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Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
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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.
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This American Nightmare: Texas Anti-ICE Protestors Sentenced to Decades for Antifascist Beliefs (G&R 510)
Today00:31:04Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. Last week, the nine convicted anti-ICE protestors were sentenced to a barbaric amount of time ranging from 30 to 100 years. One of them, who wasn't even at the protest, was sentenced to 30 years for moving antifascist zines out of this apartment. In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about the sentencing of the Prairieland Nine, NPSM-7, Trump's crackdown on his opposition and the targeting of activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and Atlanta. Guest Bio//Adam Federman (@adamfederman) is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations who has written widely on environmental policy, public lands, the Arctic and corporate and police spying on environmental activists. He has written for In These Times, Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, Slate, The Nation, and other publications. --------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Adam's website: https://adamfederman.com/🔖 Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial (https://bit.ly/4sHPEWR)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Is the Iran War over? Has it changed the world? A conversation with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (G&R 509)
Yesterday01:12:36Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. Today we had another conversation with our frequent guest and comrade Professor Eskandar Sadeghi of The University of St. Andrews in Scotland, who's an international authority of Iranian history and politics and the region generally. We talked about the impact of the war on Iran, how the Iranian government and military responded, and often succeeded, in fighting the Israeli and U.S. aggression, the current status after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, and what the longer term impact of the war on the region might be.Guest Bio//Eskandar is the author of *Revolution and its Discontents* and many articles on essays on Iran, and frequently contributes to the New Left Review and London Review of Books, among others.----------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Why the Left Needs to Get Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness w/ author Yotam Marom (G&R 508)
2d ago00:44:40Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. How do we build mass powerful movements? Why does the left often implode and self-destruct as it makes gains to challenging the ruling class? How to raise to the occasion of stopping an authoritarian state in the midst of a widening economic divide and the climate crisis? Yotam Marom's new book, "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness", looks at this.In our latest, Scott talks with experienced movement leader and author Yotam Marom about building progressive and left movements, and power vs powerlessness. They also talk about Yotam's experiences and views on Occupy Wall Street, truth-telling, identity politics, finding a movement home and community to belong to and the recent elections in New York. Guest Bio//Yotam Marom is an organizer, facilitator, and writer with over twenty years of experience in movements. He is based in Brooklyn, New York, and spends most of his time facilitating movement organizations through strategy and group processes. He’s the author of "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness".--------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Yotam's website: https://yotammarom.net/🔖 Get "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness" here (https://bit.ly/43Yld3W)🌐 Jacobin:Getting Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness (https://bit.ly/3SxYSrl💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Too Big to Fail? Why Obama's Presidency Sucked (G&R 507)
6d ago00:54:03Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. Last week, they opened the Obama library in Chicago. You saw speeches by Barack and Michelle Obama, and all the living ex-presidents and first ladies celebrating the event. But all the fanfare left out his never ending support of neo-liberal economics, brutal wars abroad and how his progressiveness faded away quickly after "Hope and Change" propelled him into the White House. In our latest, we dive deep into the presidency of Barack Obama. We discuss his 2008 campaign, his bailout of the banks, tax cuts, Obamacare, how he handled the climate crisis, his foreign policy and war management and how he derailed Democratic politics and created the conditions that led to the rise of Donald Trump and the far right. --------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (https://bit.ly/4pwg6AD)🌐 G&R : The Democrats are a Party of War! Liberals and the Military-Industrial Complex (https://bit.ly/3D8LXEC)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Continuing Legal Battles for Stop Cop City w/ Hannah Kass and Priscilla Grim (G&R 506)
1w ago00:29:36Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, Scott talks with Hannah Kass and Priscilla Grim, both Stop Cop City activists, and defendants in the campaign's legal struggles. Guest Bios// Hannah Kass one of the Cobb Country 3. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. Her scholar-activism explores repression and resistance within struggles for land, food, and abolition. Priscilla Grim (she/her) is a Nuyorican, mom, comrade, and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for In These Times, Hammer & Hope, Scalawag, The Atlanta Community Press Collective, and the Indypendent. She is included in the anthologies No Cop City, No Cop World, and World War 3 Now?.----------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Priscilla's Support Website: https://supportpriscilla.org/🔖 In These Times: No New Beds (https://bit.ly/4en9a6e)🌐 Hannah's Page (https://bit.ly/43Pmo5K_💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Trump's Dept. of Justice Indicts 15 Anti-ICE Organizers in Minneapolis w/ Journalist Amie Stager (G&R 505)
2w ago00:26:05Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In Minneapolis this week, federal prosecutors have announced charges against 15 anti-ICE activists who took part in protests against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The 15 individuals are accused of being part of anti-fascist, or “antifa,” groups that “violently oppose immigration law enforcement" and are charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer." At least five of the indicted are trade unionists. In our latest, we talked with Minneapolis based labor journalist Amie Stager about the indictment and how it's a case of overreach by the Trump administration. Guest Bio//Amie Stager (@amiestager) has worked for the Labor Education Service since 2020. She studied journalism at the University of Minnesota, where she also graduated with a master's degree in public history in 2025. She researches art, media, education, and collective action by and for working people and our movements. Her writing can be found in Workday Magazine, The Real News Network, In These Times, and Minnesota Women's Press. She is currently the Senior Associate editor at Workday Magazine. -----------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers (https://bit.ly/4ehHIXw)🌐 Protests follow after 15 Minnesotans charged with anti-ICE conspiracy (https://bit.ly/4ozbsT6)🌐 Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It (https://bit.ly/4gdZJHJ)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Graham Platner vs. The Democratic Establishment (G&R 504)
2w ago00:40:42Summary ready🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we talk about how the liberal establishment find itself in a war with it's anti-Zionist anti-ruling class progressive left. This has been most visible with the recent character assassination of Graham Platner by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the centrist Democrats. Punching left is the norm with the centrist Democrats against anyone talk about economic justice and challenging the status quo. -----------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck (https://bit.ly/4lsMJwV)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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As Texas Becomes the Epicenter for Data Center Boom, Political Fault Lines Emerge w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 503)
2w ago00:45:07Summary ready🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we dive deep into the bitcoin mine and AI data center boom in Texas and the emerging faultlines in the states politics. We discuss with Texas Observer special correspondent Candice Bernd (candicebernd.bsky.social). Guest Bio//Candice Bernd is a special investigative correspondent for the Texas Observer covering the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, and Earth Island Journal. She’s received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center. She is the author of the forthcoming Blood, Soil, and Oil: Far-Right Acceleration in the Age of Climate Crisis.-------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links📚 Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret. (https://bit.ly/4et5leA)🔗 Data Center Boom Exposes GOP Faultlines over Local Control (https://bit.ly/4eFEBbX)🌐 Candice's website: https://candicequestions.com/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson (G&R 502)
3w ago00:48:06Summary ready🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we talk with activist and writer Ann Larson (@annllarson) about her experience working in a Salt Lake City grocery store during the early part of the pandemic. We talk about the economic precarity all grocery workers face there while performing an essential task for our society. We get into corporate policing and surveillance of employees, and the poverty wages and zero benefits they give to the workers. Guest bio//Ann Larson (@AnnLLarson) is an activist and writer focused on economic justice. Her writing has appeared in many publications including the New Republic, the Nation and In These Times. She's the co-founder of the Debt Collective and a Reporting Fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She's the author of "Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register."-------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links📚 Clean Up on Aisle Five (https://bit.ly/4ed9FP0)🌐 Ann's website: https://annlarsonwrites.com/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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Rainforest Radicals: The History of Rainforest Action Network w/ Prof. David Benac (G&R 501)
3w ago01:03:53Summary ready🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. Rainforest Action Network (RAN) emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainforests from transnational corporations funding the expansion of tropical cattle ranching. It excelled at using nonviolent, civil disobedience in dramatic campaigns that captured the attention of the public, media, and RAN’s corporate adversaries. In our latest, Scott, joined by guest co-host Laurel Sutherlin, talks with Prof. David Benac (History Dept., Western Michigan University) about his new book on Rainforest Action Network. They discuss it's roots in Earth First!, international forest campaigns and Indigenous solidarity. They also discuss its anti-corporate campaign strategies and the relevance of RAN's campaign work today. Guest Bio// David Benac is an environmental and public historian of the post-WWII United States at Western Michigan University. His research investigates how people act on their perceptions of nature, the science of ecology, and the philosophy of ecocentrism. He is the author of "Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing," that explores the radical environmental movement of the late twentieth century and the formation of international coalitions of grassroots groups devoted to supporting indigenous rights and environmental protections. Guest Host Bio//Laurel Sutherlin is a naturalist, environmental advocate, and the co-host of the weekly program Nature Nuggets on Radio Kingston in New York's Hudson Valley. He is also the Director of Strategic Communications at the Rainforest Action Network and a board director for the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.-----------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links📚 Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing (https://bit.ly/3Q5OB4I)🌐 Prof. David Benac (https://bit.ly/3SqJnBl)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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