Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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.

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.