And the Oh, Hello all and on behalf of Commendotions press we'd like to welcome you to the launch event of the Red Deal, an indigenous action to save our earth.

We would first like to thank our host, Making Worlds Bookstore in Philadelphia, city built on Lenape Territory, and our co-sponsors at Red Media and the Red Nation.

We are particularly excited to work with folks at Red Media to launch their imprint with common

notions. Red Media is a media project by and for indigenous people.

We at common notions recognize that the struggle for autonomy and self-determination

is a struggle for and over media as well.

We believe we need more comrades organizing shoulder to shoulder

to transform the settler, colonial, and capitalist

logics of our media systems within and through book publishing

and by any media necessary, and that our

our liberation is directly dependent on understanding and learning from each other's

histories to build our collective future.

We also believe that the combinations of our times bend toward freedom, but that takes

organizations and good relations.

Communitions publishes widely from the front lines to sustain movements for liberation.

We are intergenerational and internationalists, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist.

We run our press collectively and practice the visionary transformative democracy we seek in the world in our office and in all of our

relations with each other, our authors, and our readers. We seek to bring our work out into the world

in search of a good book and a free society. Common Notions is based with at the

Interference Archive, an open access community-run social movement archive and social center in Brooklyn,

New York, as well as here, and Making Worlds, a cooperative bookstore and social

center in Philadelphia.

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