The Red Nation Podcast

Following a day-long discussion about U.S. interventionism and efforts to resist imperialism at the Latin America and Caribbean Policy Forum, host José Luis Granados Ceja is joined by Nick Estes from The Red Nation , Claudia De La Cruz from The People's Forum , Teri Mattson of the WTF is Going on in Latin America and the Caribbean podcast, Celina della Croce and Hector Figarella from the Anti-Impe...

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.co...

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 polici...

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 editi...

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"  ...

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....

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. I...

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: fre...

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/hom...

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...

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 thr...

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 Vit...

  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. ...

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/re...

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.co...

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 launche...

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, i...

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...

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 deadl...

  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 entir...