Direct Action – Green and Red Podcast

“Little Red Barns”: Will Potter on How Animal Agriculture Harms Animals, People and Democracy

April 28, 2026Direct Action, state repression

In a part two episode with journalist and author Will Potter, we discuss his recent book "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth From Farm to Fable." We talk about the…

How the Trial of Anti-ICE Protestors Turned Activism into Terrorism w/ the DFW Support Committee

April 10, 2026Direct Action, state repression

The Trump administration is taking its targeting of it's political enemies to new levels. Last summer in Texas, a noise demo that escalated has led to nine people being convicted…

How Photojournalists are Telling the Story of Anti-ICE Movements w/ Rae Breaux and Brooke Anderson

March 19, 2026Direct Action

Across the country, photojournalists, videographers, live steamers and other documentarians are telling the story of resistance to ICE. They do this at great personal risk, both physical and legal. Listen…

Stop Oreos, Save the Rainforest w/ Forest Campaigner Maggie Martin

March 4, 2026Climate, Direct Action

Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high environmental scores and pledging to eliminate…

No Option But Sabotage: Rad Enviros and the Climate Crisis w/ Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff

March 2, 2026Climate, Direct Action, state repression

After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone…

How Labor and Communities are Fighting ICE in the Twin Cities w/ Journalist Amie Stager

February 12, 2026Direct Action, Labor, politics

ICE's surge into Minneapolis-St. Paul continues. After the ICE murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, labor and community groups mobilized against the federal intervention. Listen in: In our latest,…

Antifa Spy Networks Expose the Radical Right w/ journalist Chris Mathias

February 3, 2026anti-capitalism, Direct Action, politics

Demonized by Republicans and Democrats alike, a myth emerged around “antifa” during Donald Trump’s first term as violent street fighters and “domestic terrorists.” But few understand the dangerous work antifa…

The Anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-ins, SNCC and Militant Nonviolence Today

January 31, 2026Direct Action, Peoples' History, politics

February 1st is the 66th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins where four African-American student sat in at a Woolworth's, suffering abuse from white racist patrons and eventually jail. Those actions…

From Montgomery to Memphis to Minneapolis: The Legacy of Martin Luther King

January 16, 2026Direct Action, Peoples' History, politics

It's MLK Day weekend. We discuss the radical legacy of King. His opposition to the Vietnam war, the Poor Peoples' Campaign, his campaign to boycott the 1968 Olympics and his…

American Beauty. Our end of 2025 episode.

December 31, 2025anti-capitalism, Direct Action, politics

Happy New Year! In our close out to this year, we talk about the best of Green and Red in 2025, those people that impacted us that we lost and…