The Red Nation Podcast

RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's Exposure (2024)

Check out our earlier episode on Ramona's previous novel, Shutter (2022)

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Mark Tilsen, Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, returns to the show to discuss the Megellan Pipeline. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/WNF9_v2zpAo

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Since the illegal U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, Global North commentators have rushed to declare the Bolivarian Revolution betrayed or defeated. The recent extradition of Alex Saab has only intensified these accusations.

In this episode, Chavista intellectuals Cira Pascual and Chris Gilbert discuss Venezuela's new reality and the tendency of Global North observers to interpret the Bolivarian process through abstract ideological schemas rather than its concrete historical development.

Read: "A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today" by Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina: https://mronline.org/2026/05/28/a-great-leap-into-reality-venezuela-today/

Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad, El Panal Commune's educational initiative in the working-class barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas. She is also a founder and member of the Communal Democracy Network.

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, contributing editor at Monthly Review magazine, and the author of Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review, 2023), among other books and articles.

Gilbert and Pascual Marquina are the creators and hosts of Escuela de Cuadros, a Marxist educational television program and podcast. They are coauthors of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review, 2020) and the book series Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista (Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo, 2021–2026).

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Nick Estes conversation with Sina Rahmani, producer of The Red Nation Podcast and host of The East is a Podcast, discussing not only the historic failure of the ZioAmerican imperialist war machine to achieve their stated war aims of toppling Iran's government, but also Iran's equally historic upending of the American siege around the country through so-called "sanctions." Watch the livestream edition on our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/QDdeA8H7ReA

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RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025), a hybrid art piece/survival manual exploring indigenous futurism, decolonization, and relationality through redacted military text and Indigenous artwork.

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Producer's note: We are releasing the audio edition of one panel of the conference TRN Podcast host Nick Estes helped organize. You can watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel. We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of this panel so the recording start shortly after Nick began his introduction. Our apologies!

Symposium Introduction & Framing - Self-indigenization as a Global Problem: Towards Institutional Verification Procedures

Panel 3: Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council on Self-Indigenization in Vermont

Moderator: Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

Panelists:

• Daniel G. Nolett (Abenaki of Odanak), Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Overview of Abenaki History and Families"

• Jacques T. Watso (Abenaki of Odanak), Elected Councillor, Abenaki Abenaki Tribal Council, "Origins of Vermont 'Abenaki' State Recognition"

• Tim de la Bruere (Abenaki of Odanak), Vermont Resident, "A Vermont View of the Fake Abenaki Tribes"

• Suzie O'Bomsawin (Abenaki of Odanak), Assistant Executive Director, Odanak Abenaki Tribal Council, "Recent Abenaki Political and Legal Strategies"

• Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, "The Harms of Academic Pretendians: Analyzing Lisa Brooks' Work Legitimizing the Fake Abenaki"

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RPH is back!! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the Disney+ television adaptation of Marvel's comics character Echo.

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RPH is back! Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz tackle a collection of stories, Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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The Red Nation Podcast host Nick Estes is be joined by Edmonton-based Otipemisiwak Métis journalist Danielle Paradis for an episode on Native journalism, journalistic ethics and self-Indigenization, reporting on the separatist movement and Indigenous politics in Alberta.

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**Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode. The second half will be available to patrons of Red Media and on YouTube channel for free. Sign up today for as little as $2 a month for access to all the great bonus content! RPH is back! Indigenous scholar Jodi Byrd joins co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz for another episode on Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025)

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