Green and Red
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Jul 8, 2026
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Episodes
Strike! Working Class Struggle in Little Falls, NY w/ Historian James Cheney (G&R 513) 08.07.2026 42:27
🎉 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/. The Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913 was a pivotal but long-neglected event in American labor history. The story includes the dramatic struggle of immigrant women agains...
MAGA Inc. Inside Trump's Wild World of Corruption w/ journalist Pratap Chatterjee (G&R 512) 07.07.2026 1:02:31
🎉 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/. "MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers" - CorpWatch's latest report - is a deep dive into the companies that have bankrolled and...
America Since the Bicentennial... Decay, Discord and Division (G&R 511) 03.07.2026 1:04:01
🎉 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/. Fifty years ago, America celebrated its bicentennial with a coast-to-coast displays of bunting, flags, community ceremonies, and constant talk about "hope" and "unity." Now as w...
This American Nightmare: Texas Anti-ICE Protestors Sentenced to Decades for Antifascist Beliefs (G&R 510) 02.07.2026 31:04
🎉 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,...
Is the Iran War over? Has it changed the world? A conversation with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (G&R 509) 01.07.2026 1:12:36
🎉 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 aut...
Why the Left Needs to Get Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness w/ author Yotam Marom (G&R 508) 30.06.2026 44:40
🎉 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...
Too Big to Fail? Why Obama's Presidency Sucked (G&R 507) 26.06.2026 54:03
🎉 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....
Continuing Legal Battles for Stop Cop City w/ Hannah Kass and Priscilla Grim (G&R 506) 23.06.2026 29:36
🎉 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...
Trump's Dept. of Justice Indicts 15 Anti-ICE Organizers in Minneapolis w/ Journalist Amie Stager (G&R 505) 19.06.2026 26:05
🎉 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 immigr...
Graham Platner vs. The Democratic Establishment (G&R 504) 18.06.2026 40:42
🎉 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 wit...
As Texas Becomes the Epicenter for Data Center Boom, Political Fault Lines Emerge w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 503) 16.06.2026 45:07
🎉 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....
Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson (G&R 502) 11.06.2026 48:06
🎉 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 groce...
Rainforest Radicals: The History of Rainforest Action Network w/ Prof. David Benac (G&R 501) 09.06.2026 1:03:53
🎉 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 nonviole...
500 Episodes and Counting! The Secret History of the Green and Red Podcast! (G&R 500) 06.06.2026 43:49
🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever, support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Holy shit! Five hundred episodes! Quite the journey to say the least. In our 500th episode, we talk about the secret history of the Green and Red Podcast with our long time friend, comrade and music director Moody. Guest Bio//Moody is the music director of the Green and Red Podca...
Anti-Austerity Protests Shake Bolivia. Here’s Why. w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 499) 04.06.2026 48:49
🎉 Our work is only possible through your generous support. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Bolivian social movements [labor, farmers, civil society, indigenous communities] are pressing neo-liberal President Rodrigo Paz' centrist government to roll back austerity measures and address rising living costs. This has led to thousands in the streets and at ro...
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front w/ author Matthew Wolfe (G&R 498) 02.06.2026 59:38
🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and other great events like this panel at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In 1996, the first of a series of arsons burned down the Oakridge Ranger Station in Oregon. More followed, as well as a massive federal investigation of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Their targets—car dealerships, slaughterhouses, lumber companies, a $12 million Vail ski resort—w...
Radicals, Realists and Repression: The State of U.S. Activism w/ G&R Panel Discussion (G&R 497) 28.05.2026 1:33:42
🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and other great events like this panel at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. We hosted a panel discussion and live podcast event on May 21st in Berkeley, CA where we discussed "The State of Activism in the U.S." We’ve been in the midst of a serious rollback of first amendment protected activities. States are passing anti-protest legislation, police...
MAGAcademy: How corporatism paved the way for the hostile takeover of higher ed. w/ Nolan Higdon (G&R 496) 26.05.2026 56:00
🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Trump’s war on universities , DEI and student activism have been well documented over the past 18 months. But his ability to do this is a result of an architecture put in place by neoliberalism and university administrators. They turned the university into a for profit corporation and transformed studen...
ENCORE: May 19th! The Legacies of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X (both born on May 19) 20.05.2026 1:19:10
💫 LIVE Green and Red Podcast Event on May 21st in Berkley: "Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S." RSVP here- https://bit.ly/3QFR1XO Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In this very special episode from 2020, we celebrate the shared birthday of iconic revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X, both...
Why the Yellow Vests Defy Politics as Usual w/ Prof. Ida Susser (G&R 495) 19.05.2026 57:57
💫 LIVE Green and Red Podcast Event on May 21st in Berkley: "Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S." RSVP here- https://bit.ly/3QFR1XO Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. The Yellow Vest, or gilets jaunes, are grassroots worker movement that have defied politics as usual in France and the rest of the...
SPECIAL ENCORE: The King David Hotel Bombing and 79 Years of Zionist Terrorism 15.05.2026 7:30
Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. It's the 78th anniversary the Nakba. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing of roughly 750,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It marks the destruction of Palestinian society, the destruction of over...
Why the Global Flotilla to Gaza is Never Giving Up w/ Writer and Flotilla Participant Zukiswa Wanner (G&R 494) 14.05.2026 54:04
Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In our latest, Scott talks with writer and Flotilla participant Zukiswa Wanner about the Global Salmud Flotilla. They talk about the detention, torture and deportation of two flotilla activists Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Avila. They also discussed her trip to the West Bank in early in 2023 , her experiences...
May 21st Panel on Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S. 11.05.2026 2:41
Join us on May 21st at 6:30pm for a panel on Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the US. The panel will feature Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff, professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and author of “No Option, But Sabotage,” Prof. Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science, longtime environmental campaigner and organize...
How the Confederacy Won the War..The Triumph of the South's Vision for America w/ Prof. Clayton Lust (G&R 493) 05.05.2026 1:13:07
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 ruling, along partisan lines, ends 61 years of voter protections for African-Americans and other minorities. In our latest, we talk with Prof. Clayton Lust about how the Civil War has never ended and the forces supporting the Lost Cause continue to fight and win for a Southern vision of America. Guest Bio// P...
Best of G&R: Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming . . . 56 Years After the Kent State Killings (G&R 492) 04.05.2026 57:24
Support Green and Red Podcast and get analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. It's the 56th 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 S...
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