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The AirGo crew is joined by pal and community stalwart Kahari Rastafari, a dope visual artist and wonderful soul who has been a participant in Chicago's creative and social movement communities for years. He is a part of the Mural Moves Paint crew which has designed and installed many large scale murals over the city of Chicago, and is a founder of Natty Bwoy Bikes & Boards, a free weekly yout...

The crew snuck back into the lab for this bonus episode of One Million Experiments, which is being shared her on AirGo too! Dame and Kiss talk with Martina and Matt from Collective Justice, a Seattle-based restorative justice organization brought together by a diverse group of survivors and imprisoned community members in Washington State. Between their work with survivors of violence and survivor...

AirGo gets interdimensional this episode with the multispacial multihyphenate Angel Bat Dawid, a Black American Composer, Improviser, Clarinetist, Pianist, Vocalist, Educator and DJ. An unabashed and unapologetic creative force in Chicago and beyond, Angel is a bandleader and performer in the tradition of experimental Black American music. She chats with the guys about ownership of lineages, disso...

This week's episode features a convo with poet and writer Reginald Dwayne Betts, recorded live at the Logan Center in Chicago. For more than twenty-years, he has used his poetry and essays to explore the world of prison and the effects of violence and incarceration on American society. The author of a memoir and three collections of poetry, he has transformed his latest collection of poetry, the A...

We've got a lil quick One Million Experiments-related PSA for y'all! We're going to be screening the film in NYC on 4/24–the event is at Starr Bar in Brooklyn at 8pm, and is free with RSVP! Sign up here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-million-experiments-screening-conversation-starr-bar-tickets-873424996677 Hit us up to build a screening near you - contact@respairmedia.com Find all upcoming eve...

This week's guest, Rabbi Brant Rosen, is the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a "Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity." In the almost-decade of the reconstructionist congregation's existence, Tzedek has worked to build a Judaism beyond nationalism that centers solidarity, nonviolence, and spiritual freedom. Brant is also co-founder of Jewish Voice for Peace's...

The guys welcome back movement mentor and brilliant scholar-organizer Robin DG Kelley back to the show. Robin is a Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of seminal texts Hammer & Hoe, Freedom Dreams, and other offerings to the radical canon. He joins the show to talk about his personal path to his politic, the ebbs and flows of movement, and the reality of Palestinian solidarity...

The AirGo stu is blessed by the presence of community luminary and vibrant musical artist Shawnee Dez. Shawnee, who recently released her full-length project Moody Umbra, talks about finding the trust to show all of her creative impulses, the joy of playing for her people, the unexpected power of her project the Black JoyRide, and much more! SHOW NOTES Listen to Moody Umbra now - https://unitedmas...

We're fangirling pretty damn hard over here because we have the one and only Prentis Hemphill on this week's episode! Prentis is a therapist, somatics teacher and facilitator, political organizer, writer and the founder of The Embodiment Institute who has been a centering and leading voice in the work to create new pathways to healing conflict and harm. Their work is to disrupt the complacency and...

The Don Dada is on the air! We're thrilled to be rocking with Kennedy Bartley, who has been a steadfast leader through Chicago's progressive political victories as the Executive Director of United Working Families. Kennedy breaks down her Waukegan backstory, how she imagines electoral work as part of the fight for a public good, and a whole lot more. SHOW NOTES Find your Chicago election voting si...

AirGo's so excited to be back in full effect and regular flow of conversations reshaping culture for the more liberatory and creative! With the Chicago municipal election coming up on 3/19 (early voting is open now!), we're starting off with a call to Bring Chicago Home, a referendum aiming to restructure the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-time tax on properties when they are sold to creat...

This is it! We've reached the end of Season 2, and the last episode of 1ME (for now). And who better to close us out than our OG partner in decriminalization and 1ME creator Mariame Kaba. Mariame returns to the show to discuss what she's learned across twenty episodes of the show, the importance of movement-led archival work, how she understands the shifts in our political landscape since 2020, an...

On the penultimate episode of One Million Experiments, our hosts turn to collaborator and movement mentor Andrea J. RItchie. Andrea, who is the cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization, talks about how the emergent power of movement can sustain us as people and communities in the face of state violence. She also explores what she learned in the creation of her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abol...

On the birthday of movement brother and beloved ancestor Malik Alim, who passed in 2021, we journey with his community in the practice of liberatory grief work that aims to uplift his life and legacy. Produced by Jeanette Harris-Courts Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting...

The 1ME squad has the honor of talking with Vivien Sansour, the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library (PHSL), which seeks to preserve and promote heritage and threatened seed varieties, traditional Palestinian farming practices, and the cultural stories and identities associated with them. Recorded five weeks into the 2023 flashpoint of genocidal violence enacted upon Gazans and Palestini...

The 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through...

On this episode, the 1ME crew talks with some of the folks behind the Natural Helpers program at API Chaya, a Seattle-based org that empowers survivors of gender-based violence to gain safety, connection, and wellness. They build power by educating and mobilizing South Asian, Asian, Pacific Islander, and all immigrant communities to end exploitation, creating a world where all people can heal and...

On our finale episode, Eve takes her learnings from talking with program participants over the last five episodes and brings a final set of questions to the folks who have run two of the guaranteed income pilots discussed–Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, who oversees the Cook County Promise Pilot: and Richard Wallace, who as Executive Director of EAT Chicago has run the Black Future Fund pi...

Raul is a mathematician, movie nerd, deeply analytical thinker, and dad who is a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the municipality of Evanston, which is the suburb just north of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/ Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradi...

Topaz is a health care worker, BDSM and kink educator, and Chicagoan who is a participant in the Cook County guaranteed income pilot, which recently was made permanent by the county. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/ GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when regular peo...

John is a minister, grandfather, military veteran, and former Freedom Rider who lives on the West Side of Chicago. He's a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the City of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/ GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when r...

On part five of our second season, the 1ME crew celebrates the work of bail and bond funds across the country by talking with Candace McKinley of the Philly Community Bail Fund. We learn about the growing pains of building a bail fund, the shifts in theory of change that have been necessary, and what the recent retaliatory raid of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund means for bond funds across the country...

Stephanie is a dance teacher, parent, and lifelong resident of the Southeast Side of Chicago. She is a participant in a guaranteed income pilot from LIFT, which includes one-on-one coaching programs that empower parents to set and achieve goals that put families on the path toward economic mobility, as well as the pilot run by the City of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Respair Production &am...

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberation, and personal lineages that make up the area. Show Notes Support the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donate Learn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/ Mu...

We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still connecting the dots in her home community. Show Notes Support the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donate Learn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/ Music Cr...