The Nile on eBay Red Deal by The Red Nation
A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet.The Red Deal is both a manifesto for Indigenous liberation and a plan for the future of our planet. Part movement document and part activist handbook, its ultimate goal is not to heal the existing structures, but to present a way forward following the abolition of them.
FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. We--Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people--did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. Politicians may or may not follow--it is up to them--but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them. The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. It's a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land--an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. The Red Deal is not a response to the Green New Deal, or a "bargain" with the elite and powerful. It's a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and a declaration that movements for justice must come from below and to the left.
Author Biography
The Red Nation formed in 2014 in response to the rampant bordertown violence and newly revived anti-police brutality movement in New Mexico. Since then the Red Nation has had several successful campaigns which garnered national and international support and media coverage, including the campaign to abolish UNM's racist seal, the No Dead Natives campaign, the movement to Abolish the Entrada, and Justice for Loreal Tsingine. The Red Nation is dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism. They center Native political agendas and struggles through direct action, advocacy, mobilization, and education. Formed to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land. The Red Deal was written collectively by members of the Red Nation and the allied movements and community members who comprised the Red Deal coalition. Everyone from youth to elders; from knowledge keepers to farmers contributed to the creation of The Red Deal.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD: Written by an Indigenous activist or scholar who is not in The Red Nation will contextualize it for readers who may not be familiar with The Red Nation''s work. It will situate the Red Deal within the current moment of Indigenous resistance to resource extraction, violence against Native people, as well as the pandemic and its disproportionate impact on tribal communities. INTRODUCTION: The Red Deal, while sharing roots in Indigenous struggle at Standing Rock and against the Keystone XL pipeline, is not a counterprogram to the Green New Deal. It calls for action beyond the scope of the U.S. colonial state and invites allied organizations, movements, and relatives to implement a plan for our planet to live. It is a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land--and an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable enough for human and non-human relatives to live dignified lives. This expanded introduction will include a discussion on how it was written as a collective document and how we hope readers can use it to guide action in their local communities. Part One: End the Occupation A huge proportion of the U.S. colonial state''s resources, time, and labor are currently invested in maintaining its occupation--of stolen Indigenous land, of overseas military bases, and of extractive industries around the world. Police, prisons, migrant detention, and the military make up the largest portion of government spending and the US alone spends more on its military force than all other top-spending countries combined. The presence of US military forces, police, border patrol, BIA agents, and prisons all maintain domination of colonized peoples domestically and abroad, negatively impacting life and dignity as well as preventing radical social change. This first part calls for a strategy popularized by the movement against fossil fuels and pipelines, the anti-apartheid struggle, Palestinian liberation, and the Movement for Black Lives: divestment. It calls for massive redistribution of resources and labor away from occupation and instead investing them in the programs described in the following sections. Part Two: Heal Our Bodies Neoliberal capitalism has wreaked havoc on everyday people around the world while enriching the ruling classes of the wealthy nations. It has left millions starving, unhoused, and without adequate healthcare, education, or employment. The extractive industries that rely on natural resource and labor exploitation have left communities with polluted water and air and the colonial nature of those industries have brought violence, sexual assault, and abuse to Indigenous peoples. This chapter lays out demands for food, housing, healthcare, education, clean water and air, and an end to violence against Indigenous people, primarily women, girls, and LGBTQ2+ relatives. Part Three: Heal Our Planet The same extractive industries and labor practices that have impacted people''s health and lives have similarly destroyed the planet''s ecosystems. But, going beyond a singular climate or environmental lens, Heal Our Planet recognizes the need for decolonization and Indigenous liberation in order to restore the natural world. Colonialism and capitalism have brought the world to the brink of ecological collapse and it has forced upon the world a decision: decolonization or extinction. This chapter lays out programs for the return of land, massive Indigenous-led restoration projects, investment in sustainable energy, changes to the agricultural system, protection of sacred sites, and the enforcement of treaty rights. Conclusion/Reflections On the Path Forward In its original format, The Red Deal has been read by activists, discussed in community workshops, endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, and written about in articles and books about climate justice and Indigenous struggle. The conclusion section will discuss how The Red Deal has and can be taken up by movements and organizations as well as some of The Red Nation''s lessons on how to implement it. This section will also include a toolkit developed by Red Nation members as they work to envision what enacting the Red Deal looks like, distilling those ideas into a guide for communities to take the Red Deal and incorporate it into their local campaigns and struggles.
Review
"The Red Deal asserts that the fight for climate justice must center Native people when it comes to the issues that disproportionately impact Native communities, but it also communicates what the Green New Deal does not — namely, that public lands are stolen lands and climate change is significantly caused by just a few industries, which the government has at worst neglected to hold accountable and at best assisted in their efforts to mine the earth for resources in a move that put profits over people."—Teen Vogue "The Red Nation has given us The Red Deal, an Indigenous Peoples' world view and practice that leads to profound changes in existing human relations. Five hundred years of European colonialism, which produced capitalist economic and social relations, has nearly destroyed life itself. Technology can be marshaled to reverse this death march, but it will require a vision for the future and a path to follow to arrive there, and that is what The Red Deal provides."—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"The Red Deal is an incendiary and necessary compilation. With momentum for a Green New Deal mounting, the humble and powerful organizers of The Red Nation remind us that a Green New Deal must also be Red—socialist, committed to class struggle, internationalist in orientation, and opposed to the settler colonial theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Redistribution also requires reparations and land back. The Red Deal is a profound call to action for us all."—Harsha Walia, author of Undoing Border Imperialism and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism"We really need The Red Deal because it forces open a critical conversation on how Land Back can be a platform for mass mobilization and collective struggle. The Red Deal poignantly argues that if we do not foreground decolonization and Indigenous liberation in climate justice strategies such as the Green New Deal, we will reproduce the violence of the original New Deal that dammed life-giving rivers and further dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their lands. Strategically, The Red Deal shows how, if we understand green infrastructure and economic restructuring as anticolonial struggle, as well as an anticapitalist, we can move from reforms that deny Indigenous jurisdiction towards just coalitions for repossession that radically rethink environmental policy and land protection without sacrificing Indigenous life and relations."—Shiri Pasternak, author of Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State"The world system, born in settler colonialism and racial capitalism, is mired in a crisis at once ecological, epidemiological, political, and economic. What is to be done? As this urgent book states, the choice is decolonization or extinction. The Red Deal presents a rousing vision of a shared future of socio-ecological care, rooted in revolutionary Indigenous praxis. A must read."—Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "The Red Deal offers a revolutionary program for global environmental justice informed by the liberation struggles and epistemologies of Indigenous, Black, migrant and working people everywhere. The vision of this manifesto calls for nothing less than a radical transformation of our relationships with each other and the land itself. It is truly inspiring work that we have come to expect from our comrades in The Red Nation."—Glen Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition"The GND has the potential to connect every social justice struggle — free housing, free health care, free education, green jobs — to climate change. Likewise, The Red Deal places anti-capitalism and decolonization as central to each social justice struggle as well as climate change. The necessity of such a program is grounded in both the history and future of this land, and it entails the radical transformation of all social relations between humans and the earth."—Jacobin "The Red Nation also names Black abolitionists as an inspiration for the Red Deal, citing the links between mass incarceration and detentionand climate change. They further note that police departments, prisons, and the U.S. military receive billions of taxpayer dollars annually while doing irreparable harm to Native Americans, Black people, and the Earth."—Essence "The Democratic Socialists of America is proud to endorse The Red Deal, an indigenous centered set of policy recommendations that was written by The Red Nation.We are also proud to endorse the work of The Red Nation and commit to a long-term partnership with them in the furtherance of decolonizing our society. The Red Nation is a group of radical indigenous people that are fighting back against the US imperialist settler colonialist state. They are not just fighting for land and sovereignty, but for survival….We also look forward to a fruitful and mutually beneficial partnership with The Red Nation in all areas of activism moving forward."—Democratic Socialists of America"For the Red Nation, living and being interdependent with Mother Nature is explicitly anti-capitalist. An ethos merely hinted at in the Green New Deal, the Red Deal understands that capitalism fundamentally protects wealth, not life."—The Politic "[The Red Nation] make clear that they believe the campaign to halt climate change and repair ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world's Indigenous peoples...Those willing to listen today will gain a lot of insight and inspiration from the radical Indigenous activists showing leadership in this fight to save the Earth."—Climate and Capitalism
Promotional
Trade coverage in main industry publicationsReview coverage in relevant outlets Online and Zoom events around the worldPodcast appearances Emails to Common Notions email list, relevant newsletters and listservsGalleys available National TV, radio, and podcast campaignNational print and online campaignOnline/social media campaign including giveaways Excerpts Promotion through the author's (and collective members) social mediaBookseller/Library mailing and promotions, including conference giveaways Reading group guide Promotion through activist newsletters and social media Academic marketing campaign Bookseller/Library mailing and promotions, including giveaways
Long Description
* An expansion of the critically embraced pamphlet released in 2019 * Responding to the crises of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction with a plan to repair the harm wrought by all three. * Not a response or necessarily a repudiation of the Green New Deal, it offers a bold plan that takes us beyond electoral politics. * The Red Nation is plugged into a wide variety of movements and media makers * Contributors are widely known and go-to sources for people seeking to report on Native issues and contributes to Democracy Now!, the Intercept, and the Guardian, among others. * The Red Deal has already been mentioned in Teen Vogue--the new youth vanguard of 21st century revolutionary movement. * The Red Plan is written with two audiences in mind. It seeks to be used to organize within Native communities to develop their political positions and resistance and it challenges non-Native people to organize in collaboration with Native struggles. * Organizations like the DSA (with 70,000 members) have endorsed the Red Deal and will use our book in their organizing and outreach. * Environmental policy is going to be a key area of political struggle in the new presidential term, we will make sure that all those supporting the Green also consider the Red. * Not just an environmental book, the Red Deal takes an intersectional approach to liberation. * We and the Red Nation will be supporting extensive author tours either in person or remotely depending on the safety of travel.
Review Quote
"The Red Deal asserts that the fight for climate justice must center Native people when it comes to the issues that disproportionately impact Native communities, but it also communicates what the Green New Deal does not -- namely, that public lands are stolen lands and climate change is significantly caused by just a few industries, which the government has at worst neglected to hold accountable and at best ver people." --Teen Vogue "We really need The Red Deal because it forces open a critical conversation on how Land Back can be a platform for mass mobilization and collective struggle. The Red Deal poignantly argues that if we do not foreground decolonization and Indigenous liberation in climate justice strategies such as the Green New Deal, we will reproduce the violence of the original New Deal that dammed life-giving rivers and further dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their lands. Strategically, The Red Deal shows how, if we understand green infrastructure and economic restructuring as anticolonial struggle, as well as an anticapitalist, we can move from reforms that deny Indigenous jurisdiction towards just coalitions for repossession that radically rethink environmental policy and land protection without sacrificing Indigenous life and relations." --Shiri Pasternak, author of Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State "The world system, born in settler colonialism and racial capitalism, is mired in a crisis at once ecological, epidemiological, political, and economic. What is to be done? As this urgent book states, the choice is decolonization or extinction. The Red Deal presents a rousing vision of a shared future of socio-ecological care, rooted in revolutionary Indigenous praxis. A must read." --Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal "The Red Deal offers a revolutionary program for global environmental justice informed by the liberation struggles and epistemologies of Indigenous, Black, migrant and working people everywhere. The vision of this manifesto calls for nothing less than a radical transformation of our relationships with each other and the land itself. It is truly inspiring work that we have come to expect from our comrades in The Red Nation." --Glen Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition "The GND has the potential to connect every social justice struggle -- free housing, free health care, free education, green jobs -- to climate change. Likewise, The Red Deal places anti-capitalism and decolonization as central to each social justice struggle as well as climate change. The necessity of such a program is grounded in both the history and future of this land, and it entails the radical transformation of all social relations between humans and the earth." --Jacobin "The Red Nation also names Black abolitionists as an inspiration for the Red Deal, citing the links between mass incarceration and detentionand climate change. They further note that police departments, prisons, and the U.S. military receive billions of taxpayer dollars annually while doing irreparable harm to Native Americans, Black people, and the Earth." --Essence "The Democratic Socialists of America is proud to endorse The Red Deal, an indigenous centered set of policy recommendations that was written by The Red Nation.We are also proud to endorse the work of The Red Nation and commit to a long-term partnership with them in the furtherance of decolonizing our society. The Red Nation is a group of radical indigenous people that are fighting back against the US imperialist settler colonialist state. They are not just fighting for land and sovereignty, but for survival....We also look forward to a fruitful and mutually beneficial partnership with The Red Nation in all areas of activism moving forward." --Demcoratic Socialists of America "For the Red Nation, living and being interdependent with Mother Nature is explicitly anti-capitalist. An ethos merely hinted at in the Green New Deal, the Red Deal understands that capitalism fundamentally protects wealth, not life." --The Politic
Description for Sales People
* An expansion of the critically embraced pamphlet released in 2019 * Responding to the crises of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction with a plan to repair the harm wrought by all three. * Not a response or necessarily a repudiation of the Green New Deal, it offers a bold plan that takes us beyond electoral politics. * The Red Nation is plugged into a wide variety of movements and media makers * Contributors are widely known and go-to sources for people seeking to report on Native issues and contributes to Democracy Now!, the Intercept, and the Guardian, among others. * The Red Deal has already been mentioned in Teen Vogue--the new youth vanguard of 21st century revolutionary movement. * The Red Plan is written with two audiences in mind. It seeks to be used to organize within Native communities to develop their political positions and resistance and it challenges non-Native people to organize in collaboration with Native struggles. * Organizations like the DSA (with 70,000 members) have endorsed the Red Deal and will use our book in their organizing and outreach. * Environmental policy is going to be a key area of political struggle in the new presidential term, we will make sure that all those supporting the Green also consider the Red. * Not just an environmental book, the Red Deal takes an intersectional approach to liberation. * We and the Red Nation will be supporting extensive author tours either in person or remotely depending on the safety of travel.
Details ISBN1942173431 Author The Red Nation Short Title The Red Deal Publisher Common Notions Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1942173431 ISBN-13 9781942173434 Format Paperback Subtitle Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth Audience General/Trade Pages 144 Publication Date 2021-04-29 UK Release Date 2021-04-29 Imprint Common Notions Illustrations B&W illustrations throughout; Illustrations, unspecified Place of Publication Matawan Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-06-03 NZ Release Date 2021-06-03 DEWEY 363.73874 We've got this
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