Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

One of the eminent intellectuals/activists of our time, Staughton Lynd, died yesterday, and Scott and Bob paid tribute to him as the introduction to a reprise of his 2020 interview.  Staughton was the first interview on Green & Red, during its second episode, and he discussed various issues regarding civil rights and especially labor organizing.  (Errata: It was Herbert Apthecker, not David Dellinger, who went to Vietnam with Staughton and Tom Hayden.  My bad, BB) Staughton Lynd was one of the most important American Activists/Scholars from the mid-20th Century onward.  As a historian, he was one of the first prominent scholars associated with the "New Left" and he did pathbreaking work on the  colonial war of liberation against the British Empire, situating it not just as a fight over Home Rule, but also "who should rule at home," i.e. what type of class relations would exist in the new country.   Staughton was on the faculty at Spelman University where he and colleague Howard Zinn became active in the Civil Rights Movement (activity that cost Zinn his job there).  Staughton became head of the Mississippi Summer Freedom Education Project, organized by SNCC.  He then moved on to the faculty at Yale University, but that was short-lived.  He traveled to northern Vietnam in 1965 as part of an antiwar contingent and the Liberals at Yale fired him for his political activity.  After that he, and his wife, another acclaimed activist, Alice became lawyers specializing in Labor Law and Prison Reform. The Lynds moved to Niles, Ohio (also Bob Buzzanco's hometown) where Staughton became one of the leaders of a 1977 movement to save Youngstown, Ohio steel mills from closing down.  He has been active in labor matters since and he and Alice also have defended death row prisoners and worked with military veterans on the issue of "moral injury." For more on Staughton, see, among others, his books Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays; Moral Injury & Nonviolent Resistance (with Alice Lynd); and The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill Closings.  There is also a god biogaphy of Staughton, Carl Mirra's The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970.  Staughton's Papers are archived at Kent State University:http://bit.ly/3tQ4FsD ------------------------------- Intro/Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ **NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/xDJgCxYE 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com  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.

We’re currently seeing a drive towards the growth of the renewable energy (RE) sector. We’re seeing a new iteration of corporate liberalism which allows the state to expand markets, in this case for renewable energy, but at a cost related to justice and health of communities in or near areas extracting materials for the RE sector.  The most recent example of this is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).  The IRA created incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, renewable energy and more and it provides $27 billion in funding for accelerating clean energy technologies. So the question as we’re seeing the growth, and government funded growth, of renewable energy, is how clean is it really? In our latest episode, we speak with Raquel Dominguez (@dominguez_raque) with Earthworks (@Earthworks) about clean energy and a circular economy, the impacts of mining for the RE sector and reactions from state and non-state actors to this issue.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro/Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody Links// What’s Missing from the New IEA Report on Mining and the Renewable Energy Transition? (http://bit.ly/3EdOw54) Just Minerals for a Just Transition (http://bit.ly/3O64nr2) U.S. Making Up for Lost Time in Building a Circular Economy (http://bit.ly/3GiKsmN) Eco-fascism: a tangible & present danger (http://bit.ly/3g39wUh) Guardian: There’s lithium in them thar hills – but fears grow over US ‘white gold’ boom (http://bit.ly/3g5uiT2) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/xDJgCxYE 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com  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.

Over 36,000 academic workers across the University of California's (UC) 10-campus system held a strike authorization vote. The vote passed with nearly 98% approval. The strike will begin on November 14th. Workers are demanding include increased compensation, access to sustainable transportation, more childcare assistance, and increased job security. Scott talks with Galen Liang, a grad student and UAW 2865 member to get an update on the looming strike. Galen is a Chinese international student in the math department at UC Berkeley.He's a second year Ph.D. candidate from Guangzhou in the southern part of China. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Outro// "Solidarity Forever" by Utah Phillips Links// Fair UC Now: https://www.fairucnow.org/ University of California Workers Authorize Strike (https://bit.ly/3tmpZpq) U of California Academic Workers make history with largest, decisive vote to strike Nov. 14 (https://bit.ly/3E0sdj8) Thousands set to strike across UC system beginning Nov. 14. (https://bit.ly/3UrsR0n) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MU4QrxAY 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com  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.

The 27th meeting of the United Nations Climate talks, or COP27m is  happening in Sharm El Sheikh, a coastal resort town in Egypt. The  gathering is happening amidst a crackdown on Egyptian civil society by  the government around climate issues and food shortages.    Scott gets an update with a climate activist on the ground in Sharm  El-Sheikh.   ———————  Links//  Support the call for "No climate justice without open civic space." (https://bit.ly/3NPCvas)   Follow Green and Red//  G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  https://greenandredpodcast.org/  NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MU4QrxAY   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.

The Democratic Party is about to get pummeled in the mid-term elections next week.  Scott and Bob followed up on their recent discussion with Noam Chomsky on the devolution of the Democrats and their abandonment of working class issues since the 1970s (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Ngm...) by discussing the their failure to offer up a real resistance to the Republicans. We take a historical approach--talking about the GOP-stolen election of 2000 and the Democrat's failure to fight in Florida when Bush had people in the streets and Gore rejected any suggestion to have similar protests.  We talk about the failure of Barack Obama to help anyone win office other than himself and point out that the Democratic Party suffered huge losses in state races throught the Obama years. We also talked about the weak and timid responses to the GOP's attacks on the Democrats emphasizing the Crime and Inflation issues.  And of course we discussed the way the Democratic Establishment punches left, blaming Sanders, The Squad, the Greens, and others while never taking responsibility for their own failures. And we finish by paying tribute to the great Mike Davis ---------------------- Outro// "Lifestyles of the Rich and Comfortable" By Piss Control Links// Beto vs. Greg Abbott (https://bit.ly/3FHKG6I) WaPo: Centrist House Democrats lash out at liberal colleagues, blame far-left views for costing the party seats (from 2020) (https://wapo.st/3t06jrb) Texas Bail Reform Reduced Jail Time and Crime, New Study Says (https://bloom.bg/3fvr773) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MU4QrxAY 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com. 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.

60 years ago this month, in October 1962, Americans anxiously heard news for almost two weeks straight about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, less than 100 miles away from the U.S.  Nuclear War was possible, to some imminent. In this episode we offer a brief history of the Cuban Missile Crisis and, more importantly, a remembrance and reconsideration of the events of October and JFK actions throughout the crisis.   JFK has been praised for his firm resolve, courage, and strength in handling the crisis but the reality is that he was provocative and almost caused a war against Russia.  In this episode we'll start by giving a background on JFK's aggression toward Cuba, then we'll offer a brief narrative of the crisis, and finally we'll discuss how Kennedy continued his subversion against Castro's government after the Missile Crisis. JFK was not heroic. His recklessness and need for credibility almost caused a nuclear exchange.  The media doesn't tell you this story.  Green and Red does . . . ------------------------------- Outro- "We'll Meet Again" By Vera Lynn Links The best resource for the Missile Crisis is the National Security Archive, at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/ It's recently put out a series of briefing books with documents on the crisis. Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MmvSzjRp 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com  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.

Mike Hellman is country and americana musician writing songs, putting out albums and playing gigs in Texas, California and beyond. But he also has organized with the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) for over a decade. He's been part of campaigns against Starbucks and Whole Foods a long time before the current campaigns against those corporate giants.  Flying solo, Scott talks with old friend and comrade Mike about music and labor politics. They discussed his campaign and organizing work with the Wobblies, thoughts on the current state of labor and how big unions and labor law formulated for the bosses hold the rank and file back.They also talk about his musical influences and inspiration, from hip hop to punk to Joe Hill. We then about his upcoming live gigs in California and his new album.  Mike Hellman (@MikeHellmanForReal)  is a construction worker by day and a country and americana troubadour by night. He also has been an organizer with the Wobblies, Earth First! and various other radical causes. -------------------------- Interlude- Mike Hellman "Someday" Outro- Mike Hellman "What I am" Links MikeHellmanMusic.com Mike on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mikehellmanforreal/ Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: 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 **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available for sale.  Get yours now at https://www.certaindays.org/ 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.

The "hijab protests" in Iran have continued and intensified for weeks now, and we talked to a journalist and scholar with a longtime familiarity with the country.  Giuseppe Acconcia, @stradedellest,  professor at Padua University, has been a journalist working out of Iran and is the author of "The Great Iran," and most recently co-authored, with Lorenza Perini, of "The Arab Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, 2011-2021." Acconcia here provides us with background to the new conflict, the critical role Iranian women have played in the resistance in Iran for some time now and the current state of the uprising, and other factors, like the Iranian economy and sanctions, that are affecting the current protests. See Acconcia and Perini, The Arab-Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War,   https://www.routledge.com/The-Arab-Uprisings-Protests-Gender-and-War-2011-2021/Acconcia-Perini/p/book/9781032274843 ----------------------------------------------- Outro// "Baraye" by Shervin Hajipour (note- This is a popular resistance song with the Iranian uprising. You can read more about it here: https://bit.ly/3s2GxSZ) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/Rg7H9A3X 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 ** Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available for sale.  Get yours now at https://www.certaindays.org/ 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.

The "Mendocino War" was a bloody conflict between the Yuki tribe and white settlers in Northern California. White settlers raided and stole Yuki lands and massacring hundreds of Yuki in the process. The Yuki fled to "The Mountain" in what is now known as the Jackson Demonstration State Forest to escape the violence. Those villages in the forest are now sacred sites to the Coastal Yuki and Northern Pomo tribes.  The state of California is allowing logging companies to log the 50,000 acre Jackson Forest for profit to finance CalFire's operations fighting wildfires. Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's direction for California state agencies to co-manage state lands with local Native American tribes and seek opportunities to return State lands to Native American tribes, the Dept. of Natural Resources has only designated 75 acres as "sacred sites."  Flying solo, Scott talks with Pricilla Hunter, Polly Girvin and Andy Wellspring with the Pomo Land Back (@PomoLandBack) campaign and the Coalition to Save Jackson Forest (@savejacksoncoalition) about the ongoing campaign to save the Jackson Forest and the sacred sites within it. The campaign has seen backcountry blockades and tree-sit action as well as rallies and marches in Mendocino County and Sacramento.  The campaigners see this as potentially the next great environmental struggle. We discuss.  Bios// Priscilla Hunter is a Tribal Elder of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, former Chairwoman of the Tribe, and currently the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Priscilla is working to protect the Sacred Sites of her Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki peoples that are threatened by logging, road building and pesticide operations in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, which is located in her homelands, also called Mendocino. Polly Girvin is a movement elder, Chicana activist, and civil rights and Federal Indian Law attorney graduated from the University of California Berkeley and Columbia University School of Law.  Andy Wellspring is a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice, the Mendo Coast chapter. SURJ is white folks committed to racial justice nationally, and SURJ Mendo Coast is a member of the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest and supporting the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians in this struggle to protect sacred sites and end commercial logging on Pomo Homelands.  ----------------------------- Outro- Stuart James "NoDAPL" Links// Save Jackson Forest: https://savejackson.org/ Donate to support the tribe's legal strategy. (https://bit.ly/3yjiUZI) Links// Save Jackson Forest: https://savejackson.org/ Donate to support the tribe's legal strategy. (https://bit.ly/3yjiUZI) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/Rg7H9A3X 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 ** Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available for sale.  Get your's now at https://www.certaindays.org/ 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 this episode, we get into the legacies  of Columbus and America's  genocide of Indigenous people with Prof.  Michael Oberg (@nativeamtext),  the larger problems of the way Native  American History is taught, and  why a 1619 Project is needed for  American Indians too. We start off with a clip from the  Sopranos highlighting the conflict in the Italian-American community  over Columbus Day. And then we deep dive into Indigenous Peoples' Day,  the cultural impact of America's genocide, the Indian Wars and violence  in the U.S. historical narrative. We also talk about whether cultural  gains (things like tearing down Columbus statues, changing sports team  names, etc.) will result in material gains (economics, health care, etc)  for Native Americans, Ruth Bader  Ginsburg and the epidemic of police  murder of Indigenous people. Michael Oberg is Distinguished Professor  of  History at SUNY-Geneseo. The author of seven books on Native  American history, Oberg received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for  Excellence in  Teaching in 2003 and a Chancellor's Award for Excellence  in Scholarship  in 2013. ------------------------ Links// Michael Oberg's website: https://michaelleroyoberg.com/ Indigenous Lives Matter: Some Thoughts on the Death of Reynold High  Pine, 1972. (https://bit.ly/33N2gmg) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/Rg7H9A3X 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.