Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

Our favorite music is that music that gets in your face, flips over tables and fights those in power. Consolidated was a band that did that very thing. Since their formation in the late 80s, they've used music to speak out on corporate greed, fascism, homophobia, and animal rights. Now they are returning to the music scene with more of the anti-capitalist fascist-fighting same.  We talk with Consolidated lead guitarist and vocalist Adam Sherburne as they are embarking on their return.  Adam Sherburne is the lead guitarist, vocalist, and music director for Consolidated, a radical Left industrial band from San Francisco, California. Consolidated is an American radical activist music group, formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/industrial music band. They were distinguished by  left-leaning political activism and politically radical lyrics, as well  as their innovative sonic collages which blended industrial and hip-hop  styles. Their latest album, We're Already There, is released this year. Music in episode "Capitalism A.F." and "Music is the Sound of Life" by Consolidated on the eMERGENCY heARTS label. More// We're Already There: https://www.limbabwe.com/ Bandcamp page: https://consolidated.bandcamp.com/ eMERGENCY heARTS: https://www.emergencyhearts.com/  Consolidated on Facefuck: https://www.facebook.com/Consolidated-105778171151699  Big Shot: Premiere: Consolidated – Musica Sin Fronteras (https://bit.ly/3hBWb3h) Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). 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.

The fight against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline continues to escalate. Since we last talked about it, Indigenous women-led movements on the ground have been disrupting construction along the pipeline route. Last week, the Giniw Collective, Earth First!, Rainforest Action Network and others took more action. G&R co-host Scott Parkin returned last week with Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) from the Cranky Vegan YouTube channel. They talked with Bob afterwards about the trip.  Read more// The Cranky Vegan: A Return to Stop LINE 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWT1tjzTbo Giniw Collective: https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/ Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). 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 our third episode of our ongoing conversation about the New Left, we pay tribute to the memory of the great New Left historian Walter LaFeber of Cornell University.   We talked about the historical importance of the New Left, especially in the study of U.S. foreign relations, the so-called Wisconsin School, William Appleman Williams and others, and then discussed Professor LaFeber's contribution as one of the most important historians of the modern era.  We talked about his work on the Spanish American War (The New Empire); The Cold War (America, Russia, and the Cold War); the historical background to the Reagan wars in Central America (Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America); Asia and the Open Door (The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History); Globalization (Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism); and Vietnam (The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election).  See also  G&R Episode 35: The New Left and the Next Left (Tribute to Thomas McCormick), https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g-r-episode-35-new-left-next-left-what-we-can-learn/id1501708978?i=1000488461896  G&R Episode 91: Noam Chomsky on the New Left and the Radical 1960s, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g-r-episode-91-noam-chomsky-on-the-1960s-and-the-new-left/id1501708978?i=1000523751184  Cornell obituary of Walter LaFeber, https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/walter-lafeber-revered-history-professor-dies  New York Times obituary of Walter LaFeber, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/education/walter-lafeber-dead.html  Follow us on any of these social media channels//  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast    Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast    YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube    Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media).  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.

Since the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, the financial sector has put $3.8 TRILLION into the fossil fuel sector. That's $3.8 trillion into oil, gas, coal and Indigenous and human rights abuses across the globe. These banks notoriously fund projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline and Enbridge's Line 3 Pipeline. The banking sector keeps Big Oil flush with cash contributing trillions to the climate crisis. Wall Street, as well as banks in Canada, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world also talk a happy positive rap on sustainability and a healthy environment, but continue to make huge profits from it.  We talk with Jackie Fielder (@JackieFielder_) with Stop the Money Pipeline (@StopMoneyPipe), a coalition of 160 groups, fighting to stop the flow of money from banks, private investment firms like BlackRock and insurance companies into oil, gas and coal. We talk about efforts to defund Line 3 and the backlash from industry and government against the climate justice movement. We also discuss Jackie's 2020 state senate run against Scott Wiener and her efforts to start a San Francisco Public Bank.  Jackie Fielder is Native American (Two Kettle Lakota and Hidatsa), Latina, and queer educator and organizer. She campaigned against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline; helped organize public banking efforts in San Francisco; and worked to defeat a city initiative that would loosen taser use for police in the Bay Area. In 2020, she ran for state senate in San Francisco against Democrat Scott Wiener.  Currently, she works as the communications coordinator with Stop the Money Pipeline. A coalition of organizations fighting to stop the flow of corporate money into fossil fuels.   Read more// Stop the Money Pipeline: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/ Rainforest Action Network. Banking on Climate Chaos (https://bit.ly/3j39xGR) Winona LaDuke on Mass Protest by Water Protectors to Halt Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota (https://bit.ly/3d9imLl) Meet the Young Indigenous Activist Running for California’s State Senate (https://bit.ly/35OgzHI) Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). 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 the past few years, "canceling" someone from prominent platforms or careers has become an increasingly controversial topic in today's cultural and political circles. A comedian or other public figures says, Tweets or does offensive things and a public backlash, often fueled by politically progressive social media, ensues. It's destroyed careers. It's targeted people by mistake. How does cancel culture effect movement building projects on the left? Is it a form of leftist self-sabotage, misplaced priorities or a legit means of speaking truth to power? We talk about all of it with Ben Burgis, author of the new book "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns." We dive deep into the "cancel culture" wars on the left. But, also get into how it's practiced by the right with attempts to "cancel" everything from Critical Race Theory to opponents of Israel, and use it to further the left-right culture war.  Plus, we discuss the biggest cancellation EVER- Trump canceled from Twitter! Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor and the author of Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left and “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns.” He is host of the podcast Give Them An Argument. Read more// Ben Burgis: We Can’t Cancel Ourselves Into a Better World (https://bit.ly/3gxzCfk) NY Times: Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets (https://nyti.ms/3cNNyzA) Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left (https://bit.ly/2TLrVJq)  Give Them An Argument: https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1 Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics and "Wokeness" (https://bit.ly/3wSowXS) Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media). 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.

This week, thousands of water protectors descended on northern Minnesota  to join the Indigenous-led struggle to stop the Line 3 tar sands  pipeline.  Over 150 were arrested on Monday blocking construction on  Candian oil giant Enbridge's construction site. Hundreds more occupied  an Enbridge drill pad on the Mississippi River as the company prepared  to lay pipe under the river.   Our co-host Scott Parkin (@sparki1969) and our comrade Jake Conroy  (@_jakeconroy), of the Cranky Vegan YouTube channel, traveled to action camp to participate in and support the campaign.      They give Bob an on-the-ground report from Minnesota.      Jake Conroy is a long-time activist, designer, and writer currently residing in Seattle, WA USA.  He has helped organize and participated in successful local, regional, national and international pressure campaigns. He also helped build the foundation of the grassroots campaign SHAC USA, and subsequently arrested by the US government for his role.  Dubbed the SHAC7, Jake and his co-defendants were found guilty and he was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison.   Currently, Jake works at the Rainforest Action Network, an international organization using pressure campaigns to stop rainforest deforestation, fossil fuel extraction, and support human rights. He can be found pontificating online as the Cranky Vegan, where he irritates everyone with his thoughts on the tactics, strategies and optics of the grassroots animal rights movement.  Much thanks and appreciation to all the water protectors fighting Line 3!  Read more//   Treaty People Gathering (https://treatypeoplegathering.com/)   Giniw Collective (https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/)   The Cranky Vegan (https://bit.ly/2TT18Lr)     Follow us on any of these social media channels//   Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast   Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast   YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media).    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. 

Noam Chomsky has been cited as "America's greatest intellectual" who “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.” His participation in the New Left, in both intellectual and activist circles, is part of our history.  Bob and Scott speak with Professor Chomsky about the history of the New Left, the anti-Vietnam movement, the Black Panthers, Feminism, the destruction of Vietnam, the Responsibility of Intellectuals and current issues including Black Lives Matter, Gaza, identity politics and wokeness.  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 92, 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.  Read more//  The New Radicalism. Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer. (https://bit.ly/2SENTO2)  Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals. (https://bit.ly/3p6c97y)  Robert Buzzanco:What Happened to the New Left? Toward a Radical Reading of American Foreign Relations (https://bit.ly/3yOQ3er)  Follow us on any of these social media channels//  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast  YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube  Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media)  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.

Beginning on May 9th, the Israeli Defense Force attacked  Palestinian populations in Gaza for 11 days leaving 250 dead (including 66 children), more than 1700 injured and over 6000 homeless. This most recent attack by the Israelis was in relation to Israeli settler provocations against Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. We talk with Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) about the history of Israeli colonization and displacement of the Palestinian people. How the U.S. supports Israel with $3.8 billion a year in military aid while trying to appear as a "mediator" in Israeli-Palestinian relations. The Israeli propaganda machine targeting of critics and journalists of Israel in the U.S.   We also talk about the unprecedented global protest of the Israeli attack on Gaza from the streets of New York, Houston and London to the "Squad" in the House of Representatives.  Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press. See also Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine, https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution#, and Btselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories,  https://www.btselem.org/ Read more// Saree Makdisi: The Nakba Is Now (https://bit.ly/3vpoPZz) Patrick Cockburn: Biden’s Timid Gaza Intervention Won’t Count for Much But US Reaction Against Israel has Changed Significantly (https://bit.ly/3oQGcjN) WaPo: ‘From Ferguson to Palestine’: How Black Lives Matter changed the U.S. debate on the Mideast (https://wapo.st/3wuvqCe) Ussama Makdisi: Age of Coexistence. The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (https://bit.ly/3fow1Qo) Dr. Makdisi's bio page (https://bit.ly/3vtqyNQ Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media) 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.  Special thanks to our special advisor Jeff Ordower.

The 1980s saw a new consciousness of environmental awareness, particularly around the Earth’s rainforests. Scientists had discovered that, aside from their enormous biodiversity, rainforests also helped to keep carbon from being released into the atmosphere.     Corporations in the U.S. and Europe saw tropical rainforests as a means  for profit. For a long time, Indigenous communities had stood against  industrial development and deforestation. And by the 1980s, environmental groups in Europe and Australia had been actively fighting  deforestation on a grassroots level. But in the U.S. environmental  movements had failed to evoke widespread activism on the subject.     This episode is about the emergence of rainforest movements in the U.S. during the 1980s with one of the founders of Rainforest Action Network  (RAN)-- Randy Hayes.     We interview Randy about the history of the movement to save tropical rainforests, the founding of RAN, corporate campaigning in the early days of RAN and being in solidarity with Indigenous communities around the globe. Randy also talks about biodiversity loss and the ever smaller window of opportunity we have to halt and reverse the very worst of the damage.     Described by the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull,”  Randy Hayes is the co-founder of Rainforest Action Network, and is an author, filmmaker and environmentalist. Hayes is a veteran of many  high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout the world. He is currently the executive director of Foundation Earth and a consultant to the World  Future Council, based in Washington, DC.   Read more//  Rainforest Action Network on anti-corporate campaigns (https://bit.ly/2TeaXU3)  U.S. activists stop Burger King from importing rainforest beef, 1984-1987(**https://bit.ly/3bLrZ2k)  Rainforest Action Network: www.ran.org    The New Green Deal: A Seven-Point Plan For A Deep Planetary Emergency (https://bit.ly/3fmW62l) Randy's talk on Earth Day 2021. Randy’s introduction starts about 2:36:15 into the video. (https://bit.ly/3yLF85p) Follow us on any of these social media channels//  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast  YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media)   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.

In this episode, we talk with Angela Castillo and Lorena Rodriquez with Colombia Conexion- SF Bay (@colconxnsf) about the mass uprisings happening in cities across Colombia. The U.S.-backed right-wing government of Ivan Duque Marquez has pushed a neo-liberal tax reform bill that has sparked mass protest across the country. The Duque government has responded with horrific police brutality resulting in at least 42 deaths as well as many more injured and disappeared by state forces. We dive deep into the general strike and mass protests led by the Colombian working class, the government's and U.S. backed death squads war on left social movements and current crises around COVID-19 and austerity.  We also discuss the city of Cali and its role as one of the epicenters of street resistance. Lorena Rodriguez is a Researcher and activist. Co-founder of La Realidad, estación experimental   a group of people from civil society carrying out a process of  transition towards a human way of life that is beneficial to the natural  system. We promote the conservation of Amazonian ecosystems. Angela Castillo is a PhD student and works with La Voz de los Trabajadores. Angela and Lorena are both activists with Colombia Conexion- SF Bay.  Read more// Colombia Conexion - SF Bay (https://www.facebook.com/ColombiaConexion) Colombia Conexion on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/colombiaconexionsf/) SIGN and SHARE: Stop Human Rights Violations in Colombia and Demand the Application of the Leahy Law (https://bit.ly/33RBjgJ) Sign a letter to demand a stop to U.S funding of Riot Police in Colombia (https://bit.ly/3hcqduC) Provide Mutual Aid to Colombians in the front lines: (https://bit.ly/2S7g0Vy) NY Times: Why are Colombians Protesting? (https://nyti.ms/3hButE8) Follow us on any of these social media channels// Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Please follow us on Medium! (https://medium.com/green-and-red-media) 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. Most excellent editing by Isaac.