Minneapolis: The People are Too Big to Fail

This week, Jay Grillo gives a first-hand account of the sustained anti-ICE uprising in Minneapolis. In the first segment, co-hosts Dani Abdullah and Derek Ford signal the potential danger in a likely alliance between Indiana and ultra right-wing Turning Point USA. Turning Point, founded by Charlie Kirk, is a project dedicated to silencing dissenting research and silencing faculty and teachers who stand up for justice by threats of violence. They next turn to the IMPD's violent assault and threats to kill 17-year-old Trevion Taylor, a Black student who was driving a car with friends after participating in an anti-ICE walkout and protest on Feb. 6 near Warren Central High School. They put IMPD's refusal to immediately release the bodycam footage of the attack to the family and public in recent historical context. They end on a positive development: Shaka A. Shakur is awaiting transfer away from River North Correctional Facility, where he and other inmates have been on Marshall-law lock-down for months, to a lower-security prison. Derek references how Shaka ends the recent statement we just received, titled "Can Anyone be Illegal on Stolen Land?" Shaka calls for the struggle to connect ICE, killer cops, national oppression and national liberation struggles together with a revived anti-mass incarceration movement. After all, ICE has subjected our people to since its founding in March 2003, the cops have been subjecting our communities to on a greater scale for a longer period of time. We're excited to hear from PSL Indianapolis member and videographer Jay Grillo, who recently returned from supporting the people of Minneapolis as they continue standing defiantly in the face of ICE's murderous rampage. After discussing Grillo's background and how they got involved in activism and the Party, Grillo relays the high level of energy and sophisticated degree of spontaneous organization and structures the people there quickly collectively built, the impact of the “No Business as Usual” tactic, and the issue of safety at mass uprisings. Finally, this week's Circle City Shout Out goes to Hear Her Voice and particularly its founder, Tyrah Kingcade, or Nairobi X. Hear Her Voice is a transformative healing space dedicated to empowering individuals impacted by trauma, addiction, incarceration, and systemic injustice. They especially focus on issues of re-entry and fighting the impacts of the racist mass incarceration system in the U.S. They recently released a new workbook, titled Hear Her Voice Recover Workbook: She Rises, Her Time, Her Turn, available as an affordable paperback here and on Amazon. Events: Capital Class: Session 6 Circle City Sangha Liberation Yoga Show Notes: Hear Her Voice Store Support Naptown People’s Radio Support the Indianapolis Liberation Center Shop the Indy Liberation Store Shop the Shaka Shakur Store Indianapolis Liberation Center Coalition to Free Vernon Bateman