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Trading Away Our Climate Future: Resisting Free Trade in SF w/ trade activist Will Wiltschko

October 23, 2023anti-capitalism, Climate, Foreign Policy

In the latest, Scott talks with Will Wiltschko, director of the California Trade Justice Coalition (@catradejustice) about the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco. Listen in:…

Destroying Gaza: Israel’s Obscene and Evil 75 Year War on Palestinians

October 16, 2023Foreign Policy

In this Scrappy episode, Scott and Bob talk about the current Israeli destruction of Gaza, with an emphasis on the long-term displacement and death of the Palestinians. Listen in: https://apple.co/3rL1VQ8…

Defending Rojava w/ journalist Arthur Pye

October 15, 2023Foreign Policy, politics

As we watch the Middle East blow up with brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel and a murderous ethnic cleansing campaign by Israel on Gaza, the conflict in Syria, Turkey…

Damnatio Memoriae: DiFi, Richard Blum and “San Francisco (FiDi) Liberals”

October 8, 2023Materialism and Economics, politics

We're back from a brief hiatus with our "damnatio memoriae" of the late Dianne Feinstein and her husband financier Richard Blum. Listen in: https://bit.ly/46DCQ8Y We get into their sorted history…

Scrappy Climate Week! Climate Marches, Citibank and JFK’s Magic Bullet

September 26, 2023Chomsky, Climate, Peoples' History

No sleep til Brooklyn! This week, Scott joined the hipster Brooklyn left and is rolling through the mean streets of New York for UN Climate Week. On Thursday, there was…

Former Sierra Club Directors on Layoffs, Equity and Environmental Justice w/ Hop Hopkins and Michelle Mascarenhas

September 14, 2023Climate

The Sierra Club is one of the oldest and largest environmental groups in the U.S.. It also has a problematic history, from being founded by racist John Muir to members…

“Chile’s 9/11.” Fifty Years After the Coup w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña and Dr. Clinton Fernandes

September 11, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

"The Other 9/11" occurred 50 years ago, a military-organized coup against the Socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende, with the support of U.S. and Australian operatives. Listen in: https://apple.co/3PvSWey In…

Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs. Radical Organizing

September 3, 2023Labor, Peoples' History

Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day, the co-optation strategy behind it, and current conditions for labor…

The New McCarthyism, w/ Jodie Evans of Code Pink talking about New York Times smear campaign

September 1, 2023Foreign Policy, politics

A few weeks ago the New York Times published a hit piece on Jodie Evans and her partner Neville Roy Singham as well as Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental and others,…

Trash Talk: The Global Garbage Crisis w/ Journalist and Author Oliver Franklin-Wallis

August 24, 2023Climate

In much of the developed world, waste is out of sight and out of mind. The world generates around 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, with at least…