Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

In our latest episode, we talk with author of Against the Fascist Creep Alexander Reid Ross  (@areidross) about America's history of political violence and the right wing creep in the  United States. From slave patrols to far right groups protesting COVID19 mask  requirements and attacking Black Lives Matter protests today, America  has a long history of political violence. Much of the deadliest has been  carried out by forces of reaction and racism (i.e. right-wingers).  We  talk about the history of right wing violence,  how it compares with movements on the left, current dynamics around  militia groups, influences of Trump and the rise of eco-fascists.     Alexander Reid Ross is an adjunct professor of geography at Portland  State University, a doctoral fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the  Radical Right and author of “Against the Fascist Creep.”     Read More:   America's Armed, Antisemitic Far Right Is Prepping to Defend Trump in  November (https://bit.ly/3cAPvyc)    Conspiracy Theories by Cops Fuel Far Right Attacks Against Antiracist  Protesters (https://bit.ly/3j0JSf1)    Alexander Reid Ross's website: https://alexanderreidross.net/    Also, 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/        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 Scott   (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco). "Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.

In this episode, we talk with environmental journalist Joshua Frank (@joshua__frank) about the climate induced wildfires that have recently ravaged the American West. We get into the climate politics of the western states, the hypocrisy of Democratic politicians preaching climate rhetoric while allowing fossil fuel companies to continue business as usual, the class impacts of the wildfires, and how climate change is exacerbating the wildfires and volatile political situations in places like Portland. We also remember forest defender George Atiyeh who perished in the Oregon fires. Plus we talk lefty independent media and music with Joshua. Joshua Frank is an award-winning  investigative journalist, author and editor covering current political and environmental topics. Along with Jeffrey St. Clair, he is the co-editor of the political magazine and website CounterPunch (@NatCounterPunch) . His work appears in Seattle Weekly,OC Weekly and regularly at CounterPunch.org.  He is author and editors of a number of books. Including Left Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland (2008) (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair), Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (2013) (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair), and The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink (2018) (written with Jeffrey St. Clair). Read More: CounterPunch:George Atiyeh, Opal Creek Champion (https://bit.ly/2FIMbFi) CounterPunch:Intensified Forest Fires: The New Western Travesty (https://bit.ly/3mTOiqu) CounterPunch:Hanford’s Nuclear Option (https://bit.ly/3iXXg3E) Joshua Frank, Author at CounterPunch (https://bit.ly/32UduF7) Also, 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/ 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 Scott  (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco). "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.

9/11 changed our world.  Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco) had a spirited discussion on the impact of the events of September 11, 2001.  We offered personal recollections, talked about the larger historical context in which it occurred, considered the consequences of the attacks--prolonged Mid-East wars and heightened repression at home, discussed the way the attacks and wars were manipulated for "patriotic" reasons, and talked about how it effects the U.S. today, in the era of Trump. Read More: U.S. State Department Memo, May 1, 1950 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/propaganda%20003.pdf Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy (NY Times): https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/glaspie.html Presidential Daily Briefing Memo of August, 2001 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ (The Atlantic): https://bit.ly/2GP4FUE VIDEO: Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979: https://bit.ly/3hqquXn Also, 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/  And please, don’t forget to hit “subscribe” on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Keep Green and Red Independent! Become a Patron at https://patreon.com/greenredpodcast Make a one time donation at https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Production. Produced and co-hosted by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). Edited by Isaac. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. 

In this episode, we talk with climate and finance campaigner Pendle  Marshall-Hallmark (@PendleTheWitch) of Amazon Watch (@amazonwatch) about  the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest.   Last year saw some of the worst fires in record for the region and this  year's fire season looks to be no better. The problem is made much worse  by the Bolsanaro government's deregulation of Brazilian environmental  protections. increased industry efforts at deforestation and the financing of it all by U.S. asset managers and banks like Blackrock and  JPMorgan Chase.   Pendle also talked with us about her experience doing human rights accompaniment in Colombia. And social and racial tensions in her hometown of Rochester NY. We also share few words and thoughts remembering scholar, author and  anarchist David Graeber who passed away suddenly on September 3rd.   CORRECTION: Scott incorrectly said  that Blackrock was privately held,  not publicly traded. It is in fact publicly traded.     Bio: Pendle Marshall-Hallmark is a Climate & Finance Campaigner at Amazon  Watch, an Oakland-based human rights and environmental advocacy  organization focused on protecting the Amazon rainforest and the rights  of Indigenous peoples. Prior to joining Amazon Watch Pendle lived in  Colombia for two years, where she accompanied Indigenous and campesino  activists resisting corporate, paramilitary and state-led invasions of  their lands. She has completed a Fulbright scholarship in Mexico City  exploring US-Latin American business relations, and previously worked as  a community organizer in Philadelphia around issues of immigration,  healthcare access and labor rights. She studied Sociology at Swarthmore  College and has completed Master's level coursework in Business  Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.   Read More:  More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late  May: https://bit.ly/3bv2sJg  BlackRock Faces Criticism for Role in Climate Crisis, Amazon  Deforestation: https://bit.ly/3jLoVVl **Brazil Fires Burns World's Largest Tripical Wetlands at Unprecedented  Scale: https://nyti.ms/358LaAu  Amazonwatch page on Blackrock:  https://amazonwatch.org/news/2020/0904-climate-activists-ramp-up-pressure-on-blackrock-during-fires-week-of-action  David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged  59: https://bit.ly/2F2SnY5    Also, 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/    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 Scott  (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco). "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.

In this episode, we talk with muckraker journalist and Kenosha kid Steve Horn (@steveahorn) from the Real News Network (@TheRealNews) about Kenosha, WI and California climate politics. We start with Kenosha's history of deindustrialization and surburbanization since the auto giant Chrysler left the city in the late 1980s, and then get into the current politics around the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the eruption of protests in Kenosha and the subsequent shooting of unarmed protestors by teenage racist militia member Kyle Rittenhouse. We also discuss Steve's beat of climate politics and talk about inmate firefighters and the politics of oil and gas in California's capital Sacramento.  Steve Horn is a San Diego-based climate reporter and producer for the Real News Network. Also a freelance investigative reporter, his work has appeared in The Intercept, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera America. His research and work has been cited by the New York Times, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, and other books and governmental publications.  Read More:  Steve's Real News Network Bio: https://therealnews.com/bios/steve-horn  Amazon to the Auto Industry, Kenosha, WI Exemplifies Climate Justice Denied: https://therealnews.com/columns/from-amazon-to-the-auto-industry  Reformers Aim to End Prison Firefighters’ ‘Indentured Servitude’ in California: https://therealnews.com/columns/reformers-aim-to-end-prison-firefighters-indentured-servitude-in-california  California Dems Give Up On New Oil Safety Regulations: https://sirota.substack.com/p/california-dems-give-up-on-new-oil?fbclid=IwAR3H5SpZ6PVLcC5AXPcCDmus95Jqb6TpxXc8a5JRhkJ6mYjilhEwesoK1pA  Also, 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/  Watch us on YouTube! https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Keep Green and Red independent! 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 Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco). Editing by Isaac. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. 

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In this episode, we’re speak with two Israeli activists and refuseniks  Amitai Ben- Abba (@amitaibenabba) and Atalya Ben-Abba about the current uprising happening against the Netanyahu government and the movement  refusing service in the Israeli army in protest of the occupation.  The  anti-Netanyahu movement, or the “Balfour struggle,” as it’s known in  Israel, has been out in the streets across the country and in front of  “Crime Minister” Benjamin Netanyahu’s homes for months. The Israeli left  has not only begun to see large numbers of people joining them and increased police violence against protestors, but also a convergence of  anti-austerity movements, the anti-occupation movement and people fed up  with the government’s corruption and bungling of the COVID-19 crisis.    We also talk with Atalya and Amitai about the film “Objector”  (@objectorfilm) which documents Atalya’s decision to refuse service in  the Israeli army, the “refusenik” movement of young Israelis resisting  military service and their family’s transformation as a result.  Atalya Ben-Abba is an Israeli conscientious objector who sat in prison  for 110 days in 2017 for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. After  volunteering to do civil service for two years at a shelter for homeless  youth, she now studies Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy at the  Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continues to be active in various  activist groups in Israel/Palestine.   Amitai Ben-Abba is a writer, filmmaker, and activist now based in Oakland, CA. Amitai is the writer and producer of the full-length documentary Objector about Atalya's refusal and their family's transformation as a result of her decision. Amitai's poetry, fiction, and essays received awards and appeared in publications such as CounterPunch, Haaretz, The Independent, and Witness Magazine. Amitai holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, where they attended as a Fellow in Writing and Community Engagement.   Objector (@ObjectorFilm) premiered at IDFA in 2019 (where it was a Top 5 Audience Favorite) and won awards at major film festivals, including Best International Documentary at the Hot Springs Festival and Best Interfaith Film at St. Louis International Film Festival. And you can learn more about the film “Objector” here: https://objectorfilm.com/  Learn more:  ‘No longer outcasts’: Anti-occupation activists find their place in Israeli protests: https://bit.ly/3lhnnEe   My sister has just spent 110 days in Israeli prison for refusing to serve in the IDF – and I'm so proud:https://bit.ly/3aQ0a75  A new novel about radical environmentalists in the Middle East, "The Sodomites": https://bit.ly/3hkIAdQ  Watch us on YouTube! https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube  Also, 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/  Keep Green and Red independent!  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. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).

In today's episode, Bob and Scott have a free-wheeling discussion about the origins of the New Left, the Wisconsin School (school of thought around the history of foreign relations), and the how these radical ideas still have currency in today's emerging movements.  This episode is a tribute to esteemed diplomatic historian Thomas McCormick who passed away on July 25th, 2020. Learn More: William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy Thomas McCormick, China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901  Lloyd Gardner, Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy Walter LeFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 From the Green and Red team: Our interview with New Left historian and activist Staughton Lynd: https://bit.ly/StaughtonGandR And listen to our conversation with filmmaker David Martinez on one of the New Left's influences, radical sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein: https://bit.ly/WallersteinGandR   Bob Buzzanco: What Happened to the New Left?  Watch us on YouTube! https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Also, 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/ Keep Green and Red independent! 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. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).

This week, 55 years ago, the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles began amidst a traffic incident with a black motorist and the California Highway Patrol in the South Central neighborhood of the bustling city.  By the end of the week, 34 had been killed, hundreds injured, over $40 million in property damaged and destroyed, 16,000 national guardsmen and police deployed to quell the uprising and a new chapter in black radicalism began. A popular saying after Watts and after similar uprisings in in Detroit and Newark, NJ in 1967 became popularized-- "Burn, baby! Burn!"  Green and Red dives into the Watts uprising and talks about parallels to 2020's summer uprisings.  Plus we take this moment for a couple of jabs on our favorite red-baiting neo-liberal ex-president Bill Clinton.  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Read more: Mike Davis and Jon Weiner, Set the Night on Fire: https://bit.ly/31M7koK Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s: https://bit.ly/2DRxFJS Guy Debord,The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy:https://bit.ly/2DJYxf1 Follow us at:  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Keep Green and Red Podcast Independent: Patron:  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Green and Red's website:  https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/ This is a Green and Red Podcast  production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Scott. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).

In this episode, we talk with Jay and Kay, two Portland street organizers, about the uprising that has shaken the city and garnered so much media attention.  In the two months since the murder of George Floyd, Portland has been out on the streets every night demanding justice and racial justice. Recently, the Trump administration attempted to crack down on protests in an unprecedented show of aggression by putting federal agents on the street, kidnapping protestors off the street and responding with mass violence. The entire city rose up against the federal government's intervention, prompting a pull back by the feds. But since then the Portland Police have continued the violence against protests.   We discuss with our guests the background of what's been happening, organizing and street action tactics, the courage of movements in Portland resisting the state every night, local journalists that have been getting the story out and how to support the continuing struggle.   You can support the PDX General Defense Committee legal defense and bail fund here:https://www.instagram.com/defensefundpdx/?hl=en  Read more:  What You Need To Know About The Battle of Portland: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/07/20/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-portland/  Tools and Tactics in the Portland Protests: https://crimethinc.com/2020/08/03/tools-and-tactics-in-the-portland-protests-from-leaf-blowers-and-umbrellas-to-lasers-bubbles-and-balloons  When Rioting is Rational: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/when-rioting-is-rational-ferguson/   Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you  Stop blaming everything bad on anarchists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/04/stop-blaming-everything-bad-anarchists/   In Support of Baltimore: Or; Smashing Police Cars Is Logical Political Strategy: https://radfag.com/2015/04/26/in-support-of-baltimore-or-smashing-police-cars-is-logical-political-strategy/?fbclid=IwAR1vYaQxJaNZdpCCW3Ac-A7pUFDx4Xt4-0G-NskFvWyyzhrEDjWFyK6lZHg  Local rad journalists to follow via Twitter:  @MrOlmos  @shane_burley1  @suzettesmith  @tuckwoodstock  @LindseyPSmith7  @PDocumentarians  @iwriteok  @alex_zee  @alexmilantracy  @andrewjank  @hungrybowtie @human42lm @1misanthrophile Follow us at: Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/  Keep Green and Red Podcast Independent:  Patron:  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Green and Red's website:  https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/  This is a Green and Red Podcast  production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced  by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).