Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
By Green and Red
Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more.Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff.Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Episodes (6)
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front w/ author Matthew Wolfe (G&R 498)
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), once dismissed as a fringe, laughable radical group, is re-examined in Matthew Wolfe's book *Fires in the Night* as a prescient movement that understood the failure of incremental environmental change long before the climate c
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Anti-Austerity Protests Shake Bolivia. Here’s Why. w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 499)
Bolivia is in the midst of a historic uprising against a right-wing government that has rolled back decades of social gains, slashed subsidies, and opened the door to foreign corporate control—triggering mass protests that have paralyzed the country. Dr. Rodri
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
500 Episodes and Counting! The Secret History of the Green and Red Podcast! (G&R 500)
The 500th episode of Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals isn't just a milestone—it's a radical act of defiance against the short attention spans and corporate co-optation of modern media. Hosts Bob Bezanko and Scott Parkin reveal that their survival as
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Rainforest Radicals: The History of Rainforest Action Network w/ Prof. David Benac (G&R 501)
Rainforest Action Network didn’t just fight for trees—it redefined environmental activism by centering indigenous sovereignty, grassroots power, and radical joy. Historian David Benac’s book *Rainforest Radicals* reveals how a decentralized network of local 'R
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson (G&R 502)
Grocery store workers in America are essential yet systematically exploited, earning poverty wages while facing relentless surveillance, no benefits, and impossible schedules—despite the industry's massive profits. In her new book *Clean Up on Aisle Five*, act
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
As Texas Becomes the Epicenter for Data Center Boom, Political Fault Lines Emerge w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 503)
Texas is rapidly becoming the epicenter of a data center and crypto mining boom, fueled by cheap, unregulated energy and aggressive tax incentives—but at a devastating cost to water supplies, grid stability, and local democracy. Candice Bernd, investigative jo
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