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Stop Cop City Defendants Still Facing Terror Charges w/ Priscilla Grim

June 30, 2024Climate, Direct Action

Cop City still remains an ongoing struggle. After the 2023 assassination of forest defender Tortuguita by the Georgia police, environmental and social justice organizers began to campaign hard on the…

Earthalujah! On Neil Young’s Earth Love Tour w/ Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

May 28, 2024anti-capitalism, Direct Action, pop culture

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City. They have led campaigns against Starbucks and Disney over the companies' gentrification of…

Memory Against Forgetting: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett

May 22, 2024Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and IWW labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part…

Scrappy Mother’s Day: Hillary’s “Feminism,.” Biden’s Performative B.S., and US Meddling Elsewhere

May 14, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In our latest, Bob and Scott celebrate a Scrappy Mother's Day with a little radical history of the holiday. We also delve into the week in radical history talking about…

Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher

May 9, 2024Climate, Direct Action

The climate crisis is an existential threat that has led to an unraveling of our environmental and social fabric. Our political institutions continue to fail us in dealing with this…

Green & Red Scrappy Sunday . . . War and the Liberals

May 5, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In our latest episode, Scott and Bob discuss the repression on campuses against students protesting against U.S. support of the atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Listen in: https://bit.ly/3JQd07N We…

Bringing the War Home…. Again. Campuses Erupt Over Palestine evoking memories of the 1960s

April 29, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

In a free-wheeling discussion Scott and Bob and friend and frequent G&R guest Clayton Lust, a professor of history as several Houston-area community colleges, talked about the campus protests of…

Abbott Cracks Down on Student Anti-Genocide Protests at University of Texas-Austin w/ Candice Bernd

April 26, 2024Direct Action, Foreign Policy

On Wednesday, in Austin TX, hundreds of police converged on the University of Texas to attack a peaceful protest in solidarity with the victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.…

From Alcatraz to Standing Rock… How Indigenous Action Builds People Power w/ Marty Aranaydo

April 22, 2024Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

In our latest, we deep dive into Indigenous organizing with long time organizer and trainer Marty Aranaydo (@williemaze). We discuss his direct action roots (going back before he was born!),…

Supreme Court Declines Case Against Organizer Facing Civil Damages w/ Movement Lawyer Maggie Ellinger-Locke

April 19, 2024Direct Action, politics

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe. The case involves a police officer injured during a Black Lives Matter protest after the police murder of…