Each 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, recreate some of its magic, and demand the defunding of the Chicago Police Department.
photo by Sarah-Ji Rhee: http://www.loveandstrugglephotos.com/
Learn more about this past week's action: https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/25/freedom-square-activists-imagine-public-safety-without-police-near-homan-square-black-site/
Join the #DefundCPD campaign: http://bit.ly/DemandDefundCPD
Recorded July 2016 at Freedom Square in Chicago