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
December 26, 2018 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. (Subscribe to our newsletters here.) ’Tis the season of giving. We need Red Santas to support our work! If you enjoy our newsletters, articles, teach-ins, reading groups, conferences, events, or just like the work we do, consider donating! Sign up
by Justine Teba Edited by N. Lira-Pérez On Wednesday, December 5, members of The Red Nation, Pueblo Action Alliance, Dine and Pueblo community leaders, and the Coalition to Protect Greater Chaco, gathered at the New Mexico state office for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Santa Fe. Rallying behind
December 4, 2018 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. This has been a busy year—and it’s not over. There have been many victories, and there are many struggles yet to come. But we are not afraid. Young people are on the move. On November 22 in Albuquerque,
by The Red Nation As we continue actively organizing for a world free of settler colonial violence, it’s important we acknowledge the precedent-setting victories belonging to all people who come together to successfully protect our relatives and life-affirming resources, and celebrate the collective fight yet to come The Red
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Fe, New Mexico —The Red Nation (TRN) to protest the auction of over 84,000 acres in New Mexico for industrialized fracking. WHO : TRN-Albuquerque & TRN-Santa Fe WHAT : Protest & rally to shut down the December 2018 oil and gas lease in New Mexico WHEN : Wednesday,
by Nicolás Cruz More than forty people gathered in Santa Fe on Friday, November 16 for a press conference held by The Red Nation Santa Fe and Albuquerque chapters alongside members of the Frack Off Greater Chaco Coalition. Protestors gathered outside the Hotel Santa Fe Hacienda and Spa, where the
November 19, 2018 Dear friends, Greetings from The Red Nation. (See upcoming events at the end of this email.) This Thursday is Thanksgiving, a settler holiday and a national origin story washed in horrific violence. Despite the common trope that the United States is “a nation of immigrants,” the history
by Sarah Knopp It is important to understand the political context of the caravans arriving in Tijuana; they should be seen as a collective political response. Although it vacillates from one year to the next, the homicide rate in Honduras in 2015 was about 100 people killed per 100,000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Fe, New Mexico—The Red Nation (TRN) to hold press conference and rally to protest closed-door conference where oil and gas execs will decide future of New Mexico’s water. WHO: TRN-Albuquerque & TRN-Santa Fe WHAT: Press Conference & Rally at NM Produced Water Conference to
This holiday season, don’t struggle alone. The Red Nation invites you to a No Thanks, No Giving community potluck and teach-in on the real history of Thanksgiving next Thursday, November 22, starting at 5 PM at the Sundowner Community Center, 6101 Central Ave., Albuquerque, NM. Presentations will also focus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Fe, NM, November 9, 2018 — The Red Nation (TRN) is pleased to announce its third local freedom council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which officially launched earlier this month. The Red Nation-Santa Fe (TRN-SF) joins Albuquerque and Gallup in spreading the struggle for Indigenous liberation throughout