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AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

For the final episode of this suite, we check back in with Eve to discuss what we've learned. She brings some questions for the guys to make sure they were listening, shares some useful tips for your apocalypse knapsack, and fills us all with the warmth and introspection she is always sharing.

SHOW NOTES

Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre

Parable of the Sower-inspired Go Bag - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hhrd4PO6Dr_N64AIe5BFzgz7jC782PnpF2r0QnV_CCk/edit?usp=sharing

Pierre Bourdieu - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d_lp40IAAAAJ&hl=en

WEB Dubois - https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

Paulo Freire - https://www.freire.org/paulo-freire/

Jimmy & Grace Lee Boggs - https://www.boggsschool.org/grace-and-jimmy

Ella Baker - https://ellabakercenter.org/who-was-ella-baker/

Bob Moses - https://snccdigital.org/people/bob-moses/

Chezare Warren - https://www.chezarewarren.com/

Elizabeth Todd-Breland - https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/todd-breland-elizabeth/

Recently, the guys very carefully and joyously headed to an isolated house in Wisconsin for a planning and decompression weekend with movement stalwarts and wonderful spirits Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Maira Khwaja. We turned the mics on toward the end of the weekend to talk about the last time the four of us hung out, what we learned, and some of what we're wrestling with.

Find out more about Trina and Maira's work at http://www.tmproductions.org/

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

This episode features Janie Pochel, the cofounder and guiding force behind Chi-Nations Youth Council. The Council is a community organization that create a supportive open environment for Native youth to raise awareness of cultural identity and promote a healthy lifestyle through arts, activism, and education. She breaks down the lessons learned through land and place-based education, the necessity of Black and Indigenous solidarity, how modern schooling has been a genocidal tool, and how she cares for the youth she serves.

SHOW NOTES

Support the work of Chi-Nations Youth Council - https://chinationsyouth.weebly.com/donate.html

Good Kids Mad City - https://www.gkmcenglewood.com/donate

Janie's interview in South Side Weekly - https://southsideweekly.com/chicago-native-american-organizer-intersection-black-lives-matter-decolonization/

Subscribe, rate, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

📷 by Adam Sings in the Timber - https://singsinthetimber.com/

On the eve of Lori Lightfoot’s budget speech, Bella BAHHS (@bellabahhs) and Damon Williams (@damon_af) address the inherent violence within our political systems and discuss how defunding the police is a step toward getting our people and communities what they need. #DefundCPD #DefendBlackLives

This audio is from an IG Live between Damon and Bella Bahhs. Follow her at http://instagram.com/bellabahhs.

Plug into the campaign today! https://linktr.ee/defundcpd

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

This episode's guest is poet, translator, and transdisciplinary scholar SA Smythe. SA is a professor at UCLA, and is one of the organizers of the Cops Off Campus Campaign, which aims to remove police and policing from all University of California campuses by September 2021. They join the show to talk about the campaign, the challenges and unique potential of forging a truly public university, how the campaign connects to their study of Blackness in the Mediterranean, reaching toward diasporic power rather than national citizenship, and MUCH, MUCH more.

Recorded 9/29/20

SHOW NOTES:

Support the Cops Off Campus campaign - https://www.instagram.com/uc_ftp/

Nick Mitchell - https://cres.ucsc.edu/faculty/regular-faculty.php?uid=nmitchel

Sarah Haley - https://afam.ucla.edu/faculty/sarah-haley/

Shana Redmond - https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/shana-redmond/

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - https://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/core-bios/ruth-wilson-gilmore

Dylan Rodriguez - https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez?lang=en

Sisters Uncut - http://www.sistersuncut.org/

Paul Gilroy - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/professor-paul-gilroy

Gwendolyn Brooks - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks

June Jordan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/june-jordan

Ashon Crawley - https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/atc8g

Frantz Fanon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

On this episode, we get to know Prof. L'Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy. He's a professor at NYU, where his work focuses on the racial entanglements, contradictions, and challenges for students of color in suburban schools. He breaks down the myths we hold about the suburbs, the unique violences of catholic schools, where the potential for fugitivity in the cul-de-sacs might be, and who we should be listening to about what young people need.

SHOW NOTES

Catholic Schools and the Common Good: https://books.google.com/books/about/Catholic_Schools_and_the_Common_Good.html?id=zHzW6NVwS0sC

Free Write Arts & Literacy: http://freewriteartsliteracy.org/

Jacob Faber on Redlining: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/august/new-deal-housing-programs-dramatically-increased-segregation--ne.html

Yonkers PowerLab: https://www.thepowerlabny.com/

Show Me a Hero: https://www.hbo.com/show-me-a-hero

Chezare Warren: https://www.chezarewarren.com/

Project NIA: http://project-nia.org/

Bianca Baldridge: https://www.biancabaldridge.com/

Bettina Love: https://bettinalove.com/

Robin DG Kelley: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/ep-255-the-abolition-suite-vol-4-robin-dg-kelley

Daniel Black: http://danieloblack.com/about-daniel/

Make a tax-deductible donation today and become an AirGo Amplifier: https://airgoradio.com/donate

Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 260+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. This month, we're revisiting our convo with Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, the legendary duo behind the underground radio show that first brought many of hip hop's biggest stars onto the airwave. Dame and Kiss had the chance to sit down with Stretch and Bob back in 2015, when AirGo was still a baby and the brilliant documentary Stretch and Bobbito: Radio that Changed Lives first came to Chicago. It was a bit of a funhouse mirror as the four of them talked hip hop, independent radio-making, classic 90s rap tales, and finding one's place in the culture. Since 2015, the duo has hosted several podcasts (including What's Good for NPR), released a wonderful album together, and continued to rock with each other tough through thick and thin.

SHOW NOTES:

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio that Changed Lives - https://stretchandbobbito.com/

Rock Rubber 45s - https://rockrubber45s.com/

No Requests - https://www.uprisingmusicnyc.com/stretch-and-bobbito

Climate Changemakers is back, baby! Dame and Kiss return for another three conversations with some of Illinois' most impactful environmental justice and sustainability movement workers, showcasing their work and sharing what lessons they've learned. This episode is with Ramon Etc. aka Radius, the founder of the Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid network that sets up community-run, free-food fridges across the city of Chicago. He talks about how the network emerged, his relationship with food, and how we can build a more embodied and sustainable relationship to our food system.

SHOW NOTES:

Check out Ramon's music -

SEEN (Etc Records/ARR sound)

https://radiusetc.bandcamp.com/album/seen

Sense x Radius (Etc Records)

https://senseradius.bandcamp.com/album/the-live-archive-2-era-of-the-tec

Partner Organizations -

eric aka manny is on the team and runs flatlands press

https://www.instagram.com/flatlands_press/

lisa armstrong is a head/og designer

https://www.instagram.com/lisastrongarms/

charlotte cohen is main web related designer/etc

https://www.instagram.com/charlottecohen/

Feed The Crib/Del dia chicago

https://www.instagram.com/feedthecrib/

https://www.instagram.com/deldiachicago/

Grocery Run Club

https://www.instagram.com/groceryrunclub/

grow greater englewood

https://www.instagram.com/growgreaterenglewood/

bronzville kenwood mutual aid

https://www.instagram.com/bk_mutualaid/

stephanie dunn/starfarm

https://www.instagram.com/stephaniedunn8318/

Gotham Greens

https://www.instagram.com/gothamgreens/

Urban Growers Collective

https://www.instagram.com/urbangrowerscollective/

Thankful For Chicago

https://www.instagram.com/thankfulforchicago/

Chef Chanell

https://www.instagram.com/chefchanell/

Back to school boxes

https://www.instagram.com/backtoschoolboxes/

Bobcat eats

https://www.instagram.com/bobcateatsfoodwasteprogram/

kitchfix

https://www.instagram.com/kitchfix/

Moms Chicago

https://www.instagram.com/momschicago/

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we chop it up with AirGo fam Dr. Dave Stovall, a professor at UIC who works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. He breaks down the distinction between education and schooling, histories of education spaces and their destruction, fugitivity, and much more.

SHOW NOTES:

The People’s Grab n Go - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-peoples-grab-n-go-oral-history

Bettina Love of the Abolitionist Teaching Network - https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/

The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker - https://thenewpress.com/books/lost-education-of-horace-tate

Paulo Freire - https://www.freire.org/paulo-freire/

Lavalas Movement - https://nacla.org/article/fanmi-lavalas-political-project

Prof. Christopher Span - https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/christopher-span

Gloria Ladson-Billings - https://naeducation.org/our-members/gloria-ladson-billings/

Dionne Danns - https://education.indiana.edu/about/directory/profiles/danns-dionne.html

Black Teacher Project - https://www.blackteacherproject.org/

Rethinking Schools - https://rethinkingschools.org/

Raise Your Hand IL - https://www.ilraiseyourhand.org/

Sometimes you just gotta celebrate the 🐐. On this edition of our Cottage Groove series, Kiss aka DJ Empathy brings together a whole bunch of deep cuts and collabs between the brilliant Saba, Noname, and Smino. The trio, who by forming the group Ghetto Sage recently joined the hip hop lineage of starting supergroups that don't follow through with albums, are three of the best artists of their generation and deserve all the 💐. Get into it!

Songs in this mix:

Häagen Dazs - Ghetto Sage

Spin Move - Dreamville x Bas x Saba x Smino

Future Plans Pt. III - Saba x Noname

Food for Thought - Ikon x Saba x Noname x Malcolm London

Amphetamine - Smino x Noname

Shadow Man - Noname x Phoelix x Saba x Smino

Sacrifices - Dreamville x Earthgang x Saba x Smino x J Cole

Smellin Like a Re-Up - Smino

Living Single LEAK - Chance the Rapper x Smino

Counterfeit - Noname x Chelsea Reject x Phoelix x Saba

Church / Liquor Store - Saba x Noname

Riot - Saba x Trapo

How You Feel - C-Sick x Noname x Saba

Kolors - Smino x Monte Booker

The Truth - Mick Jenkins x Noname (Prod. Saba)

Black Alabaster - XVRHLDY x Saba x Noname

Realer than Most - Mick Jenkins x Dally Auston x Saba x Noname

Secondhand Smoke - Saba x Noname

Dead Friends - Kirk Knight x Noname x Thundercat

Ace - Noname x Smino x Saba