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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. This episode, hosted by UIC professors Rachel Weber and Philip Ashton, explores how the public goods and services on which we rely have been commodified, packaged, and sold to the highest bidder. From the Chicago Skyway to the Green Line subway to the parking spots across the city, the municipal government has auctioned off the public infrastructure in an attempt to plug short-term budget holes, with often disastrous consequences. Dive deep into the weeds and emerge with a new lens to challenge the privatization of our lived environment in Chicago and beyond. SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

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Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. This second episode features audio from an event honoring the mothers of survivors who continue to fight with and for their loved ones. Participants include: Armanda Shackelford, mother of Gerald Reed, who was recently released after nearly 31 years incarcerated Regina Russell, mother of Tamon Russell Rosemary Cade, mother of Antonio Porter Carolyn Johnson, mother of Marcus Wiggins, the youngest known survivor of police torture Co-moderated by Mark Clements, Survivor and Organizer at the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Alice Kim, co-founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and Director of Human Rights Practice at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - http://chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

AirGo is proud to share a suite of conversations led by the Chicago Torture Justice Center entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," a 2021 celebration of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. This first episode, entitled "how we got here, where we're going," explored the impact of early reporting about police torture in Chicago and journalism's important role in the continuing movement for justice for survivors and families. Participants include: Gregory Banks, torture survivor Mark Clements, torture survivor John Conroy, journalist and playwright, My Kind of Town Joey Mogul, attorney and author of the Reparations Ordinance Maurice Possley, journalist Co-moderated by: Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute Damon Williams, CTJC, #LetUsBreathe Collective, AirGo SHOW NOTES Learn more about CTJC - chicagotorturejustice.org Support the work of CTJC - https://www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

Here's a lil status update on AirGo! We're taking our first summer break from regular original episodes, but will be releasing a couple of tremendous suites: first, a series of conversations entitled "Where We’re Going, We Need Each Other," celebrating of the 6-year anniversary of the Reparations Ordinance for survivors of police torture, and the 4-year anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center. Then we're partnering with our old pal Eve Ewing for the Black Freedom Conversations, a suite of discussions that she hosted as part of the Black Freedom Lectures in May and June. Hope you have a restful and joyous summer, and keep an eye out for all kinds of new stuff coming from the AirGo crew. Thank you for such a successful year of growth, learning, and laughing together! Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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/

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Transcription by Ayinde Jean-Baptiste

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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!

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

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! Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clim…rs/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
Video Post-Production Producer - Troi Valles
Lead Editor - Troi Valles
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker