Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

In this timely episode, Bob and Scott welcome back Professor Sarah Koster back to Green and Red. We discuss the latest developments in the world of public health and COVID19, the disproportionate impacts coronavirus is having on black, brown and low income communities, why California seems to have peaked in the crisis and the amazing work being done by first responders and healthcare workers.   Sarah Koster is a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA.  She has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA.   Further reading: NY Times: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus The Intercept: Two Weeks as a New York City Nurse in the Pandemic Bob's latest: "Blaming China, Not Capitalism."   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 this episode, Bob and Scott get into the politics of Martin Luther King and how he's WAY more radical than most people realize. This week is the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King (MLK).  Today, everyone from the Libertarian Party to the anti-abortion movement to tech companies in Silicon Valley trying to sell you their latest gadgets claim his legacy.  In truth, MLK fought and opposed "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism (i.e. capitalism), and militarism" until the end of his life.  While many look at the surface levels of MLK's politics and legacy, Green and Red goes deep into the real substance of who he was.   Further reading and listening:  Bob Buzzanco: MLK for Sale? How to Package a Radical  MLK: Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break the Silence (Video)  MLK: I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech (Video)  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 this episode, Bob and Scott talk with Giuseppe Acconcia, a professor  of Middle Eastern Studies at the Universita di Padova.  We discuss the  ongoing impact of COVID in Italy, Chinese and Cuban assistance while  Europe sat on its hands, and especially the way that this pandemic will  have an impact in the Middle East and North Africa, areas with less  development and greater poverty, which are sure to be hit harder, and in  war-torn areas like Syria, Yemen, and Libya, which will see  catastrophic consequences.  Professor Acconcia is a frequent media presence in Italy talking about these issues and is the author of many books, including The Great Iran, translated into English by the University of Padua Press in 2018. 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 feel free to become a Green and Red patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

We have another great podcast coming up, with Professor Giuseppe Acconcia from the University of Padua, talking about COVID-19 in Italy, and also the Middle East and Africa, where it's sure to have far more dire consequences for people living in poverty and without self-determination.

Scott and Bob get down and dirty about the rise and fall of liberalism.  We kick off with the most recent political and economic turns in the COVID19 crisis (and how ALL the politicians are to blame.) Then we discuss peak liberalism with LBJ and the Great Society. And in response to the reformist moment in the 1960's, the poor people's movements that emerged on the left including Students for Democratic Society, the Big Lebowski and the Port Huron Statement (not the compromised 2nd draft), Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor Peoples' Campaign.i In solidarity with our friends doing COVID19 mutual aid, please check out these resources: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide It's Going Down: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Follow us here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Also, become a Green and Red patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

In this episode, we talk with long time friend and comrade scott crow about mutual aid in the era of COVID19. We discuss hope, community, disaster response by just regular people (not bureaucrats, professional non-profits or "Captain Asspants" in the White House) and scott's new music label aptly titled "eMERGENCY hEARTS." We also play some music from the label.  scott crow is an anarchist, speaker, author, organizer, musician and story teller. He's author of Black Flags and Windmills:Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective (PM Press) and a number of other books.  scott has co-founded a number of diverse projects, businesses and organizations rooted in cooperative power sharing models including the Common Ground Collective, the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history, that formed after Hurricane Katrina, Treasure City Thrift, an anarchist worker coop,  Red Square, an art coop, Century Modern, an antique coop and UPROAR, a community based organization, Dirty South Earth First!, Radical Encuentro Camp, . More from our episode: Read more about scott at www.scottcrow.org/ You can check out the eMERGENCY hEARTS music label here.   All proceeds for "Anthropocene Blues Revisited" on the music label are being donated to our comrades at Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (an amazing network  made up of many anarchists, rabble-rousers, permaculturalists, community organizers, and others who are actively organizing around supporting disaster survivors  in a spirit of mutual aid and solidarity. You can get a free e-copy of Black Flags and Windmills by signing up on PM Press's email list.  Additional Reading and Resources: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide It's Going Down: COVID-19 Mutual Aid 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 feel free to become a Green and Red patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

Scott Parkin and I w.ere fortunate to have a great conversation with our  comrade and friend scott crow.  Scott is an inspiring organizer. When Katrina hit New Orleans, the authorities had  no concern for the people living there, so scott and other  community activists helped form the Common Ground Collective and got  people back on their feet. In the horrors of Katrina, it was one of the  rare bright spots.  Scott not only engages in the struggle but acts upon  what he calls the "emergency heart," the need to help others to create,  foster and sustain our community, our humanity.    And look scott up at https://www.scottcrow.org/

In this episode, Bob and Scott talk with three graduate student strike organizers at the University of California (UC) who've been out on wildcat strike since mid-February. We talk about the COLA campaign, the UC's retaliation against striking grad students at UC Santa Cruz and how to conduct a strike in during a global pandemic. We're joined by: Carolina Talavera is a PhD Candidate in medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has just returned from conducting her dissertation research on housing insecurity in London, UK. Caylee Hong is a Canadian PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to Berkeley, she worked as an attorney in New York City. Carlos Cruz is a 2nd year PhD grad student and fired wildcat at UC Santa CruzMore reading: LA Times: UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay It's Going Down: Barricades Go Up in Santa Cruz as UC Wide Wildcat Strike Expands Following Firings Indybay: An Interview on the Growing Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz Berkeleyside: UC Berkeley students hold ‘wildcat’ strike for more pay, rehiring of fired workersAnd as always, check us Green and Red on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Email us with feedback and show ideas at greenredpodcast@gmail.com.  And please consider becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast 

Live from Italy: Politics and Pandemic. Today we talk to Professor Francesco Mazzucotelli from Bergamo, Italy, the center of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak, about the situation there and about the Italian health care system, Italian politics, and the global environment that has led to this crisis. Please share. Please follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and we encourage you to donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Francesco Mazzucotelli is a Professor of  Turkish and Middle Eastern History at the Universita di Pavia.  He took his Ph.D from the Universita Cattolica del Sacre Muore di Milano and the American University of Beirut.  He has been a journalist stationed in the Middle East and was a senate candidate in 2018 for the Liberi e Uguali party in Italy.  He currently lives in Bergamo, Italy.

This past week has been unprecedented. Coronavirus has become a global pandemic and the world is reeling.  At least 140,000 infected with 5,000 deaths in 133 countries. Global markets have been shaken with the New York Stock Exchange plummeting twice this past week. Multiple U.S. states have declared states of emergency, and finally, yesterday, Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency with a $50 billion aid package.  In this episode of Green and Red, we’re going to talk about Coronavirus and how government incompetence, politics as usual, lack of basic healthcare services and, of course, capitalism are all at play. We're also going to get deep into the community health impacts of COVID19.   We're joined by Sarah Koster, a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA.  Sarah has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA. And we support community and mutual aid groups working to help those hit hardest by the exploding virus.  If you have any feedback or an idea for a show, please email us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com.  And please follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.  And if you want to become a patron of Green and Red, please check us out at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Be careful out there.