This May Day special brings together international perspectives from nurses, workers cooperatives, and socialist movements. Support: www.patreon.com/therednation
Tlingit professor Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams breaks down the complex history of Alaska Natives and Alaska Native Corporations. Support the show: patreon.com/therednation
How are Native people responding to COVID-19? The second 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
The Oak Lake Writers Society was the first tribal writers group of its kind. The #NativeReads campaign brings together their members and the work of many tribal writers from the D/N/Lakota literary tradition to the forefront. This episode is a discussion with Sarah Hernandez, Nick Estes, and Mabel Picotte the #NativeReads committee of OLWS members: Lanniko Lee, Gabrielle Tateskanskan, Patti Bordeaux Nelson, Joel Waters, and Tasiyagnunpa Barondeau. Music: Frank Waln - "My Stone (instrumentals)" M...
Historian Bobby Lee and Kiowa journalist Tristan Ahtone tell the story of how large public universities benefited from the theft and expropriation of Indigenous land. Read their story here: https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities Access the database: https://www.landgrabu.org Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
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
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
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
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...
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
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-...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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-...
Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas ( @Ovargas52 ) talks about upcoming Bolivian elections and the organized Indigenous resistance against the fascist coup. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
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
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"...
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
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)
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
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...
