Reviews

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation

stefan_'s review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

maestro_cerrotorcido's review

informative reflective fast-paced

2.75

I am conflicted about this book. It is extremely accessible to anyone who does not know a lot about anti-capitalism and indigenous rights and will teach them a lot. Where I have a problem is any book that discusses the environment without emphasizing the destruction of animal agriculture to me is ecocide. This book definitely talks about our agriculture system as destruction of the environment but mostly places the fault on capitalism. The fact is we will not solve climate change without reducing animal consumption to negligible quantities even with a shift away from capitalism. Getting rid of capitalism does not solve the majority of the issues with animal agriculture like how much space animals need, how much waste they produce, the forests that can't be grown because of the need for pastures, methane production, the amount of CO2 released from bottom trawling which is the only option to catch sentient beings living in that part of the ocean regardless of a capitalist system or not, etc. For example, when talking about the deforestation of the rainforest, the only reason this book gives for it is mining and oil when animal agriculture is the biggest contributor. 

318trapper's review

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

sabotaje's review

4.0

I found the book very inspiring, well written, and direct. I must say however that their references to the Venezuelan government and other populist leaders in South America made me raise my eyebrows a few times. While the Venezuelan government uses indigenous communities to decorate their speeches, their concerns for their well being, autonomy, leaves a lot to be desired. For reference:

° Pronunciamiento sobre la retención de efectivos ejército por parte de indígenas - Organización Indígena Kuyujani
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/02/kuyujani-pronunciamiento-sobre-la.html

° Pueblo indígena Yanomami marcha en Puerto Ayacucho por el derecho a la vida y la salud - Organización Yanomami Horonami
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/02/pueblo-indigena-yanomami-marcha-en.html

° Con la muerte de estudiante wayúu sigue la guerra en la Guajira - José M. Sánchez
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/02/con-la-muerte-de-estudiante-wayuu-sigue.html

° Organización Kuyujani acudió al Ministerio Público a denunciar atropellos de la FANB contra indígenas Ye´kwana y Sanema - PROVEA
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/03/organizacion-kuyujani-acudio-al.html

° Edo. Bolívar: La etnia pemón y los pasivos ambientales en su territorio - Morelia Murillo
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/04/edo-bolivar-la-etnia-pemon-y-los.html

° COIAM: Comunicado sobre la muerte de un joven yanomami en Puerto Ayacucho a manos de funcionarios policiales
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/05/coiam-comunicado-sobre-la-muerte-de-un.html

° Obra de títeres sobre Sabino Romero censurada por el chavomadurismo - Movimientos Defensores de la Causa Yukpa
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/05/obra-de-titeres-sobre-sabino-romero.html

° Guayana: Piaroas denuncian atropellos de CVG Bauxilum y sus bandas armadas - Clavel Rangel
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/06/guayana-piaroas-denuncian-atropellos-de.html

° Infografía: Situación de los pueblos indígenas de Venezuela - Laboratorio de Paz
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/06/infografia-situacion-de-los-pueblos.html

° ¿En qué consiste la deuda en la demarcación del territorio indígena en Venezuela? - Provea
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/07/en-que-consiste-la-deuda-en-la.html

° En la Guajira, la frontera cerrada es lo cotidiano para el pueblo wayúu - Aana Wainjirawa
http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/08/en-la-guajira-la-frontera-cerrada-es-lo.html

° Estado de excepción en La Guajira profundizará violaciones a derechos humanos de pueblos indígenas - Prensa Provea
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/09/estado-de-excepcion-en-la-guajira.html

° Ye´kuanas se movilizan contra la minería ilegal en el alto Ventuari - Juan Noguera
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/10/yekuanas-se-movilizan-contra-la-mineria.html

° 18 ONGs venezolanas se pronuncian sobre derechos indígenas
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/10/18-ongs-venezolanas-se-pronuncian-sobre.html

° Hilarión Romero: consejos comunales, demarcación y malanga en la Sierra de Perijá - Minerva Vitto
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/10/hilarion-romero-consejos-comunales.html

° Wainjirawa: el Decreto de Excepción es contra los pueblos y en favor de los intereses transnacionales
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/10/wainjirawa-el-decreto-de-excepcion-es.html

° Wayúu en la frontera: “Todos los día tenemos que pelear con el Ejército” - Sailyn Fernández
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/11/wayuu-en-la-frontera-todos-los-dia.html

° Los Wayúu, el chivo expiatorio de la propaganda anticontrabando - Aana Wainjirawa
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/11/los-wayuu-el-chivo-expiatorio-de-la.html

° Organizaciones de derechos humanos exigen el cese de la violencia contra los pueblos indígenas
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/12/organizaciones-de-derechos-humanos.html

° Edo. Delta Amacuro: La actual realidad de los Warao y los "derechos indígenas" que solo existen en la papelería legal - Minerva Vitti
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2015/12/edo-delta-amacuro-la-actual-realidad-de.html

° Wayuu marcharon contra la militarización de La Guajira - Agencias
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/01/wayuu-marcharon-contra-la.html

° Esa desconocida llamada Consulta Previa - Rafael Uzcátegui
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/01/esa-desconocida-llamada-consulta-previa.html

° 39 ONGs rechazan ataque contra líder del pueblo Yabarana de Amazonas
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/02/39-ongs-rechazan-ataque-contra-lider.html

° Edo. Zulia: Denunciada formalmente represión militar en la Guajira - Sugey Díaz
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/02/edo-zulia-denunciada-formalmente.html

° ORPIA: La difícil construcción de autonomía para las luchas indígenas - J.G. Díaz, D.L. Dacosta y B. Arana de Díaz
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/03/organizacion-regional-de-los-pueblos.html

° Indígenas rechazan activación del Arco Minero del Orinoco - Prensa PROVEA
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/03/indigenas-rechazan-activacion-del-arco.html

° Los Yukpa denuncian al Estado-Gobierno por violar sus derechos humanos - Sociedad Homo et Natura
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/03/los-yukpa-denuncian-al-estado-gobierno.html

° Comité de Derechos Humanos de La Guajira: Herramienta autónoma de lucha del pueblo wayuu - Olimpia Palmar
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/03/comite-de-derechos-humanos-de-la.html

° Amazonas: Comunicado de la 2ª Asamblea de Mujeres Indígenas de Autana
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/04/amazonas-comunicado-de-la-2-asamblea-de.html

° Un indígena jivi opina: El AMO y el carbón de Perijá les quitan lo poco que quedaba del disfraz de socialistas - Yoner Arrioja
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/04/un-indigena-jivi-opina-el-amo-y-el.html

° Organizaciones indígenas de Amazonas se movilizan contra la minería ilegal y se pronuncian sobre el AMO - Prensa PROVEA
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/04/organizaciones-indigenas-de-amazonas-se.html

° Comunidades indígenas serán desplazadas por el AMO, advierte antropólogo E.E. Monsonyi - Oriana Faoro
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/05/comunidades-indigenas-seran-desplazadas.html

° Situación del Derecho a la Consulta Previa en Venezuela. Informe completo para descargar - LabPaz / Provea / GTAI-ULA
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/08/situacion-del-derecho-la-consulta.html

° Minería, "sindicatos" mafiosos y Arco Minero del Orinoco, combinación mortal para los indígenas del Caura - Minerva Vitti
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/08/mineria-sindicatos-mafiosos-y-arco.html

° Opinión: Arco y flecha al sur del Orinoco - Luis Jiménez
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/08/opinion-arco-y-flecha-al-sur-del-orinoco.html

° Los Yukpa: Despojados en el Zulia, indigentes en Barquisimeto - María F. Peñalver
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/09/los-yukpa-despojados-en-el-zulia.html

° Entrevista a Vladimir Aguilar sobre el Arco Minero: "Es una arremetida contra los derechos indígenas" - Rafael Uzcátegui
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/10/entrevista-vladimir-aguilar-sobre-el.html

° 12 de octubre. Gobierno miente al afirmar que ha hecho “Consultas” para implementar Arco Minero del Orinoco - Provea / GTAI-ULA / LabPaz
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/10/12-de-octubre-gobierno-miente-al.html

° Una panorámica del pueblo warao - Jhonny Ramos
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/11/una-panoramica-del-pueblo-warao.html

° Extractivismo y Derechos Humanos en Venezuela: El caso del A.M.O. - Vladimir Aguilar y Rafael Uzcátegui
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/12/extractivismo-y-derechos-humanos-en.html

° Sobre la 1ª Reunión Autónoma y Autoconvocada de Comunidades y Organizaciones de Base Indígenas de Venezuela - José Quintero W.
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/12/sobre-la-1-reunion-autonoma-y.html

° Encuentro Autónomo de Voceros Indígenas debate sobre organización propia y minería - Prensa Provea
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2016/12/encuentro-autonomo-de-voceros-indigenas.html

° Minería asecha a los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía venezolana - Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y Territorios
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/03/mineria-asecha-los-pueblos-indigenas-de.html

° Bastardos sin gloria - José Ángel Quintero W.
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/04/bastardos-sin-gloria.html

° Ante el asesinato de Freddy Menare, activista del pueblo Uwottuja del Edo. Amazonas - Grupo de Trabajo sobre Asuntos Indígenas
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/05/ante-el-asesinato-de-freddy-menare.html

° Situación del pueblo Yukpa, a 4 años y 2 meses del asesinato de Sabino Romero - Sociedad Homo et Natura
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/05/situacion-del-pueblo-yukpa-4-anos-y-2.html

° Pueblos indígenas advierten contra espíritu autoritario tras la propuesta de Constituyente - Daniela Tabata
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/05/pueblos-indigenas-advierten-contra.html

° Injusticia que no cesa: Detienen en Caracas a hijo del mártir yukpa Sabino Romero - La Guarura
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/07/injusticia-que-no-cesa-detienen-en.html

° Dia de los pueblos indígenas pasó en Venezuela con demasiadas penas y ninguna gloria - Correo del Caroní
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2017/08/dia-de-los-pueblos-indigenas-paso-en.html

° Delta Amacuro: No interesa a los que mandan en Caracas, pero niños indígenas siguen muriendo de mengua - Marcos Velarde
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/02/delta-amacuro-no-interesa-los-que.html

° Edo. Zulia: Brevísimo recuento de memoria y luchas de los añuu contra el extractivismo - José Quintero W.
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/02/edo-zulia-brevisimo-recuento-de-memoria.html

° Delta Amacuro: Han muerto por sarampión 54 niños waraos en lo que va de 2018
http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/04/delta-amacuro-han-muerto-por-sarampion.html

° “La población indígena es la más desasistida en materia de salud”: Entrevista - Prensa Provea
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/04/la-poblacion-indigena-es-la-mas.html


° Delincuencia y gobierno en agresión genocida contra indígenas de Guayana - Jhoalys Siverio
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/04/delincuencia-y-gobierno-en-agreson.html

° Derechos territoriales indígenas y extractivismo en Venezuela: miradas cruzadas desde las comunidades y organizaciones indígenas - Vladimir Aguilar
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/04/derechos-territoriales-indigenas-y.html

° Informe _El Mundo Indígena - 2018_: Caso Venezuela - Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/05/informe-el-mundo-indigena-2018-caso.html

° Por hambre emigra el pueblo yukpa del Zulia a Colombia - Carolina Gutiérrez
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/06/por-hambre-emigra-el-pueblo-yukpa-del.html

° Masacran a cinco indígenas pemones al sur del Edo. Bolívar - Marcos Valverde y María Ramírez
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/06/masacran-cinco-indigenas-pemones-al-sur.html

° Edo. Amazonas: El pueblo Yanomami amenazado por brote de sarampión - Wataniba
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/07/edo-amazonas-el-pueblo-yanomami.html

° Edo. Bolívar: Pueblo pemón responde a jefe militar que lo criminaliza - Wainjirawa
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/08/edo-bolivar-pueblo-pemon-responde-jefe.html

° Ante la dramática situación de salud de los pueblos indígenas en Venezuela - Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/08/ante-la-dramatica-situacion-de-salud-de.html

° Indígenas asesinados en nueva masacre en el Arco Minero del Orinoco - Pableysa Ostos
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/08/indigenas-asesinados-en-nueva-masacre.html

° Edo. Bolívar: Consejo de Caciques denuncia agresión militar contra pueblo pemón - Clavel Rangel
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/10/edo-bolivar-consejo-de-caciques.html

° Edo Apure: Noticia falsa intenta criminalizar a pueblos indígenas - Francisco Prada
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/11/edo-apure-noticia-falsa-intenta.html

° Nuevo comunicado sobre investigación del ataque al pueblo pemón en Canaima - Consejo de Caciques Generales del Pueblo Pemón
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2018/12/nuevo-comunicado-sobre-investigacion.html

° Alto a la persecución y torturas contra integrantes del pueblo indígena Pemón - Organizaciones pro-indígenas
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/03/comunicado-alto-la-persecucion-y.html

° Opinión: ¿Cuántos indígenas muertos son demasiados indígenas muertos? - Fundación Causa Amerindia Kiwxi
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/03/opinion-cuantos-indigenas-muertos-son.html

° Extractivismo autoritario y pueblos indígenas en Venezuela - Vladimir Aguilar
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/04/extractivismo-autoritario-y-pueblos.html

° Indígenas de Venezuela sin garantías de atención médica - A.C. Kapé-Kapé
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/04/indigenas-de-venezuela-sin-garantias-de.html

° 34 lenguas indígenas venezolanas están en peligro de desaparecer - Zaida García
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/04/34-lenguas-indigenas-venezolanas-estan.html

° Edo. Bolívar: 966 indígenas de 14 comunidades de Gran Sabana han huido a Brasil por persecución oficial - María Ramírez
https://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/05/edo-bolivar-966-indigenas-de-14.html

emily_delp's review

challenging hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

rorikae's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

'The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth" is an informative framework for a collective future that fights against climate change. Written by the Red Nation, it lays out threats to humanity and then discusses what must be done to save the planet. The main focus is on how to undo capitalism and colonization that has led to our current climate disaster. It breaks down the violence inherent in the systems and how we can utilize a transformative Indigenous framework to restore the land and our relationships. It delves into a number of different subjects including imperialism, housing, MMIWG2S, and much more before exploring how a framework centered on Indigenous teachings and technology can help undo the current crises that we deal with. One important facet is how all our struggles are related and all stem from the violence of capitalism and colonization. I found this to be an insightful and ultimately hopeful text that looks to what is possible in our future if we work together for collective change. I think everyone should read this because it helps lay the groundwork for how we can move away from extractive systems and toward collective liberation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Drug use, Animal death, Child death, Sexual violence, Grief, Classism, Gun violence, Genocide, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Trafficking, War, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, and Suicide

eggandart's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

cstobin's review

5.0

Powerfully revolutionary! An overall excellent read covering many aspects of the struggle for liberation and also impressive, thoughtful, and actionable plans for decolonizing the US and the world at large. Highly recommend to all

tiffanywang29's review

5.0

Decolonization or extinction. Land back. Capitalism and imperialism must die.

As The Red Nation says themselves, there are no "new" ideas in this book, but they are incredibly clear on the Indigenous demands that have been made for decades and centuries that we must follow if we are to restabilize our relationship to the planet. That means for non-Native people like me to really think about what we are willing to (and have to) give up to make that happen, and what we must to fight behind and alongside Native people for decolonization.

pink_distro's review

4.0

this was a great primer on Native issues from a left & anti colonial perspective ! it's written manifesto-style, so it's short, real easy to read and has lots of section demarcations. it got kinda weird when it would discuss tactics because they obviously aren't anarchist but they didn't make clear what the specific relationship with the state should be while pursuing decolonization,, but that's partially beyond the scope of this book so i get it. some parts i found most compelling and new to me were these sections:

anti-imperialism — they beautifully connect how amerikan and canadian increases in oil production through fracking and new pipelines on Native land just drive down the price of oil which Indigenous-led socialist states like venezuela rely on to provide for their people. it also talks about how even under the current progressive plans to pivot to green energy, the capitalist and imperial foundations mean that places like bolivia and the democratic republic of the congo would be plundered for metals like lithium and cobalt to build new solar tech while seeing almost no benefit. they make the links between settler colonialism and imperialism very tangible and clear

enforcement of treaty rights — they briefly describe the independent Native histories of diplomacy in north america, and how often, communities of animal life or bodies of water would be provided for as parties to treaties. treaties between tribes were not as confrontational in nature as colonial treaties are, and as such would often provide for overlapping tribal jurisdictions of land and in general sharing instead of exclusivity thru borders and citizenship. this gives context for existing treaties and how movements can use Native history to enforce a more expansive and liberatory program than the narrow ways in which settler states and courts view the treaties

bordertown violence — they talk a lot about how bordertowns (towns near/on the border of reservations with high Native and non-Native populations, often with non-Native being white oil or mine workers) are sites of increased policing, surveillance, cultural exploitation, and interpersonal settler violence against Native people. they connect it to the history of violence on the amerikan 'frontier,' and show how new pipelines and other extractive economic developments inherently bring bordertowns, and the accompanying rampant sexual, interpersonal, state, and cultural violence

no more suicides — "[high rates of Native suicide] is not an issue that can be fixed through better services or suicide-prevention campaigns. Studies show that suicide rates are lower in Native communities that have strong self-determination over land, education, health, and governance ... [we know what works:] restore dignity and Indigenous values. The only way this will happen is if everyone promotes decolonization, the return of Indigenous lands, and true self-determination for Indigenous people." (pg 93)