Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

🎉 **Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!**✊ Support independent media channels like the **Green and Red Podcast**:👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/What do you say about a country where the clearest path for opportunity is through the battlefield?In our latest, Scott talks with military vet, former policy advisor, politician and author Chris Rivers about wealth, power and belonging in America. Rivers emerged from a working class background in Connecticut, served in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to West Point and Georgetown, worked for the U.S. State Department, ran for office and worked in the private sector. They discuss Rivers' time in the military, grassroots politics and being an evangelical Christian in a progressive political sphere. Bio//Christopher Rivers is a former US Army officer and combat veteran who enlisted at 17 and served in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics with a focus on Nuclear Engineering, as well as master’s degrees in Public Policy and Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Following his military service, Rivers worked as a policy advisor and problem-solver at the US Department of State and later in the private sector, helping organizations navigate complex operational and strategic challenges. His career spans national security, diplomacy, corporate problem-solving, and candidacy for statewide political office—giving him a unique perspective on how power is exercised across institutions.Chris Rivers is the author of "You Shouldn’t Have to Kill to Get Ahead: Reimagining Wealth, Power and Belonging in America."---------------------------------🎵 Outro "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links🌐 Chris's website: https://www.chrisrivers.com/### 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donationhttps://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website https://greenandredpodcast.org📖: Follow Scott on Substack https://makinggreenathreatagain.substack.com/ 🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Networkhttps://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans https://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radio https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.

🎉 Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!✊ Support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕️Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/After losing in the first round of elections and given little chance of victory, Lula, with a powerful mobilization of working people and a head-on confrontation with Meta and tech bros, came back and won a big victory in the final vote.Mike Elk of "Payday Report," a journalist with long-time experience in Brasil, has been traveling the country for the last 6 weeks covering Lula's campaign, and spoke with us from Sao Paolo about Lula's great comeback, how it happened, what Lula's victory means to the Brasilian people, and what to expect going forward.————————-🔗 Links🌐 Payday Report: https://paydayreport.com/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donation:https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Websitehttps://greenandredpodcast.org📖: Follow Scott on Substack https://makinggreenathreatagain.substack.com/🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Networkhttps://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network:https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleanshttps://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radiohttps://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.

🎉 **Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!**✊ Support independent media channels like the **Green and Red Podcast**:👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/This past week, we organized a panel discussion about how ordinary people can change international systems of corporate and social injustice.For more than forty years, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has excelled at using peaceful civil disobedience, local and international organizing, and strategic communications to change the destructive behavior of some of the world’s biggest banks and corporations. As a result, rainforest conservation became a fixture in American popular culture, the rights of Indigenous peoples emerged as a key area of negotiation in the management of ancestral homelands, and some of the largest companies on the planet now face accountability for their role in our climate and biodiversity crises.Many of the strategies pioneered by Rainforest Action Network are used by social and environmental movements today. As we see new large-scale resistance from the massive No Kings mobilizations; the anti-data center movements; and fierce resistance to ICE in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, we know that communities and movements are fighting back. In 2026, the history of corporate campaigns and transnational organizing is more important than ever. Panel included:Panelist Bio- Prof. David Benac is an environmental and public historian of the post-WWII United States at Western Michigan University. His research investigates how people act on their perceptions of nature, the science of ecology, and the philosophy of eco-centrism. He is author of Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing.Panelist Bio- Randy Hayes, described as an “environmental pit bull” by The Wall Street Journal, founded Rainforest Action Networklaunching major global campaigns to shift corporations and banks. He currently directs Foundation Earth.Panelist Bio- Njambi Good is a seasoned non-profit leader with over 20 years of experience designing and implementing successful advocacy campaigns. She's been Rainforest Action Network's Deputy Executive Director since March 2023. Panelist Bio-Pamela Wellner is the Chief Strategist at Amplify Eco. She has directed cutting-edge sustainability and human rights campaigns for organizations such as Rainforest Action Network, Plastics and Climate Project, Health Care Without Harm, ClimateWorks, Solar AquaGrid, Center for Sustainable Energy, Greenpeace, and Fauna and Flora International.Moderator Bio- Prof. Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston, and author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, and American Power, American People.---------🎵 Outro"Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Rainforest Action Network: https://www.ran.org/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donation:https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Websitehttps://greenandredpodcast.org📖: Follow Scott on Substack https://makinggreenathreatagain.substack.com/🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Networkhttps://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network:https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleanshttps://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radiohttps://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.

🎉 Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!✊ Support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast:👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/In the latest, Scott and Bob talk about the history of the Democratic centrists waging war on the left flank in the party for corporate interests, how it led us to Trump and how the centrists actions in the 2026 elections haven't changed at all. -------------------------------------------------------------🎵 Outro"Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 G&R: Noam Chomsky on Why the Democrats Suck.. (https://bit.ly/3Upw1GX)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donation:https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Websitehttps://greenandredpodcast.org📖: Follow Scott on Substack https://makinggreenathreatagain.substack.com/🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Networkhttps://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network:https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleanshttps://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radiohttps://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.

🎉 **Help us fight the billionaire takeover of the media!**✊ Support independent media channels like the **Green and Red Podcast**:👉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a one-time donation: https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman (@adamfederman) about the latest developments in the Prairieland case. Guest Bio//Adam works at Type Investigations as a reporting fellow. He has written extensively on corporate and police spying on environmental activists, much of which has appeared in the Guardian. He's been published in the Intercept, the New Republic, Politico Magazine,the Nation, The Washington Post, Wired, Columbia Journalism Review, Adirondack Life, and Gastronomica. -------------------------------------------------------------🎵 Outro "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links📖 Exclusive: Feds Denied Ballistics Expert Access to Prairieland Defendant Who Got 100 Years in Prison (https://bit.ly/4yQPj79)💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron:https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Make a One-Time Donation:https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Websitehttps://greenandredpodcast.org📖: Follow Scott on Substack https://makinggreenathreatagain.substack.com/🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Networkhttps://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network:https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleanshttps://wamf.org✊ Worker Power Radiohttps://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 Production🎬 This is a Green and Red Podcast production.👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis of U.S. politics, leftist strategy, labor, environmental issues, and anti-establishment resistance.