RPH vs. Last of the Mohicans (pt.1)
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[Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode! The second half will be released on the Patreon feed early access and on the main feed/YouTube channel next week! Sign up at the link below for as little as $2 a month to get access to other great bonus content and help support Red Media] Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz take on Michael Mann's 1992 big-screen interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (1826) in an extra- long double episode! Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is...
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Remembering 1974: Navajo Liberation vs. Farmington
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In 1974, three Navajo men--John Earl Harvey, Herman Dodge Benally, and David Ignacio--were brutally beaten and murdered by white teenage settlers in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico. It was an act known as “Indian rolling.” Diné grassroots leaders rose to this injustice by creating the Coalition for Navajo Liberation and the long hot summer of 1974 ensued. The marches and boycotts against the settlement of Farmington would go on to stand prominently in the history of Red Power and heralded future generations of Indigenous resistance. Saturday, September 21, 2024, the march and...
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Leonard Peltier and the murder of Anna Mae Aquash
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Federal prosecutors have attempted to tie Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier to the murder of fellow AIM activist, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. It is a frequent allegation that has relied on weak evidence and the charges of paid federal informants. In this episode, TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes looks at several sources of information from key Indigenous activists who knew Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash to the FBI’s own knowledge of her murder at the time it happened and federal prosecutors' initial hesitancy to take up the case. Learn more here from at the University of...
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"Ancestors of the Future:" Nick Estes at May Day Books
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TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes () speaks at marking the of Our History is the Future by Haymarket Books. Recorded by Adam Biel. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Democrats and the “Dupes” of Empire
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TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes ( helms a solo episode on the absurd farce of the Democratic National Convention and the wider question of how to read the 2024 US presidential elections from a critical left anti-imperialist perspective. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Debrief from Venezuela: World Social Alternative
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Justine and Maira debrief the 2nd. Encounter for a World Social Alternative: From Bolívar to Chávez. At the time of recording, they had just wrapped up the two-day event and had yet to witness the Venezuelan presidential elections later that week. Their initial reactions to the two-day panel series lay out the context of the Venezuelan elections, why the country is in the crosshairs of neoliberal cooperate media, and how the Venezuelan people have risen to protect the Bolivarian Revolution. The first gathering of the World Social Alternative happened in April of 2024 in Caracas where they...
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An Oral History of Little Earth United Tribes
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The Little Earthers podcasters sat down with elders and residents of Little Earth United Tribes. Vinny Dionne (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Jolene Jones (White Earth, Lac Courte Oreilles), Crow Bellecourt (Bad River) and Lori Ellis (White Earth) share their experiences living in the only American Indian preference low-income urban housing project. The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Red Power Hour - Koba was right
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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz do a deep dive into the ideological underpinnings of the Planet of the Apes prequels. Watch the on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here:
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Soulforce: Red, Black, & Brown Power in the Twin Cities w/ Jamie Curry & Jimmy Patiño
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This episode covers the radical history of the Twin Cities, which evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of injustice. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression, but through their particular...
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"Hope is on the streets": Venezuelan elections 2024
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Justine Teba and Maira Oliva-Rios traveled to Venezuela to observe the 2024 Presidential Elections. In this episode, they discuss the elements that constitute the electoral system and the importance of autonomy in Venezuela’s National Electoral Council. This episode was recorded just as Maduro’s campaign--titled “Our 21st Century Venezuela”--was coming to an end. Dozens of avenues were flooded by hundreds of thousands of residents of Caracas, cheering, singing, and dancing in what was a huge electrifying socialist PARTY, filled with joy, hope, and peace. Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪 Watch...
info_outlineRPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) spend almost two full hours discussing the big stories of 2023.
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