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| "The Red Power movement had been going since 1492" w/ John Redhouse and Carol Wright | 07 juil. 2025 | 01:54:51 | |
Red Media Press and Common Notions are proud to announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by legendary warrior John Redhouse is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. This episode is a recording of the first in a series of events celebrating the publication of the book. John and his wife Carol spoke with Red Power Host Melanie Yazzie about their lives and work. We will be publishing more episodes of these events in the coming weeks! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel "From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights activists threw all they had into mass movement organizing and direct action. And they were pretty good at it too in terms of effectiveness and impact. Written in the first-person and above all, with a collective spirit of generosity and witness, John Redhouse describes the hot temper of the times in the racist and exploitative border towns in the Four Corners area of the Southwest region. As John Redhouse says, “Without the People, you have nothing. But back then, we had a lot of people WITH us.” Yes, the Power of the People, the collective human spirit of the emerging local and regional Indian civil movement, thousands of us marching in the streets of Gallup and Farmington in northwestern New Mexico with our demands. A bold citizen's arrest at city hall, a downtown street riot, burning images of enemy leaders in effigy. And more marches, demonstrations, and direct actions. Above all, though, there was that Spirit—that unbroken, unconquerable spirit—that moved us, that drove us, that led us. And that was just in the border towns. In that turbulent decade, there was also the rapidly rising and spreading with-the-people, on-the-land resistance struggles in the coal, uranium, and oil and gas fields, and in disputed territories in the San Juan and Black Mesa basins that were targeted for ethnic cleansing and mineral extraction. Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s brings readers to the enduring issues of the day, traced over half a century ago, where John Redhouse and many more were in the middle of a revolution that unfolds to this day." Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon: | |||
| Kuskalla#26: Karumanta Qamurqani w/ Jonathan Ritter [English] | 06 juil. 2025 | 00:35:25 | |
***Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest episode of Kuskalla, a trilingual (Quechua-Spanish-English) podcast produced by Red Media and hosted by our comrades Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni. Listen to the full episode on the Kuskalla podcast feed*** In this episode, I talked with Jonathan Ritter, who is the Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside. We discussed his viral Quechua Pumpin song “Karumanta Qamurqani” (I have come from far away). Characterized by a carnivalesque style, Pumpin is often interpreted as testimonial music from the Fajardo province in Ayacucho, a central region deeply impacted by the Peruvian internal armed conflict between the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas and Peruvian state security forces, lasting from 1980 to 2000. This conflict resulted in nearly 70,000 deaths, primarily affecting Quechua-speaking Indigenous peasants in this region, as noted in the 2003 report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2001, shortly after the conflict ended, the Truth Commission began its efforts in communities throughout the Pampas River valley in central Ayacucho, where the Pumpin enjoys popularity. A year earlier, Jonathan Ritter started his fieldwork in the village of Colca for his dissertation focused on this music. After mastering the Pumpin guitar, he composed his song “Karumanta Qamurqani” to perform at the newly relaunched Pumpin contest held on the Waswantu plateau in February 2001. This contest had been on hold since 1983 when government security forces shut it down, targeting locals for allegedly supporting the Shining Path guerrillas. In February 2002, he performed his song again, and Asto Producciones filmed it for the first time on video cassette. In this episode, we talk about how Pumpin transforms from traditional music into a powerful form of testimony that recounts wartime experiences and survival in the aftermath. We then examine the lyrics of “Karumanta Qamurqani,” discussing their meanings and the song’s reception both during the live performance in Waswantu and after its 2008 upload to YouTube. The response from Peruvians sheds light on issues of race, class, and identity, as well as the reclamation of Quechua language and culture in the post-war context. This episode is dedicated to Alejandro Mendonza Alca from Colca, Jonathan Ritter’s mentor and maestro of Pumpin, who sadly passed away a few years ago. For more information on Pumpin music and its history, check out Jonathan Ritter’s articles, including “Carnival of Memory: Songs of Protest and Remembrance in the Andes,” published by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2013. Thank you for tuning in to the Kuskalla Podcast. 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 Kuskalla Abya Yala https://kuskallaabyayala.weebly.com/ | |||
| SLAPP’d: Green NGOs, Pipeline Mercenaries, and reporting on the Water Protector movement w/ Tristan Ahtone and Alleen Brown | 30 juin 2025 | 01:04:43 | |
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone) from Grist about their investigation into the legal war waged on the Standing Rock Water Protectors and their allies years after the end of the encampments. Check out Tristan's article "A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?" Check out the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon: Join us for our book launch and tour as we release Red Media's second publication! | |||
| No War on Iran! w/ Nina Farnia and Ali Alizadeh | 23 juin 2025 | 01:17:30 | |
**Note: This episode was recorded before the American aggression on Iranian nuclear facilities** TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by guests Nina Farnia (@ninafarnia) and Ali Alizadeh (@ali7adeh) to discuss the Zionist aggression on Iran and the looming specter of the US joining the war. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Check out Nina's recent article, "The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism" Follow Ali on his English-language YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon: Join us for our book launch and tour as we release Red Media's second publication! | |||
| RPH vs. Sinners (2025) | 16 juin 2025 | 01:14:06 | |
Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Ryan Coogler's new horror film, Sinners (2025) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation YouTube channel! Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon: Join us for our book launch and tour as we release Red Media's second publication! | |||
| Red Power Hour - The banality of colonial evil | 09 juin 2025 | 01:10:11 | |
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask the perennial question, what is even left to say? Video edition coming soon! Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon | |||
| Anti-Imperialism and Indigenous methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya | 02 juin 2025 | 01:38:51 | |
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and hosts of Red Media's newest media project, TYMSYY. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon:
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| Best of 2022 Mixtape (pt.1) | 26 mai 2025 | 01:36:18 | |
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 2022. 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! Please support 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 Solidarity is Medicine w/ Samia Assed Mess with the seal, get the flipper w/ Malia Lum-Kawaihoa Marquez GoFundMe: Patreon: | |||
| RPH vs. Thunderheart (1992) | 19 mai 2025 | 01:24:53 | |
RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of Thunderheart (1992). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon: | |||
| Reading J. Sakai’s "Settlers” w/ Jared Ware (Pt.1) | 12 mai 2025 | 01:02:08 | |
**Producer's note: This episode went for an astonishing 2.5 hours -- our longest episode ever! We have released the first hour of the conversation on the free feed, and if you want to listen to the entire episode, become a patron for as little as $2 a month** Nick Estes was joined by Jared Ware (@jaybeware), host of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, for a livestream conversation and analysis of J. Sakai’s Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat From Mayflower to Modern (1983). Watch the episode 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: Patreon:
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| Fascism, imperialism, and the law w/ Nina Farnia | 05 mai 2025 | 01:38:35 | |
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into oligarchic fascism, what remains of the Western "rules-based order," and how the war in Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust have enriched the US ruling class. Check out her article, "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law" Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon | |||
| Best of 2021 Mixtape (pt.1) | 28 avr. 2025 | 01:34:57 | |
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 In Memory of Haunani-Kay Trask Public land is stolen land w/ Dina Gilio-Whitaker Bolivia is Medicine for the World w/ Vivi Camacho
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| Red Power Hour - Who's got the power? We've got the power! | 21 avr. 2025 | 01:29:30 | |
Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Patreon | |||
| Resistance Rock w/ JJ Otero | 14 avr. 2025 | 01:24:16 | |
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 GoFundMe: Patreon
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| Evo Morales and the fracturing of Bolivia’s left w/ Camila Escalante | 07 avr. 2025 | 01:32:31 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: | |||
| Lawfare: a proxy war against the Sacred w/ Natali Segovia | 31 mars 2025 | 01:13:46 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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| Blue Cat People are not Indigenous: RPH vs. Avatar (pt.1) | 24 mars 2025 | 01:19:59 | |
*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. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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| Best of 2020 Mixtape Pt. 1 | 17 mars 2025 | 01:39:07 | |
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:
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| Pity is a form of oppression w/ Mohammed el-Kurd | 10 mars 2025 | 01:06:48 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| Are you colonized? w/ Jared Ball | 03 mars 2025 | 01:06:05 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| "Unadulterated Indigenous truth telling": RPH on Sugarcane (2024) | 24 févr. 2025 | 01:26:08 | |
**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: Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: | |||
| "Everyone deserves love" : TRN Red Valentine | 17 févr. 2025 | 01:33:29 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| "It's hard to get rid of us" w/ susan abulhawa | 10 févr. 2025 | 01:21:00 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| Counterinsurgency, Leonard Peltier, and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash w/ Gord Hill | 03 févr. 2025 | 01:22:21 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon:
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| Bad Indians w/ Gregg Deal | 27 janv. 2025 | 01:02:15 | |
**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
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| Leonard Peltier is going home! | 20 janv. 2025 | 01:05:47 | |
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: Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Read the entire statement here Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| The Red Nation Mixtape Vol. 1 | 20 janv. 2025 | 00:35:41 | |
*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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| Kuskalla #23: Indigenous Research Methodologies w/ Indigenous Scholars Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya | 15 janv. 2025 | 00:54:43 | |
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/ | |||
| YOTED: Alienation before alienation | 13 janv. 2025 | 01:27:23 | |
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: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon: | |||
| When the Pine Needles Fall w/ Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton | 06 janv. 2025 | 01:02:52 | |
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 Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe: Patreon: | |||
| Best of 2019 mixtape | 30 déc. 2024 | 01:44:06 | |
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
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| Nick Estes on the new Hulu documentary on Anna Mae Aquash | 23 déc. 2024 | 01:16:38 | |
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: Patreon: | |||
| Palestine, Minneapolis, and the Urgent Word | 23 déc. 2024 | 01:23:35 | |
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." Watch the full event here on the Palfest YouTube channel Get your copy of Refaat Alareer's If I Must Die (2024)
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| Twas the night before the myth of Thanksgiving | 19 déc. 2024 | 00:33:39 | |
*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. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel GoFundMe: Patreon: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter:
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| I'll be damned - Year in Review 2024 | 16 déc. 2024 | 01:06:57 | |
Comrades Justine, Melanie, Nick, Demetrius, and newcomer to the podcast Tåddong Gogue do a deep dive into some of the big stories of 2024. 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 Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Thank you for supporting Red Media! | |||
| It's not all about the sheep: RPH on Rez Ball (2024) | 09 déc. 2024 | 01:15:35 | |
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 Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: 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 | |||
| National Day of Mourning 2024 | 02 déc. 2024 | 01:06:44 | |
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! For more information on the event, visit the United American Indians of New England website. 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: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ | |||
| Inside the producer's studio | 25 nov. 2024 | 01:04:35 | |
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! Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel 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/ | |||
| Western Marxism is not anti-colonial w/ Gabriel Rockhill | 18 nov. 2024 | 01:12:53 | |
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/
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| "Punishing the powerful": Nick Estes on 2024 US Presidential Election | 15 nov. 2024 | 00:12:22 | |
*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/ | |||
| By the Fire We Carry w/ Rebecca Nagle | 11 nov. 2024 | 01:13:07 | |
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. 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, Red Media launched its GoFundMe to gain support for operational costs; please consider empowering Red Media’s work by 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/ | |||
| Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol | 04 nov. 2024 | 01:30:54 | |
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/ | |||
| This Native American Heritage Month consider empowering Red Media ✊🏽🪶 | 02 nov. 2024 | 00:20:56 | |
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: Patreon: | |||
| Red Power Hour - Taylor Sheridan doesn't matter | 28 oct. 2024 | 01:19:42 | |
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/ | |||
| What Have We Learned: Israel’s Genocide and Palestine’s Resistance, One Year On | 21 oct. 2024 | 00:50:46 | |
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" "Again, all settlers know is death and destruction" "Every Child Matters From Kamloops to Gaza "Revolutionary Acts of Love" "The Audacity of Reflection" "A Kanaka Learns Aloha from her Palestinian ʻOhana" "A Matter of Peace and Compassion for Palestine"
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
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| Indigenous Peoples’ Day vs. Empire | 14 oct. 2024 | 01:41:17 | |
The Red Nation marks Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024 with an online discussion moderated by Red Power Hour's Melanie Yazzie Speakers: Vivi Camacho (@.luzfloreciendo) 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 | |||
| Breaking news in Tuba City, AZ | 07 oct. 2024 | 01:05:15 | |
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault 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. 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:
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 | |||
| RPH vs. Last of the Mohicans (pt.1) | 30 sept. 2024 | 01:01:07 | |
[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 | |||
| Remembering 1974: Navajo Liberation vs. Farmington | 23 sept. 2024 | 01:04:11 | |
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 | |||
| Leonard Peltier and the murder of Anna Mae Aquash | 16 sept. 2024 | 00:52:51 | |
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. | |||