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A radio show, podcast, and radical media hub showcasing culture workers reshaping Chicago for the more equitable and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
This is the audio from the 8/5/20 episode of the Hoodoisie, a radical talk show hosted by Ricardo Gamboa. Dame and Kiss were featured guests, alongside: Laura Ramirez, El Foro Del Pueblo - https://edlibrising.com/2017/04/02/our-power-is-in-our-people-dr-laura-ramirez/ Hils Franco, Educator/Organizer - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2018/5/9/episode-136-hilda-franco Janie Pochel, Chi-Nations Youth Council - https://chinationsyouth.weebly.com/advisor.html Amika "Tree" Tendaji, Black Lives Matter Chicago - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2017/2/15/episode-78-amika-tendaji Co-hosted by Ricardo Gamboa and Charles Alexander Preston in collaboration with South Side Weekly Follow the Hoodoisie: https://www.facebook.com/thehoodoisie/ NOTE: Rate and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
AirGo hosts the second volume of Unelectable, our live podcast series with Black Youth Project exploring electoral politics and radical imagination, as part of Allied Media Conference 2020! The live virtual event's focus is Feminism, and features Unelectable cohost Asha Ransby-Sporn, environmental justice organizer Siwatu-Salama Ra, and Detroit movement legend Tawana Petty. Check out the illustration of the event by Emily Simons on our IG, and learn more about Emily's work here: https://www.pittsburghposterproject.org/emily-simons SHOW NOTES: http://Freesiwatu.org https://www.honeycombthepoet.org Check out video of many of the conference's amazing sessions and learn more about this remarkable gathering: https://amc.alliedmedia.org/ Recorded 7/26/20
Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 200+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. This month, we're celebrating the 4-year anniversary of Freedom Square, a 41-day encampment led by the #LetUsBreathe Collective across from the Homan Square CPD blacksite. Recorded during the second or third week of the encampment, Kiss talks with organizers and young people about the beauty, challenge, and radical potential that became so visible and present in August 2016. This past weekend, more than 500 people returned to the lot on Homan and Fillmore to remember this occupation, recreate some of its magic, and demand the defunding of the Chicago Police Department. photo by Sarah-Ji Rhee: http://www.loveandstrugglephotos.com/ Learn more about this past week's action: https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/25/freedom-square-activists-imagine-public-safety-without-police-near-homan-square-black-site/ Join the #DefundCPD campaign: http://bit.ly/DemandDefundCPD Recorded July 2016 at Freedom Square in Chicago
We bookend this set of episodes in the Abolition suite by giving some updates on upcoming opportunities to be involved, detailing some Chicago-based wins that emerged over the last couple days to help us all balance the weight of this moment, and sharing the 14 principles that Chicago-based abolition movement workers have developed to guide the work, as recorded at a #DefundCPD training on 51st St. in Chicago. UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES TO PLUG IN! 7/24 - Freedom Square Anniversary Rally to #DefundCPD: bit.ly/DemandDefundCPD 7/26 - Unelectable Live @ AMC2020! https://amc2020.sched.com/event/239801344c34675d0be5749cab48fb6b 7/28 - #DefundCPD Virtual Training: bit.ly/virtualdefundcpd Share the whole Abolition Suite with a friend!: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/the-abolition-suite Rate, comment, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Donate to AirGo: http://airgoradio.com/donate Music from this week's show: Song 33 - Noname Off That - Jay Z
We want to introduce y'all to “Under the Tree,” a new podcast hosted by the legendary Bill Ayers that focuses on freedom—a complex, layered, dynamic, and often contradictory idea—and takes you on a journey each week to fundamentally reimagine how we can bring freedom and liberation to life in relation to schools and schooling, equality and justice, and learning to live together in peace. Make sure you subscribe to Under the Tree on your preferred podcast app!
The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. This episode's guest is scholar, author, and historian Robin D.G. Kelley. A true digger and chronicler of Black liberation history, he explores the roots and routes of abolition, defines the concept of racial capitalism, and even takes off his historian hat briefly to imagine a liberatory future. NOTE: Don't forget to rate, comment, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts! Show Notes: Angela Davis Lectures on Liberation: https://archive.org/details/AngelaDavis-LecturesOnLiberation Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986909 Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/ Black Reconstruction by Du Bois: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-reconstruction-america/ Organization for Black Struggle in STL: https://www.obs-stl.org/ Jamala Rogers: http://jamalarogers.com/about/ Black Radical Congress Agenda: https://www.obs-stl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Black-Radical-Congress-FREEDOM-AGENDA.pdf M4BL Policy Statement: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/ Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/ CLR James: https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/biograph.htm How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/736-how-capitalism-underdeveloped-black-america Groundings with my Brothers by Walter Rodney: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2787-the-groundings-with-my-brothers Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469633596/jah-kingdom/ Gina Dent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Dent Combahee River Collective: https://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html Recorded 7/13/20 Music from this week's show: Song 33 - Noname
Climate Changemakers is a 5-part podcast series, showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action across Illinois, presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of nonprofit organization Elevate Energy. On this final episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel are joined by Lissette Castañeda. A lifelong Logan Square resident, Lissette is the Interim Executive Director of LUCHA, an organization working to advance housing as a human right by empowering communities– particularly the Latino and Spanish-speaking populations–through advocacy, affordable housing development, and community building. She talks about the ways in which her work is connected to the Puerto Rican diaspora, how COVID is impacting the fight for housing as a human right, and much more. Learn about LUCHA's Passive House: https://lucha.org/build-passive-house-institute-us/ Learn about Elevate Energy and their 20th anniversary: www.elevateenergy.org/
The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 3 features writer, organizer, and movement worker Andrea Ritchie. Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and has devoted the last 25 years naming and advocating for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum. She and the guys talk about the portals opening in this moment, the ways that gender-based violence is an intrinsic tactic of policing, and much more. SHOW NOTES: CORRECTION: In this episode, we state that Congressman Elijah Cummings is still alive and well. The congressman passed away in 2019. Sign on to the #DefundCPD campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department July 17 Black and Indigenous Solidarity Rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/black-indigenous-solidarity-ra/580611602644351/ Arrested Justice by Beth Ritchie: https://nyupress.org/9780814776223/arrested-justice/ INCITE!, a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities. https://incite-national.org/ Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign by Che Gossett: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-che-gossett-blackness-animality-and-the-unsovereign Dancing the Carceral Creep by Mimi Kim: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/804227k6 Ruthie Wilson Gilmore: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Breonna Taylor and Gentrification: https://www.salon.com/2020/07/06/breonna-taylor-lawsuit-claims-no-knock-warrant-was-part-of-louisville-gentrification-plan/ Octavia Butler: https://octaviabutler.org/ Nalo Hopkinson: http://nalohopkinson.com/index.html Interrupting Criminalization: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/ Vision 4 Black Lives 2020: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/ In Our Names Network: https://www.inournamesnetwork.com/ Invisible No More: http://invisiblenomorebook.com/ Recorded 7/6/20 Music from this week's show: Song 33 - Noname I'll Do My Best - The Ritchie Family
On this bonus episode, Damon chops it up with AirGo alum and community visionary Bella Bahhs on her IG Live about intracommunity violence, and how abolition can best respond to and transform this harm. Bella BAHHS (Black Ancestors Here Healing Society) is a 2017 Soros Justice Fellow and Architect of Community Construction at The Decarceration Collective, an anti-carceral law firm and consultancy.
The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 2 of the series is with abolitionist organizer, community builder, and mentor Mariame Kaba. A 3-time AirGo Alum, Mariame talks through what we all need to remember in this time of uprising, how we can unweave the police from our hearts and minds, and much more. SHOW NOTES: Read Mariame's recent NY Times Op-Ed "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html Explore her workbook Fumbling Towards Repair: https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Other abolitionist projects mentioned by Mariame: Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/ Anti Police-Terror Police Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ CAT 911: https://cat-911.org/ The Northwest Network: https://www.nwnetwork.org/ Paola Rojas: https://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/ Prison by Any Other Name: https://thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name Liat Ben-Moshe: https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/ Eddie Ellis: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/451/the-run-on-sentence DefundCPD Campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department Recorded 7/1/2020
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