

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Green and Red
Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more.
Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff.
Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff.
Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 35min
How the Trial of Anti-ICE Protestors Turned Activism into Terrorism w/ the DFW Support Committee (G&R 485)
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 of federal charges, including "material aid for terrorism." The "North Texas antifa cell" has raised concerns on the left about future prosecutions.In our latest, Scott talks with Jay with the DFW Support Committee about the federal case and trial of the Prairieland Nine.Guest Bio// Jay is part of the DFW Support Committee-------------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 DFW Support Committee: https://prairielanddefendants.com/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC)🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Apr 9, 2026 • 34min
New Data Shows Wall Street and Pension Funds Investing in ICE Contractors with Over $80 Billion ft. Richard Brooks w/ Stand.Earth (G&R 484)
In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily invested in and financed companies that have profited from contracts with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enabled the deportation crisis and the surveillance, violence and repression of U.S. citizens resisting the Trump administration. These financial institutions have put over $80 billion into these companies. The corporate ICE contracrtors include Palantir, CoreCivic, Geo Group, General Dynamics, CACI, L3Harris and AT&T. In our latest, we talk with Richard Brooks about new data that Stand.Earth has released about financial players funding ICE contractors like Palantir, Geo Group, CoreCivic and others. Guest Bio-- Richard Brooks is the Climate Finance Director at Stand.Earth.--------------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Major US banks and public pensions attempt to profit from sinking $80 billion into ICE contractors (https://bit.ly/47Ja8Gb)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC)🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Apr 7, 2026 • 48min
Tie-Dye Politics: The Legacy of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead w/ Author Jim Newton (G&R 483)
**Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support. Become a Patron of Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcastEpisode details//The Grateful Dead's long strange trip through the latter half of the 20th century had a huge influence on American politics, culture and counterculture. From San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock to their record breaking concerts in their last ten years, the Dead had a radical message and created a bohemian community that lasts through today. In our latest, we talk with former Los Angeles times journalist and author of “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening" Jim Newton (@newton_jim) about the political and cultural legacy of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. We talk about the Merry Pranksters, the music, the Dead vs. Ronald Reagan in the 1960s and the 1980s (when the Dead championed AIDs and rainforest advocacy), Tucker Carlson, Phish, Burning Man and that Scott was a secret Deadhead in his youth. Guest Bio//Jim Newton is a veteran journalist, best-selling author and teacher. He worked at the Los Angeles Times for 25 years as a reporter, editor, bureau chief and columnist, covering government and politics. He teaches at UCLA and founded Blueprint magazine. He is the author of “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening.”--------------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Jim Newton at CalMatters (https://bit.ly/4vbvTIM) 📔 Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening (https://bit.ly/489JfeE)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC)🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy,and anti-establishment resistance.

Apr 6, 2026 • 46min
How Vets are Resisting the War in Iran w/ Anti-War Veteran Zack Henson (G&R 482)
🎉 🎉 Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support. Become a Patron of Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcastEpisode//As the war enters its fifth week, we're hearing more and more about a possible ground invasion as well as military dissent in the U.S. and in the Gulf region. In our latest, we talk with anti-war veteran Zack Henson withAbout Face ( @VetsAboutFace ) about active duty military dissent, the war in Iran, the prospects of a ground invasion and About Face's plans in resistance to the war. Guest Bio//Zack is a veteran, About Face member and co-chair of About Face: Veterans Against the War.--------------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 About Face: Veterans Against the War: https://aboutfaceveterans.org/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC)🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 31, 2026 • 41min
Antifa Goes on Trial in North Texas w/ Journalist Adam Federman (G&R 481)
Nine people were recently convicted of federal charges, including "material support for terrorism," by a jury in Texas after a noise demonstration and exchange of gunfire at the Prairieland Immigration Detention Center in North Texas. The Trump administration has turned this protest and shootout into a high profile prosecution of "antifa." In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about the Prairieland case, the weaponization of the Justice Department and the expansion of the "terrorism" label. Bio//Adam Federman (@adamfederman) is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations who has written widely on environmental policy, public lands, the Arctic and corporate and police spying on environmental activists. He has written for In These Times, Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, Slate, The Nation, and other publications. ---------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial (https://bit.ly/4sHPEWR)🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC)🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 19, 2026 • 46min
How Photojournalists are Telling the Story of Anti-ICE Movements w/ Rae Breaux and Brooke Anderson (G&R 480)
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. In our latest, we talk with movement photojournalists Brooke Anderson and Rae Breaux about their work in telling the story of anti-ICE movements, as well as many other movements, in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and how other documentarians are doing it across the country. This is an episode about getting the shot, staying safe and defending a free press. Bios//Rae Breaux is an organizer, trainer, and movement photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. She has over fifteen years of experience developing intersectional, cross-movement strategies around race, class, gender, and the systemic drivers of the climate crisis. Rae has a strong background in coordinating and implementing creative actions, building cross-issue coalitions, and using photography and the power of imagery to create narratives and tell the stories of people and the planet. She is on Instagram at @craezin.Brooke Anderson is longtime organizer turned freelance photojournalist based in Oakland, CA. She covers movements for social, economic, racial, and ecological justice. Her most recent work can be found in Prism, Convergence Magazine, YES! Magazine, Teen Vogue, In These Times, and Earth Island Journal. She is a proud member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA 39521. She is on Instagram at @MovementPhotographer.---------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Brooke's website: https://www.movementphotographer.com/🌐 Rae's website: https://www.raebreaux.com/🌐 Photojournalists documenting Trump’s deportation forces play critical role, but face increasing state violence (https://bit.ly/4bIYxJt)🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 18, 2026 • 35min
Anniversaries of My Lai, Rachel Corrie Bring Haunting Memories As U.S. Attacks Iran (G&R 480)
March 16th was the 58th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and the 23rd anniversary of the murder by Israeli forces of International Solidarity activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza. In our latest, we talk about the My Lai massacre, Rachel Corrie's murder and how it fits in with a larger story of atrocity by the U.S.-Israeli war machine while it unleashes on the people of Iran. ---------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 17, 2026 • 52min
The Crises in the Middle East, w/ Professor Giuseppe Acconcia (G&R 479)
Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the U.S./Israeli war on the region. We discussed the various states being attacked, the damages done so far to Iran, the decision-making process in Tehran--including the roles of the military, revolutionary guard, and political elite, the economic impact of the war so far, the importance of the Kurds, and much more. Bio//Giuseppe Acconcia, (@stradedellest), professor at Padua University and the University of Milan, has been a journalist in various locations in the Middle East, and is the author of "The Great Iran," and co-authored, with Lorenza Perini, of "The Arab Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, 2011-2021."---------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 The Great Iran: The Iranian Civil Society from Qajar Iran to Rouhani (https://bit.ly/46Zwhj9)🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 13, 2026 • 37min
The Timely Resistance of 'One Battle After Another..' w/ Organizer Matt Leonard (G&R 478)
It's Oscar season and in another episode in the G&R Arts and Culture segment, we're talk about the resistance politics of "One Battle After Another." A popular hit that has been getting lots of attention in awards ceremonies, the movie tells the story of disappointed burnt out radicals, community resistance, state repression and non-traditional families. In our latest, Scott talks with comrade and movie fan Matt Leonard (@mlenny.bsky.social) about the film. It's political homages, it's film homages, characters, plots and subplots and more. bio// Matt Leonard is an organizer, activist and movie fan.---------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 NY Times: The Popcorn Resistance of ‘One Battle After Another’ (https://bit.ly/4syBuGS)🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 40min
Growing American Destruction in the Middle East, w/ Fadi Kafeety (G&R 477)
In our latest, Bob talked w/ Fadi Kafeety, a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history, about the current crises in the region which have been intensified by the US attacks on Iran and Israel's continued wars of colonialism and expansion. Among the topics discussed were the continued centrality of Palestine and the ongoing genocide there; the intensification of Israeli and American violence in the region; the escalation currently underway after the attacks on Iran; Iran's response in other Gulf states; the damage done to Israel by Iran; the responses of western leftists; how Yemen has fought Israel; and much much more . . . .Bio// Fadi Kafeety is a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history. -------------------------🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.


