Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol

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4.8 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and Minnesota governor Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, AZ where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop. Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren announced the public event the day before, 10 days before the general election.

While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was continuously harassed by authorities and attacked by a Walz staffer, while another Diné man was brutalized and arrested. Meanwhile, Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, was getting heckled about his missing Vice President and another woman chanting for Trump in the crowd. It was clear that campaign staffers weren’t clamping down on "disruptors", rather, they were targeting Diné people--on their own homelands--policing anyone who supports Palestine.

In this episode, Justine hosts Janene, Kiley, and Koi as they recount their violent removals from the event, and their analyses of Navajo Nation Police, the widespread acceptance of genocide in the Democratic Party, and the blatant disregard for tribal sovereignty during the U.S. presidential elections.

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0:00.0	I'm Hello, comrades and relatives. This is Justine with the Red Nation podcast.
0:36.6	Today we are going to be talking about what happened in Windle Rock, Arizona, the Navajo Nation
0:42.4	Capitol this past Saturday, October 26th, where the Harris Waltz campaign stopped to campaign
0:50.4	in the Capitol.
0:52.1	This was the first time a vice president candidate has campaigned in the Navajo Nation,
0:58.0	which is something that was historic. However, the news is not reporting what fully happened, and we were on the ground that day.
1:07.0	So I'm joined by three Dinesse citizens who were there and we'll be talking about what happened.
1:13.6	But before that, I just want to give a brief shout out to Red Media.
1:18.6	This past Indigenous People's Day, 2024, marks the fifth anniversary of the Red Nation podcast.
1:24.6	Our podcast is a collaboration between the Red Nation and Red Media,
1:29.3	and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for
1:35.3	Indigenous Peoples. And on Indigenous People's Day, we launched our GoFundMe to gain support for our
1:41.8	operational costs. So please consider empowering our work and our media work.
1:46.0	We were in Window Rock that day because of supporters like you.
1:51.0	So that being said, I'll move on to our guests if I could get introductions from Janine Koi and Kylie.
1:58.0	Hi, thank you for having me, Janine Yazi,
2:03.7	Danesda and DeNus Citizen,
2:06.7	enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.
2:10.0	Very happy to be here.
2:11.2	I attended Saturday's events in my own capacity
2:14.4	as a Navajo woman and mother with my children attending with me.
2:19.3	Hi, everyone. My name is Kylie. I'm a citizen of the Navajo Nation. I'm also a Red Nation member,
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