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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 this episode, Damon and Daniel have the honor of talking with two of the leading voices in the fight to save the lives and communities of Centreville, Illinois, a community that has been living in raw sewage for decades. Nicole Nelson is an attorney with Equity Legal Services, where she litigates on behalf of and works with Centreville residents, and Valerie Marion is a lifelong Centreville resident who is one of the founders of Centreville Citizens for Change, a community group that provides bottled water and other resources to their neighbors. The duo talks about how their town was structurally neglected, the physical and emotional toll of the struggle for justice, and what you can do to support.

SHOW NOTES

Donate to the Home Repair Community Fund - charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/…community-fund

Learn more and dive deeper into the fight - http://floodedandforgotten.com/

AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this episode, we dig deep into the contemporary undocumented rights movement with UIC Professor Amalia Pallares and Mijente Political Director Tania Unzueta. The former mentor-mentee duo go through the timeline of Tania's involvement in the struggle, from her canceled appearance in front of Congress on September 11th, to the fight for DACA to be passed in the early 2010s, to her step into electoral politics over the last few years. Throughout the story, the love and appreciation between the old friends shines through, and the stories Tania shares illustrate what the future of this fight can look like.

SHOW NOTES

Mijente - https://mijente.net/

Coming out of the Shadows - https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/coming-out-of-the-shadows-undocumented-youth-art-and-activism-in-the-usa/

Radio Arte - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/radio-arte-national-museum-of-mexican-art/Content?oid=3905398

Immigrant youth justice league - https://mydocumentedlife.org/immigrant-youth-justice-league-coming-out-of-the-shadows/

Undocuqueer - https://creativeresistance.org/i-am-undocuqueer/

#Not1More - http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/

Secure Communities - https://www.ice.gov/secure-communities

NOLA Congress of Day Laborers - https://www.nowcrj.org/

Marisa Franco of Mijente - https://twitter.com/marisa_franco?lang=en

Chicago Community and Workers Rights - https://chicagoworkersrights.org/about/

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Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

On this bonus episode we're sharing the audio from a virtual event that Dame and Kiss were invited to participate in, hosted by the Museum of Broadcast Communications. As part of their Happy Half Hour series, MBC Director Susy Schultz talked with the guys about the show, what they hope it is accomplishing, and the specific possibilities of radio.

SHOW NOTES

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On this bonus burst of brilliance, we're excited to share this conversation between AirGo fam Tonika Lewis Johnson and renowned scholar and author Richard Rothstein about the racist history and legacy of land sale contracts in Chicago and beyond. Learn about this foundational element of structural inequity, and cop Richard's book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Thanks to Tonika for allowing us to share this conversation on AirGo!

On 5/13/21, AirGo hosted Undocumented & Unafraid, a conversation as part of Allied Media Projects' Bloom Speakers Series. The guys had the privilege and honor of learning from: Jennicet Gutierrez, an organizer with queer and trans undocumented rights organization Famila TQLM; and Patrice Lawrence, the Co-Director of UndocuBlack Network (UBN) is a multigenerational network of currently and formerly undocumented Black people. The squad talks about what they've learned in the struggle, what needs to be centered in the conversation around borders and immigration, what their freedom dreams look like, and much more. Big shouts out to Allied Media for having us!

SHOW NOTES

Deadly Exchange campaign - https://deadlyexchange.org/

Freedom Dreams by Robin Kelley - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/

Undocublack Network - https://undocublack.org/

Familia: TQLM - https://familiatqlm.org/

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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.

The season kicks off with Marnese Jackson, an advocate, organizer and mother from Pontiac, Michigan whose work lives at every scale from the personal to the global. She is a member of Michigan's State Climate Solutions Board, on the leadership team of the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, and a facilitator of BIPOC leadership programs in the climate justice movement. She talks about getting white folks to be self-reflective, bringing together multiracial coalition, and much more!

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AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. We wrap up the suite in style with co-curator Jacinda Bullie of Kuumba Lynx. Jacinda shares what jumped out to her from the past episodes, goes in-depth into how she's wrestling with accountability's complexity, breaks down how her family life informs her mentorship, and much more!

SHOW NOTES

Kesho's 4 Stages of Mentorship:

Stages

1 - Entering Humbly

2 - Negotiating the dynamics and what is being asked and offered

3 - Showing that she was enabling growth - accountable to showing what had been learned from the last time

4 - Closing of the relationship

Kesho's Steps for Healing:

1. Awareness

2. Acceptance

3. Restitution (symbolic and repair)

4. Policy change

5. Shift in cultural norms

6. Celebration

7. Memorialize the cast of characters

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AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On this third episode we're treated to a conversation about structural care, hosted by UIC Professor Jennifer Brier and featuring longtime HIV/AIDS movement workers Charles Ryan Long, Valencia Robinson, and Kenyon Farrow. The squad talks about how they've learned to redefine care, what their work can teach us about how to respond to pandemics, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Howard Brown Health - https://howardbrown.org/

Eyes on the Prize - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/

How the West Was Lost - https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/how-the-west-was-lost-1200440212/

Tongues Untied - https://www.criterion.com/films/31182-tongues-untied

Credible Messengers - https://cmjcenter.org/

Violence Interrupters - https://www.violenceinterrupters.org/

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Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we catch back up with an old friend–the excellent emcee and sturdy human Add-2. He's the founder and beating heart of Haven Studios, a recording space and meeting ground on the South Side. He talks about stepping away from the mic and into his purpose, the joys and pains of being a mentor, and the course he's attempting to chart for the young people about whom he cares so deeply.

SHOW NOTES

Haven Studios - http://www.havenstudios.org/

Listen to Add-2's first appearance on AirGo back in 2015 - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2015/9/10/episode-10-add-2

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AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we share Part II of our conversation with Kesho Scott, a former Black Panther, longtime professor of Sociology and American Studies at Grinnell College, and mentor to both Dame and Kiss. The trio talks about their memories of the times that Kesho created some levitation, the deep love and appreciation they have for each other, and the calling and commitment to mentorship that sustains.

SHOW NOTES

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

Message to the Grass Roots speech by Malcolm X - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY39tp3LEKI

SDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society

Survived and Punished - https://survivedandpunished.org/

Assata’s Daughters - https://www.assatasdaughters.org/

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