Cornel West–Don’t Run for Prez! What do we get out of Lefty Celeb campaigns? A G&R Commentary
Scott and Bob discuss the big questions--how do we get what we want? Will it work? What can we do to win? And we do it in the context of…
Scrappy Summer | Strikes, Israel, Heatwaves and More
Summertime rolls! It’s too damn hot and the bosses are ripping us off! In the latest Scrappy Sunday, Bob and Scott riff and rant on strikes galore, the Democrats (including…
Cluster Bombs and Biden’s Wider War . . . a Green & Red Commentary
G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco here discusses Biden's decision to use cluster bombs--a war crime--in Ukraine. Cluster bombs were widely used in Laos by the U.S. and 80 million didn't explode,…
Direct Action Gets the Goods: Stop Cop City, Animal Liberation and more ft. Jake Conroy
We welcome back our friend, comrade and maker of trouble Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) to discuss the state of direct action. We talk about the state repression of activists in Atlanta…
Woody Guthrie’s Birthday Hootenanny, w/ Prof Mark Alan Jackson . . . Green & Red Encore from 2022
Woody Guthrie is the most influential political singer and songwriter of the 20th Century. July 14th is Woody's 110th birthday, so we had a fantastic discussion with Mark Allan Jackson,…
Noam Chomsky on the Coming War w/ Iraq–October 2002 from the Green & Red Archives
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…
Green & Red Riff and Rant @ Democrats’/Clinton’s Responsibility for the current mess . . . .
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…
It’s Scrappy 4th of July, w/ John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Scott and Bob
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…
“The Last Honest Man”: The Church Committee and the U.S. Empire . . . w/ Pulitzer-winner James Risen
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…
Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,?” July 4th 1852
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.…