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Sherrif is a Chicagoan, father, community builder, and participant in the Chicago Future Fund, a guaranteed income pilot program for formerly incarcerated individuals run by community organization EAT (Equity and Transformation). Also, a small note for our non-Chicago listeners: 26th and California is the intersection where the Cook County Jail is located.

SHOW NOTES

Get in tune with the Chicago Future Fund - https://www.eatchicago.org/chicago-future-fund-1

Come to the launch party of GUARANTEED on 7/14/23! - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-guaranteed-tickets-658516489547

Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com

Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/

We're proud to share the first episode of GUARANTEED, a new podcast we made with our pal Eve Ewing! On the first episode of GUARANTEED, we start at the beginning–what does guaranteed income mean, what does it not mean, and how does it make freedom and dignified life more possible? Our host Eve learns from three of the world's foremost experts on guaranteed income: economist Damon Jones breaks down the socioeconomic impacts of guaranteed income, philosopher Juliana Bidadanure explains how guaranteeing cash can guarantee greater personal and collective freedom, and former mayor Michael Tubbs shares his experience administering one of the nation's most successful guaranteed income pilots in his hometown of Stockton, CA. Plus, learn a bit more about the Chicagoans we'll be talking to on the rest of the series.

GUARANTEED is presented by Respair Production & Media and Eve L. Ewing, with support from the Economic Security Project.

SHOW NOTES

Get in tune with the Chicago Future Fund - https://www.eatchicago.org/chicago-future-fund-1

Come to the launch party of GUARANTEED on 7/14/23! - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-guaranteed-tickets-658516489547

Learn more about Respair Production & Media - http://respairmedia.com

Connect with the Economic Security Project - http://economicsecproj.org/

We're SO hyped to share the trailer for Help This Garden Grow, the second Respair project dropping this summer. It's dropping 7/27, and we're celebrating with a BIG release party at the Winter Garden in the Harold Washington Library. It's free and open to the public, come through! Here's the RSVP link:

Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, we talk with organizers, policy-makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement. 

Help This Garden Grow is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery.

On this episode the 1ME crew talks tots and transformation with Zara Raven of Queenie's Crew! Queenie’s Crew engages children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing. Every month, members receive an email with an activity that kids can complete to learn more about abolition: they share activities like coloring pages, word searches, word scrambles, mazes, and reflection exercises. Using readings and art projects, the collective supports children in imagining a collective future where we are all free. Coordinator Zara Raven talks about how young people understand abolition, the catharsis and growth the collective has created for parents and caregivers, and much more. Plus, a squad of youth participants read See You Soon, the picture book on which the experiment is based.

SHOW NOTES

See You Soon read by Queenie's Crew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAfg9sT1fYw&t=73s

The Zine - https://millionexperiments.com/zines/queenies-crew

Learn more about Queenie's Crew - https://queeniescrew.com/

Buy See You Soon by Mariame Kaba, illustrated by Bianca Diaz - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1891-see-you-soon

The Revolution Starts at Home ed. by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ching-In Chen, & Jai Dulani - https://www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.html

Queenie's Crew Reading List - https://queeniescrew.com/resources

Micah Bazant - https://www.micahbazant.com/

It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation by Patricia Hill Collins - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810699

IN OUR OWN HANDS: ​tools for talking abolition & transformative justice with little ones by Rania El Mugammar - https://www.raniawrites.com/inourhands.html

Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox - https://abolitionist.tools/

Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize - https://truthout.org/articles/keeley-schenwar-memorial-essay-prize/

Erin Miles Cloud - https://www.movementforfamilypower.org/indexa

We wanted to give y'all a peek at the first project from our new org Respair Production & Media! GUARANTEED is a podcast about what happens when regular people receive direct cash assistance, known as guaranteed income. it’s a show about the choices people make, the dreams they pursue, and the impossible things that become a little more possible when their money is guaranteed. GUARANTEED is created by Respair Production & Media and Eve L. Ewing, with support from the Economic Security Project.

Subscribe to GUARANTEED on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guaranteed-with-eve-l-ewing/id1692613772

Subscribe to GUARANTEED on Spotify -https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pG4XgMsH6jfqlnzYzkL3W

Check out Respair -

http://respairmedia.com

We've got some news! Dame and Kiss are announcing the launch of Respair Production & Media, a new movement media ecosystem hub that supports the media needed to reshape Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Respair builds new media projects in partnership with social movement participants and visionaries, enabling their work to reach new audiences, and creates space for the ideological frameworks and material needs of those reimagining our world to be heard, shared, and supported. In this first season of Respair, we have three new projects, announced for the first time in this episode, that we are hyped to roll out throughout the summer. Get in tune and divest from despair with us!

Follow Respair on IG - https://instagram.com/respairmedia

Check out the website - http://respairmedia.com

The guys have the great honor and joy of talking with the legendary Bernardine Dohrn on this episode of AirGo. Recorded on the land that she, her husband Bill Ayers, and five other families have communally stewarded for the last 40-plus years, Bernardine reflects on what she's learned about time, grief, transformation, liberation struggles, and love over a lifetime of battling imperialist white supremacy at an intensity few have ever experienced. We're so grateful for her time and love.

SHOW NOTES

If you're curious about Bernardine's story, we recommend the amazing

podcast Mother Country Radicals, which tells the story of her involvement in radical movement and decades living underground through the eyes of her son Zayd. Listen here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mother-country-radicals/id1625882016

The 1ME squad talks with Martine Caverl of Ujimaa Medics, a Chicago-based crew of organizers, community members, and health professionals who offer training in Urban Emergency First Response, primarily to people who live in or love people who live in communities where shootings often occur. Martine breaks down how historical flashpoints like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the murder of Mike Brown built the framework for the organization, the importance of invitation as a tool for building meaningful work, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Support UMedics - https://www.umedics.org/donate/

Zapatista movement - https://nacla.org/news/2022/12/21/spark-hope-ongoing-lessons-zapatista-revolution-25-years

Dr Luther Castillo Harry - https://latinarepublic.com/2022/02/15/a-look-into-honduras-new-secretary-of-science-and-technology-dr-luther-castillo-harry/

Damien Turner - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/us/03cnchospitals.html

We Charge Genocide - http://wechargegenocide.org/

Beyond Do No Harm - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm

Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

This Cottage Groove guest DJ mix comes to us from DJ/Tastemaker/Music Historian Duane Powell. Duane is the founder of SOUNDROTATION, and a lecturer on the heroes and hidden figures of soul music.

Get in tune with DJ Duane Powell - allmylinks.com/djduanepowell

Tracklist

01. Never Ending Song (Cherise) / Lil Louis

02. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long (Sophisticado Mix) / Gary Cummings ft. Carla Prather

03. Melodic Message / Glenn Underground ft. Swaylo

04. Keeping My Composure (BPM Messing Around Remix) / Sheree Hicks

05. The More The Groove / Stacy Kidd

06. Ninataka (I Want) / Anthony Nicholson ft. Koku Gonza

07. Packing For Chicago (Terry Hunter Remix) / Zo! ft. Muhsinah

08. Clap For Sierra / George G-Spot Jackson

09. Gotta Save Yourself (Miggedy Vocal Mix) / Sir Soundbender

10. Afro Journey Beats / Ron Trent

The 1ME crew gets their hands dirty this month with Ali Anderson of Cali-based experiment Feed Black Futures. Created in 2020 as a crowdfunding campaign to feed 20 families for two weeks at the start of the pandemic soon became an organization that feeds Black mamas/caregivers impacted by the carceral system in counties across California by partnering with Black and Brown-owned farms and food suppliers across California. FBF is committed to creating a world where Black people have access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it. Founder Ali breaks down what happened when she ended up with way more money than she expected, the bonds her work has forged, and the regenerative joy people get from keeping their hands in the soil.

SHOW NOTES

Support Feed Black Futures - https://feedblackfutures.org

Soul Fire Farm Immersions - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/programs/bipoc-trainings/immersions/

Reparations Map for Black-Indigenous Farmers - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/

Arissa Hall - https://www.arissahall.com/

Delaine Powerful - https://homecomingcollective.com/who-we-are

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis by Dean Spade - https://www.versobooks.com/products/2722-mutual-aid

Barnard Center for Women Intro to Mutual Aid - https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/introduction-to-mutual-aid/

Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/

Liberated Life with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams - https://www.liblife.net/

Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091