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Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues.

On Episode 3, Damon and Teresa talk with Harsha Walia. Harsha is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and, most recently, Border and Rule (2021). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She breaks down how borders are central to carceral systems, the lessons to be learned from indigenous boundary protection, and what is more possible when we emerge through the portal into a borderless world.

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Learn more about Harsha's work - https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia

Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/

On this bonus episode, we hear a conversation recorded live at the Chicago Transformation Collab on June 26th, 2022. The Collab brought together a select community of leaders to get aligned in the current moment, have transformative conversations, and build stronger collaborative visions in the fight against fearmongering, carceral policies, and attempts to rollback modest reforms. This conversation, entitled "What We're Up Against," discusses the tension between the messages we want to share, and the messages people are ready to hear. In a conversation that centers the importance of this moment for narrative alignment in Chicago, panelists will discuss tactics that have succeeded or faltered in the past and what lessons we can glean from such outcomes.

Participants include:

Insha Rahman, Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships, Vera Institute of Justice

Sam Sinynagwe, Founder, Mapping Police Violence & Police Scorecard

Sharone Mitchell, Public Defender, Cook County

Lacy Wright, Executive Director, Hillman Grad Foundation

SHOW NOTES

Learn about the Chicago Transformation Summit: http://chicagotransformation.org/summit/

The guys recently had the opportunity to be a part of Columbia University's Anti-Oppression and Decolonial Oral History workshop series. They hosted the final workshop in the series, entitled Talking Toward Repair, in which they break down how AirGo is attempting to create an anticolonial practice of dialogue, media-making, and archive-building. We wanted to share some pieces of the workshop as a teaching tool and resource for how to create humanizing, subject-to-subject dialogue in service of liberation!

Bring AirGo to your campus or organization Hit up [email protected] or go to http://airgoradio.com/booking.

You can watch video of the workshop here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQHFokyNdjg

Recently Dame and Kiss had the opportunity to hop on City Cast Chicago, a daily news podcast, fresh every weekday at 6 a.m. It’s a smart and delightful new way to connect with the city we share. With host Jacoby Cochran, the guys talk about the use of Chicago as a political scapegoat for politicians unwilling to offer common sense solutions to gun violence, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 10 p.m. curfew for minors, the environmental justice fight to end “sacrifice zones,” and some more book-themed good news you definitely want to stick around for!

Subscribe to City Cast Chicago - https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/city-cast-chicago/id1557798148

Learn more and subscribe to their morning newsletter at http://citycast.fm/chicago

AirGo's excited to help spread the word about a new show from our movement family!

Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution. The first episodes just came out, subscribe wherever you get your pods!

Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues.

On Episode 2, Dame and cohost Teresa Cordova of UIC talk Economic Democracy with Esteban Kelly. Esteban is Executive Director for the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and is a worker-owner and co-founder of AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance), a worker co-op that builds capacity for social justice projects through intersectional training and consulting. He breaks down how building a worker coop might be easier than you think, the ways that we have to reclaim concepts of structure and organization from the capitalist class, and what he imagines the great labor awakening of today turning into.

SHOW NOTES

Learn more about Esteban's work - http://Aorta.coop

Clark Arrington - https://www.heroes.coop/post/clark-arrington

Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance - https://philadelphia.coop/

The Working World - https://www.theworkingworld.org/us/

The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives - https://www.usworker.coop/home/

Democracy at Work Institute - https://institute.coop/

The CIA reads French theory: on the intellectual labor of dismantling the cultural left - https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/

Cyborg Manifesto - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto

ROC USA - https://rocusa.org/

EB PREC - https://ebprec.org/

Kensington Corridor Trust - https://kensingtoncorridortrust.org/

Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

- https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html

The Revolution will not be Funded - https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded

When to Talk & When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue & Resistance - https://bookshop.org/books/when-to-talk-and-when-to-fight-the-strategic-choice-between-dialogue-and-resistance/9781629638362

Dragonfly Partners - https://www.dragonfly-partners.com/

Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/

Our Cottage Groove DJ mix series returns this month with another one of Chicago's best providing a new set of sounds. On this installment, we've got AirGo alum and fam Kane One sharing some sounds. Kane, aka Miguel Aguilar, is a DJ, artist, educator, and grassroots organizer who was on the show way back in 2018 (you can catch that episode link below). Get in the groove!

Kane One on AirGo: https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/11/5/episode-161-kane-one

Follow Kane One: https://twitter.com/kane_one_

Hear all of the Cottage Groove Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/cottage-groove-mixes

TRACKLIST

1. My House - Rhythm Control

2. It's You - J Paul Getto, Joey Chicago

3. I'll House You - Jungle Brothers

4. Bring Down The Walls - Robert Owens

5. Nu Nu - Lidell Townsell

6. Welcome To My Groove - Mellow Man Ace

7. Cada Vez - Inaky Garcia, Jerry Davila, Mimi Barber

8. Sacude - Tony Touch

9. All I Need - Shiba San, Tim Baresko

10. House Sensation - CZR, J Paul Getto

11. Bad Enough - CZR

12. Love Can't Turn Around - Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk & Darryl Pandy

13. Jack Your Body - Steve 'Silk' Hurley

14. Land Of Confusion - Armando

15. Break 4 Love - Raze

16. French Kiss - Lil Louis

On this episode, the 1ME squad talks with Alicia Hurtado of the Chicago Abortion Fund, a movement stalwart that has been funding and supporting abortion access in Illinois and beyond for over 30 years. Alicia breaks down the relationship between abortions and criminalization, the steps we can all take right now to make abortion access possible in our communities, and the ways in which fighting the stigmatization of this necessary health care procedure can impact how we understand care as a whole.

SHOW NOTES

Support the work of the Chicago Abortion Fund - https://chicagoabortionfund.salsalabs.org/makeadonation/index.html

Find help getting an abortion - https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/how-we-can-help

Chicago Abortion Fund Helpline - (312) 663-0338

#CareNotCops campaign - https://www.uchicagounited.org/carenotcops

Dissenters - https://wearedissenters.org/

Toolkit on how to talk about abortion - http://bit.ly/sayabortion

Resource of fake clinics, known as "pregnancy crisis centers" - http://exposefakeclinics.com

Repro Legal Help Line - https://www.reprolegalhelpline.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

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over these four weeks, you're going to hear Dame and Kiss be interviewed by some of our closest comrades and compatriots about the show, who they are behind the podcast curtain, and much more. Come celebrate with us!

We wrap up the Celebration Suite by welcoming our life partners Jennifer and Rosie into the booth as guest hosts. They share some mailbag questions from our listeners, ask about some of their AirGo curiosities, and dream a little about what podcasts they would each want to make.

SHOW NOTES

Sign up for Rosie's Chicago Abortion Fund raffle for a chance to win her screenprint: https://bit.ly/vulvaflytrap

As a reminder–you can bring us to your campus, institution, or community organization for workshops and performances! Find out more here: https://airgoradio.com/booking

Leave a rating and review of AirGo: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues.

On this first episode, cohosts Damon Williams of AirGo and Teresa Córdova of UIC's Great Cities Institute talk about Abolition with organizer, law professor, and writer Dean Spade. Dean breaks down how his work connects with larger movements for abolition, the ways that the legal system disrupts social movements toward liberation, and how to wrestle with grief collectively in this painful time.

SHOW NOTES

Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/

PREA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003

Black and Pink: https://www.blackandpink.org/

Oakland Power Projects: https://oaklandpowerprojects.org/

Young Lords and Lincoln Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk