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Monica Trinidad is a queer Latin visual artist, communicator, and cultural strategist from the South Side of Chicago, committed to amplifying marginalized voices through combining art and activism. Trinidad's activism blossomed during their college years, where they first explored anti-war movements and recognized the power of young voices as a catalyst for change. This is what their Chicago sounds like. This segment of “This Is What Chicago Sounds Like” was produced by Ari Mejia. Keep up with Monica Trinidad on Instagram at @itsmonicatrinidad.

Nasser speaks with Adel Salman, President of the Islamic Council of Victoria, on the continued occupation of, and violence against, Palestinians in Gaza, including his experiences of a visit to Gaza, the conflation of conversations on violence, terrorism, and Palestinian oppression, connection and solidarity with Islamic communities, and the vital role of protests and direct action in supporting Palestinian people.Nasser also reflects upon a hit piece recently published in mainstream media about his outspoken activism and support of Palestinians right to self-detrminiation and sovereignty. Read 3CR Statement of Palestine Remembered here.Free Palestine Melbourne weekly rally and march this Sunday starting at 12pm at State Library Victoria. More info.For information about your rights when protesting, visit mals.au/resources.Track 'Free Palestine' produced by musician Ambassador.Artwork created by Monica Trinidad. 

Chicago is home to a rich arts scene, but advocates say more can be done to support arts education, expand access to the arts and recognize that the arts can be a powerful economic engine for the city. Reset talks to Leslé Honoré, poet and CEO of Urban Gateways, Monica Trinidad, co-founder of For the People Artists Collective, Abby Pucker, founder of GERTIE, a Chicago arts wayfinding platform, about the ways the Johnson administration could lean into the arts. The trio are co-chairs of Johnson's transition subcommittee on arts and culture.

On this bonus episode, listen to audio from an IG Live on 1/15, in which the guys break down the Behind the Scenes of their interview with the legendary Angela Davis. SHOW NOTES Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Check out another wonderful podcast, The Lit Review, hosted by Chicago organizers Page May and Monica Trinidad - www.thelitreview.org/ Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film.

Yup, it's real–we can't believe it either. The guys have the extraordinary privilege and honor of talking with legendary Black revolutionary Angela Davis. She discusses her experience this summer during uprising, the remarkable popularization of abolition, the significance of addressing gender violence and inequality in the fight for liberation, and much much more. Wow! SHOW NOTES Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/ Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/ George Jackson - http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html Attica Brothers - https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/sep/15/remembering-attica-forty-years-later/ Without Guarantees by Stuart Hall - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Without_Guarantees/MYcFKbUl0zkC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Frank "Big Black" Smith - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/us/frank-smith-71-is-dead-sought-justice-after-attica.html Critical Resistance - http://criticalresistance.org/ Mike Davis essay on PIC - http://archive.li/RF45D INCITE! - https://incite-national.org/ Southern Negro Youth Congress - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/southern-negro-youth-congress-1937-1949/ Mariame Kaba - http://mariamekaba.com/ Barbara Ransby - https://barbararansby.com/about-2/ Robin Kelley - https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-kelley Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Check out another wonderful podcast, The Lit Review, hosted by Chicago organizers Page May and Monica Trinidad - http://www.thelitreview.org/ Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film.

A lot of what's happening in the world lately has left Nuradean and Suprina feeling really powerless. As individual young people, it can sometimes feel like we're just shouting into the void. So, for International Youth Day, we're thinking about what actual power we have as young people to make impactful change. We've invited filmmaker and NHS hospital cleaner Hassan Akkad and Third Wave Fund Communications Officer, Monica Trinidad, to talk about different forms of activism, and how young people can get involved.This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUESTAriel Atkins is a lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Chicago and was very active in the #NoCopAcademy campaign. She is also a hardcore anime and comic book nerd.OVERVIEWBrownTown finally tackles a much discussed topic on this podcast as well as in recent weeks, police abolition. Ariel begins by sharing how she came up in the movement and her transition from activist to organizer. BrownTown chimes in comparing the politicization process of the unpoliticized from the 2016 election to now (see Episode 11). All three share their thoughts and experiences since the global uprising against police brutality and white supremacy following the police killing of George Floyd. In explaining the current resurgence for the Black Lives Matter movement, Caullen sets the stage theorizing on coronavirus/quarantine breaking the trust privileged people had in the system (paraphrased from Heather McGhee) while Ariel explains the snowball of international uprisings in 2019 (shoutout Hong Kong, Chile, Venezuela).Ariel and BrownTown soon bring it home to Chicago, breaking down riots/rebellions as "language of the unheard" (MLK), critiquing Mayor Lori Lightfoot's draconian measures to quell Chicago protests and unwillingness to budge on getting police out of schools, Latinx and Black communities coming together after police manipulation of Latinx gangs, and more. Social media has been a firestorm of information, performative allyship, and a spark for real conversations and politicization. With this, the gang shares their on and offline interactions, explain #8CantWait vs. #8toAbolition, and what everyone can do to unapologetically show up for Black lives, fight white supremacy and anti-Blackness in all their insidious and invisible forms so that we all get free. Originally recorded June 15, 2020.--On Abolition: We would not be where we are in this moment if not for the centuries of work from our ancestors and decades of work from living legends such as Black Feminists Angela Y. Davis, Mariame Kaba, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In short, abolition is "about presence, not absence. It's about building life-affirming institutions" (Gilmore). We want to abolish these harmful systems in their current form and radically reshape our social and political structures to equitably meet our needs with respect to our natural environment. More than a political vision, abolition is a way of life that replaces carceral logics in virtually every aspect of our lives with restorative practices and ideologies.Abolition Resources and Topics MentionedAbolition 101 Guide (article) - MPD150Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police (article) - Mariame KabaIs Prison Necessary? (article) - Ruth Wilson GilmoreMaking Meaning in this Moment (video town hall) - Rising MajorityA Community Compilation on Police Abolition (zine) - Sarah-Ji and Monica Trinidad of For the People Artists CollectiveConfessions of a Bastard Cop (article) - AnonymousAre Prisons Obsolete? (book) - Angela Y. DavisCarceral Capitalism (book) - Jackie WangThe End of Policing (book) - Alex VitaleWho do you Serve, Who do you Protect? (book) - Maya SchenwarFumbling Towards Repair (workbook) - Mariame Kaba and Shira HassanWhite Supremacist Infiltration of US Polices Forces (article) - Danielle SchulkinCompiled Read, Watch, Listen SpreadsheetTransformharm.org8toAbolition.comCriticalResistance.orgSurvivedandPunished.org--
Follow Ariel on Instagram and Black Lives Matter Chicago on their site, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.--CREDITS: Intro music and engineering by Genta Tamashiro with audio snippets of Ariel, recorded by Caullen Hudson. Outro song Proll'ems by two-time Bourbon 'n BrownTown alum and Chi DNA subject Tweak'G. Podcast audio engineering by Genta Tamashiro.--Bourbon ’n BrownTownSite | Become a Patron on Patreon!SoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Support

GUESTS Monica Trinidad is a visual artist and organizer, born and raised on the southeast side of Chicago. She is a co-founder of For the People Artists Collective, a radical squad of Black artists and artists of color in Chicago who create art for Chicago's most powerful justice movements. Monica creates artwork to cultivate the practice of hope and to spark imagination in both organizers immersed in the day-to-day spadework of movement building and in every resident in Chicago. Her work is currently in permanent collection at DuSable Museum of African American History. You can listen to her every week on the Lit Review podcast, a literary podcast for the movement, with her co-host Page May, founder of Assata’s Daughters. Debbie Southorn is a queer abolitionist who works for the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago, where she supports community-based efforts to end police violence, surveillance and militarism. She’s also a founding member of the People’s Response Team, and serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League. From #NoCopAcademy: “#NoCopAcademy is a grassroots campaign launched by Assata’s Daughters, Black Lives Matter - Chicago, People’s Response Team, For The People Artists Collective, and 100+ grassroots organizations to mobilize against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plans to spend $95 million for a massive training center for Chicago Police in West Garfield Park on the city’s West Side. The city’s quiet unveiling suggests they are trying to avoid public scrutiny of this latest spending scheme, but we will not be robbed of our resources quietly. We refuse any expansion of policing in Chicago, and demand accountability for decades of violence. We will fight for funding for our communities, and support each other in building genuine community safety in the face of escalating attacks.” OVERVIEW As two adult lead organizers in #NoCopAcademy, Monica and Debbie outline their journeys into activism, noting how they both cut their teeth in organizing in the 2000s in resistance to the Iraq War. The group discusses Chicago’s history of radical organizing from the Rainbow Coalition in the 1960s, to We Charge Genocide in 2014, to Reparations Now and Justice 4 LaQuan. BrownTown and guests dissect what the larger Invest/Divest framework means in terms of #NoCopAcademy as positioned against reformist arguments of piecemeal solutions to systemic problems. Recorded about a month after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he would not run for a third term in February 2019, BrownTown listens to Monica and Debbie’s reaction to the newst, organizers’ relationship with his administration, and the (presumed) effectiveness of public shaming people in power. With coalition-building at the helm, Monica and Debbie are clear to describe #NoCopAcademy as a campaign first-and-foremost with a coalition built around it, rather than a coalition taking on several campaigns over its tenure (like R3 Coalition Chicago). Coalition work is difficult but, at times, necessary. Debbie elaborates, giving a nod to musician, activist, and Black Feminist Bernice Johnson Reagon’s reflections on the subject, as well as noting some of the endorsing organizations who throw down for #NoCopAcademy through their own unique perspective, experience, and analysis (noted: i2i in the Lunar New Year parade, SURJ, etc.). Last but certainly not least, the group takes their hats of to the youth who consistently spearhead the campaign, and look forward to the next iteration of the fight, the upcoming municipal election season, and what it means for the future of Chicago. Find out more about the campaign at NoCopAcademy.com and @NoCopAcademy on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. -- Follow Monica on Twitter, Instagram (personal / work), and Facebook. Learn more about her and buy her work at MonicaTrinidad.com. Follow Debbie on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and learn more about her work with American Friends Service Committee. -- CREDITS: Intro song Cops Shot the Kid by NAS. Outro music by Fiendsh. Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro. -- Bourbon ’n BrownTown Site | Become a Patron on Patreon! SoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Support

Transitions in organizational leadership always get a bad wrap, but are they truly moments of crisis, or critical opportunities for growth and transformation? On this episode, Monica Trinidad is joined by guest host Pidgeon, an internationally-recognized intersex activist, academic, writer and artist. We join Third Wave Fund's Outgoing Executive Director, Rye Young, to talk about his time at Third Wave Fund, what it was like going from intern to ED, why it's important that he makes room for new leadership, and all the crucial steps necessary to ensure sustainability in transition.

According to Monica Trinidad, co-founder of For the People Artists Collective, "Art is not an afterthought, it is essential and integral to organizing." Artists don't just translate activism into a visual language; they can actually create an environment in which activism is possible. Monica recently visited the Newberry to view our Never the Same Collection of political art. While she was here, she talked with us about how art can make difficult ideas more accessible, what happens to art when it becomes part of an archive, and why it's important to preserve different artistic perspectives in an institution like the Newberry. (Intro music: "Two Types of Awakenings" by Nheap)

Page May and Monica Trinidad unite for an episode! They sit down with Benji Hart, a Chicago-based author, artist, and educator whose work centers Black radicalism, queer liberation, and prison abolition. Their words have appeared in numerous anthologies, and been published at Teen Vogue, Time, The Advocate, and elsewhere. Page and Monica talk with Benji about the book Transgender History by Susan Stryker, which covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today.

Monica Trinidad and guest host Bettina Johnson speak with Ramah Kudaimi, a Syrian-American activist and organizer currently living in D.C. Monica and Bettina chatted with Ramah via a video call about the book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab. Ramah serves on the board of the Washington Peace Center, is a member of the Syrian Solidarity Collective, and the Muslim Women's Policy Forum. She also serves with the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, working as a BDS organizer, and BDS stands for Boycott, Divest and Sanctions.

Monica Trinidad's work as a visual artist and organizer has been pivotal in shaping the ways art and activism cocreate in this moment, movement, and city. The co-founder of For The People Artists Collective, she has illustrated how communal art-making is necessary for our fights and for our spirits. Recorded 9/16/16 Music from this week's show: Casanova- @lostclubmusic Complejo de Salvador Blanco - Cochina

Monica Trinidad is a Chicago-born, Chicago-based artist, activist, and prison abolitionist. In part one of this interview we discuss her work with Brown and Proud Press, Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, and her impressions of protests in Oakland versus Chicago. Part two is coming later this month. Read the transcript at scribd.com/artactivistnia. Support the podcast at patreon.com/artactivistnia.