Border Town Violence
By Andrew Curley Winslow, AZ – It has been over a month since Loreal Tsingine, a 27-year old Navajo woman, was gunned down in the streets of Winslow (3/27/16). At the time an unidentified clerk accused Tsingine of shoplifting a pack of cigarettes and cheap alcohol from a tattered
Abolish Columbus Day
The following is an open letter to the University of New Mexico President Bob Frank and the Board of Regents. This letter, with letters of support and a faculty, student, and community petition supporting students’ eleven demands, will be delivered to the President’s Office at Scholes Hall, Friday, April
anti-blackness
Albuquerque, NM April 15, 2016 On April 14th, 2016 a class on Black Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was interrupted by University police. UW-Madison police targeted a Black male student in the class for arrest, accusing him of vandalizing buildings on campus. The graffiti in question calls out
Abolish the Racist Seal
by Nick Estes This talk was given March 3, 2016 as part of the Indigenous Book Festival’s opening roundtable, “Beyond Stereotype, Prejudice, & Racism,” at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. I want to make two simple claims: 1) The University of New Mexico profits from the genocide of
Border Town Violence
PRESS RELEASE April 5, 2016 For Immediate Release: Contact: Andrew Curley (928) 606-2674 Winslow, AZ- Family members of Loreal Juana Barnell Tsingine, Winslow’s Native and non-Native community, members of The Red Nation, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye, and members of Black Lives Matter, attended a candlelight vigil Saturday (4/
Arizona
For Immediate Release: March 30, 2016 Contact: Andrew Curley (928) 606-2674 The Red Nation to hold vigil and demand justice for slain Navajo mother Loreal Tsingine Stop racist violence against Natives! Stop violence against Native women! Justice for Loreal! What: This Saturday (4/2/16) the Red Nation will host
American Indian Movement
The following was former Miss Navajo and Grammy-nominated singer Radmilla Cody’s statement at the “International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier” event in Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 6, 2016 Peltier has been illegally incarcerated for 40 years and is currently experiencing life threating health issues. It’s time for Peltier
Leonard Peltier
by Leonard Peltier What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year. We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we speak their
Border Town Violence
Leonard Peltier has become an international symbol for Indigenous liberation. After serving forty years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit, it is time progressive people of the world demand President Obama grant Leonard clemency. With Leonard’s failing health and the winding down of Obama’s
Border Town Violence
by The Red Nation Council Download the report here: NO DEAD NATIVES: THE GALLUP REPORT. Church Rock, N.M.—On Tuesday, Jan. 12, The Red Nation presented its findings on border town violence in Gallup, N.M. and the rash of exposure deaths of Natives in the city to the
Abolish Columbus Day
The Red Nation is an anti-profit coalition of Native and non-Native activists, community members, educators, and workers dedicated to the liberation of Native Nations, lands, and peoples. We formed in November 2014 with the intention to continue the centuries-old Native liberation struggle in the southwest and beyond, through active coalition-building
Africa
NOTE: The Red Nation stands in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters, as well as the so-called ‘protesters’ of the #COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change. We recognize a radical systemic change is necessary to adequately address global warming and hold corporate polluters responsible. We support the actions