Direct Action – Green and Red Podcast

Will Potter on How the State and the Media Go After Radical Movements

August 15, 2023Climate, Direct Action

We’re in an unprecedented rollback of civil liberties. States are passing laws to outlaw protests and direct action, charging non-violent protesters with “domestic terrorism” and legalizing the running over of…

Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines

August 8, 2023Climate, Direct Action

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has…

Direct Action Gets the Goods: Stop Cop City, Animal Liberation and more ft. Jake Conroy

July 17, 2023Direct Action

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…

Scrappy Sunday | Being “Ungovernable” After Dobbs, Global Protest, Atlanta, Cornel West redux. . .

June 26, 2023Direct Action, Peoples' History, politics

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…

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, 1931-2023 (February 2003 Speech in Houston)

June 16, 2023Direct Action, Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

Daniel Ellsberg, Presente . . . Today we're all saddened to hear that Daniel Ellsberg had died. Ellsberg's life is well-known, and he's one of the more important figures in…

Three Atlanta Legal Workers Arrested For Alleged “Financial Crimes” w/ CLDC’s Lauren Regan

June 7, 2023Climate, Direct Action

Since the murder of forest defender Tortuguita last January, we've seen an escalation on the Stop Cop City by both activists and police. 34 people have been charged with "domestic…

How To Blow Up A Pipeline: Interview w/ Director Daniel Goldhaber

June 5, 2023Climate, Direct Action

"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" is an environmental-climate crisis action-thriller film. It's based on Andreas Malm's book of the same name. The New York Times called it a "cultural…

Scrappy Sunday! Earth Day, No Nukes, Cop City, RFK Jr. and more!

April 27, 2023Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

For the Earth Day edition of Scrappy Sunday, we talk about the left's new infatuation with nuclear power and why it's fucked up and anti-worker, news from Stop Cop City…

Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Judge Rejects Restraining Order ft. Candice Bernd w/ Truthout

March 7, 2023Climate, Direct Action

In our latest, Scott talks with return guest Candice Bernd (@candicebernd) about the latest from on the ground in Atlanta.They get into the legal battles and give background to police…

Texas is a Drag. Armed Groups Defend Drag Queens from the Far Right with Candice Bernd

February 21, 2023Direct Action

As reactionary politics heat up in Texas, armed community and left groups have begun confronting a coalition of neo-nazis, white supremacists, Proud Boys and christian fascist groups who've been trying…