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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, Hil

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 s

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 Ar

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://exposefake

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.w

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 mailb

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-ac

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 Night

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 - htt

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://pod

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.

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 - 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 Amplifi

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 p