The Red Nation Podcast

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Iran, Coronavirus, & US sanctions w/ Saeed Biglari Mar 12, 2020

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Saeed Biglari (@Haman_Ten) is an Iranian physician on the frontlines combatting the Coronavirus (COVID-19). He talks about how US sanctions have severely impacted Iran's healthcare workers from treating patients and stopping the spread of the virus.

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Native veterans against war w/ Phoenix Johnson Mar 09, 2020

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Phoenix Johnson is a Tlingit and Haida anti-war organizer and the president of Seattle Veterans for Peace. We discuss the militarization of Indian Country and the necessity for decolonization and anti-imperialism.

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Coronavirus & Yellow Peril w/ Amanda Mar 02, 2020

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Amanda (@catcontentonly) talks about the anti-Chinese racism plaguing US media coverage of the Coronavirus epidemic, and its connection to US settler colonialism and imperialism.

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(Unlocked) Grandpa Frank & the world of paper w/ Nick Feb 28, 2020

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Nick Estes, the host of the Red Nation Podcast, talks about the legacy of his grandfather Frank Estes and the afterlives of allotment policy for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society hosted December 2019: https://olws.squarespace.com.

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Palestine is an Indigenous struggle w/ Elena & Orien Feb 24, 2020

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Turtle Island is rising up! #ReconciliationisDead, #WetsuwetenStrong blockades, Tohono O'odham resist the border wall, settler elections, & Palestine! Red Nation comrades Orien LongKnife (@beshnez) & Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) join the conversation.

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Why are fake Cherokees more famous than real Cherokees? w/ Rebecca Nagle Feb 17, 2020

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In this wide-ranging interview, award-winning Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) debunks myths surrounding Cherokee history, culture, and people — and why these tropes have devastating consequences for all Native people.

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#WetsuwetenStrong w/ Karla Tait Feb 15, 2020

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Dr. Karla Tait is a member of the Gilseyhu Clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and a trained psychologist who specializes in decolonizing healing. In this interview, she gives a historical and cultural context to the mass Indigenous uprising #WetsuwetenStrong that is rocking so-called Canada. She was arrested alongside other Indigenous matriarchs protecting Wet'suwet'en territory after police violently raided Unist'ot'en Camp this month.

Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood

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Venezuela & anti-imperialism w/ Onyesonwu Feb 10, 2020

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Onyesonwu joins us for a report-back from recent African and Indigenous delegations to Venezuela, and why the Bolivarian Revolution is leading at the forefront of the global anti-imperialist movement.

Onyesonwu is an organizer with the All African People's Revolutionary Party and the All African Women's Revolutionary Union as well as an editor with Hood Communist.

Read the Final Declaration of the World Conference Against Imperialism: http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/02/06/final-declaration-of-the-world-meeting-against-imperialism/

Read the Declaration of the First International Gathering of Indigenous Peoples: https://therednation.org/2020/01/11/declaration-of-the-first-international-gathering-of-indigenous-peoples-guayana-venezuela-oct-31-2019/

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Resisting the Coup in Bolivia w/ Ollie Vargas Feb 03, 2020

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Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas (@Ovargas52) talks about upcoming Bolivian elections and the organized Indigenous resistance against the fascist coup.

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(Unlocked) Memory songs w/ Lydia Whirlwind Soldier Jan 30, 2020

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Sicangu Lakota elder writer Lydia Whirlwind Soldiers talks about her first book of poetry Memory Songs, the Lakota language, and writing English.

This talk was part of a series of talks celebrating Oceti Sakowin writers of the Oak Lake Writers Society: https://olws.squarespace.com.

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