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Green and Red Podcast Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco & Scott Parkin co-host a regular talk magazine to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics.

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How Corporatism Paved the Way to the MAGAcademy🎙️: https://bit.ly/43v4IvPTrump’s war on universities , DEI and student a...
26/05/2026

How Corporatism Paved the Way to the MAGAcademy

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Trump’s war on universities , DEI and student activism have been well documented over the past 18 months. But his ability to do this is a result of an architecture put in place by neoliberalism and university administrators. They turned the university into a for profit corporation and transformed students into consumers. Trump has taken this model and used it to wage war on higher education.

In our latest, we talk with Nolan Higdon, scholar and author of MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed., about how corporatism created a blueprint for Trump’s hostile takeover of the university.

Guest bio//Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author and host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast. He is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored Judge. Higdon’s popular Substack includes the bi-weekly Gaslight Gazette, which chronicles important and well-researched examples of disinformation, character assassination, and censorship in the United States.

He is the author of “MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed.”

The Yellow Vests and the Battle of Democracy 🎙️: https://bit.ly/3RifYsQThe Yellow Vest, or gilets jaunes, are grassroots...
19/05/2026

The Yellow Vests and the Battle of Democracy

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The Yellow Vest, or gilets jaunes, are grassroots worker movement that have defied politics as usual in France and the rest of the world.

In our latest, Scott talks with Prof. Ida Susser about her new book- an ethnographic study of the Yellow Vest movement- “The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy.” They discuss who they are, where they come from and the alliances and relationships they built in through their movement organizing. They also discuss the state backlash to them as they refused to comply with liberal and far right political institutions.

Guest bio//Ida Susser is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published on popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. She is the author of “The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy” and many other books.

Why the Global Flotilla to Gaza will Never Give Up 🎙️: https://bit.ly/4txVbyMIn our latest, Scott talks with writer and ...
14/05/2026

Why the Global Flotilla to Gaza will Never Give Up

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In our latest, Scott talks with writer and Flotilla participant Zukiswa Wanner about the Global Salmud Flotilla. They talk about the detention, torture and deportation of two flotilla activists Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Avila. They also discussed her trip to the West Bank in early in 2023 , her experiences last October when she joined the flotilla bound for Gaza, her time on a boat and in an Israeli jail. And finally, they talked about South Africans joining the Israeli Occupation Forces and South African organizing against genocide and apartheid in Palestine.

Guest Bio//Zukiswa Wanner (.wanner) is an award winning South African writer and journalist. Her latest book is Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience about her participation in the Gaza flotilla last year.

In 2025, Wanner was among four South Africans – the others being Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela (grandson of Nelson Mandela), Reaaz Moolla and Dr Fatima Hendricks – sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSP) international maritime initiative with a mission to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, who were detained by the Israeli special forces when the humanitarian fleet was intercepted on 1 October.
She is now on the South African steering committee of the flotilla effort.

LIVE PODCAST EVENT and PANEL DISCUSSION!Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S.Join us on ...
10/05/2026

LIVE PODCAST EVENT and PANEL DISCUSSION!

Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S.

Join us on May 21st at 6:30pm for a panel on Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the US.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/3QFR1XO

The panel will feature Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff, professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and author of “No Option, But Sabotage,” Prof. Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science, longtime environmental campaigner and organizer, and co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, Scott Parkin and Jason Myles, host of THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast.

We’ve been in the midst of a serious rollback of first amendment protected activities. States are passing anti-protest legislation, police are increasingly militarized, surveillance is being drastically increased on activist groups and the Trump administration is turning activism into terrorism.

BUT, we are also seeing new large-scale resistance from the massive No Kings and May Day mobilizations to fierce resistance to ICE in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, communities and movements are fighting back.The anti-AI Data Center movement has blurred political divides across the country. Activists are not only marching in the street and disrupting authoritarian forces, but actions at Tesla dealerships, Kimberly Clark warehouses, the offices of corporate war profiteers and other locations show a radical edge to today’s resistance.

This panel discussion will focus on the state of activism in the United States from its radicals to its realists, how the state is responding with repression, and understanding why movements and activists make the choices they do.

WHERE: The Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists; 1924 Cedar St. Berkeley CA

WHEN: May 21st, 2026. Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7pm.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/3QFR1XO

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Happy birthday to John Brown, born on in 1800. Brown was a militant abolitionist who advocated for and practiced arme...
09/05/2026

Happy birthday to John Brown, born on in 1800. Brown was a militant abolitionist who advocated for and practiced armed insurrection to overthrow the system of slavery in the U.S. He became the first American executed for treason after raiding Harpers Ferry.

Brown first gained national attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. He was dissatisfied with the pacifism of the organized abolitionist movement, stating “These men are all talk. What we need is action - action!”
In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (modern day West Virginia), intending to start a liberation movement that would spread south through the mountainous regions of Virginia and North Carolina.
Although Brown’s group successfully seized the armory at first, his raid was defeated by a combination of volunteer militia and state forces led by Robert E. Lee, who later commanded the Confederate States Army. Seven people were killed, two of whom were Brown’s sons Oliver and Watson, and at least ten more were injured.
Brown had intended to arm enslaved people with weapons from the armory, but only a small number of locals were willing to join him, possibly due to an unfamiliarity with fi****ms. Within 36 hours, those of Brown’s men who had not fled were killed or captured by local farmers, militiamen, or U.S. Marines.
Brown was hastily tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men, and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found guilty on all counts and was hanged.

No war but the class war.
07/05/2026

No war but the class war.

Happy Birthday to Karl Marx (known affectionately at the Green and Red Podcast as “Uncle Whiskers), born in 1818. Chec...
05/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Karl Marx (known affectionately at the Green and Red Podcast as “Uncle Whiskers), born in 1818.

Check out our episode on the importance of Karl Marx w/ Prof David McNally: https://bit.ly/4d3MxkY

05/05/2026

The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan From Veterans Group to Terrorist Organization.

How the Confederacy Won the Civil War 🎙️: https://bit.ly/42KBUPALast week, the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back section 2 ...
05/05/2026

How the Confederacy Won the Civil War

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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 ruling, along partisan lines, ends 61 years of voter protections for African-Americans and other minorities.

In our latest, we talk with Prof. Clayton Lust about how the Civil War has never ended and the forces supporting the Lost Cause continue to fight and win for a Southern vision of America.

Guest Bio//
Prof. Clayton Lust (.bsky.social)- Historian, activist, teacher, conqueror, warper of minds. Clayton Lust has taught at Houston Community College since 2003 after graduating from the University of Houston.

Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming…. rhe anniversary of the massacre at Kent State, in 1970. 🎙️: https://bit.ly/4ulXx4r I...
04/05/2026

Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming…. rhe anniversary of the massacre at Kent State, in 1970.

🎙️: https://bit.ly/4ulXx4r

It’s the 56th anniversary of the killings at Kent State University. In a special encore episode, we’re reposting our episode from 2020.

In this episode, we commemorate the anniversary of the tragic events of May 4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4 students and shot 9 others. Students, who’d been told the war was winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th. At Kent State, a working-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent. For two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students. On May 4th, the Guard, unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet. These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests. The war had come home!

Scott and Bob, who’s also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the background to the protests, the official, violent response, the aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning, and lessons.

Happy May Day!!🎙️: https://bit.ly/4cX1sNZHere is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the his...
01/05/2026

Happy May Day!!

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Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to the Haymarket Affair to International Workers’ Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class’s “war on the left” fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day.
Spend an hour of your International Workers’ Day hearing about the history of May Day. You won’t regret it.

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