The Red Nation invites anyone interested in organizing for Native liberation to its second annual conference. Learn how to organize and fight settler colonialism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, police violence, the rising tide of fascism, and more! Saturday, September 30th 1:00pm – 2:30pm Native Liberation March, Rally & Tour Location: Meet
**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.
Photo courtesy of Vanessa Bowen by Jennifer Marley Jennifer is from San Ildefonso Pueblo. She is a lead organizer with The Red Nation, Vice President of University of New Mexico (UNM) KIVA Club, and a student at UNM On Friday, my predictions of increased violence from police and Entrada attendees
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 Majerle Lister Land is the source of political and economic power. Settler-colonialism is predicated on it. This is demonstrated by the power relationship between indigenous people and colonial entities. Yet, national self-identification is necessary for the Diné people to protect ourselves and our lands from continued colonialism. The interrelated
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 Selina Aleztia & Joshua Heckman On the morning of Wednesday, March 1, 2017, students, staff, and faculty at the University of New Mexico (UNM) walked onto a campus covered with flyers, chalk art, and banners. Flyers could be found on every wall, bench, and window with space to spare.