Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

Sarah Koster is Green and Red's public health guru and most frequent guest and we just had another great discussion about COVID with here.  Despite government and media claims in June that the crisis of COVID was ending, we're seeing a resurgence in cases, especially due to the Delta variant, lagging vaccination rates, and less mask wearing.  Sarah breaks down the nature of the new variant, the health risks it poses, and what we need to do to be as safe as possible.  Prof. Sarah Koster is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa. Read more// NY Times: Delta Variant in Schools (https://nyti.ms/2Vjesdd) 7 Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant (https://bit.ly/3ylntke) Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread The Delta Variant, CDC Says (https://n.pr/37iEmQy) Follow Green and Red at: 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.

Woke Up This Morning, Got Myself a Podcast!  Madison Lynn (@dickexpert) and John Palmucci (@gabagoolmarx) of the new "Fresh Kills" podcast (@freshkillspod), which  features "garbage takes by garbage guidos," joined us to talk about  their new entry into social media, their takes on left politics and  cancel culture, among other issues, and whether New Jersey or Youngstown Italians drop more "F Bombs."  We also were excited to discuss John's creation, "Socialist Sopranos  Memes" on Facebook, which is a brilliant fusion of Sopranos scenes with Left politics, and we finished with a spirited analysis of the  anti-capitalist themes in so many Sopranos episodes and we all weighed  in with our opinions on whom the "Most Psychopathic" Sopranos character  was and gave our opinions on the controversial ending .     Watch this show, Don't fughgettaboutit! Madison Lynn and John Palmucci are two longtime leftists (whatever that means) from NY/NJ who believe they bring a little something different and much needed to the existing discourse. With "garbarge takes" from these two "garbage guidos", they hope to remind everyone that the best part of ruthless criticism of all that exists is being ruthless. Fresh Kills is currently available on Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts.  Links and shit// Fresh Kills Podcast: https://linktr.ee/freshkillspod Socialist Sopranos Memes: https://www.facebook.com/socialistsopranos Follow Green and Red at: 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.

It's our hundredth episode. We've done a lot in the 17 months (to the day) since we launched Green and Red.  The themes of our scrappy little show include lifting up movement organizing and direct action; critiques of corporate liberalism and reformist politics, the far right & the status quo; sharing people’s history; poking at the sacred cows of the “left” (NGO industrial complex, Brooklyn hipster socialism, Democratic hacks like Pelosi, Schumer, Obomber and Biden); and doing it with humor, wit and a few laughs at our own expense.  We've talked with radical thinkers (including the biggest of them all- Noam Chomsky!!), journalists, radical podcasters, writers, filmmakers and, importantly, organizers and campaigners working on direct action, anti-capitalist, radical environmental campaigns and movement organizing.   We've also raised up analyses, situations and issues, at first, ignored by the liberal-left circles and then embraced by the same circles (ex: the ruling class vs. Trumpworld, the firing of Texas community college professors, the non-threat of a Trump coup, etc.).  This is the kinda stuff you hear first with us.  In our 100th episode, we decided to talk about how far we've come, our dreams and visions for the Green and Red Podcast in the beginning and how far we've come.  We've got a lot more to come.  So keep listening.  This episode includes "Los Cuarto Generales," a resistance song from the Spanish Civil War. Sung by the late great Pete Seeger. Follow Green and Red// 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.

Green and Red Podcast had a great conversation with Professor Richard Wolff (@profwolff) about economic theories, the vital role of the government in subsidizing and supporting corporations and banks, China's economic strength,  how the Federal Reserve creates money for people who already have great wealth, growing inequality, and the continued importance of Karl Marx.    A lifelong professor of economics, Richard D. Wolff is a well-known critic of contemporary capitalism and the leading proponent of an alternative economic system based on Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). He is the host of Economic Update, and has been interviewed on several popular television programs that include: Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Moyers’ Moyers & Company, The Charlie Rose Show, and Up with Chris Hayes. As the founding director of Democracy at Work (d@w), Wolff’s publications that advocate for making the workplace democratic include articles in Truthout.org, The Guardian, Common Dreams, as well as his recent book: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University and at the City College of the City University of New York. Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. Read More// Democracy at Work https://www.democracyatwork.info/ Biden Says Competition Order to Restore ‘Heart’ of Capitalism (https://bloom.bg/3i220a6)  Prof. Wolff talk at Google (https://bit.ly/3rvDcKS) Prof. Wolff on Trump +Tariffs (https://bit.ly/2Wj0Dvu) Follow Green and Red at:  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.

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.