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Green & Red Riff and Rant @ Democrats’/Clinton’s Responsibility for the current mess . . . .

July 4, 2023politics

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…

Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,?” July 4th 1852

July 2, 2023Peoples' History, politics

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.…

Power and Participation in Union Negotiations w/ author Abby Lawlor

June 26, 2023Labor, politics

Union organizing is on the rise. Headlines regularly highlight worker organizing drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other workplaces. Bosses and politicians like Joe Biden (despite claiming to be the "most…

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…

Trump Was A Joke! Countering Trump’s Absurdity with Satire w/ Prof. Sophia McClennen

June 20, 2023politics, pop culture

(Have you follow us on Discord yet? Just click this invite) Trump’s public life has long been a target of comedians and satirists. His notorious thin skin often led to…

Scrappy Father’s Day | Cornel West, NO!, The 699 Club, Cormac McCarthy and radical history this week

June 20, 2023Peoples' History, politics

In our latest Scrappy Sunday, aka Scrappy Father's Day this week, we opened with this week in radical history, featuring a discussion of the Taft-Hartley Act (and liberal complicity in…

Green and Red on the 55th Anniversary of RFK’s Assassination.

June 4, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Bob and Scott talk about the anniversary of RFK's assassination and ridiculous conspiracy theories around it, those so-called leftists drunk of conspiracy Kool-Aid, RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign and lament the…

Scrappy Sunday | RFK conspiracies, cop crackdown in ATL, CUNY cancellation, Manchin’s Dirty Pipeline

June 4, 2023Peoples' History, politics

It's not just Scrappy Sunday, but the kickoff for a Scrappy Summer. Listen in: bit.ly/3NeynlS In the latest, Bob and Scott talk about the anniversary of RFK's assassination and his…

Best of G&R: The Importance of Karl Marx w/ Prof. David McNally

May 5, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Karl Marx would have been 205 today. So we're re-sharing our birthday episode interview with Prof. David McNally about Marx from 2022. Listen in here: https://bit.ly/3MQmhvV David McNally is one…

It’s Scrappy May Day! The History of Labor Struggle, Tucker & the Deep State and Bernie ❤️’s Biden.

April 30, 2023Peoples' History, politics

It's scrappy May Day! Check it out: https://bit.ly/44hGMeA Bob and Scott break down May Day with a little history of labor struggle from 1877-1937, current labor struggles including unionization (and…