Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

In  our latest episode, we talk with filmmaker David Martinez about his  film featuring sociologist and leftist thinker Immanuel Wallerstein. Immanuel  Wallerstein passed away in 2019, but is best known for his development  of an approach in sociology called World Systems Analysis. His  influence was particularly strong in the Global South, in fact the  story goes that half of the guests at his wedding were later  assassinated. There is also a building named for him in Chiapas, and he  once sat on a panel with Subcomandante Marcos. He was also a main  influence on Abdullah Ojalan and the Kurdish movement's recent shift to  the more libertarian left. In short, he was much more than an academic,  but someone who tried to use his intellectual work to change the world. David Martinez is a filmmaker, writer, and teacher originally from San Antonio, Texas, now living in San Francisco. He's also the co-host of the Hammer and Tongs podcast (https://bit.ly/2BYRb6k). Learn more: Immanuel Wallerstein's website (https://bit.ly/30KH9jJ) Jacobin: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Thousand Marxisms (https://bit.ly/3cQuq1f) Read Karl Marx! A Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein (https://bit.ly/2YpbZLH)  The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables (https://bit.ly/3cVs6pI) David's Vimeo Page (https://bit.ly/30F5cjM)  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 Also, help us make our social  media empire a reality: Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast    Follow us at Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed   Check out our meme game on  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ 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 our latest episode, the Green and Red Podcast crew talks with author and journalist Shane Burley (@Shane_Burley1) about antifascism and the targeting of antifa by the Trump administration in the midst of the rebellion against police violence currently sweeping the US. We get into lots of good discussion about about Antifa, anarchism, mutual aid, and what the fascists are up to. Shane is a filmmaker and author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. His work is featured at Jacobin, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, etc. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shane_burley1  More from Shane: Truthout: "Anti-Fascists Say They Are Protecting Communities From Right-Wing Violence, Not Fomenting “Terror” (https://bit.ly/2Y7tL5W) NBC News: "Trump's antifa tweet is right-wing catnip — with potentially troubling consequences" (https://nbcnews.to/37babda) 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 Also, help us make our social  media empire a reality:    Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast    Follow us at Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed    Check out our meme game on  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ This is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).  

Today, Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) talk about the recent public repudiation of Donald Trump's attempts to use the military against American citizens in pursuit of a racial war by ranking military officials, not just retired but active-duty as well. In an amazing two weeks, one of the more incredible developments has been the open resistance of military officials to Trump's attempts  to militarize American cities and likely kill protestors.  Starting  with retired Generals and Admirals and percolating into the dissent of  active-duty officers, the military, America's most respected  institution, has stood up to Trump and, even more, made a sharp  statement against racism and defended the right to protest. These people aren't radical and don't have the same interests as  protestors, but  have put the brakes on Trump, for the time being at  least.  They've also give people in the streets more legitimacy and  space.  They're not long-term allies necessarily, but they have helped  the millions who are rebelling right now. For more on this topic, see Buzzanco, "Cracks in the Empire: The Military Says 'Stand Down' to Trump"  and Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era Keep Green and Red independent! Donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Also, help us make our social media empire a reality:    Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast    Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed    Check out our dank memes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ This is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).  

Today, Bob and Scott talk about the state of the U.S. as protests, riots, rebellions and large scale police violence are erupting in dozens of cities across the country.  All week, protests, riots and more have been happening in Minneapolis over the police murder of a black man named George Floyd. Now it has spread from coast to coast, and increasingly around the world, with real resistance (not the Democratic establishment led #resistance) against police and political leaders. We're joined by long time organizer Jeff Ordower (@moredower) to talk about this moment and where we go from here.   Bio: Jeff Ordower is a long time organizer in the movement. He has been an organizer for 25 years and got his start as a queer activist in college. He's worked on campaigns around labor, economic justice, climate and racial justice. There are too many groups to name. He lived and supported organizing in St. Louis in 2014 during the rebellion around the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. He is trying to live his best life as an itinerant organizer and spends a lot of his time thinking about sustained mass action. With some comrades, he is (hopefully) imminently launching something called The Disruption Project.  Learn More:  Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE): https://acrecampaigns.org/  Cornel West on CNN discussing the rebellion: https://bit.ly/2zPFn5v  MLK on riots being the language of the unheard: https://bit.ly/3eCmjqh  Keep Green and Red independent! Donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Also, help us make our social media empire a reality:  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Check out our dank memes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ 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 this episode, Bob and Scott talk with anarchist, U.S. military veteran, environmentalist and direct action organizer Graham Clumpner (@turncoatveteran). We discuss movement politics and the military during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of the far right since those wars and current politics and the military in the ages of Trump and COVID19. We also talk about the need for a movement against militarism and war, the need for international solidarity in the left, and intersection of militarism and the climate crisis.  Read more:  Inside the U.S. military's battle with white supremacy and far-right extremism: https://nbcnews.to/2TN6jcW  Bob’s latest article on the anniversary of Dien Bien Phu: https://bit.ly/3ek8RXW  Keep Green and Red independent! Donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Also, help us make our social media empire a reality:  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Check out our dank memes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ This is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).  

Welcome to the Green and Red M19 Podcast! In this very special episode, we celebrate the shared birthday of iconic revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X, both born on May 19th (1890 and 1925, respectively). Join Scott and Bob as we go deep on two of the most important revolutionaries of the 20th century---their ideas, their organizations, their international leadership in the class and anti-imperial struggles, and the inspiration they gave to so many millions. Plus a little Last Poets love for Ho Chi Minh: I'm gettin' on out of here You see, I just could not win Against Ho Chi Minh No, I just could not win Against Ho Chi Minh Further reading: William Duiker's books Ho Chi Minh: A Life and Sacred War, The Autobiography of Malcolm X,  Peniel Joseph's The Sword and the Shield, and James Cones' Martin and Malcolm and America. Keep Green and Red independent media! Donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Follow us on these social media channels: Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Check out our dank memes at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ This is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).  

Welcome to Green and Red Podcast! In this episode, we dive into the controversy of the new Michael Moore produced film 'Planet of the Humans.' We're joined by long time climate justice organizer Ananda Lee Tan (@anandalee).  But we also, importantly, go into the history and politics of the North American climate and climate justice movements. Ananda has been on the frontlines of environmental, labor, anti-capitalist and climate justice organizing for almost forty years. He's worked for big green groups on their global campaigns, scrappy direct action groups and co-convened the Climate Justice Alliance, a network of frontline, black, brown, Indigenous and low income environmental and climate justice groups across the U.S. Originally from the community of Santiniketan, Ananda presently lives on the territories of the Coast Salish First Nations in the Pacific Northwest. Read more:  Ananda Lee Tan: The Messy World of Movements  Bill McKibben: ‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’: Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal  Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans  Climate Justice Alliance Labor Network for Sustainability Rising Tide North America: Hookwinked in the Hothouse, False Solutions to Climate Change As always, you can follow us at:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Also, please support Green and Red at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcastThis is a Green and Red Podcast production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco). 

In this special Green and Red  Podcast, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic events of May  4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4  students and shot 9 others.   Students, who'd been told the war was  winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon  announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th.  At Kent State, a  working-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and  other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam  protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent  response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent.  For  two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students.  On May 4th, the Guard,  unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet.  These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests.  The war had come home!  Scott and Bob, who's also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s  and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the  background to the protests, the official, violent response, the  aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were  killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning,  and lessons.  See  also, the Kent State Tribunal Organization, established by Laurel  Krause, sister of one of the students assassinated at Kent State that day; an interview with Alan Canfora, one of the survivors of the shootings, and also another interview here; The Kent State May 4th Poetry Collection; Denise Levertov, "The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why" ; a couple of well-known songs that came out of the tragedy, Neil Young, "Ohio" and Chrissie Hynde (who was a student at Kent State in 1970 and friends with two of the murdered students),  "Revolution";  Governor Rhodes press conference, May 3;  and Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life. As always, you can follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Also, please become a Green and Red patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

In our latest episode with talk with long time direct action organizer Lisa Fithian. We talked about many of the issues confronting us right now, and how people are fighting back.   Lisa's been on the front lines for almost four decades, from fighting against  the Reagan attacks on Central  America, to helping organize workers, to fighting transnational institutions like the WTO and the World Bank, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, doing  Mutual Aid in New Orleans after Katrina, supporting Gaza and so many  other things. We  talked to her about the role of  mutual aid in resistance, and also the current wave of work stoppages  and wildcats, and the potential for mass  action at this critical time  in our lives. Importantly, we discussed how  these actions are being  done for the commons, not just for individuals.     Lisa's also just  published a memoir, "Shut it Down: Stories from a  Fierce, Loving  Resistance" and we discussed that too. More reading: Shut It Down: Stories from a fierce, loving resistance (https://shutitdownnow.org/) Organizing for Power (Lisa's website) (https://organizingforpower.org)  May 1 Call for a General Strike (https://bit.ly/2ySEpVm)   We Are the Shutdown: May 1st 2020 (https://bit.ly/2VO87E5) As always, you can follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Also, please become a Green and Red patron at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

Scott and I have a  great episode coming up and we want to give you a head's up about it.   We interviewed the inspiring activist and organizer Lisa Fithian and  talked about many of the issues confronting us right now, today.  Lisa's been on the front lines for a couple generations, from fighting against  the Reagan attacks on Central America, to helping organize workers,  working with the homeless, doing Mutual Aid in New Orleans after Katrina, supporting Gaza and so many other things. We  talked to her about the role of mutual aid in resistance, and also the current wave of work stoppages and wildcats, and the potential for mass  action at this critical time in our lives. Importantly, we discussed how  these actions are being done for the commons, not just for individuals.    Lisa's also just published a memoir, "Shut it Down: Stories from a  Fierce, Loving Resistance" and we discussed that too.