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  • Ep. 20: The Hampton Institute and Independent Media with Devon Bowers

    Ep. 20: The Hampton Institute and Independent Media with Devon Bowers

    Season 2
    June 4, 2026

    Naptown People’s Radio

    A DIfferent Lens, Devon Bowers, Hampton Institute, independent left media, Independent Media, intellectual production, Naptown People’s Radio, working-class think tank

    Founding Member of the Hampton Institute and Host of A Different Lens podcast, Devon Bowers, joins the show.

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  • Ep. 17: What We Mean by “The System” and Why it Matters

    Ep. 17: What We Mean by “The System” and Why it Matters

    Season 2
    May 9, 2026

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, IMPD Terror, Independent Media, Indianapolis activism, Indianapolis Liberation Center, Indianapolis news, Indianapolis podcast, International Workers’ Day, Naptown People’s Radio, Party for Socialism and Liberation, PSL Indianapolis, Robyn Frazier, youth curfew

    Instead of a youth curfew, we need a permanent curfew for the IMPD.

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  • Ep. 16: The Resurgence of International Workers’ Day in the U.S.

    Ep. 16: The Resurgence of International Workers’ Day in the U.S.

    Season 2
    April 30, 2026

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, Independent Media, Indianapolis activism, Indianapolis Liberation Center, Indianapolis news, Indianapolis podcast, International Workers’ Day, Jamar Thomas, Lamonte Thomas, May Day, Miami Correctional Facility, Naptown People’s Radio, Party for Socialism and Liberation, PSL Indianapolis, Voice of the Predator, VOP Osili

    How and why did May Day, which originated in the U.S. in the late 19th century, only reappear in popular U.S. consciousness 20 years ago?

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  • Ep. 31: Starbucks Workers and Teachers Show Who Has the Power

    Ep. 31: Starbucks Workers and Teachers Show Who Has the Power

    Season 1
    December 25, 2025

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Central Indiana DSA, Dakota Fronterhouse, Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, Emancipatory Motions, Independent Media, Indianapolis activism, Indianapolis Liberation Center, Indianapolis Local Education Alliance, Indianapolis news, Indianapolis podcast, Indianapolis Public Schools, Lucas Lee, Naptown People’s Radio, organizing, Party for Socialism and Liberation, PSL Indianapolis, race and education, radical reconstruction, Sena Kürk, Starbucks Mass Ave, Starbucks Workers United, Türkiye, unionization

    Organizers with Starbucks Workers United remind us of the reason for the season: living wages, dignity, and justice.

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  • Ep. 19: What Assata Teaches Us

    Ep. 19: What Assata Teaches Us

    Season 1
    October 1, 2025

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party, Black Revolutionary Woman Communists, Cuba, Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, Independent Media, Indianapolis Development Inc., Indianapolis podcasts, Joe Hogsett, Naptown People’s Radio, The Weather Underground

    Co-hosts Dani Abdullah and Derek Ford focus on one development completely omitted by all major local news outlets: the passing of Black internationalist revolutionary Assata Shakur.

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  • Ep. 5: Protecting Ourselves from the Real Criminals

    Ep. 5: Protecting Ourselves from the Real Criminals

    Season 1
    July 10, 2025

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Ali Brown, art for exoneration, Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, IMPD, Independent Media, Indianapolis Liberation Center, Indianapolis Liberation Center Store, Indianapolis media, Jesse Brown, Lexie Chaffin, MaskOff12, Matthew Gunning, Naptown People’s Radio, police terror, PSL Indianapolis, Samuel Osili, socialist media, Vernon T. Bateman, wrongful incarceration

    Organizer Lexie Chaffin and artist Matthew Gunning join the show to explore efforts to expose the real criminals in our community and creative ways to protect ourselves.

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  • Ep. 0: Introducing Naptown People’s Radio

    Ep. 0: Introducing Naptown People’s Radio

    Season 1
    June 3, 2025

    Naptown People’s Radio

    Dani Abdullah, Derek Ford, Dispatches from Behind the Wire, Independent Media, Indianapolis activism, Indianapolis podcast, Naptown People’s Radio, Party for Socialism and Liberation – Indianapolis, PSL Indianapolis, Shaka A. Shakur, socialist analysis

    In addition to explaining the show, our co-hosts discuss their transformation from activists to revolutionary organizers.

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