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 NOTESSupport 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-safetyWatch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experimentsCheck out 1ME online - millionexperiments.comLearn 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 NOTESPainting the Ocean & the Sky by Shira Hassan - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/ocean-skySupport Cambridge HEART - https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experimentsCheck out 1ME online - millionexperiments.comLearn 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 NOTESReceive support from the REP hotline - 952-737-3730Watch the episode on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5_d2IGmSAConnect with REP - https://repformn.org/Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experimentsCheck out 1ME online - millionexperiments.comLearn more about Respair - respairmedia.com
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 NOTESFind One Million Experiments on tour! - https://www.respairmedia.com/eventsBring us to your community by hitting us up - contact@respairmedia.comConnect 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
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 NOTESBook a screening of the 1ME film! - Hit us up at contact@respairmedia.com 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 NOTESPracticing 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 NOTESJoin 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.htmlCreative Interventions Toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/Rachel Caidor - https://just-practice.org/rachel-caidorSaving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-livesCombahee 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.pdfHealing 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-youPracticing 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 NOTESSupport 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 NOTESPhiladelphia Community Bail Fund - https://www.phillybailout.org/Black Mama's Bail Out - nationalbailout.orgCritical Resistance's "Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end IMPRISONMENT" - https://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CR_abolitioniststeps_antiexpansion_2021_eng.pdfBail Fund Network directory - https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directoryBeyond Criminal Courts - https://beyondcourts.org/enIC's "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/binderAmistad 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 NOTESSee You Soon read by Queenie's Crew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAfg9sT1fYw&t=73s The zine - https://millionexperiments.com/zines/queenies-crewLearn 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-soonThe Revolution Starts at Home ed. by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ching-In Chen, & Jai Dulani - https://www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.htmlQueenie's Crew Reading List - https://queeniescrew.com/resourcesMicah 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/3810699IN OUR OWN HANDS: tools for talking abolition & transformative justice with little ones by Rania El Mugammar - https://www.raniawrites.com/inourhands.htmlBuilding 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
The 1ME squad talks with Martine Caverl of Ujimaa Medics, a Chicago-based crew of organizers, community members, and health professionals who offer training in Urban Emergency First Response, primarily to people who live in or love people who live in communities where shootings often occur. Martine breaks down how historical flashpoints like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the murder of Mike Brown built the framework for the organization, the importance of invitation as a tool for building meaningful work, and much more.SHOW NOTESSupport UMedics - https://www.umedics.org/donate/Zapatista movement - https://nacla.org/news/2022/12/21/spark-hope-ongoing-lessons-zapatista-revolution-25-yearsDr Luther Castillo Harry - https://latinarepublic.com/2022/02/15/a-look-into-honduras-new-secretary-of-science-and-technology-dr-luther-castillo-harry/Damien Turner - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/us/03cnchospitals.htmlWe Charge Genocide - http://wechargegenocide.org/Beyond Do No Harm - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harmSubscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
The 1ME crew gets their hands dirty this month with Ali Anderson of Cali-based experiment Feed Black Futures. Created in 2020 as a crowdfunding campaign to feed 20 families for two weeks at the start of the pandemic soon became an organization that feeds Black mamas/caregivers impacted by the carceral system in counties across California by partnering with Black and Brown-owned farms and food suppliers across California. FBF is committed to creating a world where Black people have access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it. Founder Ali breaks down what happened when she ended up with way more money than she expected, the bonds her work has forged, and the regenerative joy people get from keeping their hands in the soil.SHOW NOTESSupport Feed Black Futures - https://feedblackfutures.orgSoul Fire Farm Immersions - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/programs/bipoc-trainings/immersions/Reparations Map for Black-Indigenous Farmers - https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/reparations/Arissa Hall - https://www.arissahall.com/Delaine Powerful - https://homecomingcollective.com/who-we-areMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis by Dean Spade - https://www.versobooks.com/products/2722-mutual-aidBarnard Center for Women Intro to Mutual Aid - https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/introduction-to-mutual-aid/Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/Liberated Life with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams - https://www.liblife.net/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091Study And Relax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
AirGo, Interrupting Criminalization, and Project NIA kick off season two of One Million Experiments, our collaborative podcast showcasing and exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. We start off in the DMV with Makia Green of Harriet's Wildest Dreams, a black-led abolitionist community defense hub centering all Black lives most at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington DC area. Makia breaks down the different pillars of their work, the ways their work is shaped by historical Black revolutionaries, and the unique challenges of organizing for liberation in the center of the U.S. empire.SHOW NOTESLearn more about Harriet's Wildest Dreams - https://www.harrietsdreams.org/Harriet Tubman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_TubmanIda B Wells - https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnettElla Baker - https://ellabakercenter.org/who-was-ella-baker/DC Safety squad - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WpC8yxRXU4RAWM5S2WHEjniIOjhuE0b07aKRf9bDqGA/editErica Totten - https://erikatotten.com/Mary Hooks - https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/mary-hooks/The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/the-body-is-not-an-apologyBOLD - https://boldorganizing.org/Emotional Emancipation circles - https://communityhealingnet.org/emotional-emancipation-circle/Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
On the final episode of Season 1, the 1ME crew talks with two of the leaders of the remarkable Chicago Torture Justice Center, an experiment born from the first police torture reparations victory in the history of the United States. Survivors and their families fought for decades for access to the trauma-informed resources and politicized healing support that the Center now offers. CTJC Community Organizer Mark Clements and Co-Executive Director Aislinn Pulley discuss the birth of the center, expanding definitions of repair and reparation, and what healing looks like for survivors of torture by the Chicago Police Department.SHOW NOTESSupport the Survivor Repair Fund - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/repairfundListen to CTJC Event Series from May 2021 - https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/chicago-torture-justice-centerLearn more about CTJC - https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/We Charge Genocide - http://wechargegenocide.org/Damo Day - http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2015/05/20/we-do-this-for-damo/Rekia Boyd - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/rekia-boydChairman Fred Hampton Jr. - https://twitter.com/chairmanfredjr1?lang=enPeople’s Law Office - https://peopleslawoffice.com/Jane Elliot - https://janeelliott.com/Prentis Hemphill - https://prentishemphill.com/Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/about-us/Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282
1ME heads to the Pacific Northwest on this episode to learn from a roundtable of experiments in Washington. With Kiss out on vacation, Eva joins Dame in conversation with JM Wong, a writer and activist in Seattle; Cassandra Butler of Free Them All WA, a collective committed to the abolition of the criminal punishment system in WA that began as a subset of Covid 19 Mutual Aid; and Zhou Shuxuan of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project, a grassroots formation of Asian/Asian American community members organizing to provide support for migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers. The squad talks about the ways that criminalization intersects with Asian migrant experiences, food and communication as the building blocks of organization, how they adapted their approaches in the era of pandemic, and much more.SHOW NOTES Learn more about MPOP - https://www.mpopsea.org/Support Free Them All WA - https://www.facebook.com/FreeThemAllWa/Get in tune with APICAG - https://www.facebook.com/people/APICAGAsian-Pacific-Islander-Cultural-Awareness-Group/100069203014149/Subscribe to 1ME - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Subscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091Dig into One Million Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/
¡El equipo de 1ME está muy emocionado de recibir a Zinnia Alejandro de Taller Salud en el podcast! Zinnia es la directora del programa Acuerdo de Paz a Taller Salud, una organización feminista de base comunitaria dedicada a mejorar el acceso de las mujeres a la salud, reducir la violencia en entornos comunitarios y fomentar el desarrollo económico a través de la educación y el activismo. Fundada en 1979, Taller Salud es una organización independiente, no gubernamental, sin fines de lucro. Para nuestro primer episodio bilingüe, estamos publicando dos versiones, una en inglés y otra en español. Puede encontrar ambas versiones en el feed de su podcast, así como las transcripciones disponibles en los sitios web de AirGo y One Million Experiments. Gracias a nuestro coanfitriona Melissa Duprey, y tambien a Franceli Chapman-Varela para narración en traducción.SHOW NOTES: Lee la transcripción aquí - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rdiZLmrED-52ivnsCwiHSxqyoRp0VSIP/view?usp=sharingAprende mas - https://www.tallersalud.com/Escucha a One Million Experiments en ingles - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282
The 1ME team is so hyped to welcome Zinnia Alejandro from Taller Salud onto the pod! Zinnia is the director of the Acuerdo de Paz (peace accord) program at Taller Salud, which is a community based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community and to encourage economic growth through education and activism. Founded in 1979, the organization is based in Loíza, Puerto Rico. For our first bilingual episode, we are releasing two versions–one in English and one in Spanish. You can find both versions on your podcast feed, as well as transcripts available on the AirGo and One Million Experiments websites. Big thanks to our special guest cohost Melissa Duprey, and to Franceli Chapman-Varela for the voiceover in translation.SHOW NOTESRead the transcript here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZ8kx62HGbMEvS68ONLgrXpRrIrZU9QP/view?usp=sharingLearn more about Taller Salud - https://www.tallersalud.com/
On this episode, the 1ME squad talks with Alicia Hurtado of the Chicago Abortion Fund, a movement stalwart that has been funding and supporting abortion access in Illinois and beyond for over 30 years. Alicia breaks down the relationship between abortions and criminalization, the steps we can all take right now to make abortion access possible in our communities, and the ways in which fighting the stigmatization of this necessary health care procedure can impact how we understand care as a whole.SHOW NOTES Support the work of the Chicago Abortion Fund - https://chicagoabortionfund.salsalabs.org/makeadonation/index.htmlFind help getting an abortion - https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/how-we-can-helpChicago Abortion Fund Helpline - (312) 663-0338#CareNotCops campaign - https://www.uchicagounited.org/carenotcops Dissenters - https://wearedissenters.org/Toolkit on how to talk about abortion - http://bit.ly/sayabortionResource of fake clinics, known as "pregnancy crisis centers" - http://exposefakeclinics.comRepro Legal Help Line - https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-ProjectSubscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091
The squad heads to our movement sister city for this episode of One Million Experiments with the Detroit Safety Team, led by Curtis Renee and John Sloan III. The organization, which was birthed out of creating anticarceral safety processes for the Detroit-based Allied Media Conference, builds a network of community-trained safety practitioners across the city, providing a pathway toward communities that are self reliant—where it is understood that we have the capacity to rely on ourselves and our community to stay safe and handle harm productively. We talk about the evolving definition of safety, learning from communal evaluation, how the pandemic disrupted movement work, and much more.SHOW NOTESSupport the work of Detroit Safety Team - https://www.redefinesafety.org/donateLearn more about Detroit Safety Team - https://www.redefinesafety.org/our-visionJimmy and Grace Lee Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/Ron Scott - https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/11/30/ron-scott-detroit-activist-dies-68/76555556/Allied Media Conference - https://amc.alliedmedia.org/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Explore all of the Experiments - http://millionexperiments.com/Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-ProjectSubscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091