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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.

ISBN-13: 9781942173434

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Common Notions

Publication Date: 04-20-2021

Pages: 144

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.60(d)

Series: Red Media

The Red Nation is a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students, and community organizers advocating Native liberation that 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. www.therednation.org 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.

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“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

Table of Contents

Introduction

Resistance 5
“New Deals” 8
Decolonization 12
Anti-Imperialism 13
The Red Deal 18
A Caretaking Economy 23
Demilitarization 25
Land Back 27
It’s Not Just an “Indian Problem” 30
The Four Principles 31
1. What Creates Crisis Cannot Solve It 32
2. Change from Below and to the Left 34
3. Politicians Can’t Do What Only Mass Movements Do 36
4. From Theory to Action 38

PART I

DIVEST: END THE OCCUPATION 43

Introduction 44
Area 1: Defund Police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Customs and Border Protection, and Child Protective Services 46
Area 2: End Bordertown Violence 51
Area 3: Abolish Incarceration (Prisons, Juvenile
Detention Facilities, Jails, Border Security) 58
Area 4: End Occupation Everywhere 61
Area 5: Abolish Imperial Borders 66

PART II

HEAL OUR BODIES: REINVEST IN OUR COMMON HUMANITY 73

Introduction 74
Area 1: Citizenship and Equal Rights 77
Area 2: Free and Sustainable Housing 80
Area 3: Free and Accessible Education 83
Area 4: Free and Adequate Healthcare 85
Area 5: Free, Reliable, and Accessible Public
Transportation and Infrastructure 88
Area 6: Noncarceral Mental Health Support and No More Suicides! 91
Area 7: Healthy, Sustainable, and Abundant Food 93
Area 8: Clean Water, Land, and Air 95
Area 9: End Gender, Sexual, and Domestic Violence 98
Area 10: End Missing and Murdered Indigenous
Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit Peoples 102

PART III

HEAL OUR PLANET: REINVEST IN OUR COMMON FUTURE 107

Introduction 108
Area 1: Clean Sustainable Energy 112
Area 2: Traditional and Sustainable Agriculture 116
Land Return 121
Remediation 122
Area 3: Land, Water, Air, and Animal Restoration 124
Recommendations 126
Area 4: Protection and Restoration of Sacred Sites 128
Recommendations 130
Area 5: Enforcement of Treaty Rights and Other Agreements 131
Recommendations 134
Conclusion 135

CONCLUSION

OUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL, OUR KNOWLEDGE IS INEVITABLE 139

Infrastructures of Relation 139
The Power of Words 143

APPENDIX 148
Who We Are 148
Areas of Struggle 148
Principles of Unity 149
NOTES 152
ABOUT RED MEDIA 160