Decolonization or Extinction

Common Notions and Red Media are pleased to announce the publication of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Authored by two dozen Indigenous revolutionaries, The Red Deal is a political program for liberation that emerges from the oldest class struggle in the Americas—the Indigenous fight for decolonization. 

Offering a profound vision for a decolonized society, The Red Deal is not simply a response to the Green New Deal nor a “bargain” with the elite and powerful. 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. 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. 

Join five of its authors for this special launch event celebrating Earth Day 2021. RVSP here. You can view the event by subscribing to the Common Notions youtube channel.

Elena Ortiz, Ohkay Owingeh, graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in American Studies. She was a founding board member, ex officio, of the Alfonso Ortiz Center of Intercultural Studies at UNM. Currently, she is the Southwest Area Director for Road Scholar, which creates educational travel programs. She is on the board of the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and a judge for the Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate competition. She is also a writer and a poet.

Melanie Yazzie is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and a cofounder of The Red Nation. She is the President of the Board of Directors for Red Media. 

Justine Teba is from the Pueblos of Santa Clara, Tesuque, and Acoma. She has been a member of The Red Nation since 2018, and is Red Media’s Marketing Director.

Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, an Assistant Professor in the American Studies department at the University of New Mexico, and a historian and journalist. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Traditions of Indigenous Resistance, published by Verso in 2019.

Jennifer Marley is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She holds a B.A. with a double major in Native American Studies and American Studies from UNM. Influenced by her upbringing as a citizen of San Ildefonso Pueblo, Jennifer’s research explores the unique way heteropatriarchy has manifested in Pueblo communities and how this shapes and reshapes Pueblo identity and kinship, as well as relationships to the state. 

Moderated by Melanie Yazzie.

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Sponsored by Common Notions Press and Red Media