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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Freedom fighters across Turtle Island already know that today is the day of Leonard Peltier’s parole hearing.  Leonard is now 79 years old. This is likely his last opportunity to be considered for parole. A decision is expected by mid-July. Today, millions across Mother Earth are collectively asking the US Parole Commission to recognize that enough is enough and finally grant Leonard Peltier his freedom.   For more information on how what you can do https://freeleonard-peltier.com/act-now/ Send Leonard a solidarity letter https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier/solidarity-letters/ Check out the Free Leonard Peltier playlist  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Track Listing: [0:00] - TRN-KREZ Morning Show [1:45] -  NDN Collective’s Nick Tilsen on how to help Leonard (source)  [4:31] -  Rachel Thunder speaks at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022  (source) [12:18] - Leonard Peltier’s message of solidarity to Palestinians (1982) (Read by Justine Teba)  [14:29] - Nick Estes interviews Collen Rowley, the first FBI agent close to the Leonard Peltier case who is now calling for his freedom.   (source) [27:08] - Ernesto B. Vigil, author of The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, on the links between Leonard’s fight for free and the Chicano Rights movement. [33:47] - Rachel Thunder at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022 (source) [35:55] - Nick Estes at Leonard Peltier's Walk to Justice 2022 (source) [44:48] - Leoyla Cowboy at the National Day of Mourning 2022 (source) [46:55] -  Herbie Waters reads a message from Leonard Peltier, National Day of Mourning 2022 source) [51:50] Justine Teba at the National Day of Mourning 2022 (source)  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

Leonard Peltier Mixtape Vol. 3

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

"He wants to know people are fighting for him": Take action for Leonard Peltier w/ Nick Tilsen

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

YOTED: The great rap beef of 2024 and MMIW

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