This is one of the most important books I've read in a long time. Clear, urgent, powerful - a manifesto for decolonization and climate justice that pushes the horizons of our imagination. Every page is gold. Read it, share it, discuss it. 
If you are a journalist, consider writing a review. If you are a teacher, assign it to your students. If you are a podcaster, reach out to @The_Red_Nation to get someone from the movement to talk about it on your show.
"Overconsumption in the Global North is directly enabled by the dispossession of Indigenous and Black life and imperial wars in the Global South. We need a revolution of values that recenters relationships to one another and the Earth over profits."
"Indigenous resistance in North America is at the forefront of combating imperialist plunder, and our struggles are interconnected with our relatives in the Global South."
"Indigenous peoples pose a radical threat - and pay a disproportionate price - to the fossil fuel industry at the site of extraction, yet their demands are marginalized within mainstream environmentalism."
"We must be straightforward about what is necessary. If we want to survive, there are no incremental or 'non-disruptive' ways to reduce emissions. Reconciliation with the ruling class is out of the question. Market-based solutions must be abandoned."
"Indigenous demands for the restoration of land, air, and water are essential for the return of our collective humanity. This is the vision and mandate of the Red Deal: uniting Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in a common struggle to save the Earth."
"You can't smudge the murder out of capitalism, nor can you expect the powerful to give up their wealth out of the kindness of their hearts. So how do we get things to change? We hit the streets and galvanize the support of poor and working class communities."
"There can be no rich people without poor people; the rich depend on the poor. But the poor don't need the rich, we only need each other. This is the power of the masses. People power will not only topple empire, it will build a new world from the ashes."
"Capitalism will fall - we are certain of this. We can heal our bodies by continuing to hammer cracks into its foundations, eventually pounding it into dust that joins the soil, from which new life can emerge."
"Our philosophy of reform is thus to reallocate social wealth to those who actually produce it: workers, the poor, Indigenous peoples, women, migrants, caretakers of the land, and the land itself."
"The struggle to remember our humanity through our love for the Earth will define the future for all. Join us. We are waiting for you, we welcome you, and we are ready to act."
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
