The Red Deal

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.

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