Professor Yazzie is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. The Red Deal is Red Media’s first publication. In Albuquerque, Melanie Yazzie is a co-founder of The Red Nation, a grassroots Indigenous liberation group, chair of the board of directors for Red Media, an imprint of Common Notions. Today is Earth Day, as we bring you Part 2 of our conversation with two Indigenous scholars, who’ve published a new book today, along with two dozen others, titled The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. He is also a member of The Red Nation and an assistant professor of Indigenous politics at the University of Toronto.ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The Quarantine Report. We are also joined from Toronto by Uahikea Maile, a Kanaka Maoli scholar and activist from Maunawili, O’ahu.

Yazzie is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico. It is a pact with movements for liberation, life, and land for a new world of peace and justice that must come from below and to the left.” In Albuquerque, Melanie Yazzie is a co-founder of The Red Nation, a grassroots Indigenous liberation organization, and chair of the board of directors for Red Media, an imprint of Common Notions. It is a deal with the humble people of the earth an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for human and other-than-human life to live with dignity. On Earth Day, we host an extended conversation with two of the two dozen Indigenous scholars behind the new book, “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth,” described as “not simply a response to the Green New Deal nor a 'bargain' with the elite and powerful.

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