Johnny Cash on Vietnam and Nixon w/ Michael Stewart Foley
Historian Michael Stewart Foley talks with the Green and Red Podcast about Johnny Cash, Vietnam and Nixon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaSVPsUPdwQ&t=4s
Video Clip: Michael Stewart Foley on the Legacy of Johnny Cash Today
Historian Michael Stewart Foley talks with the Green and Red Podcast about the legacy of Johnny Cash's politics today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j154njTXSws&t=44s
Labor, Direct Action and the Battle in Seattle
We talked with Nancy Haque with the Shutdown WTO Organizers’ History Project about simultaneously organizing the labor march and the mass direct action in 1999.
Celebrating “America’s greatest intellectual” Noam Chomsky
Cited as “America’s greatest intellectual,” Noam Chomsky is know for his deep critique of the ruling class and his role in supporting movements fighting it. As Chris Hedges has said he “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.”
Listen in: https://bit.ly/ChomskyBdayGandR
December 7th is Noam’s 93rd birthday and we are celebrating him with this new segment and sharing our past episodes about and with him all week.
The Battle in Seattle, 22 Years Later w/ the Shutdown WTO Organizers History Project
It’s the 22nd anniversary of the direct action shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. The WTO is a transnational economic institution created to regulate and facilitate global (corporate) trade.
Listen in: https://bit.ly/ShutdownWTOGandR
Organized by a scrappy group of organizers, the shutdown kicked off an anti-corporate globalization moment in North America which challenged austerity and the capitalist political economy. Globally, those movements had already been fighting austerity and corporate power for decades.
We talk with Nancy Haque, Stephanie Guilloud and David Solnit – three organizers that were all part of Direct Action Network to Stop Corporate Globalization (DAN), the body that organized the shutdown.
80,000,000 Bombs in Laos: A Conversation with Sera Koulabdara of “Legacies of War”
In this episode, Bob had a conversation with Executive Director Sera Koulabdara (@SeraKoulabdara) of “Legacies of War” about the 50+ year crisis of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in Laos. Scott was away on assignment.
Listen: https://bit.ly/LegaciesGandR
At the same time as it was attacking Vietnam, the U.S. conducted a “secret war” against Laos through the air, dropping 2 million tons of bombs as part of its “sideshow” to the main war against the Vietnamese Revolution. Included in that massive campaign were 270,000,000 cluster bombs, smaller bombs–about baseball-sized–or “bomblets” that often did not detonate. So today, decades after the war ended, about 80,000,000 bombs remain in Laos.
A Very Secretive Democracy: Prof. Clinton Fernandes on Australia’s Role in Pinochet’s Coup in Chile
We talked with Clinton Fernandes, professor at University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, which is part of the Australian Defence Force Academy, about his role in getting documents showing Australia’s role in the 9/11/73 coup in Chile to depose Salvador Allende.
Listen in:https://bit.ly/OzChileGandR
He talked about the background to the coup, Australia’s role in supporting American policies, and his efforts to get the documents showing those links. Outro music is Manzina’s “En Para.”
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