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The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nationwww.therednation.org
The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz. Our show is entirely supported by our patrons on Patreon, support the show and get access to bonus content and other patron exclusive benefits here: Patreon.com/redmediapr Website: therednation.org Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation. ​ Theme song: "Dead Horse" by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/
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Episodes

The War on Terror & the "crusading society" w/ Adnan Husain (Pt.1)

Historian and co-host of Guerrilla History Podcast (@guerrilla_pod) Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) sees the war on terror as part of a long history going back to the medieval crusades. This deep-dive historical discussion traces the early forms of racial capitalism and settler colonialism as they arose in Europe and the Americas. What this episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/ZyERl80Joik Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Jan 10, 20221 hr 6 min

(Preview) On "patriotic" socialism

Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) from The East is a Podcast to discuss the rise of a self-described group of "patriotic socialists." Listen to the entire conversation by signing up for as little as $1 per month at https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Jan 05, 202216 min

Hope is revolutionary, hope is Indigenous (Pt.2)

Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie break down the major stories for Indigenous liberation in 2021 in a two-episode series (yes it took us that long to talk about 2021). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Jan 03, 20221 hr 4 min

Unsettling Mormonism w/ nic & Kobi

TRN Podcast co-hosts Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Jen Marley ( @JenMarley1680 ) talk to nic and Kobi about the settler colonial underpinnings of Mormonism. Check out Unsettling Mormonism ( @unsettling_mormonism ) on Instagram. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Dec 27, 20211 hr 16 min

Hope is revolutionary, hope is Indigenous (Pt.1)

Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie break down the major stories for Indigenous liberation in 2021 in a two-episode series (yes it took us that long to talk about 2021). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Dec 20, 20211 hr 6 min

Shut Down Red Hill, Ola I Ka Wai w/ Shelley Muneoka

A Navy storage facility built in Red Hill during WWII has been leaking jet fuel underground on Oʻahu for decades. Uahikea talks with Shelley Muneoka about how the military is poisoning the water and people, and the movement to protect water and demilitarize Hawaiʻi. Support: patreon.com/ redmediapr

Dec 10, 20211 hr 3 min

(Preview) Nick Estes in conversation with Jorge Arreaza

Jorge Arreaza is the Minister of Industries and National Production in Venezuela. Red Nation Podcast co-host Nick Estes spoke to him in Caracas in late November 2021. Watch the entire conversation on the Red Nation Podcast Youtube Channel. Don't forget to like and subscribe the channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLQEDu3NmE&ab_channel=TheRedNation Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Dec 08, 20217 min

COP26: 0/10 Sheep; Native Liberation: 10/10 Sheep

Red Power Hour is back! RPH host Melanie Yazzie and TRN Podcast host Jennifer Marley (@JenMarley1680) are joined by TRN comrades Justine Teba and Demetrius Johnson to discuss the latest developments in Indigenous frontline climate struggle. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Dec 06, 20211 hr 15 min

All out for Wedzin Kwa w/ Sleydo and Jen Wickham

Wing Chief Sleydo and Jen Wickham of Cas Yikh House in Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation discuss the ongoing struggle at Gidimt'en Checkpoint against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and RCMP invasions on unceded Wetʻsuwetʻen territory. Twitter: @Gidimten Facebook: @wetsuwetenstrong

Dec 01, 202156 min

"Be worried about now!" w/ Vijay Prashad

Director of the Tricontinental Institute (@tri_continental) Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) talks about building the left to fight climate change as well the recent historic victory for Indian farmers. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel or watch this episode ad-free by signing up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Nov 29, 202156 min

[ARCHIVE] National Day of Mourning: 400 years of genocide and resistance w/ Kisha & Mahtowin

*Episode originally posted November 2020* Kisha James and Mahtowin Munro from United American Indians of New England talk about the importance of the National Day of Mourning and destroying 400 years of the Pilgrim mythology. More info: http://www.uaine.org Watch the livestream: https://youtu.be/qB7Vbz0WJXc Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Nov 25, 20211 hr 19 min

[ARCHIVE] Alcatraz is not an island w/ LaNada War Jack

*Episode originally posted November 2019* LaNada War Jack, a Shoshone Bannock elder and activist, explains her role in the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, a watershed moment in the Red Power movement. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Nov 25, 20211 hr 8 min

That Owl Though

Red Power Hour is back! In this episode RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie break down the first historic season of the FX series Reservation Dogs. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Nov 22, 20211 hr 23 min

The world's oldest oppression w/ Valeria Reynoso

Co-host Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) talks with Valeria Reynoso about the colonial origins of the sex trade and what liberal feminist discourse celebrating it means for Indigenous people in the Caribbean. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Nov 15, 202156 min

[ARCHIVE] Veterans' Day & the Demilitarization of Indian Country w/ Krystal Two Bulls

*Episode originally posted November 2020* Krystal Two Bulls is a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota anti-war veteran and organizer. For Veterans' Day, she joins us to discuss the militarization of Indian Country, and how to end it. Resources: https://aboutfaceveterans.org https://landback.org Support: https://www.patreon.com/therednation

Nov 11, 20211 hr 12 min

Throw Down Unapologetically

Red Power Hour is back! TRN Podcast host Jennifer Marley @JenMarley1680 joins RPH host Melanie Yazzie and TRN comrades Kiley Guy and Tara Begay to break down the week of climate action known as "People Versus Fossil Fuels" that took place in Washington D.C. following #IndigenousPeoplesDay 2021. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Nov 08, 20211 hr 27 min

Fear of a white genocide w/ Blanca Estevez and Austin Gonzalez

Blanca Estevez (@best__ev) and Austin Gonzalez (@Gaius_Gracchus) from the DSA International Committee (@DSA_Intl_Comm) talk about anti-imperialism in Latin America, racist "left" reactions to land back, and building working class power in the US South. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Nov 01, 20211 hr 17 min

(Preview) Halloween (1978)

A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of Red Media. Sign up for as little as $1 per month. Support: https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) from The East is a Podcast discuss John Carpenter's classic, Halloween (1978)....

Oct 30, 202126 min

(Preview) In defense of Bolivia and Evo Morales w/ Nick Estes

A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of Red Media. Sign up for as little as $1 per month. Support: https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr This recording comes from an internal Red Nation political education lecture on the conditions of struggle in Bolivia and what our response should be as Indigenous socialists.

Oct 26, 202129 min

Growing a Movement at X University w/ Sam Howden

Food sovereignty scholar and urban farmer Sam Howden (Red River Métis) talks with Uahikea Maile ( @uahikea ) about the growing movement to rename Ryerson University. Named after Egerton Ryerson, an architect of the Indian Residential School System in Canada, the institution—now called X University—and its memorialization of genocide is being challenged by student organizers like Sam. Follow the struggle: IG @wreckonciliation_x_university and Twitter @wreckonciliati1 Support https://www.patreon.c...

Oct 25, 20211 hr 4 min

(Preview) YOTED: Red Reds, COINTELPRO, and the FBI (pt.1)

A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of Red Media. Sign up for as little as $1 per month. Support: patreon.com/redmediapr In this episode, Nick and Sungmanitu look into the history of FBI surveillance and repression of social movements from an Indigenous Marxist lens.

Oct 21, 202120 min

Bolivia is medicine for the world w/ Vivi Camacho

Vivi Camacho ( @LuzFloreciendo ) is Quechua and the General Director of Traditional Medicine for the Plurinational State of Bolivia. She talks about the Bolivian project of building Indigenous socialism in the twenty first century, from the legacy of Che Guevara, to the US-backed coup in 2019, and the reconstruction of democracy today. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Oct 18, 20211 hr 1 min

Pueblo Elders panel at Native Liberation 2021

Maurus Chino, Petuuche Gilbert, and Honorable Verna Teller share their experience doing social and political organizing and offer words of wisdom for future generations. Video available on TRN Youtube channel Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Oct 11, 20211 hr 10 min

[ARCHIVE] A history of the American Indian Movement w/ Nick Estes

*Episode originally posted August 2020* Nick Estes, author of "Our History is the Future" and co-founder of The Red Nation, joins Breht from Rev Left Radio to discuss the history and legacy of the American Indian Movement, including the history of indigenous resistance in America, the origins and ideology of AIM, the Siege of Wounded Knee in 1973, the FBI's COINTELPRO, the Reign of Terror, and so much more. This is a collaborative project between Rev Left Radio and The Red Nation Podcast LEARN M...

Oct 04, 20212 hr 46 min

[ARCHIVE] The Scam of Reconciliation w/ Eva Jewell

*Episode originally posted January 2021* Dr. Eva Jewell (Ma'iingan Dodem)—Anishinaabekwe from Deshkan Ziibiing with Haudenosaunee lineage—explains that Canadian reconciliation with Indigenous peoples won't be fulfilled until 2074. Uahikea Maile talks with Dr. Jewell about the Yellowhead Institute's new report to hold Canada accountable for genocide. They discuss crocodile tears, genocide deniers, and the scam of reconciliation. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Sep 30, 20211 hr 11 min

The war on Native children w/ Rebecca Nagle

Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) talks about the new season of This Land podcast, which investigates how and why rightwing corporate lawyers are trying to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act. Listen: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/ Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sep 27, 20211 hr 14 min

Honky Logic and Afghanistan

Red Power Hour is back! RPH host Melanie Yazzie is joined by TRN Podcast co-hosts Jennifer Marley ( @JenMarley1680 ) and Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) and Bands of Turtle Island host Sungmanitu Bird ( @BandsIsland ) to give an Indigenous left breakdown of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr...

Sep 20, 20211 hr 5 min

Line 3 ain't over w/ Tara Houska

Anishnaabe lawyer Tara Houska ( @zhaabowekwe ) joins us from the frontlines to discuss how the Indigenous-led fight against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline is far from over. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sep 13, 202153 min

US frontiers as forever wars w/ Alex Aviña

Historian Alex Aviña joins us to discuss the origins of the US war on terror in frontier expansion, Indian killing, and anticommunism. Read: https://fx.substack.com/p/the-american-maginot-line Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sep 06, 20211 hr 20 min
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