Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

Scott and Bob got together to commemorate, actually reminisce, about the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq. We talked about the ramp-up to the war, especially from 9/11 onward, but spent a lot of time discussing our actions here in Houston, our roots in the anti-globalization movement, and how we pivoted to become the most important left group in Houston opposing the war and holding vigils in front of Halliburton, and later disrupting the company’s shareholders meeting. It's a not-too-pleasant trip down the memory lane of the Iraq War but also a good lesson in organizing and local political activism. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outro- "No Fuckin' War" by the Dicks Follow Green and Red// **G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast **Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// **Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast **Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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.

We had a really great conversation with Andrew Bacevich, one of the most astute, if not the preeminent, critics of American foreign policy today.  We talked about the ongoing bloodshed in Ukraine, the need to find a way out,  the current U.S. saber-rattling toward China, the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, and some history of the Cold War, including NSC-68. As always we discussed the U.S. priorities in spending billions abroad and on the military budget while problems at home mount. Talking with Andy Bacevich is always a great education and essential viewing/listening. Bio// Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.  He is a retired career officer in the Armor Branch of the United States Army, retiring with the rank of colonel.  Bacevich is the co-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. And he's the author of numerous books including the recently released “On Shedding An Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century.” ---------------------------------------- Outro "Green and Red Blues" Links// Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: https://quincyinst.org/ The Nation: We Can’t Reduce the Ukraine War to a Morality Play (http://bit.ly/3TeGxM4) Foreign Affairs:The Reckoning That Wasn’t (http://bit.ly/3TeApUi) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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.

Legendary reporter Seymour Hersh joins Green and Red Podcast! In our latest, we talk with Seymour Hersh about his bombshell article exposing the U.S. destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline. We talk with him about the politics around the Nordstream Pipeline, the war in Ukraine, Putin, Biden and much more. Seymour Hersh has Won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book award and several George Polk awards.  He’s best known for breaking stories around military and national security matters including the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam, the CIA spying on American citizens in 1970s (that led to the formation of the Church Committee) and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq war. --------------------------------------------- Outro "Green and Red Blues" Links// Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline  (http://bit.ly/3myrmBu) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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.

In our latest, Scott talks with return guest Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) about the latest from on the ground in Atlanta.  Candice Bernd is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout. Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) is senior editor/staff reporter at  Truthout. Her work has also appeared The Nation, In These Times, the  Texas Observer, Salon, Rewire News Group, Sludge, YES! Magazine and  Earth Island Journal. Her work has received awards from the San  Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of Society of Professional  Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas  Peace and Justice Center. --------------------------------------------------- Outro "Green and Red Blues" Links// Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Court Green-Lights Phase I of “Cop City”  (http://bit.ly/3ZeWSmc) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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. 

As reactionary politics heat up in Texas, armed community and left groups have begun confronting a coalition of neo-nazis, white supremacists, Proud Boys and christian fascist groups who've been trying to intimidate drag show and other LGBQT groups and events across the state.    Scott talks with Candice Bernd with Truthout about her latest article "Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists" and her coverage of these protests and confrontations across the state.    Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) is senior editor/staff reporter at Truthout.   ------------------------------------------------------  Outro "Hold the Line" by Hardened and Tempered   Links//  Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists (http://bit.ly/419B9gQ)   Follow Green and Red//  G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/  Support the Green and Red Podcast//  Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR  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.

There's a Riot Going On!  We didn't talk to Sly Stone, we did even better.  We talked with Ben Case (@benjamscase) the author of a provocative new book, “Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence,” which challenges the long-time liberal insistence on non-violent and often non-aggressive protest and makes a case that riots are another tactic to be used by the Left.  This is a debate that's been ongoing in Left circles for a long, long time and Ben Case makes a compelling argument that by pledging "non-violence" we let the ruling class know up front that we're not going to threaten it.   Benjamin S. Case is an organizer, educator, and writer. He is a researcher at the Center for Work and Democracy and a fellow at the Resistance Studies Initiative. Case is based in Pittsburgh, PA. We also celebrate and mourn Jen Angel-publisher, writer, anarchist, radical media activist, baker, comrade to many and longtime friend and co-conspirator of Scott’s.  -------------------------- Outro “Sainted Streets” by Casey Neill Links// Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (https://www.akpress.org/street-rebell...) Love and support for Jen Angel (https://bit.ly/3Ilguis) We Remember Jen Angel (https://bit.ly/3lyeKd7) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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. Executive consultation by Grahan Klumpner. 

We continued our discussion with Professor Carla Toche Casalino (@tochecasalino) in Peru about the ongoing crisis there after the December coup that ousted Pedro Castillo.  There has been continued repression by the government against workers, students, peasants and others protesting the Dina Boluarte regime.  Police forces have shot and killed non-violent protestors, kidnapped and arrested others, and are harassing and menacing activists. We also discussed the international reaction to this crisis, including the role the U.S. is playing in supporting the violent Boluarte regime. The U.S. media is giving little coverage to Peru right now, so this is an important contribution to the news about the crisis there.  Prof. Carla Toche Casalino is a political scientist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the  Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima. --------------------------------------------------------- Outro- "Pobre Cada Dia Mas Pobre" by Los Orientales de Paramonga   Links// Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon From Big Oil (http://bit.ly/3X6S0O7) AP: Dems urge Biden to halt aid to Peru over protest crackdown (http://bit.ly/3YpYkRT) Reuthers: Protester dies in Lima as Peru's political crisis continues (http://bit.ly/3wXESQL) Peru: No Early Elections Despite Crisis (http://bit.ly/3YvddTh) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Where you find all the good news about G&R: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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.

Last week, we spoke with a local Atlanta organizer about the tragic murder of Atlanta forest defender Tortuguita by Georgia State Police. We’re following up today with more on the state’s war against Stop Cop City organizing. Since December, 19 forest defenders have been charged with "domestic terrorism" under a 2017 Georgia anti-terror law. The law originally intended for mass shootings in the wake of white supremacist Dylann Roof's massacre at a black Charleston, SC church. It was later expanded to include crimes against property and target protest on the left. Georgia authorities are now using it to enhance low level crimes in the Atlanta forest defense campaign.  In this episode, Scott talks with environmental journalist Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) about the troubling use of the law and her recent article on the matter in Grist. ------------------------- Outro- Green and Red Blues Links// Grist: "Documents show how 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism" (http://bit.ly/3DtRGSE) G&R:Police Murder Forest Defender Near Atlanta’s Proposed “Cop City" (apple.co/3XNOcSY) Alleen's website: https://www.alleenbrown.com/ https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/  Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org Labor Podcast Network We've recently become a member of the Labor Podcast Network!   Check them out here:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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.

January 27th will mark the 50th Anniversary of the peace treaty that ended the American war against Vietnam, and Bob had a long discussion with Noam Chomsky about that event.  They discussed the motives for the U.S. getting involved in Vietnam, the destruction unleashed by the U.S. against Vietnam, particularly the southern half, the betrayals during the negotiations, and the legacy of Vietnam. About Noam Chomsky// Professor Chomsky is an American  linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist.  He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and  Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair  in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of  Arizona. At 93, he is still active; writing and  giving interviews to media all over the world. He is the author of  scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards  a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed  States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for  the American Dream. His most recent book is “The Withdrawal: Iraq,  Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power,” co-authored with  Vijay Prashad. ----------------------------------- Outro- Green and Red Blues Links// The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (https://bit.ly/3DPoAOI) G&R: Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (https://apple.co/3FepBwT) G&R: Noam Chomsky on the 1960s (https://bit.ly/ChomskyGandR) G&R: Noam Chomsky on why the Democrats suck (https://bit.ly/3GaQeoX) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org Labor Podcast Network// We've recently become a member of the Labor Podcast Network! Check them out here:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 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

A forest defender, Manuel Teran, AKA “Tortuguita" or "Tort," was shot  and killed by police on Wednesday during a violent raid of the protest  camp and community gathering space that has blocked construction of an  enormous police training facility known as “Cop City” on roughly 100  acres of public forest in southeast Atlanta. Vigils for the murdered  forest defender Tortuguita have taken place from Oakland to Minneapolis  to Charlotte to Chicago. In Atlanta, activists held a vigil the night of  the shooting and are planning a march on Saturday.   Since June 2021, the Stop Cop City campaign (@defendatlforest) has  resisted the construction of a police training facility and demolition  of an urban forest. Through the campaign demonstrators have been  pepper-sprayed, attacked, threatened and violently arrested by the  police Last month, 5 protestors were arrested and charged with “domestic  terrorism” On Wednesday, beside the murder of Tort, at least another 7 protestors  were arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism.”   In this episode, Scott talks with Micah (@micahinatl), an Atlanta-based  organizer, about the situation in Atlanta.    -----------------------------------------------------------------------  Outro- Green and Red Blue   Links//  https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/   Atlanta solidarity fund (https://bit.ly/3kvpoAP)  Cop City and the Prison Industrial Complex in Atlanta (http://bit.ly/3R1Xyby)  The Bitter Southerner: Forest for the Trees (http://bit.ly/3HmgvlK)   Follow Green and Red//  G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Vietnam  50 Years Later   Labor Podcast Network// We've recently become a member of the Labor Podcast Network!    Check them out here:https://www.laborradionetwork.org/   Support the Green and Red Podcast//  Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   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.