Dear IAIA, We are writing to express our concern about events at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) that Jonah Winn-Lenetsky, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, has co-sponsored with the organization Creativity for Peace (CfP). On the surface, CfP may seem like a benign organization with a noble purpose:
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/commemorating-the-nakba May 15 is Nakba day, the day Zionist forces forcefully removed nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their lands in 1948. And the Nakba isn’t finished. In a decade, UN climate experts predict catastrophic global ecological collapse if drastic measures aren’t taken today to
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https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/from-standing-rock-to-bayou-bridge-poetry-from-the-frontlines-with-mark-k-tilsen/s-MSWwh In this episode, we listen to poetry and reflections on North American Indigenous pipeline struggles, from Standing Rock to Bayou Bridge, by Lakota Water Protector Mark K. Tilsen. Mark reads from his new book of poetry, “It Ain’t Over Until We’re Smoking
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/us-imperialism-and-guatemala-with-giovanni-batz/s-kDGji In this episode, Nick Estes sits down with Giovanni Batz. We talk about U.S. imperialism in Central America, the Monroe Doctrine, Indigenous resistance in Guatemala, and Guatemalan elections. Check out Batz’s talk “The Four Invasions and Indigenous Resistance” on Red Revolution Radio.
May 5th is a day of remembrance for Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. This includes LGBTQ, non-binary, and Two Spirit relatives. Murder is the third leading cause of death for Indigenous women. While MMIW has become a trend or worse labeled an epidemic, there is nothing new about the
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/indigenous-peoples-and-international-solidarity/s-nuAcN In this episode, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nick Estes talk about Indigenous peoples and international solidarity. It was recorded live at Bandung Books in Oakland, California on March 29, 2019. This event was made possible by our comrades at the Center for Political Education, Isaac
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/9-11-18-khury-peterson-smith-black-and-red-power-4219-1153-am This episode is a recording from September 11, 2018. Khury Petersen-Smith, a comrade and friend of The Red Nation, spoke to my Red Power Revolution class not only about the solid links between the Black Power and Red Power movement but also about the tethered
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/the-four-invasions-of-guatemala-and-indigenous-resistance-with-giovanni-batz-november-1-2018/s-O7xdi In this episode, Giovanni Batz — an Indigenous researcher, the son of Guatemalan working class parents, and the paternal grandson of K’iche’ Maya — talks about the history and struggle for Indigenous autonomy in the Ixil Region of Gutemala. His research interests include extractivist industries
Red Nation members in Tornillo by Hope Alvarado This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one here. Day 3: Border Patrol Museum and “In honor of Therese Patricia Okoumou” Mural The last day of demonstrations for The Red Nation during the Weekend of Migrant Justice actions
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/writing-for-the-revolution In this episode, we speak to two panelists, Majerle Lister and Rebecca Armstrong, from the “Writing the Revolution” workshop on August 11, 2018. We discuss their writing styles and who it plays into their concepts of liberation. Last year’s Native Liberation Conference focuses on
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/our-history-is-the-future-with-nick-estes-and-majerle-lister-march-16-2019 In this episode, comrade Majerle Lister interviews Nick Estes about his new book, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso 2019). In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation