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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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How the FBI Began Its Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 279)
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.
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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.
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Outro- "F**k the FBI" by Intentional Harassment
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+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)
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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott. -
Liberals Celebrate International Women’s Day By Bombing Gaza (G&R 278)
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).
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Outro- “The Best Things in Life Are Free” by The Melbourne Ska Orchestra
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"Chomsky and Me: A Memoir" . . . Bev Stohl's quarter-century as Chomsky's administrative aide (G&R 277)
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.
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Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody
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+ 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)
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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac. -
Don't Dismiss Aaron Bushnell's Act of Resistance w/ Anti-War Veteran Graham Clumpner (G&R 276)
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.
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Graham Clumpner is an anti-war U.S. military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, anarchist, environmentalist and direct action organizer.
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Outro - "Al Kuffiyah" by Shadia Mansour
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+Self-Immolation of Aaron Bushnell (https://bit.ly/3SY2teN)
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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by
Moody. Editing by Scott. -
Occupy This! The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders w/ Activist Jay Ponti (G&R 275)
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.
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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"
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Outro- "Funhouse" by The Stooges
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+Jay's Website: https://jayponti.com/
+ Be the Revolution: https://betherevolution.us/home/
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I Voted for Joe Biden and All I Got was These Lousy Wars and More COVID (G&R 274)
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.
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Outro- "The Preacher and the Slave" By Utah Phillips
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+Gaza Springs: www.gazasprings.com
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