May 2024 – Green and Red Podcast

The death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian president, w/ Professor Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

May 31, 2024Foreign Policy

Excerpted from a longer interview on Israel's wider war in the Middle East, here Professor Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi of the University of York talks about current politics in Iran. Here he…

Earthalujah! On Neil Young’s Earth Love Tour w/ Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

May 28, 2024anti-capitalism, Direct Action, pop culture

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City. They have led campaigns against Starbucks and Disney over the companies' gentrification of…

Scrappy Memorial Day | America Goes Abroad In Search of Monsters to Destroy

May 26, 2024Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

Memorial Day was created to pay respect to soldiers who died in the war, but it quickly took on another purpose--to promote "patriotism" and American militarism and foreign interventions. Here…

Memory Against Forgetting: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett

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

On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and IWW labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part…

Labor Update w/ Payday Report: Post-mortem on the UAW vote; and, Is Shawn Fain’s bubble bursting?

May 21, 2024Labor

In this week's collaboration, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discuss the failed union vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and how…

Labor Update w/ Payday Report and Green & Red: UAW elections, labor and Palestine, Unions on campus

May 20, 2024Labor, Materialism and Economics

In our weekly discussion of labor and unions, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discussed the upcoming UAW vote at a Mercedes plant…

Scrappy Mother’s Day: Hillary’s “Feminism,.” Biden’s Performative B.S., and US Meddling Elsewhere

May 14, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In our latest, Bob and Scott celebrate a Scrappy Mother's Day with a little radical history of the holiday. We also delve into the week in radical history talking about…

Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher

May 9, 2024Climate, Direct Action

The climate crisis is an existential threat that has led to an unraveling of our environmental and social fabric. Our political institutions continue to fail us in dealing with this…

Payday Report’s Mike Elk and Green & Red launch their Labor Update!

May 6, 2024Labor

In this pilot episode, Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter on Payday Report, and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast present their soon-to-be-regular podcast on Labor in the…

Green & Red Scrappy Sunday . . . War and the Liberals

May 5, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In our latest episode, Scott and Bob discuss the repression on campuses against students protesting against U.S. support of the atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Listen in: https://bit.ly/3JQd07N We…