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On the final episode of Season 1, the 1ME crew talks with two of the leaders of the remarkable Chicago Torture Justice Center, an experiment born from the first police torture reparations victory in the history of the United States. Survivors and their families fought for decades for access to the trauma-informed resources and politicized healing support that the Center now offers. CTJC Community Organizer Mark Clements and Co-Executive Director Aislinn Pulley discuss the birth of the center, expanding definitions of repair and reparation, and what healing looks like for survivors of torture by the Chicago Police Department.

SHOW NOTES

Support the Survivor Repair Fund - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/repairfund

Listen to CTJC Event Series from May 2021 - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/chicago-torture-justice-center

Learn more about CTJC - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/

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

Damo Day - http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2015/05/20/we-do-this-for-damo/

Rekia Boyd - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/rekia-boyd

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. - https://twitter.com/chairmanfredjr1?lang=en

People’s Law Office - https://peopleslawoffice.com/

Jane Elliot - https://janeelliott.com/

Prentis Hemphill - https://prentishemphill.com/

Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/about-us/

Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

From time to time, a Chicago artist drops a new project that the AirGo crew is vibing with–when that happens, we get them on the line for a special listening party episode! Using a few of the project's tracks as jumping off points for the conversation, we dive deep into process, creativity, and growth.

This listening party reconnects us with AirGo fam and emerging superstar Ravyn Lenae. Ravyn, who first appeared on the show back in October of 2015 on Episode 14, just dropped her debut full-length Hypnos. We break down the types of growth that led to the sounds of the project, how she's learned to trust her voice, and the ways she is interested in contributing to community beyond her music.

SHOW NOTES

Listen to Hypnos - https://ravynlenae.lnk.to/Hypnos

Follow Ravyn - https://www.instagram.com/ravynlenae/

Hear all of AirGo's listening party episodes - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/airgo-listening-parties

@ravynlenaesounds

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 the final episode of the series, Dame and Teresa are joined by the brilliant Leah Penniman. A leading voice in the fight for food and land sovereignty for Black farmers and community, Leah is the Co-Director and Farm Manager of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm in upstate New York. She talks about the deeply rooted connections between our food systems and incarceration, how Afro-Indigenous planting practices protect and rejuvenate the land, and how the organization has grown from dropping off carrots to hungry neighbors to leading the fight to reimagine our food systems (while still dropping off carrots to neighbors).

SHOW NOTES

Tiffany LaShae - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/food-sovereignty-education/3d/tiffany-lashae/

Soul Fire farm - https://www.soulfirefarm.org

Farming While Black - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/media/farming-while-black/

Baba Curtis Muhammad - https://snccdigital.org/people/curtis-hayes/

Freedom Food Alliance - https://freedomfoodalliance.wordpress.com/

Rev Garrison Frazier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Frazier

Greenwood food blockade - https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/

Dr Gail Myers - https://www.drgailmyers.com/

Rhythms of the Land - https://www.rhythmsoftheland.com/

Booker T Whatley - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/you-can-thank-black-horticulturist-booker-t-whatley-your-csa-180977771/

Kombit (Haitian Work Parties) - http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-agricultural-system-of-kombit-in-haiti.html

Phytoremediation - https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-04/documents/a_citizens_guide_to_phytoremediation.pdf

Hazel Johnson - https://www.peopleforcommunityrecovery.org/

Karen Washington - https://www.karenthefarmer.com/about

All We Can Save - https://www.allwecansave.earth/

Working the Roots - https://bookshop.org/books/working-the-roots-over-400-years-of-traditional-african-american-healing/9780692857878

Freedom Farmers - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469643700/freedom-farmers/

Black Nature - https://ugapress.org/book/9780820334318/black-nature/

Highlander Center - https://highlandercenter.org/

Reparations map - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/

Learn more about the Portal Project - sjiportalproject.com/

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

1ME heads to the Pacific Northwest on this episode to learn from a roundtable of experiments in Washington. With Kiss out on vacation, Eva joins Dame in conversation with JM Wong, a writer and activist in Seattle; Cassandra Butler of Free Them All WA, a collective committed to the abolition of the criminal punishment system in WA that began as a subset of Covid 19 Mutual Aid; and Zhou Shuxuan of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project, a grassroots formation of Asian/Asian American community members organizing to provide support for migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers.

The squad talks about the ways that criminalization intersects with Asian migrant experiences, food and communication as the building blocks of organization, how they adapted their approaches in the era of pandemic, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Learn more about MPOP - https://www.mpopsea.org/

Support Free Them All WA - https://www.facebook.com/FreeThemAllWa/

Get in tune with APICAG - https://www.facebook.com/people/APICAGAsian-Pacific-Islander-Cultural-Awareness-Group/100069203014149/

Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282

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

Dig into One Million Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/

This episode's guest is community stalwart, photographer, and spacemaker ThoughtPoet. A longtime participant in creative and social movement spaces in Chicago, Thought has emerged as a curator and creative organizer in his own right over the last few years. His photography has shown the vulnerability and humanity of artists and organizers, and the conversations his exhibitions facilitate have been important for liberatory movement. We talk about this growth into a spacemaker role, the ups and downs of participating in these communities, and tenderness as a challenge and asset.

SHOW NOTES

Follow ThoughtPoet - https://www.instagram.com/thoughtpoet77/

Bring AirGo to your campus or organization - https://airgoradio.com/booking

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.

This episode's guest, Kennedy Bartley, is a Chicago-based organizer and thinker who until recently served as the Legislative Director of United Working Families Chicago and has been a central force behind the Defund CPD campaign. Kennedy breaks down the radical potential of contesting the electoral space, the value of participatory democracy, and how contested coalition with elected officials can be a pathway to tangible, liberatory change.

SHOW NOTES

UWF Chicago - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/

Defund CPD - https://linktr.ee/defundcpd

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

The guys have the opportunity to chop it up with organizing stalwart and long-time comrade Dixon Romeo. Dixon is the Campaigns Director for United Working Families, and is one of the cofounders of Not Me We, a group building community power in South Shore. He breaks down his tactics and methodologies for supporting his neighbors in the fight for housing protections, how the Obama Presidential Center is already impacting South Shore, and how a leaderful movement is the only path forward.

SHOW NOTES

United Working Families - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/

Not Me We - https://instagram.com/notmewe_

Follow Dixon - https://www.instagram.com/dixonromeo/

This month's Cottage Groove guest DJ mix comes to us from Ariel Zetina. Ariel is a Chicago based artist, focusing in music production and deejaying. Though her music can be considered techno, she takes inspiration from Chicago house, Belizean genres punta and brukdown, and the queer club scene worldwide. She's a resident DJ at the legendary Smartbar here in Chicago.

You can hear more of her music here: https://linktr.ee/arielzetina.

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

TRACKLIST

DJ Gigola, Kev Koko, Perra Inmuda - No Es Amor

CVNT TR4XXX - Can't Hide From House

Jesse Saunders ft. Banig - Rock It (Col Lawton Dub)

Annika Wolfe - Vibrate (No Vox)

Tinashe - X (ft. Jeremih)

O'ner - Magnetic Feel

D. Tiffany, Roza Terenzi - Liquorice Skritch

Ariel Zetina x ???????- ?????? (forthcoming)

Laenz - Leopard Gate

Maurice & Da Posse - I Got A Big Dick

Michael Andrews - Goldfish

DEBIT - 5th Night

Maara - Take the Wheel Miss Sweetie

dj genderfluid - let's get funky

RAVETRX & Mani Festo - Feels Good Inside

Bitter Babe & Nick Leon - Delirio

Mister Wallace - HATERAID (Ariel Zetina Remix)

Wilhemina x Jasmine Infiniti - Im Baby

PlayPlay - Maneuvers (Drvmmy Remix)

Ikävä Pii - East Wing Oslo House

aya - and eats itself and eats itself and eats itself

Club Politix - Morning Recording

Viikatory - Assigned to Main Mix

Asquith - Forget the Past

Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down

The 1ME team is so hyped to welcome Zinnia Alejandro from Taller Salud onto the pod! Zinnia is the director of the Acuerdo de Paz (peace accord) program at Taller Salud, which is a community based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community and to encourage economic growth through education and activism. Founded in 1979, the organization is based in Loíza, Puerto Rico.

For our first bilingual episode, we are releasing two versions–one in English and one in Spanish. You can find both versions on your podcast feed, as well as transcripts available on the AirGo and One Million Experiments websites.

SHOW NOTES

Read the transcript here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZ8kx62HGbMEvS68ONLgrXpRrIrZU9QP/view?usp=sharing

Learn more about Taller Salud - https://www.tallersalud.com/

¡El equipo de 1ME está muy feliz de recibir a Zinnia Alejandro de Taller Salud en el podcast! Zinnia es la directora del programa Acuerdo de Paz a Taller Salud, una organización feminista de base comunitaria dedicada a mejorar el acceso de las mujeres a la salud, reducir la violencia en entornos comunitarios y fomentar el desarrollo económico a través de la educación y el activismo. Fundada en 1979, Taller Salud es una organización independiente, no gubernamental, sin fines de lucro.

Para nuestro primer episodio bilingüe, estamos publicando dos versiones, una en inglés y otra en español. Puede encontrar ambas versiones en el feed de su podcast, así como las transcripciones disponibles en los sitios web de AirGo y One Million Experiments.

Gracias a nuestro coanfitriona Melissa Duprey, y tambien a Franceli Chapman-Varela para narración en traducción.

SHOW NOTES:

Lee la transcripción aquí - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rdiZLmrED-52ivnsCwiHSxqyoRp0VSIP/view?usp=sharing

Aprende mas - https://www.tallersalud.com/

Escucha a One Million Experiments en ingles - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282