

AirGo
Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
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A podcast and radical media hub reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
A podcast and radical media hub reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
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Jan 20, 2022 • 38min
Cottage Groove #19 - Rae Chardonnay Guest Mix
AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo.
Rae Chardonnay Taylor is a DJ, Arts Administrator and events producer based in Chicago dedicated to encouraging a life of open-minded learning and expression. She began DJing in 2010 and has since held residencies at prominent venues in Chicago including the late Double Door, The Promontory and Soho House. She has opened for acts such as Janelle Monae, Jamila Woods, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Madison McFerrin, Megan Thee Stallion, OSHUN, Tiffany Gouche, CeCe Peniston, J Rocc, Just Blaze, Little Dragon, Big Freedia, G Herbo and many others.
As an arts manager, she's been involved in programming at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Stony Island Arts Bank, School of the Art Institute and various arts organizations. She is the Founder of Black Eutopia, a series of segmented programming intended to cultivate space for marginalized communities. She is also a co-founder of the award winning Party Noire. She was recently noted as one of Chicago’s Top 5 DJ’s by NPR, and Chicago’s Best DJ by the Chicago Reader.
Learn more: http://www.raechardonnay.com/
Follow: https://www.instagram.com/raechardonnay/
Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes
TRACKLIST
as the night moves - tall black guy
stuck - durran bernarr ft. ari lennox
lately - yazmin lacey
have a good time - adam ness ft jamila woods & mia gladstone
ma foom bey - redsoul edit
Music Man (DJ Spinna Remix) [feat. Grey Reverend] [DJ Spinna Remix] - Nickodemus
Get Uugly (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow) - DUCKWRTH
Meet Up (feat. Maleek Berry) - Estelle
Tight Leash (Instrumental) - Black Noi$e
Bahia Dreamin’ - Karriem Riggins
Howigotover (feat. Klevah) - B. Cool-Aid
Moody! (feat. Saba) - Jean Deaux
Want 2 Love U - Budgie

Dec 23, 2021 • 31min
Cottage Groove #18 - DJ Ca$h Era Guest Mix
AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo.
This mix is from DJ Ca$h Era. A lover of community, connection, and all things Chicago, DJ Ca$h Era continues to shake the room as a multifaceted, internationally recognized performer. She is the official DJ for the Coulee Sisters and current preferred and resident DJ for Chicago’s hottest venues like Hydrate, Scarlet Bar, The Promontory, Soho House, and more. DJ Ca$h Era has worked with notable brands including Jordan, Nike, BET, Adidas, Beats by Dre, AT&T, and Jugrnaut. She has held stages at notorious music festivals including Lollapalooza, My House Music Festival, Pitchfork, Burning Man Music Festival and more. She has also opened for well-known artists including G Herbo, Taylor Bennett, Jamila Woods, Ghostface Killah, and more. Ca$h Era is producer at 720AM WGN Radio and a highly sought-after DJ in Chicago and beyond.
Learn more: https://www.djcashera.com
Follow on IG: www.instagram.com/djcashera/
Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes
TRACK LIST
SHOTGUN - Matt Muse Feat. Femdot
All Falls Down - Kanye West
Get Em High - Kanye West
All About The Benjis - Puff Daddy, Lil Kim, & Notorious B.I.G.
Girls In The Hood - Meg Thee Stallion
Hood Nigga - Gorilla Zoe
LL Cool J - Squeak Pivot & MFN Melo
Tombstone - Rod Wave
Girls Want Girls - Drake
Mmm Mmm - Kali
Orange Soda - Baby Keem
Moody - Jean Deaux & Saba
4 Thangs - Freddie Gibbs
Bad Boys - Pivot Gang feat. Smino
Bad Boyz - Shyne
What Up Gangsta - 50 Cent
Oh Boy - Cam'ron & Juelz Santana
Maze - Juice WRLD
Rapstar - Polo G
Beat Box 2 - SpotemGottem
No More Parties - Coi Leray Feat. Durk
Gifted - Cordea

Dec 16, 2021 • 1h 38min
Ep 292 - One Million Experiments Part 3: The Friendly Fridge with Selma Raven and Sara Allen
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 this episode, we talk with Selma Raven and Sara Allen of the Friendly Fridge BX, a community food distribution point and mutual aid experiment at 242nd Street and Broadway in the Bronx. The duo talks about how the experiment has been transformative for all, the steep learning curve that the two of them had as the fridge got up and running, and how the act of experimentation taught them to act boldly and without permission.
Support the Friendly Fridge - https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-friendly-fridge-bx
Follow them on IG - https://www.instagram.com/thefriendlyfridgebx/?hl=en
Find a Community Fridge near you! - https://freedge.org/locations/
Subscribe to One Million Experiments - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-…ts/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

Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 18min
Ep 291 - femdot Listening Party
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.
On this listening party episode, we're joined by AirGo fam femdot, who just released the stellar EP Not For Sale. We talk through the hypothesis of the project, creating cohesiveness across several years of music, the tension between money and self-worth, and much more!
SHOW NOTES
Listen to Not For Sale - https://femdot.ffm.to/notforsale
Support Delacreme Scholars - http://delacremescholars.org/
Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate
Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Nov 18, 2021 • 57min
Ep 290 - One Million Experiments Part 2: The Black Trans Travel Fund with Devin Lowe
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 this episode, Dame and Daniel talk with Black Trans Travel Fund Founder & Executive Director Devin Lowe. Devin breaks down how the experiment emerged out of the needs of his loved ones, the surprising and gratifying ways that the work has expanded, and the relationship of freedom of personal movement to collective liberatory social movement.
SHOW NOTES
Support the work of BTTF - https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com/donate
Miss Boogie - https://www.instagram.com/dearmsboogie/?hl=en
Noname Book Club - https://nonamebooks.com/
TDoR - Trans Day of Remembrance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance
The Emergency Release Fund - https://www.emergencyrelease.org/
Legal Aid Society - https://legalaidnyc.org/
STAR Manifesto - https://peaceandsocialism.tumblr.com/post/634720140594937856/star-manifesto
Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas - https://twitter.com/AbolitionF_ists
Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282
Explore all of the Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/
Submit your Experiment - https://millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-Project
Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 14min
Cottage Groove #17 - DJ LOKari Guest Mix
AirGo is sharing the Aux and spreading the love to some of Chicago's best DJs on Cottage Groove! Each month, a different guest DJ will share an original mix featuring a combo of artists from the city and sounds from across the globe, right here on AirGo.
This mix is from DJ LOkari, aka Elgin Bokari Smith. Elgin is a Chicago based DJ, Activist, Visual and Performing Artist from St. Louis, Missouri. He has shared stages with the likes of Bone Thugs and Harmony, Ruby Ibarra, The Terra Godz, Saba, Da Brat, Clark Airlines, Mega Ran, Bop Alloy, No Name Gypsy, DJ Esco, Young Chop, Lil Crazed, Rebel Diaz, Twista, and Chingy… just to name a few. Elgin also gives back to his community as a Teaching Artist, Program Director of Free Write Arts & Literacy, and President of the activist and artist collective, Elephant Rebellion. Elgin also is the co creator of Pocket Con the comic book convention that celebrates characters of color.
Learn more about Elgin: https://www.elginbokari.com/
Follow Elgin on IG: https://www.instagram.com/djlokari/
Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes
TRACK LIST
1. Ariel - Chai Tulani Feat Calid B
2. Say - Daryn Alexus
3. Whine For Me - Superboy Da Viper
4. 2 STEP (Clean) [feat. Masego & Rhymefest] - DJ Jazzy Jeff
5. Hang Loose (feat. Chuck D, Sam Veren & Lucas G) - Ric Wilson
6. Brother Feat Add 2 - Sam Trump
7. Chance The Rapper & Knox Fortune - All Night (Kaytranada Extended Joint)
8. Walkin On The Moon (Feat. Kanye West) - The Dream
9. I Want You (Kaytranada Edition) -Common
10. We Broke - Cole DeGenova
11. WCKFA [Sample] - Erthe St. James
12. OCTAVIA - Jamila Woods
13. So and So - Saba
14. Houdini - Ace Da Vinci
15. I hate humans (feat. Mic Terror) - MEL
16. CLOUDZ - Mother Nature, BoatHouse & Sir Michael Rocks
17. Uchiha Seji [prod. GODS HAND] - Säge, The 64th Wonder
18. Pokemon TRILL VERSIONI {カリウ} TGBI SPROUT TOWER, HM02, FLYI Prod. By ChakraVartin The Creator - Khalil Halim/Okugawa Jr
19. Mr. Socko - Joseph Chilliams
20. Slice Em Up - Kabashi
21. Floatin - Gem Tree
22. Free the Watoto (feat. Julian Harris) - Calid B
23. Y.G.M.F.U. (feat. Adam Ness) - Ridley Victoria
24. The Libation - Boukhepra.
25. Luggage (Remix) [feat. Sam Trump] - Sidewalk Chalk
26. Self Care Ft. Sayon Yoeun, Kahala Elizabeth - L O Kari
27. You_re Enough - Mykele Deville
28. Have a Good Time (feat. Jamila Woods) - Adam Ness
29. Reality Check (ft. Eryn Allen Kane & Akenya) - No Name
30. HEAVEN ALL AROUND ME - Saba

Nov 4, 2021 • 36min
Ep 289 - Climate Changemakers Ep 2.6 - Diana Hernández
Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.
On the final episode of Season 2, the guys head to the Bronx to talk with Diana Hernández. A professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Diana digs into her process of moving from advocating solutions to building deeper understanding of the problem, how her childhood in the South Bronx built her understandings of health and community, the complexities of fighting for quality housing for all, and much more. Plus, a cameo from her six month-old daughter!
SHOW NOTES
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol - www.goodreads.com/book/show/51537.Amazing_Grace
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Jonathan Kozol - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heat-wave-eric-klinenberg/1117244493

Oct 28, 2021 • 32min
Ep 288 - Long Live Malik Alim
This episode is an audio remembrance and tribute to our comrade and brother Malik Alim, who transcended this plane August 20, 2021. Thanks to all of the family and community members who shared their messages and memories.
Donate to the Malik Alim Legacy Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/malik-alim-family-legacy-fund

Oct 20, 2021 • 1h 17min
Ep 287 - One Million Experiments Part 1: The Hypothesis with Mariame Kaba
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 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 about the project's evolution, the limits of framing the projects as "alternatives" to police and prisons, and how she hopes the project moves people into movement and action.
SHOW NOTES
The podcast is brought to you by AirGo (airgoradio) and Interrupting Criminalization (www.interruptingcriminalization.com).
Subscribe to One Million Experiments wherever you get your podcasts!
Explore the One Million Experiments Virtual Encyclopedia -http://millionexperiments.com/
Paola Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/#
Project NIA - http://project-nia.org/
adrienne maree brown - adriennemareebrown.net/
Shira Hassan - just-practice.org/about-shira
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
Mia Mingus - twitter.com/miamingus

Oct 14, 2021 • 35min
Ep 286 - Climate Changemakers Ep 2.5 - Monica Lewis-Patrick
Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.
On Episode 5, Dame and Kiss head east to talk Detroit with the inimitable Monica Lewis-Patrick. Known as the "Water Warrior," Monica is the cofounder of We The People Detroit, a community-based grassroots organization aiming to inform, educate, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights, land, water, education, and the democratic process. She talks about the links between water access and austerity, the gender-based violence of water shutoffs, the regional coalition of water organizing across the Great Lakes, how her mother called her to action, and much more.
SHOW NOTES
Support We The People Detroit - www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com
Gloria House - snccdigital.org/people/gloria-house/
Rev. Dr. JoAnne Watson - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_Watson
ALEC - www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
Charity Hicks - https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commoner/remembering-charity-hicks
Prof. Gwen Winston - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/one-song-playlist/monica-lewis-patrick-gwen-9ZWG3l-kheD/
We the Youth Detroit - www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com/youth-leaders
The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274
Water Shutoffs During COVID-19 and Black Lives: Case Study Detroit -https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0064
Clean Water and Reproductive Justice - https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/repro/clean-water-and-reproductive-justice.pdf
Water insecurity and psychosocial distress: case study of the Detroit water shutoffs - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32930795/
Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-changemakers/id1503392646
Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate
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