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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-activist-dies-68/76555556/ Allied Media Conference - https://amc.alliedmedia.org/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 Nights In Paris JT Donaldson, Liv.E – Stay Inside ( Sandy Rivera Remix) GrooveJet – If This Ain’t Love (Riva Starr Skylight Hard Dub) Ralphi Rosario, Craig J. Snider, Eric Kupper, DJ Lady D, Frankie Knuckles – FK Always (Extended Mix)

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 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000496157613 Harith Augustus exhibit - https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/chicago-architecture-biennial-2019 Chicago Police Torture Archive - https://chicagopolicetorturearchive.com/ The Mauritanian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tmxxzZXLEM John Burge Survivors - https://chicagotorture.org/reparations/history/ Deadly Exchange campaign - https://deadlyexchange.org/ Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo - https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/Pages/remaking-the-exceptional.aspx KOCO - https://kocoonline.org/ Not Me We - https://instagram.com/notmewe_ STOP Chicago - https://www.stopchicago.org/ Jacqui Germain - https://www.jacquigermain.com/

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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-188-andy-clarno/id1016530091?i=1000438261203 UChicago Crime Lab - https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/labs/crime Trina Reynolds-Tyler on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000436477593 Jamie Kalven on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000434150947 Beneath the Surface, a project that investigates gender-based violence at the hands of the police - http://www.btsurface.com/ Citizens Police Data Project - https://cpdp.co/ Marketbox - https://marketboxchi.org/ Saul Alinsky - https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/saul-alinsky-american-community-organizer-political-activist-and-writer-discusses-his-book Almighty Black P Stone Nation by Natalie Y Moore - https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/almighty-black-p-stone-nation--the-products-9781569768464.php Natalie Y Moore on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000502721915 Dissenters - https://wearedissenters.org/ Asha Ransby Sporn on AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091?i=1000458120525

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.org/mh-first-oakland Beyond Survival: https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html The Fields at Rootsprings: https://rootspringsmn.org/ Follow REP: https://www.instagram.com/repformn In the Twin Cities and need help in crisis? Call or text the hotline Fri/Sat between 7pm and 12am: 952.737.3730 Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 punishment obsolete. She talks about how the work has evolved, the role of news media in perpetuating state violence, how her positionality as a Jew and a rabbi has molded her vantage point, and much more. SHOW NOTES Support the work of MASK - https://www.ontheblock.org/support Follow them on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/maskontheblock/ Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282 Explore all of the Experiments - millionexperiments.com/ Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project Subscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

On this episode, the guys are joined by the hilarious Lisa Beasley. Lisa is a comedian, producer, spacemaker, and artist who has, most recently, blown up for her acerbic and spot-on impressions of our infamous mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lisa breaks down how she has grown as a creator, the heartbreaking origins of her fantastic Lori impression, and the ways in which this pointed political satire is a salve for both her and the Chicago movement community as a whole. SHOW NOTES Follow Lisa - https://www.instagram.com/lisabevolving/ JY Plantz - https://instagram.com/jyplantz Black Magic Potions - https://www.instagram.com/blackmagicpotions/ Wakandacon - https://wakandaconforever.com/ Anjanette Young - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/opinion/anjanette-young-police-justice.html Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

From time to time, a Chicago artist drops a new project that the AirGo crew is vibing with–when that happens, we get them on the line for a special listening party episode! Using a few of the project's tracks as jumping off points for the conversation, we dive deep into process, creativity, and growth. We had the privilege and joy of catching up with AirGo fam Tasha, who just dropped the wonderful album Tell Me What You Miss the Most. She digs into the stories behind the songs, creating refuge through music, drawing boundaries for relationships with audiences, the legacy of her collaborator on the project, and much more. Listen to Tell Me What You Miss the Most - http://fatherdaughter.co/tasha Follow Tasha - https://www.instagram.com/wowtashawow/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091