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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 RadicalsPolitical Violence Isn't a "Both Sides" Issue...Ruling Class Repression in America (G&R 425)
Trump issued an executive order last week saying he was directing the federal government to “a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsGuerrilla Ecologies: A History of Green Capitalism and Eco-Militancy w/ Prof. John Maerhofer (G&R 424)
This week is United Nations Climate Week in New York City. During his address to the U.N., Trump talked about the climate crisis being a hoax and how "the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsDisturbing Peter Theil's Anti-Christ Antics w/ Jeff Grubler of Bad Taste for A Good Cause (G&R 423)
n the latest G&R, Scott talks with street theater organizer and "stable" creative genius Jeff Grubler (@jeffgrubler) about his troupe's recent actions against…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Communities are Resisting San Diego’s Housing Crisis w/ Organizer Jose Lopez (G&R 422)
In part two of our series on private equity giant Blackstone, Scott talks ACCE San Diego director Jose Lopez about housing crisis in San Diego and Blackstone’s…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsR.I.P. Robert Redford...Appreciation for an Iconic Actor, Director, Environmentalist and Activist (G&R 421)
We've been long inspired and touched by Robert Redford's career in film and politics. He was a screen idol who challenged America's status quo. From acting in…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow to Wage Peace in These Dark Times w/ CODEPINK's Jodie Evans (G&R 420)
In our latest, Scott talks with Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, about the recent disruption of Trump and co's dinner in D.C., ongoing protests against the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsENCORE: Remembering 911 and America's Forever War (G&R 419)
This week, Israel bombed Hamas leadership in Qatar in a brazen attack within the Arab state. This is a two year genocide in Gaza, moves to annex the West Bank…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Defense Department wasn't Woke, It was an Agent for Empire and Repression (G&R 418)
Donald Trump recently reverted the name of the Dept. of Defense to Dept. of War. He, and his cronies, claim that the Dept of Defense is too woke and needs to…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsCivil Rights Attorney Ron Kuby on Flag Burning “This executive order means absolutely nothing” (G&R 417)
In 1989, and again 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled flag burning a First Amendment protected action. In 2025, Trump has issued an executive order banning…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBest of G&R: Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs Radical Organizing (G&R 414)
Encore of our 2023 Labor Day episode. Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day, the co-optation strategy…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later and "the long slow history of disaster..." w/ scott crow (G&R 413)
20 years ago this week Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. On August 29th, the levees broke and created a humanitarian crisis rarely seen…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Just no place for street fighting man.." How Dems Shun Street Politics (G&R 412)
Contrary to what happens in many other parts of the world and within Trump’s GOP, the Democratic Party leadership shuns street protests. In fact, discouraging…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Corporate Landlord Blackstone Perpetuates the Housing Crisis w/ Jordan Ash of PESP (G&R 411)
Since 2008, and even more since 2018 and 2023, private equity firms have been buying up real estate and rental properties across the U.S. No firm has preyed up…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsFrontline Resistance to Fossil Fuel Finance From the Gulf South to Richmond, CA (G&R 410)
We’re living in challenging times with an escalating climate disaster devastating communities from Texas and Louisiana to Richmond, CA. Few institutions are as…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Fraud of Recycling": Industry Promotes Recyclingas False Solution to Plastic Crisis (G&R 409)
This week as the negotiations for a Global Plastic Treaty fail in Geneva, Switzerland over a cap on plastic production, we look at the undue influence of the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsDemocrats Skip Out of Texas, Non-Compliance Trainings and DC Free w/ Patrick Young (G&R 408)
Scott talks with organizer and comrade Patrick Young (@patrickjyoung.bsky.social) about the state of resistance eight months into the Trump Administration…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBest of G&R: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and "Atomic Diplomacy", 80 years later (G&R 407)
It's the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMuscles, Swagger and Politics: The Cultural Impact of Hulk Hogan w/ Jason Myles (G&R 406)
Hulk Hogan died recently. He's been denounced by some, praised by others. On his impact on the sport, pro wrestling historian Brian Soloman remarked on his…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump vs. Comedy . . . Colbert and South Park, w/ Prof. Sophia McClennen (G&R 405)
We had another fantastic interview w/ Professor Sophia McClennen (@mcclennen65) of Penn State who's the foremost authority and satire and politics. We had…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTexas Floods... Epic Fails and Mutual Aid in the Hill Country w/ journalist Candice Bernd (G&R 404)
In our latest, we talk to Texas based journalist Candice Bernd (@candicebernd.bsky.social) about the devastating floods that hit the Hill Country on July 4th…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMAGA vs. Trump: Iran, Israel and Epstein (G&R 403)
In our latest, we start off with an important "This Day in History" and Bob talks about the 79th anniversary of the Irgun's attack on the King David Hotel in…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump vs. Lula . . . US tariffs as political retaliation w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report (G&R 402)
Bob had a great discussion w/ Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter of Payday Report and our Brazil correspondent, about Trump's tariffs on Brazil to…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Vietnam Then, Palestine Now" . . . Bob Buzzanco at the Jerusalem Center (G&R 401)
Green & Red co-host, professor of history emeritus, and scholar of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War, Bob Buzzanco recently spoke at the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMamdani Beats Cuomo . . . Billionaires Attack, and Democrats Punch Left (Again) (G&R 400)
Zohran Mamdani's big win in the NYC mayoral primary has shaken the political establishment in both parties, with the GOP predictably shrieking hysterically…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsPurge Palantir Shuts Down Tech Fascist Billionaires w/ Planet Over Profit's Alice Hu (G&R 399)
Billionaires are ravaging our democracy. One of the worst culprits is tech fascist billionaire Peter Theil. His company Palantir's technology allows ICE to…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsCapital’s war on the working class w/ Prof. Chad Pearson and Prof. Ahmed White (G&R 168)
“The remedy” to labor troubles, said J. West Goodwin, a Missouri businessman and newspaperman “is a counter organization.” In a fascinating conversation around…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Los Angeles is Resisting Trump's I.C.E. Raids w/ Prof. Enrique Ochoa (G&R 398)
Los Angeles is under attack by the Trump Administration. Every day we hear new stories about I.C.E. attacking, detaining and arresting citizens and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Korean War... the 75th Anniversary w/ journalist and Asia Expert Tim Shorrock (G&R 397)
It's the 75th anniversary of the Korean War. Looking at the politics and history of the "Forgotten War," we talk with journalist Tim Shorrock. We disucss the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsCuba: Present and Future, with Cuban solidarity activist Greg LaMotta (G&R 396)
Greg LaMotta has a Ph.D. in Caribbean and Latin American history and is a longtime activist on behalf f Cuba and has visited the island numerous times over the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsIs War with Iran Imminent? w/ Professor Eskander Sadeghi (G&R 395)
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a professor of history at York University, England and author of "Revolution and its Discontents" and is a recognized scholar of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBreaking Ranks? Military Dissent Against Trump w/ Zack Henson of About Face (G&R 394)
In our latest, we talk with veteran and organizer with About Face: Veterans Against the War Zack Henson about Trump's military parade, the deployment of troops…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsL.A. Resists As Trump Sends Military to Aid Deportation Raids w/ Organizer Estuardo Mazariegos (G&R 393)
Trump and his minions have inflamed the country with escalating deportation raids. In Los Angeles, the resistance has been fiercely fighting back and keeping…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsWorse than McCarthyism? Prof. Ellen Schrecker on Trump's Repression (G&R 392)
Ellen Schrecker is the preeminent historian of McCarthyism/The Red Scare in America and we had a really great conversation with her about the resurgence of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsSilicon Valley’s Dangerous Militarization of AI w/ journalist Peter Byrne (G&R 391)
There is a long history of industry heavy war profiteers like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman having deep ties within elite political and military…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsStop Cop City and The Future of Protest (Pt. 2) w/ Prof. Joseph Brown (G&R 390)
The Stop Cop City campaign saw an evolution in protest and direct action. It brought together movements that spanned issues, political philosophies, strategic…
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"Rebellions are Built on Hope:" The revolutionary politics of Andor w/ organizer Matt Leonard (G&R 389)
"Andor," the latest Star Wars miniseries, is spin off of the film "Rogue One," which is a prequel to the original Stat Wars trilogy. It's considered grittier…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Conspiracy Thrillers Shaped By 1970s America (G&R 388)
In this latest installment of the G&R Arts and Culture series, we look at three films from the seventies that were shaped by America's growing cynicism and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"The Encampments:" New Film on the Student Uprisings at Columbia and Beyond (G&R 387)
The new documentary "The Encampments" is an important portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBest of G&R: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett (G&R 386)
May 24th is the 35th anniversary of the bombing of Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. To commemorate we're reposting our interview from last year…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsStop Cop City and the Future of Protest (Part 1) w/ Prof. Joseph Brown (G&R 385)
The Stop Cop City campaign saw an evolution in protest and direct action. It brought together movements that spanned issues, political philosophies, strategic…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBold Tree-Sit in Western Washington Blockades Logging of Endangered Legacy Forest (G&R 384)
In our latest, Scott talks with Fable who's 70 feet above the earth in a tree blocking the logging of a legacy forest in the Elwha Watershed in western…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsSOTR: May Day, "No Kings Day" and Sit-in at Columbia w/ organizer Patrick Young (G&R 383)
In latest installment of our new “State of the Resistance” series, Scott talks with organizer Patrick Young. They discuss the May Day protests, the upcoming…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow World War Two Was Won . . . (Hint: Trump is wrong...again) (G&R 382)
Donald Trump briefly tried to change "Veterans Day" to a Victory in War (both I and II) Day until rebuked by vets, but his explanation needs to also be…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Trump Lost the Conservatives the Canadian Election. w/ Emilia Belliveau (G&R 381)
This past week has seen a resurgence for liberal parties in other parts of the world. In Canada, Mark Carney the Liberal Party made a stunning comeback from a…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsEncore Episode: Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming . . . 52 Years After the Kent State Killings (G&R 380)
It’s the 55th anniversary of the killings at Kent State University. In a special encore episode, we’re reposting our Kent State episode from 2020. In this…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsENCORE: May Day vs Labor Day How the ruling class stops radical organizing (G&R 379)
Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to the Haymarket Affair to International…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsLet Saigons Be Bygones: The Fall of South Vietnam, 50 Years Later. (G&R 378)
In the latest episode, we talk about the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. We describe the events that led to the U.S. withdrawal in 1973, and then how…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"Kayfabe:" The Politics of Trump and Pro Wrestling w/ This is Revolution's Jason Myles (G&R 377)
Today's politics and culture wars are intertwined with pro wrestling. More than people realize. Since the summer of 2015 when Donald Trump came down the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTariffs 101: Trade, Taxes and Revenues in U.S. History (G&R 376)
Everyone's talking about tariffs . . . but do we really know what they are, how they work, what their purpose is? Scott and Bob give backgrounder on tariffs…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMillions Rally to Tell Trump "Hands Off" Our Democracy w/ Organizer Patrick Young (G&R 375)
In our latest, Scott talks with organizer and troublemaker Patrick Young about this past weekend’s Hands Off rallies and the state of the resistance to Trump…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's Greenland Obsession w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 374)
In our latest, Scott talks with journalist, and friend of G&R, Adam Federman (@adamfederman) about Trump's obsession to acquire Greenland. They discuss what's…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"This isn't a brains kind of operation”….Signalgate and More Trump Repression (G&R 373)
“Tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains kind of operation.” -Longbaugh (Benicio Del Toro) in the Way of the Gun Bob and Scott dive into the news of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsJournalist Will Potter on Big Oil's Attempt to Bankrupt Greenpeace (G&R 372)
Will Potter, author of *Green is the New Red* and one of the best-known observers and analysts of the way the state uses contrived charges of "terrorism" to…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsDeep Dive on Corporate Legal Attacks on Activists ft. Evan Mascagni (G&R 371)
Strategic Litigation on Public Participation, or SLAPPs, is an oft-used tactics by power holders against activists, campaigners, journalists and ordinary…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsState Repression is as American as Cherry Pie (G&R 370)
Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia’s student encampments last year, and a permanent U.S. resident, was arrested and detained by ICE agents for protest…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals"I am unfinished business": Poet Fady Joudah on Genocide in Gaza [G&R 369]
Fady Joudah is an esteemed Palestinian Poet/Activist. And we had a great long conversation with him about poetry and resistance, conditions in Gaza, the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTaking Down Tesla w/ Valerie from the Troublemakers (G&R 366)
Elon Musk is a dangerous oligarch running a hostile corporate takeover operation on the federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsWho's Censoring the News? Mickey Huff of "Project Censored" on Today's Media Ecosystem (G&R 368)
Project Censored has been exposing the media's self-censorship for a half-century now and we talked with its director Mickey Huff about the current state of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsUnder Trump’s Thumb: Ukraine, War and the Military Industrial Complex (G&R 366)
The Oval Office erupts as Trump and J.D. Vance take on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a fiery public clash. It’s the third anniversary of Russia’s…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's Favorite President? Who Was William McKinley? Tariffs, Empire, and a new Gilded Age (G&R 365)
The favorite son of Niles, Ohio is our topic today . . . Donald Trump has said that William McKinley was his favorite president so we spend some time…