early 2010s, to her step into electoral politics over the last few years. Throughout the story, the love and appreciation between the old friends shines through, and the stories Tania shares illustrate what the future of this fight can look like. SHOW NOTES Mijente - https://mijente.net/ Coming out of the Shadows - https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/coming-out-of-the-shadows-undocumented-youth-art-and-activism-in-the-usa/ Radio Arte - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/radio-arte-national-museum-of-mexican-art/Content?oid=3905398 Immigrant youth justice league - https://mydocumentedlife.org/immigrant-youth-justice-league-coming-out-of-the-shadows/ Undocuqueer - https://creativeresistance.org/i-am-undocuqueer/ #Not1More - http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/ Secure Communities - https://www.ice.gov/secure-communities NOLA Congress of Day Laborers - https://www.nowcrj.org/ Marisa Franco of Mijente - https://twitter.com/marisa_franco?lang=en Chicago Community and Workers Rights - https://chicagoworkersrights.org/about/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

On this bonus episode we're sharing the audio from a virtual event that Dame and Kiss were invited to participate in, hosted by the Museum of Broadcast Communications. As part of their Happy Half Hour series, MBC Director Susy Schultz talked with the guys about the show, what they hope it is accomplishing, and the specific possibilities of radio. SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

On this bonus burst of brilliance, we're excited to share this conversation between AirGo fam Tonika Lewis Johnson and renowned scholar and author Richard Rothstein about the racist history and legacy of land sale contracts in Chicago and beyond. Learn about this foundational element of structural inequity, and cop Richard's book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Thanks to Tonika for allowing us to share this conversation on AirGo!

On 5/13/21, AirGo hosted Undocumented & Unafraid, a conversation as part of Allied Media Projects' Bloom Speakers Series. The guys had the privilege and honor of learning from: Jennicet Gutierrez, an organizer with queer and trans undocumented rights organization Famila TQLM; and Patrice Lawrence, the Co-Director of UndocuBlack Network (UBN) is a multigenerational network of currently and formerly undocumented Black people. The squad talks about what they've learned in the struggle, what needs to be centered in the conversation around borders and immigration, what their freedom dreams look like, and much more. Big shouts out to Allied Media for having us! SHOW NOTES Deadly Exchange campaign - https://deadlyexchange.org/ Freedom Dreams by Robin Kelley - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/ Undocublack Network - https://undocublack.org/ Familia: TQLM - https://familiatqlm.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action. The season kicks off with Marnese Jackson, an advocate, organizer and mother from Pontiac, Michigan whose work lives at every scale from the personal to the global. She is a member of Michigan's State Climate Solutions Board, on the leadership team of the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, and a facilitator of BIPOC leadership programs in the climate justice movement. She talks about getting white folks to be self-reflective, bringing together multiracial coalition, and much more! Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clim…rs/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. We wrap up the suite in style with co-curator Jacinda Bullie of Kuumba Lynx. Jacinda shares what jumped out to her from the past episodes, goes in-depth into how she's wrestling with accountability's complexity, breaks down how her family life informs her mentorship, and much more! SHOW NOTES Kesho's 4 Stages of Mentorship: Stages 1 - Entering Humbly 2 - Negotiating the dynamics and what is being asked and offered 3 - Showing that she was enabling growth - accountable to showing what had been learned from the last time 4 - Closing of the relationship Kesho's Steps for Healing: 1. Awareness 2. Acceptance 3. Restitution (symbolic and repair) 4. Policy change 5. Shift in cultural norms 6. Celebration 7. Memorialize the cast of characters Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this third episode we're treated to a conversation about structural care, hosted by UIC Professor Jennifer Brier and featuring longtime HIV/AIDS movement workers Charles Ryan Long, Valencia Robinson, and Kenyon Farrow. The squad talks about how they've learned to redefine care, what their work can teach us about how to respond to pandemics, and much more. SHOW NOTES Howard Brown Health - https://howardbrown.org/ Eyes on the Prize - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/ How the West Was Lost - https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/how-the-west-was-lost-1200440212/ Tongues Untied - https://www.criterion.com/films/31182-tongues-untied Credible Messengers - https://cmjcenter.org/ Violence Interrupters - https://www.violenceinterrupters.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we catch back up with an old friend–the excellent emcee and sturdy human Add-2. He's the founder and beating heart of Haven Studios, a recording space and meeting ground on the South Side. He talks about stepping away from the mic and into his purpose, the joys and pains of being a mentor, and the course he's attempting to chart for the young people about whom he cares so deeply. SHOW NOTES Haven Studios - http://www.havenstudios.org/ Listen to Add-2's first appearance on AirGo back in 2015 - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2015/9/10/episode-10-add-2 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we share Part II of our conversation with Kesho Scott, a former Black Panther, longtime professor of Sociology and American Studies at Grinnell College, and mentor to both Dame and Kiss. The trio talks about their memories of the times that Kesho created some levitation, the deep love and appreciation they have for each other, and the calling and commitment to mentorship that sustains. SHOW NOTES Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning Message to the Grass Roots speech by Malcolm X - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY39tp3LEKI SDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society Survived and Punished - https://survivedandpunished.org/ Assata’s Daughters - https://www.assatasdaughters.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we have the honor and privilege to talk with the person who most directly shaped our commitment to movement, humanity, and liberation: the inimitable Kesho Scott. A former Black Panther and longtime professor of Sociology and American Studies at Grinnell College, Kesho breaks down the stages of mentorship, the foundations of a humanizing mentorship relationship, her own experience being mentored by Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs, and so much more. The conversation was too good to cut, so we're dropping the first half this week and will have the second half next week. Levitate with us! SHOW NOTES Grace Lee Boggs - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272590/the-next-american-revolution Jimmy Boggs - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748147.Revolution_And_Evolution_In_The_Twentieth_Century Angela Davis - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2021/1/14/episode-270-angela-davis Stokely Carmichael - https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/ Walter Rodney - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde Exterminate All the Brutes - https://www.hbo.com/exterminate-all-the-brutes Republic of New Afrika - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_New_Afrika League of Revolutionary Black Workers - https://www.revolutionaryblackworkers.org/ Gloria Anzaldúa - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gloria-e-anzaldua Huey Newton - https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/huey-p-newton-born/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this second episode, we hear from Nik Theodore, a professor at UIC and Director of the UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, and AirGo fam Rich Wallace, who is the Director of EAT (Equity and Transformation) Chicago. In conversation with Prof. Stacey Sutton, they break down the concept and implications of the informal economy, and dive deep into the stories they cultivated as part of their new report entitled Survival Economies(https://www.eatchicago.org/survival-economy-report). SHOW NOTES Survival Economies Report - https://www.eatchicago.org/survival-economy-report EAT Chicago - https://www.eatchicago.org National Domestic Workers Alliance - https://www.domesticworkers.org/ National Day Laborer Organizing Network - https://ndlon.org/ UIC’s Great Cities Institute - https://greatcities.uic.edu/ UIC Scholars for Social Justice - sji.uic.edu/ Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

We're very excited to announce that Climate Changemakers is returning for Season 2! A partnership between AirGo and Elevate, an organization that seeks to create a just and equitable world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities, Climate Changemakers features conversations with Environmental Justice workers from across the U.S. who are leading the fight against climate change and environmental racism. To get the podcast juices flowing, we've compiled our Season 1 guests' responses to the question "What should Elevate and its peers be doing differently to move the work forward?," and are sharing their reflections with you today. Stay tuned for a new episode every month and make sure to subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers!

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we travel into the AirGo origin story to talk with the professor who brought us together–the brilliant Shanna Benjamin. An incredibly significant mentor for both Dame and Kiss, Shanna is the author of the recently published Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay. She talks about being mentored by Nellie McKay, how she approaches her work in and out of the classroom, and her memories of young Damon and young Daniel. SHOW NOTES Norton Anthology of African American Literature - https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393911558 Half In Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y McKay - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469662534/half-in-shadow/ Henry Louis Gates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr. Barbara Ransby - https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/ransby-barbara/ Wanda Coleman - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wanda-coleman Ken Warren - https://english.uchicago.edu/people/kenneth-warren The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander - https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/black-interior The Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Everod Quashie - https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553108 Combahee River Collective - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 📸 by James Brown

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we talk with Tanji Harper, the Artistic Director of youth dance ensemble and organization The Happiness Club. Tanji breaks down how ego disrupts care for young folks, the ways that she's learned to support the people she's trying to serve, the exhaustion of this work and world, and the temporality of mentorship. SHOW NOTES Support the Happiness Club: http://www.thehappinessclub.com/donate.html Book Blu Rhythm Collective: https://www.facebook.com/Blurhythmchicago/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 📷 by Tom Gavin for Vocalo

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. We kick it off with the suite's co-curator Jacinda Bullie, who is the co-founder of youth arts and healing organization Kuumba Lynx. Jacinda breaks down why she bristles at the term "mentor," what she's learned from the folks who have helped her grow, how she approaches her contribution to the youth at KL, and much more. SHOW NOTES Kuumba Lynx - https://www.kuumbalynx.com/ Healthy Hood Chi - http://www.healthyhoodchi.com/ Inipi Sweat Ceremony - http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8671 Assata: An Autobiography - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/913316.A_Taste_of_Power Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Read the transcript of this episode here: https://drive.google.com/file/u/2/d/1afPC0oxn3Q98vqnGMECaD8Mj8feZ7-Jl/view?usp=sharing AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On the first episode, we're sharing a talk between Prof. Stacey Sutton and Prof. Barbara Ransby about the Social Justice Portal Project, a collaborative think tank that crosses disciplinary boundaries to address the urgent questions of social justice faced by our communities. SHOW NOTES Social Justice Portal Project - https://sji.uic.edu/ Arundhati Roy - https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca Naomi Klein - https://naomiklein.org/ Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Ruth-Wilson-Gilmore Cooperation Jackson - https://cooperationjackson.org/ Chi Fresh Kitchen - https://www.chifreshkitchen.com/ Rich Wallace - https://www.eatchicago.org/ Thomas Piketty - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty Pauli Murray - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray Angela Davis - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2021/1/14/episode-270-angela-davis Robin DG Kelley - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2020/7/19/episode-255-the-abolition-suite-vol-4-robin-dg-kelley Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2020/4/29/episode-238-bypspotlight-on-the-line-with-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor UIC Scholars for Social Justice - https://sji.uic.edu/ Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

This bonus episode features audio from a virtual event on 2/24/21, hosted by Chicago DSA and the DSA AfroSOC caucus in conversation with members of the #StopGeneralIron hunger strike. For the past 27 days, Southeast Side residents have been on a hunger strike to demand the City of Chicago deny the final permit for an environmentally destructive recycling plant owned by General Iron. The hunger strikers are denouncing environmentally racist policies that continue to allow polluting industry to accumulate in Chicago's communities of color. The city has lacked transparency, participation and fairness in its permitting process for the proposed relocation of General Iron. The hunger strikers say they are willing to risk their well-being during a global pandemic to put an end to racist zoning policies that have continued for decades. The proposed site for the massive industrial metal shredder would be next to residential areas, schools, parks, and the Calumet River. Existing pollution threats continue to burden the Southeast Side and residents have continued to express serious concerns about the rushed permitting process that has shut out community feedback. Thanks to the hosts and panelists for letting us share their stories and perspectives on AirGo! SHOW NOTES Come to a socially distant rally at Mayor Lightfoot's house (3325 w Wrightwood Ave) on 3/4/2021 at 5pm! Support the hunger strike by donating to their GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-hunger-strikers-for-environmental-justice Follow the campaign on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CHIhungerstrike

On this bonus episode, we're sharing the audio from the launch event of the Chicago Police Torture Archive. The Archive is the first human rights archive documenting the violence and terror levied against more than 100 Black men under notorious Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew” from the 1970s-1990s. Over the course of the event, which was hosted by AirGo's own Damon Williams, we hear from many torture survivors about their experience and the significance of the Archive. The event was presented in partnership between The Chicago Torture Justice Center, the Invisible Institute, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, and the Human Rights Lab. Explore the Archive here: https://chicagopolicetorturearchive.com/ Follow the work of The Chicago Torture Justice Center: https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. In this final episode of the suite, Nate comes back on the show to debrief the six amazing conversations we had with Natalie Y. Moore, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Jamilah Lemieux, Hanif Abdurraqib, and adrienne maree brown. We break down some themes that emerged across the suite, including: the power and danger of curiosity, the unique violence of male response to critique from women and femmes, the celebration of nuance, and much more. SHOW NOTES Buy Finna by Nate Marshall - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610570/finna-by-nate-marshall/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. This episode features return guest adrienne maree brown, a writer, movement worker, facilitator, and thinker who has deeply shifted the philosophies and tactics of contemporary liberation work. adrienne is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of "We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice," "Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good," "Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds," and is the co-editor of "Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office." She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. We talk about her emergence as a writer, the public accountability and revision process that was necessary for her newest book, the challenges of public visibility, and much more. SHOW NOTES Emergent Strategy Ideation institute - https://alliedmedia.org/speaker-projects/emergent-strategy-ideation-institute We Will Not Cancel Us - will-not-cancel-us.html">https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html Unthinkable thoughts blog post - http://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/07/17/unthinkable-thoughts-call-out-culture-in-the-age-of-covid-19/ Autumn Brown - https://iambrown.org/bio/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 📸 by anjali pinto

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this volume of the suite, the guys welcome back AirGo alum Hanif Abdurraqib. Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio who is the author of five books, including the forthcoming "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance." He breaks down his car music listening route, the borderless insistence of his curiosity, the power of speaking loudly and clearly in his hometown, and much more. SHOW NOTES Lost Notes - https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes Object of Sound - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/object-of-sound/id1548596327 68to05 - https://www.68to05.com/ Ross Gay - https://www.rossgay.net/about Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace concert film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKOIQwTiKE Danez Smith - http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encore Franny Choi - https://www.frannychoi.com/ Sam Sax - https://www.samsax.com/ Cam Awkward Rich - https://www.cawkwardrich.com/ Bobby Crawford - http://bostonpoetryslam.com/find-a-poet/poets/bobby-crawford Love and Basketball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur83i6_BjbE Vievee Francis - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vievee-francis Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 📸 by Megan Leigh Barnard

The guys get to chop it up with the ebullient and brilliant Jamilah Lemieux. Jamilah is a writer, editor, and social critic who has been a leading voice in the popularization of Black feminism over the last decade, shifting the conversation through her blogging; contributions to Essence, Mic, The Guardian, Colorlines, The Washington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and The New York Times; appearances on CNN, ABC, CBS, BET, Buzzfeed, MTV2, and MSNBC, Desus and Mero, The Breakfast Club, and more; and her ever-present and active Twitter. She talks about returning to the page, the sharpness of the critique that Black women face, the heartbreak of being attacked by Black men on the internet, dinner at Farrakhan's house, and much more. SHOW NOTES Follow Jamilah: https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - https://bookshop.org/books/for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf/9780684843261 Surviving R Kelly - https://www.netflix.com/title/81069393 Wesley Lowery - https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery Toni Cade Bambara - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Cade_Bambara Demetria Lucas - http://www.demetrialucas.com/ Luvvie Ajayi - https://luvvie.org/ Rembert Browne - https://twitter.com/rembert Eve Ewing - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2017/8/10/episode-102-eve-ewing-returns A Little Juju - https://www.itsjujubae.com/ Black Male Privilege checklist - https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/black-male-privilege-checklist Our Kind of People - https://bookshop.org/books/our-kind-of-people-inside-america-s-black-upper-class/9780060984380 The Spook who sat by the door - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BynXfREPG8 Afro American Patrolmen’s League - https://interactive.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/afro-american-patrolmens-league Toni Morrison - morrison-dead.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead.html Zora Neale Hurston - https://www.zoranealehurston.com/ dream hampton - https://www.dreamhampton.com/ Miles Marshall Lewis - https://twitter.com/MMLunlimited Mom and Dad are Fighting - https://slate.com/podcasts/mom-and-dad-are-fighting Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

On this bonus episode, listen to audio from an IG Live on 1/15, in which the guys break down the Behind the Scenes of their interview with the legendary Angela Davis. SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Check out another wonderful podcast, The Lit Review, hosted by Chicago organizers Page May and Monica Trinidad - www.thelitreview.org/ Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film.

Yup, it's real–we can't believe it either. The guys have the extraordinary privilege and honor of talking with legendary Black revolutionary Angela Davis. She discusses her experience this summer during uprising, the remarkable popularization of abolition, the significance of addressing gender violence and inequality in the fight for liberation, and much much more. Wow! SHOW NOTES Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/ Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre Fumbling Towards Repair - towards-repair.html">https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions toolkit - interventions.org/tools/toolkit/">https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/ George Jackson - http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html Attica Brothers - https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/sep/15/remembering-attica-forty-years-later/ Without Guarantees by Stuart Hall - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Without_Guarantees/MYcFKbUl0zkC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Frank "Big Black" Smith - smith-71-is-dead-sought-justice-after-attica.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/us/frank-smith-71-is-dead-sought-justice-after-attica.html Critical Resistance - http://criticalresistance.org/ Mike Davis essay on PIC - http://archive.li/RF45D INCITE! - national.org/">https://incite-national.org/ Southern Negro Youth Congress - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/southern-negro-youth-congress-1937-1949/ Mariame Kaba - http://mariamekaba.com/ Barbara Ransby - https://barbararansby.com/about-2/ Robin Kelley - https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-kelley Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Check out another wonderful podcast, The Lit Review, hosted by Chicago organizers Page May and Monica Trinidad - http://www.thelitreview.org/ Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film. 📸 by kk ottesen

Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 260+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. For the final #GoBack of the year, we're excited to share the first conversation we ever had on the air in Chicago, a week before the first official episode of AirGo. We tried to find our rhythm and played some songs we were bumping at the time. Check out this never-before-heard (except for live on the air) gem from the AirGo archives! SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this last episode of 2020, we get to learn from Elizabeth Mendez Berry. Elizabeth is an editor, writer, and funder who is currently the Vice President and Executive Editor of One World, an imprint of Random House in New York. She's also the cofounder of Critical Minded, an initiative supporting cultural critics of color, and the Unicorn Fund, which offers resources to artists and others who have been targeted for speaking out. We talk about the transformative potential of criticism, her experience as a music writer for VIBE, and much more. SHOW NOTES Jeff Chang - https://jeffchang.net/ Black Star Film Festival - https://www.blackstarfest.org/ Greg Tate - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-critic-who-convinced-me-that-criticism-could-be-art Karen Good Marable - https://twitter.com/kgoodmarable Toni Morrison - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/21332/toni-morrison/ One World Lit - https://www.oneworldlit.com/ Haki Madhubuti - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/haki-madhubuti Richie Perez - perez-is-dead-at-59-advocate-for-minority-rights.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/nyregion/richard-perez-is-dead-at-59-advocate-for-minority-rights.html Love Hurts by Elizabeth Mendez Berry - HURTS-for-site-2.pdf">https://elizabethmendezberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/LOVE-HURTS-for-site-2.pdf Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Photo by Rog and Bee Walker (instagram.com/papermonday)

Our movement has been fighting hard to #DefundPolice all year long! As we come to the end of 2020, the #DefundCPD Campaign hosted a celebration and discussion on December 16 at 6pm CT about the campaign so far, featuring #DefundCPD campaign organizers in conversation with abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and special guests from other defund police campaigns from the Midwest to the South. Follow the campaign: https://www.facebook.com/defundcpd Sign the demand to #DefundCPD if you haven’t already: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department Watch the whole event here: https://www.facebook.com/defundcpd/videos/200794354995963

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Chicago legend, WBEZ journalist, and writer Natalie Y. Moore. The author of popular and necessary books The South Side, Almighty Black P Stone Nation, and Deconstructing Tyrone, Natalie talks about how she maneuvers complex responses to her work, how telling the story of segregation helped her report on the pandemic, and much more. Shoutout to our friends over at Scene On Radio, aPeabody-nominated podcast from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Subscribe now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968 SHOW NOTES The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250118332 The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang - the-products-9781569768464.php">https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/almighty-black-p-stone-nation--the-products-9781569768464.php Natalie Hopkinson - https://www.nataliehopkinson.com/ Chana Garcia - https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/3/21/18483831/remembering-my-friend-chana-and-why-black-women-must-stand-up-for-their-health Metropolitan Planning Council - https://www.metroplanning.org/index.html Our Equitable Future: A Roadmap for the Chicago Region - of-segregation-roadmap.pdf">https://www.metroplanning.org/uploads/cms/documents/cost-of-segregation-roadmap.pdf Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091