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Green and Red
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 campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Within the past four decades, we’ve seen the rise of neo-liberalism, or so-called "Free Trade," free trade agreements and various other treaties and agreements that reduce and eliminate barriers and regulation for capital to invest in different nation states. While there has been some resistance, capital and investments march on. Corporations and investors have created tools such as "international investment treaties (IITs)" to continue their profit-making ventures. These treaties result in litigation that can undermine, environmental, human rights and labor protections. This is particularly important as the world is gripped in a climate crisis and regulations on carbon emissions, human rights, and fossil fuel extraction are vital.In our latest we talk with the director of Columbia's Center on Sustainable Investment (@CCSI_Columbia) Lisa Sachs about IITs and the legal tools corporations use to settle disputes with national governments when regulation gets in the way. bio//Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. She is a globally recognized expert in the ways that laws, policies and business practices shape global investment flows and affect sustainable development. She works with governments around the world, regional and international development organizations, financial institutions, companies, civil society organizations and academic centers to understand the inter-relations of investment flows and sustainable development, and to influence investment policies and practices to promote the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. --------------------------------------------------------
Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+Columbia Center for Sustainable Development (https://csd.columbia.edu/)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/ev5xKJer)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandROur Networks//+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+We're part of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork+Listen to us on WAMF (90.3 FM) in New Orleans (https://wamf.org/)This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
With the recent news about Noam Chomsky's condition and absence from public life, and the outpouring of respect and admiration from so many people who have learned so much from him (along with the typical haters), we got together to discuss what he's mean and what he's contributed to us on the Left. We discussed his contributions in the fields of linguistics and knowledge, and media analysis. Then we discussed his advocacy of free expression . . . he believed that we had to defend all rights to free speech, even if uttered by someone we disagree with. Next we talked about his important work in describing the way liberals really acted, especially w/ regard to their war in Vietnam. We also discussed one of the areas where his work has been most important, and overlapped w/ one of our favorite topics on Green & Red--the dangers to the left of embracing conspiracy theories and the "deep state," especially with regard to the JFK assassination. And finally we covered his ideas of "intellectual self-defense" and the importance of telling everyone the truth against the propaganda of people in power.-----------------------------Outro- Noam Chomsky on the legacy of JFK Links//+Green and Red’s Noam Chomsky playlist (https://bit.ly/3xaJWoX)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandROur Networks//+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+We're part of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork+Listen to us on WAMF (90.3 FM) in New Orleans (https://wamf.org/)This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
Israel's slaughters in Palestine may be horrific and well-covered, but there's more going on in the region than that! Israel has also been acting aggressively throughout the region--especially in Lebanon and Iran. Here Bob talked with two great professors who study the region, Nate George of SOAS and Eskandar Sadeghi of the University of York, about Israel's wider wars against other states in the Middle East.It's a great seminar in the region, w/ a detailed look at the politics of the Middle East and especially Israel's long-term conflict and interventions in Lebanon and Iran. -----------------------------Outro- "Bel akhdar kaffannah (Enshrouded)" by Marcel KhalifeLinks//+New Left Review: Rules of the Game (https://bit.ly/3x60A96) Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
In Tucson, Arizona, Cold War era war profiteer Hughes Aircraft polluted an aquifer with chemical waste from a manufacturing facility that poisoned the largely Mexican-American community and desert ecosystem living above. The community responded with one of the first environmental justice campaigns in the United States. In our latest, we talk with Professor Sunaura Taylor about her new book “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert” that details the pollution, the community campaign and the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.Bio//Sunaura Taylor is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the American Book Award–winning Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, and “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.”———Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by MoodyLinks//+ “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert” (https://bit.ly/3wYaEku) Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City. They have led campaigns against Starbucks and Disney over the companies' gentrification of New York City, against Wall Street banks such as JPMorgan Chase over its funding of oil, gas and coal, and many street actions against politicians and other corporate actors. They merge theater, music, satire and direct action to speak truth to the all-powerful. This spring they have been touring with Neil Young and Crazy Horse. We talk with co-founders of the Church of Stop Shopping, Reverend Billy (@revbilly) and Savitri D. about Neil Young’s Earth Love tour. -----------------------------------Outro- "End of the World" by the Church of Stop Shopping.Links//+ Reverence Billy's website: http://revbilly.com+ The Indypendent: Reverend Billy's Revelations (https://bit.ly/3Kkkj7X)+ Earth Riot Radio (https://bit.ly/3wHjFOQ)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
Memorial Day was created to pay respect to soldiers who died in the war, but it quickly took on another purpose--to promote "patriotism" and American militarism and foreign interventions. Here we debunk the myths of "democracy" and "Humanitarian intervention" that are so prevalent in the political class and media. We offer an abridged history of American's foreign policy doctrines from the outset of independence to today. The U.S. was founded on principles of economic power with a global reach. Even when advising "isolationism" the reality was that the U.S. ruling class had a long-term blueprint for empire: the Monroe Doctrine, plans for an isthmian canal, designs on Asia, using industrial output as a program for global power, and then gaining economic/political hegemony with 2 world wars.Many veterans have been active in opposing American imperialism, such as VVAW, Vets for Peace and About Face, and their service should not be exploited for further wars based on myths and lies. --------------------------------------Outro- "Cops of the World" by Phil OchsLinks//+ Don’t Dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Resistance to Genocide w/ Anti-War Veteran Graham Clumpner (https://bit.ly/4a1eWoS)+ 2023: Memorial Day w/ antiwar veteran Henri from the “Fortress on a Hill” Podcast (https://bit.ly/3KiUdSY)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/w4Cgpe9G)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part of Earth First's Headwaters campaign and had fought long and hard to stop clear-cutting redwood forests in Northern California by ravenous timber companies. They were organizing a campaign that summer called "Redwood Summer" that had planned to do mass action against logging. The F.B.I. and the Oakland police immediately arrested Bari and Cherney as the culprits in their own bombing. Judi Bari passed away from cancer in 1997. In 2002, Bari (posthumously) and Cherney won a $4.4 million lawsuit against the F.B.I. and the Oakland PD for violating their civil rights. May 24 is now an official holiday in the city of Oakland. In our latest episode, we talk with Earth First! organizer Karen Pickett (@KP4redwoods), a close friend and comrade of Bari and Cherney, about Earth First!, the Northern California timber wars, Judi Bari's role as environmental and labor organizer, the bombing and the subsequent lawsuit. Bio//Karen Pickett has been a grassroots activist for over 40 years. She is a founder and Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Biocentric Media Inc. and other organizations. She has been part of Earth First! for decades.**NOTE: If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please come out to the Judi Bari Day event at East 34th St. and Park Blvd. in Oakland at 11:30am on Friday, May 24th. ---------------------------------Outro- "The FBI Stole My Fiddle" by Judi Bari and Darryl CherneyLinks//+The Judi Bari Website: http://www.judibari.org/+Zinn Education Project: Judi Bari’s Car Bombed (https://bit.ly/3yDJ2RS)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/yYsmTEkd)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
In this week's collaboration, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discuss the failed union vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and how this might affect the UAW president Shawn Fain's reputation going forward.
---------------------------------------------Outro Music: "They'll Never Keep Us Down," by Hazel DickensLinks:+ Paydayreport.com+ Twitter: @PaydayReport and @MikeElkFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/TVGydfnR)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR
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In our weekly discussion of labor and unions, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discussed the upcoming UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, and the long-term organizing efforts there. We had a great conversation about Shawn Fain's veto of a bill for the UAW to divest from Israel and how Fain's actions might not match his rhetoric. We also talked about the role of unions in campus protests as about 1/3 of the UAW workers are students.------------------------------------------------Outro music: Dropkick Murphys, "Worker's Song"Follow Payday Report at: https://paydayreport.com/ and Twitter at @PaydayReportFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/bdpYAxCn)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR
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In our latest, Bob and Scott celebrate a Scrappy Mother's Day with a little radical history of the holiday. We also delve into the week in radical history talking about the Hardhat Riot, the murder of two students at Jackson State, and sabotage of the Maryland Draft Center by the Catonsville 9. We also talk Hillary Clinton's disdain for genocide protesting students, Biden's performative bulls**t about withholding weapons if Israel invades Rafah, and America's meddling in places other than the Middle East. ------------------------------------Outro- "Mama Tried" by Merle HaggardFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/TZfUyzDE)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
The climate crisis is an existential threat that has led to an unraveling of our environmental and social fabric. Our political institutions continue to fail us in dealing with this crisis. As the shocks get worse, we've seen more confrontational climate action emerge to push these institutions. This comes in the form of mass marches, civil disobedience, confrontational direct action and, even, sabotage. In our latest, Scott talks with Prof. Dana R. Fisher (@Fisher_DanaR) about her new book - "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shock to Climate Action"- that examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. They discuss everything from performative actions like throwing soup on works of art to classic Civil Rights style civil disobedience to fighting pipelines in rural areas like North Dakota and Appalachia. And what the strategy is behind these. They also discuss the recent campus uprisings around the genocide in Gaza. Bio//Dana R. Fisher is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She’s a climate researcher and author of "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action."-------------------------------------------------------Outro- Green and Red Blues by MoodyLinks//+ Dana R. Fisher: https://danarfisher.com/+ Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action (https://bit.ly/3wg7lF2)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/TZfUyzDE)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
In this pilot episode, Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter on Payday Report, and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast present their soon-to-be-regular podcast on Labor in the U.S. We'll dive into the general state of labor and unions in the U.S., organizing drives, strikes, and other developments relevant to working people as they emerge.In this first show Mike discussed the recent tribute to the legendary folk singer Anne Feeney, like Mike another Yinzer, and then we discussed the successful end of the UAW organizing drive in Chattanooga and the move toward negotiations now; the role of labor in protesting the campus beatdowns by cops (California grad students are UAW members); and the upcoming vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama.We'll be publishing these on a regular basis so please subscribe and share.------------------------------------------------Outro music: "We Just Come to Work Here, We Don't Come to Die" by Anne FeeneyFollow Payday Report at https://paydayreport.com/ and Mike Elk on Twitter at @PaydayReport and @MikeElk and on Facebook and IG.Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/TZfUyzDE)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).
In our latest episode, Scott and Bob discuss the repression on campuses against students protesting against U.S. support of the atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
We discussed the way Joe Biden is acting like Richard Nixon did in 1970, when he called students "bums" and led to campus upheavals which culminated in the deaths of 4 students at Kent State. We also discussed the way many Democratic officials have been responsible for the violent attacks on nonviolent protestors despite their proclaimed respect for liberal ideals of free expression.
And then Scott and Bob spoke about the responses in their communities--environmental groups and the universities, where liberals are often upset over the rhetoric of protests ("from the river to the sea" or "intifada") but say little about Israel's slaughters in Gaza.----------------Outro- "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/PcExWRe3)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Happy May Day Tender Comrades!
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 Workers’ Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class’s “war on the left” fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day.
Spend an hour of your International Workers’ Day hearing about the history of May Day. You won’t regret it.
Outro// Which Side Are You On by Florence Reece
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+IWW: The Brief Origins of May Day (https://bit.ly/2QLtO7Q)
- G&R:How Labor and Climate Movements Are Building An Enduring Alliance w/ Jeff Ordower and Norman Rogers (https://bit.ly/4cDK9AU)
+G&R:Victories in Chattanooga and Pittsburgh . . . Mike Elk of Payday Report on the UAW and Summer Lee (https://bit.ly/4aUWhvR)
Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/
- NEW! Green and Red is NOW an affiliate of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network:* https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork** + Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/afRwBg5Q)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In a free-wheeling discussion Scott and Bob and friend and frequent G&R guest Clayton Lust, a professor of history as several Houston-area community colleges, talked about the campus protests of the 1960s, especially at Columbia in 1968, their meaning, their consequences and their tactics. All of us have written and/or taught about U.S. radical protests and the 1960s.We then pivoted to a conversation about today's campus protests against the U.S.-sponsored and -subsidized slaughters in Gaza and the huge impact they've had in shifting public opinion and giving hope in a bleak time. We also talked about the importance of communicating the idea that this is a bipartisan genocide, with Democrats taking the lead, and how the Democrat embrace of cops in 2020 and their rejection at defunding or even reforming police has led to this moment because the police will attack anyone who stands in the way of the ruling class.-----------------------------Outro- "We Can Be Together" by Jefferson AirplaneFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/PcExWRe3)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Mike Elk spoke w/ Green & Red a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the union vote at the UAW vote in Chattanooga and, after the victory there, we talked about the reasons for that success and what was next for labor--especially an upcoming vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama. We also talked about Summer Lee's primary victory in Pittsburgh and her messageof peace from "Pittsburgh to Palestine."---------------------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Payday Report: https://paydayreport.com/Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/NukkF38C)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
On Wednesday, in Austin TX, hundreds of police converged on the University of Texas to attack a peaceful protest in solidarity with the victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. At least 57 students and protest participants were arrested. A Fox News cameraman and other journalists were assaulted and arrested. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gloated in a video about his state troopers attacking pro-Palestinian protests. We talk with Candice Bernd (@candicebernd), who was at the protests, about what happened. BioCandice is Senior Editor and staff reporter with Truthout.
Outro- "Shitty News" by Destroy OrbisonLinks+ Criticism, praise of Texas governor after dramatic use of troopers on protesters (https://bit.ly/3U9oFmI)+Charges dropped against all 57 arrested in connection to UT-Austin pro-Palestinian protest (https://bit.ly/3Wfqe5i)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community ( https://discord.gg/AzY3gmpm )Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In our latest, we deep dive into Indigenous organizing with long time Native Oakland Native organizer and direct action trainer Marty Aranaydo (@williemaze). We discuss his direct action roots (going back before he was born!), organizing work in native communities around North America, the occupation of Alcatraz, his time at Standing Rock and Cop City, and being an artist and DJ in Oakland. We also talk about the Big Greens, Gaza and building Indigenous people power. Bio//Marty is an artist, DJ, organizer, and direct action trainer. He is a Native Oakland Native who’s been defending Mother Earth and her people since he was 13, he’s old now, and has a ton of stories.----------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3): https://www.ip3action.org/+ NDN Collective: https://ndncollective.org/Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/XU536Rj2)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
We talk with Prof. Michael Sierra-Arévalo (@michaelsierraa) about the "war on cops" and how it has shaped police culture and violence. We discuss the creation of this culture of police survival over public safety. Where and how it's created. How police see themselves as holding the line against agents of chaos. The institution's perception of race, politics and media. And the influence of the right wing, both politicians and media eco-systems. Bio//Michael Sierra-Arévalo (@michaelsierraa) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research employs quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate police culture, behavior, and legitimacy. His first book is "The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing."----------------------------Outro//"Green and Red Blues" by Moody
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Michael's Book: "The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing" (https://bit.ly/4aHUoTp)
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Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/Hf7bY8Tc)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe. The case involves a police officer injured during a Black Lives Matter protest after the police murder of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La in 2016. The injured police officer sued the organizer DeRay McKesson for damages. Last year, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the officer. The Supreme Court, for a second time, declined to hear the case.
The impact of the Supreme Court's decision to decline to hear the case is potentially devastating for organizers of mass protests.
In our latest, Scott talks with movement lawyer Maggie Ellinger-Locke about the case and the precedent it may be setting up.
Bio//Maggie Ellinger-Locke, she/her, is a movement lawyer based in the Washington DC area, living on the stolen land of the Anacostan and Piscataway peoples. She works for the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law, where she helps train the next generation of movement lawyers. Previously she worked as a staff attorney at Greenpeace USA, and has also worked in public policy and private practice. She is currently co-chair of the DC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. ---------------------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Black Lives Matter organizer facing damages suit (https://bit.ly/3xNTh5K)Follow Green and Red//
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Forest 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) are forest defenders in Southern Oregon. -----------------------------------------------Outro- "Anthroposcene" by Fire Your Boss
Links//+Oregon community members stage tree sit-in over plans to log over 14,000 acres of forest (https://bit.ly/3vV1CUI)+BLM Responds to Heightened Pressure as Tree Sitters Celebrate Two Weeks of Continued Occupation (https://bit.ly/49E8Pqe)+ Tree Sitters Union on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treesittersunion/
- Fire Your Boss (https://bit.ly/3Q8FwFj)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/xH2s6udY)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In 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 Martin facility in Sunnyvale, CA and the violence perpetrated by the company's employees when they were blocked from parking their cars in the company parking lot. We also discuss O.J. Simpson's legacy on race and politics in America, and NPR's "liberal bias" (and its discontents). All this and your weekly dose of radical history. --------------------------------------Outro- "Hard to be Humble" by Mac DavisFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/UuQVgNP5)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott
Bob 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 senator from Pennsylvania isn't really a progressive.Donate to Payday Report to cover Chattanooga union vote: https://paydayreport.com/help-cover-u...Payday Report: paydayreport.com"After the Pandemic and the Stand Up Strike, Everything Changed at Volkswagen in Chattanooga"https://paydayreport.com/after-the-pa...**Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/UuQVgNP5)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR
Yanis 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 is "Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism." --------------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Yanis Varoufakis: Technofeudalism What Killed Capitalism (https://bit.ly/4cILk1J)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community ( https://discord.gg/4JRcYAng )Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
The 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 Norman Rogers (@NormN3D) about the prospects of enduring relationships between labor and climate movements. We discuss just transition, how the bosses often attempt to turn workers against calls for climate action, and how false solutions like nuclear and carbon, capture and storage fall into this landscape. Bio//Jeff Ordower is the North America director of 350.org. Prior to joining 350, he was a co-founder of the Green Workers Alliance and a member of the Rising Tide North America collective. He’s the co-editor (with Lindsay Zafir) of Power Lines (The New Press), he lives in Philadelphia.Norman Rogers is the Second Vice President of United Steelworkers, Local 675————————Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by MoodyLinks+Power Lines: Building a Labor–Climate Justice Movement (https://bit.ly/3VAhZRe)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community ( / discord )Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
In 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 PrineLinks+Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza (https://bit.ly/3IOKFhu)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/ekY2AQ4d)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
We 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 fight for justice. In his compelling book, "Fighting Times," Jonathan chronicles his groundbreaking contributions to a myriad of social movements, including the iconic student movement of the 1960s, the historic civil rights movement, the trailblazing black liberation movement, the empowering women's liberation movement, the urgent call for police reform, and the transformative labor reform movement.Drawing from his personal experiences and tireless efforts, Jonathan offers unparalleled insights into the challenges, triumphs, and untold stories of those who dedicated their lives to the Labor Movement. His words resonate with the spirit of change, emphasizing the significance of collective action and empowering workers to demand their rights.Bio//Jonathan Melrod is a radical, political activist, labor organizer, human rights lawyer and pancreatic cancer survivor. His memoir “Fighting Times” details his work as a radical labor organizer.--------------------------------Outro- "St. Monday" by Billy BraggLinks+ PM Press: Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (https://bit.ly/3TFKr2q)+https://www.jonathanmelrod.com/
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Newly 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 activists, beginning in late 2013.From the Wobblies to the Black Panthers, this is an all too familiar pattern of the federal government surveilling and spying on anyone that deviates too much from business as usual.In the latest episode, Scott talks with journalist Adam Federman (@adamfederman) about his latest article exposing the U.S. government's spying on the anti-pipeline movement much earlier than thought. Bio//Adam Federman is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations who has written widely on environmental policy, public lands, and corporate and police spying on environmental activists. The recipient of a 2020 Fetisov Award for his environmental reporting, he has written for Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, Slate, The Nation, and other publications. His first book, Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray, was a New York Times notable book of 2017 and a finalist for the LA Times Book prize in biography. ------------------------------------------Outro- "Fuck the FBI" by Intentional HarassmentLinks//+Adam's Website: http://adamfederman.com/+ How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement (https://bit.ly/3v48TRH)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/XS5jQkPF)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In 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 celebrates radical women such as Judy Bari, Berta Cáceres and Lucy Parsons). —————Outro- “The Best Things in Life Are Free” by The Melbourne Ska OrchestraFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/DhE7zACh)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
For 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. got in for an interview he told her "no more gold suits." We discussed how Noam eats egg (singular on purpose). Bev talked about her travels with Noam, including to the Vatican, his long friendship with Howard Zinn, the various people she met who came in to talk with him (including Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello), how he warmed up to kids and pets, and so much more.It's a rare insight into the personal life of the world's most famous dissident provided by the person was was close to him every day for over a quarter-century. ---------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Chomsky and Me: A Memoir (https://bit.ly/3P8gvcD)+Bev's website: http://bevstohl.blogspot.com/+ Instagram: Chomsky and Me A Memoir (https://bit.ly/3v7jKKy)+ Facebook: Chomsky and Me A Memoir (https://www.facebook.com/ChomskyandMeAMemoir)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/2skFuHUb)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR
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Last 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 Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
His final words, shouted several times as the flames consumed him, were “Free Palestine! Free Palestine!”
In our latest, we discuss the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell. We're joined by our comrade and anti-war veteran Graham Clumpner (@turncoatveteran) to discuss Aaron's act of resistance, anti-war/anti-imperialist sentiment in the military and why the Left continues to fail at connecting with veterans of America's foreign wars.Bio//Graham Clumpner is an anti-war U.S. military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, anarchist, environmentalist and direct action organizer.-------------------------------------------------------------Outro - "Al Kuffiyah" by Shadia MansourLinks//+Self-Immolation of Aaron Bushnell (https://bit.ly/3SY2teN)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Some 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 have far ranging discussion about mass movement politics around Occupy , Ferguson, Standing Rock and the Sanders campaigns into the uprisings of 2020 and, more recently, around genocide in Gaza. They also discuss the rise of right-wing networks such as QANON and the Alt-Right in general. Bio//Jay Ponti (@jayponti) is a grassroots political organizer, trainer, and consultant who has participated in some of the most important social movements of the last decade, including Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, and Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns. Jay is also the author of "Be the Revolution: How Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders Movement Reshaped American Politics"-----------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Funhouse" by The StoogesLinks//+Jay's Website: https://jayponti.com/+ Be the Revolution: https://betherevolution.us/home/Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community ( / discord )Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
In 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). All this and your weekly dose of radical history on the latest Scrappy Sunday. ----------------------------Outro- "The Preacher and the Slave" By Utah PhillipsLinks//+Gaza Springs: www.gazasprings.comFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/+ Join our Discord community ( / discord )Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Israel’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) about the weaponization of environmental destruction in Palestinian territories. We also talk about Michael Menesini of the San Francisco's District Attorney office anti-Arab emails to Counterpunch.
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Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is the editor and co-author of several books. Most recently, he is the author of the book "Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America" (Haymarket Books 2022). -------------------------------------Outro-“Somos Sur” by Ana Tijoux (ft. Shadia Monsour)
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It’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 at greenredpodcast at gmail dot com with your mailing address.Thanks for all your ongoing support!
In 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 ReedLinks//+ They’re Supposed to Be Socially Conscious Investors. Why Are They Funding the War on Gaza? (https://bit.ly/3SMK70n)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
According 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 cease and desist order from Biden, and supported by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the Senate, an (anti) immigration bill recently failed as Trump needs the issue for the 2024 campaign. In our latest, we talk with Truthout's Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) about the crisis being created by Greg Abbott, Donald Trump and other far right political actors. We discuss her recent trip to Eagle Pass, TX and her interviews with local residents opposed to Abbott's machinations and the far right convoy which traveled to the area to stand up to the federal government. Bio//Candice Bernd (@CandiceBernd) is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout. Her work has also appeared in several other publications, including The Nation, In These Times, the Texas Observer, Salon, Rewire News Group, Sludge, YES! Magazine and Earth Island Journal. Her work has received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center. ---------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Headin' for the Texas Border" by Hooka HeyLinks//+Locals Say Eagle Pass Is Being Invaded by Christian Nationalists — Not Migrants: https://bit.ly/49dAezQFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
This 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 political radicals to be "stone lobbed at the ongoing gentrification" of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area. The struggle to Save Peoples Park has been ongoing for over fifty years.In our latest episode, Scott talks with Mat Wranovix with Left in the Bay (@leftinthebay) about the history and current events of Peoples' Park. They get into how the movement to establish and save the park grew out of the long history of Bay Area political radicalism and has come to symbolize peoples' struggle against ongoing corporate gentrification. Bio//Left in the Bay is an independent research collective working to document the history of people's struggles in the San Francisco Bay Area-----------------------------------------------------------Outro- "People' Park" by Lil B and the BasedGodLinks//+ Left in the Bay: / leftinthebay +Berkeleyside: Why build a wall around People’s Park? (https://bit.ly/3vHZKyn)+ Save People’s Park: An Open Letter to the City Council of Berkeley, CA (https://bit.ly/3S68ndA)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac
Charles 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 us about his most recent book, Soldiers Don't Go Mad, which is about shell shock and the lives of soldiers in World War I, and features the lives of poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.----------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+Truthout: The US Condemned Stalin’s Prosecution of Journalists. Now It Uses His Playbook. (https://bit.ly/48Ncv9l)+Nation: A Visit to Belmarsh Prison, Where Julian Assange Awaits His Final Appeal Against Extradition (https://bit.ly/4b8crTi)+ NY Journal of Books: Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War (https://bit.ly/42p8c1P)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
This 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.
In response to this nausea inducing displace, we're reposting our MLK day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the radical politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign--, and his thoughts on property destruction.
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+Buzzanco: MLK for Sale (http://bit.ly/2LzGR9S)
+Martin Luther King on riots and property destruction (http://bit.ly/3nHPvAk)
+VIDEO: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence (https://bit.ly/3spBgnr)
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Bob 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 and much more. Bio//Jeremy Brecher is a writer, historian, and activist who is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. His works include the labor history classic “Strike” and “Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual.” Jeremy is also a Senior Advisor for the Labor Network for Sustainability.--------------------------------------------Outro- "Union Town" by Tom MorelloLinks//+ Jeremy's Substack: https://strikecommentaries.substack.c...+Jeremy's Website: https://www.jeremybrecher.org/Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott
The 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, language sought by over 100 countries. In our latest episode, Scott talks with journalist and author Tina Gerhardt (@TinaGerhardtEJ) about COP28, the negotiations, the agreement, industry influences, peoples' movements influences and what it all means. Bio//Tina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist who covers the UN climate change negotiations, climate change and sea level rise, each with a focus on environmental justice. Her writing has been published in Grist, The Guardian, The Nation, Orion and Sierra Magazine. She is author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press, 2023).---------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" By MoodyLinks//+ The Nation: The UN Climate Conference Finally Names the Culprit, Fossil Fuels—but Is It Enough? (https://bit.ly/3NHYIIP)+Sierra: Here’s Some of What Happened at the UN Climate Talks (https://bit.ly/48ySrXL)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at / greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac
In 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 Weelaunee forest earlier this year.)And we tell you how you can get a Green & Red Hat......If you want to read Arno Mayer, the books we mentioned were "Political Origins of the New Diplomacy," "Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking," "Why Did the Heavens not Darken?," and "Plowshares Into Swords"---------------------------------Outro- "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills and NashFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott
In 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 the issue of climate activists being targeted with lawsuits, RICO charges and jail time in the Global North, while land and climate defenders in the Global South face torture and murder. All this and more on the Green and Red Podcast!-----------------------------------------Outro- "I' Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil OchsLinks//+G&R: How State Violence in the Philippines is Propped Up by the U.S. and APEC w/ Human Rights Activist Brandon Lee (https://bit.ly/479iW4S)+ G&R: Kissinger is Finally Dead! Goodbye to a War Criminal . . . and the war in Ukraine muddles along (https://bit.ly/3TNncnV)+G&R: JFK . . . 60 Years of Myths, Lies and Disinformation (https://bit.ly/3Ryvo8t)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In 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 for people with radical politics. We hope to capture a bit of that in the interview. Bio//Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days collective that publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project, which promotes the teaching of radical people’s history in classrooms and provides free lessons and resources for educators. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.----------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Police Story" by Black FlagLinks//+AK Press: Rattling the Cages (https://bit.ly/3RMbKGv)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac
In 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 Wall" by MC AbdulFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Joe 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 and getting people with pro-Palestinian politics fired.
But, also, movements all over the world are fighting back. In the Capital, hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews were arrested calling for an end to U.S. support of Israel. In New York's Grand Central Station, hundreds more were arrested saying "Not in Our Name, Ceasefire Now."
In the latest Scrappy Sunday, we discuss the ongoing attack and the U.S. and Biden's complicity in it. We discuss how this further sinks Biden's chances of re-election in 2024. And we also discuss the failure of progressive Democrats and academics in this moment.------------------------------------Outro- "Intifada" by Doc Jazz, Palestine Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
The 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 island of Luzon working with the Igorot people defending their land. The assassination attempt left him a quadriplegic. In the latest episode, we talk with Brandon about state violence in the Philippines under the governments of Duterte and Marcos Jr. against social movements and communities. We also talk about how the U.S. props up these repressive regimes.
And how the recent APEC meeting in San Francisco was an attempt by Philippine government to recast Marcos Jr. as a moderate and climate conscious leader. bio// Brandon Lee is an environmentalist and Indigenous rights activist based in San Francisco. He is a member of the San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines and was a recipient of the Center for Environmental Concerns' Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan (Environmental Hero Award) in 2020.--------------------------------------------Outro- “Sakal” by Namatay Sa Ingay Links//+ Justice for Brandon Lee (https://bit.ly/3NjGuNq)+San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (https://bit.ly/47U65Vu)+The Nation:The Forces That Nearly Murdered Me Are Meeting In San Francisco Today (https://bit.ly/47WLksf)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac
Henry 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 talk about Kissinger's life and legacy. We talk about Vietnam and Chile and how the liberal world order still functions today as it did in the 60s and 70s when Kissinger was at his peak. We also talked about the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, more evidence that the U.S. and others scuttled peace talks in the past, and Biden's obsession with wars abroad rather than taking care of problems inside the U.S.We also get into the radical history of the week with a couple examples of anti-Kissingers (including Abby Hoffman and Mario Savio). We close with tribute to the Pogues' late front man Shane MacGowan. ---------------------------Outro- "The Body of an American" by the PoguesLinks//+ Rolling Stone: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100 (https://bit.ly/3uObUFm)+NY Times: Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped U.S. Cold War History, Dies at 100(https://bit.ly/3GwwBYZ)G&R describing the crimes of Henry Kissinger//+ G&R: The 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War (https://bit.ly/49XZhaN)+ G&R: Chile's 9/11 50 Years Later (https://bit.ly/412GaZ6)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott
Far-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 vice presidential candidate, Victoria Villarruel, have also denied that Argentine military forces killed and forcibly disappeared an estimated 30,000 people with the support of the United States between 1976 and 1983.In our latest, we talk with Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (@rodrigoac7) about Milei, the election and the wider implications for Argentina, South America and the world. Bio//Rodrigo Acuña works as an independent journalist on Latin America and for the NSW Department of Education. He is the host of Alborada’s Indestructible Podcast. He has been writing on Latin American politics for close to twenty years.--------------------------------------------Outro- "Solo Le Pido a Dios" by Leon Gieco and David ByrneLinks//+ Rodrigo’s website: http://rodrigoacuna.com+ Argentina’s Chainsaw Massacre Election: (https://bit.ly/3sOhK9f)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
It'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 base their work on a careful examination of the actual historical record--the archives, collections, documents and other sources of what was happening at the time. They rely on anecdotes and byzantine connections that remind one of QAnon. Yet, this version has gotten significant acclaim and media attention, especially on the Left. It is misguided and dangerous. It's making a hero out of someone who put the needs of the military-industrial complex and the empire above all else, and somehow claim that he was an anti-imperialist.JFK was no hero and surely no dove . . . he was a hard-core militarist, a typical Cold War liberal. He was a supporter of Joe McCarthy, he dragged his feet on Civil Rights in order to placate southern Democrats, and he especially waged war on Vietnam, Cuba and many other areas to assert American power. He brought the world to the brink with his recklessness during the Missile Crisis. We've covered this topic extensively over the years so if you want to learn more about the flaws and holes in the apologetics for JFK, check out https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2023/11/22/jfk-60-years-of-myths-and-disinformation/
-------------------------------------Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Afflict the Comfortable: JFK . . . 60 Years of Myths and Disinformation (https://bit.ly/3QMvSaO)
+G&R: The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Was JFK Really A Hero? (https://bit.ly/3PONVwJ)
Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Last 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. Through the week, we saw unified actions against dictators, billionaires and war mongering American leaders. This overlapped with escalating actions in the Bay Area around Gaza. Scott organized and joined the protests against APEC and this week talks again with Will Wiltschko about the week of action.Bio//Will is the director of the California Trade Justice Coalition (@catradejustice). ----------------------------Outro- "We the Movement" by Rebel DiazLinks//+ https://www.bayclimateaction.com+ https://linktr.ee/no2apec Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In 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 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 Canada, Middle East Eye, TeleSUR, This Magazine, and Warscapes.---------------------------------------------------Outro- "Lives in the Balance" by Jackson BrowneLinks//** The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel & the Media (https://bit.ly/3usXyK8)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
In 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 violence, had majority support.At the end of the day, we can attack the GOP all we want--and there are plenty of bigoted, racist, and sociopathic Republicans to attack, but the failure to offer any alternative or resistance to the GOP and adoption of corporate and conservative ideas is what's sent us off the rails and into the abyss.------------------------------------------"Bad Moon Rising" by CCRLinks//+G&R: Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then… (https://bit.ly/3ROC3NR)+G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (https://bit.ly/3FLpf3p)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
In 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 stories and leadership of some of the women who led it, from union leaders to classroom teachers.
In our latest, we talk with Yoni and Yael, as well as LA teacher and labor leader Arlene Inouye about the 2019 and 2023 strikes, how they organized, the impacts they had on education and politics and how it fits in with the "Hot Labor Summer" we've been seeing this year.
Bio//Yoni Golijov is a nonfiction filmmaker; his producing work has been nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA and has won an Independent Spirit Award. Yael Bridge is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Her first feature, The Big Scary "S" Word, explores the history and resurgence of socialism in the United States.Arlene Inouye was the chair of the bargaining committee in 2019 and the last contract, 2023, and was integral to leading the strike that the film documents and the incredible solidarity strike that UTLA took this year with their SEIU school co-workers.------------------------------------------------Outro- "There is Power in a Union." by Utah PhillipsLinks//+"When We Fight": https://www.whenwefightmovie.com/+ New Day Films: "When We Fight" (https://bit.ly/3FFT6dJ)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
61 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, and strength in handling the crisis but the reality is that he was provocative and almost caused a war against Russia. In this episode we'll start by giving a background on JFK's aggression toward Cuba, then we'll offer a brief narrative of the crisis, and finally we'll discuss how Kennedy continued his subversion against Castro's government after the Missile Crisis.JFK was not heroic. His recklessness and need for credibility almost caused a nuclear exchange. The media doesn't tell you this story. Green and Red does . . .----------------------------------Outro- "We'll Meet Again" By Vera LynnLinks//The best resource for the Missile Crisis is the National Security Archive, at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/. It's recently put out a series of briefing books with documents on the crisis.Follow Green and Red//G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcasthttps://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast**Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
In 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, communities and the climate crisis. Bio//Will is a graduate of UCLA with a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science. At UCLA, studied and engaged with the theory and philosophy behind nonviolence. Will also was a staffer on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential campaign, where he was the lead field organizer in Southwest Virginia. Prior to serving as director of the California Trade Justice Coalition, Will was the Lead Organizer and was in charge of the Coalition’s efforts to defeat the TPP.---------------------------Outro- "Ya Basta” by Evan Greer and Anne Feeney Links//+ https://www.bayclimateaction.com+ https://linktr.ee/no2apecFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
As 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 (@PyesOnThePrize) about the conflict in Rojava. We discuss the structures of the autonomous horizontally organized revolution in Rojava. The conflicts it's faced and how geo-politics in the region play a role.Arthur Pye is a writer and organizer based in the Pacific Northwest. He is a member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, and recently returned from North-East Syria, where he lived for one year conducting research and interviews about the Rojava revolution.------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "Azadiye Kurdistan" by Awaze ÇiyaLinks//+ Emergency Committee for Rojava: defendrojava.org+ To get involved please email: info@defendrojava.org + Further reading: defendrojava.org/rojavaFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
We'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 spirit of the Dead Kennedys, here’s to remembering DiFi and Blum as who they actually were:"The Landlord's here to visitThey're blasting disco down belowSays, "I'm doubling up the rent'Cause the building's condemnedYou're gonna help me buy City Hall"But we canYou know we canBut we can, you know we canLet's lynch the landlord man"----------------------------------------------------------------------Outro- “Let's Lynch the Landlord “ by the Dead Kennedys (dedicated to Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blum)Links//+Counterpunch: DiFi and Blum: a Marriage Marinated in Money (https://bit.ly/48CuBLL)+G&R:Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then… (https://bit.ly/3ROC3NR)+G&R: The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Was JFK Really A Hero? (https://bit.ly/3PONVwJ)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
No 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, what’s happening and who’s responsible. We also talked about the recent story in The NY Times about one of JFK’s secret service detail talking about placing the “magic bullet” on the gurney at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963.
Bob also told us about his interview with Noam Chomsky on "Master Class."All this and your weekly dose of radical history. ———————Outro- “Birmingham Sunday “ by Joan BaezFollow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podast Network:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
The 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 that included the equity and environmental justice teams. We talk with Hop Hopkins and Michelle Mascarenhas (@MG_MMS), two of the top directors, laid off in the Sierra Club's restructuring about what happened, the impacts on environmental organizing and equity within the non-profit industrial complex. Bios//Hop Hopkins is the former Director of Organizational Transformation at the Sierra Club, where he helped the organization evolve its commitment to anti-racism. Hop is a longtime social movement strategist and scholar, and has been a leader in movements from HIV/AIDS to anti-globalization, food sovereignty, anti-displacement and clean energy transition, after beginning his career as a grassroots environmental justice community organizer. Most recently he was a Climate Justice Fellow and adjunct professor at Antioch University. He is based on Tongva land in Los Angeles, CA.Michelle Mascaranehas is the former National Director of Campaigns at the Sierra Club. Before coming to the Sierra Club, Michelle was a co-director of Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project where she supported the formation of the Climate Justice Alliance, the Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Project, and projects at the intersection of land, Indigenous sovereignty, reparations and Black liberation. Prior to her time at MG, Michelle worked as a union organizer and organized farm-to-school projects. Michelle is based on Chochenyo Ohlone land in Berkeley, CA.------------------------------------------Outro- "Wade in the Water" by the Fisk Jubilee SingersLinks//+Convergence: Laid-off Sierra Club Staffers: ‘We Can’t Give Up on United Fronts’ (https://bit.ly/3ZnVDlF)+The New Republic: What the Hell is Going on at the Sierra Club (https://bit.ly/3RlEHu7)+WaPo:The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed. (https://bit.ly/45MswuT)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
"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 big role that the U.S. and Australian officials played in fostering the anti-Allende opposition and conducting the coup on 9/11/73.
Bios// Clinton Fernandes is a professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, part of the Australian Defence Force Academy. His work is primarily concerned with Australia’s national security, in particular intelligence matters and Australia's relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors. He is author of many books including most recently “Subimperial Power: Australia in the International Arena.”
Rodrigo Acuña (@rodrigoac7) works as an independent journalist on Latin America and for the NSW Department of Education. He is the host of Alborada’s Indestructible Podcast (@IndestructPod). He has been writing on Latin American politics for close to twenty years.
Outro- “Noam Chomsky Reading Salvador Allende's Last Words”
Links// + Rodrigo’s website: http://rodrigoacuna.com + Did Australian spies help install a Chilean dictator? (https://ab.co/3LjZ8DP)
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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 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-rattling w/ China and negotiations in Ukraine, and about their true relationships w/ China and others.
The NYT piece was a boilerplate Cold War smear job, the kind that the U.S. media and political class has been conducting for a century now. It's a resurgence in McCarthyism and it needs to be stopped now.
Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody
Links// + CODEPINK: Women for Peace: https://www.codepink.org/ +"A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul", New York Times, (https://bit.ly/45wRSfR) +"NYT Reveals That a Tech Mogul Likes China—and That McCarthyism Is Alive and Well", FAIR (https://bit.ly/3R1AJ9F) +McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It (https://bit.ly/3YXFdQJ)
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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 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) + G&R: The New McCarthyism, w/ Jodie Evans of Code Pink talking about New York Times smear campaign (https://bit.ly/47XoBwA)
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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 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 issue: Across the globe, less than 10% of it is recycled, according to the most recent data from 2018 published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Plastic waste has more than doubled globally since 2000. In our latest, we talk with journalist, and author of "Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters," Oliver Franklin-Wallis (@olifranklin) and take a deep dive into the global waste crisis.Bio//Oliver Franklin-Wallis is an award-winning magazine journalist, whose writing has appeared in WIRED (where he is a contributing editor), British GQ, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1843, and many other publications. He’s also the author of "Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters."-----------------------------------------------------------------Outro- "The Garbage Man" by Harlem HamfatsLinks//+ Oliver's website: https://oliverfranklinwallis.com/Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast+Our rad website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
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 the senior vice president of retail and former head of People (i.e human resources), Deirdre O’Brien, is also a member of the community. Every Pride month the company proudly claims “support” of the LGBQT community, it sells rainbow bands for Apple watches in its stores and claims to provide same-sex benefits to its employees. But as a former employee and his partner recently found out, that support only goes so far.
In the latest, Scott talks with comrade Robby Diesu (@robbythequeen) about their, and their partner's, experience with Apple while working for the company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They discuss how Apple revoked benefits when Robby's partner demanded the same treatment as heterosexual couples, and forced their partner out of the company.
Bio// Robby Diesu is a long-time organizer who worked with various social movements. They currently live in Milan, Italy with their husband awaiting US immigration approval of their K1 visa.
Their husband worked for Apple for 11 years until they were forced out for asking to receive the same benefits as heterosexual couples this past year. Green and Red is withholding his name out of fear of reprisals by the company.
Outro// "I'm Coming Out" by the Diana Ross
Links// + The Washington Blade: Apple’s commitment to diversity ends when asked to do the right thing (https://bit.ly/47zQyuh)
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We’re in an unprecedented rollback of civil liberties. States are passing laws to outlaw protests and direct action, charging non-violent protesters with “domestic terrorism” and legalizing the running over of people blocking traffic. State surveillance of activists has increased dramatically. Police budgets are getting astronomical increases to further militarize the state. In Atlanta, in the Stop Cop City campaign, police assassinated a forest defender, Tortuguita, who had their hands up and then tried to claim self-defense.
To put this all in context, we talk with investigative journalist and author Will Potter (@will_potter). We discuss the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty campaign, the Earth Liberation Front, the taming down of climate actions in the 2010s and how the police state ignored right wing terror groups in the same period.
We also discuss the role of the FBI and the liberal corporate media in going after radical movements, how Cop City is shifting things and where popular culture fits into the story.
Bio// Will Potter is a thought leader and investigative journalist whose work has focused on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil rights post-9/11. He’s the author of “Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege,” that exposed the criminalization of nonviolent protest groups by the FBI.
Currently, he’s a Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Civil Rights Fellow with the University of Denver Animal Law Program.
Outro// "Joe McCarthy’s Ghost" by the Minutemen
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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, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has waged a fierce direct action campaign against it with tree-sits, blockades and civil disobedience.
Along with battles being waged in the courts and the public eye, the campaign had successfully impeded the construction of the pipeline until Joe Biden and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin made an agreement to fast track the pipeline's construction during the recent debt ceiling negotiations. And with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (with all nine justices voting to greenlight the pipeline), the pipeline is moving forward again.
In our latest episode, Scott talks with Charlie, an organizer with Appalachians Against Pipelines, about the pipeline, the politics around it and the direct action campaign resisting it.
Outro// "Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" by the Carter Family
Links// +Appalachians Against Pipelines: https://www.facebook.com/appalachians... +What the Supreme Court’s order means for the future of the Mountain Valley Pipeline — and for West Virginia (https://bit.ly/3DKWJy3) +Supreme Court rules in favor of Mountain Valley Pipeline (https://bit.ly/3qq8CGv) + To get involved with the campaign, email appalachiansagainstpipelines@protonmail.com
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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 "Oppenheimer," we thought we'd repost this episode from 2020.
Enjoy!
From the 2020 episode:
"For years, large majorities of Americans have believed that the U.S. had to use the A-Bomb against Japan on August 6th, 1945 to end the war quickly and avoid a land war and thus save one-million American lives.
Scott and Bob discuss the use of the bomb, why it was used as a message to the Soviet Union and not a military necessity, the chronology behind the development and deployment of atomic weapons, the U.S. public response to it, and the creation of a new history, a propaganda piece, regarding the use of the bomb. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was vital in the development of the Cold War, the arms race, the military-industrial complex, and the National Security State.
Seventy-five years after the first atomic weapon was used by the U.S., it's still a highly-debated and important topic."
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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. Here the Green & Red Archives reprises that interview as an important document of the era and of Chomsky's history of dissent.
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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 of activists in Atlanta and elsewhere, the lessons of 2020, strategies to win and whether there is anything to be optimistic about.
Jake Conroy is the host of "The Cranky Vegan" on YouTube, and co-host of the podcast "Radicals and Revolutionaries." He's a long-time animal rights activist who was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his involvement in one of the most successful animal rights campaigns in history – Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC USA). Jake Conroy has been involved in a wide range of activism since 1995.
Outro- "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf
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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 discussion with Mark Allan Jackson, a scholar on popular culture and music. He's author of "Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie" and editor of "The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music."
We discussed Woody's political music and activism, especially on socialism, labor, civil rights, his songs about war and peace, and his larger meaning and legacy.
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Music// "Jolly Banker," "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "I Ain't Got No Home" by Woody Guthrie
Links// Mark Allan Jackson: "Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie" (https://bit.ly/3ukcSGq) Trump’s Dad Was So Racist, Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song About It (https://bit.ly/3yDsuao) Dark Memory: A Look at Lynching in America through the Life, Times, and Songs of Woody Guthrie (https://bit.ly/3NFtfnq) People's World: Ode to a labor troubadour, Woody Guthrie (https://bit.ly/3yfHRV0) **G&R: Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, John Prine and Left Politics in Country Music w/ Prof. Mark Allan Jackson (https://bit.ly/LeftCountryGandR)
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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 participated in over the years. Recently, to pay our respects to the great Daniel Ellsberg, we put up a speech he gave in Houston in February 2003 in which he spoke about many things, but in particular warned of the coming war against Iraq in prescient ways, which is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2PcWHj4Wk
Now we're going to stay on that theme and present to you a speech that took place in Houston a few months before that. In October 2002, as the Bush administration was ramping up to invade Iraq, I was honored to organize and introduce Noam Chomsky to an overflow crowd at the University of Houston. Like Ellsberg, Chomsky offered a succinct and historically-driven argument against intervention in the Middle East and discussed the deceitful government and media narratives driving what would become a bloody and consequential war.
So enjoy this talk from Noam Chomsky and follow Green & Red on YouTube, on whichever podcast platform you prefer, on social media and on our webpage at https://greenandredpodcast.org/ and you can also find information there on contributing to our scrappy media efforts.
And now here's Noam Chomsky talking the US and Iraq in October 2002.
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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 this interview we go into detail about the impact of Vietnam on Church's political evolution, the creation of the Church Committee, the CIA's subversion and assassinations, the role of presidents--both Democratic and GOP--in subverting foreign nations, and more.
Church is one of the more important figures in the history of American anti-Imperialism and this is a must-see/must-hear interview.
Outro- "CIA Man" by The Fugs
Links// +The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy (https://bit.ly/46rgFmB) +The Intercept: Church and State. How the Murder of a CIA Officer Was Used to Silence the Agency’s Greatest Critic. (https://bit.ly/3CTmSKo)
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Union organizing is on the rise. Headlines regularly highlight worker organizing drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces. Bosses and politicians like Joe Biden (despite claiming to be the "most pro-union president ever") do everything they can to slow or stop organizing and strikes. To ensure strong unions, workers need to educated, organize and build power. This includes effective bargaining and contract negotiations.
We talk with author, labor attorney and organizer Abby Lawlor (@aflawlor) about efforts to democratize union negotiations and build worker power with open negotiations. She's the co-author of "Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations."
Bio// Abby Lawlor is an attorney, organizer, and researcher based in Seattle, Washington. She is currently a legal fellow at the Public Rights Project.
Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody
Links// + Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (https://bit.ly/3NICRRI)
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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 likes of Alec Baldwin and Seth Meyers. Like other authoritarian, or wannabe authoritarians, humor become a strategy to confront the Trump regime. As some experts say, comedy is an incredibly important method of non-violent protest and satire can be a way to energize and mobilize a mass of people resisting politicians like Trump.
In our latest, we talk with Prof. Sophia McClennen (@mcclennen65) about how comedians were able to counter Trump's absurdity with satire and humor. We also talked about how it's used to undermine authoritarians in other parts of the world. And we discussed political comedians Tina Fey, Michael Moore and Al Franken.
Bio// Sophia A. McClennen is Director of the Center for Global Studies and Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. She's the author of numerous books, including “Trump Was A Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t.” She’s also a regular contributor to Salon.com
Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody
Links// + Prof. Sophia McClennen: https://www.sophiamcclennen.com/ + "Trump Was a Joke How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t" (https://bit.ly/3qSrkXc) + Salon: The news media is blowing Trump coverage again (https://bit.ly/3JmC4TY) + Salon: Sick of Trump? Try laughing at him (https://bit.ly/3PuICng)
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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 American dissent and radicalism.
In February 2003, Green and Red co-host Bob Buzzanco was really lucky, and honored, to host Dan Ellsberg in Houston, where he talked about the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the coming war against Iraq, and he finished by talking about his case and the need for whistleblowers in government.
And so, as we remember Dan Ellsberg's magisterial contribution to the causes we care about, here are his words from 2003.
Daniel Ellsberg, Presente . . .
———————— About Daniel Ellsberg// Daniel Ellsberg was a Marine in the 1950s, took a Ph.D. at Harvard, and then joined the RAND corporation as an analyst. In 1964, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara brought in Ellsberg as an advisor and he was assigned to study pacification in Vietnam along with the legendary General Edward Lansdale. Ellsberg concluded that the war was not going well and would continue to deteriorate with the possibility of a victory for the northern, Communist forces quite possible.
In 1967, McNamara included Ellsberg in a group he had created to do a comprehensive study of the entire history of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, a role that would lead him to become one of the more dangerous men in that era, according to US government officials.
After completing the study (in which Ellsberg didn't have a huge role) he returned back to the RAND Corporation and became immersed in antiwar work.
By 1971, with the war still going on despite significant public opposition, Ellsberg made copies of the 7000-page report, known as "The Pentagon Papers," and leaked it to the media. The Nixon administration immediately acted and charged Ellsberg with espionage, conspiracy and other crimes. The White House also tried to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers but the Supreme Court upheld the right of the press to publish them.
By the time Ellsberg went to trial, Nixon's attempts to discredit and ruin Ellsberg--including illegal wiretapping of Ellsberg, a government break-in of his psychiatrist's office to steal his files, and an offer to the trial Judge to become director of the FBI if he found Ellsberg guilty--were so egregious that the judge threw the charges against him out.
From then on, Daniel Ellsberg was a constant presence when Americans protested against wars, nuclear power and nuclear weapons, wars and interventions, and many other issues. His legacy as a defender of press freedom and a voice for peace and justice won't be forgotten, and we've seen his influence on the likes of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Hale, Reality Winner, and others who've tried to warn us about the malignant actions of the state.
Outro- "The Ballad of Daniel Ellsberg" by Rulie Garcia
Links// + Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92 (https://nyti.ms/3Nx0EEe)
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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 battlefield are at a stalemate, with neither side able to win the war not on the verge of surrendering either. We discussed the levels of US aid to Ukraine, in terms of money and arms. We also discussed the profits made by American military suppliers and other corporations.
Importantly we also have responded to the "NATO Left" which is shouting for more aid to Ukraine and engaging in McCarthyist attacks on people calling for negotiations to end the war, as well as pointing out the follow of self-described leftists who are pro-Russia and pro-Putin.
Finally, we discussed the scope of ruling class concern over the war--manifested in calls for talks by the likes of JCS Chair Mark Milley, the Rand Corporation, and Foreign Affairs, to name a few. And we ended by discussing the risks involved in a continued war, particularly with escalating tensions with China, and the way that spending in Ukraine has taken attention away from the myriad crises we face in the U.S.
Outro- "No More War" by Markus K
Links// + CFR: How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts. (https://bit.ly/43yjccJ) +Defense Contractor Funded Think Tanks Dominate Ukraine Debate (https://bit.ly/45TdcNo) + Reuters: Ukraine war, already with up to 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023 (https://bit.ly/3MYhESg) + Hartung:Congress should freeze historically high Pentagon spending (https://bit.ly/45YNuXG)
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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," which details the story of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State and a $677 billion environmental cleanup site. We also talk about the resurgence of nuclear power, its toxic legacy and the deadly impacts of its entire life cycle. We also discuss the left's recent embrace of it as a "renewable energy" source, how the pro-nuke leftists are doing the bidding of the nuclear industry and why the left must oppose nuclear power.
Bio//
Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine CounterPunch. He is the editor and co-author of several books. Most recently, he is the author of the book "Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America" (Haymarket Books 2022).
Outro- "We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil Scott Heron
Links// +Atomic Days on Haymarket (https://bit.ly/3MZ6bSC) +The Case Against Nuclear Power (https://bit.ly/3X1XxHG) +Counterpunch: http://CounterPunch.org +The Pentagon Is Helping Bring the Next Generation of Nuclear Technology to Life (https://bit.ly/43R0Ljb)
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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 might finally be in real trouble, because of . . . archivists?
Green and Red shows the love to archivists and librarians!
We had a good discussion in this episode about the way national security documents are classified, who can see them, how they're de-classified, and Trump's theft of vital top secret documents that prompted the FBI to search Mar-a-Largo.
With the Cold War, the government, the National Security State, created a new system of classification, official secrets and surveillance. It was done to prevent spies and foreign governments from gaining access to high-level secrets and it was always used against the Left--the Rosenbergs, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Reality Winner, etc. It's impossible to imagine that the Americans who created this system thought that a former U.S. president would be the target of an official investigation for taking and possibly sharing such secrets with a foreign government, but here we are.
We also discussed the way that even significant segments of the GOP and conservative media--such as Bill Barr and Fox News--have been emphasizing this story and Trump's misdeeds.
And at the end we paid tribute to a legend of the Left, the late Barbara Ehrenreich.
Links//
- Can Trump Just Declare Nuclear Secrets Unclassified? (https://bit.ly/3RE0Jpj)
- America’s secrets: Trump’s unprecedented disregard of norms (https://bit.ly/3LbP7aK)
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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 charged with "domestic terrorism." Atlanta police have cracked down on the smallest of demos resisting the project. Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Cop City would cost twice the amount originally asked for by the Atlanta Police Foundation. And 54% of Atlanta area residents oppose the project (with only 34% supporting it) in recent polls.
This past week, three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Committee were arrested for alleged "financial crimes" by the state of Georgia. The Solidarity Committee is a bail fund that exists to support people arrested for protest-related actions. They began during the 2020 uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd and have been a pillar of support through the Stop Cop City campaign. Gov. Brian Kemp, and other politicians, has portrayed the movement to stop Copy City as a criminal organization. They are now targeting the campaign's legal and bail support for "charity fraud" and "money laundering."
In our latest episode, Scott talks with Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center (@CLDC), about what's happening in Atlanta. They get into the intent of the authorities, other legal avenues they are pursuing to eradicate the Stop Cop City Movement and possible national effects.
Bio//
Lauren is the Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney at the Civil Liberties Defense Center. She is a national expert in the defense of political activists, particularly those engaged in the climate, environmental, indigenous and animal rights movements. She is a trial lawyer who handles state and federal criminal defense, SLAPP defense, grand jury resistance, and federal civil rights litigation against police and government agencies for violating the rights of activists and organizations.
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"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 called it a "cultural landmark" for its sympathetic portrayal of eco-terrorists. It deals with complex issues related to the climate crisis such as violence vs. non-violence, sabotage as self-defense and the necessity of fighting the oil industry.
In our latest, we talk with Daniel Goldhaber (@chronopictures), the director of "How to Blow Up a Pipeline. We talked to him about his motives for turning the book into a film, what messages he wanted to put across, his own views on the urgency of direct action in the fight to save the earth, the responses to the movie, past actions they considered when making the film and more.
Bio// Daniel Goldhaber is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2018, he directed Cam, a psychological horror film set in the world of webcam pornography. In 2022, he co-wrote, directed, and produced the thriller film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the book of the same name by Andreas Malm.
Outro- "Sabotage" by The Great American Beast
Links// + "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" by Andreas Malm (https://bit.ly/42g5JVA) + Daniel Goldhaber: https://www.danielgoldhaber.com/ + A Frontline Response to Andreas Malm (https://bit.ly/3OOJLpJ) + “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” Movie Poses Terror Threat, Kansas City Intel Agency Claims (https://bit.ly/3C6kJe3)
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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 necessary and we shouldn't question it and the state sponsors tributes like Memorial Day to "thank the troops for their service" but which really give people a reason to have picnics and blow off fireworks.In our Memorial Day episode, we dive deep into Bush and Cheney's wars in the Middle East in a fascinating discussion w/antiwar vet Henri Henrikson, (@henrihateswar). We discussed his deployment and time in war zones in the Middle East, what he witnessed there, how he evolved politically to become an antiwar activist and counter-recruiter, military propaganda in films, and what he thinks Memorial Day should mean.It's a great, moving interview with a dedicated vet and activist.Bio//Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson (He/Him/His) is an Iraq war veteran from Portland, OR. He deployed in support of Operation Noble Eagle at the Pentagon following 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A former MP team leader, Henri also served two years as a CID drug investigator. Now a journalist, podcaster, writer, and especially anti-war activist, Henri no longer supports the lies of imperialism or the PR spin of the politicians, wherever the source. He seeks to make common cause with anyone tired of jingoistic-driven death from the American war machine and a desire to protect the innocents of the earth, no matter their origin. Except Alex Jones. Fuck that guy. ---------------------------------------------------Outro- Green and Red Blues Links//+ Fortress on the Hill: https://www.fortressonahill.com/ Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast +Our Rad Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/+We're part of the Labor Podast Network:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast+Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
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. The U.S. has hundreds of bases around world polluting nearby communities. Money that could be preparing for climate resilience and disaster relief is used to prepare for U.S. adventures abroad. Private military contractors and the Pentagon play the same greenwashing game as the rest of the Ruling Class.
Yet, the climate movements fighting fossil fuels, corporate financiers, and climate denying and climate neo-liberal politicians have little in way of consciousness about the intersections between the climate crisis, war, empire and militarism.
We dive deep into this subject with the coordinator of CODEPINK's War is Not Green (WING) campaign- Teddy Ogborn. We also discuss CODEPINK's WING campaign against financial giant Blackrock.
Teddy Ogborn is an activist and organizer based in New York City with a BA in Comparative Literature from Haverford College. They have several years of experience in documentary storytelling, strategic organizing, and direct action, particularly with climate actions in New York and New Jersey. Teddy is CODEPINK’s (@codepink) War Is Not Green (WING) Coordinator where they focus on the intersection of militarism and climate change.
Outro- Edwin Starr - War (Dr Spider & 4bstr4ck3r remix)
Links//
- War is Not Green Resources (https://bit.ly/4226Wj1)
- 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined (https://bit.ly/41YiALP)
- Counterpunch: The Numbers BlackRock Won’t Crunch (https://bit.ly/3WyOhdQ)
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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 1925, respectively).
Join Scott and Bob as we go deep on two of the most important revolutionaries of the 20th century---their ideas, their organizations, their international leadership in the class and anti-imperial struggles, and the inspiration they gave to so many millions.
Plus a little Last Poets love for Ho Chi Minh:
I'm gettin' on out of here
You see, I just could not win
Against Ho Chi Minh
No, I just could not win
Against Ho Chi Minh
Further reading//
- William Duiker's Ho Chi Minh: A Life and Sacred War,
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Peniel Joseph's The Sword and the Shield,
- James Cones' Martin and Malcolm and America
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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 domestic advisor Egil "Bud" Krogh, a key player in the administration's secret espionage unit, aka "The Plumbers," and his son Matt Krogh. G&R talked to Matt last year on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. We're reposting the episode to coincide with the HBO series' premiere.
From 2022:
"June 17th, 2022 was the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break in. In 1972, five men were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. They were part of a group that operated out of the Nixon White House called the “Plumbers.” Their job was to investigate leaks in the White House and conduct other surveillance and sabotage against Nixon’s political enemies.
One of the heads of the White House Plumbers was Egil “Bud” Krogh. Krogh passed away in 2020, but before his death, he co-wrote a memoir of his experience in the Nixon Administration's secret espionage unit with his son Matt Krogh (@mattkrogh).
In our Watergate anniversary episode, we talk with Matt Krogh about his father Egil Krogh, the Plumbers and the Nixon administration. We also talk about the Watergate scandal in relation to the current political environment.
Bio//
Matt Krogh is the co-author, with his father, the late Egil “Bud” Krogh, of "The White House Plumbers" (out this fall), along with its earlier iteration "Integrity." HBO has made a mini-series based on the book starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux.
By day, Matt is a professional change maker focused on issues of climate change, fossil fuels, and policy. Mostly based in Bellingham, Washington, he has spent his career in nonprofit activism at various organizations, and has worked as a freelance writer, ranger, and geographic analyst. He currently co-owns Warthog Information Systems (www.warthogis.com), a company focused on using geographic information to make the world a better place.
He is grateful for the opportunity to amplify his dad's important life lessons through co-authoring The White House Plumbers, along with its earlier iteration Integrity."
Music// "Watergate Blues" by Tom T. Hall, and "H2O Blues" by Gil Scott Heron
Links//
The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency (https://amzn.to/3xrYHQm)
A Final Interview With Nixon “Plumber” Egil “Bud” Krogh, Who Has Died at Age 80 (https://bit.ly/3QfjXRJ)
If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret (https://bit.ly/3aQInkt)
NY Times: Egil Krogh, 80, Nixon Aide, Dies; Authorized an Infamous Break-In(https://nyti.ms/3tujem0)
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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 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. McNally discussed a wide array of topics, including his introduction to Marxist thought, important texts to use to discover Marx's writings, the importance of Marx's concept of "alienated labor," his formulation of class struggle, and why democracy is essential to socialism.
We also discussed the history of Marx's influence in European politics and how Americans came to discover Marx in the late 19th Century. And we finished with a discussion of why Marx remains relevant today and why Marxism is seeing a resurgence.
David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. He specializes in the history and political economy of capitalism. The author of seven books and over 60 scholarly articles, Professor McNally taught political economy at York University in Toronto before joining the Department of History at the University of Houston.
Outro//
"Karl Marx and History" by Randy the Band
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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 commemorate the anniversary of the tragic events of May 4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4 students and shot 9 others. Students, who'd been told the war was winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th. At Kent State, aworking-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent. For two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students. On May 4th, the Guard, unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet. These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests. The war had come home!
Scott and Bob, who's also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the background to the protests, the official, violent response, the aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning, and lessons.
Outro//
"My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders
Links//
- Kent State Tribunal Organization, established by Laurel Krause, sister of one of the students assassinated that day (https://bit.ly/3w2spdR);
- interview with Alan Canfora, one of the survivors of the shootings (https://bit.ly/3OUyjGq);
- The Kent State May 4th Poetry Collection: Denise Levertov, "The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why" (https://bit.ly/3kIVyFv)
- Governor Rhodes press conference, May 3 (https://bit.ly/37cIk0R);
- Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (https://bit.ly/3kB21ST).
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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 (and union busting) at REI, wins at the University of Minnesota and Stanford and past anti-nuclear actions on May Day.
They also talk about Tucker Carlson and how he wasn’t taken off the air by the Deep State, and Bernie’s endorsement of Joe Biden’s re-election and the continued deadly reliance on electoralism by liberals.
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Outro- "Red Flag" by the May Day Orchestra
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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 in Austin, TX. Last month, Perry was convicted of the murder after arguing self-defense. After being goaded by Tucker Carlson, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he was expediting a pardon request on Perry’s behalf. But now, unsealed evidence has revealed texts, emails and social media posts from Daniel Perry that show he'd talked about shooting protestors in the summer of 2020, and a number of racist comments he'd made about blacks and Muslims. It's also been revealed that Perry has propositioned minors on the internet. This has put Abbott in a precarious position. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (made up of seven Abbott appointees) will also hear from Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza and Garrett Foster's family about why the conviction of Daniel Perry should be upheld.
We talk with Truthout editor and staff reporter Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) about Greg Abbott's aims to pardon racist murderer Daniel Perry. We also talk about the horrible response by the Austin Police Dept. to Foster's family and Greg Abbott's plans to turn Texas into more of a police state. We then talk about progressive media in Texas, the Texas Observer and it's miraculous comeback after almost closing down.
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- Travis County DA Garza to Defend Daniel Perry Conviction at Parole Board (https://bit.ly/3NklYNx)
- Gov. Abbott says he will sign bill protecting law enforcement from prosecution for using non-lethal projectile weapons (https://bit.ly/40JetCS)
- G&R (2020): A Murder in Austin, w/ Anti-Police Brutality organizer Debbie Russell (https://bit.ly/ATXprotestGandR)
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In our latest, we talk with historian Professor Frank Costigliola, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, about the life of diplomat, architect of the U.S.'s Cold War containment strategy and, later, critic of U.S. policy George Kennan.
We talked about Kennan's early life, his time in the State Dept where he penned "The Long Telegram" and a Foreign Affairs article that outlined "containment" as a strategy against the Soviet Union. We also talked about his later life as a critic of militarized Cold War policies, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War and the expansion of NATO.
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- Kennan: A Life Between Worlds (https://bit.ly/3mA9ZAD)
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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 from 9/11 onward, but spent a lot of time discussing our actions here in Houston, our roots in the anti-globalization movement, and how we pivoted to become the most important left group in Houston opposing the war and holding vigils in front of Halliburton, and later disrupting the company’s shareholders meeting.
It's a not-too-pleasant trip down the memory lane of the Iraq War but also a good lesson in organizing and local political activism.
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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 Denver's racial justice movement. In Colorado Springs, the FBI attempted similar efforts to undermine racial justice movements there. Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson reveals secret undercover recordings exposing federal entrapment schemes targeting unsuspecting Americans in both Denver and Colorado Springs.
Bob and Scott talk with Trevor Aaronson about his reporting in the podcast series "Alphabet Boys." They discuss FBI infiltration, disruption and attempts to entrap activists in Denver and Colorado Springs. They discuss parallels between the FBI's COINTELPRO of the 1960s and 1970s and the FBI's post-911 mission. And they talk about how politics in Washington DC don't allow for any real change on the state's war against the left.
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Outro "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies
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- Podcast ‘Alphabet Boys’ Reveals FBI’s Sordid Use of Informants to Instigate Violence and Target Black Activists During 2020 Protests For Black Lives (http://bit.ly/3K0H4yk)
- Trevor Aaronson: https://trevoraaronson.com/
- The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement (http://bit.ly/3ZeSvXr)
- The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes (http://bit.ly/3LMbdTy)
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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 about the ongoing bloodshed in Ukraine, the need to find a way out, the current U.S. saber-rattling toward China, the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, and some history of the Cold War, including NSC-68.
As always we discussed the U.S. priorities in spending billions abroad and on the military budget while problems at home mount.
Talking with Andy Bacevich is always a great education and essential viewing/listening.
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Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He is a retired career officer in the Armor Branch of the United States Army, retiring with the rank of colonel.
Bacevich is the co-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. And he's the author of numerous books including the recently released “On Shedding An Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century.”
Outro "Green and Red Blues"
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- Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: https://quincyinst.org/
- The Nation: We Can’t Reduce the Ukraine War to a Morality Play (http://bit.ly/3TeGxM4)
- Foreign Affairs:The Reckoning That Wasn’t (http://bit.ly/3TeApUi)
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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. destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline. We talk with him about the politics around the Nordstream Pipeline, the war in Ukraine, Putin, Biden and much more.Seymour Hersh has Won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book award and several George Polk awards. He’s best known for breaking stories around military and national security matters including the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam, the CIA spying on American citizens in 1970s (that led to the formation of the Church Committee) and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq war.---------------------------------------------Outro "Green and Red Blues"Links// Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (http://bit.ly/3myrmBu)Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
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 reporter at Truthout. Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout. Her work has also appeared The Nation, In These Times, the Texas Observer, Salon, Rewire News Group, Sludge, YES! Magazine and Earth Island Journal. Her work has received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center.
Outro "Green and Red Blues"
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- Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Court Green-Lights Phase I of “Cop City” (http://bit.ly/3ZeWSmc)
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Two kids w/ a dream dropped their first podcast on February 27th, 2020, just as the world was about to be rocked with multiple cataclysms, and we haven't looked back.
So to commemorate our auspicious debut and evolution, Scott and Bob just talked, some some strategic ranting thrown in, about what they sought out to do, what they've done, what they've liked, and how the world has changed since then.
And mostly they just want to say "THANK YOU" to so many of you who've watched, listened, communicated w/ us and donated. Here's to the next three!
Outro "Funhouse (Take 2)" by The Stooges
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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 christian fascist groups who've been trying to intimidate drag show and other LGBQT groups and events across the state.
Scott talks with Candice Bernd with Truthout about her latest article "Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists" and her coverage of these protests and confrontations across the state.
Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout.
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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 Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence,” which challenges the long-time liberal insistence on non-violent and often non-aggressive protest and makes a case that riots are another tactic to be used by the Left.
This is a debate that's been ongoing in Left circles for a long, long time and Ben Case makes a compelling argument that by pledging "non-violence" we let the ruling class know up front that we're not going to threaten it.
Benjamin S. Case is an organizer, educator, and writer. He is a researcher at the Center for Work and Democracy and a fellow at the Resistance Studies Initiative. Case is based in Pittsburgh, PA.
We also celebrate and mourn Jen Angel-publisher, writer, anarchist, radical media activist, baker, comrade to many and longtime friend and co-conspirator of Scott’s.
Outro “Sainted Streets” by Casey Neill
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- Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (https://www.akpress.org/street-rebell...)
- Love and support for Jen Angel (https://bit.ly/3Ilguis)
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We continued our discussion with Professor Carla Toche Casalino (@tochecasalino) in Peru about the ongoing crisis there after the December coup that ousted Pedro Castillo. There has been continued repression by the government against workers, students, peasants and others protesting the Dina Boluarte regime. Police forces have shot and killed non-violent protestors, kidnapped and arrested others, and are harassing and menacing activists.
We also discussed the international reaction to this crisis, including the role the U.S. is playing in supporting the violent Boluarte regime.
The U.S. media is giving little coverage to Peru right now, so this is an important contribution to the news about the crisis there.
Prof. Carla Toche Casalino is a political scientist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima.
Outro- "Pobre Cada Dia Mas Pobre" by Los Orientales de Paramonga
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- Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon From Big Oil (http://bit.ly/3X6S0O7)
- AP: Dems urge Biden to halt aid to Peru over protest crackdown (http://bit.ly/3YpYkRT)
- Reuthers: Protester dies in Lima as Peru's political crisis continues (http://bit.ly/3wXESQL)
- Peru: No Early Elections Despite Crisis (http://bit.ly/3YvddTh)
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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 today with more on the state’s war against Stop Cop City organizing.
Since December, 19 forest defenders have been charged with "domestic terrorism" under a 2017 Georgia anti-terror law. The law originally intended for mass shootings in the wake of white supremacist Dylann Roof's massacre at a black Charleston, SC church. It was later expanded to include crimes against property and target protest on the left. Georgia authorities are now using it to enhance low level crimes in the Atlanta forest defense campaign.
In this episode, Scott talks with environmental journalist Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) about the troubling use of the law and her recent article on the matter in Grist.
Outro- Green and Red Blues
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- Grist: "Documents show how 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism" (http://bit.ly/3DtRGSE)
- G&R:Police Murder Forest Defender Near Atlanta’s Proposed “Cop City" (apple.co/3XNOcSY)
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- https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
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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 about that event. They discussed the motives for the U.S. getting involved in Vietnam, the destruction unleashed by the U.S. against Vietnam, particularly the southern half, the betrayals during the negotiations, and the legacy of Vietnam.About Noam Chomsky//Professor Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.At 93, he is still active; writing and giving interviews to media all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for the American Dream. His most recent book is “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power,” co-authored with Vijay Prashad.-----------------------------------Outro- Green and Red BluesLinks// The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (https://bit.ly/3DPoAOI) G&R: Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (https://apple.co/3FepBwT) G&R: Noam Chomsky on the 1960s (https://bit.ly/ChomskyGandR) G&R: Noam Chomsky on why the Democrats suck (https://bit.ly/3GaQeoX)Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.orgLabor Podcast Network// We've recently become a member of the Labor Podcast Network! Check them out here:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac
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 gathering space that has blocked construction of an enormous police training facility known as “Cop City” on roughly 100 acres of public forest in southeast Atlanta. Vigils for the murdered forest defender Tortuguita have taken place from Oakland to Minneapolis to Charlotte to Chicago. In Atlanta, activists held a vigil the night of the shooting and are planning a march on Saturday.
Since June 2021, the Stop Cop City campaign (@defendatlforest) has resisted the construction of a police training facility and demolition of an urban forest. Through the campaign demonstrators have been pepper-sprayed, attacked, threatened and violently arrested by the police Last month, 5 protestors were arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism” On Wednesday, beside the murder of Tort, at least another 7 protestors were arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism.”
In this episode, Scott talks with Micah (@micahinatl), an Atlanta-based organizer, about the situation in Atlanta.
Outro- Green and Red Blue
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- https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
- Atlanta solidarity fund (https://bit.ly/3kvpoAP)
- Cop City and the Prison Industrial Complex in Atlanta (http://bit.ly/3R1Xyby)
- The Bitter Southerner: Forest for the Trees (http://bit.ly/3HmgvlK)
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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 war, the peace treaty, and some of the lessons and legacies of Vietnam.
The last phase of the war is not discussed as much as the earlier period, so we went into some detail about the last big battles of the war like the Easter Offensive. We discussed the background to negotiations before 1972 and the ways in which Kissinger and Nixon engaged in deceptive diplomacy--reneging on agreements and actually escalating the war. We also corrected the historical record on the so-called Christmas Bombings, which Americans have been told forced the North Vietnamese to make concessions and sign the peace treaty but in reality which were condemned globally and forced the U.S. to agree to terms which had been on the table much earlier.
Finally we discussed the legacy of Vietnam, and pondered the questions "who actually won the Vietnam War?"
Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody
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- "A Christmas Tale, by Richard Nixon" https://afflictthecomfortable.org/201...
- Why Is There No Antiwar Movement? (https://bit.ly/3XBnsoA)
- The "Christmas bombing" of 1972 — and why that misremembered Vietnam War moment matters (http://bit.ly/3GDIsUA)
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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 the CIA to declassify documents. He now claims to have a "smoking gun" that will crack the case.
But does he? Bob Buzzanco has been one of the foremost critics of the JFK-Oliver Stone Conspiracy group and he and Morley had a long discussion about the claims of a government conspiracy to kill the President in 1963. They discussed the difficulty of getting government documents, Morley's allegations about the CIA's involvement in conducting surveillance on Lee Harvey Oswald and trying to flip him, and then making him the patsy for the killing, and how the CIA operates. Buzzanco repeatedly made the point that there was still no evidence, no real link, between government agents and the events in Dallas at Dealey Plaza.
Green & Red has been at the forefront of this debate and it continues with this great discussion.
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Jefferson Morley (@jeffersonmorley) is a Washington journalist and author. He worked as an editor at Harper’s, The New Republic and Nation before joining the Washington Post in 1992.
Morley is the author of three non-fiction books: The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (St. Martin’s Press); Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA (University Press of Kansas); and Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 (Nan Talese/Doubleday).
Morley is the editor of JFK Facts, a blog about JFK’s assassination.
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In our latest, we talk with Pitasanna Shanmugathas (@pitasanna) about his docuseries "Truth to the Powerless."
In this six part series, "Truth to the Powerless" seeks to explore the role Canada's foreign policy has played in the international arena since the post-World War II era. The docuseries interviews Canadian politicians, activists, dissidents, academics as well as everyday people to get their insight and views on the various foreign policy actions which Canada has been involved in around the world.
Pitasanna Shanmugathas (@pitasanna) is the writer, director, producer and editor of "Truth to the Powerless." He has worked in multiple organizations advocating for peace and disarmament.
Outro- Propagandhi "Today's Empire, Tomorrow's Ashes"
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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 this one).
In Struggle, Bob and Scott
"And we thought 2020 was bumpy. In this fresh episode, we talk about the shocks happening in the liberal democratic capitalist system--How the ruling class is destabilized by Trump and the far right actions at Capitol Hill this week, and how they are responding to maintain order and their own power as quickly as possible. It's an analysis you won't find in many other places, if anywhere.
Last week, we saw former Veep and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney(!) organize a statement by all ten living Secretaries of Defense to call on Trump and officials in the military establishment to call for an orderly transition of power (he didn't). We saw the National Association of Manufacturers, a notorious anti-worker, anti-liberal Democratic institution, issue a statement calling for the swift enactment of the 25th Amendment of Donald Trump over inciting riots at the Capitol. And we saw lots more anger and outrage in the political and corporate spheres aimed at Trump and his supporters.
Between the crises of COVID-19, a crashing economy, the climate crisis, a growing far right clearly willing to use deadly violence and these shocks to the system, there are many forces vying for what kind of world is next for us.
As the great Gil Scott-Heron told us, “America leads the world in shocks. Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock.” That's what Green and Red Podcast will be doing."
Read more//
- Bob Buzzanco:This Is Not a Coup (http://bit.ly/35txgYW)
- Bob Buzzanco: Swipe Left on the Democrats and Electoral Politics (http://bit.ly/3oxv7my)
- CNN: CEO arrested for breaching the US Capitol during Trump-fueled insurrection (or The Trials of the Lumpen Oligarchy) (http://cnn.it/3hYCeSE)
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This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
It's the end of year and we want to thank all of our friends and audience for listening and supporting us through 2022.If you want to help make Green and Red even bigger and better in 2023, please make a donation or become a Patron here: Become a recurring donor at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR*****We close out 2022 with some reflections on the failing state of America. We kick off with how Southwest Airlines' complete meltdown this holiday season is metaphor for our times. Despite billions in bailout funds the company put profits in executive and investor pockets while screwing over its customers and workers. We discuss how failing infrastructure in places like Buffalo during the recent winter storms, failures to support houselessness in most American cities and Greg Abbott's cynical stunt of sending undocumented immigrants to Kamala's Harris' front doorstep during Christmas is par for this same course of austerity and culture war. We also discuss how the Democrats continue to undermine progressive movements, the working class and completely fail at strategically outmaneuvering the GOP (the establishment GOP, not Trump). We also discussed corporate profiteering from the war in Ukraine (while domestic infrastructure crumbles). How some so-called lefists (cough... New Politics..) are no different than NATO liberals pushing a proxy war in Ukraine under the false narrative of "humanitarian intervention" while NATO countries and war profiteers are looking to consolidate power, weaken their enemies and make a buck. We then discuss the notion of "accompaniment" as we pay homage to recently passed noted historian, attorney and activist Staughton Lynd, and beloved friend, comrade and former director of Rainforest Action Network Rebecca Tarbotton who passed away ten years ago this week. *******Outro- "Political Science" by Randy NewmanLinks// NY Times Obituary Rebecca Tarbotton (https://bit.ly/3Q7t1ID) G&R: Remembering Staughton Lynd. The Green & Red Interview [2020] Encore (https://bit.ly/3G5Q9Ty) How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts. (https://bit.ly/3Q389T2) G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (https://bit.ly/3GaQeoX)Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandRThis is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
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It's been almost ten months since Russia invaded Ukraine and NATO has turned it into a proxy war to destabilize Vladimir Putin. With no end in sight, tens of thousands have been killed, global economic instability and the possibility of a wider (and even nuclear) war between Russia and the West remains a threat.
Peace activist and author Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) joins us to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine and her new book " War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict," co-authored with Nicolas Davies. We discuss political dynamics around the war in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the globe. We also talk about the United States' long ongoing terror campaign against Cuba and the crisis in Peru.
This is definitely important listening. So please check it out.
Bio//
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and author of "Drone Warfare," "Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US Saudi Connection" and "Inside Iran."
Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by Moody
Links//
- CODEPINK: https://www.codepink.org/
- Peace in Ukraine: https://www.peaceinukraine.org/
- "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" (https://bit.ly/3YBicCG)
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As the major U.S. media continues to support the removal and imprisonment of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo along typical imperial/colonial lines, we decided to find out what has really been happening in Peru.
We spoke with Political Scientist Carla Toche Casalino from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima about the recent past in Peruvian politics.
We began with the failure of the Kuczynski government in 2018 and the crucial role in ousting him played by Keiko Fujimori, leader of the far right and daughter of imprisoned Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. We talked about the role of the mining companies in ousting politicians and the far-right control of the congress.
We then discussed Castillo's rise and the effort to undermine him by Fujimori, whom he beat in a very close election in 2021, and how that has led to the current crisis.
It's a fantastic corrective to what we're seeing in the American press today.
Outro- “De la fabricas y calles” by Comité Pokofló
Links//
- Cuellos Blancos (https://bit.ly/3hBYq9k)
- U.S. involvement (https://bit.ly/3jezVzI)
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As the climate crisis and toxic pollution worsen, environmentalists are using new strategies to challenge the power of the fossil fuel, petro-chemical and other polluting industries. The "Green Amendments" movement would put environmental protection in state and federal, constitutions and make it an unquestionable right. It already exists in three states (Montana, Pennsylvania and New York) and they are working to add it to more state constitutions.
In our latest, we talk with Green Amendments founder and Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum (@MayaKvanRossum) about Green Amendments.
Bio//
Maya K. van Rossum is the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring passage of Green Amendments in every state constitution across our nation, and also at the federal level when the time is right. She is an environmental attorney, community organizer, and the Delaware Riverkeeper, leading the regional advocacy organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for over 30 years. . She is author of "The Green Amendment: The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment."
Outro// "Be the Rain" by Jean-Luc Le Tenia
Links//
- Green Amendments for the Generations (https://forthegenerations.org/)
- Green Amendments Will Empower Environmental Protection (https://bit.ly/3Ht9m3B)
- Delaware Riverkeeper Network (https://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/)
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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 fundraising and educational project between outside organizers across North America and political prisoner Xinachtli (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez) in Texas.
This year features art and writings by Zola, Jeff Monaghan and Andy Crosby, Kill joy, Noelle Hanrahan, Juan Hernandez, Dan Baker, Antiproduct, Upping the Anti, Katy Slininger, David Gilbert, Paul Lacombe, Garrett Felber, Oso Blanco, Mark Tilsen, Terra Poirier, Steve McCain, Lawrence Jenkins, Ed Mead, Windigo Army, Dio Cramer, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Green and Red’s Scott Parkin, Seize the Mean and Cindy Barukh Milstein.
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How has music inspired politics, and vice versa?
In our latest episode, we talk with activist and musician Casey Neill (@caseyneill) about music, politics, influences, story-telling and environmentalism in a world where nothing is normal anymore.
We also note the passing this week of two renowned Vietnam War scholars- John Prados and George Herring.
Casey Neill is a Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter known for blending politically oriented folk with Celtic, punk, country, and other styles. Originally from the East Coast but moved to Olympia, Washington to attend Evergreen State University, where he became interested in environmentalism and protest music. Throughout the mid-'90s, Neill worked in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene, self-releasing a handful of cassettes and CDs before signing with the Appleseed label.
Interlude and Outro- "Manchester Rambler" and "Dancing on the Ruins of Multinational Corporations" by Casey Neill
Links//
- Casey Neill and the Norway Rats: https://www.caseyneill.com/
- Get Casey's music on Bandcamp: https://caseyneill.bandcamp.com/
- John Prados, Master of Uncovering Government Secrets, Dies at 71 (https://bit.ly/3XWwmxQ)
- George Herring 1936-2022 (https://bit.ly/3VTlO0F)
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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 shows no signs of moving on demands. Pickets and walk outs have continued across the ten UC campuses. At the Cal-UCLA game on Friday in Berkeley, an independent group of strikers hung a massive banner off of two flag poles during the game.
Scott talks with Adrian Wilson (@circleadrian), a striking UC graduate student-worker about the banner action and the strike.
Adrian is a PhD student in anthropology at UC Berkeley and a longtime Bay Area anarchist activist.
[NOTE: You can see the drone footage of the banner we reference at the beginning of the episode here.]
Intro/Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody
Links//
- UC Strikers Unfurl Massive Banner at Cal-UCLA Game Demanding a Living Wage (http://bit.ly/3OJH06O)
- Drone Footage of the Banner Action (http://bit.ly/3gLL61Q)
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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 of his 2020 interview. Staughton was the first interview on Green & Red, during its second episode, and he discussed various issues regarding civil rights and especially labor organizing.
(Errata: It was Herbert Apthecker, not David Dellinger, who went to Vietnam with Staughton and Tom Hayden. My bad, BB)
Staughton Lynd was one of the most important American Activists/Scholars from the mid-20th Century onward. As a historian, he was one of the first prominent scholars associated with the "New Left" and he did pathbreaking work on the colonial war of liberation against the British Empire, situating it not just as a fight over Home Rule, but also "who should rule at home," i.e. what type of class relations would exist in the new country.
Staughton was on the faculty at Spelman University where he and colleague Howard Zinn became active in the Civil Rights Movement (activity that cost Zinn his job there). Staughton became head of the Mississippi Summer Freedom Education Project, organized by SNCC. He then moved on to the faculty at Yale University, but that was short-lived. He traveled to northern Vietnam in 1965 as part of an antiwar contingent and the Liberals at Yale fired him for his political activity. After that he, and his wife, another acclaimed activist, Alice became lawyers specializing in Labor Law and Prison Reform.
The Lynds moved to Niles, Ohio (also Bob Buzzanco's hometown) where Staughton became one of the leaders of a 1977 movement to save Youngstown, Ohio steel mills from closing down. He has been active in labor matters since and he and Alice also have defended death row prisoners and worked with military veterans on the issue of "moral injury."
For more on Staughton, see, among others, his books Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays; Moral Injury & Nonviolent Resistance (with Alice Lynd); and The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings. There is also a god biogaphy of Staughton, Carl Mirra's The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970. Staughton's Papers are archived at Kent State University:http://bit.ly/3tQ4FsD
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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 state to expand markets, in this case for renewable energy, but at a cost related to justice and health of communities in or near areas extracting materials for the RE sector. The most recent example of this is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA created incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, renewable energy and more and it provides $27 billion in funding for accelerating clean energy technologies.
So the question as we’re seeing the growth, and government funded growth, of renewable energy, is how clean is it really?
In our latest episode, we speak with Raquel Dominguez (@dominguez_raque) with Earthworks (@Earthworks) about clean energy and a circular economy, the impacts of mining for the RE sector and reactions from state and non-state actors to this issue.
Intro/Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody
Links//
- What’s Missing from the New IEA Report on Mining and the Renewable Energy Transition? (http://bit.ly/3EdOw54)
- Just Minerals for a Just Transition (http://bit.ly/3O64nr2)
- U.S. Making Up for Lost Time in Building a Circular Economy (http://bit.ly/3GiKsmN)
- Eco-fascism: a tangible & present danger (http://bit.ly/3g39wUh)
- Guardian: There’s lithium in them thar hills – but fears grow over US ‘white gold’ boom (http://bit.ly/3g5uiT2)
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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% approval. The strike will begin on November 14th. Workers are demanding include increased compensation, access to sustainable transportation, more childcare assistance, and increased job security.
Scott talks with Galen Liang, a grad student and UAW 2865 member to get an update on the looming strike.
Galen is a Chinese international student in the math department at UC Berkeley.He's a second year Ph.D. candidate from Guangzhou in the southern part of China.
Outro// "Solidarity Forever" by Utah Phillips
Links//
- Fair UC Now: https://www.fairucnow.org/
- University of California Workers Authorize Strike (https://bit.ly/3tmpZpq)
- U of California Academic Workers make history with largest, decisive vote to strike Nov. 14 (https://bit.ly/3E0sdj8)
- Thousands set to strike across UC system beginning Nov. 14. (https://bit.ly/3UrsR0n)
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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 amidst a crackdown on Egyptian civil society by the government around climate issues and food shortages.
Scott gets an update with a climate activist on the ground in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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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 the devolution of the Democrats and their abandonment of working class issues since the 1970s (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Ngm...) by discussing the their failure to offer up a real resistance to the Republicans.
We take a historical approach--talking about the GOP-stolen election of 2000 and the Democrat's failure to fight in Florida when Bush had people in the streets and Gore rejected any suggestion to have similar protests. We talk about the failure of Barack Obama to help anyone win office other than himself and point out that the Democratic Party suffered huge losses in state races throught the Obama years.
We also talked about the weak and timid responses to the GOP's attacks on the Democrats emphasizing the Crime and Inflation issues. And of course we discussed the way the Democratic Establishment punches left, blaming Sanders, The Squad, the Greens, and others while never taking responsibility for their own failures.
And we finish by paying tribute to the great Mike Davis
Outro// "Lifestyles of the Rich and Comfortable" By Piss Control
Links//
- Beto vs. Greg Abbott (https://bit.ly/3FHKG6I)
- WaPo: Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats (from 2020) (https://wapo.st/3t06jrb)
- Texas Bail Reform Reduced Jail Time and Crime, New Study Says (https://bloom.bg/3fvr773)
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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 100 miles away from the U.S. Nuclear War was possible, to some imminent.
In this episode 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, and strength in handling the crisis but the reality is that he was provocative and almost caused a war against Russia. In this episode we'll start by giving a background on JFK's aggression toward Cuba, then we'll offer a brief narrative of the crisis, and finally we'll discuss how Kennedy continued his subversion against Castro's government after the Missile Crisis.
JFK was not heroic. His recklessness and need for credibility almost caused a nuclear exchange. The media doesn't tell you this story. Green and Red does . . .
Outro- "We'll Meet Again" By Vera Lynn
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- The best resource for the Missile Crisis is the National Security Archive, at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/ It's recently put out a series of briefing books with documents on the crisis.
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In an amazing new interview, we talk with Prof. Andrew Hunt (@aehunt) about Cold War culture during the Reagan years.
We talk about the array of protest movements in the 1980s that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. And we discuss the "cultural resistance" of the time-- film, television, music-- that critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and posed a challenge to the Cold War's excesses of the Reagan era.
Andrew Hunt is a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He's author of “The Turning” (history of VVAW), a biography of David Dellinger and “We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan.”
Outro- "Crazy Train" by Ozzy
Links
- Andrew Hunt: We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture the Age of Reagan (https://bit.ly/3VOd5h0)
- WaPo: Ukraine war gives Gen Xers flashbacks to 1980s nuclear war songs and movies (https://wapo.st/3SoBNS3)
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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 with the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) for over a decade. He's been part of campaigns against Starbucks and Whole Foods a long time before the current campaigns against those corporate giants.
Flying solo, Scott talks with old friend and comrade Mike about music and labor politics. They discussed his campaign and organizing work with the Wobblies, thoughts on the current state of labor and how big unions and labor law formulated for the bosses hold the rank and file back.They also talk about his musical influences and inspiration, from hip hop to punk to Joe Hill. We then about his upcoming live gigs in California and his new album.
Mike Hellman (@MikeHellmanForReal) is a construction worker by day and a country and americana troubadour by night. He also has been an organizer with the Wobblies, Earth First! and various other radical causes.
Interlude- Mike Hellman "Someday" Outro- Mike Hellman "What I am"
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- Mike on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mikehellmanforreal/
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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 country. Giuseppe Acconcia, @stradedellest, professor at Padua University, has been a journalist working out of Iran and is the author of "The Great Iran," and most recently co-authored, with Lorenza Perini, of "The Arab Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, 2011-2021."
Acconcia here provides us with background to the new conflict, the critical role Iranian women have played in the resistance in Iran for some time now and the current state of the uprising, and other factors, like the Iranian economy and sanctions, that are affecting the current protests.
See Acconcia and Perini, The Arab-Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, https://www.routledge.com/The-Arab-Uprisings-Protests-Gender-and-War-2011-2021/Acconcia-Perini/p/book/9781032274843
Outro// "Baraye" by Shervin Hajipour (note- This is a popular resistance song with the Iranian uprising. You can read more about it here: https://bit.ly/3s2GxSZ)
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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 massacring hundreds of Yuki in the process. The Yuki fled to "The Mountain" in what is now known as the Jackson Demonstration State Forest to escape the violence. Those villages in the forest are now sacred sites to the Coastal Yuki and Northern Pomo tribes.
The state of California is allowing logging companies to log the 50,000 acre Jackson Forest for profit to finance CalFire's operations fighting wildfires. Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's direction for California state agencies to co-manage state lands with local Native American tribes and seek opportunities to return State lands to Native American tribes, the Dept. of Natural Resources has only designated 75 acres as "sacred sites."
Flying solo, Scott talks with Pricilla Hunter, Polly Girvin and Andy Wellspring with the Pomo Land Back (@PomoLandBack) campaign and the Coalition to Save Jackson Forest (@savejacksoncoalition) about the ongoing campaign to save the Jackson Forest and the sacred sites within it. The campaign has seen backcountry blockades and tree-sit action as well as rallies and marches in Mendocino County and Sacramento.
The campaigners see this as potentially the next great environmental struggle. We discuss.
Bios//
Priscilla Hunter is a Tribal Elder of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, former Chairwoman of the Tribe, and currently the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Priscilla is working to protect the Sacred Sites of her Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki peoples that are threatened by logging, road building and pesticide operations in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, which is located in her homelands, also called Mendocino.
Polly Girvin is a movement elder, Chicana activist, and civil rights and Federal Indian Law attorney graduated from the University of California Berkeley and Columbia University School of Law.
Andy Wellspring is a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice, the Mendo Coast chapter. SURJ is white folks committed to racial justice nationally, and SURJ Mendo Coast is a member of the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest and supporting the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians in this struggle to protect sacred sites and end commercial logging on Pomo Homelands.
Outro- Stuart James "NoDAPL"
Links//
- Save Jackson Forest: https://savejackson.org/
- Donate to support the tribe's legal strategy. (https://bit.ly/3yjiUZI)
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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 of the way Native American History is taught, and why a 1619 Project is needed for American Indians too.
We start off with a clip from the Sopranos highlighting the conflict in the Italian-American community over Columbus Day. And then we deep dive into Indigenous Peoples' Day, the cultural impact of America's genocide, the Indian Wars and violence in the U.S. historical narrative. We also talk about whether cultural gains (things like tearing down Columbus statues, changing sports team names, etc.) will result in material gains (economics, health care, etc) for Native Americans, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the epidemic of police murder of Indigenous people.
Michael Oberg is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo. The author of seven books on Native American history, Oberg received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003 and a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2013.
Links//
- Michael Oberg's website: https://michaelleroyoberg.com/
- Indigenous Lives Matter: Some Thoughts on the Death of Reynold High Pine, 1972. (https://bit.ly/33N2gmg)
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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 conversation with Francesco Mazzucotelli, a political scientist at the Universita di Pavia in Italy, a longtime journalist, and a 2018 candidate for senate for the Liberi e Uguali party.
Francesco, Scott and Bob discussed the recent Italian elections with a focus on the roots and evolution of the Brothers of Italy, the complexities and rivalries in right-wing politics, Meloni's approach to immigration and LGBTQ issues and the Ukraine War, and the weaknesses and failures of the Italian Left.
Outro- 99 Posse "Rigurgito Antifascista"
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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 1972 McGovern debacle, the Democrats all but abandoned their New Deal heritage and moved swiftly to a stronger pro-business position and embraced Neo-Liberalism. They abandoned class politics and giving priority to workers and the poor and instead have embraced ID politics and wokeness. As the Republicans stole elections and Supreme Court seats, gerrymandered congressional districts, packed the courts, and ran scorched-earth campaigns at every level, the Democrats have offered a timid resistance at best.
In this fantastic interview, Noam Chomsky gives us a history and analysis of the evolution of the Democrats from the party of FDR to a party that's Republican-Lite. We discussed the Carter campaign, the Trilateral Commission, the DLC and the Clintons, Obama, Democratic hawkishness, and other factors in the Democratic retreat from progressive ideas, all while the GOP waged an open and ruthless war on workers, non-whites, women, and others.
Don't miss this important interview with the world's greatest living intellectual.
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Professor Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
At 93, he is still active; writing and giving interviews to media all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for the American Dream. His most recent book is “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power,” co-authored with Vijay Prashad.
Links//
- The Withdrawal:Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (https://bit.ly/3DPoAOI)
- G&R: Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (https://apple.co/3FepBwT)
- **G&R: Noam Chomsky on the 1960s (https://bit.ly/ChomskyGandR)
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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 (ELF) and the subsequent "Green Scare." There is much flawed analysis in the series to say the least. Other critiques include the juxtaposition of right-wing extremists and left-wing "extremism," the imbalance of law enforcement and industry voices in the series and platforming ELF member turned snitch Chelsea Gerlach (without discussing her cooperation with the feds).
In our latest, we discuss the BBC's series (or at least the first two episodes) with former ELF member, and return G&R guest, Daniel McGowan (@support_daniel). We discuss the series, how liberals make heroes of the FBI, the current media discuss around "climate sabotage and more.
About Daniel//
Daniel is an environmental and social justice activist from Queens, NY.
He was part of two ELF actions in 2001. And arrested as part of Operation Backfire. He was charged in 2005 with 15 counts of arson, property destruction and conspiracy, all related to two actions in Oregon in 2000, claimed by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). On June 4, 2007, McGowan was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution. He served part of his time in a super secret prison unit called Communication Management Unit, or CMU.
Outro- "Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" by Chumbawamba
Links//
- BBC: Burn Wild (https://bbc.in/3dkP0wW)
- Crimethinc: Green Scared (https://bit.ly/3BnVHpM0
- G&R Episodes Related to this Episode//
- Leslie James Pickering on the ELF, the Green Scare and “Burning Books” (https://bit.ly/3PX4Pb0)
- From Environmentalist to “Domestic Terrorist” with former Earth Liberation member Daniel McGowan https://bit.ly/3uKPlha
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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 in this episode about the way national security documents are classified, who can see them, how they're de-classified, and Trump's theft of vital top secret documents that prompted the FBI to search Mar-a-Largo.
With the Cold War, the government, the National Security State, created a new system of classification, official secrets and surveillance. It was done to prevent spies and foreign governments from gaining access to high-level secrets and it was always used against the Left--the Rosenbergs, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Reality Winner, etc. It's impossible to imagine that the Americans who created this system thought that a former U.S. president would be the target of an official investigation for taking and possibly sharing such secrets with a foreign government, but here we are.
We also discussed the way that even significant segments of the GOP and conservative media--such as Bill Barr and Fox News--have been emphasizing this story and Trump's misdeeds.
And at the end we paid tribute to a legend of the Left, the late Barbara Ehrenreich.
Links//
- Can Trump Just Declare Nuclear Secrets Unclassified? (https://bit.ly/3RE0Jpj)
- America’s secrets: Trump’s unprecedented disregard of norms (https://bit.ly/3LbP7aK)
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- G&R:The Military vs. Donald J. Trump (https://apple.co/3cDUso8)
- G&R: The Coup That Wasn't (https://bit.ly/RulingClassGandR)
- G&R: The Capitol Hill Riots and the Ruling Class (https://bit.ly/RiotsRulingClassGandR)
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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 anniversary of September 11th.
9/11 changed our world. Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco) had a spirited discussion on the impact of the events of September 11, 2001. We offered personal recollections, talked about the larger historical context in which it occurred, considered the consequences of the attacks--prolonged Mid-East wars and heightened repression at home, discussed the way the attacks and wars were manipulated for "patriotic" reasons, and talked about how it effects the U.S. today, in the era of Trump. Read More:
U.S. State Department Memo, May 1, 1950 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/propaganda%20003.pdf Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy (NY Times): https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/glaspie.html Presidential Daily Briefing Memo of August, 2001 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ (The Atlantic): https://bit.ly/2GP4FUE VIDEO: Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979: https://bit.ly/3hqquXn
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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 meantime here's a "Best of Green and Red" episode from March 2020 on populism and the New Deal.
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From March 2020:
"The world is in full blown panic around the COVID19 pandemic. The global economy is shaking. Today, the stock market took its biggest dip since September 1987. Panic about the virus and jobs and business is kicking in.
During previous economic crashes, most notably the Panic of 1893 and the 1929 crash that launched the Great Depression, we saw moments emerge that initially challenged the ruling class. Both the populist movement of the 1890s, and social justice and labor movements of the 1930s led to a "thunder on the left" that terrified the ruling class. From William Jennings Bryan to Sinclair Lewis and Huey Long to Bernie Sanders, populist figures on the left are much more of a threat to Wall Street and the uber-rich than billionaire reality TV stars.
As a result, the rich always know how to turn bottom-up led movements into top-down reform that actually benefits the wealthy with social stability and new consumer markets So, in this episode, Bob and Scott talk about the real meaning of Populism and the New Deal."
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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 the Haymarket Affair to International Workers' Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class's "war on the left" fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day.
Spend an hour of your Labor Day weekend hearing about its history. You won't regret it.
Outro// "Which Side Are You On" by Florence Reece
Links//
- IWW: The Brief Origins of May Day (https://bit.ly/2QLtO7Q)
- G&R: How Union Organizing Fights the Boss with Daisy Pitkin (https://apple.co/3y35txO)
- G&R: Collin College strikes again! Dr. Michael Phillips, award-winning scholar, fired! (https://apple.co/34ItAFq)
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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 meantime here's a "Best of Green and Red" episode from March 2022 on the energy sector's false solutions agenda in California. Since false solutions like carbon capture and storage and nuclear are in the news so much lately (particularly hipster socialist Brooklyn media) and getting new life through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we thought we'd share a little info on them. But we're now planning an episode on the IRA coming soon.
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 engine or promises to take on the state's many oil extraction sites. There is a notion of "climate exceptionalism" in California's liberal ruling elite. But the California state government is captured by oil interests like many others. The pro-industry legislation and political action just comes in different forms.
Flying solo, Scott talks with Gary Graham Hughes (@vozsilvestre) from Biofuelwatch (@biofuelwatch) to discuss the idea of California's "climate exceptionalism." They discuss the false solutions to the climate crisis being promoted by industry. Gary gives us a background on false solutions like carbon capture and storage, "net zero" and market schemes like cap and trade. They also talk about the revolving door of public sector employees, lobbyists for industry and the Big Green non-profit industrial complex. And how corporate media lifts up the ruling classes' ambitions for climate capitalism and false solutions.
Bio// Gary Graham Hughes (@VozSilvestre) is the California Policy Monitor at Biofuelwatch and the co-Host/co-Producer of Terra Verde on KPFA in Berkeley, CA. He also has Masters in Environmental Science from the University of Montana and splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Humboldt County.
Links//
- Biofuelwatch: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
- Biofuelwatch: Carbon Capture or Captured Futures (https://bit.ly/3rANbQR)
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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 meantime here's a "Best of Green and Red" episode from June 2020 on Trump vs. his generals. It's a repost referenced in last week's episode on divides in the Ruling Class.
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From June 2020:
Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) talk about the recent public repudiation of Donald Trump's attempts to use the military against American citizens in pursuit of a racial war by ranking military officials, not just retired but active-duty as well.
In an amazing two weeks, one of the more incredible developments has been the open resistance of military officials to Trump's attempts to militarize American cities and likely kill protestors. Starting with retired Generals and Admirals and percolating into the dissent of active-duty officers, the military, America's most respected institution, has stood up to Trump and, even more, made a sharp statement against racism and defended the right to protest.
These people aren't radical and don't have the same interests as protestors, but have put the brakes on Trump, for the time being at least. They've also give people in the streets more legitimacy and space. They're not long-term allies necessarily, but they have helped the millions who are rebelling right now.
For more on this topic, see Buzzanco, "Cracks in the Empire: The Military Says 'Stand Down' to Trump" and Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
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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 "panic porn"--but Green & Red has been analyzing the objective conditions set by the ruling class and have been pointing out that key elements of the elite who run America, especially in the military and Wall Street, opposed Trump and would stop him--which they did.
This week excerpts from a new book, "The Divider," by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, have confirmed what Bob and Scott were talking about since 2020 (see episodes below)--that the military was wary of Trump and making plans to thwart his efforts during the George Floyd uprisings and the election steal. At the same time the 1/6 Commission and FBI are closing in on Trump as well, and much of the GOP establishment will be happy to see him taken down.
Panic is never a strategy, organization and direct action are. The ruling class is powerful, but there are divergences in it that we can exploit.
Outro- "Stop! Don't Worry" by Lonette
Links//
- New Yorker: Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals (https://bit.ly/3C4ilpi)
- Fortune: A list of companies supporting abortion rights after the Roe v. Wade ruling shows which firms are stepping up, and why. (https://bit.ly/3C5YFRN)
G&R Links//
- G&R:The Military vs. Donald J. Trump (https://apple.co/3cDUso8)
- G&R: The Coup That Wasn't (https://bit.ly/RulingClassGandR)
- G&R: The Capitol Hill Riots and the Ruling Class (https://bit.ly/RiotsRulingClassGandR)
- G&R: Baseball and Bosses vs. the Georgia GOP (https://bit.ly/CorpResistGandR)
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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 American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq about Iraqi history from the Ottoman Empire to the present, with an emphasis on the period from 1958 to the 1970s.
Before Iraq became the target of a massive U.S. intervention, it was a British colony, and then a kingdom, which achieved sovereignty in a 1958 revolution led by Karim Kasim. However, the U.S., especially President John F. Kennedy, began to oppose the Kasim regime and helped engineer a 1963 coup against him and then sending support to the new regime to isolate and kill Kasim backers and others, especially communists.
We talked about the role of Nasserism in Iraq, the importance of the Communist Party, the politics of oil, the perhaps surprising opposition of American oil companies to the U.S.-backed coups d'etat, and the policies of JFK and LBJ.
The country the U.S. attacked and devastated in two wars in the 1990s and early 2000s was the product of long-term American interference and meddling.
Links//
- The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (https://bit.ly/3d74eoW)
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From the 1980s through the 2000s, there was a period of growth in militant environmental and animal rights movements. This movement had a radical anti-capitalist politic that went after corporations waging war on the earth, people and animals. It's escalating tactics included property destruction and arson. In response, industry, government and the FBI worked to crack down on these radical movements.
This movement needed voices. Leslie James Pickering (@lesliejamespick) was one of a few that worked with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Press Office to communicate the message of the anonymous actors engaged in these strategies and tactics to the larger world.
In our latest episode, we speak with Leslie James Pickering about his story of supporting radical environmentalists and, in particular, the Earth Liberation Front. We also discuss how the FBI continued to target him long after his ELF press office days. We also talk about how he sees movements around ecology and climate today. And his work at Burning Books creating radical politics, education and infrastructure in Buffalo, NY.
Leslie is the former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office, a 20-year target of the FBI, an author and co-owner of Burning Books (@BurningBooks)
Links//
- Burning Books: https://burningbooks.com/
- Leslie's books on PM Press (https://bit.ly/3PIpmzL)
- Amid protests, fear and rising sales, Buffalo's 'radical bookstore' plans to expand (https://bit.ly/3aRaWyo)
- NY Times: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (https://nyti.ms/3PIpwal)
- Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman files federal suit for information from FBI (https://bit.ly/3PocIpX)
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"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 textbook for politics as well. In this episode Scott and Bob celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the release of the movie with a discussion of the way the movie is a deep analysis of American capitalism and politics.
We talk about the way Don Corleone wielded power, the relationship between the mob and "legitimate" businesses, the attempt to break into the Cuban market, the Corleone influence in Las Vegas, and so much more.
Pop Culture is an important venue for analyzing the way politics is wielded and how many of the lessons of The Godfather are evident in our everyday lives.
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- If you want to understand America and politics, read The Godfather (https://bit.ly/3z0jdrJ)
- The Godfather Films: The Political (Ir)Relevance Of A Timeless Classic (https://bit.ly/3yWIJ1k)
- Michael Cohen Once Called Trump the ‘Godfather of Politics’ (https://bit.ly/3aRspXH)
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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 government moved in immediately to repress those taking the streets against the police and racial violence.
We saw intense protest, resistance, violent repression by police and other forces and media attention in Minneapolis, Louisville, Portland and Kenosha WI. But also in places less known like Grand Rapids Michigan and Champaign IL. More than 350 people were arrested on federal charges while city and state level arrests topped 14,000 between May-Nov 2020.
In our latest episode, we talk with Sarah with Uprisings Support. We talk about the ongoing legal struggles of people arrested and facing serious charges from the 2020 uprisings and how Uprising Support continues to support those in jail and awaiting trial.
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- Law 4 Black Lives (http://www.law4blacklives.org/)
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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 discussion with Mark Alan Jackson, a scholar on popular culture and music. He's an English professor at Middle Tennessee State and author of "Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie" and editor of "The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music."
We discussed Woody's political music and activism, especially on socialism, labor, civil rights, his songs about war and peace, and his larger meaning and legacy.
Music//
"Jolly Banker," "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "I Ain't Got No Home" by Woody Guthrie
Links//
- Mark Alan Jackson: "Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie" (https://bit.ly/3ukcSGq)
- Trump’s Dad Was So Racist, Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song About It (https://bit.ly/3yDsuao)
- Dark Memory: A Look at Lynching in America through the Life, Times, and Songs of Woody Guthrie (https://bit.ly/3NFtfnq)
- People's World: Ode to a labor troubadour, Woody Guthrie (https://bit.ly/3yfHRV0)
- G&R: Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, John Prine and Left Politics in Country Music w/ Prof. Mark Allan Jackson (https://bit.ly/LeftCountryGandR)
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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 some tech help and promotions.
G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco has a number of history books that he's edited or written that he's donating to the G&R cause. So, we're running a special Green and Red fundraising event!
The books edited by Buzzanco include:
- Question Authority: Resistance and Protest in Early U.S. History
- American Power, American People (U.S. from Colonial Period to Civil War)
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- As They Said It, Volume I: The Colonial Era to Reconstruction
- As They Said, Volume II: Reconstruction to the Present
- American Society Since 1900
- Readings and Documents in Post-1945 U.S. History
- War, Imperialism and Dissent: Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy
- The Vietnam War
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And three others written by Buzzanco include: Masters of War; Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life; Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War.
Since they’re in short supply, we’ll send you one autographed copy for a $100 donation.
And then if you are with institutional left media (Jacobin, The Nation), prices are doubled. If you are with the corporate oil and gas, nuclear or banking sectors, prices are tripled. And, of course, prices are quadrupled for law enforcement.
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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, Radicals and Revolutionaries, which documents the history of direct action in the animal rights movements.
We get into history, strategy and direct action. All of our favorite things to talk about!
Radicals and Revolutionaries is an oral history podcast documenting the radical animal liberation movement and the revolutionaries who started it.
Tylor Starr is a digital creator and animal rights activist. He's also co-host of Chickpeeps Podcast and president of the Protego Foundation. Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) is an activist and former political prisoner. He's the host of "The Cranky Vegan" on YouTube.
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“The remedy” to labor troubles, said J. West Goodwin, a Missouri businessman and newspaperman “is a counter organization.”
In a fascinating conversation around the history of capital and labor, we dive deep into the business sector's remedies to workers organizing unions, blacks seeking greater liberation and other forms of progress. We talk about laws criminalizing syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), vigilante groups from the Ku Klux Klan to committees of "law and order" doing the bidding of the ruling class and private security forces that the bosses hire to repress labor organizing. We also discuss current events paralleling the earlier periods of labor and progressive repression.
We talk about race, class and the iron heel of the state coming down on all those that resist it.
We talk with Prof. Ahmed White at the University of Colardo Boulder, and Prof. Chad Pearson at Collin College about their forthcoming books (see the bios below) on the topics.
Bios//
Ahmed White is the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law at the University of Colorado-Boulder where he has taught labor and criminal law since 2000. He is the author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016) as well as a great many law review articles, book chapters, reviews, and essays. His current book, Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers, will be published later this year by the University of California Press and he is presently at work on another book, this one about communist organizing and labor repression in the 1920s and 1930s.
Chad Pearson teaches history at Collin College, a community college in Plano, Texas. He is the author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and is co-editor with Rosemary Feurer (pronounced Foyer) of Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017). He has published essays in Counterpunch, History Compass, Jacobin, Journal of Labor and Society, Labor History, Labour/Le Travail, and Monthly Review. His current book, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press later this year.
Outro// "Union Burying Ground" by Woody Guthrie
Links//
- Pearson: Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (https://bit.ly/3zQ8anh)
- White: Under the Iron Heel The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical (https://bit.ly/3n301Ev)
- The Ku Klux Klan Was Also a Bosses’ Association (https://bit.ly/3y8tQtn)
- The Right-Wing Violence Trump Has Encouraged Has Deep Roots in American History (https://bit.ly/3tSrr3v)
- Memorial Day, 1937 (https://bit.ly/39Fo611)
- Law, Labor, and the Hard Edge of Progressivism: The Legal Repression of Radical Unionism and the American Labor Movement's Long Decline (https://bit.ly/3HEbW55)
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Flying solo, Scott talks with return guest, public health worker and organizer Hope Neyer (@heyneyer) with Shutdown DC (@ShutDown_DC) about the end of Roe v. Wade. They discuss above ground and underground actions at the end of Roe v. Wade, de-legitimatizing SCOTUS, right-wing backlash, the impacts of the overturning of Roe on blue states, red states and marginalized communities.
Hope is a public health student in Washington, DC. Her areas of study include pregnancy, parenting and family planning as well as understanding and combating health misinformation and disinformation. She is originally from Southern Ohio and has been involved in defending abortion access since 2015.
Outro// Roe V. World by War on Women
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June 17th is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break in. In 1972, five men were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. They were part of a group that operated out of the Nixon White House called the “Plumbers.” Their job was to investigate leaks in the White House and conduct other surveillance and sabotage against Nixon’s political enemies.
One of the heads of the White House Plumbers was Egil “Bud” Krogh. Krogh passed away in 2020, but before his death, he co-wrote a memoir of his experience in the Nixon Administratins secret espionage unit with his son Matt Krogh (@mattkrogh).
In our Watergate anniversary episode, we talk with Matt Krogh about his father Egil Krogh, the Plumbers and the Nixon administration. We also talk about the Watergate scandal in relation to the current political environment.
Bio//
Matt Krogh is the co-author, with his father, the late Egil “Bud” Krogh, of "The White House Plumbers" (out this fall), along with its earlier iteration "Integrity." HBO has made a mini-series based on the book starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux.
By day, Matt is a professional change maker focused on issues of climate change, fossil fuels, and policy. Mostly based in Bellingham, Washington, he has spent his career in nonprofit activism at various organizations, and has worked as a freelance writer, ranger, and geographic analyst. He currently co-owns Warthog Information Systems (www.warthogis.com), a company focused on using geographic information to make the world a better place.
He is grateful for the opportunity to amplify his dad's important life lessons through co-authoring The White House Plumbers, along with its earlier iteration Integrity.
Music// "Watergate Blues" by Tom T. Hall, and "H2O Blues" by Gil Scott Heron
Links//
- The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency (https://amzn.to/3xrYHQm)
- A Final Interview With Nixon “Plumber” Egil “Bud” Krogh, Who Has Died at Age 80 (https://bit.ly/3QfjXRJ)
- If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret (https://bit.ly/3aQInkt)
- NY Times: Egil Krogh, 80, Nixon Aide, Dies; Authorized an Infamous Break-In(https://nyti.ms/3tujem0)
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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 take some time to talk about it. We get into the culture wars, the National Rifle Association, guns in Texas, organizing, mutual aid, direct action and the need for a real opposition.
Outro//
"Hard Times" by Baby Huey
Links//
- The NRA celebrates in Texas before Uvalde victims are buried (https://bit.ly/3NRQFXn)
- A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings (https://n.pr/38NqlyQ)
- G&R: The End of Roe vs. Wade: Reproductive Rights and Direct Action ft. Hope w/ Shutdown DC (https://apple.co/3Nhx2Yt)
- G&R:The End of Roe vs. Wade: Texas, Abortion and Mutual Aid ft. reporter Candice Bernd w/ Truthout (https://apple.co/3MtxCT4)
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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 outlet that has brought you interviews with Noam Chomsky, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, sociologist Alex Vitale, economist Richard Wolff and more. We've talked about issues of the environment, labor, popular culture, war and peace, public health and anti-imperialism. Just this year, we've done episodes on Chevron's persecution of attorney Steven Donziger, Oliver Stone's JFK conspiracies, the war in Ukraine and the end of Roe v. Wade.
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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 vaccine shortages in the U.S. Plus George W. Bush gives a speech at the Bush Institute about stolen Russian elections (what about Florida 2000?) and illegal invasions of Iraq... er... Ukraine..
In all seriousness, the brutality of military and economic war against populations around the war is heartbreaking. We continue our commentary on the history and politics around the war in Ukraine.
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"Sea of Heartbreak" by Don Gibson
Links//
- War Pigs: Ukraine and the History of the Military-Industrial Complex (https://apple.co/34cn5KZ)
- G&R: Deep Background on Ukraine and Russia (https://apple.co/3sn9w4T)
- G&R: U.S. Empire and Ukraine w/ Prof. Clinton Fernandes. Part One (https://apple.co/3I9zY6v) and Part Two (https://apple.co/3JlgYn7)
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Bob Dylan is the most important political singer/songwriter of the 20th Century, and he turns 81 on May 24th, so we had a fantastic discussion with Michael Stewart Foley, one of the preeminent scholars of music and politics and author of "Fresh Fruit and Rotting Vegetables," about the Dead Kennedys, and "Citizen Cash: The Political Life of Johnny Cash." We discussed Dylan's political music and activism, especially on civil rights, his songs about war and peace, and his larger meaning and legacy.
Links//
- The Politics of Bob Dylan (https://bit.ly/3LHezn4)
- Dissent: The Political Bob Dylan (https://bit.ly/3PA0wCS)
- Citizen Cash by Michael Stewart Foley (https://bit.ly/3INrFiv)
- G&R: Johnny Cash's Politics, w/ historian Michael Stewart Foley (https://bit.ly/CashGandR)
G&R's Select Dylan Discography
- Blowin' in the Wind (https://bit.ly/3lzFcQj)
- The Times' They are a changing (https://bit.ly/3LGPfO7)
- Like a Rolling Stone (https://bit.ly/3yW7vQG)
- I Shall be released (https://bit.ly/38f1h3u)
- Chimes of Freedom (https://bit.ly/3GreSS5)
- Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (https://bit.ly/3MM2kXB)
- Oxford Town (https://bit.ly/3sUrTOp)
- Only a Pawn in Their Game (https://bit.ly/3MIUMET)
- The Ballad of Emmett Till (https://bit.ly/3ly9QJM)
- George Jackson (https://bit.ly/3sOc23K)
- Hurricane (https://bit.ly/3ak6yYb)
- Masters of War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmPR1xHVUas
- Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUD5snx-XOo
- With God on Our Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMifwzfwyFA
- Talkin' World War III Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWQaLUNEdA
- Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxi5VOYKOY
- Ballad of a Thin Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ucJmVonAc
- Girl from North Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH1Fa8PAI8o
- Ballad of Ira Hayes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7fidI_IWQ
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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, both born on May 19th (1890 and 1925, respectively). Join Scott and Bob as we go deep on two of the most important revolutionaries of the 20th century---their ideas, their organizations, their international leadership in the class and anti-imperial struggles, and the inspiration they gave to so many millions. Plus a little Last Poets love for Ho Chi Minh: "I'm gettin' on out of here You see, I just could not win Against Ho Chi Minh No, I just could not win Against Ho Chi Minh"
Further reading: William Duiker's books Ho Chi Minh: A Life and Sacred War, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Peniel Joseph's The Sword and the Shield, and James Cones' Martin and Malcolm and America. Follow Green and Red//
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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 11 hour filibuster by State Senator Wendy Davis and mass occupation of the state capital by pro-choice protestors. Earlier this year, the passage of SB 8 put bounties on anyone associated with providing an abortion. Texas abortion providers have already been preparing for escalated legal action and criminalization of the practice. Now with the likely overturning of Roe vs. Wade, that is becoming more real.
Bob and Scott host Candice Bernd (@candicebernd), Senior Editor and Reporter at Truthout, about her new article "Texas Abortion Funds Work to Reduce Looming Harms of Post-“Roe” Criminalization."
We discuss the recent history of Texas' war against abortion. What providers are doing to support those needing it. How local pro-choice politicians are dealing with state and federal repression. And the inevitable right wing backlash.
Candice Bernd is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout. Her work has also appeared in several other publications, including The Nation, In These Times, the Texas Observer, Salon, Rewire News Group, Sludge, YES! Magazine and Earth Island Journal. Her work has received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center.
Outro// "White Crosses" by Outdoor Velour
Links//
- Candice Bernd:Texas Abortion Funds Work to Reduce Looming Harms of Post-“Roe” Criminalization (https://bit.ly/3yYYeYj)
- National Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
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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 millions of women in jeopardy. Predictably, the establishment focused on catching the leaker. Outrage hit Twitter. And the left hit the streets.
In a series of episodes, Green and Red will focus on how grassroots direct action and mutual aid groups are organizing in the wake of this political tidal wave. Before Roe, we saw underground movements to support women seeking abortions. After the 1973 ruling on Roe, we saw grassroots activists doing clinic defense in the face of violent right wing protests that included assassination of abortion providers and clinic bombings. Now as we’re looking at a time where Roe could be overturned, we’re going to be talking over the next couple of episodes about what's next for direct action and mutual aid at the end of Roe vs Wade.
This past week, demonstrations at the homes of Supreme Court justices led to ruling class and liberal denouncements of protests. The Senate immediately passed a resolution to give extra security to justices (there is no gridlock in protecting the ruling class).
In our latest episode, Scott talks with Hope with Shutdown DC (@ShutDown_DC). Shutdown DC has been organizing actions at the Supreme Court, at the homes of Supreme Court justices and supporting the neighbors of these justices who have led regular actions at the homes for a long time. They also discussed the impact of the overturning of Roe, the future of direct action once it's happened and what's next in the coming weeks and months on this issue.
Hope is a public health student in Washington, DC. Her areas of study include pregnancy, parenting and family planning as well as understanding and combating health misinformation and disinformation. She is originally from Southern Ohio and has been involved in defending abortion access since 2015. Hope loves skill building, training and storytelling and supports movements for climate justice, racial justice, healthcare access and of course, abortion rights as a communications team member, art builder and street medic.
Outro//
"End of My Bloodline (Remix) by the Screaming Females with Moor Mother and Sammus
Links//
- National Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/
- DC Abortion Fund: https://abortionfunds.org/
- Shutdown DC: https://www.shutdowndc.org/
- The Nation: F*&k Civility! (https://bit.ly/37HCwfY)
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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 come, and Biden asks Congress for another $33 billion in war aid, we take a look at the anti-war movement over the past decades. From Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, to Obama's drone wars to military build-ups in Asia and eastern Europe, the U.S. public has been lost in a fog of never ending war with critical voices for peace being the only light.
In our latest episode, we talk with long time peace activist and co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink (@codepink), Jodie Evans (@MsJodieEvans). We discuss the recent history of anti-war movements and the state of them today. Campaigns against war mongering politicians and arms manufacturers waged by Code Pink. The connection between the military industrial complex and the climate crisis, and the recent silencing of anti-war voices like Chris Hedges, Abby Martin and Lee Camp.
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA, and serves on the CODEPINK Board of Directors. Jodie is the co-editor of two books, "Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation" and "Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism" and a contributor to “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution.” She is currently writing a book about divesting from the unjust, extractive war economy and building a just, sustainable peace economy.
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"Anti-war Dub" by Mala
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- Code Pink: https://www.codepink.org/
- Code Pink’s Panel on Media Censorship of Voices for Peace Featuring Abby Martin, Lee Camp and Chris Hedges (https://bit.ly/3ybnGZV)
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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. McNally discussed a wide array of topics, including his introduction to Marxist thought, important texts to use to discover Marx's writings, the importance of Marx's concept of "alienated labor," his formulation of class struggle, and why democracy is essential to socialism.
We also discussed the history of Marx's influence in European politics and how Americans came to discover Marx in the late 19th Century. And we finished with a discussion of why Marx remains relevant today and why Marxism is seeing a resurgence.
David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. He specializes in the history and political economy of capitalism. The author of seven books and over 60 scholarly articles, Professor McNally taught political economy at York University in Toronto before joining the Department of History at the University of Houston. He holds his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from York University. His research has addressed issues of race, migration, gender and social reproduction in the development of global capitalism. Professor McNally has won the Paul Sweezy Award for his book, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance, and the Deutscher Memorial Award for Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Professor McNally's latest book, Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (2020) is now being translated into German. He is also the founder of the Project on Race and Capitalism at UH and working closely with George Floyd's family on various community projects.
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"Karl Marx and History" by Randy the Band
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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 commemorate the anniversary of the tragic events of May 4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4 students and shot 9 others. Students, who'd been told the war was winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th. At Kent State, a working-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent. For two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students. On May 4th, the Guard, unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet. These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests. The war had come home!
Scott and Bob, who's also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the background to the protests, the official, violent response, the aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning, and lessons.
Outro//
"My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders
Links//
- Kent State Tribunal Organization, established by Laurel Krause, sister of one of the students assassinated that day (https://bit.ly/3w2spdR);
- interview with Alan Canfora, one of the survivors of the shootings (https://bit.ly/3OUyjGq);
- The Kent State May 4th Poetry Collection; Denise Levertov, "The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why" (https://bit.ly/3kIVyFv);
- Governor Rhodes press conference, May 3 (https://bit.ly/37cIk0R);
- Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (https://bit.ly/3kB21ST).
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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 the Haymarket Affair to International Workers' Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class's "war on the left" fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day.
Spend an hour of your International Workers' Day weekend hearing about the history of May Day. You won't regret it.
Outro// "Which Side Are You On" by Florence Reece
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- IWW: The Brief Origins of May Day (https://bit.ly/2QLtO7Q)
- G&R: How Union Organizing Fights the Boss with Daisy Pitkin (https://apple.co/3y35txO)
- G&R: Collin College strikes again! Dr. Michael Phillips, award-winning scholar, fired! (https://apple.co/34ItAFq)
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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 shifting the political landscape. But beyond Starbucks and Amazon, union organizing has been spreading to sectors across the country.
In our latest episode, we talk with labor organizer and writer Daisy Pitkin about her new book "On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union." We talk about her work organizing a series of factory laundromats in Phoenix, AZ in the early 2000s. Pitkin worked with immigrant women working in the terrible conditions to organize a union. Most notably, she worked with a woman named Alma, who Pitkin describes as "the gutsiest worker leader I've ever met."
This was all done despite a vicious corporate backlash in the reddest of red states.
Currently, Pitkin is organizing Starbucks workers in the Rust Belt. We discuss the Starbucks campaign and the future of labor organizing.
Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for U.S. labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. She is the author of On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union, out now via Algonquin Books.
Outro song- "Put it in the ground" by Marion Wade
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- On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union (https://bit.ly/3MuMTT9)
- The Gospel of Organizing (https://bit.ly/3rSKGJe)
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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 the deserts of the American West. Since then, like so many other things, it has become by co-opted by corporations, politicians and non-profits looking to do well with environmentally minded consumers, voters and donors. In reality, change always comes from below. In our Earth Day special episode, Bob interviews Scott about four moments in environmental history where communities led struggles against fossil fuel companies and governments. They dive into struggles against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the community and grassroots led disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. It's Earth Day 2022 and we're much worse off than we were when it started. Green and Red gets into the issues, examines the institutions at play, names names and talks about the root causes of the environmental crisis and the politics behind it.
Outro- Tom Lehrer "Pollution" Links//
Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions. ed. Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson (https://bit.ly/3qSLWZS) Your liberal heroes really aren’t heroes. (https://bit.ly/3OuIUrA) Our Long Memories (https://bit.ly/36CMGxS) Making Green a Threat Again (https://bit.ly/3k3Z1hL)
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Websters defines atrocity as "a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation."
Russian atrocities on Ukrainian civilians have been the top of the 24 second news cycle since the invasion began. Since the advent of industrial warfare at the end of 19th century, war has been waged increasingly on civilian populations than opposing military forces. Wars of attrition have had the goal of subjecting the populace to "shockingly bad" actions to force the downfall of its ruling regime or submission of a resisting insurgency. The 20th century is full of examples of this by the British, the Germans, the Japanese, the Russians, and of course, the Americans.
As the stories emerge from the war between Ukraine and Russia, detailing atrocities committed on civilian populations, we thought it was a good moment to talk about some of this history. We start with the Civil War and World War One (early industrial wars), the advent of air power, brutal occupations in Nanking, Korea and Vietnam, bombings of Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima, U.S. wars in Korea and Vietnam, Central American death squads and the forever wars in the Middle East.
Through our discussion in this heavy episode, we talk about high level policy by politicians and military leadership that involved the use of mustard gas, napalm and mass bombings; and the abhorrent small scale (in comparison) massacres like No Gun Ri, My Lai and Haditha carried out by low-level troops and covered up by the command.
Nation states, even liberal democratic capitalist states, require investigation, discussion and critique, and Green and Red is here to do just that.
Outro// The Boss "War"
Links//
- Killing Civilians Is a Crime From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol (https://bit.ly/3KRlZo8)
- Starvation and Propaganda as Weapons of War, 1917 (https://bit.ly/3JW2BVS)
- G&R: War Pigs: Ukraine and the History of the Military-Industrial Complex (https://apple.co/34cn5KZ)
- G&R: Deep Background on Ukraine and Russia (https://apple.co/3sn9w4T)
- The Way Podcast: https://www.podcasttheway.com/
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. It's about 25% of the world's incarcerated population with over 2 million people held in federal, state and local jails. We're also seeing unprecedented extreme climate disasters in the form of wildfires, heatwaves, drought, super-storms and more.
The aging infrastructure and failing logistics systems of many prisons are unprepared for the emerging climate crisis. The intersection of these two crises have created a pattern of human rights abuses across the country, and elected officials and their "regimes of cruelty" from California to Texas to Florida are only making matters worse.
In our latest episode, we discuss how the climate crisis is impacting prison populations with journalist Alleen Brown (@alleenbrown).
Alleen Brown is New York-based reporter, focused on environmental justice issues. Her work has been published by The Nation, In These Times, YES! Magazine, the Intercept and various Twin Cities publications.
Outro// Warren Zevon "Prison Grove"
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- Allen Brown: Climate and Punishment (https://bit.ly/3usrp39)
- Alleen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlleenBrown
- G&R: Policing the Line 3 Pipeline feat. Alleen Brown (https://bit.ly/3re8Tcz)
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The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd calendar this coming autumn. In lieu of a 2023 theme, we are doing an open call for abolition-related art and article submissions to feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 6,000 homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the world. We encourage contributors to submit both new and existing work. We especially seek submissions from people in prison or jail, so please forward this call to any prison-based artists and writers.
For more info check out https://www.certaindays.org/
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 theory that the "deep state" had JFK killed because he was going to withdraw from Vietnam, thaw relations with Castro, and end the Cold War.
They discussed Kennedy's actual policies as president, his aggressive actions in Vietnam and Cuba, his continued imperial approach to Latin America, his tough approach to the Soviet Union. They also discussed the minutae of Oswald and the Warren Report, the "scenery" and "parlor games," in Stone's own words, of the JFK assassination.
In this debate, Buzzanco makes the important points that people need to look at the evidence, the documents and archives of what Kennedy actually did, rather than anecdotes and stories told long after the fact.
The Left needs to organize and engage in political action, not become obsessed with alleged heroes killed long ago. It's also worth noting that those often evoking the deep state conspiracy mostly rely on deep state agencies to provide them with their "smoking gun."
Thanks to Aaron Good and American Exception podcast for hosting this important debate.
Special thanks to James DiEugenio for helping us grow the Green and Red audience! ; )
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- G&R: Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited (https://apple.co/3FepBwT)
- G&R: Why Oliver Stone and JFK Revisited are Full of Shit. (https://apple.co/3AhixhU)
3-part article on the JFK Conspiracy Theory, “Kennedy Goes Hollywood: Oliver Stone’s Fantastic History”
Part 1, https://medium.com/green-and-red-media/john-f-kennedy-goes-hollywood-oliver-stones-fantastic-history-part-1-f1e4113afa9a
Part 2, https://medium.com/green-and-red-media/john-f-kennedy-goes-hollywood-oliver-stones-fantastic-history-part-ii-da579d9ffd45
Part 3, https://medium.com/@buzzanco-209/john-f-kennedy-goes-hollywood-oliver-stones-fantastic-history-part-iii-3d87dd3cc38a
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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. The post-Cold War Clinton era is particularly instructive for U.S. foreign policy and empire today. Keeping Europe divided, Russia weak and flexing the military industrial complex muscle (i.e. massive defense budgets) on "teacup wars" in places like the former Yugoslavia and Iraq are all part of the American hegemonic project. They maintained stability and allowed markets to grow.
The Obama administration continued the Clinton and Bush II policies except with precision drone strikes. Biden's policies have pulled the U.S. out of Afghanistan, but have been more confrontational with Russia and China.
Despite the death and misery created by U.S. wars on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, the NATO liberals see it, in the words of the late Secretary of State Madeline Albright, as "worth it."
Outro- "Love me, I'm a liberal" by Carly Cosgrove
Links//
- The War Party: From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier (https://bit.ly/3LJQkF0)
- The Nation: The Clinton Doctrine (https://bit.ly/3K7tuH5)
- Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine (https://bit.ly/3uaqp3m)
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We've been using the term "NATO liberal" quite a bit in our recent Ukraine-Russia episodes. But, you may ask yourself: "what exactly do Bob and Scott mean when they say 'NATO Liberal'?"
We dive deep into the history of NATO liberals and discuss their role in developing the U.S. empire during the 20th and 21st centuries. In a two part episode, we discuss the roots of the American hegemonic project and the important role that Democratic interventions and wars have played in it. This includes the prototypical NATO liberals Woodrow Wilson and FDR , Harry Truman and the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Cold Warriors JFK, LBJ and Jimmy Carter, and the post-Cold War era Democratic hawks Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In part one, we take you through the formation of NATO through the Cold War. Part two will discuss the post-Cold War era of Clinton, Obama and Biden.
The liberal democratic capitalist political economy requires investigation, discussion and critique, and Green and Red is here to do just that.
Outro- "Misunderstood" by the Animals.
Links//
- Buzzanco:Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then….. (https://bit.ly/2R0cU5m)
- G&R:The Myths of JFK (https://bit.ly/MythsofJFKGandR)
- G&R:Jimmy Carter--Liberal Saint Now, Neo-Liberal War Criminal Then (https://apple.co/3sucF0V)
- G&R:War Pigs: Ukraine and the History of the Military-Industrial Complex (https://bit.ly/3IW6nyI)
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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 anti-Trump movements. Green and Red has had numerous episodes on radical movements and state repression of political movements from antifascists in Portland and Austin to water protectors at Line 3 to DAPL saboteur Jessica Reznicek.
But, before that, we had the era known as the "Green Scare," where radical environmental and animal rights activists were targeted by the "state" (corporations, politicians, law enforcement) for its anti-capitalist politics and escalating tactics that included sabotage, animal liberation, property destruction and arson. The FBI called their operation to stop these radical movements “Operation Backfire.” After 911, they labeled people taking action "domestic terrorists." Congress passed corporate lobbyist written legislation, such as the Animal Enterprise Terror Act and the Patriot Act, to stop them.
In our latest episode, we talk with Daniel McGowan (@thetinyraccoon), an anarchist organizer, Earth Liberation Front (ELF) member and partisan during the Green Scare era. He was part of two ELF actions in 2001. After another ELF member turned informant, he was arrested by the FBI and charged with arson, property destruction and conspiracy. In June, 2007, McGowan was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and given a "terror enhancement" for his actions. Most of his time in prison was spent in a secret prison unit called a Communication Management Unit.
Daniel tells us about his journey as a radical environmentalist, actions with the ELF, time in federal prison and, now, supporter of political prisoners.
Daniel McGowan is a former political prisoner and former member of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). He spent 48 months in experimental Communication Management Units operated by the federal Bureau of Prisons during his seven year sentence. Daniel has been involved with political prisoner support and prison struggles for most of his activist life. He is currently a member of the Certain Days collective, NYC Books Through Bars and the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF). Daniel works on the campaign to defend and free anarchist political prisoner Eric King and is an advisory board member of the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) & the Coalition for Civil Freedoms. Daniel is a lifelong New Yorker and grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, NYC. He works professionally as a paralegal and consults with people preparing to go to prison and their family & friends in setting up defense committees.
Outro// Catharsis "Arsonist's Prayer"
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- Daniel's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tinyraccoon
- G&R: Dakota Access Pipeline Saboteur Jessica Reznicek Sentenced to Prison (https://bit.ly/FreeJessRGandR)
- G&R: The Story of SHAC (https://bit.ly/StorySHACGandR)
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A mass of western companies are exiting Russia over the war in Ukraine. This has included some major corporate heavyweights, including McDonald's, Starbucks, Nike, Netflix, Apple, Visa, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Exxon, major western law firms and most major film distributors.
Jeffry Sonnenfeld at the Yale School of Management compared it to the boycott of apartheid era South Africa. We’ve talked on past shows about the role that multinationals have played in the political economy. But have they developed a new conscience?
In our latest, we talk with investigative journalist and Executive Director of CorpWatch Pratap Chatterjee (@pchatterjee) about the latest round of corporate activism. We talk about who benefits, who's being hurt and whether it’s having enough of an impact on Russia.
We also remember legendary tropical forests campaigner, friend and comrade Lafcadio Cortesi who recently passed away in Berkeley, CA.
Bio//
Pratap Chatterjee is executive director of CorpWatch. He is an investigative journalist and producer. He is the author of "Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance," "Halliburton's Army,” "Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation" and "The Earth Brokers."
Outro//
"Russians" by Sting
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- CorpWatch:http://www.corpwatch.org/
- Yale professor behind corporate ‘naughty-or-nice list’ lauds U.S. brands’ decision to pause Russia business (https://cnb.cx/3tAi496)
- Western companies in Russia’s oil and gas sector (https://bit.ly/3NiUF3w)
- Ikea, Apple, McDonald's among companies cutting ties with Russia over Ukraine invasion: LIST (https://abc7.ws/3uo6i0D)
- Remembering Lafcadio Cortesi (https://legcy.co/3JRZIWI)
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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 military strength. This has been a bonanza for arms makers like Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Gruman.
Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes popped the champagne open when saying "“…[W]e are seeing, I would say, opportunities for international sales. We just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the UAE, which have attacked some of their other facilities. And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it."
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we saw a spike in these companies' stock prices.
In our latest episode, we talk about arms manufacturers with William Hartung of the Quincy Institute. We discuss how the war in Ukraine, potential conflict in the South China Sea and wars in Yemen and other parts of the world are critical to their business model. We also talk about how the bureaucracy of the Pentagon and Washington D.C. gives these companies so much influence. And how Pentagon spending drastically overshadows spending on critical issues like the climate crisis and social programs.
William D. Hartung is Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on the arms trade, Pentagon spending and strategy, and nuclear weapons policy. His most recent book is Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Outro- "1 Trillion Dollars" by Anti-Flag.
Links//
- Pathways to Pentagon Spending Reductions: Removing the Obstacles (https://bit.ly/3ugnWmN)
- Ukraine has will, but Russia has might: How their military forces match up (https://bit.ly/3wuuKAh)
- Hartung: “Arming Repression: U.S. Military Support for Saudi Arabia, from Trump to Biden.”(https://bit.ly/3L4IoxJ)
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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 part, we also discuss the tensions in the South China Sea and the impact of the Ukraine conflict on Australia's coming election. Finally, we get an update on Clinton's law suit trying to get the Australian government to release documents showing intelligence agencies supporting Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973.
This is definitely important listening. So please check it out.
Clinton Fernandes holds dual appointments at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Australian Centre for Cyber Security, UNSW Canberra. He has published on the relationship between science, diplomacy and international law, intelligence operations in foreign policy, the political and regulatory implications of new technology and Australia’s external relations more generally. He is a former Australian Army officer who served in the Australian Intelligence Corps. He is the author of Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy. And What Uncle Sam Wants: U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives in Australia and Beyond (2019).
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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 Ukraine. In part one, we discuss everything from Russia and Putin's adventures in Georgia and Ukraine to the lack of strategic empathy from the West (particularly the U.S.). We break down the motives of the U.S. drive to expand NATO and encircle Russia, and the effect it has on global politics.
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Clinton Fernandes holds dual appointments at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Australian Centre for Cyber Security, UNSW Canberra. He has published on the relationship between science, diplomacy and international law, intelligence operations in foreign policy, the political and regulatory implications of new technology and Australia’s external relations more generally. He is a former Australian Army officer who served in the Australian Intelligence Corps. He is the author of Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy. And What Uncle Sam Wants: U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives in Australia and Beyond (2019).
Outro- Oh What a Lovely War!
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A new Reuters poll shows that 74% of Americans, with strong majorities from both parties, support a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine as Russia continues to shell civilian areas and populations. The Biden Administration, Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, the head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and politicians from across the political spectrum are opposed to any sort of intervention over the skies of Ukraine. The argument is that it'd lead to a wider war, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin has warned against it.
No-fly zones are only a recent historical development. Green and Red gets into that recent history starting with the aftermath of the first Gulf War when George H.W. Bush called on the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Shiites in southern Iraq to rise up and depose Saddam Hussein. Their subsequent slaughter by Saddam's helicopter gunships led to the no-fly zones. We also discuss no-fly zones in the Balkan wars and the 2016 debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump over a no-fly zone in Syria.
Sanctions and the financial war on Russia's banking systems to the U.S. and NATO arming the Ukrainians to possible no-fly zones are escalations which could lead to further destruction in Europe. It's important to be aware of this history moving forward into 21st century conflict and war.
Outro- A Metal Cover of "Danger Zone" featuring Eric Calderone.
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- Guardian: Why Clinton's plans for no-fly zones in Syria could provoke US-Russia conflict (https://bit.ly/3HNutKo)
- GlobalSecurity.org: Operation Deny Flight (https://bit.ly/3KjGEQR)
- CNN: Blinken and NATO chief warn establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine could lead to a 'full-fledged war in Europe' (https://cnn.it/378jJda)
- Noam Chomsky:A No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Could Unleash Untold Violence (https://bit.ly/35BUwYi)
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Recently, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes reported to his shareholders, "[W]e are seeing, I would say, opportunities for international sales. We just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the UAE, which have attacked some of their other facilities. And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it." While lauded in the press for his comments, Hayes' thinking embodies structures established by government and private industry for over a hundred years.
The weapons pouring into Ukraine are part of a long legacy of the U.S. and other powers arming the world, for profit and power. Scott and Bob provide a nice backgrounder on the U.S. military-industrial complex from the times of Alfred T. Mahan to today. They talk about World War I and the creation of government-private bureaucracies to organize the economics of mass destruction. We discuss the ways military spending ended the depression and created the U.S. as a global power. We talked about the evolution of military Keynesianism as the U.S. economic policy in the Cold War, the Global War on Terror and more..... The benefits that Hayes expects to see from conflict in the Ukraine and in other parts of the world are not an abnormality, nor a deep state conspiracy, it's merely policy and politics practiced on a daily basis.
Poem- Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilford Owen
Outro- War Pigs by Black Sabbath
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- Defense Contractor CEOs Applaud Deteriorating Global Security (https://bit.ly/3IJ0AMD)
- Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex (https://bit.ly/3px1Tqn)
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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 and the attack on Ukraine is indefensible, but we ignore the larger contexts at our own peril.
We talk about the impact of the breakup of the USSR, the privatization of the Russian economy, the sense of western/NATO encirclement felt by Russia, and U.S-Russia-Ukraine economic and trade relations.
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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 largest land assault on the European continent since World War Two. The markets went into turmoil. The price of oil and gas went up. Political and media establishments scrambled to act on what's next. Biden moved 7000 US troops to the Polish-Ukrainian border and NATO is expected to send more troops. In cities across Russia, antiwar protestors took to the streets to protest Vladimir Putin's war with over 2000 being arrested. Finally, the Biden administration and allies have begun a sanctions war against Russia's people, it's elite institutions and Putin himself.
In our latest episode, we go deep into the history of the Ukraine-Russian conflict and the bipartisan involvement by the U.S. ruling class. We discuss the break up of the Soviet Union, the expansion of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), the role of the 1999 war in Kosovo in all of this and the Russian invasion of the former Soviet republic of Georgia in 2008. Most importantly, we talk about how U.S. foreign policy has sought to contain Russia and wield economic and political influence over Europe and the former Soviet republics.
Right now, in this moment, the global elite are trying to contain another shock to the political economy and turn it into a profitable enterprise. And G&R is talking about what led us to this moment.
Our hearts go out to the ordinary Ukrainians fighting back, being displaced and killed by the Russian attack, and to the ordinary Russians who will be affected by the West's sanctions and are taking to the streets against Putin monstrous invasion.
We close out with a quote by a great American socialist politician (and not the one you're thinking of)
Outro- Neil and Eddie "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World."
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- In Gazprom deal, JPMorgan takes on business that some banks fear (https://reut.rs/3sv6yLL)
- John Matlock: NATO and the origins of the Ukraine crisis (https://bit.ly/3si5Uku)
- U.S. companies push Biden, Congress for caution on Russia sanctions (https://reut.rs/3hgdYMe)
- War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine (https://bit.ly/3JWzSjT)
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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. They've also occupied border crossings between Canada and the U.S. The so-called "Freedom Convoy" has demanded everything from an end to vaccine mandates and mask mandates to the jailing of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They've targeted Canada's liberal ruling class, but have disrupted and harassed the lives of Ottawa residents. Police and the Conservative Party either have stood by or been in active support
This past week, Trudeau declared a state of emergency not seen since unrest in Quebec in the 1970s. The police first cleared the trucker blockade on the Ambassador Bridge. And then police moved in to clear the truckers occupation of Wellington Street resulting in 100 arrests.
In this episode, flying solo, Scott first talks with Prof Roberta Lexier (@rlexier) of Mount Royal University about the situation, what is driving these protests, Canada's politics and how the left in Canada can respond.
And then he talks with organizer James Hutt (@jamesrhutt), a labor organizer, about what's happening on the ground in Ottawa and how the truckers occupation has led to disruption and harassment of vulnerable communities throughout Ottawa. James also talks about the "Battle of Billings Bridge," where communities have organized to stop truckers' resupply into downtown Ottawa.
Music- during the break, we played "And We Thought Nation States Were a Bad Idea" by the Clusterfuck Theory. And the outro music is "Failed States" by Propagandhi.
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- https://robertalexier.com/
- How we blocked the convoy in Ottawa (https://bit.ly/3I5tmH1)
- Freedom convoy is steering pandemic response to the right (https://bit.ly/3sRufwx)
- What the Left can learn from the “Freedom Convoy” (https://bit.ly/3Bw1nOq)
- James Hutt: The Battle of Billings Bridge (https://bit.ly/3Bw1nOq)
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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 engine or promises to take on the state's many oil extraction sites. There is a notion of "climate exceptionalism" in California's liberal ruling elite. But the California state government is captured by oil interests like many others. The pro-industry legislation and political action just comes in different forms. Flying solo, Scott talks with Gary Graham Hughes (@vozsilvestre) from Biofuelwatch (@biofuelwatch) to discuss the idea of California's "climate exceptionalism." They discuss the false solutions to the climate crisis being promoted by industry. Gary gives us a background on false solutions like carbon capture and storage, "net zero" and market schemes like cap and trade. They also talk about the revolving door of public sector employees, lobbyists for industry and the Big Green non-profit industrial complex. And how corporate media lifts up the ruling classes' ambitions for climate capitalism and false solutions. Bio// Gary Graham Hughes (@VozSilvestre) is the California Policy Monitor at Biofuelwatch and the co-Host/co-Producer of Terra Verde on KPFA in Berkeley, CA. He also has Masters in Environmental Science from the University of Montana and splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Humboldt County. ---------------------------------- Links//
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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, high bails, rubber bullets, tear gas, etc) against water protecting pipeline opponents. Thanks to the bold reporting of outlets such as The Intercept and Unicorn Riot, we're still finding out the strategies that the Canadian oil giant and the Minnesota police state colluded on to neutralize water protectors. We talk with Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) about the latest on policing the Line 3 pipeline protests. Alleen Brown is New York-based reporter, focused on environmental justice issues. Prior to joining The Intercept, she worked as an education reporter in Minnesota. Her work has been published by The Nation, In These Times, YES! Magazine, and various Twin Cities publications. -------------------- Links//
Policing the Pipeline (https://bit.ly/3utRUFP) Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition (https://bit.ly/3BdxsKI) Prosecutors Hit Anti-Pipeline Protesters With Felony Charges to Send a Message, Defense Says (https://bit.ly/3oKSzz4)
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Another professor from Collin College has been fired in retaliation for speaking out against President Neil Matkin's continued rejection of their First Amendment rights and their concern for safety on campus.
Michael Philips has now been fired along with Suzanne Stateler Jones, Audra Heaslip, and Lora Burnett, all in violation of their First Amendment righs. Philips first was reprimanded by Collin College for being active in a campaign to remove Confederate statues in Dallas in 2017.
More recently he has defended his fired colleagues and he has urged mask-wearing amid the COVID pandemic, though Matkin has told professors they are not allowed to mention it.
Weeks ago, he was notified that his contract would not be reviewed though he has been one of the best-regarded and most popular professors on campus for 15 years, with nothing in his background to merit any kind of penalty. Philips is another victim of Matkin and the local Republican Party to remove anyone who is not in lock-step with them and who is concerned about the COVID pandemic and who believes in free thought on campus.
We talk with Dr. Phillips about his firing and the political situation at Collin College.
Outro- The Nervebreakers "Politics"
Bio// Michael Phillips is a scholar of American race relations, Texas history, right-wing politics, and apocalyptic religions. After a seven-year journalism career, including a stint at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. His dissertation won the University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Dissertation Award and was published as White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, That book won the 2007 Texas Historical Commission’s prize for best book on Texas history.
Phillips has combined his scholarship with activism and was one of the leaders of the movement to take down Confederate monuments and rename schools named after Confederate leaders in Dallas. In 2019 he was named part of the first group of community college professors to receive a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Community College research fellowship for his project on the history of eugenics in the state of Texas. Phillips, and his wife and research partner Betsy Friauf, are under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press to write an upcoming book, The Strange Career of Eugenics in Texas, 1854-1940. Since 2007, he has taught at Collin College in Plano, Texas and is currently engaged in a fight over free speech and labor rights at that institution.
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- Yet Another History Professor Says Collin College Fired Him Over Free Speech Concerns (https://bit.ly/3Gx9GKP)
- Dallas Morning News:Collin College doesn’t renew contract of historian, author who claims retaliation (https://bit.ly/3LagNMN)
- G&R: Professors fired from Collin College, Retaliation in Texas (https://bit.ly/TXFiredGandR) (from Feb. 2021)
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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 Colonel Andrew Bacevich. We discussed why the U.S. is so concerned, and hawkish, about Russia and Ukraine--Russophobia? We talked about the role of NATO in this current crisis. We talked about the many more pressing issues the U.S. should focus on--like inflation, COVID, the surveillance state, and especially Climate Change!
It's a great conversation with one of America's leading intellectuals and critics of foreign policy.
Andrew Bacevich is an emeritus professor at Boston University and President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (@QuincyInst). He's also the author of several books on U.S. foreign policy and one of the foremost critics of America's war and interventionism for decades now. He is also a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, armored cavalry. And he's a frequent columnist in The Nation, as well as many other publications. His most recent book is "After the Apocalypse:America's Role in a World Transformed"
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- Adam Tooze: Strategy of Tension - updated on the economic fallout from Russian-Ukraine crisis (https://bit.ly/3AXocKv)
- Anatol Lievan: Ukraine: The Most Dangerous Problem in the World (https://bit.ly/3oclUCb)
- Andrew Bacevich: After the Apocalypse:America's Role in a World Transformed (https://bit.ly/39oI1O2)
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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, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes.
So, continuing our pop culture arc, we talk about our favorite political-radical television shows.
We start with our "top five" hall of famers, and then go into a decade by decade breakdown.
Heaps of fun!
Outro- Carroll and Jean
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- The Wire and the World (https://bit.ly/3ARCVqx)
- How "All in the Family" Changed TV Forever. (https://bit.ly/34gM3bF)
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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. Kennedy (JFK). Stone and his team of assassinologists main thesis is that the military-industrial complex conspired to have JFK killed because Kennedy was a secret dove and wanted to pull the troops out of Vietnam, end the Cold War and splinter the Central Intelligence Agency into a thousand pieces.
Scott interviews G&R co-host, author and professor of history Bob Buzzanco about Kennedy era foreign and military policy disproving the claims of Stone and his films. Bob also challenges Oliver Stone or any of his team of assassinologists to a debate on the facts of this thesis. We doubt they'll respond, but if they do, you'll hear it on the Green and Red Podcast.
Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, a professor of history at the University of Houston, and has been a visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Buzzanco was the recipient of the Stuart L. Bernath Book and Lecture Prizes, given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, for his book Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and as best emerging scholar, and a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston. He’s also the author of "Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life," "American Power, American People," and co-editor, with Marilyn Young, of Blackwell's "A Companion to the Vietnam War."
Outro is "High Hopes" (John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Song) by the Chairman of the Board.
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- Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (https://bit.ly/3tzg55o)
- Bob Buzzanco's Bio (https://bit.ly/3tzCX4G)
- Bookshop.org: "Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era" by Bob Buzzanco (https://bit.ly/3tIt9oK)
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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 about the radical politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign--, and his thoughts on property destruction. Links//
Buzzanco: MLK for Sale (http://bit.ly/2LzGR9S) Martin Luther King on riots and property destruction (http://bit.ly/3nHPvAk) VIDEO: Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence (https://bit.ly/3spBgnr)
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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 anniversary of his assassination.
In this episode, Bob and Scott get into the politics of Martin Luther King and how he's WAY more radical than most people realize.
Today, everyone from the Libertarian Party to the anti-abortion movement to tech companies in Silicon Valley trying to sell you their ideology or latest gadgets by claiming his legacy. In truth, MLK fought and opposed "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism (i.e. capitalism), and militarism" until the end of his life. While many look at the surface levels of MLK's politics and legacy, Green and Red goes deep into the real substance of who he was.
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- Bob Buzzanco: MLK for Sale? How to Package a Radical (https://bit.ly/2LzGR9S)
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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 Revisited," the Vietnam War, and how both liberal and conservative elites have use big lies to put leaders from JFK to Reagan to Trump in a pantheon of great leadership. They also talked about the anniversary of the Capitol Riots, politics in America and the failings of big left media.
Not to be missed interview with the "world's greatest living intellectual."
Professor Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
At 93, he is still active; writing and giving interviews to media all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for the American Dream.
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- G&R:Noam Chomsky on the 1960s and the New Left (https://bit.ly/ChomskyGandR)
- G&R: Celebrating "America's greatest intellectual" Noam Chomsky (https://bit.ly/ChomskyBdayGandR)
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A year ago, former President Donald Trump (the guy that LOST the election by 7 million votes) screamed and cried about a stolen election. At a giant rally on the Washington D.C. mall on January 6th, Trump encouraged the crowds to join a pre-organized attack on the Capital and try to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election.
You've seen the images of Trump supporters attacking Capital and DC police, trashing the building and hunting Vice-President Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, AOC and others. Five people (including a cop) were killed and millions of dollars of damage were incurred to the building.
More importantly, it was a shock to the ruling class. CEOs across the business sector denounced the attack and Trump. The Wall Street Journal called for the 25th amendment be enacted against Trump. Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr. privately tried to get Mark Meadows and Trump to stop the violence. Scores of corporations announced that they'd stop political donations to Republicans that voted against Biden's certification (this was short-lived).
We thought it might be the end of corporate neo-liberalism and be politically devastating for the GOP.
This has turned out not to be the case on both counts.
We note the passage of this anniversary with a conversation about, in historian Arno Mayer's words, "the persistence of the old regime." And how the forces of order (the ruling class) are fighting to maintain the status quo. And what the forces of movement (all of us) need to think about next.
Links//
- G&R: Capitol Riots and The Ruling Class (https://bit.ly/RiotsRulingClassGandR)
- G&R: Ruling Class 101 and the Coup That Wasn't (https://bit.ly/RulingClassGandR)
- G&R: Baseball and Bosses vs. the Georgia GOP (https://bit.ly/CorpResistGandR)
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Gil Scott-Heron said: "Turn around, turn around, turn around, And you may come full circle, And be new here again”
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. A year after Trump and we're no better off than we were. As Omicron numbers soar and Wall Street bankers and coal barons continue to run the table politically, the Honorable Bob Buzzanco and the Honorable Scott Parkin look back on 2021 and talk about what 2022 might bring us.
We kick off with the "best of" G&R episodes of 2021. We then talk about beltway politics, the ruling class, the game/no game strategies of the Democrats, the antics of Trump and the far right, street action, hard fought Stop Line 3 pipeline campaign and various labor strikes and how local organizing is the most important thing for all of us to be doing in this moment. It's Winter in America, and like the poet says "And ain't nobody fighting, ‘Cause nobody knows what to save, Save your soul, From winter in America..."
Outro- "Winter in America" by Gil Scott Heron
Links//
- Scott's Top G&R Episodes of 2021 (https://bit.ly/3EGJT1J)
- Bob's Top G&R Episodes of 2021 (https://bit.ly/31djg6O)
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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 the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, Texaco deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor. In 2001, Chevron merged with Texaco. The result was, and continues to be, one of the worst environmental disasters on the planet. It’s been called the “Rainforest Chernobyl.”
There has been a concerted legal and corporate campaign to get Chevron to take responsibility for this disaster. Attorney Steven Donziger led the campaign in the US. The company retaliated with, in Donziger's words, "the most vicious corporate counterattack in American history." It includes attempts to destroy Donziger's reputation, as well as civil and criminal charges. In October, after more than 800 days of house arrest, Steven reported to Danbury FCI for a 6 month prison sentence for contempt of court. While, he was recently released, the saga continues.
We talk with Paul Paz Y Mino (@paulpaz) with Amazonwatch (@amazonwatch) about the history of Texaco and Chevron in Ecuador, the lawsuits and the campaign to demonize Steven Donziger and any anti-Chevron campaigns.
Bio//
Paul is the Associate Director at Amazon Watch, where he has overseen its Chevron-Ecuador campaign since 2008. He has been a professional human rights, corporate accountability and environmental justice advocate for over 25 years. He has been Colombia Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA since 1995, served on staff at Human Rights Watch/Americas in 1995-1996, and was the Guatemala/Chiapas Program Director at the Seva Foundation for seven years. Paul has lived in Chiapas, Mexico and Quito, Ecuador, promoting human rights and community development and working directly with Indigenous communities.
Outro//
David Rovics (@drovics) "When Chevron Came to Ecuador"
Links//
- ChevronToxico The Campaign for Justice in Ecuador: https://chevrontoxico.com/
- ‘Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron’ (https://bit.ly/3EfKOpB)
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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 often, police officers engage in indefensible violence against the very people they are supposed to serve and protect.
The long arm (and brutal violence) of the law also extends to homeless populations, the mentally ill, sex workers, people facing eviction, protestors, workers on strike and many others. This is a result of the emergence of the new Gilded Age brought on by austerity and ever-widening economic gaps.
We talk with Professor Alex Vitale (@avitale) at Brooklyn College about policing in our current state of affairs. We discuss the need for police, how liberal politicians continue to support the police (as well large numbers of rank and file Democrats, according to polls) and the influence and role of police unions. We also get into the "Defund the Police" movement, the backlash against it, the war on drugs, gun control and how the current debate around police is effected by rising homicide rates.
Plus a brief history of Cop-aganda (i.e. how police and Hollywood have collaborated for decades to portray police as heroes in television and film).
Like Brendan Behan said, "I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse." We get into all of it.
Bio// Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have been published in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
You can get the new edition of "The End of Policing" at Verso Books (@VersoBooks): https://bit.ly/3q3rIy5
Outro music// Capitalism (A Lonesome Rider) by Consolidated on the Emergency Hearts (@eHeartsATX) label. ---------------------------------------------------------------
Links//
- The United States homicide rate continues to soar in 2021. Why?(https://bit.ly/3F1vUnY)
- Americans Don’t Want to Defund the Police. Here’s What They Do Want. (https://bit.ly/3IWeRX8)
- Vitale:“Policing Is Fundamentally a Tool of Social Control to Facilitate Our Exploitation”(https://bit.ly/3H2ig4X)
- Hammer and Tongs: Alex Vitale on Cop-aganda (https://bit.ly/3IUKH6z)
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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 must-listen, must-see episode.
We talked about Cash's upbringing in the depression and how the New Deal helped his family and led him to develop a "politics of empathy." We discussed his views on race, and especially his "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" album.
We talked about his work on behalf of prisoners and Native Americans, his views on the Vietnam War, and the way he stood up to Richard Nixon at the White House. We also discussed his legacy in today’s politics.
Cash wasn't only one of the most important entertainers of the 20th Century but a profound political figure as well.
You can buy Citizen Cash as your local indy bookstore, among other places, or order from the publisher at https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/michael-stewart-foley/citizen-cash/9781549112249/ .
Michael Stewart Foley is a writer, historian and professor of American Civilisation at Université Grenoble Alpes. His website is at https://michaelstewartfoley.com/.
*It's getting towards the end of year and we want to thank all of our friends and audience for listening and supporting us through 2021. Our audio audience has DOUBLED in size and our YouTube audience has TRIPLED in size this year.
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- Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever (https://bit.ly/33gPJdc)
- Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side. (https://bit.ly/3rQLEXi)
- The Boys Who Said No: https://www.boyswhosaidno.com/
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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 some big issues and have a scrappy take on all of them.
This year our program has included talks with Noam Chomsky, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, economist Richard Wolff, labor writer Sarah Jaffe and many organizers, water protectors and journalists. We've done shows on pop culture, climate change, COVID-19, labor, Trump, the ruling class and peoples' history.
We're still growing, still recording and still fighting and owe most of it to you.
2022 is only going to be better and if you'd like to support us, you can:
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Thanks for all you do.
Solidarity, Bob and Scott
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 Chris Hedges has said he "makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.”
December 7th is Noam's 93rd birthday and we are celebrating him with this new segment and sharing our past episodes about and with him all week.
In this new episode, Scott and Bob speak about the impact that Chomsky has had on our own academic and political work. We also talk about how it's been a recent trend in the left media universe to attack Chomsky. But, we note, that those irrelevant hipster podcasters and YouTubers won't be remembered in a hundred years, but, of course, Noam Chomsky will be.
So, please enjoy. And Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky!
Links//
- G&R: Noam Chomsky on the 1960s and the New Left (https://bit.ly/ChomskyGandR)
- G&R: Noam Chomsky's Life of Dissent w/ Prof. Clinton Fernandes (https://bit.ly/31n7jex)
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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 new collective bargaining agreement. Mike and Bob discussed the history of free agency and the economics of baseball--billionaire owners pinching pennies with players, the way that service time is rigged against players, the way team owners get public money for stadiums yet get all the profits. Yes, pro athletes make a lot more money than the average American workers, but the owners are robber barron billionaires, and we should always support labor, no matter how much these ballplayers make.
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Payday Report: https://paydayreport.com/ In the Era of “The Great Resignation,” Baseball Players Want to Choose Where They Work (https://bit.ly/3dhLGPG)
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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 institution created to regulate and facilitate global (corporate) trade. Organized by a scrappy group of organizers, the shutdown kicked off an anti-corporate globalization moment in North America which challenged austerity and the capitalist political economy. Globally, those movements had already been fighting austerity and corporate power for decades.
We talk with Nancy Haque, Stephanie Guilloud and David Solnit (@dsolnit)- three organizers that were all part of Direct Action Network to Stop Corporate Globalization (DAN), the body that organized the shutdown.
Bios//
In 1999, our three guests were all grassroots lead organizers and co-founders of the Direct Action Network to Stop Corporate Globalization which organized the mass action shutdown of the WTO in Seattle.
Nancy was a labor-community organizer with Portland Jobs with Justice which uniquely bridged the labor movement with the Direct Action Network and mobilized hundreds of students and community folks from Portland. Now, Nancy is the Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon (@basicrights), ensuring that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion, and achieving policy victories.
Stephanie was a student at Evergreen State College where she worked with the Labor Education and Research Center and with student groups that mobilized hundreds of trained organized students. Now, Stephanie is co-director of Project South (@ProjectSouth). Stephanie is the editor of two anthologies: Through the Eyes of the Judged; Autobiographical Sketches from Incarcerated Young Men and Voices from the WTO; First-person Narratives from the People who Shut Down the World Trade Organization.
David was with Art and Revolution Collective in the San Francisco Bay Area, and moved to Seattle for 6 months to organize as part of the Direct Action Network. Now, David is an arts organizer with the Climate Justice Arts Project--working to center arts organizing and narrative with Stop the Money Pipeline, Build Back Fossil Free and the Poor People's Campaign. He edited/co-authored "Globalize Liberation"--a post-Seattle WTO global justice and anti-capitalist analysis and organizing anthology and "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle."
About the Shutdown WTO Organizers History Project//
On the 20 year anniversary, a small group of friends and fellow DAN organizers put together The Shutdown WTO Organizers History Project-a website of organizers and first person accounts and analysis and co-published a 20-Year-Anniversary series of articles with Common Dreams.
Links//
- The Shutdown WTO Organizers' History Project: https://www.shutdownwto20.org/
- Remembering the Battle for Seattle: Organizers Launch Project to Reflect on 20 Years of Lessons (https://bit.ly/3ljIOpL)
- WTO Shutdown: A Few Things From the WTO Shutdown I Carry Into the Future (https://bit.ly/3xC853d)
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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 amid demands for givebacks. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is on strike. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and workers at John Deere just settled.
We also talked about the so-called labor shortages, which are resulting in workers getting higher wages now; the number of people who've left jobs in the past year; and the continued docility of union leadership.
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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 Green and Red. The three of them have a lively discussion about direct action and mass disruption to meet the scale and urgency of the climate crisis from COP to frontline battles around the world.
They reflect on mass actions in Seattle in 1999 and Quebec in 2001 in the era of anti-corporate globalization, and more recent mass disruptions and uprisings around Standing Rock, Line 3 and after the police murder of George Floyd.
Lisa and Alex also traveled through Germany and give Scott an update on the Ende Gelande campaign against coal there. A place where mass participatory action has created disruption against the coal sector.
Finally, Alex gives us an update on DAPL saboteur Jessica Reznicek. Jessica has recently been sentence to 8 years in federal prison for sabotage actions against the Dakota Acess Pipeline in 2016. We talked with Alex in August about Jessica's case.
Alex and Lisa are climate justice organizers with Rising Tide North America. Both are based in St. Louis. Alex also works with the Support Jessica Reznicek team.
Links//
- Rising Tide (https://bit.ly/3x9aPVT)
- Support Jessica Reznicek: https://supportjessicareznicek.com/
- G&R: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/ActionDirectGandR)
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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 about how the Democrats continue to act like it's 1993 and put up tired old Clinton hacks like Terry McAuliffe and ex-Goldman bankers like Phil Murphy and expect things to be different. Furthermore, they undermine democratic socialists like India Walton in the Buffalo mayor's race and blame woke politics, defund the police, medicare for all, the Green New Deal, etc when things don't go their way.
In Glasgow, it's even more of the same liberal slight of hand, as Obama and Kerry play up the "climate action" rhetoric when both have built long careers on keeping the fossil fuel sector afloat. Obama was in the White House for eight years with climate movements sitting in on his front doorstep, fighting pipelines in Texas, fracking in New York and coal mining in Appalachia and did NOTHING. Scott has more than a few gripes about this.
We then get into how autonomous movements, using direct action and organizing, defy powers that be in the corporate suites, Washington DC and, the "leadership" of their own movements. We discuss the John Deere strike and a recent disruption of Sen. Amy Klobuchar by Stop Line 3 protestors as examples of disruption and resistance to the powers that be.
Finally, we wrap with a "Love'em they're liberals" segment about Nancy Pelosi officiating billionaire's weddings in San Francisco City Hall (true story).
Love them they're liberals! And they ain't doing nothing for us!
Links //
- Buzzanco: Democrats Won’t Save You . . . Virginia and Buffalo (https://bit.ly/3oiphqc)
- G&R: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/ActionDirectGandR)
- Parkin: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/2021DirectAction)
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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 empty promises by world leaders in the face of climate disaster. Green and Red focuses on movements and what's happening in the streets, so we'll be talking more with organizers and "outside voices" in Glasgow than you'll hear from mainstream media channels.
Bob's off on assignment, so Scott's been on top of our Glasgow coverage. He starts with an update with Matt Leonard (@MattOakland) from the Oil and Gas Action Network (@oil_action). Matt's been there for a couple of weeks supporting street actions targeting world leaders like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, as well as fossil fuel execs and Wall Street bankers wining and dining their way through the climate talks. He talked about reactions and moods of people there, people powered street actions, global climate politics, the role of corporations at COP26 and greenwashing.
Scott then gets an update from Emma Rae Lierley (@EmmaRaeLierley) with Rainforest Action Network (@RAN). They discussed Saturday's march and the invisibilization of Indigenous leadership and delegations by the media. They also discussed the (empty) pledge by world leaders to stop deforestation by 2030, the role of reactionary countries such as Brazil and Indonesia and the importance of Indigenous land and forest defenders in stopping deforestation and climate crises. Finally, they also talked about corporations at COP26, public relations strategies, greenwashing and "Net Zero by 2050."
We'll be having more voices from Glasgow joining us this week. Please continue to check us out here and on our YouTube channel for more updates.
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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 sports and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming series of episodes, we're periodically going to talk about our favorite political/radical films, television and music.
Check out part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGV962JFmiY&t=2722s
In part 2, we continue our journey into the best political films by starting with movies about working-class issues and activism. Then we discuss some of our favorite foreign films with political themes, including the work of Gillo Pontecorvo and Costas-Gavras.
One of our favorite themes was "political satire and dystopia," where we talked about movies that often served as warnings about the world we live in today. We discussed what we called "cultural touchstones," films that defined an era ("Hair") or served as a snapshot into a reality we never were shown ("Being There").
We also talk about important films that discuss wars, revolution, and imperialism, which are essential to any left understanding of politics. And we finished with our least favorite political films, and you get to hear an epic rant from Bob about the horrors of "Forrest Gump." If you haven't subscribed to Green & Red on YouTube yet, just click that button above.
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In this episode, Bob had a conversation with Executive Director Sera Koulabdara (@SeraKoulabdara) of "Legacies of War" about the 50+ year crisis of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in Laos. Scott was away on assignment.
At the same time as it was attacking Vietnam, the U.S. conducted a "secret war" against Laos through the air, dropping 2 million tons of bombs as part of its "sideshow" to the main war against the Vietnamese Revolution. Included in that massive campaign were 270,000,000 cluster bombs, smaller bombs--about baseball-sized--or "bomblets" that often did not detonate. So today, decades after the war ended, about 80,000,000 bombs remain in Laos.
Sera and Bob talked about the ferocious U.S. war in Laos, the aftermath, the daily risks faced by Laotians every day because of the millions of unexploded bombs, and the work of Legacies of War.
The mission of Legacies of War is to raise awareness about the history of the Vietnam War-era bombing in Laos and advocate for the clearance of unexploded bombs, to provide space for healing the wounds of war, and to create greater hope for a future of peace.
The organization uses art, culture, education, community organizing and dialogue to bring people together and create healing and transformation out of the wreckage of war.
See also//
- Legacies of War: http://legaciesofwar.org/
- Sera Koulabdara: "Why Biden must reverse Trump policy on landmines now" (https://bit.ly/3GL0rI1)
- Sera's blog: http://www.loveiswhy.blog/
- Voices from the Plain of Jars (https://amzn.to/3wgzxmv)
- The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory (Mark Pavlick, ed.) (https://bit.ly/3GO6L1l)
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In this episode, we celebrate All Hallows Eve by talking about something the really scares us... cancel culture on campus! (We're joined by the scariest guest host ever, who uses the most amazing words you can imagine.)
We talk about how the capitalist political economy turns students into consumers, universities into corporations & crushes dissent with cancel culture, revoking tenure, grad student union-busting & more.
Our conversation starts with Dr. Cornel West's op-ed in the Washington Post raising an alarm about the disbanding of the classics program at Howard University.
We then talk about three recent incidents of cancellation at the University of Michigan, within the University of Georgia system and the University of Florida. The first by left cancel culture, the other two by right wing attempts to stifle dissent.
This leads us until a deconstruction of how the liberal state works to turn students into consumers and turn university into a factory for the capitalist political economy.
We wrap up with a "Love'em They're Liberals" segment on the late Secretary of State Collin Powell. Powell's storied career extended from covering up the My Lai massacre in 1968 to serving as Deputy National Security Advisory during Reagan's contra wars to his deceitful performance in front of the United Nations hustling for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq to serving as an apologist for Obama's drone program.
Outro music is "Obvious" by Mic Crenshaw on the Emergency Hearts label.
Links//
- Georgia’s University System Takes On Tenure (https://nyti.ms/3kdBWd9)
- The University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case(https://n.pr/3Es0OoQ)
- A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class (https://nyti.ms/3pY1Hl9)
- Green and Red: Professors fired from Collin College, Retaliation in Texas (https://bit.ly/TXFiredGandR)
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In our second discussion with Professor Clinton Fernandes from the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, which is part of the Australian Defence Force Academy, we talked about the new Australian deal to buy subs from the U.S., and the larger role of Australia as a "sub-Imperial" country, not powerful in its own right so much as a supportive nation for American efforts in the Pacific.
Outro music is "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by the Pogues.
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- Trade routes or War Games?: Subs and the geopolitics behind the China threat (https://bit.ly/3E92ALE)
- Aukus: French contractor ‘astonished’ at cancellation of Australia submarine deal (https://bit.ly/3CnSJkM)
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We talked with Clinton Fernandes, professor at University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, which is part of the Australian Defence Force Academy, about his role in getting documents showing Australia's role in the 9/11/73 coup in Chile to depose Salvador Allende.
He talked about the background to the coup, Australia's role in supporting American policies, and his efforts to get the documents showing those links.
Outro music is Manzina's "En Para."
Links//
- Challenge to declassify documents on Australia's involvement in Pinochet coup continues in secret (https://bit.ly/3pd0SVq)
- Guardian: Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende (https://bit.ly/3lOWcTg)
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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 sports and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming arc, we're going to talk about our favorite political/radical films, television and music.
We begin with our list of Classic films, some of the movies that have had an impact on Scott and me, and others, as part of our cultural-cum-political education, and that we'd consider essential. Then we discuss what we call "Bank Robbers and Anti-Heroes," where we cite films that expressed the way capitalism makes people desperate and how they often respond outside the law.
We next talked about "Cold War Satire and Red Scare" movies, films which deal with the domestic side of McCarthyism and cultural conformity, and then we end part 1 with one of our favorite categories--"70s Political Thrillers," movies made in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate which showed how disillusioned, and legitimately paranoid, Americans had become after the traumas of war and domestic scandal.
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In Cochabamba Bolivia in 2011, tens of thousands were present on Mother Earth Day as the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth was declared in response to the "privatization" of nature by the corporate state. This was in alignment with Indigenous worldviews that have accelerated the development of rights of nature law. Both Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as numerous local jurisdictions, have amended their constitutions to include a "rights of nature."
In this episode, we talk with Pennie Opal Plant (@PennieOpal) and Shannon Biggs (@ShannonKBiggs), co-founders of Movement Rights (@movementrights), about the growing movement around the rights of nature. We discuss the legal, political and cultural aspects of the growing rights of nature movement. We also discuss the recent news that oil has begun to flow through Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline after 8 years of resistance, the Indigenous rights movement and the climate movements in the U.S. and globally.
Pennie Opal Plant is an Indigenous grandmother of Yaqui, Mexican, undocumented Choctaw and Cherokee and European descent. Born in the shadow of the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA, she has been a protector and defender of the sacred system of life for over 35 years. She is co-founder of Movement Rights now sits on the Board as lead advisor. She is a signatory on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty, along with Casey Camp-Horinek. Pennie is also the co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay and continues as an advisor.
Shannon Biggs is the co-founder and Director of Movement Rights, a climate justice organization aligning human laws with the laws of Nature by advancing Rights of Indigenous peoples, Nature and communities. Movement Rights assisted the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to become the first tribe to recognize rights of nature for tribal lands in the US, and has led strategic gatherings on Rights of Nature and Economics, and the Indigenous-led 2019 Frontline Oil and Gas (FOG) conference with over 200 national grassroots environmental justice and indigenous participants. Internationally she is a recognized leader of the rights of nature movement, a co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), and the co-author/editor of two books including “The Rights of Nature, Making the Case for the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Nature.”
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- Movement Rights: https://www.movementrights.org/
- Movement Rights on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3D8qbeV
- Pennie Opal Plant: Mother Earth Does Not Negotiate (https://bit.ly/3mfK7Wm)
- October 19 webinar (11 am Pacific): How Indigenous-led Rights of Nature is Transforming Climate Action NOW Registration here: https://bit.ly/3D9l12g
- Pennie's chapter on False solutions in the NDN Collective’s new book, “Required Reading” (https://bit.ly/3itM0NV)
- People Vs Fossil Fuels Action in DC Oct 11-15: https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org
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Green and Red has become the go-to media site for a lot of people who want to hear about the environment, anti-capitalist politics, and radical history.
We also talk about pop culture, and especially Left culture. We've done shows on sports activism with Dave Zirin; we've talked about progressive politics in Country music; we analyzed The Sopranos and Socialism.....and there's more to come.
Soon we'll have up episodes about political, Lefty movies and TV shows, and protest music. We'll soon be talking about The Many Saints of Newark and the politics of Johnny Cash, and so much more.
So come for the politics, and stay for the pop culture. Get out the bowl of popcorn and listen to us talk about movies and TV and music and all kinds of other fun political lefty stuff!
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The Pacific Northwest has a long history of organizing and direct action around logging and timber industries. From the Wobblies trying to organize the logging sector in the early twentieth century to Earth First!'s campaigns to stop old growth logging to the new generation of forest defenders linking the struggle for wild places and communities to the climate crisis, direct action has always tried to get the goods.
For 25 years, since the epic timber wars of the 1990s in places like Warner Creek, Oregon, Cascadia Forest Defense (CFD) has been at the forefront of challenging the logging industry, complicit politicians, federal agencies and, in general, capitalism. In the past month, CFD has put up new tree-sit blockades to disrupt logging operations in the Willamette National Forest.
We talked with Daniel, an organizer with CFD, about past and present forest defense campaigns, Oregon's politics around forests, logging and wildfires; right-wing militias in the Northwest, the links to the climate crisis and the resurgence of forest defense campaigns up and down the Pacific Northwest.
Daniel is an organizer with Cascadia Forest Defense. CFD is a grassroots environmental organization committed to stopping the destruction of the Earth, particularly in the region known as Cascadia. The organize collective, nonviolent actions to disrupt the ecologically and economically exploitative industrial timber industry and the 1%.
Outro music by Mic Crenshaw on Emergency Hearts.
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- Cascadia Forest Defense (https://bit.ly/3lX9MD1)
- Biden’s Climate Chops Face A Big Test On Old-Growth Forests(https://bit.ly/3lVXqeu)
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Green and Red had a great conversation with the well-known scholar (and Retired Colonel) Andrew Bacevich, whose new book is After the Apocalypse. We began by getting his views on the recent revelations regarding JCS Chair Mark Milley's role in opposing Trump's attempt to steal the election.
Then we discussed the key points in his book--his view on the dangers of American Exceptionalism, the damages done to society by immense military spending and the role of the Military-Industrial Complex, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and revived Cold War against China.
But most of our discussion centered on his book where he doesn't just discuss American interventions and wars, but the various crises that affect National Security, and in this conversation he groups COVID and American racial discrimination--as we saw in the 2020 protests--as dangers to American safety and stability.
Few Americans understand these issues better than Andrew Bacevich and this was a great and comprehensive discussion.
Links//
- Andrew Bacevich: After the Apocalypse (https://bit.ly/39oI1O2)
- WaPo: The age of American privilege is over (https://wapo.st/2ZeYliu)
- Andrew Bacevich: Gen. Milley did the wrong thing for honorable reasons. We need new rules for starting nuclear war (https://bit.ly/3nOcJZh)
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Indigenous women led movements have continued to disrupt the construction of Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy's Line 3 pipeline with over a thousand arrested. Police have escalated in a multitude of ways (felony charges, high bails, rubber bullets, tear gas, etc) against water protecting pipeline opponents.
We know through the bold investigative journalism of The Intercept that Enbridge has created a fund through the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to finance local and state police for pipeline security. The company and state collusion has essentially privatized the police for a Canadian oil company. The journalism has been so embarrassing for Enbridge and the state of Minnesota that they've been begun to erect barriers to release of public information.
We talk with investigative reporter Will Parrish and researcher Charlotte Grubb about this.
Will Parrish (@willparrishca) is an investigative reporter whose work is rooted in tradition of muckraking journalism. His reporting appears in The Intercept, The Guardian, The Nation, East Bay Express, Counterpunch, Shadowproof, and other online and print venues. Charlotte Grubb (@CharlotteGrubb) is a freelance researcher, writer and climate justice organizer. Her work focuses on stopping fossil fuel projects and creating a just transition that centers decolonization and building power outside of state institutions. She is currently based in New Mexico.
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- Will's website: www.willparrishreports.com
- The Intercept: Minnesota Law Enforcement Agency Blocks Release of Public Records About Surveilling Pipeline Opponents (https://bit.ly/3zPYRkj)
- The Intercept: Paid by the Pipeline. A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit (https://bit.ly/3kVqD8P)
- The Intercept: Dakota Access Pipeline Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Environmentalists (https://bit.ly/3n1nw1F)
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Green and Red commemorates Labor Day with labor Journalist and founder of "Payday Report" Mike Elk (@MikeElk). We begin by talking about the historical origins of Labor Day in the U.S. (where Labor Day occurs in September rather than on May 1, like most of the world) and we pay tribute to the late Stanley Aronowitz. We had a wide-ranging discussion with Mike Elk, who began by giving up updates on the Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama and the Amazon union drive that took place there earlier this year. After that we spoke about the role of labor in the post World War II period, and discussed the importance of people such as Ed Asner, Walter Mondale, and William Greider. We also talked about what to expect from the AFL-CIO with new President Liz Shuler and the legacy of the late Richard Trumka. We, again, paid tribute to the brave women who were fired from Collin College and pointed out how the New York Left did nothing to help them. Finally, we talked about the role of "gatekeepers" in labor journalism and education--the way that people who don't have working-class backgrounds have come to dominate the way we on the Left talk about labor. Links//
Payday Report: https://paydayreport.com/ Gallup: Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965 (https://bit.ly/2VfsWe2) Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88 (https://nyti.ms/3DRFqdw) The Nation: Ed Asner, American Socialist (https://bit.ly/3tdJfoe)
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Last week, Hurricane Ida, a category four storm, made landfall on the Gulf Coast. Over a million people were without power and 16 were killed. The hurricane then moved up the east coast hitting New York and New Jersey with powerful winds and floods. At least 52 people are reported dead in the Northeast. Ida made landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was a category 5 storm that caused over 1800 deaths and $125 billion in damage.
An important part of the stories of Hurricanes Katrina and Ida has been mutual aid. During and after Katrina, an anarchist modeled relief effort called Common Ground Disaster Relief began in New Orleans to support impacted communities in the storm's aftermath. After Katrina and Common Ground, mutual aid networks have been growing to mobilize support those suffering from hurricanes, wildfires and various other disasters.
To talk about Ida, Katrina and mutual aid, we are joined by two co-founders of Common Ground- Suncere Ali Shakur and scott crow With them, we discuss hope, community, disaster response by just regular people (not bureaucrats or professional non-profits) and becoming experts in the impossible.
Suncere Ali Shakur. Originally from NW DC around 7th Kennedy St . Activists fronts include far housing , homeless, police brutality, anti-war and globalization. Gay rights, Education and co founder of Common Ground Relief New Orleans Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, Cleveland Ohio’s Wolfpack Gunshot Response Team . A disciple of the black Panther party and a self proclaimed George Jacksoness.
scott crow (@scott_crow) is an anarchist, speaker, author, organizer, musician and story teller. He's author of Black Flags and Windmills:Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective (PM Press) and a number of other books. scott has co-founded a number of diverse projects, businesses and organizations rooted in cooperative power sharing models includingtheCommon Ground Collective, the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history,Treasure City Thrift, an anarchist worker coop, Red Square, an art coop, Century Modern, an antique coop and UPROAR, a community based organization, Dirty South Earth First! and the Radical Encuentro Camp.
Outro music is Stealth Empire (feat. Mark Stewart) by Nun Gun on the Emergency Hearts label.
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- 'Human toll was tremendous': Ida's death count rises while 600,000 still lack power (https://reut.rs/3tmwqI8)
- Suncere Shakur Reporting back from Far Rockaway, Queens (https://bit.ly/3thqTTq)
- scott crow: www.scottcrow.org/
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief:https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
- Mutual aid groups give personalized help after Hurricane Ida (https://abcn.ws/3BMPzGh)
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Jessica Reznicek is a land and water defender who worked with the Catholic Worker Community in Des Moines, IA. In 2016, she began to organize against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa. When the regulatory, political and even civil disobedience channels didn't work, she concluded the system was broken. Then, she, and a fellow Catholic Worker, began to disable construction machinery along the pipeline route. No one was injured by their actions, and the land was protected from the flow of oil for an additional six months. Months after that, she and her collaborator publicly confessed to their sabotage actions.
In February, Jessica pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility. In June, the court designated her a "terrorist" and sentenced her to eight years in prison.
We speak with Alex Cohen of the Free Jessica team (@FreeJessRez). Alex is a climate justice organizer and rabble rouser.
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- Support Jessica: https://supportjessicareznicek.com/
- Des Moines Register: Iowa climate activist sentenced to eight years in federal prison for Dakota Access pipeline sabotage (https://bit.ly/3Do0FTK) Greenpeace: Pipeline exec says whoever vandalized Dakota Access Pipeline should be ‘removed from the gene pool’ (https://bit.ly/3mJmRlg)
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America's forever war in Afghanistan ended with the withdrawal of U.S. troops after a twenty year war and occupation. A speedy summer offensive by the Taliban through quickly led to the fall of Kabul. Images of the Taliban in the Afghan presidential palace, crowds running after departing American aircraft and frightened Afghans remembering earlier Taliban rule pervade our screens. Since the terror attacks on September 11th, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the never-ending Global War on Terror, the U.S. has spent great amounts of "blood and treasure" to only make matters worse. Now there seems to be a reckoning with a war many tried to forget.
Scott talks with anti-war veteran of the war in Afghanistan Graham Clumpner about the legacy of the war, the threat of the new Taliban regime, what the anti-war movements got wrong, the true costs of war and about the impacts of the end of the war on its veterans.
Graham Clumpner (@turncoatveteran) is an libertarian socialist, anti-war U.S. military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, environmentalist and direct action organizer in the Pacific Northwest.
This is the third of three episodes focusing on the forever wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
More//
- ‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains (https://wapo.st/37UWel3)
- About Face: https://aboutfaceveterans.org/
- Veterans for Peace: https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
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- If you want to volunteer for airport pickup, apartment setups, and/or meals for Afghans, go to https://t.co/bw2zeqFzQL?amp=1
- If you want to help provide transportation, housing, and other basic needs for Afghans at Fort Lee in Virginia, go to https://t.co/Z8lV7hJrnQ?amp=1
- If you are an attorney and you would like to help with Afghan pro bono cases, please sign up here: https://t.co/MWzKmRr6tN?amp=1
- Here are NGOs/charities working in Afghanistan you can support: https://t.co/CnqMuWdY8q?amp=1
- MONITORING THE SITUATION: Go to No One Left Behind and join their mailing list. Follow the #SaveOurAllies hashtag to monitor updates and potential resources.
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- Buzzanco (2001): Five reasons why America should not be at war (https://bit.ly/3mjjJfR)
- Green and Red on the anniversary of September 11th (https://bit.ly/911GandR)
- Green and Red w/ Graham Clumpner on "War is a Racket." (https://apple.co/37VsAMo)
- Graham on Green and Red Media: https://greenandredpodcast.org/graham-clumpner/
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This weekend, we saw the Taliban seize Kabul ending the 20 year war and occupation of Afghanistan. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The sudden and dramatic Taliban gains came as the U.S. withdrew its ground troops from Afghanistan. Aid groups are warning of a humanitarian crisis unfolding. Since January, nearly 400,000 have been displaced. Over 1,000 civilians have been killed or injured in fighting over the past month. The images of U.S. helicopters flying over the U.S. embassy brought back memories of the April 1975 evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
Bob and Scott bring you a deep background on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. We talked about several issues, including the interventions by the Cold War hawk administrations of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, the importance of resources like Rare Earth Minerals in the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and the "blowback" in Afghanistan of the U.S. funding of the mujahedin to fight the Soviets that led to the emergence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. As well as the costs of the war in Afghanistan since 2001.
This is the second of three episodes focusing on the forever wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
More//
- VIDEO Blinken: This is not Saigon. (https://cnn.it/3k51OqC)
- Costs of the Afghanistan War, in Lives and Dollars (https://bit.ly/3svpFU5)
- Brown University: Costs of War. (https://bit.ly/3y19rTI)
- Professor David Gibbs’ Publications on Afghanistan. (https://bit.ly/3D1nAEo)
- Why Biden was so set on withdrawing from Afghanistan (https://bit.ly/2XtfsvV)
- How the U.S. Got Involved in Afghanisgtan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGE3pQejpo4&t=10s)
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- Buzzanco (2001): Five reasons why America should not be at war (https://bit.ly/3mjjJfR)
- Green and Red on the anniversary of September 11th (https://bit.ly/911GandR)
- Green and Red on Cold War hawk Jimmy Carter (https://apple.co/3sucF0V)
- Buzzanco: Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then….. (https://bit.ly/2R0cU5m)
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Last month, whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison after pleading guilty to violating the Espionage Act in March. During his time in the Air Force from 2009 to 2013, Hale worked with the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations Task Force at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he helped identify targets for assassination. He later worked as a contractor for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
After leaving the Air Force, Hale became an outspoken opponent of the drone program, U.S. Foreign Policy and vocal supporter of whistleblowers.
In 2019, Hale was arrested and indicted for leaking classified documents about the U.S. drone assassination program. He's believed to be the source for the Intercept's series called "The Drone Papers."
We speak with Noor Mir (@thedronalisa), a close friend of Hale and a member of the Daniel Hale Support Team (@TeamDanielHale), about Daniel's story. She talks about Daniel's background, how he came to be a whistleblower and his current status in federal custody. We also discuss the Espionage Act, Obama's drone wars, and responses to his case on the left, right and in the media.
Noor is a DC based organizer, anti-imperialist and rabble-rouser. She was the anti-drone campaigner for Code Pink.
This is the first of three episodes focusing on the forever wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
More//
- Support Daniel Hale: https://standwithdanielhale.org/
- New York Magazine: Call Me a Traitor. Daniel Hale exposed the machinery of America’s clandestine warfare. Why did no one seem to care?. (https://nym.ag/3ANYeYD)
- Daniel at the 2013 Code Pink Drone Summit. (Daniel's talk begins at the 29 minute mark.) (https://bit.ly/3m74re9)
- WaPo: Daniel Hale, who leaked information on U.S. drone warfare, sentenced to 45 months in prison. (https://wapo.st/2W3XhfP)
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- Free Black Mamas (https://bit.ly/3sotieF)
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Since the protests in Cuba on July 11th, the U.S. media has been promoting aggressive action if not intervention against Havana. But even segments of the self-described Left, especially social democrats in New Politics magazine, have been attacking the Diaz-Canel government, supporting the protests in Cuba, and dismissing the larger political-cum-power issues at play in this episode.
Scott and Bob broke down the background to the protests and the Left abandonment of socialist solidarity, talking about Cuba's health system, its life span and infant mortality rates (which compare favorably to the U.S.), its educational system, its world-best sustainable environmental system, and its role in defending Left movements in Latin America, South Africa, Vietnam, Palestine, and elsewhere.
We also talked about the inherent role that Miami plays in any "dissident" movement in Cuba.
And we'll send you out with some salsa music from a Havana bar.
See also//
- "Cuba Has Trained 170 Doctors from the U.S. for Free" (https://bit.ly/3CGAMhC)
- Vijay Prashad, "Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize" (https://bit.ly/3AC1Tsf)
- "Cuba Ranks as World's Most Sustainable Developed Country" (https://bit.ly/2VEgh4L)
- World Bank data on Cuban Life Expectancy (https://bit.ly/3jKJlQ3)
- Bob Buzzanco, "Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Global Solidarity" (https://bit.ly/3fUWqVI)
- Bob Buzzanco, "Cuba, Race, and African Liberation" (https://bit.ly/3AAttGm)
- Bob Buzzanco interview on "Flashpoints" on Cuba (https://bit.ly/3AyJ2i2)
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Sarah Koster is Green and Red's public health guru and most frequent guest and we just had another great discussion about COVID with here. Despite government and media claims in June that the crisis of COVID was ending, we're seeing a resurgence in cases, especially due to the Delta variant, lagging vaccination rates, and less mask wearing. Sarah breaks down the nature of the new variant, the health risks it poses, and what we need to do to be as safe as possible.
Prof. Sarah Koster is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa.
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- NY Times: Delta Variant in Schools (https://nyti.ms/2Vjesdd)
- 7 Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant (https://bit.ly/3ylntke)
- Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread The Delta Variant, CDC Says (https://n.pr/37iEmQy)
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Madison Lynn (@dickexpert) and John Palmucci (@gabagoolmarx) of the new "Fresh Kills" podcast (@freshkillspod), which features "garbage takes by garbage guidos," joined us to talk about their new entry into social media, their takes on left politics and cancel culture, among other issues, and whether New Jersey or Youngstown Italians drop more "F Bombs." We also were excited to discuss John's creation, "Socialist Sopranos Memes" on Facebook, which is a brilliant fusion of Sopranos scenes with Left politics, and we finished with a spirited analysis of the anti-capitalist themes in so many Sopranos episodes and we all weighed in with our opinions on whom the "Most Psychopathic" Sopranos character was and gave our opinions on the controversial ending .
Watch this show, Don't fughgettaboutit!
Madison Lynn and John Palmucci are two longtime leftists (whatever that means) from NY/NJ who believe they bring a little something different and much needed to the existing discourse. With "garbarge takes" from these two "garbage guidos", they hope to remind everyone that the best part of ruthless criticism of all that exists is being ruthless. Fresh Kills is currently available on Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts.
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It's our hundredth episode. We've done a lot in the 17 months (to the day) since we launched Green and Red. The themes of our scrappy little show include lifting up movement organizing and direct action; critiques of corporate liberalism and reformist politics, the far right & the status quo; sharing people’s history; poking at the sacred cows of the “left” (NGO industrial complex, Brooklyn hipster socialism, Democratic hacks like Pelosi, Schumer, Obomber and Biden); and doing it with humor, wit and a few laughs at our own expense. We've talked with radical thinkers (including the biggest of them all- Noam Chomsky!!), journalists, radical podcasters, writers, filmmakers and, importantly, organizers and campaigners working on direct action, anti-capitalist, radical environmental campaigns and movement organizing.
We've also raised up analyses, situations and issues, at first, ignored by the liberal-left circles and then embraced by the same circles (ex: the ruling class vs. Trumpworld, the firing of Texas community college professors, the non-threat of a Trump coup, etc.). This is the kinda stuff you hear first with us.
In our 100th episode, we decided to talk about how far we've come, our dreams and visions for the Green and Red Podcast in the beginning and how far we've come.
We've got a lot more to come. So keep listening.
This episode includes "Los Cuarto Generales," a resistance song from the Spanish Civil War. Sung by the late great Pete Seeger.
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Green and Red Podcast had a great conversation with Professor Richard Wolff (@profwolff) about economic theories, the vital role of the government in subsidizing and supporting corporations and banks, China's economic strength, how the Federal Reserve creates money for people who already have great wealth, growing inequality, and the continued importance of Karl Marx.
A lifelong professor of economics, Richard D. Wolff is a well-known critic of contemporary capitalism and the leading proponent of an alternative economic system based on Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). He is the host of Economic Update, and has been interviewed on several popular television programs that include: Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Moyers’ Moyers & Company, The Charlie Rose Show, and Up with Chris Hayes.
As the founding director of Democracy at Work (d@w), Wolff’s publications that advocate for making the workplace democratic include articles in Truthout.org, The Guardian, Common Dreams, as well as his recent book: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens.
He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University and at the City College of the City University of New York. Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City.
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- Democracy at Work https://www.democracyatwork.info/
- Biden Says Competition Order to Restore ‘Heart’ of Capitalism (https://bloom.bg/3i220a6)
- Prof. Wolff talk at Google (https://bit.ly/3rvDcKS)
- Prof. Wolff on Trump +Tariffs (https://bit.ly/2Wj0Dvu)
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Our favorite music is that music that gets in your face, flips over tables and fights those in power. Consolidated was a band that did that very thing. Since their formation in the late 80s, they've used music to speak out on corporate greed, fascism, homophobia, and animal rights. Now they are returning to the music scene with more of the anti-capitalist fascist-fighting same.
We talk with Consolidated lead guitarist and vocalist Adam Sherburne as they are embarking on their return.
Adam Sherburne is the lead guitarist, vocalist, and music director for Consolidated, a radical Left industrial band from San Francisco, California. Consolidated is an American radical activist music group, formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/industrial music band. They were distinguished by left-leaning political activism and politically radical lyrics, as well as their innovative sonic collages which blended industrial and hip-hop styles. Their latest album, We're Already There, is released this year.
Music in episode "Capitalism A.F." and "Music is the Sound of Life" by Consolidated on the eMERGENCY heARTS label.
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- We're Already There: https://www.limbabwe.com/
- Bandcamp page: https://consolidated.bandcamp.com/
- eMERGENCY heARTS: https://www.emergencyhearts.com/
- Consolidated on Facefuck: https://www.facebook.com/Consolidated-105778171151699
- Big Shot: Premiere: Consolidated – Musica Sin Fronteras (https://bit.ly/3hBWb3h)
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The fight against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline continues to escalate. Since we last talked about it, Indigenous women-led movements on the ground have been disrupting construction along the pipeline route. Last week, the Giniw Collective, Earth First!, Rainforest Action Network and others took more action.
G&R co-host Scott Parkin returned last week with Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) from the Cranky Vegan YouTube channel. They talked with Bob afterwards about the trip.
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- The Cranky Vegan: A Return to Stop LINE 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWT1tjzTbo
- Giniw Collective: https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/
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In our third episode of our ongoing conversation about the New Left, we pay tribute to the memory of the great New Left historian Walter LaFeber of Cornell University.
We talked about the historical importance of the New Left, especially in the study of U.S. foreign relations, the so-called Wisconsin School, William Appleman Williams and others, and then discussed Professor LaFeber's contribution as one of the most important historians of the modern era. We talked about his work on the Spanish American War (The New Empire); The Cold War (America, Russia, and the Cold War); the historical background to the Reagan wars in Central America (Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America); Asia and the Open Door (The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History); Globalization (Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism); and Vietnam (The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election).
See also
- G&R Episode 35: The New Left and the Next Left (Tribute to Thomas McCormick), https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g-r-episode-35-new-left-next-left-what-we-can-learn/id1501708978?i=1000488461896
- G&R Episode 91: Noam Chomsky on the New Left and the Radical 1960s, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g-r-episode-91-noam-chomsky-on-the-1960s-and-the-new-left/id1501708978?i=1000523751184
- Cornell obituary of Walter LaFeber, https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/walter-lafeber-revered-history-professor-dies
- New York Times obituary of Walter LaFeber, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/education/walter-lafeber-dead.html
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Since the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, the financial sector has put $3.8 TRILLION into the fossil fuel sector. That's $3.8 trillion into oil, gas, coal and Indigenous and human rights abuses across the globe. These banks notoriously fund projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline and Enbridge's Line 3 Pipeline. The banking sector keeps Big Oil flush with cash contributing trillions to the climate crisis. Wall Street, as well as banks in Canada, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world also talk a happy positive rap on sustainability and a healthy environment, but continue to make huge profits from it.
We talk with Jackie Fielder (@JackieFielder_) with Stop the Money Pipeline (@StopMoneyPipe), a coalition of 160 groups, fighting to stop the flow of money from banks, private investment firms like BlackRock and insurance companies into oil, gas and coal. We talk about efforts to defund Line 3 and the backlash from industry and government against the climate justice movement. We also discuss Jackie's 2020 state senate run against Scott Wiener and her efforts to start a San Francisco Public Bank.
Jackie Fielder is Native American (Two Kettle Lakota and Hidatsa), Latina, and queer educator and organizer. She campaigned against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline; helped organize public banking efforts in San Francisco; and worked to defeat a city initiativethat would loosen taser use for police in the Bay Area. In 2020, she ran for state senate in San Francisco against Democrat Scott Wiener.
Currently, she works as the communications coordinator with Stop the Money Pipeline. A coalition of organizations fighting to stop the flow of corporate money into fossil fuels.
Read more//
- Stop the Money Pipeline: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/
- Rainforest Action Network. Banking on Climate Chaos (https://bit.ly/3j39xGR)
- Winona LaDuke on Mass Protest by Water Protectors to Halt Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota (https://bit.ly/3d9imLl)
- Meet the Young Indigenous Activist Running for California’s State Senate (https://bit.ly/35OgzHI)
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In the past few years, "canceling" someone from prominent platforms or careers has become an increasingly controversial topic in today's cultural and political circles. A comedian or other public figures says, Tweets or does offensive things and a public backlash, often fueled by politically progressive social media, ensues. It's destroyed careers. It's targeted people by mistake. How does cancel culture effect movement building projects on the left? Is it a form of leftist self-sabotage, misplaced priorities or a legit means of speaking truth to power?
We talk about all of it with Ben Burgis, author of the new book "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns." We dive deep into the "cancel culture" wars on the left. But, also get into how it's practiced by the right with attempts to "cancel" everything from Critical Race Theory to opponents of Israel, and use it to further the left-right culture war.
Plus, we discuss the biggest cancellation EVER- Trump canceled from Twitter!
Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor and the author of Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left and “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns.” He is host of the podcast Give Them An Argument.
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- Ben Burgis: We Can’t Cancel Ourselves Into a Better World (https://bit.ly/3gxzCfk)
- NY Times: Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets (https://nyti.ms/3cNNyzA)
- Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left (https://bit.ly/2TLrVJq)
- Give Them An Argument: https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1
- Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics and "Wokeness" (https://bit.ly/3wSowXS)
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This week, thousands of water protectors descended on northern Minnesota to join the Indigenous-led struggle to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. Over 150 were arrested on Monday blocking construction on Candian oil giant Enbridge's construction site. Hundreds more occupied an Enbridge drill pad on the Mississippi River as the company prepared to lay pipe under the river. Our co-host Scott Parkin (@sparki1969) and our comrade Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy), of the Cranky Vegan YouTube channel, traveled to action camp to participate in and support the campaign.
They give Bob an on-the-ground report from Minnesota.
Jake Conroy is a long-time activist, designer, and writer currently residing in Seattle, WA USA. He has helped organize and participated in successful local, regional, national and international pressure campaigns. He also helped build the foundation of the grassroots campaign SHAC USA, and subsequently arrested by the US government for his role. Dubbed the SHAC7, Jake and his co-defendants were found guilty and he was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. Currently, Jake works at the Rainforest Action Network, an international organization using pressure campaigns to stop rainforest deforestation, fossil fuel extraction, and support human rights. He can be found pontificating online as the Cranky Vegan, where he irritates everyone with his thoughts on the tactics, strategies and optics of the grassroots animal rights movement.
Much thanks and appreciation to all the water protectors fighting Line 3!
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- Treaty People Gathering (https://treatypeoplegathering.com/)
- Giniw Collective (https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/)
- The Cranky Vegan (https://bit.ly/2TT18Lr)
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This week, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) announced that they were finally terminating the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) project after over a decade resistance from the Alberta tar sands to Wall Street to the White House to the Gulf Coast. Scott Parkin (@sparki1969), one of our favorite co-hosts of Green and Red Podcast, worked for ten years in the climate justice movements to stop KXL from being built. In this episode, Bob interviews Scott about his work in stopping the KXL pipeline, strategies to fight the oil industry and what's next for the climate justice movement. Scott is a pipeline fighter, climate organizer, Organizing Director at Rainforest Action Network and co-host of the Green and Red Podcast. Read more//
When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels (https://bit.ly/3gg3hJP) NY Times: The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead. Next Target: Line 3. (https://nyti.ms/2TnQagC) AP: Keystone XL pipeline nixed after Biden stands firm on permit (https://bit.ly/3gdStvO)
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Noam Chomsky has been cited as "America's greatest intellectual" who “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.” His participation in the New Left, in both intellectual and activist circles, is part of our history. Bob and Scott speak with Professor Chomsky about the history of the New Left, the anti-Vietnam movement, the Black Panthers, Feminism, the destruction of Vietnam, the Responsibility of Intellectuals and current issues including Black Lives Matter, Gaza, identity politics and wokeness.
Professor Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
At 92, he is still active; writing and giving interviews to media all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for the American Dream.
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- The New Radicalism. Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer. (https://bit.ly/2SENTO2)
- Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals. (https://bit.ly/3p6c97y)
- Robert Buzzanco:What Happened to the New Left? Toward a Radical Reading of American Foreign Relations (https://bit.ly/3yOQ3er)
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Beginning on May 9th, the Israeli Defense Force attacked Palestinian populations in Gaza for 11 days leaving 250 dead (including 66 children), more than 1700 injured and over 6000 homeless. This most recent attack by the Israelis was in relation to Israeli settler provocations against Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
We talk with Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) about the history of Israeli colonization and displacement of the Palestinian people. How the U.S. supports Israel with $3.8 billion a year in military aid while trying to appear as a "mediator" in Israeli-Palestinian relations. The Israeli propaganda machine targeting of critics and journalists of Israel in the U.S.
We also talk about the unprecedented global protest of the Israeli attack on Gaza from the streets of New York, Houston and London to the "Squad" in the House of Representatives.
Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press.
See also Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine, https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution#, and Btselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, https://www.btselem.org/
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- Saree Makdisi: The Nakba Is Now (https://bit.ly/3vpoPZz)
- Patrick Cockburn: Biden’s Timid Gaza Intervention Won’t Count for Much But US Reaction Against Israel has Changed Significantly (https://bit.ly/3oQGcjN)
- WaPo: ‘From Ferguson to Palestine’: How Black Lives Matter changed the U.S. debate on the Mideast (https://wapo.st/3wuvqCe)
- Ussama Makdisi: Age of Coexistence. The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (https://bit.ly/3fow1Qo)
- Dr. Makdisi's bio page (https://bit.ly/3vtqyNQ
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The 1980s saw a new consciousness of environmental awareness, particularly around the Earth’s rainforests. Scientists had discovered that, aside from their enormous biodiversity, rainforests also helped to keep carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Corporations in the U.S. and Europe saw tropical rainforests as a means for profit. For a long time, Indigenous communities had stood against industrial development and deforestation. And by the 1980s, environmental groups in Europe and Australia had been actively fighting deforestation on a grassroots level. But in the U.S. environmental movements had failed to evoke widespread activism on the subject.
This episode is about the emergence of rainforest movements in the U.S. during the 1980s with one of the founders of Rainforest Action Network (RAN)-- Randy Hayes.
We interview Randy about the history of the movement to save tropical rainforests, the founding of RAN, corporate campaigning in the early days of RAN and being in solidarity with Indigenous communities around the globe. Randy also talks about biodiversity loss and the ever smaller window of opportunity we have to halt and reverse the very worst of the damage.
Described by the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull,” Randy Hayes is the co-founder of Rainforest Action Network, and is an author, filmmaker and environmentalist. Hayes is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout the world. He is currently the executive director of Foundation Earth and a consultant to the World Future Council, based in Washington, DC.
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- Rainforest Action Network on anti-corporate campaigns (https://bit.ly/2TeaXU3)
- U.S. activists stop Burger King from importing rainforest beef, 1984-1987(**https://bit.ly/3bLrZ2k)
- Rainforest Action Network: www.ran.org
- The New Green Deal: A Seven-Point Plan For A Deep Planetary Emergency (https://bit.ly/3fmW62l)
- Randy's talk on Earth Day 2021. Randy’s introduction starts about 2:36:15 into the video. (https://bit.ly/3yLF85p)
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In this episode, we talk with Angela Castillo and Lorena Rodriquez with Colombia Conexion- SF Bay (@colconxnsf) about the mass uprisings happening in cities across Colombia. The U.S.-backed right-wing government of Ivan Duque Marquez has pushed a neo-liberal tax reform bill that has sparked mass protest across the country. The Duque government has responded with horrific police brutality resulting in at least 42 deaths as well as many more injured and disappeared by state forces. We dive deep into the general strike and mass protests led by the Colombian working class, the government's and U.S. backed death squads war on left social movements and current crises around COVID-19 and austerity. We also discuss the city of Cali and its role as one of the epicenters of street resistance.
Lorena Rodriguez is a Researcher and activist. Co-founder of La Realidad, estación experimental a group of people from civil society carrying out a process of transition towards a human way of life that is beneficial to the natural system. We promote the conservation of Amazonian ecosystems.
Angela Castillo is a PhD student and works with La Voz de los Trabajadores.
Angela and Lorena are both activists with Colombia Conexion- SF Bay.
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- Colombia Conexion - SF Bay (https://www.facebook.com/ColombiaConexion)
- Colombia Conexion on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/colombiaconexionsf/)
- SIGN and SHARE: Stop Human Rights Violations in Colombia and Demand the Application of the Leahy Law (https://bit.ly/33RBjgJ)
- Sign a letter to demand a stop to U.S funding of Riot Police in Colombia (https://bit.ly/3hcqduC)
- Provide Mutual Aid to Colombians in the front lines: (https://bit.ly/2S7g0Vy)
- NY Times: Why are Colombians Protesting? (https://nyti.ms/3hButE8)
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In part two of this two parter, we continue our discussion with writer Harbeer Sandhu (@SuperbHerb) about the social, political and epidemiological crises happening in India. Recently returned from a trip to India, Harbeer talks with us about the impact of COVID in India, the lockdowns in Punjab, the general strike in January and the politics and policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party,
In this segment, we go in-depth about the protest encampments surrounding New Dehli and the farmers' and worker's movements which have led the strikes and protests.
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- Farm laws: Are India's new reforms a 'death warrant' for farmers? (https://bbc.in/3bp0b3C)
- Point-by-point, why farmers still oppose the Centre’s proposals on farm laws (https://bit.ly/33KsYLK)
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In part one of this two-part episode, we talk with writer Harbeer Sandhu (@SuperbHerb) about the social, political and epidemiological crises happening in India. Recently returned from a trip to India, Harbeer talks with us about the impact of COVID in India, the lockdowns in Punjab, the general strike in January and the politics and policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party,
In part two, we'll go in-depth about the protest encampments surrounding New Dehli and the farmers' and worker's movements which have led the strikes and protests.
Harbeer Sandhu is a writer, critic, educator, and organizer. He lives in Houston, TX with his dog, Rocket Singh.
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- Dollars and Sense: India's Farmers' Protests (https://bit.ly/3fl6DKb)
- ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe (https://bit.ly/3vN8SfE)
- The Caravan Reporting on the Indian Farmers' protests. (https://bit.ly/2QeLk4k)
- "Landless" A documentary on caste and class dynamics in Punjab by Randeep Maddoke (https://bit.ly/3tHA4LB)
- HouChron: India's deepening water crisis at the heart of farm protests (https://bit.ly/33Cx2gT)
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We continue our discussion of Jimmy Carter's presidency, focusing on his foreign policies, intervention, and support of terror groups. In Asia, Carter supported the murderous regime in Jakarta as Indonesia invaded and slaughtered the people of East Timor, and he worked with China to prevent Vietnamese reconstruction and encouraged China to invade Vietnam in 1979. He also cooperated with the Chinese to support the forces of Apartheid in southern Africa and try to keep the MPLA out of power in Angola. He opposed the Sandinista Revolution and tried to get an OAS group to move into Managua to prevent the FSLN from leading the government. And in Afghanistan, he funded and armed the mujahadeen, which become al Qaeda. Since being President, Carter has been a genuinely decent human, a diplomat and humanitarian. But as President, he carried water for the ruling class, both at home and abroad. See also the article "Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then" at https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/ "Vietnam Since 1975: Who Won The War?" https://www.globaljournalceners.org/article.php?e=107 "Cuba, Race, and African Liberation" https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2017/05/25/cuba-race-and-african-liberation/ Noam Chomsky, "The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality" Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
In this episode we discuss Jimmy Carter's policies as President (1977-1981) both domestic and foreign. In Part 1, we look into his rise to prominence via the Trilateral Commission, his race-baiting during the 1976 Campaign, his embrace of Neo-Liberal policies, and his deregulation of key industries--all of which led to the rise of Ronald Reagan and Reagan's Policies. Since being President, Carter has been a genuinely decent human, a diplomat and humanitarian. But as President, he carried water for the ruling class, both at home and abroad (which will be covered in part 2). We also talked about the Derek Chauvin conviction.
See also article "Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then" at https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/ Noam Chomsky, "The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality" Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
Throughout the world (but not in the U.S.) May 1st is International Workers' Day, so Scott and Bob had a discussion on the radical origins of "Labor Day" as a Socialist celebration of the working class. We talked about the nature of Labor in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the various strategies used by the capitalists to crush and oppress workers, and the way workers responded. We talked about the role of radicals and especially anarchists in the early days of the labor movement in America.
We got into the differences between "May Day" and the federal holiday in September known as "Labor Day." And how one is a symbol of radical organizing and how the other is symbol of preventing radical organizing and enforcing loyalty. Finally we discussed the frequent hostility of Liberals to radical activists and the more recent clash between wokeness and radical politics.
We closed out this episode with Florence Reese singing "Which Side Are You On." Solidarity to all the comrades out there in the streets and communities building a better world!
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- IWW: The Brief Origins of May Day (https://bit.ly/2QLtO7Q)
- Which Side Are You On Florence Reece Original (https://bit.ly/3vMBbuX)
- The incomplete, true and wonderful history of May Day (https://bit.ly/3nF5uk9)
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Our Earth Week arc of episodes featuring red state women organizing for communities and the planet continues!
In this episode, we talk with the legendary Diane Wilson (@unreasonabledw), Texas shrimper, environmentalist and author, about her hunger strike demanding that the Biden Administration stop the proposed dredging of Matagorda ship channel and ban crude oil exports.
To put the story in full context, we discuss with Diane her 30 years of work in fighting corporate polluters on the Texas Gulf Coast through organizing, litigation, monitoring, direct action and more. Diane's work against companies like Dow Chemical, Formosa Plastics and now Max Midstream in one of the most conservative regions in the nation has been inspiring. It's rooted in organizing and working with community members, workers and ex-workers from across the spectrum.
Diane Wilson is a fourth-generation shrimper and mother of five from Seadrift, Texas. She's also an environmental activist, an anti-war activist, and author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.
This Wednesday (April 28) marks THREE WEEKS of Diane's hunger strike to #StopTheDredging and #StopOilExports!! Join her and allies across the world in a one day solidarity fast and photo petition action! Register here:https://bit.ly/2R2kCvz
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- Sign and share the campaign sign on letter (https://bit.ly/3tRtQtt)
- Crossroads Today: Seadrift resident marks 14th day of a hunger strike to halt crude oil exports, dredging (https://bit.ly/3xjHbwN)
- Truthout: 72-Year-Old Fisher Hunger Strikes to Press Biden to Revive Crude Oil Export Ban (https://bit.ly/2QVc7CD)
- An Unreasonable Woman on Bookstop (https://bit.ly/3sPWp9f)
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Happy Greenwashing Day (i.e. Earth Day)! In our Earth Day episode, flying solo, Scott talks with Wild Idaho Rising Tide (@WildIdahoRT) co-founder and organizer, and host of Radio Free Moscow's "Climate Justice Forum," Helen Yost.
In 2011, Wild Idaho Rising Tide launched with a direct action campaign to stop the "Tar Sands Megaloads," huge pieces of oil drilling equipment being shipped by the oil industry from the Pacific Coast to Alberta's tar sands. Scott and Helen discuss that campaign and all of the climate and political organizing in Idaho that has come since 2011. This includes scrappy campaigns against fossil fuel transportation, infrastructure and extraction that has led to unusual alliances between environmentalists, Indigenous groups and property rights advocates.
And the backlash that Helen and other activists have faced from industry, the state government and the feds. Most notably, the FBI visits of anti-fossil fuel activists in 2014. We even listened to a voicemail left for Helen by an agent.
Finally, Helen shared a story about living in Northern Idaho during the 2020 uprisings. As high school students organized small peaceful marches around the murder of George Floyd, they were harassed by local white supremacist militias. The harassment led to the town organizing and mobilizing against the militias each time the students had a march or rally.
Described as a "one woman army," Helen Yost is co-founder of, and an organizer with, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT). She is also a citizen journalist, producer and host of the weekly Climate Justice Forum program on KRFP Radio Free Moscow. Her academic background is in conservation of resources, wilderness, wildlife, and environments She has served during her 14 years in north Idaho as a social sciences research assistant, education and outreach director, board member and president, canvasser, and organizer for regional groups. WIRT and allied, grassroots activists effectively confront the root causes of climate change through locally crucial and creative, direct actions and solutions, including peaceful protests, protective monitoring, public processes, and defensive litigation
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- Wild Idaho Rising Tide: https://wildidahorisingtide.org/
- KRFP Radio Free Moscow: https://krfp.org/
- Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations. (https://bit.ly/3dDLYBe)
- The Intercept: Amid Terror Warnings, Railroad Industry Group Passed Intel on Environmental Journalist to Cops (https://bit.ly/3gyZHer)
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In our second interview with Mike Elk in the past couple weeks, after he returned from a week in Alabama, we followed up on the Amazon union vote in Bessemer, of which the results are still out, possible outcomes and the future of union organizing at Amazon, and a recent Coal Mine strike outside Tuscaloosa at Warrior Met Coal, which has just been settled. We also discussed a new Steel strike in Pittsburg. Mike Elk, longtime labor reporter who's written for The Guardian, The Nation, and Politico, is the founder and editor of Payday Report, which chronicles labor actions and strikes every week and provides information and news about labor and unions that you won't get elsewhere. Read more//
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**Just a few hours after recording this, there were media reports that Major League Baseball is pulling this year's All-Star Game out of Atlanta to protest its "new" Jim Crow voting laws, which would heavily and negatively impact Black communities. Once again, Green and Red Podcast was ahead of the loop.
Scott and Bob have another discussion about the ruling class, this time emphasizing its role in opposing the "new" Jim Crow voting laws just passed in Georgia. Corporations based in Georgia--especially Delta and Coca Cola, and the Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank--have been vigorously critical of these overt attempts to suppress Black votes, in a campaign organized by African American business leaders.
We analyze the campaign waged by ruling class representatives in Georgia, and American Airlines in Texas, and how "fissures" in that ruling class create openings for top-down reform. The Neo-Liberal regime is clearly in crisis, so more "corporate liberal" positions and programs are emerging. Corporations can be "forces of movement" too.
We again explain how the ruling class is structured, how it prizes stability and hence can appear to be "woke" on major issues like these voting restrictions and LGBTQ rights.
And, as always, we point out that the ruling class often has presented more resistance to Trump and the Republicans than the Democratic Party or protest movements. While the Georgia Democrats have conducted impressive registration campaigns, they have not engaged in direct actions, sit-ins, or other types of mass demonstrations to more aggressively send a message to the Georgia Republicans about their attempts to suppress minority votes.
We also share some brief, yet witty, thoughts on the passing of G. Gordon Liddy and what Easter means to us.
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- The GOP attack on Delta reveals an ugly side to the culture war (https://wapo.st/3dyvxos)
- Coca-Cola C.E.O.: Voting Rights Advocate? (https://nyti.ms/2OhNdMF)
- M.L.B. Pulls All-Star Game From Georgia in Response to Voting Law (https://nyti.ms/3sIeXsG)
- Arrest of Georgia Lawmaker Sharpens Debate on Voting Bills (https://bloom.bg/31Kbdeh)
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In this episode, on the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador, we talk with Prof. Phillip Berryman about the tumultuous history of Central America during the 1970s and 80s. We discussed liberation theology, his work in Central America during Carter and Reagan's wars against the people of countries like El Salvador and Guatemala, the solidarity movements of the 80s and compared the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
We also pay tribute to Father Gerry Kelly, whom Bob and Scott knew and organized with in Houston. Father Kelly passed away in March.
Philip Berryman is an author, former Roman Catholic priest and worked with the American Friends Service Committee in Central America. He taught for 18 years as an adjunct at Temple University in the Latin America Studies Dept. He author of multiple books including his recent memoir- Memento of the Living and the Dead: A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America.
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- Buzzanco: Jimmy Carter is a Liberal Saint Now, Was a War Criminal Then….. (https://bit.ly/2R0cU5m)
- WaPo: The Church Militant in Latin America (https://wapo.st/3fy31pA)
- 5 Minutes With Father Gerald Kelly, M.M. (https://bit.ly/2PqT7LW)
- National Security Archive: "Learn from History", 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero (https://bit.ly/3u8yh2y)
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Part two of our series on the Amazon union drive in Alabama. We talk with journalist Alexander Richey (@all_scout), about the situation on the ground as Amazon's Bessemer warehouse prepares to vote on whether they will become the first unionized "Amazon Fulfillment Center."
Alexander Richey is a freelance radio producer, sound designer and documentary photographer from the Shoals area in Northwest Alabama. He's the producer for "Unjustifiable" podcast w/ Reckon South (@reckonsouth), and is the executive producer and director for the podcast and radio troop All-Scout.
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One of the most important union organizing drives in recent history is playing out in the Birmingham-Bessemer, Alabama area as Amazon workers are holding a union vote due to end next Monday. We spoke with Mike Elk, the creator and editor of "Payday Report," about the situation in Alabama, the impact of Joe Biden's endorsement, the intersection of Black Lives Matter and the union efforts, and Amazon's attempts to intimidate and defeat the organizing drive.
We also talked with Mike about his background, writing for The Nation, The Guardian, and Politico, among others, and the creation of Payday Report, https://paydayreport.com/, which covers labor actions all over the nation.
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In this episode we talked with Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, @EskandarSadeghi, who is an assistant professor in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmith's University of London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2016-2019), where he also obtained his doctorate (2010-2014). Eskandar has published widely on modern Iranian and Shi'i Islamic political thought and is a series editor of Radical Histories of the Middle East (Oneworld).
We discussed the more recent history of Iranian-U.S. relations, the Nuclear Deal concluded with Barack Obama, Donald Trump's abrogation of the treaty and the horrific human consequences of the sanctions imposed on Iran by the U.S. We also discussed internal politics in Iran and prospects for an possible progress with the Biden administration.
Professor Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is the author if numerous works, including Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran, Cambridge University Press, 2019, and many articles, some listed below.....
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- Between Solidarity and Absolution: An Interjection on the Western Left’s Response to the Recent Protests in Iran (http://bit.ly/3lB8Bsy)
- The Iran Nuclear Deal, Regime Change, and the Perils of the “Third Way”(http://bit.ly/3s0jQgm)
- The Guardian: The UK must stand up to Trump over Iran (http://bit.ly/311JNQI)
- How Iran Covered the NAM Summit (http://bit.ly/38Yj9gc)
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Our series on the climate and political crises in Texas continues!
In this episode, as today's guest put it, "the energy capital of the world shut down for a week" and we have a must-listen interview on it.
We talk with powerhouse environmental justice organizer Bryan Parras (@hightechaztec) in Houston, TX about the impact of the Texas polar vortex and the subsequent political crisis. We talked about the terrible impact on poor, especially nonwhite, communities by companies which are not regulated by the GOP-controlled state government; the big impact on renters who lost power and water; the daily environmental hazards of living in certain neighborhoods; and the impressive work of County Commissioner Lina Hidalgo, who's the most effective progressive elected official in the country. We get into, as Dr Robert Bullard recently said, “the inequity that’s piled on top of the inequity.”
Originally from Houston's East End, Bryan is an environmental justice organizer and advocate and co-founder of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS).
At the end of the episode, on the theme of environmental justice, we also pay tribute to Appalachian coal fighter and land defender the late Larry Gibson on the occasion of his birthday.
We're also excited to extend a warm welcome to folks finding out about Green and Red through the co-sponsor of this episode-- Rising Tide North America (RisingTideNA).
Read more//
- Immediate Aid for Vulnerable Texans (http://bit.ly/2PMQmV6)
- Gizmodo: Texas Oil and Gas Plants Quadruple Air Pollution as Systems Freeze Up (http://bit.ly/2OhJbUi)
- TEJAS' website: https://www.tejasbarrios.org/
- Larry Gibson, Foe of Mountaintop Mining, Is Dead (http://nyti.ms/2PKSE7c)
Texas mutual aid efforts//
- TEXAS MUTUAL AID RESOURCES (http://bit.ly/3serWS6)
- Donate to Mutual Aid Houston: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mutualaidhou
- Rio Grande Valley Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/Rgvmutualaid
- Austin Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/austinmutualaid
- Mutual Aid in North Texas (including Dallas-Ft. Worth): https://bit.ly/3drVZSo
- DFW Mutual Aid:https://linktr.ee/dfwmutualaid
- San Antonio Support and Shelter: https://twitter.com/dox_gay/status/1362464855601594369
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In our latest episode, we're excited to speak with labor journalist and author Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) about her new book "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone." In the episode, we discuss her new book, the evolution of work and the working class and the gender dynamics at play through it. We talk about the "labor of love" myth, work in the education, non-profit, essential care sectors and more. At the end, Sarah quotes W.E.B. Dubois and Bob reads us some Uncle Whiskers.
Great episode and Sarah's book is an important piece of work that is required reading for the Green and Red Podcast audience.
Sarah Jaffe is a labor journalist, author and co-host of the Belabored Podcast. Her books include the "Work Won’t Love You Back" and "Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt." Both published by Bold Type Books. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Atlantic, and many other publications.
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Our series on Texas's winter crisis continues! In this episode, we talk with Jamie Henn (@jamieclimate) from Fossil Free Media (@fossilfreemedia) about the climate and power crisis in Texas. We discuss how the minions of the oil and gas industry --right-wing politicians Greg Abbott and Rick Perry, and their spin machine-- moved to shift the blame of the power outages on the Green New Deal and other progressive green energy policies. We also get into how Big Oil's spin machine works to pollute our media cycles. Jamie Henn is the founder and director of Fossil Free Media, a nonprofit communications lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels. Previously, he was the Co-founder and Strategy & Communications Director for 350.org, the largest grassroots climate organization in the world. He is currently working on a campaign targeting PR firms doing work with the fossil fuel sector. And recently penned [with Duncan Meisel] a new article in the Independent UK called “Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?”
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Independent UK: “Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?” Clean Creatives: https://cleancreatives.org/ Fossil Free Media: https://fossilfree.media/
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In this episode, we talk about left politics in country music with Prof. Mark Allan Jackson. Country music has a huge popular following and has been closely associated with Republican and socially conservative political forces. Politicians like George Wallace, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan have all appealed to country's fans to build their political bases. But country music has also had a populist left appeal as well. From Nashville to Bakersfield, CA, country musicians have espoused progressive political positions as well in lyrics and activism.
Scott and Bob, with Professor Jackson, look at the cultural and political importance of country music and the artists. We get into how Nixon's southern strategy took Tricky Dick to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the outlaw politics of icons like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, the progressive politics of Dolly Parton, John Prine's career, the political activism of contemporary artists like the Chicks and Garth Brook's appeals for unity in today's divided political atmosphere.
Mark Allan Jackson is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He teaches courses on American Literature, Popular Culture, Folklore, and American Song. In 2007, He published Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie. He is the editor of and a contributor to the essay collection The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music (2018). In addition, he compiled, edited, and produced several CDs through West Virginia University Press, including Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners.
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- Mark Jackson: Reactionaries love it, but country music has a progressive heart (http://bit.ly/3kfNICd)
- NPR: Think Politics Is Gone From Country Music? Listen Closer (http://n.pr/2NNWuvo)
- John Prine: The MOJO Interview (http://bit.ly/2NNWprA)
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We're rejoined by repeat Green and Red repeat-offenders Debbie Russell (@debmocracy) and Clayton Lust (@claytonlust), in Austin and Houston, respectively, to discuss the "Katrina-scale" crisis happening throughout Texas at the moment. We talked about conditions on the ground in Austin and Houston, especially the loss of heat and water, and the human misery--homeless people dying, the elderly having no access to medical care, millions without heat. We discussed mutual aid efforts in Austin and below we list a number of mutual link where you can get support, give support or donate. And we talked about the larger political conditions that led to it--Texas-style "Cowboy Capitalism" that believes in deregulation and markets controlled by their cronies to coordinate energy markets.
And what would a show like this be without talking about Rafael Cruz's vacation photos?
Debbie is an organizer, activist, and anti-police brutality advocate in Austin, TX. (If you want to see Debbie's visual aids from the episode, check us out on YouTube.) Clayton is a historian, activist, teacher, conqueror, warper of minds. He has taught at Houston Community College since 2003.
Texas mutual aid efforts//
- TEXAS MUTUAL AID RESOURCES (http://bit.ly/3serWS6)
- Donate to Mutual Aid Houston: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mutualaidhou
- Rio Grande Valley Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/Rgvmutualaid
- Austin Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/austinmutualaid
- Mutual Aid in North Texas (including Dallas-Ft. Worth): https://bit.ly/3drVZSo
- DFW Mutual Aid:https://linktr.ee/dfwmutualaid
- San Antonia Support and Shelter: https://twitter.com/dox_gay/status/1362464855601594369
Read more//
- Afflict the Comfortable: Texas Energy Corporations make billions, but weatherization was too expensive….. (http://bit.ly/3s9sGYJ)
- It's Going Down: Autonomous Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Texas as Death Toll Rises (http://bit.ly/3bkuXtz)
- Guardian: Winter storm amplifies power grid inequalities for disadvantaged Texans (http://bit.ly/37uRwuv)
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In this episode, we offer a postmortem on Trump's presidency and the limits of his power. The "opposition" gave Trump powers that he never had. He was never popular, his positions never had close to majority approval, his own judges and GOP officials rebuked him, and, as we've talked about plenty, the military and ruling class were opposed to him. Despite that, Liberals and too many Leftists treated him like a super-monster with incredible skills and remained in fear and anxiety rather than organizing and resisting. We talk about the reality of Trump's power, and Capitalist power, who wields it, and why we have to stand up to it at all times instead of just giving our demons more power. Trump was a paper tiger and we need to be prepared to fight going forward.
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- The Limits of Power: Donald J. Trump by Bob Buzzanco (http://bit.ly/3bdnk7X)
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In this episode we talk politics and podcasting with Bill Troveski from The Way (@PodcastTheWay). Students for a Democratic Society said in the Port Huron statement, "looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit..." We discuss the current version of that discomfort that today's students and youth are inheriting as the pandemic, economic collapse, the climate crisis and political crisis are all crashing down. With Bill, we discuss politics on campus at the University of Connecticut (where he's currently a student), issues of student debt, the work force, climate change, healthcare and more.
Bill Troveski is the host of the Way and a student at the University of Connecticut. The Way interviews experts on various topics at 91.7FM in Hartford, CT.
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In our latest episode, we talk with two professors with exemplary records at Collin College, outside Dallas, who were recently fired for criticizing the school's COVID policies. Audra Heaslip and Suzanne Jones (@Sesjones), both longtime professors, questioned President Neil Matkin's dismissal of COVID concerns, his insistence on returning to in-person classes, and his refusal to create a COVID dashboard. Matkin also withheld information from the campus community about a faculty member who had died from COVID for weeks. And he cited Heaslip's and Jones's membership in the Texas Faculty Association, an education union, as a reason for their termination. Heaslip and Jones were looking out for the safety and health of the campus community and were fired for making Collin look bad, as Matkin told them. At Collin College, concern over COVID, being in a union, and expressing your right to free speech can get you fired.
We also pay tribute to legendary Pittsburgh folksinger, union maid and hell raiser Anne Feeney who passed away last week from complications related to COVID-19.
See also//
- Afflict the Comfortable: "Professors Fired for COVID Concerns" (http://bit.ly/3aJvdlz)
- NY Times: Anne Feeney, Fierce and Tireless Protest Singer, Dies at 69 (http://nyti.ms/3cQTHvO)
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In this episode, we're excited to talk to author, activist and historian Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (@rdunbaro) about the Indigenous history of the U.S. We discuss her journey from activist and organizer to historian of the vast and complex subject of Indigenous people's history. We also discuss settler colonialism and today's protest movements for Indigenous rights.
Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, author, human rights activist, and speakerwho researches Western Hemisphere history and international human rights.From 1967 to 1974, she was a full-time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. She is also a veteran of the women's liberation movement. Her books include Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–75, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, and the forthcoming A Nation of Immigrants?:Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
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- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (https://reddirtsite.com/)
- Monthly Review: Examining the Wreckage by Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (http://bit.ly/3rufyxk)
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In our latest episode, we get into it! The left media universe includes YouTubers with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, hundreds of podcasts and journals like Jacobin with 60,000 subscribers monthly. Yet that has translated in little support for on-the-ground organizers working in workplaces, frontline communities and the streets.
We talk with Joshua Kahn Russell (@joshkahnrussell), Executive Director of the Wildfire Project, about the pundits of the online left (YouTuber, Podcasters, #LeftTwitter, etc). We discuss how their approach is vastly different than those doing real life organizing work. We also talk about how commentators like Jimmy Dore's actions, like Force the Vote, or interviewing members of far right militias actually hurt left movements. We also discuss the need for more organizer-pundits in this well-trafficked space with a huge audience, and how to best engage once you're in.
Joshua is a social movement facilitator and has trained thousands of activists across the globe. He is the Executive Director of the Wildfire Project. He is a facilitator/action-coordinator with the Ruckus Society.He has helped campaigns win against banks, oil companies, logging corporations, and coal barons; worked with a wide variety of groups in a breadth of arenas, from local resiliency projects, to national coalitions, to the United Nations Climate Negotiations. Joshua was a frequent guest on The Michael Brooks Show (TMBS), which just ended, as well as other new media outlets where he speaks about spirituality, and the mechanics of social movements.
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- Wildfire Project:http://wildfireproject.org/
- Joshua's bio (http://bit.ly/3th055d)
- Jimmy Dore Boogaloo Boys Interview Sparks Outrage Among Critics: 'You're a Sucker (http://bit.ly/3oEiAwM)
- Joshua on recent TMBS Panel “Think Like An Organizer” with Jane McAlevey and Francesca Fiorentini. (https://bit.ly/36tFDUP)
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In our latest episode, Bob (@bobbuzzanco) interviews Scott (@sparki1969) about his recent article "Why 2021 needs more direct action." They discuss how elections and electing Democrats and Democratic Socialists won't be the only way to get us out of the current cascade of crises hitting the world right now (COVID-19, economic collapse, climate change, political crisis around the far right). They also discuss Scott's past work in fighting mountaintop removal coal mining, Wall Street banks and oil pipelines.
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- Scott Parkin: Why 2021 needs more direct action. (http://bit.ly/2021DirectAction)
- Climate Justice and Community Resilience:Resistance and Grassroots Solutions. Edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson. Includes chapter by Scott (http://bit.ly/ClimateJusticeBook)
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In this episode, we talk with comic book creator Brian Wood (@brianwood) and the influence of pop culture on politics. And vice versa. We discuss his work on Channel Zero, DMZ and the Massive. And how his work in those comics has focused on lefty politics and issues like media activism, far right militias, climate change and direct action. We also talk about Marvel's The Punisher and the obvious connection to today's fascist movements.
Brian is a comic book writer, illustrator and creator. He's also worked in television and video game design. Brian's work includes Channel Zero, a story about a dystopian near future NYC with hackers as heroes fighting a Big Brother theocracy, DMZ, another dystopian near future story set in NYC during a civil war between right-wing militias and the US government, and The Massive, a story about Greenpeace/Sea Shepherd style ship caught in environmental and economic collapse. DMZ is currently being developed as an HBO mini-series with Ava DuVernay directing. His other work includes Northlanders, Starve and Rebels. He's also been a writer on titles like Conan the Barbarian, the X-Men, Star Wars and Aliens.
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In our latest episode, we have a lively discussion with Eileen Flanagan (@eileenflanagan) of Choose Democracy about mass organizing efforts to defend democracy from Trump. We discuss their efforts to recruit and prepare thousands to hit the streets, taking advantage of "cracks" in ruling class institutions, like Wall Street and the military, and turning anxiety about Trump remaining in power into action. We also discussed longer term organizing efforts around climate justice and challenging white supremacy.
Eileen Flanagan is an author, trainer and organizer working on a number of issues. For five years, she served as board chair of Earth Quaker Action Team, a scrappy nonviolent direct action group which successfully pressured one of the largest banks in the US (PNC Bank) to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Ahead of the 2020 election, she became the Trainings Coordinator of Choose Democracy, which trained nearly 10,000 people in nonviolent strategies to prevent a coup. She is award-winning author of three books and is currently writing one on the intersection of racial and environmental justice. She also teaches online courses for those who want to make their activism more effective.
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- Flanagan: Choose Democracy’s whirlwind effort to prevent a coup is a crash course in good organizing (https://bit.ly/3sVyTJg)
- Flanagan: Despite flagrant assault on the Capitol, the pillars of democracy are holding (https://bit.ly/3sVyTJg)
- Eileen's website: https://eileenflanagan.com/
- Eileen's online courses (http://bit.ly/3ixjM3X)
- Choosing Democracy: https://choosedemocracy.us/
- Scott Parkin: Why 2021 needs more direct action. (http://bit.ly/2021DirectAction)
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In our special MLK day episode, we talk about the radical politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign--, and his thoughts on property destruction.
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- Buzzanco: MLK for Sale (http://bit.ly/2LzGR9S)
- Martin Luther King on riots and property destruction (http://bit.ly/3nHPvAk)
- VIDEO: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence (https://bit.ly/3spBgnr)
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In this episode, Bob interviews Professor Andrew Bacevich (@AndrewBacevich) about the extraordinary involvement in electoral politics by Trump and the military, the military public repudiation of the president, racial and hate group problems in the armed forces, civil-military relations, the appoint of General Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary, what to expect from Biden's foreign policy team--essentially putting the Obama band back together--the nuclear deal with Iran, the insane attacks on Cuba, and a new Cold War between the U.S. and China.
Andrew Bacevich is an emeritus professor at Boston University and President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He's also the author of several books on U.S. foreign policy and one of the foremost critics of America's war and interventionism for decades now. He is also a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, armored cavalry. And he's a frequent columnist in The Nation, as well as many other publications.
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- Bob Buzzanco: This Is Not a Coup (http://bit.ly/35txgYW)
- Bob Buzzanco: Swipe Left on the Democrats and Electoral Politics (http://bit.ly/3oxv7my)
- The Nation: Civilian Control Means More Than Just Wearing a Suit to Work (http://bit.ly/3oP8Dh5)
- The Nation: Will Biden Finally End the War in Afghanistan? (http://bit.ly/38LwvN0)
Professor Bacevich's publications//
- The pentomic era : the US Army between Korea and Vietnam. Washington DC: National Defense University Press.
- American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy (Harvard University Press, 2004)
- The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (Oxford University Press Inc, U.S., 2005)
- The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II (Columbia University Press, U.S., 2007)
- Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (Macmillan, U.S., 2010)
- Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country(Henry Holt and Co., 2013)
- America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House, 2016)
- Twilight of the American Century (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018)
- The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (Metropolitan Books, 2020)
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And we thought 2020 was bumpy. In this fresh episode, we talk about the shocks happening in the liberal democratic capitalist system--How the ruling class is destabilized by Trump and the far right actions at Capitol Hill this week, and how they are responding to maintain order and their own power as quickly as possible. It's an analysis you won't find in many other places, if anywhere.
Last week, we saw former Veep and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney(!) organize a statement by all ten living Secretaries of Defense to call on Trump and officials in the military establishment to call for an orderly transition of power (he didn't). We saw the National Association of Manufacturers, a notorious anti-worker, anti-liberal Democratic institution, issue a statement calling for the swift enactment of the 25th Amendment of Donald Trump over inciting riots at the Capitol. And we saw lots more anger and outrage in the political and corporate spheres aimed at Trump and his supporters.
Between the crises of COVID-19, a crashing economy, the climate crisis, a growing far right clearly willing to use deadly violence and these shocks to the system, there are many forces vying for what kind of world is next for us.
As the great Gil Scott-Heron told us, “America leads the world in shocks. Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock.” That's what Green and Red Podcast will be doing.
Read more// Bob Buzzanco:
- This Is Not a Coup (http://bit.ly/35txgYW)
- Bob Buzzanco: Swipe Left on the Democrats and Electoral Politics (http://bit.ly/3oxv7my)
- CNN: CEO arrested for breaching the US Capitol during Trump-fueled insurrection (or The Trials of the Lumpen Oligarchy) (http://cnn.it/3hYCeSE)
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We're back! In our first episode of 2021, we're joined by our frequent guest Prof. Sarah Koster to discuss the outbreak of COVID-19 in California, virus mutations, whether vitamin D is a virus preventor, food scarcity and housing insecurity.
Prof. Sarah Koster is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa.
Read more//
- ICU capacity in California (http://bit.ly/38hCmJS)
- The Atlantic: The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb (http://bit.ly/3bcICUU)
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Happy New Year, Tender Comrades! In our last episode of 2020, we talk about the past year. We discuss what we've learned, the worsening precarity, the absence of community and a rewarding life, the barriers posed by the Professional Left (NGO Industrial Complex, labor leadership, etc), the often-unhinged, conspiratorial left, but also the inspiring moral courage and bold action we saw in the streets, the role of organizers and activists, and what we can do moving forward. We read quotes from Marx and Barry Lopez and close with a woman singing the Italian labor song "Bandiera Rossa," from her balcony in Brussels.
Here's to fighting for a better world in 2021! See you in the streets!
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In this episode, we go myth busting. Our target is "Camelot" itself. It's the 60th anniversary of the election of John F. Kennedy and since his untimely death in 1963, he has been elevated to liberal sainthood by all parts of the establishment. We discuss JFK's legacy, and debunk the many enduring lies that people--from Oliver Stone to QAnon to today's liberal scholars and media-- still believe about John Kennedy's saintly acts, whose politics have lived on in Clinton, Obama, and now Joe Biden.
We get into John and Robert Kennedy's relationship with the red-baiting Joe McCarthy; and JFK's role as a civil rights "hero" (while simultaneously wire-tapping Martin Luther King). We also pierce the myth, perpetuated by Oliver Stone's film "JFK", that Kennedy wanted to withdraw troops from Vietnam and end the Cold War. December 20th is also the 29th anniversary of the release of Oliver Stone's film and we take particular aim at its falsehoods.
Thanks to Mexican Educator (@publius13) for the episode idea.
Read more//
- Robert Buzzanco- Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam War (http://bit.ly/2J7G3bh)
- Robert Buzzanco- Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (http://bit.ly/2HW5VFY)
- CBS News: JFK and Walter Cronkite Interview (https://bit.ly/34MMKHt)
- The Kennedys and Joe McCarthy (https://bit.ly/38ngPy3)
- The Atlantic: The FBI and Martin Luther King (http://bit.ly/2Wvc7sH)
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In our next episode, we go mythbusting. It's the 60th anniversary of the election of JFK and so our target is, "Camelot" itself.
Kennedy is seen as a civil rights hero and a dove by many. But did he take bold leadership to end the Jim Crow Era? Was he killed by the military-industrial complex because he was going to withdraw from Vietnam and end the Cold War? The answer is NO. Listen in and find out why.
On the next Green & Red Podcast, Bob and Scott discuss the legacy, and the many enduring lies people--from Oliver Stone to QAnon to today's liberal scholars and media-- still believe, and the myths about John Kennedy's saintly acts, whose politics have lived on in Clinton, Obama, and now Biden.
We'll post this next episode soon.
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In this episode, we talk with progressive congressional candidate Shahid Buttar about his challenging of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the 2020 election. We discuss the history of Pelosi's rise, the San Francisco "progressive prevention" coalition of San Francisco and the recent attacks on the "Squad" by centrist Democrats. We then talk about Shahid's other work as a constitutional lawyer around digital liberties and dangers we're all facing from the surveillance state.
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In 2018 and 2020, Shahid as a progressive congressional candidate challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco district. He has been the most serious challenger Pelosi has faced in her district and was on the general election ballot as a Democrat in 2020. In last month's election, he garnered over 81,000 votes. The most any challenger has ever won against Pelosi.
Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, Shahid has worked in both San Francisco and Washington DC as a legal advocate, a non-profit leader, a grassroots organizer, and a poet & musician. When not running for Congress, Shahid is also the former grassroots advocacy director at the Electronic Freedom Foundation, or EFF.
Read more//
- Shahid for Change (https://bit.ly/34bu3gd)
- Shahid Buttar Wants to Take Back San Francisco For the Left (https://bit.ly/3r0MbmT)
- After Hearing, Capitol Police Arrest Lawyer for Shouting Question at Clapper About NSA Surveillance (https://bit.ly/3gQCO4s)
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Before the internet was a thing, before social media ruled our lives and before there were a million podcasts talking about about left politics, David Barsamian brought the voices of radical thinkers like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy into our lives through Alternative Radio.
In this episode, we're over-the-moon excited to talk to Alternative Radio's (@AltRadio) founder David Barsamian (@BarsamianDavid) about his new book ReTargeting Iran, building Alternative Radio over the past 30+ years and working with Noam Chomsky. We discuss the importance of independent media and he tells us that Green and Red is "welcome intervention into the media landscape." We also talk about the politics around Iran, the middle east and his new book. And since it is the week of Noam Chomsky's 92nd birthday, we ask David to share some of his favorite recollections of the world's top public intellectual.
David Barsamian is one of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists. David has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radio—now in its 33rd year—and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. David Barsamian is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.
His latest book is ReTargeting Iran. The book in a Q&A format about the continued demonization of Iran by the U.S., Barsamian enlists the expertise of five longtime observers: Noam Chomsky, Azadeh Moaveni, Trita Parsi, Ervand Abrahamian, and Nader Hashemi.
Read more//
- Alternative Radio (https://www.alternativeradio.org/)
- Biden faces a race against the clock for U.S. to rejoin Iran nuclear deal (https://nbcnews.to/36MTING)
- Kirkus Review of ReTargeting Iran (https://bit.ly/37CI33w)
- ReTargeting Iran by David Barsamian (https://bit.ly/2JD8XAm)
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Today is Noam Chomsky's 92nd birthday. In this special episode, Bob goes solo and interviews Prof. Clinton Fernandes of the University of New South Wales, Australia about the influence of radical thinker, author, political commentator and activist Noam Chomsky, in particular with regard to the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and the American air war on Laos.
Professor Clinton Fernandes is a former Australian Army officer who served in the Australian Intelligence Corps. A professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, he has published on the relationship between science, diplomacy and international law, intelligence operations in foreign policy, the political and regulatory implications of new technology and Australia’s external relations more generally. He is the author of several publications including "Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy," and "What Uncle Sam Wants: U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives in Australia and Beyond."
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- Noam Chomsky (https://chomsky.info/)
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What's it gonna take to build a better world when 74 million people voted for Trump?
In this episode, we dive deep into this question with Alex Riccio, host of the podcast Laborwave Radio (@LaborwaveRadio). We talk about workplace organizing, meeting people where they are at, imagining the world "Beyond the Revolution" and much more.
Alex is the host and producer of Laborwave Radio. He also is a labor organizer and sometimes a writer.
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- Laborwave Radio (https://www.laborwaveradio.com/)
- Laborwave After the Revolution (https://bit.ly/2JP3Nkk)
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In this episode, we get into the politics of U.S. repression of dissent to its politics foreign and domestically. Bob and Scott talk about the anniversary of the Maryknoll sisters' murder in El Salvador in 1980, and the assassination of Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in 1969.
We discuss these horrific state-sponsored murders, and show how the U.S. military-imperial state operates when it believes its interests are challenged--be it by nuns in Central America or Black activists in Chicago. And it will remind you that Trump is not uniquely evil. Reagan defended and covered for the terror squads in El Salvador.
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- For further reading, see Raymond Bonner, Weakness and Deceit; Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions; Noam Chomsky, Turning the Tide.
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We're rejoined by our friend and comrade Prof. Sarah Koster of Samuel Merritt University to discuss the latest surge of COVID-19 cases. The U.S. is being hit hard by the latest surge of COVID cases. Last week, the country surpassed 250,000 deaths with over 2,000 deaths daily. The state of North Dakota has the worst COVID infection rate on the planet. NYC is closing it's schools once again. California is putting an "emergency brake" on it's re-opening. El Paso County, TX is having another massive outbreak and has brought in ten mobile morgues to hold bodies and is paying prisoners $2 a day to move bodies. Meanwhile, Trump plays golf and the federal government does very little in the way of relief from the pandemic or the economic crisis it's causing. We discuss the politics of the pandemic, the vaccines being flouted by pharmaceuticals Pfizer and Moderna and the failures of the U.S. healthcare system. We also discuss the need to avoid large gatherings and alternative ways to enjoy Thanksgiving. And much more. Plus we throw in our usual witty banter. Sarah is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa. She teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA and is committed to involving students in conversations about the importance of structural determinants of health including how capitalism and various existing political systems, in the US and globally, continue to negatively affect health outcomes. Read more//
Alexandra Mangili and Mark A Gendreau:Transmission of infectious diseases during commercial air travel (https://bit.ly/2UR6dB5) New Yorker: Biden's Covid-19 Mission (https://bit.ly/37382Rm) Guardian: Donald Trump appears to admit Covid is 'running wild' in the US (https://bit.ly/2HtoVvL) CNN: Trump's attempt to steal the election unravels as coronavirus cases surge (https://cnn.it/39a8jVm)
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We're not ones to subscribe to popular world views, even those held on the left. So, in our latest episode, Green and Red dive deep into the history and politics of the American Ruling Class, coups at other points in history, and the great coup of 2020 (that wasn't).
We start off with a conversation about what is a coup and not a coup. We talk about coups in places like Indonesia in 1965, Chile in 1973, and in other points of history; and how the end of the Trump regime has yet to constitute what is considered "coup."
Part of the reason, besides Trump's own ineptitude, is that America's elites (Wall St. Big Tech, the Chamber of Commerce, the Military Elites, etc.) are done with him and recognize that he has created an era of economic and social turmoil not seen since 1968.
As historical background, we discuss the work of noted scholars Thomas Ferguson and Nomi Prins on the politics of Wall Street and America's Ruling Class. We look at the reaction of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon and other bankers, and the military elites to the results of the election.
We also pay tribute to women leaders in the environmental movements, Karen Silkwood and Judy Bari, who bridged the false divide of labor and environmentalism as organizers.
Read more//
- Bob Buzzanco: Is Your Outrage Pure? (https://bit.ly/2GZ1fz0)
- Thomas Ferguson: From Normalcy to the New Deal. (https://bit.ly/32Jhk3p)
- Wall St. Journal: Book Review "All the President's Bankers by Nomi Prins (https://on.wsj.com/2UmYvyF)
- Wall Street to Trump: It's over. This isn't a repeat of 2000 (https://bit.ly/35rQnTC)
- Top US general stands firm amid Pentagon turmoil (https://cnn.it/32Kzf9Z)
- Bob Buzzanco: Masters of War (https://bit.ly/3eYTLsk)
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Our fiftieth episode was such a BFD, that we made it a two parter.
In part two, we get into the aftermath of the election and discuss where do we go from here when 70 million Americans voted for the racist and right-wing policies of Donald Trump, the Democrats' "Misleadership Class" that continues to fail masses of people, the Coup That Wasn't and how grassroots organizers saved the day.
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Bob and Scott celebrate the 50th episode of the Green and Red Podcast. They discuss past episodes, themes of the show like liberal reformist politics, people-powered organizing and an autonomous left.
Plus they get into the aftermath of the election and discuss where do we go from here when 70 million Americans voted for the racist and right-wing policies of Donald Trump, the Democrats' "Misleadership Class" that continues to fail masses of people, the Coup That Wasn't and how grassroots organizers saved the day.
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Happy Election Day! Worried about the election? We are too. Hopefully, this episode will serve as a good distraction while we await the results from today's vote.
In this episode, we give a film review of Aaron Sorkin's "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Loosely based on the trial of the Chicago 7 and chairman of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale, the film is a lightly fictionalized courtroom drama based on the six-month trial of eight men accused of conspiring to cross state lines and incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Bob and Scott talk about the history of the trial and the Chicago 1968 protests, what we liked about the film, what Sorkin left out, got wrong and grossly distorted, COINTELPRO, the anti-war movements of the 1960s, and, most importantly, the present day themes around politics, police violence, law and order, resistance and how 2020 reminds us of 1968.
Read More:
- Bob Buzzanco:Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life(https://bit.ly/2HW5VFY)
- Jacobin: Aaron Sorkin Turned the Chicago 7’s Militancy and Defiance Into Bland Liberalism.(https://bit.ly/3ehPO1w)
- In Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin tackles an all-too-relevant court case. (https://bit.ly/3elddPW)
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In our #ElectionDay2020 special episode, Bob and Scott share their thoughts on next Tuesday's election, liberal freakouts, Trump's politics, and organizing no matter what.
Read More:
- Bob Buzzanco: "Is Trump a Fascist? Will there be a Coup?" (https://bit.ly/34IuC1N)
- Protect the Results (https://protecttheresults.com)
- Choosing Democracy (https://choosedemocracy.us)
- Frontline Election Defenders (https://electiondefenders.org/)
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In this episode, we talk with Professor Jack Downey (@xjackdowneyx) of the University of Rochester about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. We get into Day's life and influence, liberation theology, the politics of the modern Catholic Church, the tactic of self-immolation as a form of resistance and more. Jack Downey is the John Henry Newman Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester. He teaches courses on contemporary justice movements, liberation theologies, North American religious history, Christianity, Buddhism, and contemplative traditions. His current research projects examine self-immolation, forms of protest, violence, Roman Catholicism in Alaska and Québec, and asceticism. Read more:
Casey Cep, "Dorothy Day's Radical Faith" (https://bit.ly/3ktfoD5) Interview with Kate Hennessy (Day's granddaughter) (https://n.pr/2TndOXn) Archive of Day's writings for The Catholic Worker (https://bit.ly/3dPes9G) On L.A.’s Skid Row, Catholic Worker’s ‘Hippie Kitchen’ adjusts to coronavirus (https://bit.ly/35sx8Iv)
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In this special cross-podcast episode, Bob and Scott talk with the host of the anarchist podcast Coffee with Comrades (@coffeewcomrades) about street organizing-- the history of it, the current politics around it and the mechanics of how to do it. We also go a bit into the history of the Green and Red Podcast, how Bob and Scott met, campaigns we organized and how we decided to start your favorite podcast. This is our first cross-promotional episode, and we were really excited to join Coffee with Comrades. Read more:
Coffee with Comrades: https://www.coffeewithcomrades.com/ Organizing For Power Resource Guide: https://www.organizingforpower.org/resources-3/
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In this episode, we speak with sports writer Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports) about the wildcat strikes that shook the NBA in late August; the role of sports activists like Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James and Megan Rapinhoe; the increased resistance to the status quo in high school, college and professional sports; how sports are a medium to communicate with working class white and rural Americans; Lester "Red" Rodney (sports writer for the Daily Worker from the 30s-50s) and more.
Dave Zirin is The Nation's sports editor and host of the Nation's Edge of Sports podcast. He is the author of ten books on the politics of sports. He is also frequent guest on ESPN, MSNBC, and Democracy Now!
Read More:
- Dave Zirin at the Nation (https://bit.ly/3dsXrBO)
- Edge of Sports website (https://bit.ly/3j3duYq)
- If the NBA Stands for Racial Justice, What About Tom Gores? (https://bit.ly/355DzRL)
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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 of the way Native American History is taught, and why a 1619 Project is needed for American Indians too.
We start off with a clip from the Sopranos highlighting the conflict in the Italian-American community over Columbus Day. And then we deep dive into Indigenous Peoples' Day, the cultural impact of America's genocide, the Indian Wars and violence in the U.S. historical narrative. We also talk about whether cultural gains (things like tearing down Columbus statues, changing sports team names, etc.) will result in material gains (economics, health care, etc) for Native Americans, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the epidemic of police murder of Indigenous people.
Michael Oberg is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo. The author of seven books on Native American history, Oberg received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003 and a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2013.
Read more:
- Michael Oberg's website: https://michaelleroyoberg.com/
- Indigenous Lives Matter: Some Thoughts on the Death of Reynold High Pine, 1972. (https://bit.ly/33N2gmg)
- At least 33 Christopher Columbus statues removed since spring protests: report (https://bit.ly/3lFVIw5)
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COVID-19 Rocks the White House! In our latest episode, we get into the news of the past week with journalist and author Paul Street (@Streetwriter17). And then we deep dive into how the vacuous neo-liberal politics of Barack Obama led to the rise of Donald J. Trump. We also discuss Paul's new book, "Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement."
Paul Street is an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of seven books to date, including Hollow Resistance. He publishes regularly in CounterPunch and TruthDig.
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- Paul Street: Joe Biden keeps sticking his racist foot in his mouth. Progressives should thank Obama for trying to sell him to black voters . (https://bit.ly/2HWK4OF)
- Paul Street: Beyond Obama and Bernie (https://bit.ly/3ljv9g6)
- Hollow Resistance from CounterPunch Books (https://bit.ly/2SwFlFE)
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Over 200,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. That number is expected to double in the next few months. The Trump Administration continues to put out misinformation about vaccines and tests the idea of "herd mentality" (we think he meant "herd immunity") as the only real solution. In this episode, we dive into these issues and more with returning guest Prof. Sarah Koster (@NotSoNormalNaCl) from Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA.
We also talk reproductive health politics around Trump's supreme court nominee and the forced hysterectomies being carried out in ICE detention centers.
Sarah is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa. She teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA and is committed to involving students in conversations about the importance of structural determinants of health including how capitalism and various existing political systems, in the US and globally, continue to negatively affect health outcomes.
Read more:
- Excess Mortality Data Shows Trump Is Lying About Covid-19 Being More Deadly in Europe (https://bit.ly/2SdGJg1)
- Hospital where activists say ICE detainees were subjected to hysterectomies says just two were performed there (https://wapo.st/3n2j0O6)
- Trump says overturning Roe v Wade 'possible' with Barrett on supreme court (https://bit.ly/3ng9mYq)
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In our latest episode, we talk with author of Against the Fascist Creep Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross) about America's history of political violence and the right wing creep in the United States. From slave patrols to far right groups protesting COVID19 mask requirements and attacking Black Lives Matter protests today, America has a long history of political violence. Much of the deadliest has been carried out by forces of reaction and racism (i.e. right-wingers). We talk about the history of right wing violence, how it compares with movements on the left, current dynamics around militia groups, influences of Trump and the rise of eco-fascists.
Alexander Reid Ross is an adjunct professor of geography at Portland State University, a doctoral fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and author of “Against the Fascist Creep.”
Read More:
- America's Armed, Antisemitic Far Right Is Prepping to Defend Trump in November (https://bit.ly/3cAPvyc)
- Conspiracy Theories by Cops Fuel Far Right Attacks Against Antiracist Protesters (https://bit.ly/3j0JSf1)
- Alexander Reid Ross's website: https://alexanderreidross.net/
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In this episode, we talk with environmental journalist Joshua Frank (@joshua__frank) about the climate induced wildfires that have recently ravaged the American West.
We get into the climate politics of the western states, the hypocrisy of Democratic politicians preaching climate rhetoric while allowing fossil fuel companies to continue business as usual, the class impacts of the wildfires, and how climate change is exacerbating the wildfires and volatile political situations in places like Portland.
We also remember forest defender George Atiyeh who perished in the Oregon fires.
Plus we talk lefty independent media and music with Joshua.
Joshua Frank is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and editor covering current political and environmental topics. Along with Jeffrey St. Clair, he is the co-editor of the political magazine and website CounterPunch (@NatCounterPunch) . His work appears in Seattle Weekly,OC Weekly and regularly at CounterPunch.org.
He is author and editors of a number of books. Including Left Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland (2008) (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair),Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (2013) (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair), and The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink (2018) (written with Jeffrey St. Clair).
Read More:
- CounterPunch:George Atiyeh, Opal Creek Champion (https://bit.ly/2FIMbFi)
- CounterPunch:Intensified Forest Fires: The New Western Travesty (https://bit.ly/3mTOiqu)
- CounterPunch:Hanford’s Nuclear Option (https://bit.ly/3iXXg3E)
- Joshua Frank, Author at CounterPunch (https://bit.ly/32UduF7)
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9/11 changed our world. Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco) had a spirited discussion on the impact of the events of September 11, 2001. We offered personal recollections, talked about the larger historical context in which it occurred, considered the consequences of the attacks--prolonged Mid-East wars and heightened repression at home, discussed the way the attacks and wars were manipulated for "patriotic" reasons, and talked about how it effects the U.S. today, in the era of Trump.
Read More:
- U.S. State Department Memo, May 1, 1950 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/propaganda%20003.pdf
- Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy (NY Times): https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/glaspie.html
- Presidential Daily Briefing Memo of August, 2001 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
- Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ (The Atlantic): https://bit.ly/2GP4FUE
- VIDEO: Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979: https://bit.ly/3hqquXn
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In this episode, we talk with climate and finance campaigner Pendle Marshall-Hallmark (@PendleTheWitch) of Amazon Watch (@amazonwatch) about the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest. Last year saw some of the worst fires in record for the region and this year's fire season looks to be no better. The problem is made much worse by the Bolsanaro government's deregulation of Brazilian environmental protections. increased industry efforts at deforestation and the financing of it all by U.S. asset managers and banks like Blackrock and JPMorgan Chase. Pendle also talked with us about her experience doing human rights accompaniment in Colombia. And social and racial tensions in her hometown of Rochester NY.
We also share few words and thoughts remembering scholar, author and anarchist David Graeber who passed away suddenly on September 3rd. CORRECTION: Scott incorrectly said that Blackrock was privately held, not publicly traded. It is in fact publicly traded.
Bio: Pendle Marshall-Hallmark is a Climate & Finance Campaigner at Amazon Watch, an Oakland-based human rights and environmental advocacy organization focused on protecting the Amazon rainforest and the rights of Indigenous peoples. Prior to joining Amazon Watch Pendle lived in Colombia for two years, where she accompanied Indigenous and campesino activists resisting corporate, paramilitary and state-led invasions of their lands. She has completed a Fulbright scholarship in Mexico City exploring US-Latin American business relations, and previously worked as a community organizer in Philadelphia around issues of immigration, healthcare access and labor rights. She studied Sociology at Swarthmore College and has completed Master's level coursework in Business Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Read More:
- More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late May: https://bit.ly/3bv2sJg
- BlackRock Faces Criticism for Role in Climate Crisis, Amazon Deforestation: https://bit.ly/3jLoVVl **Brazil Fires Burns World's Largest Tripical Wetlands at Unprecedented Scale: https://nyti.ms/358LaAu
- Amazonwatch page on Blackrock: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2020/0904-climate-activists-ramp-up-pressure-on-blackrock-during-fires-week-of-action
- David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59: https://bit.ly/2F2SnY5
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In this episode, we talk with muckraker journalist and Kenosha kid Steve Horn (@steveahorn) from the Real News Network (@TheRealNews) about Kenosha, WI and California climate politics. We start with Kenosha's history of deindustrialization and surburbanization since the auto giant Chrysler left the city in the late 1980s, and then get into the current politics around the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the eruption of protests in Kenosha and the subsequent shooting of unarmed protestors by teenage racist militia member Kyle Rittenhouse. We also discuss Steve's beat of climate politics and talk about inmate firefighters and the politics of oil and gas in California's capital Sacramento.
Steve Horn is a San Diego-based climate reporter and producer for the Real News Network. Also a freelance investigative reporter, his work has appeared in The Intercept, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera America. His research and work has been cited by the New York Times, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, and other books and governmental publications.
Read More:
- Steve's Real News Network Bio: https://therealnews.com/bios/steve-horn
- Amazon to the Auto Industry, Kenosha, WI Exemplifies Climate Justice Denied: https://therealnews.com/columns/from-amazon-to-the-auto-industry
- Reformers Aim to End Prison Firefighters’ ‘Indentured Servitude’ in California: https://therealnews.com/columns/reformers-aim-to-end-prison-firefighters-indentured-servitude-in-california
- California Dems Give Up On New Oil Safety Regulations: https://sirota.substack.com/p/california-dems-give-up-on-new-oil?fbclid=IwAR3H5SpZ6PVLcC5AXPcCDmus95Jqb6TpxXc8a5JRhkJ6mYjilhEwesoK1pA
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In this episode, we’re speak with two Israeli activists and refuseniks Amitai Ben- Abba (@amitaibenabba) and Atalya Ben-Abba about the current uprising happening against the Netanyahu government and the movement refusing service in the Israeli army in protest of the occupation. The anti-Netanyahu movement, or the “Balfour struggle,” as it’s known in Israel, has been out in the streets across the country and in front of “Crime Minister” Benjamin Netanyahu’s homes for months. The Israeli left has not only begun to see large numbers of people joining them and increased police violence against protestors, but also a convergence of anti-austerity movements, the anti-occupation movement and people fed up with the government’s corruption and bungling of the COVID-19 crisis. We also talk with Atalya and Amitai about the film “Objector” (@objectorfilm) which documents Atalya’s decision to refuse service in the Israeli army, the “refusenik” movement of young Israelis resisting military service and their family’s transformation as a result.
Atalya Ben-Abba is an Israeli conscientious objector who sat in prison for 110 days in 2017 for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. After volunteering to do civil service for two years at a shelter for homeless youth, she now studies Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continues to be active in various activist groups in Israel/Palestine.
Amitai Ben-Abba is a writer, filmmaker, and activist now based in Oakland, CA. Amitai is the writer and producer of the full-length documentary Objector about Atalya's refusal and their family's transformation as a result of her decision. Amitai's poetry, fiction, and essays received awards and appeared in publications such as CounterPunch, Haaretz, The Independent, and Witness Magazine. Amitai holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, where they attended as a Fellow in Writing and Community Engagement.
Objector (@ObjectorFilm) premiered at IDFA in 2019 (where it was a Top 5 Audience Favorite) and won awards at major film festivals, including Best International Documentary at the Hot Springs Festival and Best Interfaith Film at St. Louis International Film Festival. And you can learn more about the film “Objector” here: https://objectorfilm.com/
Learn more:
- ‘No longer outcasts’: Anti-occupation activists find their place in Israeli protests: https://bit.ly/3lhnnEe
- My sister has just spent 110 days in Israeli prison for refusing to serve in the IDF – and I'm so proud:https://bit.ly/3aQ0a75
- A new novel about radical environmentalists in the Middle East, "The Sodomites": https://bit.ly/3hkIAdQ
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In today's episode, Bob and Scott have a free-wheeling discussion about the origins of the New Left, the Wisconsin School (school of thought around the history of foreign relations), and the how these radical ideas still have currency in today's emerging movements.
This episode is a tribute to esteemed diplomatic historian Thomas McCormick who passed away on July 25th, 2020.
Learn More:
- William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
- Thomas McCormick, China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901
- Lloyd Gardner, Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy
- Walter LeFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898
From the Green and Red team:
- Our interview with New Left historian and activist Staughton Lynd: https://bit.ly/StaughtonGandR
- And listen to our conversation with filmmaker David Martinez on one of the New Left's influences, radical sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein: https://bit.ly/WallersteinGandR
- Bob Buzzanco: What Happened to the New Left?
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This week, 55 years ago, the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles began amidst a traffic incident with a black motorist and the California Highway Patrol in the South Central neighborhood of the bustling city. By the end of the week, 34 had been killed, hundreds injured, over $40 million in property damaged and destroyed, 16,000 national guardsmen and police deployed to quell the uprising and a new chapter in black radicalism began. A popular saying after Watts and after similar uprisings in in Detroit and Newark, NJ in 1967 became popularized-- "Burn, baby! Burn!"
Green and Red dives into the Watts uprising and talks about parallels to 2020's summer uprisings.
Plus we take this moment for a couple of jabs on our favorite red-baiting neo-liberal ex-president Bill Clinton.
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Read more:
- Mike Davis and Jon Weiner, Set the Night on Fire: https://bit.ly/31M7koK
- Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s: https://bit.ly/2DRxFJS
- Guy Debord,The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy:https://bit.ly/2DJYxf1
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In this episode, we talk with Jay and Kay, two Portland street organizers, about the uprising that has shaken the city and garnered so much media attention. In the two months since the murder of George Floyd, Portland has been out on the streets every night demanding justice and racial justice. Recently, the Trump administration attempted to crack down on protests in an unprecedented show of aggression by putting federal agents on the street, kidnapping protestors off the street and responding with mass violence. The entire city rose up against the federal government's intervention, prompting a pull back by the feds. But since then the Portland Police have continued the violence against protests.
We discuss with our guests the background of what's been happening, organizing and street action tactics, the courage of movements in Portland resisting the state every night, local journalists that have been getting the story out and how to support the continuing struggle.
You can support the PDX General Defense Committee legal defense and bail fund here:https://www.instagram.com/defensefundpdx/?hl=en
Read more:
- What You Need To Know About The Battle of Portland: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/07/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-portland/
- Tools and Tactics in the Portland Protests: https://crimethinc.com/2020/08/03/tools-and-tactics-in-the-portland-protests-from-leaf-blowers-and-umbrellas-to-lasers-bubbles-and-balloons
- When Rioting is Rational: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/when-rioting-is-rational-ferguson/
- Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you
- Stop blaming everything bad on anarchists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/04/stop-blaming-everything-bad-anarchists/
- In Support of Baltimore: Or; Smashing Police Cars Is Logical Political Strategy: https://radfag.com/2015/04/26/in-support-of-baltimore-or-smashing-police-cars-is-logical-political-strategy/?fbclid=IwAR1vYaQxJaNZdpCCW3Ac-A7pUFDx4Xt4-0G-NskFvWyyzhrEDjWFyK6lZHg
Local rad journalists to follow via Twitter:
- @MrOlmos
- @shane_burley1
- @suzettesmith
- @tuckwoodstock
- @LindseyPSmith7
- @PDocumentarians
- @iwriteok
- @alex_zee
- @alexmilantracy
- @andrewjank
- @hungrybowtie
- @human42lm
- @1misanthrophile
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For years, large majorities of Americans have believed that the U.S. had to use the A-Bomb against Japan on August 6th, 1945 to end the war quickly and avoid a land war and thus save one-million American lives. Scott and Bob discuss the use of the bomb, why it was used as a message to the Soviet Union and not a military necessity, the chronology behind the development and deployment of atomic weapons, the U.S. public response to it, and the creation of a new history, a propaganda piece, regarding the use of the bomb. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was vital in the development of the Cold War, the arms race, the military-industrial complex, and the National Security State. Seventy-five years after the first atomic weapon was used by the U.S., it's still a highly-debated and important topic.
This is also the debut of Green and Red on YouTube, so check us out at https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube
Read more about the decision to drop the atomic bomb:
Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
National Security Archive, "The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II"
Greg Mitchell, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood―and America―Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction
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We're Back! Lots of has been happening while we've been in break, so we start August by talking with veteran Austin community organizer, anti-police brutality advocate and Austin Legal Guild volunteer Debbie Russell (@Debmocracy) about the murder of Garrett Foster this past week, killed by a right-wing agitator who was driving his car into the crowd of peaceful protestors. The killer then drove off and later turned himself in to police but he was released and no charges have been filed. The Foster murder has received national attention and Debbie Russell and her comrades in Austin have played a major role in investigating the killing and preparing to present evidence.
We also talked about some of the longer-term tensions between the Austin police and non-white communities, and the possibility of reform with new, progressive elected officials coming into office. Despite the national uprising against police violence, even in "liberal" places like Austin, the cops have continued to assault people of color and protests that have emerged since the killing of George Floyd.
Read more about Austin police issues and the shooting of Garrett Foster here:
- Council Mulls Radical Changes to Police Structure: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-07-31/council-mulls-radical-changes-to-police-structure/
- Mike Ramos, Javier Ambler cases won't go before a grand jury this year: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/javier-ambler-michael-ramos-grand-jury-delayed
- Austin protesters clash with police in the wake of Garrett Foster's death: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/02/austin-protest-garrett-foster/ U.S. Army sergeant who shot Austin protester Garrett Foster posted tweets about retaliating against demonstrators: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/31/daniel-perry-austin-protest-garrett-foster/
More from Austin:
- Debbie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debmocracy
- Hiram Live's channel covering protests in Austin: https://www.twitch.tv/imhiramg Support Austin's protests: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Protectatxpros
- Austin Gonzo (Debbie’s blog): https://austingonzo.blogspot.com/
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Green & Red Podcast celebrates its 30th episode with our special guest, esteemed scholar and friend Professor Clayton Lust (@ClaytonLust) from Houston Community College and Lone Star College, who has studied and written extensively about the Camp Logan Mutiny, a vital important yet unfortunately lesser-known historical episode where Houston Police and African American soldiers had a violent racial conflict in Houston in 1917. Given current political conditions and a rising awareness of Black history and Black interactions with police, the events at Camp Logan offer great insight into the history of policing among African Americans. We also talk about the reality behind southern monuments to the Confederacy, that they are not about "heritage" but white supremacy, and we talked about Reconstruction and the racial attitudes that continued to dominate American politics after the Civil War.
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In our latest episode, Bob and Scott talk with historian Cal Winslow about the Seattle general strike of 1919. Labor actions and protests are happening across the country and we take this moment to look back on one of the most important strikes in the 20th century. We discuss economic and social factors that set the stage for the strike, how the strike committee ran the city during the shutdown, the global backdrop and backlash.
Cal Winslow is the author of Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919, along with Labor’s Civil War in California. He is editor of E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left. He is currently Director of the Mendocino Institute and a past Fellow in Environmental Politics at the University of California, Berkeley, a researcher and writer on social and environmental subjects.
Read more:
- Z Magazine: Labor’s Spectacular Revolt
- Monthly Review: Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919
- Monthly Review: The Origins of the Seattle General Strike of 1919: The Timber Beast
- Jacobin: When the Seattle General Strike and the 1918 Flu Collided
- Jacobin: When Being a Red Meant Risking Your Life
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In this episode we talk with author, journalist, historian, and socialist Joe Allen about police unions, fighting fascism and police brutality in Chicago, the UPS strike of 1997, labor organizing at "Big Brown" and democratic organizing in the labor movement.
Joe Allen worked for nearly a decade at UPS. He has been a member of several Teamster local unions and a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. His books include Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost, 'People Wasn't Made to Burn': A Trues Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago and, most recently, and recently re-released, The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service. He has contributed over the years to Socialist Worker (U.S.), the International Socialist Review, Counterpunch, In These Times, Midwest Socialist, Jacobin, Rampant, and Medium.
Read more by Joe Allen:
- Rampant: Sever All Ties with Police Unions
- Jacobin: Black Lives at Big Brown
- Jacobin: The UPS Strike, Two Decades Later
- Medium: The Return of the ‘Hamburgs’? White Vigilantes, the Chicago Police, and Anti-Fascism in Chicago
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In our latest episode, we talk with activist and filmmaker Stiv Wilson (@AgentStiv) from the Peak Plastic Foundation (@peakplastic) about the new film "The Story of Plastic." We discuss the staggering problem of plastic pollution in our oceans and our communities. We also discuss how "the end of this story is just the beginning" as people around the world are now acting to break free from plastic.
Stiv Wilson is the co-director of the Peak Plastic Foundation. He's also the producer/executive producer of "The Story of Plastic." He’s created and led several campaigns to victory: from plastic bags bans, to plastic microbeads, to plastic water bottles at the state, national and international level. He has sailed over 35,000 nautical miles to four of the five oceanic ‘garbage patches,’ documenting and communicating maritime plastic pollution firsthand through publications, multi-media, and film.
Read more:
- Peak Plastic Foundation: https://www.peakplasticfoundation.org/
- Story of Plastic: https://www.storyofplastic.org/
- EcoWatch: The Story of Plastic: New Film Exposes the Source of Our Plastic Crisis (https://bit.ly/31dhRL4)
- Salon: Humanity can’t recycle its way out of consumption problems (https://bit.ly/37U6E3v)
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In our latest episode, Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) get a return visit from Prof. Sarah Koster (@NotSoNormalNaCl) to discuss the recent spike in COVID19 infections. There are now over 2 million cases in the U.S. with the number of deaths at well over 119,000. Furthermore, Harvard University is now predicting that the number could almost double by the end of September. We discuss how political institutions, led by #BunkerBoy, continue to fail us in virus response, the racialization of the infection rate, and how to be "COVID19 responsible" when out in the streets during the current uprising against police violence. Sarah Koster is a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA. She has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA. Read more:
U.S. could reach 200,000 coronavirus deaths in September, expert says (https://reut.rs/2N0woBE) The strange new quiet in New York emergency rooms (https://wapo.st/2BbgL7R) Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight (https://wapo.st/3dbJqXs)
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In this episode, we talked with Professor Thao Ha (@ThaoHaPhD)-- Vietnamese refugee, esteemed scholar, and producer of a documentary on Vietnamese-KKK conflict in Texas, "Seadrift." We had a fascinating conversation about immigrant groups in the U.S., Solidarity during the current rebellions, Vietnamese views on Blacks, the role of younger Vietnamese in changing politics, and the future of Vietnamese-American politics.
Thao Ha is a Vietnamese refugee who earned a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a professor at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, CA, and has published a variety of academic works in the areas of race, gender, immigration, and Vietnamese American experiences in the South. She is an advisor and associate producer of "Seadrift," a documentary about the racial violence and KKK intimidation that erupted in the 1970s against Vietnamese Americans in a small Texas fishing town.
Read more:
- Seadrift website
- Eric Tang, "A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East"
- PIVOT, the Progressive Vietnamese American Organization
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In our latest episode, we talk with filmmaker David Martinez about his film featuring sociologist and leftist thinker Immanuel Wallerstein.
Immanuel Wallerstein passed away in 2019, but is best known for his development of an approach in sociology called World Systems Analysis.
His influence was particularly strong in the Global South, in fact the story goes that half of the guests at his wedding were later assassinated. There is also a building named for him in Chiapas, and he once sat on a panel with Subcomandante Marcos. He was also a main influence on Abdullah Ojalan and the Kurdish movement's recent shift to the more libertarian left. In short, he was much more than an academic, but someone who tried to use his intellectual work to change the world.
David Martinez is a filmmaker, writer, and teacher originally from San Antonio, Texas, now living in San Francisco. He's also the co-host of the Hammer and Tongs podcast (https://bit.ly/2BYRb6k).
Learn more:
- Immanuel Wallerstein's website (https://bit.ly/30KH9jJ)
- Jacobin: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Thousand Marxisms (https://bit.ly/3cQuq1f)
- Read Karl Marx! A Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein (https://bit.ly/2YpbZLH)
- The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables (https://bit.ly/3cVs6pI)
- David's Vimeo Page (https://bit.ly/30F5cjM)
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In our latest episode, the Green and Red Podcast crew talks with author and journalist Shane Burley (@Shane_Burley1) about antifascism and the targeting of antifa by the Trump administration in the midst of the rebellion against police violence currently sweeping the US. We get into lots of good discussion about about Antifa, anarchism, mutual aid, and what the fascists are up to.
Shane is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, etc. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shane_burley1
More from Shane:
- Truthout: "Anti-Fascists Say They Are Protecting Communities From Right-Wing Violence, Not Fomenting “Terror” (https://bit.ly/2Y7tL5W)
- NBC News: "Trump's antifa tweet is right-wing catnip — with potentially troubling consequences" (https://nbcnews.to/37babda)
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Today, Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) talk about the recent public repudiation of Donald Trump's attempts to use the military against American citizens in pursuit of a racial war by ranking military officials, not just retired but active-duty as well.
In an amazing two weeks, one of the more incredible developments has been the open resistance of military officials to Trump's attempts to militarize American cities and likely kill protestors. Starting with retired Generals and Admirals and percolating into the dissent of active-duty officers, the military, America's most respected institution, has stood up to Trump and, even more, made a sharp statement against racism and defended the right to protest.
These people aren't radical and don't have the same interests as protestors, but have put the brakes on Trump, for the time being at least. They've also give people in the streets more legitimacy and space. They're not long-term allies necessarily, but they have helped the millions who are rebelling right now.
For more on this topic, see Buzzanco, "Cracks in the Empire: The Military Says 'Stand Down' to Trump" and Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
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Today, Bob and Scott talk about the state of the U.S. as protests, riots, rebellions and large scale police violence are erupting in dozens of cities across the country. All week, protests, riots and more have been happening in Minneapolis over the police murder of a black man named George Floyd. Now it has spread from coast to coast, and increasingly around the world, with real resistance (not the Democratic establishment led #resistance) against police and political leaders. We're joined by long time organizer Jeff Ordower (@moredower) to talk about this moment and where we go from here.
Bio: Jeff Ordower is a long time organizer in the movement. He has been an organizer for 25 years and got his start as a queer activist in college. He's worked on campaigns around labor, economic justice, climate and racial justice. There are too many groups to name. He lived and supported organizing in St. Louis in 2014 during the rebellion around the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. He is trying to live his best life as an itinerant organizer and spends a lot of his time thinking about sustained mass action. With some comrades, he is (hopefully) imminently launching something called The Disruption Project.
Learn More:
- Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE): https://acrecampaigns.org/
- Cornel West on CNN discussing the rebellion: https://bit.ly/2zPFn5v
- MLK on riots being the language of the unheard: https://bit.ly/3eCmjqh
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In this episode, Bob and Scott talk with anarchist, U.S. military veteran, environmentalist and direct action organizer Graham Clumpner (@turncoatveteran). We discuss movement politics and the military during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of the far right since those wars and current politics and the military in the ages of Trump and COVID19. We also talk about the need for a movement against militarism and war, the need for international solidarity in the left, and intersection of militarism and the climate crisis.
Read more:
- Inside the U.S. military's battle with white supremacy and far-right extremism: https://nbcnews.to/2TN6jcW
- Bob’s latest article on the anniversary of Dien Bien Phu: https://bit.ly/3ek8RXW
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Welcome to the Green and Red M19 Podcast!
In this very special episode, we celebrate the shared birthday of iconic revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X, both born on May 19th (1890 and 1925, respectively).
Join Scott and Bob as we go deep on two of the most important revolutionaries of the 20th century---their ideas, their organizations, their international leadership in the class and anti-imperial struggles, and the inspiration they gave to so many millions.
Plus a little Last Poets love for Ho Chi Minh:
*I'm gettin' on out of here
You see, I just could not win
Against Ho Chi Minh
No, I just could not win
Against Ho Chi Minh*
Further reading: William Duiker's books Ho Chi Minh: A Life and Sacred War, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Peniel Joseph's The Sword and the Shield, and James Cones' Martin and Malcolm and America.
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Welcome to Green and Red Podcast! In this episode, we dive into the controversy of the new Michael Moore produced film 'Planet of the Humans.' We're joined by long time climate justice organizer Ananda Lee Tan (@anandalee). But we also, importantly, go into the history and politics of the North American climate and climate justice movements.
Ananda has been on the frontlines of environmental, labor, anti-capitalist and climate justice organizing for almost forty years. He's worked for big green groups on their global campaigns, scrappy direct action groups and co-convened the Climate Justice Alliance, a network of frontline, black, brown, Indigenous and low income environmental and climate justice groups across the U.S. Originally from the community of Santiniketan, Ananda presently lives on the territories of the Coast Salish First Nations in the Pacific Northwest.
Read more:
- Ananda Lee Tan: The Messy World of Movements
- Bill McKibben: ‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’: Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal
- Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans
- Climate Justice Alliance
- Labor Network for Sustainability
- Rising Tide North America: Hookwinked in the Hothouse, False Solutions to Climate Change
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In this special Green and Red Podcast, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic events of May 4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4 students and shot 9 others.
Students, who'd been told the war was winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th. At Kent State, a working-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent. For two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students. On May 4th, the Guard, unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet. These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests. The war had come home! Scott and Bob, who's also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the background to the protests, the official, violent response, the aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning, and lessons.
See also, the Kent State Tribunal Organization, established by Laurel Krause, sister of one of the students assassinated at Kent State that day; an interview with Alan Canfora, one of the survivors of the shootings, and also another interview here; The Kent State May 4th Poetry Collection; Denise Levertov, "The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why" ; a couple of well-known songs that came out of the tragedy, Neil Young, "Ohio" and Chrissie Hynde (who was a student at Kent State in 1970 and friends with two of the murdered students), "Revolution"; Governor Rhodes press conference, May 3; and Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life.
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In our latest episode with talk with long time direct action organizer Lisa Fithian. We talked about many of the issues confronting us right now, and how people are fighting back.
Lisa's been on the front lines for almost four decades, from fighting against the Reagan attacks on Central America, to helping organize workers, to fighting transnational institutions like the WTO and the World Bank, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, doing Mutual Aid in New Orleans after Katrina, supporting Gaza and so many other things.
We talked to her about the role of mutual aid in resistance, and also the current wave of work stoppages and wildcats, and the potential for mass action at this critical time in our lives. Importantly, we discussed how these actions are being done for the commons, not just for individuals.
Lisa's also just published a memoir, "Shut it Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance" and we discussed that too.
More reading:
- Shut It Down: Stories from a fierce, loving resistance (https://shutitdownnow.org/)
- Organizing for Power (Lisa's website) (https://organizingforpower.org)
- May 1 Call for a General Strike (https://bit.ly/2ySEpVm)
- We Are the Shutdown: May 1st 2020 (https://bit.ly/2VO87E5)
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Scott and I have a great episode coming up and we want to give you a head's up about it. We interviewed the inspiring activist and organizer Lisa Fithian and talked about many of the issues confronting us right now, today. Lisa's been on the front lines for a couple generations, from fighting against the Reagan attacks on Central America, to helping organize workers, working with the homeless, doing Mutual Aid in New Orleans after Katrina, supporting Gaza and so many other things. We talked to her about the role of mutual aid in resistance, and also the current wave of work stoppages and wildcats, and the potential for mass action at this critical time in our lives. Importantly, we discussed how these actions are being done for the commons, not just for individuals. Lisa's also just published a memoir, "Shut it Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance" and we discussed that too.
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 feed 200 people a day, give them blankets, arrange for medical care, and help when they get harassed by cops or passers-by. She discusses the origins of Southern Solidarity, their daily routine, and the way COVID-19 has affected the homeless in New Orleans. After that, Scott and Bob talk a little about the importance of Mutual Aid and workers actions. While the media is reporting the spectacle of little Nazis and Confederates "protesting" at State Capitols, a far greater number of people are staging workplace actions for better working conditions and safety.
There's a lot going on here at the Green and Red Podcast!
For more information, and ways to help out, check out:
- Fight Back News: New Orleans community unites in solidarity with large homeless population during pandemic lockdown
- For more info, go to https://southernsolidarity.org,
- Donate to Southern Solidarity at https://southernsolidarity.org/donate/
- Bob Buzzanco latest: "Death Cults, Wildcats, and Liberal Civility"
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In this timely episode, Bob and Scott welcome back Professor Sarah Koster back to Green and Red. We discuss the latest developments in the world of public health and COVID19, the disproportionate impacts coronavirus is having on black, brown and low income communities, why California seems to have peaked in the crisis and the amazing work being done by first responders and healthcare workers.
Sarah Koster is a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA. She has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA.
Further reading: NY Times: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus The Intercept: Two Weeks as a New York City Nurse in the Pandemic Bob's latest: "Blaming China, Not Capitalism."
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In this episode, Bob and Scott get into the politics of Martin Luther King and how he's WAY more radical than most people realize. This week is the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King (MLK).
Today, everyone from the Libertarian Party to the anti-abortion movement to tech companies in Silicon Valley trying to sell you their latest gadgets claim his legacy. In truth, MLK fought and opposed "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism (i.e. capitalism), and militarism" until the end of his life. While many look at the surface levels of MLK's politics and legacy, Green and Red goes deep into the real substance of who he was.
Further reading and listening:
- Bob Buzzanco: MLK for Sale? How to Package a Radical
- MLK: Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break the Silence (Video)
- MLK: I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech (Video)
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In this episode, Bob and Scott talk with Giuseppe Acconcia, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Universita di Padova. We discuss the ongoing impact of COVID in Italy, Chinese and Cuban assistance while Europe sat on its hands, and especially the way that this pandemic will have an impact in the Middle East and North Africa, areas with less development and greater poverty, which are sure to be hit harder, and in war-torn areas like Syria, Yemen, and Libya, which will see catastrophic consequences. Professor Acconcia is a frequent media presence in Italy talking about these issues and is the author of many books, including The Great Iran, translated into English by the University of Padua Press in 2018.
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We have another great podcast coming up, with Professor Giuseppe Acconcia from the University of Padua, talking about COVID-19 in Italy, and also the Middle East and Africa, where it's sure to have far more dire consequences for people living in poverty and without self-determination.
Scott and Bob get down and dirty about the rise and fall of liberalism. We kick off with the most recent political and economic turns in the COVID19 crisis (and how ALL the politicians are to blame.)
Then we discuss peak liberalism with LBJ and the Great Society. And in response to the reformist moment in the 1960's, the poor people's movements that emerged on the left including Students for Democratic Society, the Big Lebowski and the Port Huron Statement (not the compromised 2nd draft), Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor Peoples' Campaign.i
In solidarity with our friends doing COVID19 mutual aid, please check out these resources:
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
- Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide
- It's Going Down: COVID-19 Mutual Aid
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In this episode, we talk with long time friend and comrade scott crow about mutual aid in the era of COVID19. We discuss hope, community, disaster response by just regular people (not bureaucrats, professional non-profits or "Captain Asspants" in the White House) and scott's new music label aptly titled "eMERGENCY hEARTS." We also play some music from the label.
scott crow is an anarchist, speaker, author, organizer, musician and story teller. He's author of Black Flags and Windmills:Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective (PM Press) and a number of other books. scott has co-founded a number of diverse projects, businesses and organizations rooted in cooperative power sharing models includingtheCommon Ground Collective, the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history, that formed after Hurricane Katrina,Treasure City Thrift, an anarchist worker coop, Red Square, an art coop, Century Modern, an antique coop and UPROAR, a community based organization, Dirty South Earth First!, Radical Encuentro Camp, .
More from our episode:
- Read more about scott at www.scottcrow.org/
- You can check out the eMERGENCY hEARTS music label here.
- All proceeds for "Anthropocene Blues Revisited" on the music label are being donated to our comrades at Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (an amazing network made up of many anarchists, rabble-rousers, permaculturalists, community organizers, and others who are actively organizing around supporting disaster survivors in a spirit of mutual aid and solidarity.
- You can get a free e-copy of Black Flags and Windmills by signing up on PM Press's email list.
Additional Reading and Resources:
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
- Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide
- It's Going Down: COVID-19 Mutual Aid
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Scott Parkin and I w.ere fortunate to have a great conversation with our comrade and friend scott crow. Scott is an inspiring organizer. When Katrina hit New Orleans, the authorities had no concern for the people living there, so scott and other community activists helped form the Common Ground Collective and got people back on their feet. In the horrors of Katrina, it was one of the rare bright spots. Scott not only engages in the struggle but acts upon what he calls the "emergency heart," the need to help others to create, foster and sustain our community, our humanity. And look scott up at https://www.scottcrow.org/
In this episode, Bob and Scott talk with three graduate student strike organizers at the University of California (UC) who've been out on wildcat strike since mid-February. We talk about the COLA campaign, the UC's retaliation against striking grad students at UC Santa Cruz and how to conduct a strike in during a global pandemic.
We're joined by:
- Carolina Talavera is a PhD Candidate in medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has just returned from conducting her dissertation research on housing insecurity in London, UK.
- Caylee Hong is a Canadian PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to Berkeley, she worked as an attorney in New York City.
- Carlos Cruz is a 2nd year PhD grad student and fired wildcat at UC Santa Cruz
More reading:
- LA Times: UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay
- It's Going Down: Barricades Go Up in Santa Cruz as UC Wide Wildcat Strike Expands Following Firings
- Indybay: An Interview on the Growing Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz
- Berkeleyside:UC Berkeley students hold ‘wildcat’ strike for more pay, rehiring of fired workers
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Live from Italy: Politics and Pandemic. Today we talk to Professor Francesco Mazzucotelli from Bergamo, Italy, the center of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak, about the situation there and about the Italian health care system, Italian politics, and the global environment that has led to this crisis. Please share. Please follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and we encourage you to donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast
Francesco Mazzucotelli is a Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern History at the Universita di Pavia. He took his Ph.D from the Universita Cattolica del Sacre Muore di Milano and the American University of Beirut. He has been a journalist stationed in the Middle East and was a senate candidate in 2018 for the Liberi e Uguali party in Italy. He currently lives in Bergamo, Italy.
This past week has been unprecedented. Coronavirus has become a global pandemic and the world is reeling. At least 140,000 infected with 5,000 deaths in 133 countries. Global markets have been shaken with the New York Stock Exchange plummeting twice this past week. Multiple U.S. states have declared states of emergency, and finally, yesterday, Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency with a $50 billion aid package. In this episode of Green and Red, we’re going to talk about Coronavirus and how government incompetence, politics as usual, lack of basic healthcare services and, of course, capitalism are all at play. We're also going to get deep into the community health impacts of COVID19.
We're joined by Sarah Koster, a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA. Sarah has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA. And we support community and mutual aid groups working to help those hit hardest by the exploding virus.
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The world is in full blown panic around the COVID19 pandemic. The global economy is shaking. Today, the stock market took its biggest dip since September 1987. Panic about the virus and jobs and business is kicking in.
During previous economic crashes, most notably the Panic of 1893 and the 1929 crash that launched the Great Depression, we saw moments emerge that initially challenged the ruling class. Both the populist movement of the 1890s, and social justice and labor movements of the 1930s led to a "thunder on the left" that terrified the ruling class. From William Jennings Bryan to Sinclair Lewis and Huey Long to Bernie Sanders, populist figures on the left are much more of a threat to Wall Street and the uber-rich than billionaire reality TV stars.
As a result, the rich always know how to turn bottom-up led movements into top-down reform that actually benefits the wealthy with social stability and new consumer markets So, in this episode, Bob and Scott talk about the real meaning of Populism and the New Deal.
Plus a shout out to our three new patrons supporting Green and Red on Patreon.com.
And we close it out with a little Jefferson Airplane singing about how we're all in it together: "We are forces of chaos and anarchy, everything they say we are, we are, and we are very proud of ourselves. Up against the wall Motherfuckers."
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This episode, we get into the climate rebellion spreading across the globe with Bea Ruiz from Extinction Rebellion US (XR US).
We kick the episode off with a tribute to priest, poet and Sandinista Ernesto Cardenal who died on March 1st.
Then we go in depth with Bea on climate politics, Extinction Rebellion, the Big Green non-profit industrial complex, and solidarity with brown, black and poor white communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel extraction, as well as the legacy of Judi Bari. Bea is a longtime organizer in radical movements. Bea worked with Diablo Rising Tide, the Bay Area chapter of Rising Tide North America. She’s a member of XR US’s national team, a support team for XR US local groups.
Read more on:
Ernesto Cardenal:
- With Walker in Nicaragua by Ernesto Cardenal
- Ernesto Cardenal, poet and Catholic priest, still causes controversy at age 86
Judi Bari:
- The Judi Bari website
- A glimpse inside the FBI Investigation into Judi Bari and Earth First!
Extinction Rebellion:
- The Baffler: Striking at the End of the World
- Think Progress: Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy
- Cherri Foytlin: Is XR America Going to ‘Make XR Great Again,’ or is it an XR EXIT?
Scott on the climate rebellion:
- Why “Good Liberals” Won’t Save the Climate (2018)
- When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels (2015)
- Making Green A Threat Again (2013)
Scott also has a chapter on the recent history of direct action versus fossil fuels in the forthcoming "Climate Justice and Community Renewal" (Edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson) coming out in April.
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It's Stupor Tuesday, and Scott and Bob are gonna dish dirt on Liberals. Do you hate Liberals? Why not? Do you know what a liberal is? If not, we'll tell you. We talk about the history of American liberalism starting with Woodrow Wilson, through FDR, the creation of the National Security State and NSC-68, and liberal rhetoric about being the party of working people while really being bag boys for Wall Street and imperialists for mega-corporations.
We have a goal--we want to piss off at least 2/3 of the Liberals we know, so help us by sharing this on FB, Twitter, Instagram, and of course donating at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast
Stevie Wonder riffs on Liberals:
*We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you*
*But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Tellin' how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'*
In this episode, we're joined by long-time animal rights activist, designer, writer and all around trouble-maker Jake Conroy. Jake was part of the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty campaign, or SHAC, that campaigned against notorious animal testing company Huntington Life Sciences. SHAC bankrupted Huntington multiple times and were successful in getting them de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange. The campaign was so effective, the federal government prosecuted Jake and his co-defendants, known as the SHAC 7, as domestic terrorists. After a highly publicized case, the SHAC 7 were found guilty on all charges, including the controversial Animal Enterprise Protection Act (now called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act) and sentenced to a variety of prison terms and a $1,000,001 restitution fine. Jake was sentenced to 48 months, which he served in 2 prisons in southern California. He was released in 2009. These days, you can see him sharing his view on many things, mostly related to the animal rights movement on his YouTube channel The Cranky Vegan. He has been most recently featured in the new documentary, The Animal People, about the SHAC’s case. Executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix. Directed by Cassandra Suchan (Rock The Bells) and Dennis Henry Hennelly (Bold Native).
Welcome to the latest episode of Green and Red. A podcast about radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics. Brought to you by Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin. This episode welcomes renowned anti-war and civil rights activist, historian, author and lawyer Staughton Lynd.
Staughton Lynd has been one of the most important American Activists/Scholars from the mid-20th Century onward. As a historian, he was one of the first prominent scholars associated with the "New Left" and he did pathbreaking work on the colonial war of liberation against the British Empire, situating it not just as a fight over Home Rule, but also "who should rule at home," i.e. what type of class relations would exist in the new country. Staughton was on the faculty at Spelman University where he and colleague Howard Zinn became active in the Civil Rights Movement (activity that cost Zinn his job there). Staughton became head of the Mississippi Summer Freedom Education Project, organized by SNCC. He then moved on to the faculty at Yale University, but that was short-lived. He traveled to northern Vietnam in 1965 as part of an antiwar contingent and the Liberals at Yale fired him for his political activity. After that he, and his wife, another acclaimed activist, Alice became lawyers specializing in Labor Law and Prison Reform.
The Lynds moved to Niles, Ohio (also Bob Buzzanco's hometown) where Staughton became one of the leaders of a 1977 movement to save Youngstown, Ohio steel mills from closing down. He has been active in labor matters since and he and Alice also have defended death row prisoners and worked with military veterans on the issue of "moral injury."
For more on Staughton, see, among others, his books Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays; Moral Injury & Nonviolent Resistance (with Alice Lynd); and The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings. There is also a god biogaphy of Staughton, Carl Mirra's The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970. Staughton's Papers are archived at Kent State University: https://www.library.kent.edu/staughton-and-alice-lynd-papers.
Welcome to our podcast! Our kick-off episode is a rolling conversation with just us. We talk about environmentalism, electoralism, class politics, direct action and the state of the world.
Most importantly, we give a preview of what's to come on Green and Red.
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