2023 – Page 5 – Green and Red Podcast

Direct Action Gets the Goods: Stop Cop City, Animal Liberation and more ft. Jake Conroy

July 17, 2023Direct Action

We welcome back our friend, comrade and maker of trouble Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) to discuss the state of direct action. We talk about the state repression of activists in Atlanta…

Woody Guthrie’s Birthday Hootenanny, w/ Prof Mark Alan Jackson . . . Green & Red Encore from 2022

July 14, 2023pop culture

Woody Guthrie is the most influential political singer and songwriter of the 20th Century. July 14th is Woody's 110th birthday, so we had a fantastic discussion with Mark Allan Jackson,…

Noam Chomsky on the Coming War w/ Iraq–October 2002 from the Green & Red Archives

July 10, 2023Chomsky, Foreign Policy

We've introduced a new feature . . . Green & Red Archives. We're putting out encore episodes of some older talks and events that Scott and I have organized or…

Green & Red Riff and Rant @ Democrats’/Clinton’s Responsibility for the current mess . . . .

July 4, 2023politics

Sure, the GOP is dismal and cruel, but for decades the Democrats have offered tepid resistance and have abandoned the working class and rural Americans. As MLK said, long after…

It’s Scrappy 4th of July, w/ John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Scott and Bob

July 4, 2023Climate, Peoples' History

This week we "celebrate" the Fourth of July by discussing two famous orations on that date, John Quincy Adams's famous "monsters to destroy" speech from 1821 and Frederick Douglass's legendary…

“The Last Honest Man”: The Church Committee and the U.S. Empire . . . w/ Pulitzer-winner James Risen

July 2, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer winner and investigative journalist who's just written a great book about Senator Frank Churck, *The Last Honest Man.* Listen in: https://apple.co/44ueZqI In this interview…

Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,?” July 4th 1852

July 2, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Scott reads from and discusses the famous Frederick Douglass oration on what the 4th of July means to American slaves. This is excerpted from our Scrappy Fourth of July episode.…

John Quincy Adams warns against seeking “monsters to destroy” . . . July 4th, 1821 oration

July 1, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

John Quincy Adams gave a famous speech on the 4th of July 1821 warning about foreign interventions and the threat they posed to liberty. It's more relevant than ever. This…

Pulitzer-winner James Risen on Frank Church, JFK, Kennedy and the CIA, and conspiracy theories

June 28, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

During a longer interview w/ James Risen, author of *The Last Honest Man*--a study of Frank Church and the Church Committee--we talked about the committee's findings on JFK and his…

Power and Participation in Union Negotiations w/ author Abby Lawlor

June 26, 2023Labor, politics

Union organizing is on the rise. Headlines regularly highlight worker organizing drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces. Bosses and politicians like Joe Biden (despite claiming to be the "most…