2024 – Page 8 – Green and Red Podcast

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Yanis Varoufakis's new book provocatively argues that Capitalism is dead and has been replaced by a new group of wealthy people whom he calls Technofeudalists--Zuckerberg, Musk, etc.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

How Labor and Climate Movements Are Building An Enduring Alliance w/ Jeff Ordower and Norman Rogers

March 27, 2024Climate, Labor

The bosses have long pitted workers against those fighting pollution, extraction and the climate crisis. As the climate crisis worsens, labor unions and environmentalists have begun to build important new…

That Flag Won’t Get You into Heaven: My Lai, Rachel Corrie & Iraq War Anniversaries + Gas for Israel

March 23, 2024Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

In our latest, we talk about the American empire and it's dissenters. We get into the anniversaries of the My Lai massacre, the murder of activist Rachel Corrie by the…

“Fighting Times”… Radical Labor Organizing in the 1970s w/ Jonathan Melrod

March 21, 2024anti-capitalism, Labor, Peoples' History

We had a great conversation with longtime labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod where we discussed his life in activism, with a particular emphasis on labor organizing during the 70s…

How the FBI Began Its Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement w/ Journalist Adam Federman

March 13, 2024Climate

Newly obtained documents reveal that the U.S. government was monitoring environmental activists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline far earlier than previously known. Young, Native activists were among the government’s…

Liberals Celebrate International Women’s Day By Bombing Gaza

March 11, 2024Foreign Policy, politics

In our latest Scrappy Sunday, we talk about the State of Disunion that liberals have wrought on the rest of us. We talk about International Women’s Day being celebrated while…

“Chomsky and Me: A Memoir” . . . Bev Stohl’s quarter-century as Chomsky’s administrative aide

March 6, 2024Chomsky

For over 25 years Bev Stohl was the administrative aide to Noam Chomsky at MIT. But she was so much more than that . . . not only did she…

Don’t Dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Resistance to Genocide w/ Anti-War Veteran Graham Clumpner

March 5, 2024Foreign Policy

Last Sunday, February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell killed himself by setting himself on fire in front of the israeli embassy in Washington DC. He did this as an act of…

Occupy This! The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders w/ Activist Jay Ponti

March 1, 2024anti-capitalism, Direct Action, Peoples' History

Some see Occupy Wall Street and the campaigns of Bernie Sanders as some sort of viral phenomenon, but don't recognize the importance that decades of organizing against neo-liberalism and empire…