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Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized…
Episodes
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsNew Data Shows Wall Street and Pension Funds Investing in ICE Contractors with Over $80 Billion ft. Richard Brooks w/ Stand.Earth (G&R 484)
In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTie-Dye Politics: The Legacy of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead w/ Author Jim Newton (G&R 483)
**Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support. Become…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Vets are Resisting the War in Iran w/ Anti-War Veteran Zack Henson (G&R 482)
🎉 🎉 Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAntifa Goes on Trial in North Texas w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 481)
Nine people were recently convicted of federal charges, including "material support for terrorism," by a jury in Texas after a noise demonstration and exchange…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Photojournalists are Telling the Story of Anti-ICE Movements w/ Rae Breaux and Brooke Anderson (G&R 480)
Across the country, photojournalists, videographers, live steamers and other documentarians are telling the story of resistance to ICE. They do this at great…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAnniversaries of My Lai, Rachel Corrie Bring Haunting Memories As U.S. Attacks Iran (G&R 480)
March 16th was the 58th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and the 23rd anniversary of the murder by Israeli forces of International Solidarity activist Rachel…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Crises in the Middle East, w/ Professor Giuseppe Acconcia (G&R 479)
Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Timely Resistance of 'One Battle After Another..' w/ Organizer Matt Leonard (G&R 478)
It's Oscar season and in another episode in the G&R Arts and Culture segment, we're talk about the resistance politics of "One Battle After Another." A popular…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsGrowing American Destruction in the Middle East, w/ Fadi Kafeety (G&R 477)
In our latest, Bob talked w/ Fadi Kafeety, a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history, about the current crises in the region which have been intensified by…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAxis of Empire: The History of Iran-American Relations w/ Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari (G&R 476)
The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran and killing some of the Islamic Republic's top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsForever Wars— Trump vs. the World! (G&R 475)
Russia invade Ukraine four years ago and has resulted in a bloody conflict that has bled both countries and scrambled global politics. Donald Trump campaigned…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsStop Oreos, Save the Rainforest w/ Forest Campaigner Maggie Martin (G&R 474)
Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsNo Option But Sabotage: Rad Enviros and the Climate Crisis w/ Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff (G&R 473)
After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Untold Story of the Green and Red Podcast! Six Years and Counting... (G&R 472)
It's our 6th anniversary and we talk about the underlying themes in our shows and some of our favorite moments. ------------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Media and the Epstein Class w/ Media Watchdog Nolan Higdon (G&R 471)
The Epstein Files is one of the biggest stories in the world... and it isn't. In our latest, we dive into the media coverage of the Epstein Files with…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's Aggression Against Iran Continues, w/ Professor Eskandar Sadeghi (G&R 470)
Donald Trump's long-time aggression against Iran--abrogating the nuclear treaty, assassination officials, ramping up sanctions, and last June's prolonged…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Coroner's Silence: How the State Uses Death Records to Hide Police Violence w/ Prof. Terence Keel (G&R 469)
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, capture…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBorn Sick in the USA: How Inequality is Killing Us w/ Dr. Stephen Bezruchka (G&R 468)
In our latest, we talk with return guest Dr. Stephen Bezruchka about how structural inequality and economic policies that favor the ultra rich are causing a…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Keep Hope Alive!"... The Legacy and Meaning of Jesse Jackson (G&R 467)
Rev. Jesse Jackson passed away today at the age of 84. A civil rights giant and candidate in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections, he had a vision that…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Don't Believe Your Own Eyes"... State of the Free Press w/ Project Censorship's Mickey Huff (G&R 466)
In our latest, we talk again with the great Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored (@projectcensored) and professor of journalism at Ithaca College. We talk…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsPrez Day Encore: How Neoliberals Paved the Way for MAGA (G&R 465)
Bob and Scott celebrate President's Day by discussing the recent history of the presidency and look at how neoliberals Clinton, Bush and Obama paved theway for…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Labor and Communities are Fighting ICE in the Twin Cities w/ Journalist Amie Stager (G&R 464)
ICE's surge into Minneapolis-St. Paul continues. After the ICE murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, labor and community groups mobilized against the federal…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsLegendary Film Director John Sayles on Labor, the Border and Empire in Novels and Film (G&R 463)
In our latest, we talk with legendary filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist John Sayles. We start with a discussion about his new novel "Crucible." But also…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Rich History of General Strikes in America w/ Organizer and Writer Fred Glass (G&R 462)
On January 23, 2026, we saw the first general strike in 80 years in Minnesota after the murder of Renee Good by ICE (one day before their murder of Veteran’s…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAntifa Spy Networks Expose the Radical Right w/ journalist Chris Mathias (G&R 461)
Demonized by Republicans and Democrats alike, a myth emerged around “antifa” during Donald Trump’s first term. But few understand the dangerous work antifa…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-ins, SNCC and Militant Nonviolence Today (G&R 460)
February 1st is the 66th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins where four African-American student sat in at a Woolworth's, suffering abuse from white racist…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsRojava Fights for Its Survival w/ Arthur Pye (G&R 459)
The past month has seen the new Syrian government in Damascus move politically and military against the autonomous state of Rojava. In our latest, Scott talks…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMexico Between Feast and Famine w/ Prof. Enrique Ochoa (G&R 458)
Mexico is at the crossroads of an elite culinary destination and extreme social and economic injustice. The corporate takeover of Mexico's food sector has…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsFrom Montgomery to Memphis to Minneapolis: The Legacy of Martin Luther King (G&R 457)
It's MLK Day weekend. We discuss the radical legacy of King. His opposition to the Vietnam war, the Poor Peoples' Campaign, his campaign to boycott the 1968…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsENCORE: Remembering MLK, Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 456)
Today was Martin Luther King's actual birthday, so we're posting an encore of our 2021 episode remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: Radical, Democratic…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's New Imperialism Threatens Greenland w/ journalist Adam Federman (G&R 455)
President Trump's saber rattling on Greenland has escalated with threats of military invasion, annexation or purchase of the world's largest island. Today…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsWhat's Happening Inside Venezuela w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 454)
Trump attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and declares that U.S. will be "running" Venezuela. And as we know…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsENCORE: Capitol Hill Riots and the Ruling Class (G&R 453)
It's the fifth anniversary of the Capitol Riot. As Trump part two has been in power for a year and he's begun a new era of American empire, we're re-posting…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAmerican Beauty. Our end to 2025 episode (G&R 452)
Happy New Year! In our close out to this year, we talk about the best of Green and Red in 2025, those people that impacted us that we lost and the only real…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"In Our Future We Are Free" Tracks the Decline of Youth Prisons w/ Author Nell Bernstein (G&R 451)
Over the past twenty years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped trying youth as adults, slashing the number of children locked…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMeathead's America: Rob Reiner's contribution to 70s political culture (G&R 450)
The 1970s was the decade that changed the television landscape forever dealing with issues of race, gender, sexuality to the war in Vietnam. No show broke the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's Wars with Latin America w/ Prof. Aviva Chomsky (G&R 449)
In a wide-ranging discussion w/ the eminent historian of Latin America Aviva Chomsky we laid out the motives and purposes of Trump's aggression against the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsPam Bondi's Operationalizing of Authoritarianism w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 448)
While, maybe, in murky legal waters, Attorney General Pam Bondi is building out the infrastructure for greater spying, policing and prosecution of social…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsChevron Awarded $220 Million in Amazon Pollution Case in Ecuador w/ Paul Paz y Mino (G&R 447)
Chevron has been awarded $220 Million in the Ecuadoran Amazon pollution case. The award comes from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, part of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsProf. Omar Zahzah on Zionism, Silicon Valley and Digital/Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Movement (G&R 446)
Beginning in 2021, when Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) censored posts by Palestinians protesting their expulsion from the East Jerusalem neighborhood…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsEugene Hasenfus, Iran-contra, and American Subversion as Foreign Policy (G&R 445)
Eugene Hasenfus died this week. He had been part of a covert operation to supply weapons to the anti-Sandinista group known as the "contras." As part of this…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsENCORE: State murders of Nuns in El Salvador and Black Panther Fred Hampton repression at home and abroad (G&R 444)
This week is the anniversary of two events which define the State in the U.S., both in the past and today. In 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump vs. Mark Kelly... War Crimes, Venezuela and Blowback (G&R 443)
Mark Kelly and other former military and intelligence community members now in Congress posted a video calling on active service members to refuse illegal…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBest of G&R : Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (G&R 442)
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City Mayor's race , Marjorie Taylor Green splits from Trump, Schumer and Jefferies punch to their left and Trump wages war on…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsNovember 22, 1963 . . . The myths, fables, and conspiracies of JFK after 62 years (G&R 441)
Green & Red has been at the forefront of refuting the various romantic versions, lies,and conspiracy theories about JFK and we once again discuss the reality…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals80 Years of Cold War: What it was, why it happened, what it means. (G&R 440)
When World War II ended 80 years ago, the fighting ended but global stability and peace did not emerge. Instead, a "Cold War" between the forces of capitalism…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals#COP30: " One out of every 25 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, which frankly, is horrifying." w/ climate campaigner Collin Rees (G&R 439)
In our latest, Scott talks with climate campaigner Collin Rees (@collinrees) in Belem Brazil for COP 30. They discuss what's happening on the ground, the high…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsGenocide in Indonesia: Anti-Communism, US Aid and Millions Dead w/ Dr. Clinton Fernandes (G&R 438)
It's the 60th anniversary of the failed coup in Indonesia, the rise of the dictator Suharto and the removal of popular leader Sukarno. The events that followed…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsIs Trump Wounded? Are the Dems Alive? Is the GOP in a civil war? Elections and a changing landscape (G&R 437)
The Democratic Party won big on Tuesday but what does it mean? They're still running away from Zohran Mandani while promoting "centrists" like Navy Vet Mikie…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsDick Cheney, The Original Trump . . . Farewell to a War Criminal and Gangster for Capitalism (G&R 436)
Arch-war criminal and former Vice-President Dick Cheney has died. A consummate DC insider who was White House Chief-of-Staff, Defense Secretary, CEO of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Billionaires Burn the Rest of Us w/ Author Chuck Collins (G&R 435)
The economy the past 5 years have been really rough. High food prices. Skyrocketing housing prices. Unemployment rates are creeping up. The government shutdown…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsOne Uprising After Another: The Eros Effect in Asia and Beyond w/ Scholar George Katsiaficas (G&R 434)
In this episode of the #GreenAndRedPodcast, historian #GeorgeKatsiaficas discusses the #ErosEffect and recent #AsianUprisings shaping global resistance. Mass…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Troubling History of Texas Eugenics w/ Dr. Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf (G&R 433)
In our latest episode, we talk with Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf about their new book "The Purifying Knife" and the history of eugenics in Texas and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsOct. 26: Come to our panel on "What To Know About Resisting State Authority" w/ Author Will Potter and More!
Join us on October 26th at 7pm for a panel on resisting state repression. The panel will feature journalist and author Will Potter, Meg Calaw with Gabriela…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsSaving Ourselves From Big Car w/ Author David Obst (G&R 431)
In our latest, we talk with author David Obst about how “Big Car”—the complex of automotive, oil, insurance, media, and political interests—has shaped how we…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Anti-Authoritarian Playbook w/ Organizer Nadine Bloch (G&R 430)
In real time, , we're seeing Trump's authoritarian forces moving to consolidate power with an "authoritarian playbook" used in the past and other parts of the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's War on Venezuela w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 429)
In recent weeks, the U.S. has bombed multiple alleged Venezuelan “drug boats” at sea, killing at least 21 people without providing any clear evidence that they…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's Ever Widening Crackdown on the "Left" w/ journalist Adam Federman (G&R 428)
In our latest, Scott talks with journalist Adam Federman (@adamfederman) about recent developments of the Trump administration targeting organizations, donors…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Movement to Save the Rainforest w/ "environmental pitbull" Randy Hayes (G&R 427)
It's the 40th anniversary of the founding of Rainforest Action Network (RAN). So we're reposting this 2021 interview with RAN co-founder Randy Hayes.The 1980s…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump at War with the Military? Civil-Military Conflict in the U.S. (G&R 42
This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump ranted to the assembled leadership of the U.S. armed forces about fitness, wokeness and the "war…