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Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals Green and Red
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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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Scrappy Mother's Day: Hillary's "Feminism,." Biden's Performative BS & Other US Meddling (G&R 297)
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.
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Outro- "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard
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Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher (G&R 296)
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."
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Outro- Green and Red Blues by Moody
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+ Dana R. Fisher: https://danarfisher.com/
+ Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
(https://bit.ly/3wg7lF2)
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Payday Report's Mike Elk and Green & Red launch their Labor Update! (G&R 295)
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.
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Outro music: "We Just Come to Work Here, We Don't Come to Die" by Anne
Feeney
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Twitter at @PaydayReport and @MikeElk and on Facebook and IG.
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War and the Liberals (G&R 294)
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.
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Outro- "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy
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Best of G&R: May Day vs Labor Day. How the ruling class stops radical organizing. (G&R 293)
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.
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Outro// Which Side Are You On by Florence Reece
Links//
+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)
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Bringing the War Home.... Again. Campuses Erupt Over Palestine evoking memories of the 1960s (G&R 292)
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.
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Outro- "We Can Be Together" by Jefferson Airplane
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