Red Revolution Radio: The Four Invasions of Guatemala and Indigenous Resistance with Giovanni Batz — November 1, 2018

https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/the-four-invasions-of-guatemala-and-indigenous-resistance-with-giovanni-batz-november-1-2018/s-O7xdi In this episode, Giovanni Batz — an Indigenous researcher, the son of Guatemalan working class parents, and the paternal grandson of K’iche’ Maya — talks about the history and struggle for Indigenous autonomy in the Ixil Region of Gutemala. His research interests include extractivist industries

The Red Nation & Tornillo: The Occupation Coalition, A Weekend of Revolutionary Love – Part 2

Red Nation members in Tornillo by Hope Alvarado This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one here. Day 3: Border Patrol Museum and “In honor of Therese Patricia Okoumou” Mural The last day of demonstrations for The Red Nation during the Weekend of  Migrant Justice actions

Red Revolution Radio: Writing Revolution - August 11, 2018

https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/writing-for-the-revolution In this episode, we speak to two panelists, Majerle Lister and Rebecca Armstrong, from the “Writing the Revolution” workshop on August 11, 2018. We discuss their writing styles and who it plays into their concepts of liberation. Last year’s Native Liberation Conference focuses on

Red Revolution Radio: Our History Is The Future with Nick Estes and Majerle Lister - March 16, 2019

https://soundcloud.com/redrevolutionradio/our-history-is-the-future-with-nick-estes-and-majerle-lister-march-16-2019 In this episode, comrade Majerle Lister interviews Nick Estes about his new book, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso 2019). In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation

Newsletter 8: Neoliberalism and Its Alternatives

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

The Red Nation & Tornillo: The Occupation Coalition, A Weekend of Revolutionary Love - Part 1

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

Newsletter 7: The Battle of Unity and Dignity

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

Mapping a Pueblo Feminist Movement - Feb. 8, 2019, Albuquerque, NM

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

Red Revolution Radio: Celebrate Resistance Not Conquest: Chicanx and Indigenous Solidarity - August 11, 2018

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

Hands off Venezuela! The Red Nation denounces US coup attempts in Venezuela

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

Newsletter 6: “Get the F*ck Off Our Land!”

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

¡No Están Solos! You Are Not Alone! A Report on the Child Detention Facility in Tornillo, Texas

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