Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

It's the 2nd anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Riot. So we're reposting our episode breaking down some of the Ruling Class politics in that moment (and this one).  In Struggle, Bob and Scott ********************************************************** "And we thought 2020  was bumpy. In this fresh episode, we talk about the shocks happening in  the liberal democratic capitalist system--How the ruling class is  destabilized by Trump and the far right actions at Capitol Hill this  week, and how they are responding to maintain order and their own power  as quickly as possible.  It's an analysis you won't find in many other  places, if anywhere. Last week, we saw  former Veep and  Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney(!) organize a statement by all ten  living Secretaries of Defense to call on Trump and officials in the  military establishment to call for an orderly transition of power (he  didn't). We saw the National Association of Manufacturers, a notorious  anti-worker, anti-liberal Democratic institution, issue a statement  calling for the swift enactment of the 25th Amendment of Donald Trump  over inciting riots at the Capitol. And we saw lots more anger and  outrage in the political and corporate spheres aimed at Trump and his  supporters. Between the crises of COVID-19, a  crashing economy, the climate crisis, a growing far right clearly  willing to use deadly violence and these shocks to the system, there are  many forces vying for what kind of world is next for us. As the great Gil Scott-Heron told us,  “America leads the world in shocks.  Unfortunately, America does not  lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock.” That's what Green and  Red Podcast will be doing." Read more//  Bob Buzzanco:This Is Not a Coup (http://bit.ly/35txgYW) Bob Buzzanco: Swipe Left on the Democrats and Electoral Politics (http://bit.ly/3oxv7my) CNN: CEO arrested for breaching the US  Capitol during Trump-fueled insurrection (or The Trials of the Lumpen  Oligarchy) (http://cnn.it/3hYCeSE) 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/ Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast  production. Produced by Bob   (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.   Editing by Scott.

**It's Green and Red's 200th episode!!  Excited to be wrapping up almost three years with you. It's the end of the year, so if you're thinking about donating to some fancy media outlet, perhaps reconsider and support our scrappy little grassroots media enterprise at https://bit.ly/DonateGandR.  On with the episode.... It's been almost ten months since Russia invaded Ukraine and NATO has turned it into a proxy war to destabilize Vladimir Putin. With no end in sight, tens of thousands have been killed, global economic instability and the possibility of a wider (and even nuclear) war between Russia and the West remains a threat.  Peace activist and author Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) joins us to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine and her new book " War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict," co-authored with Nicolas Davies. We discuss political dynamics around the war in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the globe.  We also talk about the United States' long ongoing terror campaign against Cuba and the crisis in Peru.  This is definitely important listening. So please check it out. Bio// Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and author of "Drone Warfare," "Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US Saudi Connection" and "Inside Iran." ---------------- Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by Moody Links// CODEPINK: https://www.codepink.org/ Peace in Ukraine: https://www.peaceinukraine.org/ "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" (https://bit.ly/3YBicCG) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 **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.

As the major U.S. media continues to support the removal and imprisonment of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo along typical imperial/colonial lines, we decided to find out what has really been happening in Peru. We spoke with Political Scientist Carla Toche Casalino from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the  Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima about the recent past in Peruvian politics. We began with the failure of the Kuczynski government in 2018 and the crucial role in ousting him played by Keiko Fujimori, leader of the far right and daughter of imprisoned  Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori.  We talked about the role of the mining companies in ousting politicians and the far-right control of the congress. We then discussed Castillo's rise and the effort to undermine him by Fujimori, whom he beat in a very close election in 2021, and how that has led to the current crisis. It's a fantastic corrective to what we're seeing in the American press today. --------------------------------------- Outro-  “De la fabricas y calles” by Comité Pokofló Links// Cuellos Blancos (https://bit.ly/3hBYq9k) U.S. involvement (https://bit.ly/3jezVzI) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 **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 Scott.

As the climate crisis and toxic pollution worsen, environmentalists are using new strategies to challenge the power of the fossil fuel, petro-chemical and other polluting industries. The "Green Amendments" movement would put environmental protection in state and federal, constitutions and make it an unquestionable right. It already exists in three states (Montana, Pennsylvania and New York) and they are working to add it to more state constitutions.  In our latest, we talk with Green Amendments founder and Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum (@MayaKvanRossum) about Green Amendments.  Bio// Maya K. van Rossum is the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring passage of Green Amendments in every state constitution across our nation, and also at the federal level when the time is right.  She is an environmental attorney, community organizer, and the Delaware Riverkeeper, leading the regional advocacy organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for over 30 years. . She is author of "The Green Amendment: The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment."   -------------------------- Outro//  "Be the Rain" by Jean-Luc Le Tenia Links// Green Amendments for the Generations (https://forthegenerations.org/) Green Amendments Will Empower Environmental Protection (https://bit.ly/3Ht9m3B) Delaware Riverkeeper Network (https://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 **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 Scott.

Our comrades at the Certain Days:Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar collective have begun sales of their 2023 calendar. The project is a joint fundraising and educational project between  outside organizers across North America and political prisoner Xinachtli  (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez) in Texas. This year features art and writings by Zola, Jeff Monaghan and Andy  Crosby, Kill joy, Noelle Hanrahan, Juan Hernandez, Dan Baker,  Antiproduct, Upping the Anti, Katy Slininger, David Gilbert, Paul  Lacombe, Garrett Felber, Oso Blanco, Mark Tilsen, Terra Poirier, Steve  McCain, Lawrence Jenkins, Ed Mead, Windigo Army, Dio Cramer, Roxanne  Dunbar-Ortiz, Green and Red’s Scott Parkin, Seize the Mean and Cindy Barukh Milstein. We just got 10 of them and with a $25 dollar donation to G&R, we’ll send you one. [postage included in donation] Just message us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com with name, address and then make a donation at https://bit.ly/DonateGandR. Thanks for the support.  In solidarity, Bob and Scott

How has music inspired politics, and vice versa? In our latest episode, we talk with activist and musician Casey Neill (@caseyneill) about music, politics, influences, story-telling and environmentalism in a world where nothing is normal anymore.  We also note the passing this week of two renowned Vietnam War scholars- John Prados and George Herring.  Casey Neill is a Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter known for blending politically oriented folk with Celtic, punk, country, and other styles. Originally from the East Coast but moved to Olympia, Washington to attend Evergreen State University, where he became interested in environmentalism and protest music. Throughout the mid-'90s, Neill worked in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene, self-releasing a handful of cassettes and CDs before signing with the Appleseed label. --------------------------- Interlude and Outro- "Manchester Rambler" and "Dancing on the Ruins of Multinational Corporations" by Casey Neill Links// Casey Neill and the Norway Rats: https://www.caseyneill.com/  Get Casey's music on Bandcamp: https://caseyneill.bandcamp.com/  John Prados, Master of Uncovering Government Secrets, Dies at 71 (https://bit.ly/3XWwmxQ) George Herring 1936-2022 (https://bit.ly/3VTlO0F) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 **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 University of California (UC) academic worker strike entered its third week this week. The largest academic worker in U.S. history and the administration shows no signs of moving on demands. Pickets and walk outs have continued across the ten UC campuses. At the Cal-UCLA game on Friday in Berkeley, an independent group of strikers hung a massive banner off of two flag poles during the game.  Scott talks with Adrian Wilson (@circleadrian), a striking UC graduate student-worker about the banner action and the strike.  Adrian is a PhD student in anthropology at UC Berkeley and a longtime Bay Area anarchist activist. [NOTE: You can see the drone footage of the banner we reference at the beginning of the episode here.]  -------------------------------------------------- Intro/Outro- "G&R Blues" by Moody Links// UC Strikers Unfurl Massive Banner at Cal-UCLA Game Demanding a Living Wage (http://bit.ly/3OJH06O) Drone Footage of the Banner Action (http://bit.ly/3gLL61Q) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 **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 Scott.

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.