Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

In our final interview from COP 26 in Glasgow, Scott welcomes Lisa Winter and (welcomes back) Alex Cohen with Rising Tide North America (@risingtideNA) to Green and Red. The three of them have a lively discussion about direct action and mass disruption to meet the scale and urgency of the climate crisis from COP to frontline battles around the world.    They reflect on mass actions in Seattle in 1999 and Quebec in 2001 in the era of anti-corporate globalization, and more recent mass disruptions and uprisings around Standing Rock, Line 3 and after the police murder of George Floyd.    Lisa and Alex also traveled through Germany and give Scott an update on the Ende Gelande campaign against coal there. A place where mass participatory action has created disruption against the coal sector.   Finally, Alex gives us an update on DAPL saboteur Jessica Reznicek. Jessica has recently been sentence to 8 years in federal prison for sabotage actions against the Dakota Acess Pipeline in 2016. We talked with Alex in August about Jessica's case.    Alex and Lisa are climate justice organizers with Rising Tide North America. Both are based in St. Louis. Alex also works with the Support Jessica Reznicek team. ------------------------------------------- Links// Rising Tide (https://bit.ly/3x9aPVT) Support Jessica Reznicek: https://supportjessicareznicek.com/ G&R: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/ActionDirectGandR) Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 Isaac

It's a liberal bashing Friday!   Bob and Scott talk about the state of the Democrats in the wake of the Virginia, New Jersey and Buffalo elections.  They talk about how the Democrats continue to act like it's 1993 and put up tired old Clinton hacks like Terry McAuliffe and ex-Goldman bankers like Phil Murphy and expect things to be different. Furthermore, they undermine democratic socialists like India Walton in the Buffalo mayor's race and blame woke politics, defund the police, medicare for all, the Green New Deal, etc when things don't go their way.  In Glasgow, it's even more of the same liberal slight of hand, as Obama and Kerry play up the "climate action" rhetoric when both have built long careers on keeping the fossil fuel sector afloat. Obama was in the White House for eight years with climate movements sitting in on his front doorstep, fighting pipelines in Texas, fracking in New York and coal mining in Appalachia and did NOTHING. Scott has more than a few gripes about this.  We then get into how autonomous movements, using direct action and organizing, defy powers that be in the corporate suites, Washington DC and, the "leadership" of their own movements. We discuss the John Deere strike and a recent disruption of Sen. Amy Klobuchar by Stop Line 3 protestors as examples of disruption and resistance to the powers that be.  Finally, we wrap with a "Love'em they're liberals" segment about Nancy Pelosi officiating billionaire's weddings in San Francisco City Hall (true story).  Love them they're liberals!  And they ain't doing nothing for us! ---------------------------------- Links // Buzzanco: Democrats Won’t Save You . . . Virginia and Buffalo (https://bit.ly/3oiphqc) G&R: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/ActionDirectGandR) Parkin: Why 2021 needs more direct action (https://bit.ly/2021DirectAction) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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.

The UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26) is in its second week. It's been marked by large street protests, a "greenwash trade show" inside the meetings and empty promises by world leaders in the face of climate disaster. Green and Red focuses on movements and what's happening in the streets, so we'll be talking more with organizers and "outside voices" in Glasgow than you'll hear from mainstream media channels.   Bob's off on assignment, so Scott's been on top of our Glasgow coverage. He starts with an update with Matt Leonard (@MattOakland) from the Oil and Gas Action Network (@oil_action). Matt's been there for a couple of weeks supporting street actions targeting world leaders like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, as well as fossil fuel execs and Wall Street bankers wining and dining their way through the climate talks. He talked about reactions and moods of people there, people powered street actions, global climate politics, the role of corporations at COP26 and greenwashing.  Scott then gets an update from Emma Rae Lierley (@EmmaRaeLierley) with Rainforest Action Network (@RAN). They discussed Saturday's march and the invisibilization of Indigenous leadership and delegations by the media. They also discussed the (empty) pledge by world leaders to stop deforestation by 2030, the role of reactionary countries such as Brazil and Indonesia and the importance of Indigenous land and forest defenders in stopping deforestation and climate crises.  Finally, they also talked about corporations at COP26, public relations strategies, greenwashing and "Net Zero by 2050."      We'll be having more voices from Glasgow joining us this week. Please continue to check us out here and on our YouTube channel for more updates.  Follow Green and Red//   https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast   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.

Green & Red Goes Hollywood!   At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can  politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports  and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and  the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming series of episodes, we're periodically going to talk about our favorite political/radical films, television and music.   Check out part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGV962JFmiY&t=2722s   In part 2, we continue our journey into the best political films by starting with movies about working-class issues and activism.  Then we discuss some of our favorite foreign films with political themes, including the work of Gillo Pontecorvo and Costas-Gavras.   One of our favorite themes was "political satire and dystopia," where we  talked about movies that often served as warnings about the world we  live in today.  We discussed what we called "cultural touchstones,"  films that defined an era ("Hair") or served as a snapshot into a  reality we never were shown ("Being There").   We also talk about  important films that discuss wars, revolution, and imperialism, which  are essential to any left understanding of politics.  And we finished with our least favorite political films, and you get to  hear an epic rant from Bob about the horrors of "Forrest Gump."  If you haven't subscribed to Green & Red on YouTube yet, just click  that button above.   Please SHARE and please leave any COMMENTS about  what we left in or what we left out.  We want to know what your favorite  political flicks are.  And please share the word about G&R and follow us all over social  media!   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast   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 Isaac.

In this episode, Bob had a conversation with Executive Director Sera Koulabdara (@SeraKoulabdara) of "Legacies of War" about the 50+ year crisis of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in Laos.  Scott was away on assignment. At the same time as it was attacking Vietnam, the U.S. conducted a "secret war" against Laos through the air, dropping 2 million tons of bombs as part of its "sideshow" to the main war against the Vietnamese Revolution.   Included in that massive campaign were 270,000,000 cluster bombs, smaller bombs--about baseball-sized--or "bomblets" that often did not detonate.  So today, decades after the war ended, about 80,000,000 bombs remain in Laos.   Sera and Bob talked about the ferocious U.S. war in Laos, the aftermath, the daily risks faced by Laotians every day because of the millions of unexploded bombs, and the work of Legacies of War. The mission of Legacies of War is to raise awareness about the history of the Vietnam War-era bombing in Laos and advocate for the clearance of unexploded bombs, to provide space for healing the wounds of war, and to create greater hope for a future of peace. The organization uses art, culture, education, community  organizing and dialogue to bring people together and create healing and  transformation out of the wreckage of war. See also// Legacies of War: http://legaciesofwar.org/  Sera Koulabdara: "Why Biden must reverse Trump policy on landmines now" (https://bit.ly/3GL0rI1)  Sera's blog: http://www.loveiswhy.blog/  Voices from the Plain of Jars (https://amzn.to/3wgzxmv)  The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory (Mark Pavlick, ed.) (https://bit.ly/3GO6L1l) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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 Issac.

In this episode, we celebrate All Hallows Eve by talking about something the really scares us... cancel culture on campus!  (We're joined by the scariest guest host ever, who uses the most amazing words you can imagine.)   We talk about how the capitalist political economy turns students into consumers, universities into corporations & crushes dissent with cancel culture, revoking tenure, grad student union-busting & more.   Our conversation starts with Dr. Cornel West's op-ed in the Washington Post raising an alarm about the disbanding of the classics program at Howard University.    We then talk about three recent incidents of cancellation at the University of Michigan, within the University of Georgia system and the University of Florida. The first by left cancel culture, the other two by right wing attempts to stifle dissent.   This leads us until a deconstruction of how the liberal state works to turn students into consumers and turn university into a factory for the capitalist political economy.    We wrap up with a "Love'em They're Liberals" segment on the late Secretary of State Collin Powell. Powell's storied career extended from covering up the My Lai massacre in 1968 to serving as Deputy National Security Advisory during Reagan's contra wars to his deceitful performance in front of the United Nations hustling for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq to serving as an apologist for Obama's drone program.    Outro music is "Obvious" by Mic Crenshaw on the Emergency Hearts label. --------------------------------------------------------- Links// Georgia’s University System Takes On Tenure (https://nyti.ms/3kdBWd9) The University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case(https://n.pr/3Es0OoQ) A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class (https://nyti.ms/3pY1Hl9) Green and Red: Professors fired from Collin College, Retaliation in Texa‪s‬ (https://bit.ly/TXFiredGandR) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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.

We talked with Clinton Fernandes, professor at University of New South  Wales in Canberra, Australia, which is part of the Australian Defence  Force Academy, about his role in getting documents showing Australia's  role in the 9/11/73 coup in Chile to depose Salvador Allende.   He talked  about the background to the coup, Australia's role in supporting  American policies, and his efforts to get the documents showing those  links.      Outro music is Manzina's "En Para." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Links//  Challenge to declassify documents on Australia's involvement in  Pinochet coup continues in secret (https://bit.ly/3pd0SVq)   Guardian: Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende (https://bit.ly/3lOWcTg)   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast   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 Isaac.

Green & Red Goes Hollywood!   At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming arc, we're  going to talk about our favorite political/radical films, television and music.   We begin with our list of Classic films, some of the movies that have had an impact on Scott and me, and others, as part of our cultural-cum-political education, and that we'd consider essential. Then we discuss what we call "Bank Robbers and Anti-Heroes," where we cite films that expressed the way capitalism makes people desperate and how they often respond outside the law.   We next talked about "Cold War Satire and Red Scare" movies, films which  deal with the domestic side of McCarthyism and cultural conformity, and  then we end part 1 with one of our favorite categories--"70s Political  Thrillers," movies made in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate which  showed how disillusioned, and legitimately paranoid, Americans had  become after the traumas of war and domestic scandal. --------------------------------------------------------- Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast    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 Isaac.

In Cochabamba Bolivia in 2011, tens of thousands were present on Mother  Earth Day as the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth was  declared in response to the "privatization" of nature by the corporate  state. This was in alignment with Indigenous worldviews that have  accelerated the development of rights of nature law.  Both Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as numerous local jurisdictions, have amended their  constitutions to include a "rights of nature."    In this episode, we talk with Pennie Opal Plant (@PennieOpal) and  Shannon Biggs (@ShannonKBiggs), co-founders of Movement Rights  (@movementrights), about the growing movement around the rights of  nature. We discuss the legal, political and cultural aspects of the growing rights of nature movement. We also discuss the recent news that oil has begun to flow through  Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline after 8 years of resistance, the Indigenous  rights movement and the climate movements in the U.S. and globally. Pennie Opal Plant is an Indigenous grandmother of Yaqui, Mexican,  undocumented Choctaw and Cherokee and European descent. Born in the  shadow of the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA, she has been a protector  and defender of the sacred system of life for over 35 years. She is  co-founder of Movement Rights now sits on the Board as lead advisor. She  is a signatory on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother  Earth Treaty, along with Casey Camp-Horinek. Pennie is also the  co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay and continues as an advisor. Shannon Biggs is the co-founder and Director of Movement Rights, a  climate justice organization aligning human laws with the laws of Nature  by advancing Rights of Indigenous peoples, Nature and communities.  Movement Rights assisted the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to become the  first tribe to recognize rights of nature for tribal lands in the US,  and has led strategic gatherings on Rights of Nature and Economics, and  the Indigenous-led 2019 Frontline Oil and Gas (FOG) conference with over  200 national grassroots environmental justice and indigenous  participants.  Internationally she is a recognized leader of the rights  of nature movement, a co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights  of Nature (GARN), and the co-author/editor of two books including “The  Rights of Nature, Making the Case for the Universal Declaration on the  Rights of Nature.” ----------------------------------------------------------------- Links//   Movement Rights: https://www.movementrights.org/   Movement Rights on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3D8qbeV   Pennie Opal Plant: Mother Earth Does Not Negotiate  (https://bit.ly/3mfK7Wm)  October 19 webinar (11 am Pacific): How Indigenous-led Rights of Nature is Transforming Climate Action NOW Registration here: https://bit.ly/3D9l12g  Pennie's chapter on False solutions in the NDN Collective’s new book, “Required Reading” (https://bit.ly/3itM0NV)  People Vs Fossil Fuels Action in DC Oct 11-15: https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast    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 Isaac.

Green and Red has become the go-to media site for a lot of people who want to hear about the environment, anti-capitalist politics, and radical history.    We also talk about pop culture, and especially Left culture.  We've done shows on sports activism with Dave Zirin; we've talked about progressive politics in Country music; we analyzed The Sopranos and Socialism.....and there's more to come. Soon we'll have up episodes about political, Lefty movies and TV shows, and protest music.  We'll soon be talking about The Many Saints of Newark and the politics of Johnny Cash, and so much more. So come for the politics, and stay for the pop culture.  Get out the bowl of popcorn and listen to us talk about movies and TV and music and all kinds of other fun political lefty stuff! --------------------------------------------------------- Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 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