Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
360 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome 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 campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Forest Defenders Stage Tree-Sit in Southern Oregon (G&R 286)
April 17, 2024 05:06 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBForest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber sale, which targets thousands of acres of mature and old growth forest. Scott gets an update from two forest defenders fighting the timber sale. They talk about the campaign, community support for the tree-sit and how forest defense is climate defense. Bio// Grace (@sorisingtide) and Ratdaddy (@TreeSitUnion...
Scrappy Tax Day | Your Tax Dollars at Work. Lockheed Martin, "The Grapes of Wrath" and O.J.'s Legacy (G&R 285)
April 14, 2024 08:07 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIn our scrappy Tax Day episode, we get right down to it. We get into the anniversary of the publishing of "The Grapes of Wrath" and its significance on America and the American Left. We discuss how your tax dollars are subsidizing war profiteers like Lockheed Martin and keeping the war effort in Gaza going while paying for healthcare and public education in Israel. (Meanwhile America's masses are left to fend for themselves.) Scott also talks about a recent direct action at a Lockheed Mar...
Mike Elk of "Payday Report" . . . on the UAW vote in Chattanooga, and Brazil, and Sen. Fetterman (G&R 284)
April 12, 2024 20:48 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBBob had a great conversation w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report, a frequent G&R guest. They spent most of the time discussing the current UAW unionization drive in Chattanooga, how this election is different than previous failed votes in 2014 and 2019, and the prospects for labor in the coming months. They also discussed his time in Brazil, and the challenges Lula faces. And finally, Mike, who was always wary of Fetterman, politely declines an "I told you so" moment but lays out why the junior se...
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism is Dead, Welcome to Techno Feudalism (G&R 283)
April 03, 2024 23:03 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBYanis Varoufakis's new book provocatively argues that Capitalism is dead and has been replaced by a new group of wealthy people whom he calls Technofeudalists--Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. This new ruling class, whom he calls the "cloudalists," rules over all of us, and even other capitalists, like feudal lords ruled over vassals. Bio// Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader, and the author of numerous bestselling books. He was the finance minister of Greece in 2015. His latest book ...
How Labor and Climate Movements Are Building An Enduring Alliance w/ Jeff Ordower and Norman Rogers (G&R 282)
March 28, 2024 16:59 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBThe bosses have long pitted workers against those fighting pollution, extraction and the climate crisis. As the climate crisis worsens, labor unions and environmentalists have begun to build important new alliances to challenge the power of capital and industry. In the new anthology, "Power Lines," co-editors Jeff Ordower and Lindsey Zafir discuss the challenges and successes of this growing labor-climate movements. In our latest episode, Scott talks with Jeff Ordower (@moredower) and Norm...
That Flag Won't Get You into Heaven: My Lai, Rachel Corrie & Iraq War Anniversaries + Gas for Israel (G&R 281)
March 21, 2024 19:44 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn our latest, we talk about the American empire and it's dissenters. We get into the anniversaries of the My Lai massacre, the murder of activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza, the Vietnam era self-immolation of Alice Herz and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. We also talk about who's (literally) fueling the Israeli war machine. -------------------- Outro- "That Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven" by John Prine Links +Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza (https://bi...
"Fighting Times"... Radical Labor Organizing in the 1970s w/ Jonathan Melrod (G&R 280)
March 19, 2024 03:12 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBWe had a great conversation with longtime labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod where we discussed his life in activism, with a particular emphasis on labor organizing during the 70s and 80s, when deindustrialization began to shatter American jobs. Jonathan Melrod is a name synonymous with political activism, labor organization, and human rights advocacy. With his remarkable journey as a survivor of pancreatic cancer, he has defied odds and emerged as a beacon of resilience in the f...
How the FBI Began Its Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 279)
March 13, 2024 17:25 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBNewly obtained documents reveal that the U.S. government was monitoring environmental activists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline far earlier than previously known. Young, Native activists were among the government’s first targets. The FBI file describes Native American groups as a potentially dangerous threat and likens them to “environmental extremists” whose actions could lead to violence. The records also reveal for the first time that the State Department was involved in monitoring ac...
Liberals Celebrate International Women’s Day By Bombing Gaza (G&R 278)
March 11, 2024 00:16 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIn our latest Scrappy Sunday, we talk about the State of Disunion that liberals have wrought on the rest of us. We talk about International Women’s Day being celebrated while Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton bomb and exploit their way to power. Scott talks about anti-war direct actions in his hometown of Garland, TX and how Sen. Tom Cotten is calling for investigations of “left extremism” in the military after Aaron Bushnell’s death. All this and this week in radical history (which celebra...
"Chomsky and Me: A Memoir" . . . Bev Stohl's quarter-century as Chomsky's administrative aide (G&R 277)
March 06, 2024 06:45 - 54 minutes - 50 MBFor over 25 years Bev Stohl was the administrative aide to Noam Chomsky at MIT. But she was so much more than that . . . not only did she manage his office, but become a close personal friend. She recently wrote a memoir of her time with him at MIT and we had a fantastic and poignant conversation about what Noam is like in "real life," when he's not writing and speaking about world events. We found out that Noam thinks scotch provides him protein. That he loves pets. That after Ali G. g...
Don't Dismiss Aaron Bushnell's Act of Resistance w/ Anti-War Veteran Graham Clumpner (G&R 276)
March 02, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBLast Sunday, February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell killed himself by setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. He did this as an act of resistance to the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the IDF. He was just 25 years old. He was an active duty member of the US Air Force. He live streamed as walked to the embassy and said: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide.I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in P...
Occupy This! The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders w/ Activist Jay Ponti (G&R 275)
March 01, 2024 23:05 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBSome see Occupy Wall Street and the campaigns of Bernie Sanders as some sort of viral phenomenon, but don't recognize the importance that decades of organizing against neo-liberalism and empire played into the rise of these movements. Since these moments, we've seen a reshaping of the American political landscape. In our latest, Scott talks with author and activist Jay Ponti about his organizing work in the Occupy movements, and the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns. They...
I Voted for Joe Biden and All I Got was These Lousy Wars and More COVID (G&R 274)
February 26, 2024 06:19 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBIn our latest, we talk about the two year anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine. How COVID is worse than ever (it’s just no one is talking about it anymore). And how the titans of finance are backpedaling on their pledges to do something about the climate crisis. We also talk with entrepreneur Jeff Grubler about his new bottled water start up “Gaza Springs.” And the impact of Israel’s assault on local water supplies. (Ok, maybe Jeff’s really an antiwar street theater activist)....
How Israel is Making Gaza Unlivable ft. Counterpunch's Joshua Frank (G&R 273)
February 21, 2024 11:34 - 46 minutes - 43 MBIsrael’s genocide on Gaza has led to at least 30,000 dead (including 12,000 children). This past week, we saw the Israelis begin bombing on Rafah and a ground invasion of the last refugee haven in Gaza is expected at any time. But while the Israelis wage their ethnic cleansing campaign with bombs and bullets, they've also weaponized environmental destruction to make sure that no one can return to a land and water poisoned by their war machine. We talk with Joshua Frank (@joshua_frank) abou...
We've got Green and Red SCHWAG!
February 20, 2024 22:16 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBIt’s going to be a big year for Green and Red! And we’ve got schwag!! We've got these awesome Green and Red trucker caps. And then we've got many copies of G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco's first book "Masters of War." If you like what we do and want to support us: 1.) Make a donation of $25 or more and get a Green & Red hat. 2.) Make a $35 donation and get a copy of "Masters of War." How I get the G&R schwag? Just make a respective donation to https://bit.ly/3uFDRiP and then send us an email ...
Scrappy President's Day | War Pigs and Their Liberal Sponsors (G&R 272)
February 18, 2024 19:34 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn our special Scrappy President's Day episode, we talk about how socially conscious climate friendly funds are financing the largest weapons manufacturers on the planet. We also talk about the continuing ethnic cleansing of Gaza by Israel (funded by the U.S.A.). All this and a regular dose of radical history. We also show you a new video for "Gaza Springs." ------------------------------------------- Outro- "East Down and Bound" by Jerry Reed Links// + They’re Supposed to Be Socially ...
Scrappy Presidents Day | War Pigs and Their Liberal Sponsors (G&R 272)
February 18, 2024 19:34 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn our special Scrappy Presidents Day episode, we talk about how socially conscious climate friendly funds are financing the largest weapons manufacturers on the planet. We also talk about the continuing ethnic cleansing of Gaza by Israel (funded by the U.S.A.). All this and a regular dose of radical history. We also show you a new video for "Gaza Springs." ------------------------------------------- Outro- "East Down and Bound" by Jerry Reed Links// + They’re Supposed to Be Socially Co...
Texas Residents Say Border Being Invaded By Far Right Racists, Not Migrants w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 271)
February 16, 2024 03:29 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBAccording to the UN, the United States-Mexico border is the world's deadliest land route for migrants, with at least 686 deaths and disappearances in 2023. 148 of those deaths happened in the region along the Texas and New Mexico borders with Mexico. Texas's Gov. Greg Abbott has attempted to create a crisis in Eagle Pass, TX with deadly razor wire fencing and deploying national guard units to police the border. He's been supported by at least 14 Republican governors. Abbott has defied a ce...
Who Owns Peoples' Park? Berkeley's Historic Struggle. Ft. Mat Wranovix w/ Left in the Bay (G&R 270)
January 30, 2024 18:19 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis month, the University of California-Berkeley administration sent a small army of police to secure Peoples’ Park in the south side of campus. The police cleared the park of the people living there, and established walls of shipping containers surrounding the park.The university plans to build 1,100 new units of student housing and 125 units of supportive housing for unhoused people. In the late 1960s, the park was established by neighborhood locals, cultural revolutionaries and politic...
Charles Glass on Julian Assange, Middle East Politics and His New Book- "Soldiers Don't Go Mad" (G&R 269)
January 23, 2024 20:50 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBCharles Glass (@charlesmglass) is one of the more recognized and important journalists of the past couple generations and we had a great discussion with him. First, we discussed the case of Julian Assange, whom he visited in Belmarsh recently, and where it stands and what's coming up. Then we talked about the crisis in Palestine, which Glass is uniquely established to discuss given him past as a journalist in the area, including being ABC's correspondent from 1983 to 1993. Finally he told u...
Best of G&R: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of State Violence (G&R 268)
January 15, 2024 02:56 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBThis weekend, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, lots of Democratic politicians, Republican politicians and corporate weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel companies and Wall Street will engage in their annual performance praising Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of non-violence and racial harmony. This particularly disgusting in 2024 as Biden is pouring weapons into Israel fueling the slaughter of Palestinians, pouring weapons into Ukraine fueling a bloody war in Europe, bombing Yemen and so much more....
Jeremy Brecher on How Labor and Climate Movements Build Power from Below (G&R 267)
January 10, 2024 23:10 - 1 hour - 62 MBBob and Scott talk with author, labor historian and activist Jeremy Brecher who’s been engaged at the intersection of labor, the environment and the climate for decades. Over 50 years ago, Jeremy authored "Strike," a labor history classic. And then more recently he's worked at the intersection of the labor and climate movements. We talk with Jeremy about strikes, unions and union leadership since he first published "Strike;" the recent "Hot Labor Summer" of 2023; the labor-climate movements ...
The United Nations Climate Conference Agrees to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels. What Now? w/ Journalist Tina Gerhardt (G&R 266)
January 04, 2024 17:20 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBThe most recent United Nations Climate Conference resulted in an agreement between nearly 200 nations about the next steps in dealing with the climate crisis. It included for the first time ever language around transitioning away from fossil fuels. Heralded in some quarters as "the end of the era of fossil fuels," critics say the deal is filled with loopholes that will undermine efforts to combat the climate crisis. The final text fails to explicitly call for a phaseout of fossil fuels, lang...
Wrapping 2023. Remembering Arno Mayer, John Pilger and Other Comrades (G&R 265)
January 02, 2024 00:58 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBIn our final show of 2023 (which means we've now done 4 calendar years of episodes) we look back on the lives we lost this past year, with a special discussion of the brilliant Left historian Arno Mayer and the important legacy he's left us. We also gave tribute to John Pilger, Dan Ellsberg, Harry Belafonte, Norman Lear, Tom Smothers, and lots of others. We also talk about the work of organizers and movements and have a remembrance of Tortuguita (murdered by the Georgia State Police in the ...
"Calculated Barbarism" . . . US War Crimes in Vietnam and Gaza; Plus Another Copout at COP28 (G&R 264)
December 21, 2023 11:02 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBIn our latest scrappy episode, the Green & Red Gang segues from its this week in radical history discussion of the Christmas Bombings of 1972 to a comparison of the way that the U.S. fought, and holds responsibility for, the brutal wars in Vietnam and Gaza. We also talk about the latest United Nations Conference of Parties on the climate crisis (COP28). Held in a notorious petrostate, the United Arab Emirates, 200 countries agreed to begin a phase out of fossil fuels by 2050. also raises t...
"Rattling the Cages." An Oral History of North America's Political Prisoners w/ Josh Davidson (G&R 263)
December 20, 2023 21:28 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBIn our latest episode, Scott talks with Josh Davidson (@certaindays) co-editor of "Rattling the Cages," about his new oral history of political prisoners in North America. Josh, along with co-editor Eric King, has put together over 35 interviews of political prisoners and former political prisoners. From members of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Front to whistle-blower Chelsea Manning to members of SHAC and the Earth Liberation Front, the book dives into life on the inside ...
Destroying Gaza: Israel's Obscene and Evil 75 Year War on Palestinians (G&R 251)
December 17, 2023 23:13 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBIn this Scrappy episode, Scott and Bob talk about the current Israeli destruction of Gaza, with an emphasis on the long-term displacement and death of the Palestinians. We start with western policies at the end of the Ottoman Empire, the European colonization of the Middle East, and the American "special relationship" with Israel. Then we just discuss the pain of the current attack and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. ------------------------------------------------- Outro- "Shouting at the W...
Biden Will Lose in 2024, and Dems Will Blame the Left (G&R 254)
December 17, 2023 23:12 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBJoe Biden continues to subsidize and sponsor Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza and ignoring an already huge and growing antiwar movement. Yet the Democrats keep cramming him down the voters' throats despite abysmal polling numbers. And when he loses, they will blame the Left. Another terrible week in Gaza with 7,000 killed by Israel's war crimes. We're also seeing escalations in eastern Syria and on the Israel-Lebanese border. In the U.S., Zionists are attacking, canceling...
How State Violence in the Philippines is Propped Up by the U.S. w/ Human Rights Activist Brandon Lee (G&R 261)
December 11, 2023 18:50 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThe Philippines is one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, with 30 environmentalists murdered there in 2018. Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte notoriously called land and environmental activists communist sympathizers and terrorists in an effort to silence them. In August, 2019, human rights activist and land defender Brandon Lee was the target of an assassination attempt by the Duterte government. He'd been living in the Cordillera region on the...
How State Violence in the Philippines is Propped Up by the U.S. w/ Human Rights Activist Brandon Lee (G&R 262)
December 11, 2023 18:50 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThe Philippines is one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, with 30 environmentalists murdered there in 2018. Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte notoriously called land and environmental activists communist sympathizers and terrorists in an effort to silence them. In August, 2019, human rights activist and land defender Brandon Lee was the target of an assassination attempt by the Duterte government. He'd been living in the Cordillera region on the...
Kissinger is Finally Dead! Goodbye to a War Criminal . . . and the war in Ukraine muddles along (G&R 261)
December 08, 2023 19:58 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBHenry Kissinger died last week after 100 years of death and destruction. More than most, he embodied the foreign policy establishment. Kissinger was an architect of liberal post-war foreign policy and perpetrator of many wars, coups and body counts. He advised every president from JFK to Joe Biden. While many liberals reviled him, he mentored many policy makers in Democratic administrations including Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. In our latest episode, we...
Argentina's "Chainsaw Massacre" Election w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 260)
November 30, 2023 19:18 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBFar-right libertarian and dictatorship apologist Javier Milei has been elected president of Argentina, defeating centrist Peronist Sergio Massa. Milei won 56% of the vote, carrying 19 out of 23 provinces. He has been seen on the campaign trail brandishing a chainsaw, which he says he plans to take to the Argentine state. He has vowed to shut down Argentina’s central bank, replace the nation’s currency with the U.S. dollar and crack down on women’s and LGBTQ people’s rights. Both Milei and hi...
Argentina's "Chainsaw Massacre" Election w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 261)
November 30, 2023 19:18 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBFar-right libertarian and dictatorship apologist Javier Milei has been elected president of Argentina, defeating centrist Peronist Sergio Massa. Milei won 56% of the vote, carrying 19 out of 23 provinces. He has been seen on the campaign trail brandishing a chainsaw, which he says he plans to take to the Argentine state. He has vowed to shut down Argentina’s central bank, replace the nation’s currency with the U.S. dollar and crack down on women’s and LGBTQ people’s rights. Both Milei and his...
JFK . . . 60 Years of Myths, Lies and Disinformation (G&R 259)
November 23, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBIt's been 60 years since JFK was assassinated and a major industry has developed to write about it, question the official story of Lee Harvey Oswald, and most importantly to revise the historical record of John Kennedy to make him seem heroic, a dove who'd seen the errors of American power and the Cold War. Because of this, the Kennedy Conspiracy Clique argues, the so-called Deep State had him killed because he was going soft on Vietnam, Cuba, the USSR, etc. But these JFK Partisans don't ba...
JFK . . . 60 Years of Myths, Lies and Disinformation (G&R 260)
November 23, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBIt's been 60 years since JFK was assassinated and a major industry has developed to write about it, question the official story of Lee Harvey Oswald, and most importantly to revise the historical record of John Kennedy to make him seem heroic, a dove who'd seen the errors of American power and the Cold War. Because of this, the Kennedy Conspiracy Clique argues, the so-called Deep State had him killed because he was going soft on Vietnam, Cuba, the USSR, etc. But these JFK Partisans don't ba...
"Shut Down APEC!" Anti-War, Labor, Human Rights and Climate Activists Unite Against the Global Elite (G&R 258)
November 20, 2023 20:01 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBLast week, the San Francisco Bay Area was the center of the political and media world as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) convened CEO summit and heads of state summit to divvy up the global economy for the billionaire class. This included a high profile meeting between Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping. In response, a movement of movements (consisting of antiwar, labor, human rights and climate activists, etc.) rose up in protest and direct action to the APEC summit. Thr...
How the media tells the wrong story of Israel's attack on Gaza w/ Prof. Greg Shupak (G&R 257)
November 17, 2023 21:35 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBIn our latest, we talk with Prof. Greg Shupak (@gregshupak) about the media's coverage of Israel's bloody assault in Gaza. bio// Greg Shupak teaches Media Studies at the University of Guelph in Toronto. He's the author of "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel & the Media." His fiction has appeared in a wide range of literary journals and he regularly writes analysis of politics and media for a variety of outlets including Electronic Intifada, In These Times, Jacobin, Literary Review of Canad...
Media Complicity in the Destruction of Palestine, with Professor Greg Shupak (G&R 257)
November 17, 2023 21:35 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBIn our latest, we talk with Prof. Greg Shupak (@gregshupak) about the media's coverage of Israel's bloody assault in Gaza. He's one of the best-informed and important scholars of the media and Israel, and he here discussed the way the media treats Israel-Palestine issues, how it perpetuates Israel's stories and lies, how journalists are being targeted by the IDF in Gaza, and how we can fight back. bio// Greg Shupak teaches Media Studies at the University of Guelph in Toronto. He's the auth...
Howling at the Abyss . . . How the Democrats Moved So Far and So Fast to the Right (G&R 256)
November 06, 2023 03:44 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBIn Green & Red's latest "Scrappy Sunday," we talk about how American moved so far to the right so fast . . . . starting with the 1960s, when Nixon ran a hard-hitting campaign against liberalism, through Carter, who embraced neo-liberalism and abandoned the core of Democratic ideology, through the total buy-in of corporatist policies with Clinton and Obama, the Democratic Party has moved steadily to the right, and in most cases when their position on key issues like abortion rights and gun v...
"When We Fight": The Story of the 2019 LA Teachers Strike (G&R 255)
November 02, 2023 18:40 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBIn Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers voted to authorize a strike. Filmmakers Yoni Golijov and Yael Bridge shadowed L.A. teachers for five months as they organize and strike, providing a unique first-hand account of collective democracy and labor action, and shedding light on the nationwide teacher strike upswell. Their film "When We Fight" documents one of the largest educator strikes in modern U.S. history in real-time, highlighting the st...
Best of G&R: Cuban Missile Crisis at 60. Was JFK really hero? (G&R 253)
October 28, 2023 05:37 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB61 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 100 miles away from the U.S. Nuclear War was possible, to some imminent. In this encore episode from 2022, we offer a brief history of the Cuban Missile Crisis and, more importantly, a remembrance and reconsideration of the events of October and JFK actions throughout the crisis. JFK has been praised for his firm resolve, courage,...
Trading Away Our Climate Future: Resisting Free Trade in SF w/ trade activist Will Wiltschko (G&R 252)
October 24, 2023 04:40 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBIn the latest, Scott talks with Will Wiltschko, director of the California Trade Justice Coalition (@catradejustice) about the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco. They discuss the history of free trade, resistance to corporate globalization and the large diverse coalition coming together to protest the APEC meetings. They also talk about the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), currently being negotiated by the APEC nations, and its impact on workers...
Defending Rojava w/ Journalist Arthur Pye (G&R 250)
October 17, 2023 01:51 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBAs we watch the Middle East blow up with brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel and a murderous ethnic cleansing campaign by Israel on Gaza, the conflict in Syria, Turkey and Kurdistan has been getting less attention. In the autonomous region of Northeastern Syria known as Rojava, Kurdish Peoples' Militias have fought ISIS, Assad's authoritarian regime and Turkey brutal military. In our latest, we talk with journalist and member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava (@defendrojava) , Arthur Pye...
Damnatio Memoriae: DiFi, Richard Blum and San Francisco's FiDi Liberals (G&R 249)
October 07, 2023 16:49 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWe're back from a brief hiatus with our "damnatio memoriae" of the late Dianne Feinstein and her husband financier Richard Blum. We get into their sorted history of politics, money and corruption. Feinstein represents some of the worst tendencies of American and San Francisco liberals. Both facing the culture war as those falsely championing justice and equality, while bilking workers, renters and the tax-payers for everything they could for themselves an their corporate sponsors. In the...
Scrappy Climate Week! Climate Marches, Citibank and JFK’s Magic Bullet (G&R 248)
September 17, 2023 06:36 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBNo sleep til Brooklyn! This week, Scott joined the hipster Brooklyn left and is rolling through the mean streets of New York for UN Climate Week. On Thursday, there was a mass blockade of Citibank’s headquarters over their funding of the climate crisis. Hundreds of Citi employees forced to were wait on the street before returning to work and torching the planet. Sunday is the mass march to “End Fossil Fuels.” And more climate direct action to follow. We discussed the climate crisis, wha...
Former Sierra Club Directors on Layoffs, Equity and Environmental Justice w/ Hop Hopkins and Michelle Mascarenhas (G&R 247)
September 14, 2023 07:47 - 53 minutes - 50 MBThe Sierra Club is one of the oldest and largest environmental groups in the U.S.. It also has a problematic history, from being founded by racist John Muir to members penning the racist "Population Bomb," advocating for population control, to former director Carl Pope promoting corporate greenwashing. Earlier this year, politician Ben Jealous became the organization's new executive director and began a process of "restructuring" due to budget deficits. The restructuring led to layoffs tha...
Chile's 9/11. Fifty Years After the Coup w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña and Dr. Clinton Fernandes (G&R 246)
September 10, 2023 21:12 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB"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 Australian operatives. In a fantastic discussion we talked with two authorities on the topic, Rodrigo Acuña and Clinton Ferdandes, who discussed the background of the U.S. role in Latin America in the Cold War, the background of Allende's political career and his election to the presidency, his efforts to change the Chilean economy, and the...
The New McCarthyism, w/ Jodie Evans of Code Pink talking about New York Times smear campaign (G&R 245)
September 04, 2023 15:18 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBA 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 others, accusing them of organizing front groups to spread Chinese propaganda. These are groups which are advocating No Cold War and peace with China, but to the U.S. establishment they are threats. Bob had a great conversation w/ Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink, about the work of these groups in advocating for an end to saber-rat...
Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs. Radical Organizing (G&R 244)
September 03, 2023 21:21 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBGreen & 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 labor and unions in the U.S. Labor in the U.S. has momentum, and the organizing efforts and strikes are ramping up. ------------------------------------------------------ Outro- "The Preacher and the Slave" by Utah Phillips Links// +G&R: May Day vs Labor Day. How the ruling class stops radical organizing. (https://bit.ly/3KOdx9W) + ...
Talking Trash: The Global Garbage Crisis w/ Oliver Franklin-Wallis (G&R 243)
August 23, 2023 17:51 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBIn 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 least 33% of it not managed in an environmentally safe manner, according to a 2018 World Bank report. Though high-income countries only account for 16% of the world’s population, they generate about 34% of the world’s waste each year. A third of all food produced is wasted and ends up in the garbage can. Plastic waste is another mounting ...