April 2024 – Green and Red Podcast

Bringing the War Home…. Again. Campuses Erupt Over Palestine evoking memories of the 1960s

April 29, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In a free-wheeling discussion Scott and Bob and friend and frequent G&R guest Clayton Lust, a professor of history as several Houston-area community colleges, talked about the campus protests of…

Victories in Chattanooga and Pittsburgh . . . Mike Elk of Payday Report on the UAW and Summer Lee

April 27, 2024Labor

Mike Elk spoke w/ Green & Red a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the union vote at the UAW vote in Chattanooga and, after the victory there, we talked…

Abbott Cracks Down on Student Anti-Genocide Protests at University of Texas-Austin w/ Candice Bernd

April 26, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

On Wednesday, in Austin TX, hundreds of police converged on the University of Texas to attack a peaceful protest in solidarity with the victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.…

From Alcatraz to Standing Rock… How Indigenous Action Builds People Power w/ Marty Aranaydo

April 22, 2024Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

In our latest, we deep dive into Indigenous organizing with long time organizer and trainer Marty Aranaydo (@williemaze). We discuss his direct action roots (going back before he was born!),…

Supreme Court Declines Case Against Organizer Facing Civil Damages w/ Movement Lawyer Maggie Ellinger-Locke

April 19, 2024Direct Action, politics

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe. The case involves a police officer injured during a Black Lives Matter protest after the police murder of…

“Forest Defense is Climate Defense”… Tree-Sit Staged in Southern Oregon to Resist Timber Sale

April 17, 2024Climate, Direct Action

Forest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber…

The Danger Imperative: How the “war on cops” shapes violent police culture w/ Michael Sierra-Arévalo

April 16, 2024politics

We talk with Prof. Michael Sierra-Arévalo (@michaelsierraa) about the "war on cops" and how it has shaped police culture and violence. We discuss the creation of this culture of police…

Scrappy Tax Day | Your Tax Dollars at Work. Lockheed Martin, “The Grapes of Wrath” and O.J.’s Legacy

April 14, 2024anti-capitalism, Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

In our scrappy Tax Day episode, we get right down to it. We get into the anniversary of the publishing of "The Grapes of Wrath" and its significance on America…

Mike Elk of “Payday Report” . . . on the UAW vote in Chattanooga, and Brazil, and Sen. Fetterman

April 9, 2024Labor

Bob had a great conversation w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report, a frequent G&R guest. They spent most of the time discussing the current UAW unionization drive in Chattanooga, how…

Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism is Dead, Welcome to Techno Feudalism

April 2, 2024anti-capitalism, Materialism and Economics

Yanis Varoufakis's new book provocatively argues that Capitalism is dead and has been replaced by a new group of wealthy people whom he calls Technofeudalists--Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. This new ruling…