The Red Nation Podcast

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 vi...

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...

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:...

Revolutionary poet Wendy Trevino (@prolpo) talks about writing and fighting.  Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) is the host of the East is a Podcast . Support  www.patreon.com/redmediapr

In this special episode, Eugene McCartan, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, breaks down Labour's recent electoral loss, Jeremy Corbyn, #Brexit, and the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

The elder Dakota writer Elizabeth Cook-Lynn talks about the politics of Indigenous language, writing, the Dakota literary tradition, and her new memoir In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World . This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com .  Subscribe to the Patreon to access mo...

Tlingit scholar Anne Spice  (@anne_spice)  talks about the ongoing struggle against illegal incursions into traditional Wet'suwet'en territories and doing research on the frontlines. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr        

Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons talks about the white terror that dispossessed Natives to create the state of Nevada w/ settler militias, the Bundys, the Nevada Test Site, Las Vegas, & mass shooters. Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Jackie Fielder is a queer Indigenous socialist, a community organizer living out of her van, backing the #RedDeal, and fighting for housing rights. She's also running for California Senate. Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Uahikeaikaleiʻohu (@uahikea) puts the long history of US imperialism and military occupation of Hawaii into the context of contemporary Native Hawaiian struggles for liberation and sovereignty today at Mauna Kea. Support  www.patreon.com/redmediapr

In this talk, Nick Estes commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz occupation by connecting the Red Power movement to a longer history of Indigenous and Black resistance and global solidarity.  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therednation