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AirGoOne Million Experiments CRISIS Part 1 - Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) in MinneapolisThe AirGo team is excited to bring you back into the lab of One Million Experiments, our partner project with Interrupting Criminalization exploring how we define and create safety in a world without policing and prisons. Over the next few episodes we'll be sharing Season 3 of the podcast, which dives deep with experiments around community crisis response.As our sociopolitical reality births crisis after crisis, the 1ME squad of Dame, Kiss, and Eva dig deep with three different experiments to learn how we can better show up in moments of communal and structural crisis. They also are joined o...2025-07-311h 16
One Million ExperimentsCRISIS Part 1 - Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) in MinneapolisOne Million Experiments is back in your ear for Season 3, and we're diving deep with experiments around community crisis response! As our sociopolitical reality births crisis after crisis, the 1ME squad of Dame, Kiss, and Eva dig deep with three different experiments to learn how we can better show up in moments of communal and structural crisis. They also are joined on every episode’s Peer Review by special guest Deana Lewis, a founding member of Just Practice Collaborative–a group that builds communities’ capacities to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual assault without relying on state-based systems. As we figu...2025-07-311h 14
One Million Experiments2025 PSA: Watch the Film Online, Podcast Returns this Summer, and New Travel Show Coming Soon!The 1ME squad has some announcements to make to you, the public! First off: the One Million Experiments film is now available online on Apple TV, Google Play, and Youtube Movies–check out the film and spread the word. Next, the podcast is coming back this summer for Season 3: Crisis, a suite of brand-new episodes focused on what we can learn crisis response in our communities to help us move through the sociopolitical crisis of this moment. And last but not least, we're hyped to announce 1ME: In the Field, a new travel show from Respair coming Fall 2025! Five years af...2025-07-0202 min
AirGoOne Million Experiments 2025 PSA: Watch the Film Online, Podcast Returns this Summer, & New Travel Show Coming Soon!The 1ME squad has some announcements to make to you, the public! First off–the One Million Experiments film is now available online on Apple TV, Google Play, and Youtube Movies–check out the film and spread the word.Next, the podcast is coming back this summer for Season 3: Crisis, a suite of brand-new episodes focused on what we can learn crisis response in our communities to help us move through the sociopolitical crisis of this moment. And last but not least, we're hyped to announce 1ME: In the Field, a new travel show from Respair comin...2025-07-0202 min
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
AirGoRespair Presents: Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities (Trailer)Respair is kicking off the year by sharing a new project that we're proud to partner with and share with you! Welcome to Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities, a series of narrative essays that reflect on emergent themes from conversations with Detroit-based organizers and futurists committed to abolition of police and prisons. Interweaving research with brief dispatches from speculative abolitionist futures, each episode draws together the voices of people working toward food justice, water access, educational equity, restorative justice, and Black liberation to connect thematic currents surrounding the abolition of police and prisons. In each episode, we look closely at the...2025-01-0805 min
AirGoRespair Presents: Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities - Episode 1Respair is kicking off the year by sharing a new project that we're proud to partner with and share with you! Welcome to Carceral Fictions & Abolitionist Realities, a series of narrative essays that reflect on emergent themes from conversations with Detroit-based organizers and futurists committed to abolition of police and prisons. This is Episode 1, entitled Alienation from Ourselves, Each Other, and Our Needs. Joined by a chorus of voices and visionaries, Detroit-based artist Lauren Williams invites us to consider roadmaps to futures we hope for, through a focus on the everyday & the contradictions of neoliberal philosophy. Should everything really be...2025-01-0856 min
AirGoEp 363 - Divest From Despair: EOY Check-in with the Respair CrewWe get topical with our last episode of the year. Dame and Kiss welcome a couple other members of the Respair squad. The crew talks about a lil’ Luigi Mangione gossip, the inspiring abolitionist projects we’ve seen on the road this year, how Trump’s election win has impacted us all, and much much more. SHOW NOTES Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events Bring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.com CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger Associate Producer - Rocí...2024-12-191h 40
AirGoEp 331 - Bring Chicago Home with Brian Rodgers and Tynetta Hill-MuhammadAirGo'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 create a substantial and legally dedicated revenue stream to provide permanent affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness. Campaign organizers Brian Rodgers and Tynetta Hill-Muhammad break down how their personal experiences brought them to the...2024-03-0745 min
Respair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 6 - The Center of the GardensWe follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekIntelligent Galaxy by The InsiderSmooth Lovin by Kevin MacleodPlainsong by dust motesBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-12-141h 08Respair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 5 - Inheriting the ShoeboxAs her health begins to wane, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing, and disrespect.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekMounsell Forts by Roger PlexicoCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelFunk by Podington BearCooling by AudiobingerBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes...2023-12-141h 14Respair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 4 - Mothering the MovementWe hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still connecting the dots in her home community.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsHipster’s Meditation by IShaaminContact by AnitekMoney by JahzzarCooling by AudiobingerBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/ma...2023-12-141h 03Respair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 3 - From the Center of the DonutWe learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelMorning by KVBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-12-1458 minRespair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberation, and personal lineages that make up the area.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekTalky Beat by Twin MusicomCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelSmooth Lovin by Kevin MacleodToo Cool...2023-12-1443 minRespair PresentsHelp This Garden Grow Episode 1: Help This Garden GrowWe begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our lives and our world.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekSunrise Drive by South London HiFiIntelligent Galaxy by The InsiderRoy by JBlankedSpilled Beans by Gurty BeatsLife Is by Cosimo Fo...2023-12-1443 min
Respair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 6 - RaulRaul is a mathematician, movie nerd, deeply analytical thinker, and dad who is a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the municipality of Evanston, which is the suburb just north of Chicago.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/2023-12-1442 minRespair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 5 - TopazTopaz is a health care worker, BDSM and kink educator, and Chicagoan who is a participant in the Cook County guaranteed income pilot, which recently was made permanent by the county.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/2023-12-1432 minRespair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 4 - JohnJohn is a minister, grandfather, military veteran, and former Freedom Rider who lives on the West Side of Chicago. He's a participant in the guaranteed income pilot run by the City of Chicago.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/2023-12-1432 minRespair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 3 - StephanieStephanie 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 NOTESLearn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.comConnect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/2023-12-1431 minRespair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 2 - SherrifSherrif is a Chicagoan, father, community builder, and participant in the Chicago Future Fund, a guaranteed income pilot program for formerly incarcerated individuals run by community organization EAT (Equity and Transformation). Also, a small note for our non-Chicago listeners: 26th and California is the intersection where the Cook County Jail is located.SHOW NOTESGet in tune with the Chicago Future Fund - https://www.eatchicago.org/chicago-future-fund-1Come to the launch party of GUARANTEED on 7/14/23! - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-guaranteed-tickets-658516489547Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia...2023-12-1432 minRespair PresentsGUARANTEED Episode 1 - Guaranteed Income 101On the first episode of GUARANTEED, we start at the beginning–what does guaranteed income mean, what does it not mean, and how does it make freedom and dignified life more possible? Our host Eve learns from three of the world's foremost experts on guaranteed income: economist Damon Jones breaks down the socioeconomic impacts of guaranteed income, philosopher Juliana Bidadanure explains how guaranteeing cash can guarantee greater personal and collective freedom, and former mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience administering one of the nation's most successful guaranteed income pilots in his hometown of Stockton, CA. Plus, learn a bit more ab...2023-12-141h 06
AirGoGUARANTEED Episode 6 - RaulRaul 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/2023-09-0742 min
AirGoGUARANTEED Episode 5 - TopazTopaz 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 people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s a show about the choices people make, the dreams they pursue, and the impossible things that become a little more possible when their money is guaranteed. GUARANTEED is...2023-09-0733 minAirGoGUARANTEED Episode 4 - JohnJohn 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 regular people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s a show about the choices people make, the dreams they pursue, and the impossible things that become a little more possible when their money is gu...2023-09-0632 minAirGoGUARANTEED Episode 3 - StephanieStephanie 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 & Media - http://respairmedia.com Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/ GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when regular people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s...2023-08-3031 minHelp This Garden GrowEpisode 6 - The Center of the GardensWe follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekIntelligent Galaxy by The InsiderSmooth Lovin by Kevin MacleodPlainsong by dust motesBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-271h 08Help This Garden GrowEpisode 5 - Inheriting the ShoeboxAs her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing, and disrespect.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekMounsell Forts by Roger PlexicoCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelFunk by Podington BearCooling by AudiobingerBe Quiet by Jahzzar...2023-07-271h 14Help This Garden GrowEpisode 4 - Mothering the MovementWe hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still connecting the dots in her home community.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsHipster’s Meditation by IShaaminContact by AnitekMoney by JahzzarCooling by AudiobingerBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/ma...2023-07-271h 03Help This Garden GrowEpisode 3 - From the Center of the DonutWe learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelMorning by KVBe Quiet by JahzzarAshes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-2758 minHelp This Garden GrowEpisode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberation, and personal lineages that make up the area.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekTalky Beat by Twin MusicomCinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor QuendelSmooth Lovin by Kevin MacleodToo Cool...2023-07-2743 minHelp This Garden GrowEpisode 1 - Help This Garden GrowWe begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our lives and our world.Show NotesSupport the work of People for Community Recovery - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/join-our-fight/donateLearn about Respair Production & Media - https://www.respairmedia.com/Music CreditsContact by AnitekSunrise Drive by South London HiFiIntelligent Galaxy by The InsiderRoy by JBlankedSpilled Beans by Gurty BeatsLife Is by Cosimo Fogg2023-07-2743 min
AirGoEpisode 6 - The Center of the GardensWe follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned. 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 Credits Contact by Anitek Intelligent Galaxy by The Insider Smooth Lovin by Kevin Macleod Plainsong by dust motes Be Quiet by Jahzzar Ashes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-261h 08AirGoEpisode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"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/ Music Credits Contact by Anitek Talky Beat by Twin Musicom Cinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor Quendel Smooth Lovin by Kevin Macleod Too Cool by Kevin Macleod Green by Yoitrax Be Quiet by Jahzzar Ashes by...2023-07-2643 minAirGoEpisode 3 - From the Center of the DonutWe learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created. Show 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 Credits Contact by Anitek Cinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor Quendel Morning by KV Be Quiet by Jahzzar Ashes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-2658 minAirGoEpisode 4 - Mothering the MovementWe 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 Credits Hipster’s Meditation by IShaamin Contact by Anitek Money by Jahzzar Cooling by Audiobinger Be Quiet by Jahzzar Ashes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-261h 03AirGoEpisode 1 - Help This Garden GrowHelp This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our lives and our world. 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 Credits Contact by Anitek Sun...2023-07-2643 minAirGoEpisode 5 - Inheriting the ShoeboxAs her health begins to wane, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing, and disrespect. Show 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 Credits Contact by Anitek Mounsell Forts by Roger Plexico Cinematic Sentimental Lullaby Sketch - Celesta only version by Gregor Quendel Funk by Podington Bear Cooling by Audiobinger Be Quiet by Jahzzar Ashes by AANI - produced by Adlai, mixing/mastering by Nicky Young2023-07-251h 14
AirGoGUARANTEED Episode 2 - SherrifSherrif is a Chicagoan, father, community builder, and participant in the Chicago Future Fund, a guaranteed income pilot program for formerly incarcerated individuals run by community organization EAT (Equity and Transformation). Also, a small note for our non-Chicago listeners: 26th and California is the intersection where the Cook County Jail is located. SHOW NOTES Get in tune with the Chicago Future Fund - https://www.eatchicago.org/chicago-future-fund-1 Come to the launch party of GUARANTEED on 7/14/23! - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-guaranteed-tickets-658516489547 Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com Connect with the Economic Security Project...2023-07-1332 minAirGoGUARANTEED Episode 1 - Guaranteed Income 101We're proud to share the first episode of GUARANTEED, a new podcast we made with our pal Eve Ewing! On the first episode of GUARANTEED, we start at the beginning–what does guaranteed income mean, what does it not mean, and how does it make freedom and dignified life more possible? Our host Eve learns from three of the world's foremost experts on guaranteed income: economist Damon Jones breaks down the socioeconomic impacts of guaranteed income, philosopher Juliana Bidadanure explains how guaranteeing cash can guarantee greater personal and collective freedom, and former mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience administering one of...2023-07-131h 06GUARANTEED with Eve L. EwingEpisode 1 - Guaranteed Income 101On the first episode of GUARANTEED, we start at the beginning–what does guaranteed income mean, what does it not mean, and how does it make freedom and dignified life more possible? Our host Eve learns from three of the world's foremost experts on guaranteed income: economist Damon Jones breaks down the socioeconomic impacts of guaranteed income, philosopher Juliana Bidadanure explains how guaranteeing cash can guarantee greater personal and collective freedom, and former mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience administering one of the nation's most successful guaranteed income pilots in his hometown of Stockton, CA. Plus, learn a bit more ab...2023-07-131h 06
AirGoHelp This Garden Grow, coming 7/27/23!We're SO hyped to share the trailer for Help This Garden Grow, the second Respair project dropping this summer. It's dropping 7/27, and we're celebrating with a BIG release party at the Winter Garden in the Harold Washington Library. It's free and open to the public, come through! Here's the RSVP link: Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization t...2023-07-0601 minHelp This Garden GrowHelp This Garden Grow, coming 7/27/23!Subscribe to Help This Garden Grow, a new podcast docuseries coming soon on 7/27/23!Help This Garden Grow tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger talk with organizers, policy-makers, historians, and community members about how...2023-06-2701 min
AirGoGUARANTEED with Eve Ewing, dropping 7/13/23!We wanted to give y'all a peek at the first project from our new org Respair Production & Media! GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when regular people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s a show about the choices people make, the dreams they pursue, and the impossible things that become a little more possible when their money is guaranteed. GUARANTEED is created by Respair Production & Media and Eve L. Ewing, with support from the Economic Security Project. Subscribe to GUARANTEED on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guaranteed-with-eve-l-ewing/id1692613772 Subscribe to GUARANTEED on...2023-06-2701 min
AirGoEp 323 - Announcing Respair Production & Media!We've got some news! Dame and Kiss are announcing the launch of Respair Production & Media, a new movement media ecosystem hub that supports the media needed to reshape Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Respair builds new media projects in partnership with social movement participants and visionaries, enabling their work to reach new audiences, and creates space for the ideological frameworks and material needs of those reimagining our world to be heard, shared, and supported. In this first season of Respair, we have three new projects, announced for the first time in this episode, that we are hyped to roll out...2023-06-2236 min
The Fellowman PodcastNick Frendo from ASCND on the road to RESPAIR, mental health advocacy in cycling and recovery from a serious mental health crisis.** First up a warning.. in this episode we talk in some detail about the topic of suicide, so if this may be triggering to you please consider this before listening. **
Nick Frendo is a mental health activist and one half of ASCND, a London based cycling mental health advocacy project. Over the last few years he's raised a ton of money and awareness around the subject of mental health through some epic rides, kit collaborations and building a platform for others to share their own mental health experiences.
We talk in some detail about Nick's...2022-05-221h 19
AirGoEp 279 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 5: Kesho Scott, Part IIAirGo 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 Fr...2021-04-221h 10
AirGoEp 278 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 4: Kesho Scott, Part IAirGo 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...2021-04-151h 01
AirGoSawyer Seminar Vol. 2 - Survival Economies w/ Rich Wallace and Nik TheodoreAirGo 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...2021-04-1341 min
AirGoClimate Changemakers is Returning for Season 2! Plus Season 1 ReflectionsWe'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...2021-04-1215 min
AirGoEp 277 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 3: Shanna BenjaminAirGo 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 an...2021-04-081h 29
AirGoEp 276 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 2: Tanji HarperAirGo 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...2021-04-011h 00
AirGoEp 275 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 1: Jacinda BullieAirGo 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...2021-03-251h 12
AirGoSawyer Seminar Vol. 1 - The Portal Project w/ Barbara Ransby and Stacey SuttonRead 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...2021-03-0943 min
AirGoBONUS - #StopGeneralIron Hunger Strikers in conversation with CDSA & AfroSOCThis 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...2021-03-031h 15
AirGoBONUS - Launch of the Chicago Torture Justice ArchiveOn 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 Huma...2021-02-161h 23
AirGoEp 274 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 7: What We Learned with Nate MarshallAirGo 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...2021-02-1256 min
AirGoEp 273 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 6: adrienne maree brownAirGo 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 So...2021-02-0454 min
AirGoEp 272 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 5: Hanif AbdurraqibAirGo 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...2021-01-281h 07
AirGoEp 271 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 4: Jamilah LemieuxThe 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...2021-01-211h 57
AirGoBONUS - Angela Davis DebriefOn 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.2021-01-1653 min
AirGoEp 270 - Angela DavisYup, 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 - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/ George Jackson - http://www.hi...2021-01-1458 min
AirGo#GoBack - PrepAirGo in 2015Each 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...2020-12-3037 min
AirGoEp 269 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 3: Elizabeth Mendez BerryAirGo 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...2020-12-241h 08
AirGoBONUS - More Abolitionists Than EverOur 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/2007943549959632020-12-181h 49
AirGoEp 268 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 2: Natalie Y. MooreAirGo 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...2020-12-171h 04
AirGoEp 267 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 1: Nate MarshallAirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination. We kick the series off by chopping it up with brilliant poet and suite co-curator Nate Marshall. Author of poetry collections Finna and Wild Hundreds, Nate is a longtime friend of the show and professor at Colorado College. He shares what he's wrestling with in his writing right now, as well as some questions for us to ask the folks we're going to be talking with throughout the suite. SHOW NOTES Coffee and Books with Marc Lamont Hill - https...2020-12-1052 min
AirGoEp 266 - theMIND Listening PartyYou're invited to an AirGo Listening Party with old friend, vocalist, and stellar human theMIND! A Philly native and longtime Chicagoan, he just dropped a gorgeous and soul-enriching new project entitled Don't Let It Go To Your Head. In the first edition of our new Listening Party series, we go through a few tracks on the album together and talk about his creative process, what he's wrestled with in his artistry and personal growth, and much more. Listen to the album: https://cinqreleas.es/yourhead SHOW NOTES Busy/Sirens by Saba x theMIND - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...2020-12-031h 34
AirGoClimate Changemakers Vol. 8 - Olga BautistaClimate Changemakers is a podcast series showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action across Illinois, presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of nonprofit organization Elevate Energy. On this eighth and final episode of Climate Changemakers, Dame and Daniel are joined by Olga Bautista of the Chicago Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke. In response to decades of pollution and environmental destruction by industry in her home neighborhood on the Southeast side of the city, Olga banded together with other community members to fight for environmental protections from and cleanup of Petcoke, a toxic byproduct of oil...2020-11-251h 03
AirGoBONUS - Spill the Tea: a #DefundCPD DiscussionIn the midst of a pandemic, Mayor Lightfoot is threatening to punish aldermen and the communities they represent if they do not vote for her racist and regressive budget. There is a lot to unpack, from Lori increasing the share of funding for the police department to her telling the Black Caucus that voting against her budget means they shouldn’t expect investment from the city for their wards, and so much more… and that ain't right! Listen to the audio from a Facebook Live conversation on Saturday, November 21st at 12pm between Kennedy from @uwfillinois, Damon from @letusbreathe773, Ald. Ross...2020-11-221h 43
AirGoBONUS - Ending Money Bond CollageOn this bonus episode, we're partnering with our good friends over at the Chicago Community Bond Fund to share a collage of audio from a series of virtual townhalls hosted by the Coalition to End Money Bond. Recorded this fall, the conversations explored the different imperatives for ending money bail, and connected elected representatives with lawyers, organizers, and advocates who are leading the fight. SHOW NOTES Plug into the fight at http://endmoneybond.org Send a letter to you legislator in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act: bit.ly/pretrialfairnessletter Watch all three townhalls at the Coalition's Facebook page: https...2020-11-2022 min
AirGo#GoBack - Standing Rock in 2016Each 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. This month, we're revisiting one of the most impactful moments in modern social movement history–the encampment at Standing Rock in 2016. Kiss and a cohort of other Chicago folks brought supplies from Freedom Square in November, and had the privilege to spend a few days there. Upon their return, Kiss sat down with Kristiana Colon, who had been with him on the trip, to talk about the experience. The episode also features selections from the po...2020-11-191h 02
AirGoCottage Groove #14 - LoveTapeA little love from AirGo resident DJ Kiss aka DJ Empathy, who brings you this amorous mix full of serenades, laments, soul sharing, and bops. Fun fact: this mix is named for the "love tapes" that his dad used to make for his mom when they were dating. Fall in love with this soundtrack!
Music in this mix:
Donnie Outthaway - Smino
Ea'alah - Spillage Village x JID x Earthgang
Sandstorm - Mereba x JID
Black Treasure - Zara McFarlane
Superficial - CJ Run x Yourbeautifulruin
Ooh Nah Nah - SiR x Masego
Long Nights - 6lack
Darlin' - Tobi...2020-11-1242 min
AirGoEp 265 - Unelectable Vol. 3: Abolition DemocracyUnelectable is an live podcast event series that engages electoral politics through the filter of radical imagination. Come chop it up with us, imagine new worlds, and help us build our Unelectable platform! AirGo and Black Youth Project are using the 2020 election cycle to have tangible conversations about impactful issues dismissed as being too big or unrealistic by mainstream political media. We want to expose the tensions that come from engaging electoral work as a liberatory pathway, reconciling complex contradictions within our movements and communities. The third and final event in the series, taking place just a few days before...2020-11-051h 28
AirGoBONUS - Breakin' Down the Budget with #DefundCPDOn October 21st, Lori Lightfoot addressed Chicago and let us know where her priorities lie. She ignored 87% of Chicagoans that took the budget survey and instead advocated for increased police spending and ensured she allocated plenty of $ for her 13 press aides. After the CPD Budget Hearing on 10/29, join #DefundCPD organizers Kennedy (@uwfillinois) and Damon Williams (@damon_af) to break down all of Lori's budget tricks, learn about budget processes, and talk through how we collectively move forward during this budget cycle. NOTE: This is audio of an IG Live from 10/30/20 between Damon and Kennedy Bartley, the Legislative Director of United...2020-11-0159 min
AirGo#GoBack - Ravyn Lenae in 2015Each 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. This week, we're heading back to 2015 to talk with one of the best singers of we've ever heard. When 16 year-old Ravyn Lenae came up to the WHPK studio, she had recently released her first EP Moon Shoes, and it was becoming clear that she had an absurdly bright future that was becoming closer and closer. Since then, she's released multiple acclaimed projects, relocated to LA, signed to Atlantic Records, and toured the world. And she's...2020-10-311h 01
AirGoClimate Changemakers Vol. 7 - Tonika Lewis JohnsonClimate Changemakers is a podcast series showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action across Illinois, presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of nonprofit organization Elevate Energy. On this penultimate episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel talk with artist, community builder, and Chicago gem Tonika Lewis Johnson. A lifelong Englewood resident, she helped co-found the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E), whose mission is to “mobilize people and resources to force positive change in Englewood through solution-based approaches." She is also a lead co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective, established in 2017 to help ar...2020-10-3058 min
AirGoEp 264 - The Education Suite Vol. 7: What We Learned with Eve EwingAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. For the final episode of this suite, we check back in with Eve to discuss what we've learned. She brings some questions for the guys...2020-10-291h 15
AirGoBONUS - Somewhere in Wiscansin with Maira Khwaja & Trina Reynolds-TylerRecently, the guys very carefully and joyously headed to an isolated house in Wisconsin for a planning and decompression weekend with movement stalwarts and wonderful spirits Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Maira Khwaja. We turned the mics on toward the end of the weekend to talk about the last time the four of us hung out, what we learned, and some of what we're wrestling with. Find out more about Trina and Maira's work at http://www.tmproductions.org/2020-10-2647 min
AirGoEp 263 - The Education Suite Vol. 6: Janie Pochel of Chi-Nations Youth CouncilAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. This episode features Janie Pochel, the cofounder and guiding force behind Chi-Nations Youth Council. The Council is a community organization that create a supportive open...2020-10-221h 03
AirGoBONUS - They Finessin’ Us: An Abolitionist Budget ConversationOn the eve of Lori Lightfoot’s budget speech, Bella BAHHS (@bellabahhs) and Damon Williams (@damon_af) address the inherent violence within our political systems and discuss how defunding the police is a step toward getting our people and communities what they need. #DefundCPD #DefendBlackLives This audio is from an IG Live between Damon and Bella Bahhs. Follow her at http://instagram.com/bellabahhs. Plug into the campaign today! https://linktr.ee/defundcpd2020-10-2159 min
AirGoEp 262 - The Education Suite Vol. 5: SA SmytheAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. This episode's guest is poet, translator, and transdisciplinary scholar SA Smythe. SA is a professor at UCLA, and is one of the organizers of the...2020-10-151h 28
AirGoEp 261 - The Education Suite Vol. 4: L'Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoyAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we get to know Prof. L'Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy. He's a professor at NYU, where his work focuses on the racial entanglements, contradictions...2020-10-081h 17
AirGo#GoBack - Stretch and Bobbito in 2015Each 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. This month, we're revisiting our convo with Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, the legendary duo behind the underground radio show that first brought many of hip hop's biggest stars onto the airwave. Dame and Kiss had the chance to sit down with Stretch and Bob back in 2015, when AirGo was still a baby and the brilliant documentary Stretch and Bobbito: Radio that Changed Lives first came to Chicago. It was a bit of a funhouse...2020-09-2538 min
AirGoClimate Changemakers Vol. 6 - Ramon Etc. of The Love Fridge ChicagoClimate Changemakers is back, baby! Dame and Kiss return for another three conversations with some of Illinois' most impactful environmental justice and sustainability movement workers, showcasing their work and sharing what lessons they've learned. This episode is with Ramon Etc. aka Radius, the founder of the Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid network that sets up community-run, free-food fridges across the city of Chicago. He talks about how the network emerged, his relationship with food, and how we can build a more embodied and sustainable relationship to our food system. SHOW NOTES: Check out Ramon's music - SEEN (Etc Records...2020-09-2449 min
AirGoEp 260 - Education Suite Vol. 3: Dr. Dave StovallAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we chop it up with AirGo fam Dr. Dave Stovall, a professor at UIC who works with community organizations and schools to...2020-09-171h 09
AirGoCottage Groove #13 - Ghetto Sage Apprecation MixSometimes you just gotta celebrate the 🐐. On this edition of our Cottage Groove series, Kiss aka DJ Empathy brings together a whole bunch of deep cuts and collabs between the brilliant Saba, Noname, and Smino. The trio, who by forming the group Ghetto Sage recently joined the hip hop lineage of starting supergroups that don't follow through with albums, are three of the best artists of their generation and deserve all the 💐. Get into it!
Songs in this mix:
Häagen Dazs - Ghetto Sage
Spin Move - Dreamville x Bas x Saba x Smino
Future Plans Pt. III - Saba x...2020-09-1646 min
AirGoEp 259 - The Education Suite Vol. 2: Uplift SessionsAirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we go into the classroom at Uplift High School, a social justice CPS school in Uptown that Dame and Kiss taught a 10...2020-09-1055 min
AirGoEp 258 - The Education Suite Vol. 1: Eve EwingAirGo is excited to launch The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this first volume, Eve joins Dame and Kiss to pose some questions they should ask the guests over the next few weeks, and to...2020-09-0430 min
AirGoBONUS - CCBF presents Welcome to The Movement Teach-inThe Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois. Through a revolving fund, CCBF supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence. They have been remarkable contributors to Chicago's abolitionist movement since their inception, creating programming and policy that works to render the fund obsolete. They recently hosted a teach-in called Welcome to the Movement, which they were kind enough to share with us for re-release. Learn more and support: https://chicagobond.org/2020-09-031h 19
AirGo#GoBack - Fatimah Asghar in 2016Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 200+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. This month, we're returning to our conversation with poet, artist, and filmmaker Fatimah Asghar from March 2016. Fati has since moved deeper into the film world, cocreating hit web series Brown Girls, and published the brilliant poetry collection If They Should Come for Us. Follow Fati on Twitter: https://twitter.com/asgharthegrouch NOTE: Rate and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id10165300912020-08-271h 00
AirGoBONUS - Racism is a Public Health CrisisNOTE: This bonus episode is audio from a virtual event on 7/29, presented by the Black Abolitionist Network, Chicago Teachers Union, National Nurses United, Physicians for a National Health Program Illinois, Haymarket Books, and SEIU 73. COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on the intersection of racism and healthcare in this country. Chronic racist inequity has produced terrifying outcomes in terms of the disproportionate effect the virus is having on African-Americans and Latinx people. The protest movement that erupted after the murder of George Floyd sharpened a national conversation about racism in this country. Many have demanded that institutions which hurt people be...2020-08-131h 02
AirGoBONUS - The Hoodoisie: Power, Politics, & PandemicThis is the audio from the 8/5/20 episode of the Hoodoisie, a radical talk show hosted by Ricardo Gamboa. Dame and Kiss were featured guests, alongside: Laura Ramirez, El Foro Del Pueblo - https://edlibrising.com/2017/04/02/our-power-is-in-our-people-dr-laura-ramirez/ Hils Franco, Educator/Organizer - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/5/9/episode-136-hilda-franco Janie Pochel, Chi-Nations Youth Council - https://chinationsyouth.weebly.com/advisor.html Amika "Tree" Tendaji, Black Lives Matter Chicago - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2017/2/15/episode-78-amika-tendaji Co-hosted by Ricardo Gamboa and Charles Alexander Preston in collaboration with South Side Weekly Follow the Hoodoisie: https://www.facebook.com/thehoodoisie/ NOTE: Rate and review AirGo...2020-08-062h 06
AirGoEp 257 - Unelectable Vol. 2: Feminism Live @AMC2020!AirGo hosts the second volume of Unelectable, our live podcast series with Black Youth Project exploring electoral politics and radical imagination, as part of Allied Media Conference 2020! The live virtual event's focus is Feminism, and features Unelectable cohost Asha Ransby-Sporn, environmental justice organizer Siwatu-Salama Ra, and Detroit movement legend Tawana Petty. Check out the illustration of the event by Emily Simons on our IG, and learn more about Emily's work here: https://www.pittsburghposterproject.org/emily-simons SHOW NOTES: http://Freesiwatu.org https://www.honeycombthepoet.org Check out video of many of the conference's amazing sessions and learn more about this...2020-07-301h 14
AirGo#GoBack - Freedom Square in 2016Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 200+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. This month, we're celebrating the 4-year anniversary of Freedom Square, a 41-day encampment led by the #LetUsBreathe Collective across from the Homan Square CPD blacksite. Recorded during the second or third week of the encampment, Kiss talks with organizers and young people about the beauty, challenge, and radical potential that became so visible and present in August 2016. This past weekend, more than 500 people returned to the lot on Homan and Fillmore to remember this occupation...2020-07-281h 03
AirGoEp 256 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 5: 14 Principles of Abolition Movement WorkWe bookend this set of episodes in the Abolition suite by giving some updates on upcoming opportunities to be involved, detailing some Chicago-based wins that emerged over the last couple days to help us all balance the weight of this moment, and sharing the 14 principles that Chicago-based abolition movement workers have developed to guide the work, as recorded at a #DefundCPD training on 51st St. in Chicago. UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES TO PLUG IN! 7/24 - Freedom Square Anniversary Rally to #DefundCPD: bit.ly/DemandDefundCPD 7/26 - Unelectable Live @ AMC2020! https://amc2020.sched.com/event/239801344c34675d0be5749cab48fb6b 7/28 - #DefundCPD Virtual...2020-07-2309 min
AirGoIntroducing Under the Tree, a new podcast hosted by Bill AyersWe want to introduce y'all to “Under the Tree,” a new podcast hosted by the legendary Bill Ayers that focuses on freedom—a complex, layered, dynamic, and often contradictory idea—and takes you on a journey each week to fundamentally reimagine how we can bring freedom and liberation to life in relation to schools and schooling, equality and justice, and learning to live together in peace. Make sure you subscribe to Under the Tree on your preferred podcast app!2020-07-2102 min
AirGoEp 255 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 4: Robin D.G. KelleyThe 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. This episode's guest is scholar, author, and historian Robin D.G. Kelley. A true digger and chronicler of Black liberation history, he explores the roots and routes of abolition, defines the concept of racial capitalism, and even takes off his historian hat briefly to imagine a liberatory future. NOTE: Don't forget...2020-07-191h 18
AirGoClimate Changemakers Vol. 5 - Lissette CastañedaClimate Changemakers is a 5-part podcast series, showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action across Illinois, presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of nonprofit organization Elevate Energy. On this final episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel are joined by Lissette Castañeda. A lifelong Logan Square resident, Lissette is the Interim Executive Director of LUCHA, an organization working to advance housing as a human right by empowering communities– particularly the Latino and Spanish-speaking populations–through advocacy, affordable housing development, and community building. She talks about the ways in which her work is connected to the Puert...2020-07-1644 min
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
AnthemsCarl Faure | RESPAIRCarl is the founder of “Stretch” yoga studio and former DJ. Home for Carl is Hackney with his Wife, two boys and a growing community. His word of the day is Respair.#AnthemsHome is a collection of original pieces about our lived experiences throughout this time, written and voiced by people from all over the world. It was created, executive produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown and assistant produced by Bea Duncan. The artwork is by Mars West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...2020-04-3013 min