One Million Experiments

The squad hops back into the lab one more time to discuss our convos with three community crisis response projects: REP, Cambridge HEART, and Care-Based Safety. 

Dame and Kiss are joined by Deana Lewis and Eva Nagao. Deana is 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. Eva is a member of Interrupting Criminalization, a movement resource hub offering information and networks for advocates building a world free of criminalization.

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. 

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.


SHOW NOTES
Support REP - https://repformn.org/support-this-work/

Support Cambridge HEART - https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/

Support Care-Based Safety - https://secure.givelively.org/donate/non-profit-nonprofit-enterprise-at-work-inc/care-based-safety

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

Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com

Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com

One Million Experiments is back in your ear for Season 3, and we're diving 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 Episode 3 of this season, the crew talks with Liz Kennedy and Sheri Wander of Care-Based Safety, an experiment working in the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in Michigan to build a community response program that brings loving, unarmed support to people directly impacted by structural violence – without police. Currently in the third iteration of their pilot program, they are a daily downtown presence in downtown Ypsilanti responding to crises as they arise in real time, including: basic first aid (wound care, wellness checks); overdose prevention, reversal, and aftercare; noise complaints and neighbor concerns; and distress related to mental health and other stressors. Liz and Sheri talk through how they've battled cooptation, their collective decision-making practice, and how they've learned to make sure their presence is both welcome and useful.

SHOW NOTES

Support Care-Based Safety - https://www.instagram.com/carebasedsafety

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

Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com

Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com

One Million Experiments is back in your ear for Season 3, and we're diving 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 chop it up with Dara Bayer, a founding member and former co-director of Cambridge HEART. An ongoing experiment born from the 2020 uprising, Dara and her comrades have rigorously wrestled with the challenges of scaling a crisis response organization in the face of cooptation, divestment, and the challenges that emerge from centering those most impacted by carceral systems. In the early days of her step away from leadership, Dara reflects on what she's learned building this experiment with love, dedication, and commitment to her people.

SHOW NOTES
Painting the Ocean & the Sky by Shira Hassan - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/ocean-sky

Support Cambridge HEART - https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/

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

Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com

Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com

One Million Experiments is back in your ear for Season 3, and we're diving 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

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. Watch the film on Apple: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/one-million-experiments/umc.cmc.68zguswxm7obivz6mc84a68zk Watch the film on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/One_Million_Experiments?id=inFVsotZISU.P&hl=en_US Lock in to the Respair youtube channel for In the Field: https://www.youtube.com/@RespairMedia Check out 1ME: https://millionexperiments.com/

Come find the 1ME crew on tour over the next couple of weeks hosting screenings, performances, and conversations around our film One Million Experiments! We will be in Minneapolis on 6/19, Durham on 6/26, Detroit on 6/29, and Indianapolis on 6/30. Come say hi! Find all the info and RSVP at https://www.respairmedia.com/events

The crew snuck back into the lab for this bonus episode of One Million Experiments! Dame and Kiss talk with Martina and Matt from Collective Justice, a Seattle-based restorative justice organization brought together by a diverse group of survivors and imprisoned community members in Washington State. Between their work with survivors of violence and survivors within the "belly of the beast" of jails and prisons, Collective Justice shows the revolutionary possibilities of connecting the different dots on the spectrum of harm and violence.

SHOW NOTES

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

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

Connect with Collective Justice -https://www.collectivejusticenw.org/

RSVP for the Seattle screening of 1ME on 7/24/24! - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-million-experiments-screening-conversation-washington-hall-tickets-886455972677

We've got a lil quick PSA for y'all! We're going to be screening the film in NYC on 4/24–the event is at Starr Bar in Brooklyn at 8pm, and is free with RSVP! Sign up here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-million-experiments-screening-conversation-starr-bar-tickets-873424996677 Hit us up to build a screening near you - [email protected] Find all upcoming events - https://www.respairmedia.com/events Check out the trailer - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments See you in the lab again soon!

This is it! We've reached the end of Season 2, and the last episode of 1ME (for now). And who better to close us out than our OG partner in decriminalization and 1ME creator Mariame Kaba. Mariame returns to the show to discuss what she's learned across twenty episodes of the show, the importance of movement-led archival work, how she understands the shifts in our political landscape since 2020, and the importance of the choir. Let's go out in style!

SHOW NOTES

Book a screening of the 1ME film! - Hit us up at [email protected]

 Peep 1ME - http://millionexperiments.com

On the penultimate episode of One Million Experiments, our hosts turn to collaborator and movement mentor Andrea J. RItchie. Andrea, who is the cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization, talks about how the emergent power of movement can sustain us as people and communities in the face of state violence. She also explores what she learned in the creation of her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies.

SHOW NOTES

Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie - https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html 

Octavia Butler - https://www.octaviabutler.com/