One Million Experiments

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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.

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S3 · E4
Sep 11, 2025 · 32 min
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...
Aug 28, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
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...
S3 · E2
Aug 14, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
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...
S3 · E1
Jul 31, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min
CRISIS Part 1 - Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) in Minneapolis
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...
Jul 2, 2025 · 2 min
2025 PSA: Watch the Film Online, Podcast Returns this Summer, and New Travel Show Coming Soon!
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...
S2 · E11
May 2, 2024 · 1 hr 19 min
Bonus! with Collective Justice
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...
S2 · E10
Jan 25, 2024 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 20 - The Conclusion with Mariame Kaba
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...
S2 · E9
Dec 21, 2023 · 1 hr 22 min
Ep 19 - Practicing New Worlds with Andrea J. Ritchie
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...
S2 · E8
Nov 30, 2023 · 1 hr 19 min
Ep 18 - Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with Vivien Sansour
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...
S2 · E7
Oct 25, 2023 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 17 - Just Practice Collaborative with Shira Hassan & Deana Lewis
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...
S2 · E6
Sep 28, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 16 - API Chaya Natural Helpers
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...
S2 · E5
Aug 31, 2023 · 1 hr
Episode 15 - Philadelphia Community Bail Fund with Candace McKinley
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...
S2 · E4
Jun 22, 2023 · 1 hr
Episode 14 - Queenie's Crew with Zara Raven
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...
S2 · E3
May 25, 2023 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 13 - Ujimaa Medics with Martine Caverl
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...
S2 · E2
Apr 20, 2023 · 56 min
Episode 12 - Feed Black Futures with Ali Anderson
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...
S2 · E1
Mar 23, 2023 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 11 - Harriet's Wildest Dreams with Makia Green
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...
S1 · E10
Oct 6, 2022 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 10 - Chicago Torture Justice Center with Aislinn Pulley and Mark Clements
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...
S1 · E9
Sep 8, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 9 - WA Roundtable
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,...
S1 · E8
Jul 28, 2022 · 1 hr 18 min
(English) Episode 8 - Taller Salud with Zinnia Alejandro
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...
S1 · E8
Jul 28, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
(Español) Parte 8 - Taller Salud con Zinnia Alejandro
¡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...

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