The Red Nation Podcast

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series and features some of the best of the show from 2021. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Empower the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon!  Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on therednation.org  Tracklist: TRN-KREZ  Settlers Gone Wild: Capitol Hill Edition US Frontiers as Forever Wars w/ Alex Aviña The Myth of “Sex Work” w/ Esperanza Fonseca and Khara Jabola-Carolus To Palestine, with love In Memory of Haunani-Kay Trask Public land is stolen land w/ Dina Gilio-Whitaker Bolivia is Medicine for the World w/ Vivi Camacho   Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning. Video edition coming soon! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Diné and Hopi artist and musician JJ Otero about using music to wage resistance. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by journalist Camila Escalante on the rift within Bolivia's socialist movement and the potential return of Evo Morales. Camila Escalante is the Editor at Kawsachun News and Latin American correspondent for Press TV. Keep up with their reporting at https://kawsachun.com/ and empower their work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KawsachunNews Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media. Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with attorney Natali Segovia, Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. Follow WPLC on Instagram  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media. Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr    

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

*Producer's note: This is only the first half of the conversation, which in total stretched almost 2.5 hours!  To listen to the second half, please sign up at Patreon.com/redmediapr or you can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel soon! RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Levi Harter to discuss James Cameron's mega-blockbuster (and also mega racist) Avatar series.  Video edition coming soon! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr    

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2025

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of the show from the year 2020. 2020 was a jammed-packed year of events and content, so we have decided to break up this episode into two parts. Part two will be available on our Patreon later this week! Please support the show and gain access to bonus content on our Patreon!  Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on therednation.org  Tracklist: TRN-KREZ  Palestine is an Indigenous struggle w/ Elena & Orien Lakota foods w/ Lisa & Arlo Iron Cloud Venezuela & anti-imperialism w/ Onyesonwu How universities benefit from stolen Native land w/ Tristan Ahtone & Bobby Lee A history of the American Indian Movement w/ Nick Estes Learning & unlearning w/ Noname The end of US empire? w/ Kim TallBear The fourth of you lie w/ Dallas Goldtooth  The Red Nation Podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media. Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mohammed el-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) about his new book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (2025) Watch the video edition or the livestream on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025

Jared A. Ball (@imixwhatilike) is Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host of the iMiXWHATiLiKE! podcast. Watch the video edition or the livestream on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Check out the articles discussed in the episode: "Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory" by John Bellamy Foster "Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?" by Max Ajl Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2025

**Warning: discussions of violence and abuse towards children** RPH is back! Red Power co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Shelly to discuss the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sugarcane (2024) about an Indigenous community on the Williams Lake Indian Reservation in present-day British Columbia. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Resources for self-care and trauma: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/self-care-resources  Empower our work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

Justine Teba hosts a star-studded Valentine's Day extravaganza exploring the ins and outs of love and resistance in a settler colonial frame featuring Red Power Host co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz and friends of the podcast Jana Schmieding and Dallas Goldtooth. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks to Susan Abulhawa (@susanabulhawa), Palestinian author and Executive Director of Palestine Writes, the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks to susan abulhawa (@susanabulhawa), Palestinian author and Executive Director of Palestine Writes, the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

A livestream conversation between TRN podcast host Nick Estes and Native comic artist and writer Gord Hill. Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist from the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance and The Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Check out his piece, "Statement on Leonard Peltier’s Clemency and the Case of Annie Mae Aquash" Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel ICYMI: Our documentary on the murder of Anne Mae Aquash, Remembering the Reign of Terror at Oglala (also available as audio on the podcast feed) Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr    

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

**Producer's note:  This is a portion of the conversation. Listen to the entire conversation by becoming a Patreon of Red Media for as little as $2 a month** TRN Comrades Justine Teba and Kyon Benally speak to Gregg Deal, artist and frontman of the band Dead Pioneers (@dead.pioneers) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr      

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

A livestream conversation hosted by TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and prominent members of the Leonard Peltier movement for clemency! Statement by The Red Nation: "After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home! “It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.” For decades, the now elder Dakota and Ojibwe member of the American Indian Movement represented a powerful symbol for millions. His imprisonment has been viewed as collective punishment against generations of Indigenous people who fought for liberation, from the Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the Water Protector Movement that fought against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016."  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Read the entire statement here https://www.therednation.org/leonard-peltier-is-going-home/ Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2025

*Producer's note: Some of the audio on this episode was recorded under not-so-ideal conditions*  Join us in celebrating 10 years of The Red Nation by listening to picks from our archive!  Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2025

In this episode, we speak with Indigenous scholars Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva and Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya about their essays on Indigenous research methodologies. They discuss the significance of Indigenous-led research, its challenges, and the insights it offers within different geopolitical contexts. The conversation also touches on the importance of self-awareness in this work and the key lessons learned from navigating these complex research landscapes. If you enjoy this podcast, you can support it by sharing it, hitting subscribe, or leaving a review. Our podcast is produced by Red Media and Red Nation; please consider supporting our work if you don't already on Patreon: www.patreon.com/redmediapr Follow us on social media: @KuskallaPodcast on Twitter; @KuskallaPodcast on IG Subsribe to Kuskalla on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Kuskalla Abya Yala https://kuskallaabyayala.weebly.com/

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

In this episode, we speak with Indigenous scholars Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva and Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya about their essays on Indigenous research methodologies. They discuss the significance of Indigenous-led research, its challenges, and the insights it offers within different geopolitical contexts. The conversation also touches on the importance of self-awareness in this work and the key lessons learned from navigating these complex research landscapes. If you enjoy this podcast, you can support it by sharing it, hitting subscribe, or leaving a review. Our podcast is produced by Red Media and Red Nation; please consider supporting our work if you don't already on Patreon: www.patreon.com/redmediapr Follow us on social media: @KuskallaPodcast on Twitter; @KuskallaPodcast on IG Subsribe to Kuskalla on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Kuskalla Abya Yala https://kuskallaabyayala.weebly.com/

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

YOTED is back! Comrades Justine and Levi, and East is a Podcast host, Sina, join to discuss the documentary Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults (2020).  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation YouTube channel; don't forget to like and subscribe! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2025

TRN podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) is joined by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (@ellengabriel1) and Sean Carleton (@SeanCarleton) to discuss When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (2024), an insider's account of the 1990 land crisis between Canadian state security forces and Indigenous land defenders near the town of Oka, Quebec. Gabriel reflects on the lessons from the siege from her position as the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson.     Order the book here https://btlbooks.com/book/when-the-pine-needles-fall Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel   GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 6 January 2025

Help us celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast by going back to the beginning! This mixtape’s tracklist features some of the best of the show from 2019, Every episode can be found on our channels and will be listed on therednation.org    TRN-KREZ  Nick Estes - Abolishing Columbus & Indigenous resistance  On hybrid wars w/ Vijay Prishad  White terror, Las Vegas, & Paiute homelands w/ Kristen Simmons What is wild? Manoonim (wild rice) harvesting w/ Courtney & Kathy The Coup against Evo Morales w/ Ben Norton Labour's defeat & Brexit, an Irish perspective w/ Eugene McCartan Destroying the Pilgrim mythology w/ Mahtowin Munro & Kisha James Anti-Imperialism w/ Manu Karuka, Christina Heatherton, & Lara Kiswani GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

Transcribed - Published: 30 December 2024

  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) recently took part in this live event in Minneapolis organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature and Mizna. This episode features selections from the different presentations. Follow the link below to watch the entire event. "Join the Palestine Festival of Literature and Mizna for a powerful evening of performance and thought-provoking discussion, in PalFest’s first-ever event in Minneapolis. We will be joined by Mosab Abu Toha, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Sarah Aziza, Danez Smith, Nick Estes, Sagirah Shahid, and Dina Omar. These renowned poets and thinkers will explore the influence of the written word and discuss the role of literary workers in the US as the genocide of Palestinians remains underway and Trump returns to the White House." Full program   Watch the full event here on the Palfest YouTube channel Get your copy of Refaat Alareer's If I Must Die (2024) GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:  https://www.therednation.org/

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2024

Black Liberation Media recently invited TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) to their ReMix Morning Show to discuss the new Hulu documentary on the murder of Annie Mae Aquash. Watch the video edition on the Black Liberation Media YouTube channel GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2024

*Note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast.  Sign up for as little as $2 a month to access this and hundreds of hours of bonus episodes and help support the show. You can watch the episode in its entirety for free on our YouTube channel* Bonus episode! Join comrades Maira, Levi, Demetrius, and Justine, all returning to the show for a reflection on National Day of Mourning and the importance of establishing a counter-narrative against so-called Thanksgiving. This episode was recorded on November 27, 2024, on the night before National Day of Mourning. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:  https://www.therednation.org/  

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2024

Comrades Justine, Melanie, Nick, Demetrius, and newcomer to the podcast Tåddong Gogue do a deep dive into some of the big stories of 2024. **Producer's note: Our recording software, Podcastle, lost D's track. We apologize to D and to our listeners for this. We promise to have him back on soon** This is only a portion of the conversation. Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon to listen to the full episode or watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel for free. We are running our fundraiser through the end of the year, empower Red Media by supporting our GoFundMe! GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/  Thank you for supporting Red Media!

Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2024

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Sydney Freeland's Rez Ball (2024). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/  The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr 

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2024

The Red Nation attended this year’s 55th annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1970, Indigenous people and organizations of New England and the American Indian Movement protested at the settler colonial monuments of the Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock, disrupting and disproving the myth of so-called Thanksgiving and providing a counter-narrative that cuts the myths of colonization right to the core. Today’s episode is an edited version of the line of speeches from this year’s event. Watch the video edition on the Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Watch our report on our TikTok page and social media platforms! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYAggXcL/  For more information on the event, visit the United American Indians of New England website. http://uaine.org/  Thank you for supporting Red Media during Native American Heritage Month! We are continuing our fundraiser through the end of the year. Empower Red Media this Giving Tuesday! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024, and the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs; please consider contributing. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2024

TRN Podcast host and producer Justine Teba is joined by her fellow producer Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) for a discussion about five years of producing The Red Nation Podcast! Video edition coming soon! Empower Red Media this Native American Heritage Month! Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024, and the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs; please consider contributing. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ 

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2024

Gabriel Rockhill (@GabrielRockhill) is the Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the editor of the first English translation of Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn (2017), a critical analysis of the key role that left-wing intellectuals have historically played in the imperial core undercutting socialist movements around the world. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/   

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2024

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast.  You can listen to this episode by signing up for as little as $2 a month or watch it for free on our YouTube channel*  TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) dissects the 2024 US Presidential elections and what they portend for future struggles against US settler colonialism at home and imperialism around the world. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ 

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) joins the show to talk about her recently released book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024). The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark McGirt Supreme Court decision.   Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ 

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2024

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. Watch original reporting from 10/26/24 on Tiktok and Instagram Support the comrade who was arrested by donating funds on Venmo @Keinfoshop Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ 

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2024

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous People. Today is the official launch of our GoFundMe campaign to support our operational costs. Please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  Watch the video edition of The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 2 November 2024

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by Liza Black (Cherokee) to discuss Taylor Sheridan's lucrative career peddling racist settler fantasies. Check out Liza's article,  "On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative"  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 marks the 5th anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work. You can also continue to support Red Media on Patreon, where you will gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you!  Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ 

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2024

Indigenous for Palestine asked some of our comrades to reflect on what they had learned witnessing the Zionist genocide fuelled by US support, and Palestinian resistance in Gaza and beyond. These are their reflections. Contributions "Pae ʻĀina—Wide: P.L.O. Style" Kauwila Mahi https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/pae-%ca%bbaina-wide-p-l-o-style/ Settler “Self-Defense” and Native Liberation by Nick Estes https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/settler-self-defense-and-native-liberation/ "Again, all settlers know is death and destruction" Demetrius Johnson https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/10/again-all-settlers-know-is-death-and-destruction/ "Revolutionary Acts of Love" Leanne Betasamosake Simpson https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/revolutionary-acts-of-love/ "The Audacity of Reflection" Dominic Guerrera https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/the-audacity-of-reflection/ "A Kanaka Learns Aloha from her Palestinian ʻOhana" Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio https://indigenousforpalestine.org/2024/10/07/a-kanaka-learns-aloha-from-her-palestinian-%ca%bbohana/     The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr 

Transcribed - Published: 21 October 2024

The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie Speakers: Vivi Camacho (@.luzfloreciendo) Mohammed El-Kurd / @mohammedelkurd Monaeka Flores / @monaekaflores & Nick Estes / @nickwestes Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Next month is the 10th year anniversary of The Red Nation. The Red Nation is excited to announce that we are launching The Red Nation Newsletter, where we will be publishing writing and works related to Indigenous movements and liberation. Please go to our link tree, or look in the chat, to find our newsletter website so you can subscribe and be notified of our official launch. https://www.therednation.org/  Indigenous Peoples’ Day marks the 5th year anniversary of The Red Nation Podcast. Our podcast is a collaboration between The Red Nation and Red Media and is produced by Red Media. Red Media also co-published our book The Red Deal. Red Media exists to fill the need for Indigenous media by and for Indigenous Peoples’. This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Red Media is launching its GoFundMe to gain support for its operational costs, please consider empowering Red Media’s work this Indigenous Peoples’ Day. You can also continue to support the Red Media Patreon, where you can gain access to bonus episodes of The Red Nation Podcast and other benefits. Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts, thank you! https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr 

Transcribed - Published: 14 October 2024

TRIGGER WARNING: sexual abuse Every Child Matters –  Community Rally in Tuba City, AZ September 30, 2024 – Parents of youth attending Tuba City Boarding School organized a community gathering and rally outside the Navajo Police Department to demand justice and answers. On September 24, a sixth-grade male teacher was arrested at the school for public sexual indecency after evidence of him masturbating in a classroom was collected by students. An act that had been happening for years. The perpetrator was released approximately 18 hours later, and the students’ families have not been able to receive further details of the investigation.  The timing of the incident and rally happened to line up with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation- a national holiday in Canada honoring Indigenous students who never returned home from boarding school and survivors of residential schools. The incident happened at a Bureau of Indian Education boarding school, establishing that these incidents are ongoing and not of the past.  These are their demands: Support from the 25th Navajo Nation Council to support a request from families to the BIE demanding a full-scale investigation into the Tuba City Boarding School system to address the misconduct and failures in the school system and provide answers and justice for our children. Accountability from all identified faculty and administration personnel that knew about the abuse, failed to report it or investigate it, and allowed it to continue. Federal charges for the perpetrator to ensure the teacher is held responsible for the harm caused to the students, families, and greater community. Comprehensive solutions to protect every child to ensure their safety. Mental health support for all students and parents affected by this traumatic event. Request a joint session between the HEHSC and Law and Order committees of the Navajo Nation council to hear from the families directly, and work alongside respective Navajo Nation departments for justice. Tracklist: Justine Teba/podcast episode introduction, Starlena Nez/rally opening, KL Chino/interview, Starlena Nez/interview, Kaly Arvizu/interview, Demetrius Johnson/interview, Bijiibah Begaye & KL Chino/rally closing The Red Nation was live-streaming the rally on our YouTube channel, please subscribe for future live streams. Follow Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives for updates! Read the original post here Therednation.org article The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr 

Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2024

[Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode! The second half will be released on the Patreon feed early access and on the main feed/YouTube channel next week! Sign up at the link below for as little as $2 a month to get access to other great bonus content and help support Red Media]  Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz take on Michael Mann's 1992 big-screen interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (1826) in an extra- long double episode! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr 

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2024

In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage settlers in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico. It was an act known as “Indian rolling.” Diné grassroots leaders rose to this injustice by creating the Coalition for Navajo Liberation and the long hot summer of 1974 ensued. The marches and boycotts against the settlement of Farmington would go on to stand prominently in the history of Red Power and heralded future generations of Indigenous resistance. Saturday, September 21, 2024, the march and event Remembering 1974: Paths to Healing was organized by Diné elders who were present in 1974 and in coordination with other Navajo organizations who continue traditions of Indigenous resistance today. ---------------- Tracklist: 01. TRN-KREZ 1680AM Morning Show 02. Chili Yazzie 03. March conclusion 04. Demetrius Johnson 05. Esther Keeswood 06. John Redhouse ---------------- Watch the livestreams of the march and theater event on our YouTube channel! March live stream: watch here Theater event live stream: watch here The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 23 September 2024

Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) looks at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to the FBI’s own knowledge of her murder at the time it happened and federal prosecutors' initial hesitancy to take up the case. Learn more here from a lecture by Ernesto Vigil at the University of Denver on May 6, 2023. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr ------ Below is the text of Hank Adams’ 2020 Facebook post, shortly before his passing: Note: Adams is responding to a 2016 APTN article in which Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde apologizes to Anna Mae Aquash’s family. December 14, 2020 Intellectually dishonest hate-monger Paul DeMain has reignited his campaign to assure denial of any Executive Clemency to LEONARD PELTIER, 76, at any time before Leonard's next scheduled Parole Hearing in Year 2024 with a continued misuse and abuse of the December 1975 gunshot death of ANNA MAE AQUASH and the unconscionable exploitation of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash's children. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde makes significant points in this 2016 article in which the 1975 Aquash death became the center point in President Barack Obama's decision to deny Clemency to Peltier: “I regret that my statement caused some hurt and pain and I apologize for the pain I caused her [Denise Maloney Pictou] and her family,” said Bellegarde. “That wasn’t my intent.” Bellegarde said he still would like to see Peltier freed. He said the case is a separate issue from AIM’s execution of Aquash. “I called for that (Peltier’s release) because there is an injustice there,” said Bellegarde. “So I will continue to advocate for that.” Bellegarde said two previous AFN national chiefs have made the same call which is also backed by Amnesty International and prominent individuals like the Dalai Lama. Peltier was extradited from Canada to the U.S. in December 1976. Warren Allmand, Canada’s solicitor general at the time of Peltier’s extradition, has since stated the F.B.I submitted false information to have Peltier extradited." DeMain's posting of Aquash daughter Denise Maloney Pictou's December 12, 2020, renewed accusations against Leonard Peltier and DeMain's hated AIM organization [re-Posted here in Comment 1] are the beginning of a campaign to assure that 2020 President-Elect Joe Biden will not grant Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier. In death and posthumously, Anna Mae has been made a sainted heroine. But between 1972 and November 14, 1975, Anna Mae's ways were AIM's ways. AIM's ways - good and bad - were without qualification or reservation Anna Mae's ways, by choice. At NCAI in November, American Indian Press Association's (AIPA) Richard LaCourse told me of his meeting with Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Kamook Banks, and Anna Mae just before his coming to Portland for NCAI.. Anna Mae then had indicated no distress nor given any indication that she was being held prisoner or against her will. On November 14, 1975, the four AIM "leaders" only broke apart because of the Ontario, Oregon stopping of their [Marlon Brando] recreational vehicle by armed Oregon police. A couple days later, Leonard Peltier was transported (through Franks Landing) from Portland into British Columbia (by associates of mine, who did not inform me then of their activity). He spent the next month in the locale he was taken to and remained incommunicado with U.S. colleagues until later, at least until he traveled to Small Boy's camp in Alberta, Canada. That is where the RCMP and FBI picked up on Leonard - long after Anna Mae Aquash's death in the second week of December 1975. Memorandum in the FBI's Denver Office dated as early as December 19, 1975 disclosed Anna Mae Aquash had been killed - although the FBI would feign ignorance of the death and the corpse identity for more than the next three months. The December 1975 memos identified the killers as John "Boy" Graham, Arlo Looking Cloud, and Theda Nelson Clarke - although none of the three were indicted through the next 28 years. The Looking Cloud trial was held in December 2004; Graham's in 2010 - lapses of 29 and 35 years. Theda Nelson - a likely FBI Informant in December 1975 - (on mental competency findings) did not go to trial. Clark died at age 87 in 2011. Although a lead prosecutor opened the Leonard Peltier trial in Fargo, North Dakota on March 16, 1977 declaring: "AIM is not on trial."; both AIM and Leonard Peltier were made the main 'defendants' in the 2004 and 2010 trials for the killing of Anna Mae Aquash! If there was ever a case where all parties - prosecution, defense and all witnesses - acted in friendly collusion to 'convict' undefended and absent non-parties [1st Leonard Peltier; 2nd AIM] - the Looking Cloud and Graham trials were such cases. The fodder for the trial's conspiratorial claptrap largely was wrung from the mind and imagination of Paul DeMain in his relentless vendetta against AIM leaders and most creatively against Leonard Peltier. Many of his unsubstantiated claims were rejected by author Steven Hendricks when writing "The Unquiet Grave" (2007). DeMain "Timelines" for Anna Mae Pictou have since focused on the AIM Convention in New Mexico just prior to the Jumping Bull Compound deaths of FBI Agents on Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975 leading to the 1977 life sentence convictions of Peltier. The design is intended to prejudice considerations against any grant of parole or clemency for Peltier. Canada's Assembly of First Nation is correct in declaring the "execution" of Anna Mae Aquash and the pursuit of "freedom" for Leonard Peltier on compassionate and humanitarian grounds are "separate issues." They are correct in continuing their support for Executive Clemency through offices of both the Canadian Prime Minister and any U.S. President. What satisfaction can President Elect Biden derive from side-stepping all humanitarian and compassionate considerations for Leonard Peltier through a first term, deferring any favorable consideration to the scheduled Parole Hearing in 2024? The Pardons Office of a bureaucratic and prejudiced Justice Department housing the FBI has already failed the last four Presidents of the United States in this matter! Will retribution finally end if Leonard Peltier is still alive in 2024 and then 80 years old? Indians of Western Washington who transported Leonard Peltier to Canada on or about November 17, 1975, and Indians of British Columbia who hosted and concealed him for the next month or until beyond when the FBI first was informed of Anna Mae's death and the identity of her killers can attest to Leonard's movements and communications (record) that wholly absolve Leonard Peltier of any direct or indirect role in the December 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash.

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2024

TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks at May Day Books marking the paperback publication of Our History is the Future by Haymarket Books. Recorded by Adam Biel. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 9 September 2024

TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) helms a solo episode on the absurd farce of the Democratic National Convention and the wider question of how to read the 2024 US presidential elections from a critical left anti-imperialist perspective. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2024

Justine and Maira debrief the 2nd. Encounter for a World Social Alternative: From Bolívar to Chávez. At the time of recording, they had just wrapped up the two-day event and had yet to witness the Venezuelan presidential elections later that week. Their initial reactions to the two-day panel series lay out the context of the Venezuelan elections, why the country is in the crosshairs of neoliberal cooperate media, and how the Venezuelan people have risen to protect the Bolivarian Revolution. The first gathering of the World Social Alternative happened in April of 2024 in Caracas where they produced the document mentioned: https://www.albatcp.org/en/acta/world-social-alternative/ You can watch the live streams with English interpretation by ALBA-TCP on Youtube: Day 1- https://www.youtube.com/live/ojyREEBxMg4?si=Fnj-JwDT_MmylzH5 Day 2 - https://www.youtube.com/live/DKJKyrPGpvE?si=3dn8KPI1CSGIGm2q Justine on the panel Alternative for Peoples’ Rights and Reparations: https://youtu.be/4LPqDxATd_A?si=BxpEfnSyY_SbdiAx Read: Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 26 August 2024

The Little Earthers podcasters sat down with elders and residents of Little Earth United Tribes. Vinny Dionne (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Jolene Jones (White Earth, Lac Courte Oreilles), Crow Bellecourt (Bad River) and Lori Ellis (White Earth) share their experiences living in the only American Indian preference low-income urban housing project. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2024

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz do a deep dive into the ideological underpinnings of the Planet of the Apes prequels. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2024

This episode covers the radical history of the Twin Cities, which evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of injustice. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression, but through their particular communities: The Way organization in the Black community, Centro Cultural Chicano in the Mexican community, and in several independent schools in the American Indian community. These institutions—also evident in the emergence of the Black Patrol, the AIM Patrol and the Brown Berets in addressing police violence—emerged independently but with points of convergence and direct interaction. Jamie Curry and Jimmy Patiño would also like to add the names and dates regarding the women in AIM: in May - July 28, 1968, the American Indian Movement is founded and conceived in Stillwater State Prison by Eddie Benton-Benai Jr., Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt; Alberta Strongwoman, Elkwind Dalmond, Caroline Dickinson, Fanny Fairbanks, Laura Waterman Wittstock and Elaine J. Salinas called the first meeting on the Northside. Not once did Clyde or Dennis take action or strategize without input from the women in the movement and are still the backbone today). Calling themselves (in ’68) Concerned Indian Americans (CIA), they start patrols in Minneapolis because of the school’s mistreatment of their sons and daughters, lack of decent housing, to combat weekly police brutality and racism inflicted upon and experienced by Indian people in the Twin Cities. https://www.instagram.com/soulforcemn/ Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2024

Justine Teba and Maira Oliva-Rios traveled to Venezuela to observe the 2024 Presidential Elections. In this episode, they discuss the elements that constitute the electoral system and the importance of autonomy in Venezuela’s National Electoral Council. This episode was recorded just as Maduro’s campaign--titled “Our 21st Century Venezuela”--was coming to an end. Dozens of avenues were flooded by hundreds of thousands of residents of Caracas, cheering, singing, and dancing in what was a huge electrifying socialist PARTY, filled with joy, hope, and peace. Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪 Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2024

Justine Teba and Maira Olivia-Rios traveled to Venezuela to observe the 2024 Presidential Elections. In this episode, they discuss the elements that constitute the electoral system and the importance of autonomy in Venezuela’s National Electoral Council. This episode was recorded just as Maduro’s campaign--titled “Our 21st Century Venezuela”--was coming to an end. Dozens of avenues were flooded by hundreds of thousands of residents of Caracas, cheering, singing, and dancing in what was a huge electrifying socialist PARTY, filled with joy, hope, and peace. Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪 Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2024

The people of Venezuela are preparing for the presidential election this upcoming Sunday. For years, the corporate media and the Washington-dominated opposition have spread lies about the legitimacy of Venezuela's elections. Despite U.S. sanctions and coup attempts, the people of Venezuela continue to protect The Bolivarian Revolution. Track Listing: [0:00] - TRN-KREZ Morning Show [1:24] - Is fraud possible in Venezuela? [3:32] - "Venezuela: Sanctions and Democracy" (Release Date: 12/23/2020) [17:41] - Venezuela & sanctions w/ Abril Viscaya & Carolina Morales (Release Date: 04/18/2020) [33:01] - Venezuela, US sanctions, & Coronavirus w/ Carlos Ron (Release Date: 03/23/2020)[43:44] - Venezuela & anti-imperialism w/ Onyesonwu (Release Date: 02/10/2020 [53:37] - Indigenous people & Venezuela w/ Jorge Arreaza (Release Date: 11/06/2019) The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2024