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Bourbon 'n BrownTownEp. 118 - The Wrap Up: "One Million Experiments" (2023) ft. Damon Williams & Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & MediaBrownTown brings back Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & Media, a movement journalism and media hub creating and supporting the media needed to reshape culture toward liberation. The double duos discuss the creation, process, and impact of their half hour experimental documentary One Million Experiments (2023). Stewarded by Interrupting Criminalization and built out of AirGo's podcast series of the same name, the film showcases a collection of community-based safety projects that explore how we define and create wellness and reduce harm in a world without police and prisons. This is the inaugural episode of a new BnB...2025-06-122h 44
One Million ExperimentsEpisode 11 - Harriet's Wildest Dreams with Makia GreenAirGo, 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...2023-03-231h 11
AirGoEp 319 - One Million Experiments Part 11: Harriet's Wildest Dreams with Makia GreenAirGo, 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...2023-03-231h 11
One Million ExperimentsEpisode 9 - WA Roundtable1ME 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...2022-09-081h 12
AirGoEp 308 - One Million Experiments Part 9: WA Roundtable1ME 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...2022-09-081h 12
One Million ExperimentsEpisode 7 - Chicago Abortion Fund with Alicia HurtadoOn 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...2022-06-021h 16
AirGoEp 304 - One Million Experiments Part 7: Chicago Abortion Fund with Alicia HurtadoOn 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...2022-06-021h 16
AirGoEp 287 - One Million Experiments Part 1: The Hypothesis with Mariame KabaWelcome 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...2021-10-201h 16
One Million ExperimentsEpisode 1 - The Hypothesis with Mariame KabaWelcome 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...2021-10-151h 16
AirGoEp 254 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 3: Andrea RitchieThe Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 3 features writer, organizer, and movement worker Andrea Ritchie. Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and has devoted the last 25 years naming and advocating for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence...2020-07-091h 06