The Red Nation Podcast

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

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

*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

*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

  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

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

*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

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  

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

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).

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.

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 st...

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.    

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

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

*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 s...

*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...

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

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

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    

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  

Nathália Urban ( @UrbanNathalia ) interviews David Adler ( @davidrkadler ) and Nick Estes ( @nickwestes ) about the Indigenous resistance against the Brazilian right wing to protect the Amazon rainforest. Check out the video on our YouTube channel Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Red Power Hour is back! RPH host Melanie Yazzie is joined by TRN Podcast co-host Jennifer Marley (JenMarley1680) for part two of our two-part series on this summer of climate catastrophe and why Indigenous movements for decolonization are our best hope for immediate action to curb extinction. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear ( @KimTallBear ) discusses the politics of Indigenous kinship in relation to settler constructs of marriage and monogamy. Dr. TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota and an Associate Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Link to the talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEPy6UAp2U0

Andrea Ixchiu, una activista maya, brinda un panorama de lo que está sucediendo en Guatemala, las demandas de las comunidades indígenas como los llamados a un gobierno plurinacional, entre otros temas.   Support  https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr