AirGo

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!

On this episode, AirGo's Multimedia Producer Davon Clark steps to the mic to interview Dame and Kiss. The AirGo trio digs into Davon's contribution, how he's seen the show evolve, what he's learned about each of the hosts over the years, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

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

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As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over the next 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!

On this episode, we're surrounded by some of the most brilliant thinkers and question-askers who we're in community with–Tonika Lewis Johnson, Tiff Walden of the Triibe, Bill Ayers, Dometi Pongo, and Leor Galil of the Chicago Reader. This all-star team of community media-makers flip the script and ask Dame and Kiss about their friendship, lasting memories of the show, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

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

Leave us a question for our mailbag episode! Email the text or voice memo to [email protected]

As AirGo hits 300 episodes, we're celebrating the milestone and show as a whole with the Celebration Suite. Over the next 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 kick off the Celebration Suite with our good friend Eve L. Ewing, who is kind enough to take over the interviewer seat for this convo. She gets us to break down the origin story of the show, the evolution of our friendship, the dream guest list, and a whole bunch of other gems.

SHOW NOTES

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

Leave us a question for our mailbag episode! Email the text or voice memo to [email protected]

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