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Every day is Earth Day May 01, 2023

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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

Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective w/ Sardana Nikolaeva (pt.1) Apr 24, 2023

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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.com/redmediapr

Red Power Hour Book Club: Ramona Emerson's Shutter (2022) Apr 17, 2023

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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

(Preview) Profiting from corporate counterinsurgency against Water Protectors w/ Alleen Brown Apr 15, 2023

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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 policing and surveillance of the Indigenous-led protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline to other fossil fuel companies.

Alleen Brown co-write this investigative report with Naveena Sadasivam (@NaveenaSivam).

Read the article, "After infiltrating Standing Rock, TigerSwan pitched its 'counterinsurgency' playbook to other oil companies"

In the second half of the conversation, Nick and Alleen review the "first narrative film about "On Sacred Ground" (2023), "the first narrative film on Standing Rock." Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel.

*WARNING: This interview explores content and themes that may trigger PTSD or cause emotional distress. If you are experiencing any traumatic stress, panic, anxiety, depression, or hopelessness, you are not alone, and help is available! https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.187/ee8.a33.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Trauma-Resources-Doc_2021.pdf Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

We are the stars w/ Sarah Hernandez Apr 10, 2023

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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 edition of Charles Eastman's The Soul of the Indian (1911) Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Cowboys and Hajis: Iraq 2003 w/ Yousef Baker Apr 03, 2023

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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" This episode is co-hosted by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist), who continues to speak with Yousef for almost another hour. Check out The East is a Podcast on your podcatcher to listen to the entire conversation Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Sh*t-Ass White Liberals Mar 27, 2023

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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.

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(Preview) The ocean connects us: debrief from O'ahu (pt.2) Mar 21, 2023

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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. In this episode, they talk through a timeline of their time on the island of O'ahu. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel

The case of Jessica Reznicek w/ Alex Cohen Mar 20, 2023

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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: freejessicareznicek.com Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

The TRUTH Project: Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing (pt.1) Mar 13, 2023

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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/home?authuser=0 https://ias.umn.edu/news-stories/truth-project-towards-recognition-and-university-tribal-healing https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel.

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