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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 Radicals
Chile's 9/11. Fifty Years After the Coup w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña and Dr. Clinton Fernandes (G&R 246)
"The Other 9/11" occurred 50 years ago, a military-organized coup against the Socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende, with the support of U.S. and…
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Best of G&R: May Day vs Labor Day. How the ruling class stops radical organizing. (G&R 178)
Happy Labor Day tender ones! Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, Bob and Scott talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to…
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The New McCarthyism, w/ Jodie Evans of Code Pink talking about New York Times smear campaign (G&R 245)
A few weeks ago the New York Times published a hit piece on Jodie Evans and her partner Neville Roy Singham as well as Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental and…
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Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs. Radical Organizing (G&R 244)
Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day, the co-optation strategy behind it, and current conditions for…
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Talking Trash: The Global Garbage Crisis w/ Oliver Franklin-Wallis (G&R 243)
In much of the developed world, waste is out of sight and out of mind. The world generates around 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, with at…
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Apple's diversity commitments end when asked to do the right thing w/ organizer Robby Diesu (G&R 242)
Like many corporations in Silicon Valley, Apple claims to be supportive of the LGBQT community. Even more than most as Apple's CEO Tim Cook is openly gay and…
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Journalist Will Potter on How the State and the Media Go After Radical Movements (G&R 241)
We’re in an unprecedented rollback of civil liberties. States are passing laws to outlaw protests and direct action, charging non-violent protesters with…
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Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines (G&R 240)
The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years…
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Best of G&R: Hiroshima and "Atomic Diplomacy," 78 Years Later (G&R 239)
It's the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. With decisions to drop atomic bombs being discussed with the release of Christopher Nolan's…
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Noam Chomsky on 9/11 . . . Interview w/ Bob Buzzanco on 9/13/2001, from the Green & Red Archives (G&R 238)
On September 13th, 2001, G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco was fortunate to have one, if not the, first interviews w/ Noam Chomsky about the terrorist attacks of 9/11…
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Direct Action Gets the Goods: Stop Cop City, Animal Liberation and more ft. Jake Conroy (G&R 238)
We welcome back our friend, comrade and maker of trouble Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) to discuss the state of direct action. We talk about the state repression…
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Woody Guthrie's Birthday Hootenanny, w/ Prof Mark Jackson . . . Green & Red Encore from 2022 (G&R 237)
Woody Guthrie is the most influential political singer and songwriter of the 20th Century. July 14th is Woody's 110th birthday, so we had a fantastic…
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Noam Chomsky on the Coming War w/ Iraq--October 2002 from the Green & Red Archives (G&R 236)
We've introduced a new feature . . . Green & Red Archives. We're putting out encore episodes of some older talks and events that Scott and I have organized or…
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"The Last Honest Man": The Church Committee and the U.S. Empire w/ Pulitzer-winner James Risen (G&R 235)
James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer winner and investigative journalist who's just written a great book about Senator Frank Churck, *The Last Honest Man.* In…
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Power and Participation in Union Negotiations w/ author Abby Lawlor (G&R 234)
Union organizing is on the rise. Headlines regularly highlight worker organizing drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces. Bosses and politicians like…
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Trump Was A Joke! Countering Trump's Absurdity with Satire w/ Prof. Sophia McClennen (G&R 233)
Trump’s public life has long been a target of comedians and satirists. His notorious thin skin often led to him lashing out on Twitter and Truth Social at the…
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Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, 1931-2023 (February 2003 Speech in Houston) (G&R 232)
Today we're all saddened to hear that Daniel Ellsberg had died. Ellsberg's life is well-known, and he's one of the more important figures in the history of…
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Ukraine Update: Time to end "an unwinnable war" (G&R 231)
We got together to discuss the war in Ukraine. Currently the US is continuing to send money and military equipment to Ukraine, but conditions on the…
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Why the Left Must Oppose Nuclear Power w/ Journalist Joshua Frank (G&R 230)
In our latest episode, we talk with journalist Joshua Frank (@joshua_frank) about his book, "Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America,"…
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Best of G&R: Don't Mess with the Archivists! Donald Trump's Documents Troubles. (G&R 230)
With Trump's federal indictment around his hoarding of classified documents, we thought it'd be good to repost this episode from September. Enjoy! Donald Trump…
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Three Atlanta Legal Workers Arrested For Alleged "Financial Crimes" w/ CLDC's Lauren Regan (G&R 228)
Since the murder of forest defender Tortuguita last January, we've seen an escalation on the Stop Cop City by both activists and police. 34 people have been…
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How To Blow Up A Pipeline w/ director Daniel Goldhaber (G&R 227)
"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" is an environmental-climate crisis action-thriller film. It's based on Andreas Malm's book of the same name. The New York Times…
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Memorial Day w/ antiwar veteran Henri from the "Fortress on a Hill" Podcast (G&R 226)
The U.S. is synonymous with forever wars and empire. U.S. troops sit in 70% of the world's nations on about 800 bases. Culturally, we're taught that this…
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War is Not Green ft. Teddy Ogborn w/ CODEPINK (G&R 225)
The rise of militarism and the climate crisis are intertwined in a myriad of ways. The Pentagon is largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world…
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Best of G&R: May 19th! The Legacies of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X (both born today) (G&R 224)
In this very special episode from 2020, we celebrate the shared birthday of iconic revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X, both born on May 19th (1890 and…
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Best of G&R: Inside "The White House Plumbers" w/ author Matt Krogh (G&R 223)
HBO just premiered a new mini-series called "The White House Plumbers" starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux. It's based on a book by former Nixon…
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Best of G&R: The Importance of Karl Marx w/ Prof. David McNally (G&R 222)
Karl Marx would have been 205 today. So we're re-sharing our birthday episode interview with Prof. David McNally about Marx from 2022. David McNally is one of…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsBest of G&R: Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming . . . 52 Years After the Kent State Killings (G&R 159)
It's the 52nd anniversary of the killings at Kent State University. In a special encore episode, we're reposting our episode from 2020. In this episode, we…
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Best of G&R: Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming . . . 53 Years After the Kent State Killings (G&R 221)
It's the 53rd anniversary of the killings at Kent State University. In a special encore episode, we're reposting our episode from 2020. In this episode, we…
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It’s Scrappy May Day! The History of Labor Struggle, Tucker & the Deep State and Bernie ❤️’s Biden. (G&R 220)
It’s scrappy May Day! Bob and Scott break down May Day with a little history of labor struggle from 1877-1937, current labor struggles including unionization…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Aims to Pardon Racist Murderer Daniel Perry ft. Truthout's Candice Bernd (G&R 219)
In July 2020, former US Army Sgt. Daniel Perry shot and killed Garrett Foster, a racial justice protester and Air Force veteran, at a Black Lives Matter rally…
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George Kennan's Life Between Worlds w/ Prof. Frank Costigliola (G&R 218)
In our latest, we talk with historian Professor Frank Costigliola, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, about the life of…
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American Folly: Iraq War at 20 (G&R 217)
Scott and Bob got together to commemorate, actually reminisce, about the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq. We talked about the ramp-up to the war, especially…
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How the FBI Disrupted Racial Justice Movements in Colorado w/ Journalist Trevor Aaronson (G&R 216)
In the summer of 2020, an FBI informant posing as an antifa warrior in a silver hearse loaded with guns descended on protests to infiltrate and disrupt…
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Andrew Bacevich on Ukraine, China and Our Perilous Future (G&R 215)
We had a really great conversation with Andrew Bacevich, one of the most astute, if not the preeminent, critics of American foreign policy today. We talked…
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Seymour Hersh on How the U.S. Blew Up the Nordstream Pipeline (G&R 214)
Legendary reporter Seymour Hersh joins Green and Red Podcast! In our latest, we talk with Seymour Hersh about his bombshell article exposing the U.S…
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Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Judge Rejects Restraining Order ft. Candice Bernd w/ Truthout (G&R 213)
In our latest, Scott talks with return guest Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) about the latest from on the ground in Atlanta. Candice Bernd is senior editor/staff…
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Texas is a Drag. Armed Groups Defend Texas Drag Queens from the Far Right w/ Truthout's Candice Bernd (G&R 211)
As reactionary politics heat up in Texas, armed community and left groups have begun confronting a coalition of neo-nazis, white supremacists, Proud Boys and…
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Why Not Riot? w/ Ben Case; Plus Celebrating Jen Angel (G&R 210)
There's a Riot Going On! We didn't talk to Sly Stone, we did even better. We talked with Ben Case (@benjamscase) the author of a provocative new book, “Street…
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What's *Really* Happening in Peru, part 2, w/ Professor Carla Toche Casalino in Lima (G&R 209)
We continued our discussion with Professor Carla Toche Casalino (@tochecasalino) in Peru about the ongoing crisis there after the December coup that ousted…
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Documents Show How Police Charged Atlanta Forest Defenders with "Domestic Terrorism" w/ Alleen Brown (G&R 208)
Last week, we spoke with a local Atlanta organizer about the tragic murder of Atlanta forest defender Tortuguita by Georgia State Police. We’re following up…
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Noam Chomsky on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War (G&R 207)
January 27th will mark the 50th Anniversary of the peace treaty that ended the American war against Vietnam, and Bob had a long discussion with Noam Chomsky…
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Police Murder Forest Defender Near Atlanta’s Proposed “Cop City” (G&R 206)
A forest defender, Manuel Teran, AKA “Tortuguita" or "Tort," was shot and killed by police on Wednesday during a violent raid of the protest camp and community…
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Vietnam . . . 50 Years Later (G&R 205)
On January 27th, 1973 the U.S. signed a peace treaty that ended its war in Vietnam so Scott and Scott and Bob got together to discuss the last stages of the…
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Did the C.I.A Kill JFK? A Discussion b/t Jefferson Morley and Bob Buzzanco (G&R 204)
The Kennedy Conspiracy is growing even stronger, in large part due to the work of Jefferson Morley, both in writing about it and more importantly in pressing…
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"Truth to the Powerless": New Series Criticizes Canadian Foreign Policy w/ Pitasanna Shanmugathas (G&R 203)
In our latest, we talk with Pitasanna Shanmugathas (@pitasanna) about his docuseries "Truth to the Powerless." In this six part series, "Truth to the…
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Best of G&R: Capitol Riots and The Ruling Class (G&R 202)
It's the 2nd anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Riot. So we're reposting our episode breaking down some of the Ruling Class politics in that moment (and…
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Making Sense of the Senseless War in Ukraine w/ Peace Activist Medea Benjamin (G&R 200)
**It's Green and Red's 200th episode!! Excited to be wrapping up almost three years with you. It's the end of the year, so if you're thinking about donating to…
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What's REALLY Happening in Peru? w/ Political Scientist Carla Toche Casalino (G&R 199)
As the major U.S. media continues to support the removal and imprisonment of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo along typical imperial/colonial lines, we…
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How Green Amendments Can Empower Environmental Protection w/ environmentalist Maya van Rossum (G&R 198)
As the climate crisis and toxic pollution worsen, environmentalists are using new strategies to challenge the power of the fossil fuel, petro-chemical and…
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Our comrades at the Certain Days:Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar collective have begun sales of their 2023 calendar. The project is a joint…
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Dancing on the Ruins: On Music and Politics w/ Casey Neill (G&R 197)
How has music inspired politics, and vice versa? In our latest episode, we talk with activist and musician Casey Neill (@caseyneill) about music, politics…
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UC Strike Enters Third Week, Banner Action at the Cal-UCLA Football Game w/ Adrian Wilson (G&R 196)
The University of California (UC) academic worker strike entered its third week this week. The largest academic worker in U.S. history and the administration…
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Remembering Staughton Lynd. The Green & Red Interview [2020] Encore (G&R 195)
One of the eminent intellectuals/activists of our time, Staughton Lynd, died yesterday, and Scott and Bob paid tribute to him as the introduction to a reprise…
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How Dirty is Clean Energy? ft. Raquel Dominguez w/ Earthworks (G&R 194)
We’re currently seeing a drive towards the growth of the renewable energy (RE) sector. We’re seeing a new iteration of corporate liberalism which allows the…
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There is Power in a Union As Thousands of Academic Workers Set to Strike in California (G&R 193)
Over 36,000 academic workers across the University of California's (UC) 10-campus system held a strike authorization vote. The vote passed with nearly 98%…
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#COP27: Update from Sharm Al Sheikh in Egypt (G&R 192)
The 27th meeting of the United Nations Climate talks, or COP27m is happening in Sharm El Sheikh, a coastal resort town in Egypt. The gathering is happening…
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Punching Left: Why the Democrats Suck, part 2, and R.I.P. Mike Davis (G&R 191)
The Democratic Party is about to get pummeled in the mid-term elections next week. Scott and Bob followed up on their recent discussion with Noam Chomsky on…
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The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Was JFK Really A Hero? (G&R 190)
60 years ago this month, in October 1962, Americans anxiously heard news for almost two weeks straight about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, less than…
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My Heroes Have Always Been Wobblies w/ Country Troubadour Mike Hellman (G&R 188)
Mike Hellman is country and americana musician writing songs, putting out albums and playing gigs in Texas, California and beyond. But he also has organized…