Two Venezuelan activists talk about US sanctions against their country for the first part of the #FridayNightForums webinar series co-hosted with the Arab Resource & Organizing Center and the Center for Political Education. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Apr 18, 2020•1 hr 8 min
We sit down with Little Feather and Leoyla Cowboy to talk about an untold story of #NoDAPL political prisoners. Donate: https://www.nodaplpoliticalprisoners.org Find out more: https://waterprotectorlegal.org Support: https://patreon.com/therednation
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 44 min
The COVID-19 pandemic grips the world. Comrades Nicolás Cruz and Lou Cornum join us to talk about Indian Country's response, rising eco-fascism, and how the US has used the crisis to advance intervention against Venezuela. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Apr 07, 2020•2 hr 6 min
This is Part 2 of our conversation from last week. St. Louis, MO once rose as the morning star of US imperialism. It has also been a laboratory of racial capitalism, from Indigenous genocide and the fur trade to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson. We talk with historian Walter Johnson ( @abufelix12 ) and activist-artist Tef Poe ( @TefPoe ). Check out Walter's new book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States: https://www.basicbooks.com/tit...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The Vice-Chairwoman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation tells a 400-year history of fighting existence, from the Mayflower to Trump. Find out more: https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/standwithmashpee Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Apr 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min
St. Louis, MO once rose as the morning star of US imperialism. It has also been a laboratory of racial capitalism, from Indigenous genocide and the fur trade to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson. We talk with historian Walter Johnson ( @abufelix12 ) and activist-artist Tef Poe ( @TefPoe ). Part 2 comes out next week. Check out Walter's new book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/walter-johnson/the-...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Jean Ross is the President of National Nurses United ( @NationalNurses ), the largest nurses union in the United States and the profession on the frontlines battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 25, 2020•28 min
Dean Seneca is an epidemiologist from the Seneca Nation. He shares his expertise on how Indian Country is facing the current pandemic. Find his work: https://www.senecascientificsolutions.com Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 24, 2020•56 min
Under US sanctions, Venezuela responds to Coronavirus through increased internationalism. Carlos Ron ( @CarlosJRonVE ), the Vice-Minister for Foreign Relations with North America, joins us. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Reconciliation is dead. But how and why did it start in Canada? Kahnawake Mohawk scholar Audra Simpson argues reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous was meant only to heal the settler and to forever suspend the question of Indigenous revolution. This is a bonus episode. Subscribe on Patreon for more bonus content: www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 16, 2020•51 min
Saeed Biglari ( @Haman_Ten ) is an Iranian physician on the frontlines combatting the Coronavirus (COVID-19). He talks about how US sanctions have severely impacted Iran's healthcare workers from treating patients and stopping the spread of the virus. Support us: www.patreon.com/therednation
Mar 12, 2020•43 min
Phoenix Johnson is a Tlingit and Haida anti-war organizer and the president of Seattle Veterans for Peace. We discuss the militarization of Indian Country and the necessity for decolonization and anti-imperialism. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Amanda ( @catcontentonly ) talks about the anti-Chinese racism plaguing US media coverage of the Coronavirus epidemic, and its connection to US settler colonialism and imperialism. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Mar 02, 2020•58 min
Nick Estes, the host of the Red Nation Podcast, talks about the legacy of his grandfather Frank Estes and the afterlives of allotment policy for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society hosted December 2019: https://olws.squarespace.com . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Feb 28, 2020•40 min
Turtle Island is rising up! #ReconciliationisDead, #WetsuwetenStrong blockades, Tohono O'odham resist the border wall, settler elections, & Palestine! Red Nation comrades Orien LongKnife ( @beshnez ) & Elena Ortiz ( @spiritofpopay ) join the conversation. Support patreon.com/redmediapr
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 53 min
In this wide-ranging interview, award-winning Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle ( @rebeccanagle ) debunks myths surrounding Cherokee history, culture, and people — and why these tropes have devastating consequences for all Native people. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Dr. Karla Tait is a member of the Gilseyhu Clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and a trained psychologist who specializes in decolonizing healing. In this interview, she gives a historical and cultural context to the mass Indigenous uprising #WetsuwetenStrong that is rocking so-called Canada. She was arrested alongside other Indigenous matriarchs protecting Wet'suwet'en territory after police violently raided Unist'ot'en Camp this month. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood Support Unis'tot'en Camp...
Feb 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Onyesonwu joins us for a report-back from recent African and Indigenous delegations to Venezuela, and why the Bolivarian Revolution is leading at the forefront of the global anti-imperialist movement. Onyesonwu is an organizer with the All African People's Revolutionary Party and the All African Women's Revolutionary Union as well as an editor with Hood Communist. Read the Final Declaration of the World Conference Against Imperialism: http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/02/06/final-declaration-of-the-...
Feb 10, 2020•55 min
Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas ( @Ovargas52 ) talks about upcoming Bolivian elections and the organized Indigenous resistance against the fascist coup. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Feb 03, 2020•58 min
Sicangu Lakota elder writer Lydia Whirlwind Soldiers talks about her first book of poetry Memory Songs , the Lakota language, and writing English. This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com . For more bonus episodes like this, support the show on patreon. www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Jan 30, 2020•45 min
Our first monthly show Red Power Hour features Red Nation members talking about the Red Deal: End the Occupation & Heal Our Bodies . In loving memory of Wake-Self (1989-2019) Music: Frank Waln - "What makes the red man red? (Instrumentals)" Frank Waln - "My people come from the land"...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Lisa and Arlo sat down with us at their kitchen table, sharing the fun side of Indigenous food sovereignty and Lakota knowledge. Support patreon.com/redmediapr
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Martin Luther King Jr connects US imperialism and war-making in Vietnam to the violent racism and impoverishment of Black and colonized people within the United States. Music: "Another Holy Man" - Floyd Westerman Red Crow (1988)
Jan 20, 2020•46 min
Trump's militarizing the US-Mexico border. Tohono O'odham jurist Nellie Jo David explains complicity of both parties in this project and its connection to Israeli settler colonialism. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr Show art by Hop David: https://www.deviantart.com/hop41/gallery
Jan 13, 2020•51 min
On Jan. 4th, 2020 the Wet'suwet'en House Chiefs representing all five clans evicted Coastal Gaslink employees from Unist'ot'en and Gidimt'en territories. Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Namoks spells out the terms of the struggle to protect Indigenous land and water and the violent invasions by Canada into the territory. Follow the struggle on Twitter: @UnistotenCamp Support Unist'ot'en Camp: http://unistoten.camp...
Jan 08, 2020•11 min
Revolutionary poet Wendy Trevino (@prolpo) talks about writing and fighting. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) is the host of the East is a Podcast . Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Jan 04, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In this special episode, Eugene McCartan, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, breaks down Labour's recent electoral loss, Jeremy Corbyn, #Brexit, and the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Dec 31, 2019•35 min
The elder Dakota writer Elizabeth Cook-Lynn talks about the politics of Indigenous language, writing, the Dakota literary tradition, and her new memoir In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World . This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com . Subscribe to the Patreon to access more shows like this: www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Dec 31, 2019•47 min
Tlingit scholar Anne Spice (@anne_spice) talks about the ongoing struggle against illegal incursions into traditional Wet'suwet'en territories and doing research on the frontlines. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Dec 16, 2019•49 min