March 5, 2019 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. Neoliberalism is losing its legitimacy across the globe. Part of its demise can be traced to the very thing that gives it life: oil. Climate change—the warming of temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels—is intensifying the
by Hope Alvarado This is the first part of a two-part series. Read part two here. From February 14-17, the Red Nation sent a second delegation to Tornillo, Texas to participate in a series of demonstrations called A Weekend of Resistance for Migrant Justice organized by the Tornillo: The Occupation
February 11, 2019 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. In the Americas, sabres are rattling. Dark clouds are on the horizon. A U.S.-backed coup is slowly unfolding in Venezuela. Our friends at the Tricontental Institute for Social Research have compiled this recommended reading list on the Venezuelan
When: Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 at 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Where: University of New Mexico, Student Union Building, Fiesta A & B RSVP here. Please join us in the first major public discussion of pueblo feminism during the 20th American Indian Studies Association Conference at the University of
https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/celebrate-resistance-not-conquest-chicanx-and-indigenous-solidarity We spoke to some of the panelists of the “Celebrate Resistance Not Conquest: Chicanx and Indigenous Solidarity”. We asked them what liberation meant to them and what is the importance of international solidarity. Last year’s Native Liberation Conference focuses on global solidarity and decolonization
There is no positive role for the United States to play in the Global South. The expansion of the racist doctrine of Manifest Destiny through the policies of the Monroe Doctrine asserted the supremacy of the United States in the Western Hemisphere and greatly expanded the project and aims of
January 22, 2019 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. We live in troubling times. But there are cracks widening in the edifices of power, and the light of a new world is shining through. I am writing this on the heels of the historic third annual Women’s March
by Hope Alvarado, N. Lira-Pérez, and Nicolás Cruz On December 26, 2018, as part of a Red Nation delegation, we traveled to Tornillo, Texas where nearly 3,000 migrant children are being detained. After driving past cotton fields and rows of pecan trees, we finally arrived at an unused toll
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January 7, 2019 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. At the end of the newsletter, we will be featuring links to what we are reading in our study groups. Also, check out the Better Off Red podcast interview by Ragina Johnson and Brian Ward with Melanie Yazzie and Nick
A Special Report by The Red Nation on the final acts of the 23rdNavajo Nation Council In the last week of the year, Navajo Nation Council (NNC) Speaker LoRenzo Bates scheduled a number of “special sessions” to consider the final resolutions of a departing council. The NNC scheduled and re-scheduled