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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 RadicalsRadical Publishing in the Age of Trump, War and Climate Crisis w/ Liz Frances (G&R 364)
In our latest, Scott talks with Liz Francis, founder and publisher of Street Noise Books (@streetnoisebook) about publishing radical and progressive comics and…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsCeasefire or More War? Fadi Kafeety on the Current Middle East Situation (Part Two) (G&R 363)
Part two of Bob's conversation with Fadi Kafeety, executive director of the Jerusalem Fund, about the long history of the region as well as current problems…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsPrez Day Special: How Neoliberals Paved the Way for MAGA (G&R 362)
It’s President’s weekend! Bob and Scott celebrate by discussing the recent history of the presidency and look at how neoliberals Clinton, Bush and Obama paved…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsCeasefire or More War? Fadi Kafeety on the Current Crisis in the Middle East (Part One) (G&R 361)
Fadi Kafeety of the Jerusalem Fund had a long conversation with Bob about the current crisis in the Middle East. There's been a ceasefire in Gaza, but the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals“They Live”…. Bad Taste for A Good Cause with activist Jeff Grubler (G&R 360)
In our latest, we talk creative resistance with our old friend and comrade Jeff Grubler. In the opening segment of this episode, we share a video Jeff’s new…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsSyria and the larger war in the Middle East, w/ Journalist Charles Glass (G&R 359)
Bob had a great conversation w/ Charles Glass, who was the ABC News correspondent from the Middle East throughout the 80s and 90s, and has written countless…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsDeep Dive on the Climate Crisis w/ Prof. Lucas Vargas Zeppetello (G&R 358)
In our latest on "Climate in the Age of Trump," we talk with Prof. Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, climate scientist at UC Berkeley and do a deep dive into the the…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsOrganizing to End Chevron's Support for Genocide w/ Dov Baum (G&R 357)
In our latest, we talk about Chevron's energy partnership with Israel with Dov Baum, director of the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) Action Center…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsTrump's No Longer the Joke, He's the Status Quo w/ journalist Will Potter (G&R 355)
In our latest, we talk with author and journalist Will Potter about the new status quo that will be the second Trump administration. We discuss the threats to…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsMedia in the Age of War and Resistance w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman, Dennis Bernstein and Bob Buzzanco (G&R 354)
On January 16th, we hosted an in-person panel in Berkeley, CA to discuss media in the age of Trump, war and resistance, why it matters and how to stand in…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsWhy Is Wall St. Backpedaling on Its Climate Commitments? w/ Climate Organizer Liv Senghor (G&R 353)
In our latest episode in our series on Climate in the Age of Trump, Scott talks with Liv Senghor about Wall Street's backpedaling on its commitments to phase…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsHow Big Oil Covered Up Climate Change 70 Years Ago w/ Rebecca John (G&R 352)
We’ve long known that the fossil fuel industry, and front groups like the Western States Petroleum Association, has created a system of denial and…
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Green and Red Live Event in Berkeley on Jan. 16th!
Join us on January 16th at 7pm for a panel on Media in the age of war and resistance. The panel will feature Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein, Nora…
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American Tunes: RIP Jimmy Carter, 2024 End of Year Wrap Up (G&R 351)
In our wrap up episode for 2024, we talk about the recently departed Jimmy Carter, our top five episodes (each) for 2024, those we lost that, including Kris…
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R.I.P. Jimmy Carter: Liberal Saint Now, Neo-Liberal War Criminal Then (G&R 350)
Jimmy Carter passed away today at the age of 100. As ex-president, he was a person we should all aspire to be- Habitat for Humanity, the Democracy Program that…
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The Green New Deal from Below w/ Jeremy Brecher (G&R 349)
In our latest, we discuss the Green New Deal from Below, and his new book on the topic, with author, historian and activist Jeremy Brecher. Bio// Jeremy…
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Luigi Mangione and Anger in America (G&R 348)
In our latest, we discuss the topic on everyone’s mind in America- the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione (allegedly). We…
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The Democrats are a Party of War! Liberals and the Military-Industrial Complex (G&R 347)
The NY Times recently published an essay titled "When Did Liberals Become So Comfortable with War?" This is a conventional media trope--that the Democrats were…
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A is for Anarchy: The Politics of “Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta” Creator Alan Moore w/ Kristian Williams (G&R 346)
Alan Moore is one of the most important comic book and graphic novel creators in the business. His work has subverted the comic book genre and put radical…
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The Battle in Seattle, 25 years later, part 6. Encore episode w/ Lisa Sachs (G&R 345)
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in…
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The "Battle in Seattle" 25 Years Later, part 5. w/ the Houston Global Awareness Collective (G&R 344)
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in…
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The "Battle in Seattle" 25 Years Later, part 4 w/ Kevin Danaher (G&R 343)
"They're writing a constitution for the entire planet that will impact everybody, every biological system, every crop, and nobody knows anything about them…
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The “Battle in Seattle” 25 years later Part 3 w/ organizer Chris Dixon (G&R 342)
"We did, in fact, prevent the first day of the [WTO] ministerial from occurring.” - Chris Dixon, Direct Action Network Organizer On November 30th, 1999, a huge…
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The “Battle in Seattle” 25 years later Part 2 w/ labor organizer Nancy Haque (G&R 341)
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in…
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The "Battle of Seattle" at 25, part 1: The Global Economy since World War II (G&R 340)
Green & Red Podcast is introducing a new series . . . The Battle of Seattle at 25! On November 30th 1999, protestors shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle and…
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Introducing our series on the 25th Anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" (G&R 339)
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in…
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Bolsonaro is Indicted! w/ journalist Mike Elk of Payday Report (G&R 338)
In our latest, Bob talks with Payday Report founder and senior labor reporter Mike Elk about the recent indictment of former Brazilian president Jair…
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Best of G&R: The Cuban Missle Crisis. Was JFK Really A Hero? (G&R 337)
61 years ago this weekend, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. There's a school of conspiracy that says he was killed because he was a secret peacenik…
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Corporate Oil Capture of UN Climate Talks Continues at COP29 w/ Climate Organizer Allie Rosenbluth (G&R 336)
The United Nations Climate talks, also know as COP29, is wrapping in Baku Azerbaijan this week. In a disturbing trend over the past few years, the largest…
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Trump's appeal to men and what the left can do about it w/ journalist Ryan Zickgraf (G&R 335)
The 2024 election was referred to many as the "gender election." We saw breathless stories by the media about Gen Z men, black men, Latino men and others…
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How the Media Incites Genocide in Palestine w/ Greg Shupak (G&R 334)
The genocide in Palestine continues, as does a widening of war in the Middle East in Lebanon, Iran, Syria and other places. Establishment media has been…
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Postmortem on Election 2024 : Noam Chomsky in 2022 on Why the Democrats Suck(G&R 333)
In a premortem from 2022, that is now a postmortem after yesterday's election, we are reposting our interview with Noam Chomsky from 2022 on the rightward…
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G&R's Working at the Election Day Blues (G&R 332)
The election is almost over! Trump is a bad guy and going to do bad things. Harris has supported a genocide and refuses to have even a small bit of daylight…
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"Inequality is Killing Us All," w/ Dr. Stephen Bezruchka (G&R 331)
"Poverty is a carcinogen"--Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, a longtime emergency room physician and med school professor, talked with us about his essential book…
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Flashpoints' Dennis Bernstein on Media in an Age of War and Resistance (G&R 330)
We had a fantastic interview w/ Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA's "Flashpoints" and longtime journalist on the Left who's inspired and helped so many of us…
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Mutual Aid in a Pandemic. NOLA Edition! With Jasmine Araujo from Southern Solidarity! (G&R 15)
In this episode, Jasmine Araujo of Southern Solidarity joins us to discuss Mutual Aid in a Pandemic, in New Orleans. She and her crew have set up shop and they…
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(New York) Yankee Imperialism: The World Series and the economics of baseball (G&R 329)
To celebrate the World Series we got together with our frequent-collaborator and great friend Clayton Lust (@claytonlust) to discuss the business of baseball…
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“Farm to Freedom:” The Vietnamese Diaspora in the U.S. and Their Home Gardens w/ Prof. Roy Vũ (G&R 328)
In our latest, we dive into the story of Vietnamese immigration to the U.S. following the war through the lens of food with our long time friend and colleague…
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"Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down"... Remembering Kris Kristofferson and His Politics (G&R 327)
In the third installment of our Arts and Culture series, we talked about the life and politics of the late music legend Kris Kristofferson. We discussed his…
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Miracle in the Beanfield: Robert Redford's “Milagro Beanfield War” (G&R 327)
In our second installment in our new "Green & Red Arts and Culture Series" we talked about the book and movie *The Milagro Beanfield War." While is a…
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Mad Men and Capitalism: Green and Red's Arts and Culture Series (G&R 326)
Green and Red is starting a new series that talks about how art and culture develop and raise political consciousness. We'll be putting out episodes that talk…
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A Year of Genocide & Resistance: Israel's war on Palestine, w/ Scholar Fadi Kafeety (G&R 325)
To commemorate the first-year anniversary of Israel's onslaught against Gaza (and now Lebanon and Iran) we talked w/ scholar Fadi Kafeety, who provided us with…
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Mutual Aid and Disaster Relief in North Carolina w/ Matt from Rural Organizing and Resilience (G&R 324)
CAT 4 Hurricane Helene hit the southeast U.S. causing billions in destruction and at least 230 deaths. Western North Carolina was hit particularly hard…
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"De-Escalation Through Escalation".. Israel's Wars and All the Politics w/ Eugene Puryear (G&R 323)
Over the past week, Israel has begun a major escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon with the "pager attack" on the Lebanese population, assassinations of…
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America's Disorder: The Frontier, Violence, Cowboys, and Trump, w/ Richard Slotkin (G&R 322)
Richard Slotkin has written some of the more important books explaining the way Americans have created myths to justify slavery, repression, and empire…
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Globalize Liberation: 20 Years of Uprooting the System and Building Better Worlds w/ David Solnit (G&R 321)
In 2004, organizer and arts organizer David Solnit published the anthology "Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World." In the…
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The Ruling Class vs. Trump, 2024 Edition . . . and Harris gets right-wing support (G&R 320)
In our latest episode, returning to a theme we discussed frequently in 2020-2021 we talked about the various ruling class forces opposed to Donald Trump's…
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Best of G&R: Remembering 9/11 (G&R 319)
Last night's debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris brought up many issues of war in the Middle East and Palestine on the eve of the anniversary of…
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"Nasty Politics".... Political Violence in America w/ Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff (G&R 318)
H. Rap Brown once said "violence is as American as cherry pie." We’ve seen an increase in rhetoric around violence in American politics particularly from the…
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America’s Long Hot Summer: Biden, Harris, the heroic Rashida Tlaib, and more! (G&R 312)
Green and Red has been on summer break while some of the biggest stories of the year happened.In our latest episode, in a wide ranging discussion on U.S…
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Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land in Indonesia w/ Anthropologist David Gilbert (G&R 317)
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers in the Sumatran uplands began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years…
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DNC Update from the Streets of Chicago w/ David Martinez (G&R 317)
The Democratic National Convention is underway with lots of action inside and outside the convention hall. Scott talks with activist David Martinez to get a…
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Exxon Disrupted at the DNC! w/ Oil Change's Collin Rees (G&R 316)
Yesterday, at a side event at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, climate activists, including a DNC member from the California delegation…
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Democrats in 1968 and 2024... Deja Vu (G&R 315)
The Democratic National Convention is this week in Chicago. Lots of action inside and outside the convention hall. Bob and Scott discuss the 1968 Democratic…
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Lebanon in the crosshairs of Israel's wider war, w/ Professor Nate George (G&R 314)
Continuing our look into Israel's wider wars in the Middle East, Bob talked with Professor Nate George (@nategeorge00) of the School of Oriental and African…
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Iran in the crosshairs of Israel's wider war, w/ Professor Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (G&R 313)
Professor Eskandar Sadeghi (@eskandersadeghi) returns to Green & Red to discuss the latest developments in Israel's aggression toward Iran and its widening…
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Nuclear is Not the Solution to the Climate Crisis! w/ M.V. Ramana (G&R 311)
The climate crisis has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs…
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Boeing is Guilty: Ohio anti-genocide activists take action. w/ the co-hosts of the Dugout (G&R 310)
In March, dozens of anti-genocide activists took action at the Boeing facility in Heath, OH. Five were arrested and are being prosecuted for their non-violent…
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The Bloody History Behind Chiquita’s Big Loss w/ Guillermo Mosquera and Dr. Rodrigo Acuna (G&R 309)
In a landmark case in Florida, a federal jury has ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay over $38 million in damages to the families of eight Colombian…
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Stop Cop City Defendants Still Facing Terror Charges w/ Priscilla Grim (G&R 308)
Cop City still remains an ongoing struggle. After the 2023 assassination of forest defender Tortuguita by the Georgia police, environmental and social justice…