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The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz.
Our show is entirely supported by our patrons on Patreon, support the show and get access to bonus content and other patron exclusive benefits here: Patreon.com/redmediapr
Website: therednation.org
Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation.
Theme song: "Dead Horse" by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/
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"Two ways to resist, two ways to die" w/ Max Ajl (pt.1)
(Note: This is the first half of Nick's conversation with Max. For the second half, become a patron of Red Media. You can help support our work and get access to the hundreds of hours of bonus content for as little as $2 a month.)
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) speaks with political ecologist Max Ajl, author of The People's Green New Deal (2021), about his two part article, "Palestine's Great Flood".
Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr
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Leonard Peltier Mixtape Vol. 3
Freedom fighters across Turtle Island already know that today is the day of Leonard Peltier’s parole hearing. Leonard is now 79 years old. This is likely his last opportunity to be considered for parole. A decision is expected by mid-July. Today, millions across Mother Earth are collectively asking the US Parole Commission to recognize that enough is enough and finally grant Leonard Peltier his freedom.
For more information on how what you can do
https://freeleonard-peltier.com/act-now/
Send Leonard a solidarity letter
https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier/solidarity-letters/
Check out the Free Leonard Peltier playlist on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
Track Listing:
[0:00] - TRN-KREZ Morning Show
[1:45] - NDN Collective’s Nick Tilsen on how to help Leonard (source)
[4:31] - Rachel Thunder speaks at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022 (source)
[12:18] - Leonard Peltier’s message of solidarity to Palestinians (1982) (Read by Justine Teba)
[14:29] - Nick Estes interviews Collen Rowley, the first FBI agent close to the Leonard Peltier case who is now calling for his freedom. (source)
[27:08] - Ernesto B. Vigil, author of The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, on the links between Leonard’s fight for free and the Chicano Rights movement.
[33:47] - Rachel Thunder at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022 (source)
[35:55] - Nick Estes at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022 (source)
[44:48] - Leoyla Cowboy at the National Day of Mourning 2022 (source)
[46:55] - Herbie Waters reads a message from Leonard Peltier, National Day of Mourning 2022 source)
[51:50] Justine Teba at the National Day of Mourning 2022 (source)
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Classic case of colonialism: The Kanaky liberation struggle w/ Tina Ngata
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) interviews writer and activist Tina Ngata (@tinangata) on the Kanak people's liberation struggle and the recent uprising against French colonial rule.
Watch the episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
Learn more about the Kanaky uprising
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/05/21/maori-activist-on-new-caledonia-human-rights-should-not-be-subject-to-referendums/
https://theconversation.com/deja-vu-in-new-caledonia-why-decades-of-political-failure-will-make-this-uprising-hard-to-contain-230397
https://info.scoop.co.nz/Kanaky_Aotearoa_Solidarity
https://www.instagram.com/ka_solidarity?igsh=MzRwaHU3ZmR2eGhy
https://www.instagram.com/kiamauaotearoa?igsh=NHd5d2lnbDV5bTB3
https://m.facebook.com/groups/758131656432342/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT
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"He wants to know people are fighting for him": Take action for Leonard Peltier w/ Nick Tilsen
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) welcomes Nick Tilsen (@nicktilsen) from NDN Collective back to the show to discuss Leonard Peltier's upcoming parole hearing and the international coalition fighting to get him released after almost five decades of incarceration for crimes he didn't commit.
For more information on how to help Leonard's appeal
https://freeleonard-peltier.com/act-now/
Send Leonard a solidarity letter
https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier/solidarity-letters/
Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel and check out the Free Leonard Peltier playlist
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Palestine will be free, now more than ever w/ Frances Hasso
Marking the 76th year since the Nakba (Catastrophe), Nick Estes speaks to Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) about the history of the term, how Zionist settler colonial violence preceded and continued after the ethnic cleansing war of 1948, and how the Gaza genocide signals how close the liberation of Palestine really is.
Check out Frances' website for her lecture from April 2024, “Academic Feminisms and Anti-Imperialist Resistance: Conundrums and Contradictions.”
Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
Are you Indigenous? Do you support Palestine? Learn more about joining the Indigenous solidarity with Palestine movement and sign the letter here:
https://indigenousforpalestine.org/
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YOTED: The great rap beef of 2024 and MMIW
Jen and Justine reflect on how the “rap beef” flooding our screens is serving as a distraction from the escalating genocide of Palestinians, the global sex trade, domestic violence, and Drake's potential involvement in MMIW.
Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel
The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr