RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie take on recent news stories, including the US right-wing targeting marginalized identities. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
This is the first half of a two-part conversation. To listen to the second half , sign up for as little as $2 a month on Patreon. Sardana Nikolaeva (Sakha) is a postdoctoral fellow with the Ziibiing Lab (@ziibiinglab) at the University of Toronto (Canada). She speaks to Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) about the legacy of the Soviet Union's policies towards Indigenous people. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's novel Shutter (2022). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. NOTE FROM HOSTS: They highly recommend reading the book first and then listening to the episode. They try their best to avoid spoilers but "can't not have spoilers" when discussing the book. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Editor's note: This is a preview of a longer episode. You can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel (both linked below) or listen to it by subscribing to Red Media on Patreon for as little as $2 a month. Investigative journalist Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) reports on 50,000 pages of recently released TigerSwan documents, showing how the private security company tried to market its policing and surveillance of the Indigenous-led protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipel...
Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota) returns to the podcast to discuss her book, We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition (2023). Check out her previous episodes on the show, including the most recent #NativeReads on The Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition Order the book from the University of Arizona Press or the University of Regina Press Audiobook edition of Charles Eastman's The Soul of the Indian (1911) Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Yousef Baker (@YousefKB) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. He reflects on the origins of the Iraq invasion and its roots in US colonial racism. Check out his article, "Killing "Hajis" in "Indian Country": Neoliberal Crisis, the Iraq War and the Affective Wages of Anti-Muslim Racism" This episode is co-hosted by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) , who continues to speak with Yousef for almo...
Red Power Hour is back with co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz ( @spiritofpopay ) discussing current events both local and national. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel This is only part of the conversation; the RPH hosts continue talking for another half hour! Sign up for as little as $2 a month on Patreon to access it and other great bonus content. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Note: This is a preview of a bonus episode released last month. Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon to listen to the entire episode which runs over two hours long! Today is another important date in the history of Kānaka Maoli resistance: the day they iced colonizer Captain James Cook. Join comrades Jennifer, Kyon, Kiley, Nicole, and Justine for part two of The Red Nation's debrief from Hawai'i. In this episode, they talk through a timeline of their time on the island of O'ahu. Watch the video edi...
Jessica Reznicek received terrorism enhancement charges for property destruction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Her case is part of a growing police backlash against Water Protectors and environmentalists. Her conviction and sentencing show how abolition and climate justice movements converge. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Twitter: @FreeJessRez Website: freejessicareznicek.com Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie sits down with Misty Blue, Audrianna Goodwin, and An Garagiola to kick off a five-part series about the TRUTH (Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing) project. TRUTH is an Indigenous-led project that details the history of the University of Minnesota's relationship with Indigenous people. For more info: https://sites.google.com/view/truthproject/home?authuser=0 https://ias.umn.edu/news-stories/truth-project-towards-recognition-and-university-triba...
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie speaks with John Redhouse as part of the " Larry Casuse: A Day of Remembrance ," co-sponsored by UNM's American Studies department, in partnership with the Institute for American Indian Research. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
The 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by Oglalas and the American Indian Movement was a watershed moment. February 27, 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the historic takeover. This episode features the personal and family histories of Madonna Thunder Hawk and Bill Means—a story told by the Wounded Knee participants themselves about the importance of the American Indian Movement. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr
Red Media is ecstatic to announce the launch of Freedom to Read! Join Kiley and Justine as they discuss the history of Red Media and how Freedom to Read has come to fruition. Freedom to Read is Red Media's book program to get Red & rad books into the hands of Indigenous communities. Freedom to Read has worked with Navajo Nation Library, No Name Book Club, grassroots movements, and contributors through donations and Patreon. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . ...
The city of Minneapolis wants to demolish a neighborhood warehouse to build a toxic truck yard in the historic Native and immigrant community of East Phillips. Residents are fighting back against the racist environmental pollution, proposing an urban farm instead of rebuilding a truck depot. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Rachel Thunder: @rachel_thunder Joe Vital: @AnishinaabeFC Twitter: @epni_urbanfarm Website: www.defendthedepot.com/ Facebook: www.facebook....
Historian Bhangya Bhukya provides an in-depth analysis of the Indigenous Adivasis of India. Guest hosted by Akash Poyam Second half of the conversation will be published as audio soon but only to Patrons. Sign up for as little as $2 a month to get access to this discussion and other great bonus content. Alternatively, you can watch the entire episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube Channel. *Editor's note: Please do us a solid and like/subscribe to the show on YouTube even if you don't watch r...
A compilation of different clips to mark the International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier, the oldest living political prisoner. This is the first half of the mixtape. To listen to the entire episode, subscribe to the Anti-Imperialist Archive on your podcatcher. Check out our Free Leonard Peltier YouTube playlist More info https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/ Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Red Power Hour co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie do a deep dive into the second season of Reservation Dogs. This is a preview of a two-hour-plus-long conversation. Patrons of Red Media can listen to the entire episode as audio or you can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel . Become a patron for as little as $2 a month by signing up at patreon.com/redmediapr...
We are writing to make a small but significant announcement about our Patreon membership pricing. As you know, the money we collect through Patreon is used to support the diverse projects of The Red Nation and its media arm, Red Media. We appreciate each and every single donation, and we thank you all sincerely for helping us in our mission to create a Native media platform. When we first launched our Patreon page, we were happy to offer the lowest bar of entry possible ($1). That our Ruggit Pro...
Red Nation comrades Jen Marley, Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Melanie Yazzie take patron questions. Guest hosted by Justine Teba. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of The Red Nation Podcast. To listen to/watch the entire AMA, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
The first FBI agent close to the Leonard Peltier case is calling for his freedom. Coleen Rowley recounts, in this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, her time as an agent in the Minneapolis field office. For nearly 50 years, the FBI has indoctrinated its agents on a specific version of events that led to Leonard Peltier's arrest, conviction, and imprisonment. The mentality then, Rowley argues, is little different than the mentality today. That's why she decided to break the silence and is call...
130 years ago today, the US Navy aided the overthrow of the sovereign and independent Hawaiian government. On January 17, 1893, the USS Boston landed in Hawai'i to support a white Euro-American oligarchic overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani. Kānaka Maoli and their anti-imperialist allies continue to mark that day and and the resistance to the ongoing occupation of Hawaiian Islands. During the first week of August 2022, eight members of The Red Nation went on a delegation to the island of O'ahu to s...
Quechua scholars Yojana Miraya Oscco ( @osccomiraya ) and Renzo Aroni talk about the historical context surrounding the far right coup of President Pedro Castillo in Peru and the mass mobilizations fighting back. Police repression has targeted the southern regions, where Yojana and Renzo are from. The violence harkens back to the days of the US-backed dictatorship. The general strike and the deadly street battles show that a new political alternative is on the rise. Video edition available on Th...
The second half of our look back at 2022 with Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. And special thanks to the patrons who contributed! Support
The co-hosts of The Red Nation Podcast and Red Power Hour reflect on some of the great content published by Red Media in 2022. Featuring an intro by Justine Teba. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel And special thanks to the patrons who contributed! If you can't wait another week to listen to the second half, sign up for as little as $1 a month to access the entire episode and a lot of other graet bonus content....
The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022 Join Justine and Kyon in Southern Ute Territory for a tour of Weasel Skin Farms and a conversation with our comrade Randy. This episode includes thunder, rain, goats, ducks, amaranth, corn and also f*ck the Clarks. Watch the documentary Native Nation: Voices of Survival on Al Jazeera Subscribe to Red Media on Patreon for debriefs and extra stories for just $1 a month!...
The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022 During the race for nuclear weapons in the 1960s, the United Nuclear Corporation began operations on the largest underground uranium mine in the country, located on the Navajo reservation in Church Rock, New Mexico. The Church Rock uranium mill spill took place on July 16, 1979, when the uranium mill breached its dam--resulting in the largest nuclear disaster in US history. Join Justine and Kyon as they attend the 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration ...
The Red Nation Podcast Tour 2022 Join us in a collaborative effort between Al Jazeera, Black Leaf Films, The Red Nation, and Red Media as Justine and Kyon highlight struggles for liberation in Pueblo, Ute, and Diné territories. First stop is the Healing and Restoring Ancestral Sites Tour with Elder Kathy Sanchez from Tewa Women United and Beata Tsosi Peña from Breath of My Heart Birthplace . This tour shows us the beginning of nuclear colonialism at the Los Alamos National Labs in the sacred mou...
The first half of the conversation that Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) had with TRN comrade Kiley about Wakanda Forever (2022). For just $1, you can become a patron of Red Media and listen to the rest of the conversation-another 45 minutes!-and hours and hours of other great bonus content. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support Red Media on Patreon...
*Red Media is proud to announce the launch of our latest project, REDsurgence, a podcast hosted by Riley Yesno. Subscribe on your podcatcher by clicking here * Uahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli professor of Indigenous Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @uahikea ---------------------------- Follow REDsurgence on Twitter @REDsurgence rileyyesno.com/ Produced by Red Media www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
Petuuche Gilbert is elder from the Acoma Pueblo who helped found the Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE) which is one of five core groups in the MultiCultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE). MASE is a consortium of indigenous and environmental justice communities that have been adversely impacted by historic uranium mining and milling in the Grants Uranium Belt. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr...
