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The AirGo team is excited to bring you back into the lab of One Million Experiments, our partner project with Interrupting Criminalization exploring how we define and create safety in a world without policing and prisons. Over the next few episodes we'll be sharing Season 3 of the podcast, which dives deep with experiments around community crisis response.

As our sociopolitical reality births crisis after crisis, the 1ME squad of Dame, Kiss, and Eva dig deep with three different experiments to learn how we can better show up in moments of communal and structural crisis. They also  are joined on every episode’s Peer Review by special guest Deana Lewis, a founding member of Just Practice Collaborative–a group that builds communities’ capacities to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual assault without relying on state-based systems. As we figure out what redefining and creating safety look like under the carceral conditions of our time, it’s just as true as ever that we don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments.

On this episode we welcome back organizers from REP (Relationships Evolving Possibilities), a true experiment made up of dedicated community members showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of the people in crisis. REP core members Rox and Jason break down how they've learned to stay grounded in heightened moments, what committing to each other for ten years has made possible for the group, and much more.


SHOW NOTES
Receive support from the REP hotline - 952-737-3730

Watch the episode on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5_d2IGmSA

Connect with REP - https://repformn.org/

Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments

Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com

Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.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

The guys are joined by Graciela Guzmán, the State Senator for Illinois' 20th District on the Northwest Side of the city. A former organizer with a focus on health equity and economic justice, Graciela won her election last year over establishment candidate Natalie Toro, who had raised over four times as much as Graciela had. She joins the show to talk about the inner workings of the state legislature, how the fight for health care needs to be a centerpiece of all movement struggles, and her journey to find strength in her voice as a representative for her people.

SHOW NOTES
Connect with State Sen. Guzmán - https://gracielafor20.com/

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Cin Pimentel 
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles 



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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

This episode's guest Camille Sapara Barton, says that "grief is often a visceral and embodied experience that impacts us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Despite increasing conversation about grief in the Global North, there are few spaces to publicly express grief, or practices we can rely upon to help us move through it. As a result, many of us can feel isolated when grieving because there is little space for our emotions to be welcomed and our loved ones often don’t know how to support us in meaningful ways."

In their work as a social imagineer, artist and somatic practitioner interested in co-creating networks of care and livable futures, Camille helps individuals and organizations build tools to befriend their grief and support themselves to move through challenging emotions. Their debut book, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community was published in April 2024 by North Atlantic Books, and they join AirGo to talk with the guys about the transformative power that comes from moving through grief toward integration.

SHOW NOTES 
Buy Tending Grief - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739251/tending-grief-by-camille-sapara-barton/

Learn more about Camille - https://camillesaparabarton.com/about/

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Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

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CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Cin Pimentel 
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
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Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

The guys are joined by professor and Great Lakes champion Rachel Havrelock, whose Freshwater Lab at UIC leverages narrative and the humanities to raise awareness about water issues in the Great Lakes and empower people to claim and protect the most vital public asset. Rachel breaks down the pressing issues affecting our waterways, the absurd gift that is the Great Lakes, and what the history of our rivers and lakes can teach us about how to build stronger and more resilient societies. 

SHOW NOTES
Check out the UIC Freshwater Lab - https://www.freshwaterlab.org/

Get Rachel's book The Joshua Generation about Israel and militarism - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691198934/the-joshua-generation

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Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events
Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected]

CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Cin Pimentel 
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social

Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

The 1ME squad has some announcements to make to you, the public! First off–the One Million Experiments film is now available online on Apple TV, Google Play, and Youtube Movies–check out the film and spread the word.

Next, the podcast is coming back this summer for Season 3: Crisis, a suite of brand-new episodes focused on what we can learn crisis response in our communities to help us move through the sociopolitical crisis of this moment. 

And last but not least, we're hyped to announce 1ME: In the Field, a new travel show from Respair coming Fall 2025! Five years after uprising, hosts Damon and Daniel get out of the lab and into the field to reconnect with the experiments featured on the 1ME podcast, explore the spaces and places these local organizers call home, and showcase the vibrant, joyful conversation creating new possibilities for wellness and protection. Continuing the work of the podcast and film, the series makes tangible and irresistible the community-built definitions and strategies for safety that are already being created, and serves as an antidote to the despair created when carceral systems are the only option. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments. 

Buy the film on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/one-million-experiments/umc.cmc.68zguswxm7obivz6mc84a68zk

Buy the film on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/One_Million_Experiments?id=inFVsotZISU.P&hl=en_US

Buy the film on Youtube Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-mmLXi58H4

Lock in to the Respair youtube channel for In the Field: https://www.youtube.com/@RespairMedia

Check out 1ME: https://millionexperiments.com/

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Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

The sports arena is a microscope into our culture, and Dave Zirin is peering through the glass with a thoughtful and searing eye. A longtime sportswriter and commentator, Dave is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture. He joins AirGo on this episode to chat about the role of sports as both distraction and prism in a time of fascism, how militarism has coopted sports culture, and his relationship to the sports discourse mainstream.

SHOW NOTES
Read Dave's work at The Nation - https://www.thenation.com/authors/dave-zirin/

Peep his site Edge of Sports - https://www.edgeofsports.com/

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Rocío Santos
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
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Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

The guys get back up with Olga Bautista, a longtime collaborator and  Environmental Justice leader whose work has reshaped the landscape of Chicago. The Co-Executive Director of the Southeast Environmental Task Force, Olga has been a leading force in the campaigns to defend the Southeast Side from environmental pollution, harmful development, and dangerous industry. She breaks down what EJ means in the era of Trump 2.0's attack on the movement, how its principles can serve as a guide as we fight for collective survival, and what's going on in her neck of the woods around the proposed "quantum campus" development on the old US Steel South Works site.

SHOW NOTES
Support Southeast Environmental Task Force - https://www.instagram.com/se_taskforce/?hl=en

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio

Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected]

CREDITS Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Rocío Santos
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles 

Photo by Oscar Gomez, Borderless Magazine

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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

What the hell is actually happening in Congress in the midst of authoritarian takeover? The guys are joined by Rep. Delia Ramirez, the congresswoman for Illinois' 3rd District, who shares what it looks and feels like to walk into the Capitol under this administration, the ways that the ramp-up of Trump's deportation infrastructure harms us all, and how the lessons from building grassroots power on the northwest side of Chicago have the potential to reshape our political reality.

SHOW NOTES
Connect with Rep. Ramirez's office - https://ramirez.house.gov/

Watch this episode on Youtube! - 

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CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Associate Producer - Cin Pimentel 
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social

Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

The guys are joined by Antonio Gutierrez, an anti-displacement community organizer and leader in the multi-decade struggle for undocumented rights and protections here in Chicago. They are a co-founder of Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), the Albany Park Defense Network, La Guayabita Autonoma Community Garden and the Autonomous Tenants Union. Woven into this web of community work is a deep insistence on the right to remain present and unapologetic in the city they've called home for over 20 years. They talk about the nuts and bolts of anti-deportation work in the city, the emotional weight they are carrying, and how they are anticipating their personal world shifting in the face of future deportation.

SHOW NOTES
Support the work of OCAD - https://www.organizedcommunities.org/sponsor-a-case

Plug into Albany Park Defense Network - https://www.facebook.com/albanyparkdefense/

Organize with Autonomous Tenants Union - https://www.autonomoustenantsunion.org/

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio

Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected]

CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Editor - Cin Pimentel
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social

Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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

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.

For this episode we get to celebrate the new project from our very own Damon A. Williams, who dropped his debut project In Process last fall. A long journey to create, the high-energy project explores the coexistence of joy and burden in a life of freedom making. Dame and Kiss are joined by guest cohost Jacoby Cochran, the host of wonderful podcast City Cast Chicago, who helps the guys listen with love to a handful of tracks from the project. Get in process with the crew!

SHOW NOTES
Stream In Process - https://symphony.to/damon-a-williams-1/in-process-album

Peep the video for Unrecognizable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJXs37EwIFg

Follow Damon - https://www.instagram.com/damon_af/

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio

Find One Million Experiments on tour! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected]

CREDITS
Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
Editor - Rocío Santos
Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker
Digital Media Producer - Troi Valles

Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio
bsky.app/profile/respairmedia.bsky.social

Find us live! - www.respairmedia.com/events

Bring us to your community by hitting us up - [email protected] 

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