One Million Experiments is a podcast showcasing and exploring how we define and create safety 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.
CRISIS Part 4 - CRISIS Conclusions w/ the 1ME Crew
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 NOTES
Support REP - https://repformn.org/support-this-work/ (https://repformn.org/support-this-work/)
Support Cambridge HEART - https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/ (https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/)
Support Care-Based Safety - https://secure.givelively.org/donate/non-profit-nonprofit-enterprise-at-work-inc/care-based-safety (https://secure.givelively.org/donate/non-profit-nonprofit-enterprise-at-work-inc/care-based-safety)
Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments (https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments)
Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com (https://millionexperiments.com)
Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com (https://respairmedia.com)
28 Aug 2025
CRISIS Part 3 - Care-Based Safety in Michigan
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 NOTES
Support Care-Based Safety - https://www.instagram.com/carebasedsafety (https://www.instagram.com/carebasedsafety)
Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments (https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments)
Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com (https://millionexperiments.com)
Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com (https://respairmedia.com)
14 Aug 2025
CRISIS Part 2 - Cambridge HEART in Cambridge, MA
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 NOTES
Painting the Ocean & the Sky by Shira Hassan - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/ocean-sky (https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/ocean-sky)
Support Cambridge HEART - https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/ (https://cambridgeheart.networkforgood.com/)
Watch the 1ME film - https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments (https://www.respairmedia.com/one-million-experiments)
Check out 1ME online - millionexperiments.com (https://millionexperiments.com)
Learn more about Respair - respairmedia.com (https://respairmedia.com)
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