Scott Parkin is a Senior Campaigner with Rainforest Action Network and organizes with Rising Tide North America. He has worked on a variety of campaigns around climate change, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, mountaintop removal, labor issues and anti-corporate globalization. Originally from Texas, he now lives in San Francisco.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
In this week's "Scrappy Sunday," we opened w/ a discussion of the aftermath of the Dobbs decision to take away abortions rights, and claims from activists that they would become…
(Have you follow us on Discord yet? Just click this invite) Trump’s public life has long been a target of comedians and satirists. His notorious thin skin often led to…