The People's History of Howard Zinn w/ Dave Zirin (G&R 522)

🎉 **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 look at the watershed event of September 11th, 2001. We discuss how the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon led to dramatic shifts in U.S. policy in the Middle East, the military industrial complex, the surveillance state and created a new global anti-war consensus. It's a moment that changed the world and plunged the U.S. into war, political turmoil and economic uncertainty. ----------------------------------------------------------------------🎵 Outro**"Green and Red Blues" by Moody**### 🔗 Links🌐 G&R: “Chile’s 9/11.” Fifty Years After the Coup w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña and Dr. Clinton Fernandes (https://bit.ly/412GaZ6)🌐 G&R: September 11th Remembered (https://bit.ly/3IdYqK5)### 💚 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🔗 **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✊ **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/Dolly Parton passed away last week. She’s remembered as a legendary singer-songwriter, country superstar, LGBQT icon and champion for kids literacy, but she was also very important in telling the stories of working class women. In the comedy 9 to 5, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Dolly centered women working in offices (often treated as objects and second class citizens) into subversive underdogs.The part that few people know is that movie was inspired by a real life movement of women workers who challenged these power dynamics in the corporate offices. In a special Labor Day episode, we talk with Karen Nussbaum, co-founder of the labor-feminist organization 9to5, which inspired the movie and song by Dolly Parton, about the movement to organize clerical workers. Guest Bio// Karen Nussbaum was a cofounder of the pioneering labor-feminist organization 9to5. She is a member of the board of Working America which has 3.5 million members. She writes on women, labor, politics and culture.-----------------------------🎵 Outro**"Green and Red Blues" by Moody**### 🔗 Links🌐 **Dolly Parton’s Fight for Working Women** https://bit.ly/3UYFFAd🌐 Karen's website: https://www.karennussbaum.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🔗 **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✊ **Worker Power Radio:**https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/### 🎬 ProductionA **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 at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.In our latest, journalist Candice Bernd returns to talk about Trump's border wall in Big Bend and the groups resisting it. Guest Bio//Candice Bernd (@candicequestions.com) is a special investigative correspondent for the Observer covering the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, and Earth Island Journal. She’s received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center. She is the author of the forthcoming Blood, Soil, and Oil: Far-Right Acceleration in the Age of Climate Crisis.---------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds (https://bit.ly/3SFnvD1)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Independent media is more important than ever Please support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.In our latest, we talk with Adam Johnson, co-host of Citations Needed podcast, and author of "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza." We discuss how the liberal media systematically downplayed, obscured, and repackaged an emerging campaign of extermination into a “war on terror” framework. Guest Bio//Adam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the Citations Needed podcast (a podcast about the intersection of media, public relations and power).He's also the author of “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza." Bylines in The Nation, In These Times, The Intercept, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle.---------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Citations Needed: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/🔖 How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (https://bit.ly/3SkIxXv)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Billionaires don't own us! But we need you! Please support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.In our latest, Scott and guest co-host Hep Ingham talk with sports writer and author Dave Zirin about his new biography of peoples' historian Howard Zinn. Guest Host//Hep Ingham co-hosts KGNU's Hemispheres and is the executive producer of Green and Red. Guest Bio//Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. Including the peoples history of sports. He is the author of a new book, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Dave's website: https://www.edgeofsports.com/🔖 The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn (https://bit.ly/3SwIiIC)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Billionaires don't own us! But we need you! Please support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. This week is the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. coup in Iran. In our latest, we give a background on the geopolitics of the Cold War, U.S.-Soviet tension in Iran after World War Two, the politics of oil, and how it played into the overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. We discuss the current war in Iran and how this coup d'etat was the first action that led us to this moment.We also discussed the passing of both American academic Ward Churchill and of British academic Jason Arday, and how the cravenness of liberal university administrators destroyed their careers. ------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 G&R: Is the Iran War over? Has it changed the world? A conversation with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (https://bit.ly/4vKtwN0)🌐 G&R: How Vets are Resisting the War in Iran w/ Anti-War Veteran Zack Henson (https://bit.ly/47IdHMT)🌐 G&R: Axis of Empire.The History of Iran-American Relations w/ Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari (https://bit.ly/4rqY4jI)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.After decades organizing from within the labor establishment, Joe Uehlein realized that winning real climate and economic justice meant moving beyond the limits of traditional labor and environmentalism. As former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Division and director of the AFL-CIO's Center for Strategic Campaigns, Joe fought from the inside. But in 2005, he stepped away from the AFL-CIO to found the Labor Network for Sustainability, forging deep alliances between labor, climate, and environmental movements. His vision: transform the labor movement to embrace ecological responsibility—and environmentalism to uplift working-class solidarity.But Joe’s work has never been confined to boardrooms or picket lines. With a guitar in hand, he’s shared stages with Pete Seeger and Tom Morello, turning songs into rallying cries and stories into tools for resistance.In our latest, we're excited to talk with legendary labor and climate organizer Joe Uehlein (@joeuehlein) about his new memoir that details his life's work of labor organizing, climate organizing and music. Guest bio//Joe Uehlein is a labor organizer, musician, and climate activist. He is the founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability and author of the recent memoir, "Three Roads Labor, Music, Ecology." ------------------Outro// "You Can't Giddyup By Saying Whoa" by Joe Uehlein🔗 Links🌐 Joe's Website: https://joeuehlein.com/🔖 Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology (https://bit.ly/3Ui2cYt)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/.In our latest, we talk with Prof. Valena Beety, Professor of Law at Indiana University, about her new book "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity." We discuss how the state has been criminalizing motherhood, pregnancy, abortion and queer identity. Guest bio//Valena Beety (@innocenceprof) is a law professor, innocence litigator, and former federal prosecutor who has exonerated the wrongfully convicted, secured presidential clemency, and produced scholarship cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Her work centers the women and queer people most targeted in the criminal legal system.Professor Beety is the Robert McKinney Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Board Member of the Indiana Innocence Project. She founded the West Virginia Innocence Project at West Virginia University College of Law and was Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her most recent book is "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity."------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 Professor Beety's Website: https://valenabeetyjd.com🔖 Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity(https://bit.ly/4wECeMx) (use the code TNP30 for a 30% discount)💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. The spectre of socialism is haunting America . . . Bizarrely enough in 2026, a new Red Scare has taken over American politics, with the GOP, the Democratic Establishment, plenty of media, and liberals raising alarms about the recent success of candidates identifying as Democratic Socialists and Progressives, especially those endorsed by the political group the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Given Trump's various crises, invoking the threat of socialism (and more preposterously Communism) has become the GOP's 2026 midterm strategy, and Democratic leaders like Schumer and Jeffries and old boys like James Carville have jumped on the bandwagon, punching left to warn that DSA candidates and progressives like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan will not be electable and that the Democrats have to reject the Left and vote for what they call centrists or moderates.So Scott and Bob and their comrade and frequent guest Professor Clayton Lust got together to discuss what socialism really means in America. Unlike European or 3rd World socialism the development of a socialist ideology or political movement never really took root in America. What did happen was an expansion of the state's role in the economy--sometimes brought about by socialists like the "gas and water socialists" in the Progressive area--to create programs and laws that would address economic crises and provide government help not just to capitalists but to working people--best demonstrated by New Deal programs to ameliorate the poverty and unemployment of the depression.After that, those types of programs, better described as social democratic or, more recently, democratic socialist, did not challenge private ownership of the means of production or try to transfer power to working people. They continued to seek programs to help struggling people . . . as in LBJ's Great Society. In fact, these programs were so popular that Republican presidents Eisenhower and Nixon promoted policies on labor, wages, and housing similar to the New Deal.Finally we talked about what groups like DSA are doing today and how it's not a socialist threat to democracy or capitalism but a movement to create programs on housing, food, jobs, and other issues that impact working people. Guest bio//Clayton Lust (@profclaytonlust.bsky.social) is a historian, activist, teacher, conqueror and warper of minds.---------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody💚 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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, Scott and guest co-host Laurel Sutherlin (@laurelsutherlin) talk with author and environmentalist Jason Mark (@jasondovemark) about his new book "The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet." They discuss "shifting baseline syndrome", how the authoritarians work to erase our memories and normalize environmental crisis, and, most importantly, how people are responding to environmental amnesia. Guest Bio//Jason Dove Mark is a veteran journalist who has written about a wide range of environmental topics. He has served as editor in chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Satellites in the High Country and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlantic, among many other publications. Jason is the author the new book “The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet”Guest Co-Host Bio//Laurel Sutherlin is a naturalist, environmental advocate, and the host of the weekly program Nature Nuggets on ⁠Radio Kingston in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is also the Director of Strategic Communications at the Rainforest Action Network and a board director for the ⁠Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.---------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🔖 The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet(https://bit.ly/4fPVaS4) 🔗 Jason's website: https://www.jasondovemark.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✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/🎬 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.