One Million Experiments

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/

The 1ME squad has the honor of talking with Vivien Sansour, the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library (PHSL), which seeks to preserve and promote heritage and threatened seed varieties, traditional Palestinian farming practices, and the cultural stories and identities associated with them. Recorded five weeks into the 2023 flashpoint of genocidal violence enacted upon Gazans and Palestinians across Israel/Palestine, Vivien reflects on how she is surviving from across the ocean, how she loves seeds more than ever before, and what is at stake for all of us in this test of our humanity.

SHOW NOTES

Join the 12/8 vigil on the Bard College campus - https://www.instagram.com/p/C0MIO7jMfJK/

Support Vivien and the Seed Library - https://viviensansour.com/

The 1ME crew welcomes the homies from Just Practice Collaborative, a training and mentoring group focused on sustaining a community of practitioners that provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. Collaborative members Shira Hassan and Deana Lewis talk through the intentionality of their design, what Transformative Justice should and shouldn’t be used for, and the importance of relationship to political experimentation.

SHOW NOTES

Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/

INCITE - https://incite-national.org/

Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html

Creative Interventions Toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/

Rachel Caidor - https://just-practice.org/rachel-caidor

Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives

Combahee River Collective - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/

Are the Cops in our Heads and Hearts By Paula X. Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/

Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet by BAY AREA TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE - https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/

NAVIGATING CONFLICT IN MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS by AORTA - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e9ddc272ee6fa03a5f1ccbe/t/606249bda86e8a2d9f9902bc/1617054141617/CONFLICT+IN+MOVEMENT+ORGANIZATIONS_handout.pdf

Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page & Erica Woodland - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710523/healing-justice-lineages-by-cara-page/

Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you

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

On this episode, the 1ME crew talks with some of the folks behind the Natural Helpers program at API Chaya, a Seattle-based org that empowers survivors of gender-based violence to gain safety, connection, and wellness. They build power by educating and mobilizing South Asian, Asian, Pacific Islander, and all immigrant communities to end exploitation, creating a world where all people can heal and thrive. Their Natural Helpers program supports community members in learning about human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence, the societal forces that create conditions for violence, as well as in skill building around how to respond to harm, injustice, and support survivors. We learn about the familial roots of the organization's work, how the sustained work of Natural Helpers has made healing possible, and the ways that grief work is integral to revolution.

SHOW NOTES

Support API Chaya - https://www.apichaya.org/

Connect with 1ME - millionexperiments.com

On part five of our second season, the 1ME crew celebrates the work of bail and bond funds across the country by talking with Candace McKinley of the Philly Community Bail Fund. We learn about the growing pains of building a bail fund, the shifts in theory of change that have been necessary, and what the recent retaliatory raid of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund means for bond funds across the country.

SHOW NOTES

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund - https://www.phillybailout.org/

Black Mama's Bail Out - nationalbailout.org

Critical Resistance's "Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end IMPRISONMENT" - https://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CR_abolitioniststeps_antiexpansion_2021_eng.pdf

Bail Fund Network directory - https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory

Beyond Criminal Courts - https://beyondcourts.org/en

IC's "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/binder

Amistad Law Project - https://amistadlaw.org/

Connect with 1ME - millionexperiments.com

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