RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's novel Shutter (2022).  Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel.   NOTE FROM HOSTS: They highly recommend reading the book first and then listening to the episode. They try their best to avoid spoilers but "can't not have spoilers" when discussing the book.   Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr   

Red Power Hour Book Club: Ramona Emerson's Shutter (2022)

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TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) interviews writer and activist Tina Ngata (@tinangata) on the Kanak people's liberation struggle and the recent uprising against French colonial rule. Watch the episode on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel  Learn more about the Kanaky uprising  https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/05/21/maori-activist-on-new-caledonia-human-rights-should-not-be-subject-to-referendums/  https://theconversation.com/deja-vu-in-new-caledonia-why-decades-of-political-failure-will-make-this-uprising-hard-to-contain-230397   https://info.scoop.co.nz/Kanaky_Aotearoa_Solidarity   https://www.instagram.com/ka_solidarity?igsh=MzRwaHU3ZmR2eGhy   https://www.instagram.com/kiamauaotearoa?igsh=NHd5d2lnbDV5bTB3    https://m.facebook.com/groups/758131656432342/?ref=share&mibextid;=NSMWBT   The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Classic case of colonialism: The Kanaky liberation struggle w/ Tina Ngata

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) welcomes Nick Tilsen (@nicktilsen) from NDN Collective back to the show to discuss Leonard Peltier's upcoming parole hearing and the international coalition fighting to get him released after almost five decades of incarceration for crimes he didn't commit. For more information on how to help Leonard's appeal https://freeleonard-peltier.com/act-now/ Send Leonard a solidarity letter https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier/solidarity-letters/ Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel and check out the Free Leonard Peltier  playlist The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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Marking the 76th year since the Nakba (Catastrophe), Nick Estes speaks to Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) about the history of the term, how Zionist settler colonial violence preceded and continued after the ethnic cleansing war of 1948, and how the Gaza genocide signals how close the liberation of Palestine really is. Check out Frances' website for her lecture from April 2024, “Academic Feminisms and Anti-Imperialist Resistance: Conundrums and Contradictions.” Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Are you Indigenous? Do you support Palestine? Learn more about joining the Indigenous solidarity with Palestine movement and sign the letter here: https://indigenousforpalestine.org/ The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Palestine will be free, now more than ever w/ Frances Hasso

Jen and Justine reflect on how the “rap beef” flooding our screens is serving as a distraction from the escalating genocide of Palestinians, the global sex trade, domestic violence, and Drake's potential involvement in MMIW. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel   The Red Nation Podcast is produced by Red Media and is sustained by comrades and supporters like you. Power our work here: www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

YOTED: The great rap beef of 2024 and MMIW

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Red Power Hour Book Club: Ramona Emerson's Shutter (2022)

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