CALL TO ACTION NO DEAD NATIVES: Clothing Drive When: November 19th, 2017 to December 9th, 2017 Where: Various Locations in Gallup, Albuquerque and Santa Fe; Albuquerque: The Red Nation Office Space – Message The Red Nation before Drop-off Indigenous Rights Center- 202 Harvard Dr SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106Planned Parenthood Admin Bldg-
by The Red Nation On March 1, 1973, nineteen-year-old Larry Casuse with his comrade Robert Nakaidinae, kidnapped Gallup Mayor Emmett Garcia, who was also the owner of the most notorious bar in Gallup called “Navajo Inn”. The frustrated Diné youth understood then what many feel today. In 1973, Gallup had
**UPDATE (9/27/17): THE LOCATION AND TIME FOR SATURDAY’S ACTIVITIES HAVE CHANGED. THE TIME FOR SUNDAY’S ACTIVITIES HAS CHANGED, AS WELL. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR CHANGES.** Gallup, NM, September 20, 2017 — The Red Nation invites anyone interested in organizing for Native liberation to its second annual conference.
Entrada
by Christian White Christian is Kewa Pueblo/Diné, a member of The Red Nation, and a student at the University of New Mexico I want to reflect on everything I experienced at Friday’s Entrada protest, but, like many, I find it difficult to put words to the way I
Demetrius Johnson
URGENT: People need legal support. Please consider donating to help those arrested here. UPDATE: Jennifer Marley has been released. By The Red Nation On Friday, September 8, approximately two hundred people rallied in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico to demand that the City of Santa Fe abolish the racist reenactment
Abolish Columbus Day
By The Red Nation We condemn the bigoted terror that white supremacists used against anti-racist and anti-fascist forces this past weekend in #Charlottesville. A diverse coalition of progressives, LGBTQ rights advocates, anti-racists, feminists, socialists, communists, clergy, and anarchists took to the streets in unity Saturday to deny white supremacy a
Indian Art Market
by Elena Ortiz and Jennifer Marley Every fall the city of Santa Fe celebrates a revisionist historical account of the so-called “bloodless reconquest” of Santa Fe. Most New Mexicans have no idea of the origins of this celebration or its evolution. There are claims that the Entrada is the oldest
by Melissa Tso For more than 50 years, the settler-colonial state of Israel has been marketing weaponry and surveillance, testing on Palestinians every day in the occupied territories. Israeli companies unabashedly share that they have actual experience and have tested their weapons on human beings. Because of their advancements in
by Nick Estes On June 25, 1876, an alliance of Lakotas, Cheyennes, and Arapahos blew out the candles on the United States’ birthday cake. A week before celebrating one hundred years of “liberty,” at the Battle of Greasy Grass the historic Indigenous alliance wiped from the earth lieutenant colonel George
Anti-Apartheid
Dear Professor S. James Anaya, I want to commend you for your invaluable work on Indigenous rights. As your scholarship and service as a UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples suggest, your commitment to human rights is unequivocal. With this in mind, I want to address your
by Melissa Tso On February 10, 2017, the Museum of the Moving Image abandoned “He Will Not Divide Us”. Eight days later, the four-year livestream project of Shia LeBouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner was moved outside of the El Rey theater in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before the
by Nick Estes Last June the Westmoreland County Historical Society reenacted the 1785 hanging of Mamachtaga, a Lenape man. In a viral video (now removed), jeering white onlookers shouted at the “Native” actor playing the condemned: “It’s so hot today, we could just bake him!” “I got some salt