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Bourbon 'n BrownTown

Di: Caullen Hudson & David A Moran
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 Powered by SoapBox Productions and Organizing, Bourbon ‘n BrownTown is a conversation-based podcast that fosters radically imaginative dialogues on media, culture, politics, and our various social movements through a liberatory lens. With a Chicago focus, filmmakers and movement workers Caullen Hudson and David A. Moran unpack complex social issues and topics while building relationships with artists, activists, community organizers, educators, social entrepreneurs, and others working towards a better world. Together, BrownTown holds space to listen, learn, and liberate, all while sippin’ on sumpin’ good. Salud! Visit SoapBoxPO.com/Podcast; follow @BourbonnBrownTown on Facebook/Instagram, @BourbonnBrwnTwn on Twitter; and @SoapBoxPO on all social media.2026 Bourbon 'n BrownTown Arte Politica e governo Scienze sociali
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  • Ep. 134 - 2026 Chicago Budget SZN ft. H Kapp-Klote

    Ep. 134 - 2026 Chicago Budget SZN ft. H Kapp-Klote
    Oct 30 2026
    BrownTown chops it up with H Kapp-Klote, a Chicago communications strategist and creator of Chicago 312, a weekly newsletter and video series on Chicago municipal politics. If budgets are moral documents, then how is the City of Chicago planning to live up to its mandate to take care of its 2.7 million residents in 2027? City budgets have always been sites of invest/divest strategy from Chicago’s grassroots while being met with corporate, carceral, and neoliberal forces with varying amounts of power. Now, in this era of a seemingly progressive turn in Chicago and other states/cities, what will this year’s budget fight look like? Why are city budgets (and their actual implementation) so important and what the fuck can everyday folks do about it? Originally recorded on September 28, 2026, before Mayor Brandon Johnson released his budget proposal on October 21, 2026, BrownTown and H cover recent years' budget fights and dive into what to expect for FY2027. How does the general/municipal election environment influence this budget season? Why is CPD abuse so normalized that they allocate millions of dollars of our money every year for misconduct settlements? What is H's monthly proposed vs. actual budget for off-brand Choco Tacos? Here's their take. GUESTSH Kapp-Klote (he/him) is a Chicago communications strategist and writes Chicago 312, a weekly newsletter and video series on Chicago municipal politics: parking meters, the school board, the budget, and the gap between what the city says and does. H grew up in Kansas, did policy and press work in D.C., and came to Chicago in 2013. Here he got into organizing through Mariame Kaba and the We Charge Genocide campaign. Since then he's run communications and press for the Chicago Teachers Union, and consulted for progressive groups and candidates around the country. He wrote "How Right-Wing Media Keeps Baiting Chicago" for Convergence Magazine.Read and subscribe to his newsletter The Chicago 312 and follow him on Instagram!--Mentioned in episode:Minneapolitans voting to disband MPD. More context in One Million Experiments: In The Field -- Minneapolis (interview | episode)#NoCopAcademyLightfoot has the biggest dick in Chicago (Yahoo)July 2026 City Council meeting - budget fails to meet shortfall (WTTW)February 23, 2027 is election day for Chicago!City Council fightsData Center FAIR Act vs. PRO ActMamdani paving 200k potholes in NYC (NY Post, TikTok dude, Novara Media)Alderpersons debate the corporate head tax...again (WTTW)Recent Chicago 312The Budget and Old BillsThe Head Tax Is BackRemember The ARG Ads That Would Fix the Budget?--CREDITS: Intro from CBS News after Mayor Brandon Johnson released his budget proposal on October 22, 2026. Outro from For the Love of Money by O’Jays. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles. Episode photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times; H photo provided.--Bourbon ’n BrownTownFacebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | PatreonSoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | Support
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    1 ora e 14 min
  • Ep. 133 - Public Education in Chicago ft. Hilario Dominguez

    Ep. 133 - Public Education in Chicago ft. Hilario Dominguez
    Oct 24 2026
    BrownTown discusses the history and current state of public education in Chicago with Hilario Dominguez, special education teacher and candidate for the President of the Chicago Board of Education. He is running on the Public School Champions platform which includes universal full-day pre-K starting at age three, fresh food and better meals, fully funded Sustainable Community Schools, and youth jobs and career pathways. For the first time in 30 years, the Chicago Elected School Board will be completely elected by the people, and out of mayoral control. Now, in 2026 with a turbulent federal government gutting the Department of Education and billionaires and corporatists pouring money into the school board race in an attempt to ratchet Chicago back to the old neoliberal order, we take a look back at the movements that go us to this moment and answer how we make sense of the current political terrain while being honest, principled, and aggressive about creating a school system that does right by our young people and, thus, our city. Originally recorded September 28, 2026. GUESTSHilario Domínguez grew up in Pilsen (pre-gentrification), the son of a housekeeper and a truck driver, and went through Chicago Public Schools. While at Whitney Young High School, he helped organize student walkouts against budget cuts and school closures. Hilario then went to Johns Hopkins where he found his calling in education before returning to Chicago where he then taught special education in CPS for six years. He is currently raising his family in Chicago and running for President of the Chicago Board of Education on the Public School Champions platform.Learn more about his campaign on his site, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and his Linktree!--Mentioned in episode:Chicago School Board Election 2026 Voter Guide (Block Club Chi)The school board oversees Chicago Public Schools, which is responsible for the education of approximately 305,000 children attending more than 600 schools, split between 20 Districts21 seats, 46 candidatesEnrollment losses in Chicago Public Schools (WBEZ)Saving money (Stanford study)Improve academics (Brown study)Ep. 76 - Surveillance Capitalism & Abolitionist Tech, Pt. 2 ft. Alyxandra GoodwinNYC to ban student AI tools (Chalkbeat)Michael Sacks’ punk-ass and The Common Ground Collective--CREDITS: Intro from WTTW. Outro from Education (Instrumental) by Freddie Gibbs. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles. Episode photo provided by Hilario.--Bourbon ’n BrownTownFacebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | PatreonSoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | Support
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    1 ora e 4 min
  • Ep. 132 - Coalition-building & Looking at Logan Correctional with No New Prisons ft. Monica Cosby & Chez Rumpf

    Ep. 132 - Coalition-building & Looking at Logan Correctional with No New Prisons ft. Monica Cosby & Chez Rumpf
    Oct 12 2026
    BrownTown talks with comrades Monica Cosby and Chez Rumpf about No New Prisons Illinois (NNPIL), a campaign fighting the state’s plan to spend nearly a billion dollars building two new prisons. Like many carceral reforms, this was in response to yet another death in Stateville Prison due to horribly inhumane living conditions in 2024. Then, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) moved to shut down the prison and, instead of investing in Illinoisians by releasing and rehabilitating people back into society, Governor Pritzker and the state of Illinois proposed $900 million to build two new prisons. Two years later, the NNPIL campaign is in full swing while setting a focus on the Logan Correctional Center closure and transfer process while still fighting for alternative budget investments, challenging (and educating) lawmakers, and building power state-wide. BrownTown and guests discuss campaign strategies; the troubled history of closing, moving, and building prisons in Illinois; deconstruct the liberal co-optation of "trauma-informed" and "gender-responsive" prisons (see "RISE IDOC"), the responsibility of architecture firms in building carceral facilities, and what "fiscal responsibility" actually looks like. Originally recorded September 11, 2023. GUESTSMonica Cosby (she/her) describes herself as a “Gramma trying to do liberatory stuff”, whose life and work have been shaped and informed by the communities to which she belongs, including artists, scholars, and moms with whom she was incarcerated, and whose survival was and is an act of resistance against a system that would dispose of them. Monica founded Acting OutSide Performance Crew in 2021 and is also a scholar, thinker, and writer, having essays published or reprinted in TruthOut and The Long Term: Solitary Confinement Is Used To Break People, On Leaving Prison: A Reflection on Entering and Exiting Communities and in the St. Thomas Law Journal "Restorative Revelations" (with Annalise Buth).Chez Rumpf (she/her) is an author, educator, collaborator, and recovering academic. She is a member of Love & Protect, an abolitionist collective that supports criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, and No New Prisons IL. Her scholarship and community-based work focuses on gender-based violence, carceral systems, post-incarceration experiences, higher education in prison, and visual research methods. Her book Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women's Fight for Dignity and Freedom was published with the University of California Press in May 2023.Learn more about the No New Prisons campaign on their site, Instagram, and join the campaign! Check out the Logan Teach-in Toolkit and the John Howard Association 2026 Facility Update on Logan Correctional Center.--Mentioned in episode:Previous coalition episodes on #NoCopAcademy, #StopCopCity, and the Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois (CDI) Water Solidarity campaignOrganizations/Efforts: Love & Protect, John Howard Association, The Marshall Project, Stateville Speaks: Voices from the InsideFormer Prisoners Give Tips on How to Move a Prison (MindSite News)Employees and Incarcerated Women's Thoughts on Logan Move (WTTW)Lawrence Prison Hunger Strike (WTTW)Prison and Disposability Politics (NPAJ)IDOC first person transfer perspectives (Chicago Reader)More media about Logan transfer--CREDITS: Intro and outro from the SoapBox-produced April 15, 2026 No New Prisons press conference video. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles. Campaign art by Sharah Hutson.--Bourbon ’n BrownTownFacebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | PatreonSoapBox Productions and Organizing, 501(c)3Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Site | Linktree | Support
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    1 ora e 32 min
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