SLAPP’d: Green NGOs, Pipeline Mercenaries, and reporting on the Water Protector movement w/ Tristan Ahtone and Alleen Brown
Release Date: 06/30/2025
Living in the Ripe World - RPH reviews "Beyond the Glittering World"
The Red Nation Podcast
Red Power is back! RPH hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz continue their series on Indigenous futurisms through a discussion of the new collection of stories and poems, (2026) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Guerrilla Intellectuals: Theory and Practice w/Pranay Somayajula
The Red Nation Podcast
From the belly of the empire to the frontlines of global liberation struggles, what does it mean to be an intellectual in service of mass movements? In this episode, (The Red Nation) and Pranay Somayajula sit down to dissect the vital synthesis of revolutionary theory and ground-level practice. Moving beyond academic insulation, they interrogate anti-colonial resistance, Third World solidarity, Indigenous liberation, and the role of the radical writer in organizing for collective power. Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Follow Pranay on Substack Follow...
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White men getting lost: RPH reviews The Odyssey (2026)
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A special live edition of Red Power Hour featuring co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz along with some special guests to talk about Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey (2026). Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Psychic Militancy: Theory and Praxis w/ Lara Sheehi
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TRN Podcast host hosts a special livestream conversation featuring Lara Sheehi from Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Subscribe to Lara's channel Follow Nick on Substack Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Indigenous Anti-Communism: Haunting Spectre of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes
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***Producer's note: TRN Podcast host Nick Estes joined Red Media-produced TYMSYY podcast, hosted by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, to talk about anti-communism, pretendianism, and the outsized role of Ward Churchill. Subscribe to TYMSYY if you don't already and help us grow the show*** This is the first installment of our collaborative series on Indigenous Anti-Communism with of . In this episode, we first introduce our intentions for the series and discuss why it matters to complicate and systematize the various discourses on anti-communism. We then turn to Ward Churchill...
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The Willingness to Destroy: RPH reviews Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.2)
The Red Nation Podcast
Red Power Hour is back! The second part of an extended conversation by co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie on Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), a documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Settler colonialism, socialism, and decolonization w/ Alex Reid
The Red Nation Podcast
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation witih Alex Reid. Alex is a comedian and unpublished writer from the Heiltsuk and Nisga’a nations in Northern B.C. His free educationals, writing, videos and podcast features can be Watch the livestream edition on the Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Follow Nick on Substack Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Winter Stories: Reading and Writing in Dakota w/ Šišóka Dúta.
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TRN Podcast host hosts Dakota language educator Šišóka Dúta in a conversation about learning, speaking, and teaching their native tongue, Dakota, and the possibilities of expanding Indigenous language education. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
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Return to Bandung (#39) - From Minneapolis to Iran w/ Nick Estes
The Red Nation Podcast
***Producer's note: Reposting an episode Nick recorded with Return to Bandung*** In this episode, I’m joined by returning guest Nick Estes—associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, cofounder of The Red Nation, and author of (Verso Books, 2019)—to discuss last winter’s federal occupation of Minnesota during the Trump Administration’s ‘Operation Metro Surge.’ In this wide-ranging conversation, we attempt to complicate the artificial distinction between the ‘domestic’ and ‘foreign’ spheres, instead situating the fascist...
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The Willingness to Destroy: RPH reviews Exterminate All the Brutes (pt.1)
The Red Nation Podcast
Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle Exterminate All the Brutes (2021), a documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. Empower our work: GoFundMe: Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: Patreon
info_outlineTRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone) from Grist about their investigation into the legal war waged on the Standing Rock Water Protectors and their allies years after the end of the encampments.
Check out Tristan's article
"A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?"
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Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse
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