The Red Nation Podcast

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 Me...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

**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...

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...

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...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

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 ed...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ empower-red-medias-indigenous- content  Su...

*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 racis...

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 co...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ P...

Jared A. Ball (@imixwhatilike ) is Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and host of the i MiXWHATiLiKE! 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...

**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 R...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/...

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: https:...

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...

**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 Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.g...

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: "After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home! "It's finally over–I'm going home," said Peltier in response to the news. "I want to show the world I'm a good person with a good heart. I want to help t...

*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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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 l...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.theredna...

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...

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     TRN-KREZ  Nick Estes - Abolishing Columbus & Indigenous resistance  On hybrid wars w/ Vijay Prishad  White terror, Las Vegas, & Paiute homelands w/ Krist...

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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org...