The Rights of the Earth and Bring Shaka Home!

Helping thread together the many struggles facing the people and planet today, FTF KD joins this week's episode. He lets us know about a new podcast, "In the YO!," he's releasing soon (that will also be coming to you from the Indy Liberation Center).

China stands tall while Trump walks away with scraps. This week's Naptown Breakdown begins with Trump's recent visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the re-assertion of independence by the masses in Mali (and the broader Alliance of Sahel States) after numerous foreign-backed terrorist attacks. Closer to home, while the Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety is under the microscope, Co-hosts Dani Abdullah and Derek Ford recall how it was just two years ago that someone walked into the Liberation Center looking for help launching the Community Food Access Coalition. Although CFAC was enacted in 2021 by legislation as a grassroots-led group, until 2024 it operated as a way for Julie Burns to get grant funding for her own foundation. WIth the Liberation Center serving as a hub to form CFAC in May, the people formed CFAC on their own and forced the city to recognize it just months later.

Kristopher Nelson, aka FTF KD, who brought us up to speed on the reality of Data Centers during Season 1, is back. The many struggles Nelson's been involved in since moving to Indianapolis have pushed him to advocate for the rights of and to the Earth. Toward that end, he and J Hefe are launching a new podcast through the Liberation Center's studio. Learn more about the project's origins, goals, and how they align with those of the Center—and stay tuned for the first episode to drop!

In our latest installment of Dispatches from Behind the Wire, Shaka A. Shakur gives a brief overview of his case and current situation. The reality is that Shaka's served over 20 years of a 60-year plus sentence for an incident in which only an inanimate object was "injured." It's time to bring him home. Repeat. It's time to bring Shaka home!

Our Circle City Shout Out is back after a few weeks and it goes to Nasreen Kahn. Nasreen is a Martindale-Brightwood resident and an immigrant artist whose collaborative effort, Botanical Bodies, is currently on display at the Fonseca-Du Bois Gallery at the Liberation Center.

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