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 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 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 NOTESSupport Care-Based Safety - https://www.instagram.com/carebasedsafetyWatch 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 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/

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 - [email protected] 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 [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 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

One Million Experiments turns to the Twin Cities to connect with Signe Harriday of Relationships Evolving Possibilies, or REP. REP is a network of dedicated abolitionists 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. They help community build pods of communal reliance, and facilitate a hotline to address the needs of community members in times of crisis. We talk with Signe about how relationships are the building blocks of liberation work, how having a different number to call shifts individual and communal consciousness, and how Black liberation and indigenous sovereignty are at the center of the multi-century struggle of which we are all a part.SHOW NOTESSupport the Work of REP: https://repformn.org/support-this-work/Sharon Bridgforth: https://www.sharonbridgforth.com/Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/Mental Health First Oakland: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oaklandBeyond Survival: https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.htmlThe Fields at Rootsprings: https://rootspringsmn.org/Follow REP: https://www.instagram.com/repformnIn the Twin Cities and need help in crisis? Call or text the hotline Fri/Sat between 7pm and 12am: 952.737.3730Subscribe 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

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment.On Episode 4, the guys have the honor and privilege to talk with Tamar Manasseh. Tamar is the founder of MASK (Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings), an experiment that began in 2015 as a way to put eyes on the streets, interrupt violence and crime, and teach children to grow up as friends rather than enemies. From her lawn chair at 75th and Stewart in Chicago, Tamar and her village have transformed the responses to violence and harm in their neighborhood, generated educational and communal programs toward liberation, and illuminated a path forward that renders punishment obsolete. She talks about how the work has evolved, the role of news media in perpetuating state violence, how her positionality as a Jew and a rabbi has molded her vantage point, and much more.SHOW NOTESSupport the work of MASK - https://www.ontheblock.org/supportFollow them on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/maskontheblock/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Explore all of the Experiments - millionexperiments.com/Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-ProjectSubscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment.On this episode, we talk with Selma Raven and Sara Allen of the Friendly Fridge BX, a community food distribution point and mutual aid experiment at 242nd Street and Broadway in the Bronx. The duo talks about how the experiment has been transformative for all, the steep learning curve that the two of them had as the fridge got up and running, and how the act of experimentation taught them to act boldly and without permission.Support the Friendly Fridge - https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-friendly-fridge-bxFollow them on IG - https://www.instagram.com/thefriendlyfridgebx/?hl=enFind a Community Fridge near you! - https://freedge.org/locations/Subscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Explore all of the Experiments - millionexperiments.com/Submit your Experiment - millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-ProjectSubscribe to AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On this episode, Dame and Daniel talk with Black Trans Travel Fund Founder & Executive Director Devin Lowe. Devin breaks down how the experiment emerged out of the needs of his loved ones, the surprising and gratifying ways that the work has expanded, and the relationship of freedom of personal movement to collective liberatory social movement.SHOW NOTESSupport the work of BTTF - https://www.blacktranstravelfund.com/donate Miss Boogie - https://www.instagram.com/dearmsboogie/?hl=enNoname Book Club - https://nonamebooks.com/TDoR - Trans Day of Remembrance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_RemembranceThe Emergency Release Fund - https://www.emergencyrelease.org/Legal Aid Society - https://legalaidnyc.org/STAR Manifesto - https://peaceandsocialism.tumblr.com/post/634720140594937856/star-manifesto Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas - https://twitter.com/AbolitionF_istsSubscribe to One Million Experiments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-million-experiments/id1589966282Explore all of the Experiments - https://millionexperiments.com/Submit your Experiment - https://millionexperiments.com/Submit-a-ProjectSubscribe to AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

Welcome to One Million Experiments, a brand new podcast exploring how we define and create safety, wellness, and protection in a world without police and prisons. Through longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, and celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment. On this first episode, hosts Dame and Kiss introduce the project alongside Interrupting Criminalization's Eva Nagao. Then the guys take a deep dive into the project with 1ME co-creator Mariame Kaba, who talks about the project's evolution, the limits of framing the projects as "alternatives" to police and prisons, and how she hopes the project moves people into movement and action. SHOW NOTES The podcast is brought to you by AirGo (airgoradio) and Interrupting Criminalization (www.interruptingcriminalization.com). Subscribe to One Million Experiments wherever you get your podcasts! Explore the One Million Experiments Virtual Encyclopedia - http://millionexperiments.com/ Paola Rojas - https://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/# Project NIA - http://project-nia.org/ adrienne maree brown - adriennemareebrown.net/ Shira Hassan - just-practice.org/about-shira Ruthie Wilson Gilmore - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Mia Mingus - twitter.com/miamingus