Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

Dec 10 2024 361 ep. 53 mins 172
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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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The Democrats are a Party of War! Liberals and the Military-Industrial Complex (G&R 347)

Dec 10 2024 63 mins  
The NY Times recently published an essay titled "When Did Liberals Become So Comfortable with War?" This is a conventional media trope--that the Democrats were not a party of war but have pivoted toward that position. In this episode Scott and Bob go into detail about how wrong this idea is! The Democrats, the Liberals, since the days of Woodrow Wilson have been aggressive and war

A is for Anarchy: The Politics of “Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta” Creator Alan Moore w/ Kristian Williams (G&R 346)

Dec 06 2024 49 mins  
Alan Moore is one of the most important comic book and graphic novel creators in the business. His work has subverted the comic book genre and put radical ideas into the mainstream. Most known for his works “The Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta,” more puts anarchist and anti-authoritarian views into those series. In our latest, Scott talks with author Kristian Williams about

The Battle in Seattle, 25 years later, part 6. Encore episode w/ Lisa Sachs (G&R 345)

Dec 02 2024 56 mins  
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and challenged the inevitability of neo-liberalism. In a new series of episodes, we're looking at the 25th anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" ta

The "Battle in Seattle" 25 Years Later, part 5. w/ the Houston Global Awareness Collective (G&R 344)

Dec 01 2024 35 mins  
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and challenged the inevitability of neo-liberalism. In a new series of episodes, we're looking at the 25th anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" talk

The "Battle in Seattle" 25 Years Later, part 4 w/ Kevin Danaher (G&R 343)

Nov 30 2024 62 mins  
"They're writing a constitution for the entire planet that will impact everybody, every biological system, every crop, and nobody knows anything about them because they operate in secret.." -Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange and anti-WTO organizer On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down

The “Battle in Seattle” 25 years later Part 3 w/ organizer Chris Dixon (G&R 342)

Nov 29 2024 57 mins  
"We did, in fact, prevent the first day of the [WTO] ministerial from occurring.” - Chris Dixon, Direct Action Network Organizer On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and challenged t

The “Battle in Seattle” 25 years later Part 2 w/ labor organizer Nancy Haque (G&R 341)

Nov 27 2024 45 mins  
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and broke apart the inevitability of corporate neo-liberalism. In a new series of episodes, we're looking at the 25th anniversary of the "Battle in

The "Battle of Seattle" at 25, part 1: The Global Economy since World War II (G&R 340)

Nov 27 2024 42 mins  
Green & Red Podcast is introducing a new series . . . The Battle of Seattle at 25! On November 30th 1999, protestors shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle and put the world on notice that the forces of globalization--the international ruling class of bankers, industrialists, politicians and others--would be met with force as they reshaped the world economy and caused more precar

Introducing our series on the 25th Anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" (G&R 339)

Nov 26 2024 5 mins  
On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and challenged the inevitability of neo-liberalism. In a new series of episodes, we're looking at the 25th anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" tal

Bolsonaro is Indicted! w/ journalist Mike Elk of Payday Report (G&R 338)

Nov 25 2024 25 mins  
In our latest, Bob talks with Payday Report founder and senior labor reporter Mike Elk about the recent indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.In addition to being a crack labor reporter, Mike Elk has spent a good deal of time in Brazil over the past couple years and we’ve had several conversations about Lula’s victory in 2022 and the role of Brazilian authorit