Episode 267 - The Notebook Suite Vol. 1: Nate Marshall

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination. We kick the series off by chopping it up with brilliant poet and suite co-curator Nate Marshall. Author of poetry collections Finna and Wild Hundreds, Nate is a longtime friend of the show and professor at Colorado College. He shares what he's wrestling with in his writing right now, as well as some questions for us to ask the folks we're going to be talking with throughout the suite.

SHOW NOTES
Coffee and Books with Marc Lamont Hill - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coff…ks/id1522592619

The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America by June Jordan - www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/686…y-in-america

Phyllis Wheatley - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - digitalemerson.wsulibs.wsu.edu/exhibits/…n-scholar

Jamila Woods - www.jamila-woods.com/

Sarah Kay - kaysarahsera.com/

Nina Simone on Freedom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySYRI4wXUpo

Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada - www.martinespada.net/uploads/6/9/9/…s_of_bread.pdf

Buy Finna today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/61057…e-marshall/

Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate

Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Episode 266 - theMIND Listening Party

You're invited to an AirGo Listening Party with old friend, vocalist, and stellar human theMIND! A Philly native and longtime Chicagoan, he just dropped a gorgeous and soul-enriching new project entitled Don't Let It Go To Your Head. In the first edition of our new Listening Party series, we go through a few tracks on the album together and talk about his creative process, what he's wrestled with in his artistry and personal growth, and much more.

Listen to the album: cinqreleas.es/yourhead

SHOW NOTES
Busy/Sirens by Saba x theMIND - www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhE-fQU6P9U

Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century by James and Grace Lee Boggs - www.google.com/books/edition/Rev…tion/M6WSDwAAQBAJ

Rate and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Support AirGo with a monthly or one-time donation - airgoradio.com/donate

📸 by ANF Chicago

Climate Changemakers Vol. 8 with Olga Bautista

Climate Changemakers is a 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 eighth and final episode of Climate Changemakers, Dame and Daniel are joined by Olga Bautista of the Chicago Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke. In response to decades of pollution and environmental destruction by industry in her home neighborhood on the Southeast side of the city, Olga banded together with other community members to fight for environmental protections from and cleanup of Petcoke, a toxic byproduct of oil refinement that was poisoning the air she and her family were breathing. The coalition successfully fought the Koch brothers, who were forced to dispose of the petcoke in a less destructive manner. She talks about the devastation of industrial pollution, learning to collect the necessary data herself, the unique challenges of having a set at the redevelopment table during a pandemic, and much more.

SHOW NOTES
Exit Zero - www.goodreads.com/book/show/24898568-exit-zero
COPD - www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-condit…es/syc-20353679
NRDC - www.nrdc.org/
Nancy Loeb - www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/prof…s/NancyLoeb/
Invest South/West - www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/invest_sw/home.html
Great Cities Institute - greatcities.uic.edu
Poor People's Campaign - www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

Episode 265 - Unelectable Vol. 3: Abolition Democracy

Unelectable is an live podcast event series that engages electoral politics through the filter of radical imagination. Come chop it up with us, imagine new worlds, and help us build our Unelectable platform!
AirGo and Black Youth Project are using the 2020 election cycle to have tangible conversations about impactful issues dismissed as being too big or unrealistic by mainstream political media. We want to expose the tensions that come from engaging electoral work as a liberatory pathway, reconciling complex contradictions within our movements and communities.

The third and final event in the series, taking place just a few days before the 2020 election, focuses on the liberatory potential of Abolition Democracy, and how the seeds of this future are being sowed today. The conversation is cohosted by brilliant organizer Asha Ransby-Sporn, and features State Senator Robert Peters, community builder Jay Travis (formerly of KOCO), and EAT Chicago founder Rich Wallace.

SHOW NOTES
DefundCPD campaign - www.instagram.com/defundcpd/

Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis - www.akpress.org/abolitiondemocracy.html

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/core-bios…th-wilson-gilmore

W.E.B. Du Bois - hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

Breathe Act - breatheact.org/wp-content/upload…THE-Act-V.16_.pdf

Tanya Watkins of SOUL - www.soulinchicago.org/

Climate Changemakers Vol. 7 with Tonika Lewis Johnson

Climate Changemakers is a 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 penultimate episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel talk with artist, community builder, and Chicago gem Tonika Lewis Johnson.

A lifelong Englewood resident, she helped co-found the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E), whose mission is to “mobilize people and resources to force positive change in Englewood through solution-based approaches." She is also a lead co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective, established in 2017 to help artistically “reframe the narrative” of Englewood. Her Folded Map Project, which brings together "map twins" from opposite sides of the city, has been widely acclaimed as both an artistic project and a flashpoint in the fight against structural racism.

She talks about the ways that the project has evolved, what she's learned from it about our collective relationships to land, what she imagines in the demolished spaces across her neighborhood, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Cooked Survival by Zip Code - www.pbs.org/independentlens/vid…rvival-by-zip-code/

Open Lands Tree Stewardship project - www.openlands.org/trees/

Go Green on Racine - gogreenonracine.com/

Folded Map Action Kit - www.foldedmapproject.com/submit

Episode 264 - The Education Suite Vol. 7: What We Learned with Eve Ewing

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

For the final episode of this suite, we check back in with Eve to discuss what we've learned. She brings some questions for the guys to make sure they were listening, shares some useful tips for your apocalypse knapsack, and fills us all with the warmth and introspection she is always sharing.

SHOW NOTES
Audre Lorde - alp.org/about/audre

Parable of the Sower-inspired Go Bag - docs.google.com/document/d/1Hhrd4…/edit?usp=sharing

Pierre Bourdieu - scholar.google.com/citations?user=…p40IAAAAJ&hl=en

WEB Dubois - hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

Paulo Freire - www.freire.org/paulo-freire/

Jimmy & Grace Lee Boggs - www.boggsschool.org/grace-and-jimmy

Ella Baker - ellabakercenter.org/who-was-ella-baker/

Bob Moses - snccdigital.org/people/bob-moses/

Chezare Warren - www.chezarewarren.com/

Elizabeth Todd-Breland - hist.uic.edu/profiles/todd-breland-elizabeth/

Episode 263 - The Education Suite Vol. 6: Janie Pochel of Chi-Nations Youth Council

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

This episode features Janie Pochel, the cofounder and guiding force behind Chi-Nations Youth Council. The Council is a community organization that create a supportive open environment for Native youth to raise awareness of cultural identity and promote a healthy lifestyle through arts, activism, and education. She breaks down the lessons learned through land and place-based education, the necessity of Black and Indigenous solidarity, how modern schooling has been a genocidal tool, and how she cares for the youth she serves.

SHOW NOTES
Support the work of Chi-Nations Youth Council - chinationsyouth.weebly.com/donate.html

Good Kids Mad City - www.gkmcenglewood.com/donate

Janie's interview in South Side Weekly - southsideweekly.com/chicago-native-…decolonization/

Subscribe, rate, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts -podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

📷 by Adam Sings in the Timber - singsinthetimber.com/

Episode 262 - The Education Suite Vol. 5: SA Smythe

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

This episode's guest is poet, translator, and transdisciplinary scholar SA Smythe. SA is a professor at UCLA, and is one of the organizers of the Cops Off Campus Campaign, which aims to remove police and policing from all University of California campuses by September 2021. They join the show to talk about the campaign, the challenges and unique potential of forging a truly public university, how the campaign connects to their study of Blackness in the Mediterranean, reaching toward diasporic power rather than national citizenship, and MUCH, MUCH more.

Recorded 9/29/20
SHOW NOTES:

Support the Cops Off Campus campaign - www.instagram.com/uc_ftp/

Nick Mitchell - cres.ucsc.edu/faculty/regular-fa…y.php?uid=nmitchel

Sarah Haley - afam.ucla.edu/faculty/sarah-haley/

Shana Redmond - schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/shana-redmond/

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/core-bios…th-wilson-gilmore

Dylan Rodriguez - twitter.com/dylanrodriguez?lang=en

Sisters Uncut - www.sistersuncut.org/

Paul Gilroy - www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…fessor-paul-gilroy

Gwendolyn Brooks - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks

June Jordan - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/june-jordan

Ashon Crawley - religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/…le/atc8g

Frantz Fanon - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon

Episode 261 - The Education Suite Vol. 4: L'Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country.

On this episode, we get to know Prof. L'Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy. He's a professor at NYU, where his work focuses on the racial entanglements, contradictions, and challenges for students of color in suburban schools. He breaks down the myths we hold about the suburbs, the unique violences of catholic schools, where the potential for fugitivity in the cul-de-sacs might be, and who we should be listening to about what young people need.

SHOW NOTES
Catholic Schools and the Common Good: books.google.com/books/about/Cath…?id=zHzW6NVwS0sC

Free Write Arts & Literacy: freewriteartsliteracy.org/

Jacob Faber on Redlining: www.nyu.edu/about/news-publicat…egregation--ne.html

Yonkers PowerLab: www.thepowerlabny.com/

Show Me a Hero: www.hbo.com/show-me-a-hero

Chezare Warren: www.chezarewarren.com/

Project NIA: project-nia.org/

Bianca Baldridge: www.biancabaldridge.com/

Bettina Love: bettinalove.com/

Robin DG Kelley: https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2020/7/19/episode-255-the-abolition-suite-vol-4-robin-dg-kelley

Daniel Black: danieloblack.com/about-daniel/

Make a tax-deductible donation today and become an AirGo Amplifier: airgoradio.com/donate

Climate Changemakers Vol. 6 with Ramon Etc. aka Radius of Love Fridge Chicago

Climate Changemakers is back, baby! Dame and Kiss return for another three conversations with some of Illinois' most impactful environmental justice and sustainability movement workers, showcasing their work and sharing what lessons they've learned. This episode is with Ramon Etc. aka Radius, the cofounder of the Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid network that sets up community-run, free-food fridges across the city of Chicago. He talks about how the network emerged, his relationship with food, and how we can build a more embodied and sustainable relationship to our food system.

SHOW NOTES:

Check out Ramon's music -
SEEN (Etc Records/ARR sound)
radiusetc.bandcamp.com/album/seen

Sense x Radius (Etc Records)
senseradius.bandcamp.com/album/the-li…a-of-the-tec

Partner Organizations -
eric aka manny is on the team and runs flatlands press
www.instagram.com/flatlands_press/

lisa armstrong is a head/og designer
www.instagram.com/lisastrongarms/

charlotte cohen is main web related designer/etc
www.instagram.com/charlottecohen/

Feed The Crib/Del dia chicago
www.instagram.com/feedthecrib/
www.instagram.com/deldiachicago/

Grocery Run Club
www.instagram.com/groceryrunclub/

grow greater englewood
www.instagram.com/growgreaterenglewood/

bronzville kenwood mutual aid
www.instagram.com/bk_mutualaid/

stephanie dunn/starfarm
www.instagram.com/stephaniedunn8318/

Gotham Greens
www.instagram.com/gothamgreens/

Urban Growers Collective
www.instagram.com/urbangrowerscollective/

Thankful For Chicago
www.instagram.com/thankfulforchicago/

Chef Chanell
www.instagram.com/chefchanell/

Back to school boxes
www.instagram.com/backtoschoolboxes/

Bobcat eats
www.instagram.com/bobcateatsfoodwasteprogram/

kitchfix
www.instagram.com/kitchfix/

Moms Chicago
www.instagram.com/momschicago/

Episode 260 - The Education Suite Vol. 3: Dr. Dave Stovall

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we chop it up with AirGo fam Dr. Dave Stovall, a professor at UIC who works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. He breaks down the distinction between education and schooling, histories of education spaces and their destruction, fugitivity, and much more.

SHOW NOTES:
The People’s Grab n Go - www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-pe…o-oral-history
Bettina Love of the Abolitionist Teaching Network - abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/
The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker - thenewpress.com/books/lost-educat…on-of-horace-tate
Paulo Freire - www.freire.org/paulo-freire/
Lavalas Movement - nacla.org/article/fanmi-lavalas-political-project
Prof. Christopher Span - education.illinois.edu/faculty/christopher-span
Gloria Ladson-Billings - naeducation.org/our-members/glori…-ladson-billings/
Dionne Danns - education.indiana.edu/about/director…ns-dionne.html
Black Teacher Project - www.blackteacherproject.org/
Rethinking Schools - rethinkingschools.org/
Raise Your Hand IL - www.ilraiseyourhand.org/

Episode 259 - The Education Suite Vol. 2: Uplift Sessions

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we go into the classroom at Uplift High School, a social justice CPS school in Uptown that Dame and Kiss taught a 10-week block at in the spring of 2019. Hear from the students of Uplift about what freedom means, what they want to learn about, how they know when to lead and when to follow, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

HUGE thanks to Justin Barnes for his work editing the audio from our sessions at Uplift!

Thanks to Zain Bullie for hosting us in his class. Check out our On the Line episode with him: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-2…ie/id1016530091

Support amazing organization Kuumba Lynx: www.kuumbalynx.com/

Subscribe, rate, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Donate to AirGo: airgoradio.com/donate

Episode 258 - The Education Suite Vol. 1: Eve Ewing

AirGo is excited to launch The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this first volume, Eve joins Dame and Kiss to pose some questions they should ask the guests over the next few weeks, and to share her reflections on the fork in the road our country has reached in regard to education and so much else.

SHOW NOTES

Follow Eve on Twitter: twitter.com/eveewing

Buy her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/…bo27506579.html

Subscribe, rate, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Donate to AirGo: airgoradio.com/donate

Episode 257 - Unelectable Vol. 2: Feminism Live @AMC2020!

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: www.pittsburghposterproject.org/emily-simons

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SHOW NOTES:

Freesiwatu.org

www.honeycombthepoet.org

Check out video of many of the conference's amazing sessions and learn more about this remarkable gathering: amc.alliedmedia.org/

Episode 256 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 5: Fourteen Principles of Abolition Movement Work

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!
amc2020.sched.com/event/239801344c…0be5749cab48fb6b

7/28 - #DefundCPD Virtual Training: bit.ly/virtualdefundcpd

Share the whole Abolition Suite with a friend!: soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/the-abolition-suite

Rate, comment, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Donate to AirGo: airgoradio.com/donate

Episode 255 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 4: Robin D.G. Kelley

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: archive.org/details/AngelaDavis…ecturesOnLiberation

Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson: www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986909

Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson: uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/

Black Reconstruction by Du Bois: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…ction-america/

Organization for Black Struggle in STL: www.obs-stl.org/

Jamala Rogers: jamalarogers.com/about/

Black Radical Congress Agenda: www.obs-stl.org/wp-content/upload…REEDOM-AGENDA.pdf

M4BL Policy Statement: m4bl.org/policy-platforms/

Critical Resistance: criticalresistance.org/

CLR James: www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/biograph.htm

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney: www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-…eveloped-africa

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/736-how…black-america

Groundings with my Brothers by Walter Rodney: www.versobooks.com/books/2787-the-…ith-my-brothers

Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse: uncpress.org/book/9781469633596/jah-kingdom/

Gina Dent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Dent

Combahee River Collective: combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-com…nt.html

Climate Changemakers Vol. 5 with Lissette Castañeda

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: lucha.org/build-passive-house-institute-us/

Learn about Elevate Energy and their 20th anniversary: www.elevateenergy.org/

Episode 254 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 3: Andrea Ritchie

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:
Sign on to the #DefundCPD campaign: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to…olice-department

July 17 Black and Indigenous Solidarity Rally: www.facebook.com/events/s/black-i…580611602644351/

Arrested Justice by Beth Ritchie: 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. incite-national.org/

Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign by Che Gossett: www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-che-…the-unsovereign

Dancing the Carceral Creep by Mimi Kim: escholarship.org/uc/item/804227k6

Ruthie Wilson Gilmore: www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazi…lson-gilmore.html

Breonna Taylor and Gentrification: www.salon.com/2020/07/06/breonna…ntrification-plan/

Octavia Butler: octaviabutler.org/

Nalo Hopkinson: nalohopkinson.com/index.html

Interrupting Criminalization: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/

Vision 4 Black Lives 2020: m4bl.org/policy-platforms/

In Our Names Network: www.inournamesnetwork.com/

Invisible No More: invisiblenomorebook.com/

Episode 253 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 2: Mariame Kaba

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": www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinio…efund-police.html

Explore her workbook Fumbling Towards Repair: www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html

Other abolitionist projects mentioned by Mariame:
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: batjc.wordpress.com/
Anti Police-Terror Police Project: www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/
CAT 911: cat-911.org/
The Northwest Network: www.nwnetwork.org/

Paola Rojas: sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neo…ds-and-hearts/

Prison by Any Other Name: thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name

Liat Ben-Moshe: www.liatbenmoshe.com/

Eddie Ellis: www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/451/th…n-on-sentence

DefundCPD Campaign: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to…olice-department

Episode 252 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 1: #DefundCPD with Asha Ransby-Sporn

AirGo introduces The Abolition Suite, a month of episodes focusing on police and prison abolition, with this episode featuring AirGo fave Asha Ransby-Sporn. Asha and the guys talk about the upcoming Defund CPD Mass Resistance Trainings over Fourth of July weekend, and go through the 11 demands of the Black Abolitionist Network and the DefundCPD campaign.

NOTE: The 7/4 and 7/5 trainings are for Black people only. White and non-Black POC folks can sign up for the 7/3 training.

Sign up HERE: actionnetwork.org/events/defund-cp…stance-trainings

Can't make the training? Sign on to demand the defunding of CPD HERE: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department

This series of trainings is hosted by the Black Abolitionist Network as apart of the campaign to Defund CPD. Feel free to contact BAN at blackabolitionistnetwork@gmail.com with any accessibility needs or other concerns.