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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
The Protests in Iran, with Professor Giuseppe Acconcia (G&R 187)
The "hijab protests" in Iran have continued and intensified for weeks now, and we talked to a journalist and scholar with a longtime familiarity with the…
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Defending Mendocino’s Sacred Sites w/ the Pomo Land Back and Save Jackson Forest Campaigns (G&R 186)
The "Mendocino War" was a bloody conflict between the Yuki tribe and white settlers in Northern California. White settlers raided and stole Yuki lands and…
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Best of G&R: The Bloody Legacies of Columbus w/ History Prof. Michael Oberg (G&R 185)
In this episode, we get into the legacies of Columbus and America's genocide of Indigenous people with Prof. Michael Oberg (@nativeamtext), the larger problems…
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Is Giorgia Meloni the Next Mussolini? Italian Politics w/ Prof. Francesco Mazzucotelli (G&R 184)
Just after Giorgia Meloni's far-right Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party won enough votes to likely make her Prime Minister, we had a great…
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Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (G&R 183)
Republicans go to war . . . Democrats go to brunch! The past 50 years have seen a dramatic shift to the far-right in American politics. On the heels of the…
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Dousing the BBC's Fake News Before It Can "Burn Wild" w/ Former ELF Member Daniel McGowan (G&R 182)
The BBC has released a new podcast series called "Burn Wild." It tells the story of radical environmental movements 20 years ago, the Earth Liberation Front…
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Don't Mess with the Archivists! Donald Trump's Documents Troubles. And R.I.P. Barbara Ehrenreich (G&R 181)
Donald Trump might finally be in real trouble, because of . . . archivists? Green and Red shows the love to archivists and librarians! We had a good discussion…
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Best of G&R: Remembering 911 (G&R 180)
The last of our "Best of's" for a minute. We'll be back with new episodes next week. In the meantime, here's our 2020 "Remembering 911" episode for the…
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Best of G&R: Populism and the New Deal . . . Do Those Words Mean What You Think They Mean? (G&R 179)
Not unlike our (not so) esteemed leadership in Congress, Green and Red is out on a little summer recess. We will be back with new episodes soon. In the…
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Best of G&R: The Military vs. Donald J. Trump. Generals Tell Trump to "Stand Down!" (G&R 176)
Not unlike our (not so) esteemed leadership in Congress, Green and Red will be out on a little August recess. We will be back with new episodes soon. In the…
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The Ruling Class v. Donald J. Trump Redux. The FBI "Visits" Mar-A-Lago and Trump's War with his Generals (G&R 175)
No more Panic Porn! Many/most liberals and much of the left has been panicking and in fear over "fascism" and "coups" for the past couple years--we call it…
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Iraq, Oil, Capitalism, and the U.S. War w/ Prof. Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (G&R 174)
Bob had a great talk (Scott's on assignment) with Professor Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@hunnicuttwolfe) of Cal State-Stanislaus, author of *The Paranoid Style in…
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Leslie James Pickering on the ELF, the Green Scare and "Burning Books" (G&R 173)
From the 1980s through the 2000s, there was a period of growth in militant environmental and animal rights movements. This movement had a radical…
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Leave the Gun, Take the Podcast: "The Godfather at 50" and its political meaning (G&R 172)
"The Godfather" movies are on the short list of the most consequential American films ever, not just for their cinematic quality but because they've become a…
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The George Floyd Uprisings Are Still Happening... For Those Doing Time (G&R 171)
In May 2020, we saw millions hit the streets over the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It’s been argued to be the largest protests in history. The…
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Woody Guthrie Turns 110! His Life and Politics w/ Prof. Mark Allan Jackson (G&R 170)
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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Donate to Green & Red Podcast, Get Books!
We’ve gotten a lot more donors this year and we really appreciate it and we’d like to have a few more. We run on a shoestring budget but we do have to pay for…
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsAnimal Liberation and Direct Action ft. Jake Conroy and Tylor Starr w/ Radicals and Revolutionaries (G&R 169)
In our latest, we're joined by our friend and comrade Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) and his co-host Tylor Starr (@TylorStarr). We talk about their new podcast…
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Blood-Soaked America ft. Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz and Charlton Heston (G&R 165)
It's a bleak outlook for America these days-- mass shootings, the end of Roe vs. Wade, inflation, culture wars and the rise of the far right. Bob and Scott…
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We started as a couple of kids with a big silky smooth dream-- the Green and Red Podcast. Over the past two years, we've built a small grassroots radical media…
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Ukraine in the Brain w/ Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and George W. Bush (G&R 164)
The ruling class follies continue both at home and abroad. Another $40 billion going to aid the Ukrainian war effort while there are baby formula and COVID…
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Best of G&R: May 19th! The Legacies of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X (G&R 162)
Repost of our 2020 episode celebrating M19!In this very special episode, we celebrate the shared birthday of iconic revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X…
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The End of Roe vs. Wade: Texas, Abortion and Mutual Aid ft. reporter Candice Bernd w/ Truthout (G&R 162)
Texas' right wing establishment has waged war on abortion and abortion providers for many years. In 2013, Texas HB 2 closed 23 abortion clinics and led to an…
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The End of Roe vs. Wade: Reproductive Rights and Direct Action ft. Hope w/ Shutdown DC (G&R 161)
Last week, a draft of a brief overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico causing an uproar in many sectors. This decision will put the health and safety of…
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Ukraine and the Fog of War ft. Jodie Evans w/ Code Pink (G&R 160)
The Green and Red Seminar on the war in Ukraine continues! As the head of NATO says that the allies are prepared to support the Ukraine war effort for years to…
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The Importance of Karl Marx w/ Prof. David McNally (G&R 159)
David McNally is one of the more important Marxist scholars in the world, and we talked to him today on the anniversary of Karl Marx's birth--May 5th, 1818…
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Best of G&R: May Day vs Labor Day. How the ruling class stops radical organizing. (G&R 158)
Happy May Day tender comrades! 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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How Union Organizing Fights the Boss w/ union organizer Daisy Pitkin (G&R 157)
We're in the midst of a new era of momentum and militancy around labor organizing. We're seeing headline grabbing organizing campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon…
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Earth Day Special! The Fossil Fuel Resistance is Fertile! (G&R 156)
The first Earth Day was in 1970 after decades of conservation and environmental advocacy from Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" to real life monkey wrenchers in…
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Oliver Stone's JFK Conspiracy: The Buzzanco-DiEugenio Debate (G&R 153)
Recently G&R co-host and award-winning historian Bob Buzzanco debated Oliver Stone's writer on his documentary "JFK Revisited," James DiEugenio, about Stone's…
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More NATO Liberals: From the End of the Cold War to War in Ukraine (G&R 152)
Part two of our deep background on the NATO liberals. In this episode, we get into the post-Cold War presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden…
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From Environmentalist to "Domestic Terrorist" with former Earth Liberation member Daniel McGowan (G&R 150)
In the past ten years, we’ve also seen state repression of movements coming out of Occupy Wall Street, the Ferguson uprising, Standing Rock, Line 3 and various…
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Making a Killing: Corporate Arms Makers and Ukraine with William Hartung (G&R 148)
In December, the Pentagon got a $768 billion budget approved, despite the withdrawal from Afghanistan, with the aim to counter China and build Ukraine's…
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U.S. Empire and Ukraine w/ Prof. Clinton Fernandes- Part 2 (G&R 147)
Part two of our wide-ranging conversation with our good friend Prof. Clinton Fernandes on the U.S. empire and Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. In this second…
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U.S. Empire and Ukraine w/ Prof. Clinton Fernandes- Part 1 (G&R 146)
Our latest episode on the Ukraine is a wide-ranging conversation with our good friend Prof. Clinton Fernandes on the U.S. empire and Russia's invasion of the…
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Beyond Good vs Bad: More Background on Ukraine and Russia (G&R 143)
We've got another briefing on the larger contexts of the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Sure, Putin is a horrible and brutal force in the world…
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Deep Background on Ukraine and Russia (G&R 142)
Welcome back to G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco! We wish we had a happier story to share today for his return. This week, Russia invaded the Ukraine sparking the…
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The Freedom Convoy, the Left and the Canadian State w/ Prof. Roberta Lexier and organizer James Hutt (G&R 141)
For a month, a group of truckers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers and various elements of Canada's far right occupied the streets around Canada's capital in Ottawa…
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The Myth of California's Climate Exceptionalism ft. Gary Graham Hughes w/ Biofuelwatch (G&R 140)
California prides itself on being more progressive than most on solving the issue of the climate crisis. Whether it's phasing out the internal combustion…
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Policing the Line 3 Pipeline ft. Alleen Brown w/ the Intercept (G&R 139)
Last year, Indigenous women led movements waged a fierce campaign to stop Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. Police escalated in a multitude of ways (felony charges…
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Collin College strikes again! Dr. Michael Phillips, award-winning scholar, fired! (G&R 138)
Another professor from Collin College has been fired in retaliation for speaking out against President Neil Matkin's continued rejection of their First…
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Col. Andrew Bacevich on the Deepening Crisis in Ukraine (G&R 137)
Rising tensions in eastern Europe between the U.S. and Russia over the Ukraine have dominated the news. We discuss the situation with scholar and retired Army…
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The Best Political Television Shows of All Time! (G&R 136)
At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can politicize and radicalize people. We've already done shows on sports and activism…
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Why Oliver Stone and "JFK Revisited" are Full of S**t! (G&R 135)
Oliver Stone's new documentary "JFK Revisited" have been hitting the airwaves of late claiming to have a "smoking gun" about the assassination of John F…
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Best of G&R: Martin Luther King Jr.-- Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 134)
In celebration of MLK's 93rd birthday, we're re-posting two episodes about Martin Luther King Jr. Here's the second one from January 18th, 2021. In it, we talk…
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Best of G&R: Martin Luther King's Radicalism and the Limits of the Liberal State (G&R 133)
In celebration of MLK's 93rd birthday, we're re-posting two episodes about Martin Luther King Jr. Here's the first one from April 4th, 2020, the 52nd…
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Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (G&R 132)
Noam Chomsky returns to the Green and Red Podcast! In a new interview, Bob talks with Prof. Chomsky in detail about Oliver Stone's new documentary "JFK…
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The “Rainforest Chernobyl:” Chevron, Ecuador and the Persecution of Steven Donziger (G&R 129)
We go into a deep background on Chevron, their poisoning of the Ecuadoran Amazon and the company's persecution of attorney Steven Donziger. While drilling in…
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Prof. Alex Vitale on Politics and Policing (G&R 128)
For many years, black and brown Americans living in cities, towns and rural areas across the nation have rightfully been afraid of uniformed officers. Far too…
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Johnny Cash's Politics, w/ historian Michael Stewart Foley (G&R 127)
*Citizen Cash: The Political Life of Johnny Cash* is a fantastic new book by Michael Stewart Foley, and we sat down and talked to him all about it. This is a…
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Thank you for everything!
Hi all- As 2021 comes to an end, we just wanted to say a very heartfelt "THANKS" to all of you. We've seen our audience double in size this year. We've tackled…
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Celebrating "America's greatest intellectual" Noam Chomsky (G&R 126)
Cited as "America's greatest intellectual," Noam Chomsky is know for his deep critique of the ruling class and his role in supporting movements fighting it. As…
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(Don't) Play Ball! The MLB Owners Lockout, with Mike Elk of Payday Report (G&R 125)
Mike Elk, frequent guest and great friend of Green & Red, sat down with Bob to discuss the Major League Baseball owners lockout of the players amid talks for a…
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The Battle in Seattle, 22 Years Later w/ the Shutdown WTO Organizers History Project (G&R 124)
It’s the 22nd anniversary of the direct action shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. The WTO is a transnational economic…
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Strike! Mike Elk of "Payday Report" talks about current labor conflicts (G&R 123)
Mike Elk of Pay Day Report joined Bob to talk about the current state of labor conflicts in the U.S. Huntington Steel, a Warren Buffet company, is on strike…
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COP26: Why the Climate Movement Needs Even More Direct Action w/ Rising Tide North America (G&R 122)
In our final interview from COP 26 in Glasgow, Scott welcomes Lisa Winter and (welcomes back) Alex Cohen with Rising Tide North America (@risingtideNA) to…
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Why The Democrats Won't Save Us in Virginia, Buffalo or Glasgow (G&R 121)
It's a liberal bashing Friday! Bob and Scott talk about the state of the Democrats in the wake of the Virginia, New Jersey and Buffalo elections. They talk…
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"It's a greenwash trade show": Climate, Forests and Corporate Power at COP26 (G&R 120)
The UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26) is in its second week. It's been marked by large street protests, a "greenwash trade show" inside the meetings and…
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The Best Political Movies of All Time (Part 2). Bob & Scott talk about their favorite Lefty films. (G&R 119)
Green & Red Goes Hollywood! At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can politicize and radicalize people. We've already done shows on…
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80,000,000 Bombs in Laos: A Conversation with Sera Koulabdara of "Legacies of War" (G&R 118)
In this episode, Bob had a conversation with Executive Director Sera Koulabdara (@SeraKoulabdara) of "Legacies of War" about the 50+ year crisis of unexploded…